“Oh, Canada,” the hat sighed.
“Stop, just stop,” the hair said.
“Land of the unfree, home of the unbrave,” the hat trilled.
“Jesus,” the hair spat in disgust.
“From the heroin-washed shores of Vancouver to the heathen French of Montreal, I will save you,” the hat said dreamily.
“Why Canada?” the hair asked.
“Lebensraum,” the hat replied. “Or Manifest Destiny, if you insist on being a fag about it.”
“So, the whole continent?”
“Well, not Mexico. That place is a shithole.”
“But why one country run by a communist and not the other?”
“Donald can handle Castro’s son,” the hat said, brimful with confidence.
“And not Sheinbaum?”
“In my country, we would keep the communism in the tortilla people, the Mexicans. They’re beaners anyway, so let them lose their souls.”
“Jesus,” the hair said again. “Will you just listen to yourself?”
“How can I not listen to myself?” the hat asked angrily.
“What if you were deaf?” the hair replied hotly.
“I’m not deaf, asshole!”
“Don-neld? Don-neld?” Melania called from the hallway. “We must do the discussions on the White House!”
Donald jolted awake. “Can’t even get a damn nap,” he grumbled. “And I’m the best napper.”
“Quick, Donald!” the hat whispered. “Hide under your desk!”
“I’m not scared of her,” Donald said. “Just bored.”
“What do you wants for the Residence?” Melania said, stalking into the room, all cheekbones and heels.”
“I don’t care,” Donald said. “Do what you want.”
“You are livings there as well,” she said.
“Just get the old man smell out,” Donald said. “You know he’s pissed on every chair and mattress in the place.”
“Don-neld,” Melania said in exasperation.
“And burn anything Hunter sat on,” Donald said. “Bare-ass in a man-thong. What the damn hell?”
“I theenks is was a jock-straple,” Melania said.
“Bare-ass is bare-ass!’ Donald said.
“It is,” the hat said. “It really is.”
So, give it the British treatment (of 1814)?
Only if you promise to include the Capitol as well.
Objectively, I should have closed that tag.
You thought about it — and shrugged.
No. Closing the tag would be an expenditure of time on your part solely to assist your fellow man. This is altruism, which is forbidden in Randland.
RandLand sounds like a theme park.
Stay away from the “Neighbor’s Lawn Wrestling Pit”.
It’s a theme park where there are no rules, but the “Line Forms Here” sign is 78 pages long.
[ Ayn Rand writes a chapter on why the people who don’t close their tags deserve to die ]
ZWAK:
Definitely don’t take a date to RandLand.
Definitely don’t take a date to RandLand.
Unless you’re a Fox News reader and she’s an intern; she might be into that kind of rough stuff.
You must read this long to ride this ride.
At las, you people get it
I will not live my life for another nor sit on a chair that was violated by a bare ass.
“Just get the old man smell out,” Donald said. “You know he’s pissed on every chair and mattress in the place.”
That’s not even fiction.
Dammit.. that was going to be my reply about Hunter and his man-thong. Between that and the cocaine, I expect he tore up the place.
“Lebensraum,” the hat replied. “Or Manifest Destiny, if you insist on being a fag about it.”
I mean if we are going to start invading countries in our Hemisphere, why don’t we invade Haiti and just rename it South Florida? Then we can send Florida Man, Florida Woman, and Chik Fil-A to turn the country from a shithole to a beacon of light in the Carribean for the New American Manifest Destiny.
Because Gay North Dakota is a name which must become real.
GayDak?
Saskatchewan needs to be renamed Norther Dakota. Manitoba can be Gay North Dakota.
The only way you can turn a shithole into a non shithole is if you exterminate all the people who are making it a shithole.
I don’t know about you, but in my opinion, Haiti isn’t worth genociding anyone over.
Our family friend is from Haiti and she’s in her early 70’s now. We asked if she would ever go back there to visit family and friends since she’s getting older, and she responded that they would have to kidnap her before she would ever step foot back into that country again.
Excuse me, but if I kill all the
FloridiansSnow Birds, they’ll lock me up and throw away the key.You forgot Waffle House. If we’re going to annex the Americas, we at least owe them a competent disaster recovery agency.
Haiti has a million of natural disasters, so the Waffle House could be their version of FEMA but more competent.
He didn’t want their populace to scatter or for the Floridians to smother their initiative. That about covered it.
Replace FEMA with Waffle House?
I’m intrigued, and would support this.
And then we were peppered with puns?
Well, you gotta break a few eggs….
The Hat fails the Breakfast Test?
“Lebensraum,” the hat replied. “Or Manifest Destiny, if you insist on being a fag about it.”
There’s a reason we didn’t take that place over when we had the chance.
Wait… when did we have the chance? Mexico, sure… we could have annexed all of it. But Canada we only fought in 1812-1814 and they held their own pretty well against several attempts to “finish” the Revolution on our part.
1844 dude! We practically owned the whole west coast. 52-forty or fight!
Eh… given the bulk of their population and country was back in the East — that’s more than a little bit of a stretch for me, sorry.
52-forty
Missed it by that much.
54-40. We want all of American Columbia. Make Point Roberts contagious again!
Keep Point Rogers quarantined. You don’t want what they have.
In 1865, the US had a large, experienced military.
I mean, come on.
“Can’t even get a damn nap,” he grumbled. “And I’m the best napper.”
I sympathize.
“And burn anything Hunter sat on,” Donald said. “Bare-ass in a man-thong. What the damn hell?”
I wonder if that would mean Cracky residuals burning and therefore contact highs?
I would think so. Every touch of a lavatory handle in the White House could mean an overdose.
Melania said, stalking into the room, all cheekbones and heels.
I will admit to looking forward to four more years of her.
She easily became one of my favorite First Ladies when she responded to doing the White House Christmas Decorations with who gives a shit about doing this stuff? She doesn’t seem to even want to get involved with policy or give her advice which was a departure from the previous first ladies.
Or a return to form pre-Eleanor / Judith, really.
I’ll be curious if any of the fashion mags finally put the first actual ex-model First Lady on their cover this time around.
It’d be a sign of things thawing a bit in the culture wars.
I’m not going to hold my breath, though – better chance of Frau Doktor Professor Jill being on the Vogue cover again before Melania
Ano what you mean!
https://archive.is/OvDYG/17f80d4bc9a694f1bebacb7b2c1045264e3daebf.jpg
Nice.
So pretty.
Meh. You can see dozens of better looking women in an hour just walking down the street in any eastern European city.
How many of them are once and future First Ladies?
By First Lady standards she’s pretty hot. She’s no Barbara Bush though.
* slides away from Jaime *
Barbara Bush ewwwwwwwwwwwww.
“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”
― Barbara Bush
That description of Melania – poetry.
“In my country, we would keep the communism in the tortilla people, the Mexicans. They’re beaners anyway, so let them lose their souls“
Nice Beanfather reference.
So the drugs would be allowed but regulated?
Of course that means Barron plays the part of Michael Corleone.
Don Jr as Sonny
Eric as Fredo
Ivanka as Connie
Which leaves Tiffany. What part does she play?
Donald Jr is Fredo and Ivanka is Sonny, the hothead.
Apropos of the brief discussion of the new ‘dietary’ ‘guidelines’ in ded thred, Teicholz’ write up/summary here (I think it’s not behind a paywall…)
Since implementing them will fall to the new admin and they are free to ignore the entire report if they want, one hopes they will do so.
Thanks. That was quite good.
I hope RFK2 brings her in for advice.
Got me to wander off to find the definition of UPF, and here was the answer:
Of course, it gets better…
and finally,
No, I’m quite certain that calories has nothing to do with it. Nope, not at all.
Notice that at the same time the media is railing against ultra-processed food, they’re pushing all of the vegan meat substitutes, that are by definition ultra-processed.
Re: Definition of UPFs. Correct. And in fact, Teicholz makes exactly that observation in the linked article and in others. As does Gary Taubes and cautions against getting ahead of the scientific evidence. That said, for me, I stay away from things that will commonly fall under the rubric of ultra-processed – not because of the ultra processed moniker, but because of the inclusion of lots of sugar, various industrial by-product oils, soy-this and soy that.
No, I’m quite certain that calories has nothing to do with it
Not nothing, but much less than you are sarcastically suggesting. I think the evidence is very strong that obesity and metabolic disfunction is an energy-partition problem, not a calorie issue. The calorie excess in ‘upfs’ is not a problem because of the mere number – humans have no bomb-calorimeters inside us, no calorie sensors – but because of the source of said calories and what other sorts of knock on effects the processing of those calories will impact our metabolic system. I’ll eat 2000 calories a day of steak (well, maybe not, that would be pretty difficult – which already points to an advantage of, for lack of a better term, ‘real food’) rather than 1000 calories of sugar, soy protein, and industrial by-product fats and be infinitely more healthy for it.
PM, calories is most of it – not all. And metabolism changes – I don’t eat like I did in my 30s, when I also ran 3-4 miles a day, at least 5 days a week.
calories is most of it
Depends on what you mean by ‘most of it’. The type of calorie (or more properly, the carrier of the calorie since a calorie is simply defined by burning something completely and measuring the change in temperature induced in a standard amount of water) is *the* important issue. Not the number. You can eat 5000 calories of cardboard per day and will starve to death. A type-1 diabetic can eat 10000 calories a day of ‘real’ food and will starve to death.
Simply counting the number of calories means nothing without accounting for bio-availability, the hormonal impact a given ‘food’ will have during the digestive process on other systems, etc., e.g. the whole (COMPLEX) human metabolic system.
And Re: your metabolic rate – it’s been conclusively demonstrated that certain diets will increase metabolic rate by as much as the equivalent of 300 calories per day. You metabolic rate *is* impacted by the food you eat, not only by aging (less growth demand, hence less energy requirement).
So I’m not saying calories don’t matter, they absolutely do. But the number is not the critical factor, at all – I infer that’s what you are implying given the context of your original comment, apologies if that’s not the case. That will take care of itself if you eat, for lack of a better term, the ‘correct’ type of calorie.
I have this sudden craving for a donut.
Thanks, Mr. Meat, you saved me a lot of typing.
Calories in, calories out is attractive in its simplicity but it has nothing to do with getting healthier. As you said, it’s not just a question of protein, carbs and fat but the composition of them. You can get protein from plant sources, yes, but they are missing many important nutrients, particularly amino acids.
Food is the root of most of our health problems. Eating industrially engineered food will eventually fuck you up. Eating foods that keep inflammation down and blood sugar stable will pay big dividends.
Fine. Most people just eat too much – far more than what their metabolism demands. If I ate the way I once did, I’d probably weigh 300 lbs because I don’t burn off what I used to.
And I’m shit fed up with UPF and every OTHER excuse for people not having the common sense that god supposedly granted them to figure it out.
Fine. Most people just eat too much
True, and tautological. Why do they eat too much? Which direction does the arrow of causality go?
And your notion of ‘common sense’ is never going to beat millions of years of evolutionary physiological adaptation that will cause everyone to ‘eat too much’ when every bit of advice and every recommendation one gives in the arena of nutrition *creates* the conditions that will short-circuit and subvert that adaptation.
The fucking foods are designed to tap into that evolutionary adaptation. Every time there is a head to head comparison between whole foods and engineered foods the people eat way more calories.
It’s tempting to blame people for their supposed shortcomings, but this is a complex problem.
craving for a donut
Ultra-processed euphemism?
MAGA – make appendix great again!
make appendix great again!
I’m not sure what the point is (honestly!)? If it’s something about vestigial and evolution, I get the chance to link to NPR!. Sorry.
I don’t think you are arguing that UPF is to food what menthol cigarettes, flavored vapes, etc. are – at least I trust you aren’t. But this argument about how we eat – and the extent of influence (either corporate or government) – sure leans in the direction of experts must tell the common people because the common people can’t be expected to know (or just simply snowed under by the avalanche of advertising and taste-trickery).
sure leans in the direction of experts must tell the common people because the common people can’t be expected to know
I’ll settle for the ‘experts’ and government just shutting up. They already fucked things up with the McGovern commission. Much of the bad stuff in our modern nutrition is directly attributable to government action, whether with the influence, collusion, or other wise with food industry. Frankly I don’t care – I have nothing to fear from ‘big food’ (or Pfizer etc) – I only have to fear when the state sticks their big nose in.
I have been concerned of late with the push back against the absolute disaster that has our food supply over the last 60-ish years. There’s a lot of indication – looking at you Calley Means, RJK – that what we really need is for the RIGHT stuff to be forced on us (in fairness, I’m convinced it IS the right stuff). No – just shut the fuck up. Leave researches alone, don’t put your fingers on the scale and require this or that by force of law and censor opposing views. It will get sorted.
And then a unicorn came by and farted on me.
Passing the PRIME Act would be massive. And I’m OK with some aggressive banning of chemicals and livestock “medications.”
Regenerative ag is a proven winner and we badly need more of it.
Passing the PRIME Act would be massive
Hunnert percent in agreement.
And I’m OK with some aggressive banning of chemicals and livestock “medications.”
Reflexively against banning, but open to the argument. I’d be happier with remove requirements on ‘medication’ (AND STOP TRYING TO INTRODUCE MORE!! I’m looking at you Bovaer(tm)) and remove the subsidies and regulations that make mono-cropping and the attendant chemical use almost a necessity to be successful at farming on at scale.
wrt to ‘open to the argument’ – the idea (that I still cling to) that tort law for genuine harms from, e.g. chemicals, is feasible… I’m just not sure it is anymore given our court systems seeming willingness to entertain any tort, no matter how ridiculous, to punish wrong thinkers. Coupled with the strict adherence to ‘standing’ when it comes to government actors (e.g. the exact inversion of how it should work), I’m not sure the court system is up to handling it.
Regenerative ag is a proven winner and we badly need more of it.
I think removing regulations and subsidies would go along way to making that feasible.
(looks over at pile of work still leering at me… Nope, casting my swine before pearls on line has not made it go away. Rats)
Other than providing courts in which I can sue someone who negligently (or more deliberately) sells me contaminated food I fail to see a government roll in my diet. All this nonsense about FDA or USDA, or whatever alphabet agency is weighing in now, guidelines annoys me. Yes, of course they were based purely on which group of lobbyists paid the most, not science, that’s how the whole damn thing works, and always has. But I am deeply skeptical that those guidelines had a damn thing to do with us getting fat. We got fat because sitting in front of a screen in air-conditioning is comfortable and pizza and ice cream taste better than kale. I know I have never for one second considered the guidelines when shopping or looking in my fridge.
But I am deeply skeptical that those guidelines had a damn thing to do with us getting fat.
Partially, but I think you undersell their pervasiveness. You may never have considered them when you went shopping (subconsciously even? Whole grain this, fat free yogurt that?), but the food items you have to choose from (absent staying on the outside rim of the store) certainly do. Your school cafeteria certainly did. The government programs for the poors certainly did. The constant propaganda and legal framework facing the food industry around ‘healthy’ food certainly did. We are the fish that aren’t aware of the water we are swimming in.
“the Secretaries are legally required to issue dietary guidelines”
Why?
H.R.1608, the 1990 National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act.
So another thing we need Congress to act on. Now where did that unicorn go?
I bet Trump gets suited up to go to the bathroom.
I’ve got my four people who’ve agreed to be a character reference. Now, I can’t let myself procrastinate because I can’t use that excuse any more. Now I just have to figure out how to phrase the response to the “Why do you want to be armed, criminal scum?” question on the form in a manner that will get approved, and a list of activities that won’t get a reaction of “you don’t need general carry for that”.
Maybe I should get a hunting license just to answer “yes” there and add that to the list of things I shoot for.
Right: “Self-defense and all other lawful putposes.”
Wrong: “Kappin’ off suckas.”
Extremely Wrong: “Kappin’ off this sucka in particular – (name and address omitted)“
We’re talking New York, ‘self defense’ is more likely to get you rejected.
I believe that was what I was told to write, verbatim.
I’d assume you’ll probably use them most often for sporting/competition purposes, at least by round count.
Ideally, I’d have to fire 0 rounds for self-defense.
Obviously we know what your first handgun is going to be, but what color Shadow 2 will you be getting?
I donno, does it come in Candy Apple Red?
‘Self-defense’ or some variant thereof, is the only thing that will get you an unrestricted permit rather than a general.
Your new grips. Make sure to get the Glibs logo engraved.
I don’t know how a full-coverage Cherry Red paint job would look in the end, but if you can imagine it, your local Cerakote butcher can make it happen!
Nothing feels right quite like a sugarless link in a SugarFree post.
I’m guessing he meant this link with the cherry red option engaged:
https://lokgrips.com/cz-gun-grips/cz-shadow-2/palm-swell/bogies/cz-shadow-2-palm-swell-bogies/
Kicks? Scaring your dog’s playmates and owners?
At my local shop there is a person who routinely will walk in and while in mixed company ask one of the salesmen or owner:
Which of these would be best for a church picnic?
Which one will minimize my shortcomings?
Etc.
“family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the king of England out of your face!”
In the People’s Republic of NJ recreation is a valid reason.
My PA LTCF says “self defense”.
My (optional) AZ permission slip just says “concealed carry”.
“I want to perform vigilantism on public transit, and I don’t feel that my choke-hold is good enough to be depended on. And I don’t want to get my gloves dirty.”
“Fight back against a tyrannical state government” might be a counterproductive response. Maybe “defend female relatives from deportation to Trump’s Handmaid camps”?
“Abortion clinic defense”
I guess “FYTW” would probably not be a successful strategy.
“Carrying a pistol for self defense and hunting is much easier than carrying a two handed broadsword.”
I know this is a bit off topic but whenever someone complains about what Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza, I always want to ask…. what was Israel’s response supposed to be after the events of October 7th? Where they supposed to just sit on their hands and hope that Hamas would eventually stop killing their citizens? Like what was their response supposed to be in a situation when your citizens where slaughtered, kidnapped and even raped? And what makes it worse is that many people who I call friends, have basically handwaved the atrocity and even without explicitly saying it, that Israeli citizens had it coming for all the years of oppression. It depresses me to be honest.
It doesn’t matter. People who hate Israel/Jews will just say they deserved it and they need to shut up, sit down, and take it.
I’ll add this: [[[We]]] have a cultural crush on Judaism/Jews/Israel, and so I NEVER heard of current (as opposed to historical) anti-semitism or Jew hatred until I was over 20. I couldn’t/can’t wrap my head around it.
To me it’s evidence that propaganda is everywhere and it works. There are videos out there of folks asking campus anti-Jew protestors to explain their rationale and they can’t do it. They just “know” they’re right.
“Jews are bad, mm’kay.”
(((We))) control everything doncha know. It’s why we’ve been pogromed, genocided and exiled from every country on Earth* because in spite of our omnipotence, we are powerless against bigoted knuckledraggers and 7th century illiterate savages.
*save the US, for now anyway
It would help if the Jew Dems would stop voting Dem.
“Depose that fascist Trumpalo Bibi. “
The response was supposed to be a few missile strikes and raids, then back to business as usual. Just continue the dance and ignore the major escalation.
They were supposed to surrender to Hamas, and agree to a two state solution. Then they were supposed to just quietly die so that they would no longer be polluting the middle east with their “European” presence.
When it was on the table, it was not the Israelis who rejected the two state solution.
I live near a couple of synagogues and Hebrew schools and they each have an armed officer sitting outside because of the threats they’ve received from activists.
I sympathize with the Palestinian people but everyone’s anger at their situation would be best to target their anger towards the Palestinian Authority and Hamas which have taken a buttload of foreign aid and used it to control and starve their people while enriching themselves.
They don’t want their own nation because they know that it would be a total failure. They need the Israeli as a means of diversion from their own fuckery and they want access to the Israeli infrastructure and money without having to do anything for it.
Ed:
On the other side of town, I’m by a mosque. No guards there, also they have not been doing any protests/marches/pro-Palestinian items (at least visible from the street) yet. Don’t know if you’ve been following the CWRU story, but I think it shows pretty clearly who the aggressors are.
At this point is there even a difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority?
The UN and aid agencies haven’t been doing themselves any favors either with the amount of employees who just happen to have Hamas ties (and happen to have locations that have been weapon depots).
Did you see the recent Critical Drinker clip on See No Evil? Not directly on point, but a good illustration of the unpleasant fact – a lot of people will literally do anything, or allow anything to be done to them, to avoid having to defend themselves (physically, mentally, or emotionally.)
I’ve had some of these types suggest that proper response was to unleash Mossad death squads against Hamas leaders and fighters on a targeted basis instead of bombing indiscriminately. That might have taken a lot longer but wouldn’t have stirred up ” genocide” no sense.
“Sure, Jan.”
The fact is, the hordes were itching for some Jew hate and Oct. 7 was the signal to unleash it.
It was the exact same effect as after George Floyd.
Same groups organizing it, too. Which is how you get the whole antifa spiel at all these events too.
Sorry, but sure looks like an ethnic cleanse. Is there a building left standing?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/federal-judge-who-refuses-mental-evaluation-at-age-97-fights-suspension/ar-AA1vFyJo
Admirable or ridiculous?
I would have to see the results of a mental evaluation.
Or at least his recent case history to see if his rulings are sound.
Her.
Ohio state legislature gets really stupid.
It’s the end of season. This is when the legislatures introduce bills that won’t go anywhere, but hope to use them to set the tone for the next session.
Funny rundown.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3533690/an-ohio-lawmaker-introduced-the-o.h.i.o.-sportsmanship-act-to-make-it-a-felony-to-plant-a-flag-in-ohio-stadium
Wait, did other schools carry on the tradition that Oklahoma started?
tOSU are pussies (but still man up enough to rule tPSU.)
I forgot to mention it, but TTUN got rid of DEI oaths in hiring.
Is anybody really surprised by the stupidity of Tosu fans?
“Watch: Congressman Warns Iranian Mothership Lurking Off Coast Responsible For New Jersey Drone Scare ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-congressman-warns-iranian-mothership-behind-nj-drone-scare-urges-military-action#comment-stream
🐂 💩
I’ve yet to see a Pentagon statement on the drones.
Scott Adams suggested the other day that those are demonstrations by vendors. You can imagine our military wants a lot of drones in a hurry. You would want to demonstrate in populated areas where there’s a lot of potential interference, and at night when you can better see what the drones are doing via lights. He finds it suspicious that the military seems to not try to shoot them down.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-congressman-warns-iranian-mothership-behind-nj-drone-scare-urges-military-action
Pentagon rebuffs the idea. So really we need to ask DARPA now
It will interesting to see if Donald shoots down some drones/balloons instead of letting them all drift across the US like Joe did.
Somebody has to stop “big bath” in Japan!
https://unseen-japan.com/nakayama-miho-heat-shock/
Norwegians laugh and point out that’s why you do it in a sauna and not a large bath.
Heat shock occurs due to sudden temperature differences in the body. Moving from a warm to a cold environment – e.g., getting undressed, having a cold rise before entering a bath – causes blood vessels to restrict, raising blood pressure. The vessels then suddenly expand when you enter a hot bath.
The Finns seem to have conquered heat shock.
“From the sauna to the snow drift”
The comically ethnic sounding CEO assassin’s list of things that don’t add up unless he was dumb as hell:
1) Meticulously plan and stalk a CEO of a billion dollar company, then prior to committing the act, flirt with a cashier in a nearby business while wearing the same gear and without a mask. You know, to make sure people remember you out of the hundreds of people one encounters in the city.
2) spend the time and money building a ghost gun and suppressor and train with it enough to clear a jam with little delay while in a high pressure situation. The intention of using a weapon with no serial numbers or traceability would imply that you would be able to dispose of it without it coming back to you. Instead keep it or one just like it with you at all times.
3) Make a manifesto loaded with references to the unibomber, ignoring his idol’s attempts at keeping himself incognito, but instead carry it around with you wherever you go.
4) Plaster all of your nuttyness all over your social media and be sure to include references to the guy you are stalking and be sure to use the same language as your manifesto
5) Get an advanced engineering degree from Penn and be this stupid
About the right age to have schizophrenia (or a similar mental problem) and disorganized thinking pop up. Doing stupid things and being stupid aren’t the same thing.
“You are what you do when it counts.”
That’s a good point. Mental illness would explain a lot.
Adult onset schizo is a serious problem. The voices seem louder
Throw in some various drugs and go talk to some homeless folks
No doubt, I tend to try and troubleshoot problems and look for ways to improve methods even if they are not my own or a net benefit to anyone. In this case his decision making allowed a McDonalds clerk to identify him as a suspect, I should be glad he was caught, but instead I just see sloppy work.
Carrying around the compleat package of stuff needed to convict you is so (literally) incredible, I’m still struggling with him being the actual guy. I guess he is, and his (asserted, because who do you really trust on things like this?) history of mental illness goes a long way, but the abrupt shift from the level of competence he showed (which was really not bad at all) starting after he left NYC is, well, jarring.
Reminds me of the movie Darkman.
https://youtu.be/0ITUO4G8iSY
“that would be just fine”
“an orgy of evidence.”
Or what? “They” find some patsy off a Greyhound in Altoona and plant all this evidence on him?
I’m pretty sure they have the right looney, I’m just surprised by the lack of forethought. I guess if you think killing a CEO is going to make a difference to the healthcare system, you are not thinking clearly in the first place.
6) Leave a trail of dozens of snapshots across the internet, and lots of friends all eager to talk to the media.
6) Get bored with the cops not catching you so hang out in public so you can proceed with making a spectacle of yourself in the courtroom.
The well has been primed for this moment. I noticed a huge percentage of smart people immediately voicing this skeptical view.
This would never have happened 10 or 15 years back.
This one seems tailor made for the moment, just as the George Floyd death was tailor made for that moment. All the ambiguity needed to provide a highly divisive rorschach test.
You’re presuming he didn’t want to be caught. You don’t become a Hero in your own story unless people know who you are.
Two US service pistols, adopted 75 years apart:
https://x.com/WeaponsVault/status/1865238671395557421
To be fair, there was a lot of development in firearms tech in the latter half of the 1800s.
That’s kind of the point, I think.
Makes me wonder why we went back to using the flintlock in the 1980s.
Lobbying by “Big Flint”?
Too be fair, though, that 2nd one stayed in service for 75 years; the first one was replaced at least a dozen times in those 75 years.
Great Adam Carolla ep today. He has some story about being evacuated due to the Malibu fire and then a great rant about Bernie Sanders and communism (linked).
I like the substack version a lot (not just the opportunity for watching live which I haven’t tried yet), but also because it’s completely uncut in terms of what youtube would permit.
Social animals: In a pride of lions there is an Alpha male. He fights his way to the top by defeating his preceding Alpha male. He spends his entire time as head of the pack defending against the up-and-coming younger males. They last an average of three years. By the time they wander off alone to retirement they are scarred up, limping and missing an eye/ear/tail whatever.
All hominids, ungulates, canines etc. operate in the same fashion. The members of the ‘tribe’ are also constantly squabbling, fighting and stealing from each other. Competing tribes behave the same way towards each other. People are no different than other social animals. What we see are more sophisticated means of battle but the motives and outcomes are the same. These strategies are all based on zero sum thinking. For me to have what I want you must lose. I must subjugate you. In a word, barbarism. My personal crack-pot theory is that the underlying cause of this is crude technology; limited means of production.
Civilized behavior is based on free trade. Cooperation between consenting parties. It requires higher means of production. In this way no one loses, everyone wins. All are better off. There is no need for subjugation, theft, guile or violence. The wild advancement of technology has given us the means of doing just that. Mass production should have killed slavery and war long ago but it seems to be too deeply embedded in our nature.
Will we ever be rid of the generational resurgence of communism, theft, war? I am not hopeful.
Don’t worry, the singularity will arive before too long and wipe us all out.
I don’t know about felines, but in canine species the whole Alpha/Beta/Gamma thing is only observed in captive populations. Wild wolf packs, for instance, organize themselves into monogamous extended family groups.
Just when you thought politicians couldn’t get any dumber, this guy takes to Twitter to brag that he is sponsoring a bill to make planting the flag at football games a felony
https://x.com/JoshWilliamsOH/status/1866888156706115682?s=19
It’s already a felony to be disruptive at a sporting event. They make big announcements before every Indians or Browns game I’ve been to.
“A felony”
Lawfare much?
https://x.com/energybants/status/1866932312270598266
I thought the Germans were blowing up their nuke plants. Or was that just coal plants?
See my comment above on our herd animal nature. All of these energy policies are for the purposes of subjugating people. Lots of cheap energy makes for prosperity and liberty. Cant have that.
It’s a pointless question, but why did the guy even bother to flee the scene of the crime if he was going to carry all the incriminating evidence around with him? Why not just stand over the body and yell, “Take that, motherfucker!” and wait for the coppers?
Stinky has me thinking now. If he does have some sort of mental illness, then nothing he did makes sense to us because we don’t think the same way he does.
The two mostly scenarios that explain the facts:
1) he is a patsy being set up to take the fall for a larger conspiracy
2) he had a mental break is is operating on a different set of logic
I would like to think that the conspiracy is the farfetched notion. But I can’t.
It is likely both. See: FBI talking retards into planting ‘bombs’.
What’s the larger conspiracy? Cui bono from an insurance executive getting popped on the streets?
Yeah, he did a decent job of setting up the hit and getting out town, and then he, what, keeps riding around on Greyhound busses for days carrying all the evidence in his backpack? I guess some kind of mental break could explain it.
I gotta say, the speed with which they posted the pics of him shortly before the hit with his mask down was suspiciously fast. I mean, it’s NYC. There’s tens of thousands of hours of that video taken every day, and they dug up one or two shots of this guy with his mask down in less than a day?
NYC is quite good at that. That part is not surprising.
I’ll take your word for it.
Breaking new: FBI Director Chris Wray announces plans to resign
Another one bites the dust.
Dr. Jill is on a revenge tour:
https://x.com/NuanceBro/status/1866941805708878218
ME-OW!
The side of her cheeks look like they might rip open.
That is, unusually, cunty.
Thinking about Jill and joe getting booted out of their public housing makes me feel more than a little joyful.