More anger issues from an angry man.
I understand the Olympics are done. OK. Juwan Howard is a dipshit. He needs to go and TTUN fans need to never mention Woody Hayes and Clemson ever again. Liverpool won, Man City lost. There’s a bit of a race to the EPL championship again. And that’s it for sports.
I didn’t expect this to happen. Even though I probably should have. Authoritarians gonna authoritarian.
When creepshotting goes wrong. Sounds like some partisan prudery here, but I’d have to see the photos to know if I’m right.
A nice old woman.
Good on them. If only we’d follow their lead.
The camera doesn’t lie. Have a nice day, asshole.
Tough love. Mom gets it.
That region has gone to the birds.
This is just what we need. We should shut off all access to the city and Long Island just to be sure we’re safe. Ten years ought to be enough.
Locusts descend on city. Well, kind of.
No shit, Sherlock. Now wish them all luck and go back home.
Here’s a nice song for you. And…here’s a second one. Hope you enjoy them both.
And enjoy this paid holiday, all you government and corporate people. The rest of us will just enjoy a regular Monday.
“I didn’t expect this to happen. Even though I probably should have. Authoritarians gonna authoritarian.”
What scares me is how nobody that should be saying “WTF?” in western governments is doing so. They are all acting as if it is not happening and trying their best to paint the people asking for freedom as terrorists…
Think about that..
“One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist”, no?
Looks like the supposedly elected representatives of the various “wester democracies” (in quotes on purpose) has decided that entities like Antifa and BLM which murder, burn, loot, and destroy are freedom fighters, while anyone that doesn’t accept the various actions to institute their Great Reset, even if al they do is hold outdoor parties or demnd their government provide proof after telling the people blatantly obvious lies, is a terrorist.
It’s not hard to figure out. BLM and Antifa ultimately want to support and expand the state as it is and make the grift work for them. Truckers stand in the way of the state’s power grabs and only want to be left alone. Not giving the state unlimited power = terrorism.
BLM and Antifa vote for whoever the Dems put up as a candidate.
It’s really not that hard to figure out.
Freedom Fighters suggest that the government could possibly, in some circumstances, be wrong. It’s possible to #resist a nazi, but to take up arms against the government? Terrorist.
whaddup doh’
Eastern Washington was of course much colder. Until this winter, MacDonald, a native Southern Californian, had never shoveled snow. But their new house is twice as big as their Los Angeles home, cost less than half as much and is a five-minute commute from City Hall, where MacDonald works as Spokane’s director of community and economic development.
He arrives each day to tackle a familiar conundrum: how to prevent Spokane from developing the same kinds of problems that people like him are moving there to escape.
“I’m realizing more and more how important the future prosperity of this city is about getting housing right,” he said. “If we don’t, it’s going to track more closely with what happened in Los Angeles.”
Central planning will save us.
Funny how central planning by idiots, controlling the narrative – using the obvious lie it is to prevent information as long as you understand misinformation is anything they don’t like or want you to hear – and news, and introducing some scoring mechanism, be it a Kung Flu passport or a social score, while punishing anyone and any entity that exposes this racket they are running on us, seem to be the only solution acceptable to the cadre of credentialed elite morons that can’t seem to even wipe their ass clean without getting shit on everything, huh?
The cycle brings bitterness and “Don’t Move Here” bumper stickers
Of course, this is false. The “dont move here” bumper stickers are actually “don’t californicate my Texas” bumper stickers. They don’t seem to mind people (like me) who relocated from flyover country, but it sure seems to stick in their craw when companies dump a few thousand of San Francisco’s finest into our neighborhoods. 100 people per day are moving into my suburb, and it’s having an impact. Whether or not the voting patterns have changed (I’ll be curious to see how my area fares in 2022), the culture has shifted.
The article is interesting in an unintentional way, because it addresses one of the issues I’ve noticed. All those urban Californians move into sleepy suburb X and start demanding apartments, townhomes, integrated residential city cores, and duplexes. The old timers balk at the change in culture and the change in population density, but are told to sit down and shut up by the enlightened locusts.
Can confirm: Texans think it’s obvious that everyone would want to move to TX. NYers seem to think outsiders are carpetbagging here to steal their stuff. The Mayor of Albany (pre-Cindy Sheehan) declared that they needed to bring in new residents to “lower the tax burden on real New Yorkers.”
When I was a kid in the ’80s, it was a big thing to put a sticker on your car that said “CALIFONIA NATIVE”. This shit has been going on for a loooooong time.
To be fair, California was a nicer place in the 80s. It was ruined in part by the influx of non-natives.
Point.
The use of the term “carpet-bagging” is hilarious since the original meaning was Yankees who moved to the Reconstruction-era South.
Occasionally I try to be subtle.
“ outsiders are carpetbagging ”
But enough about the Clintons…
This process has been going on for a couple hundred years; there’s nothing new about it.
I am not sure why it’s so often in the news lately.
I am not sure why it’s so often in the news lately.
Because this country has all but split in two, and people either fear the hordes coming from the foreign land or they look in curiosity at the people abandoning utopia.
Excellent commentary on the societal split. This is about thought workers versus meatspace workers.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/reality-honks-back
It’s interesting to me that there seems to be a somewhat effective inoculation against falling into the thought worker mindset. In my (limited) experience, those who have spent some time working with their hands have aligned with the physical workers. Those who have never bothered to get their hands dirty are reliably prog-fascist.
Those *thought workers* who have, *in the past*, spent some time working with their hands…
Very much so. It’s a reliable indicator.
I’ll also add that manufacturing a physical product tends to bring a more reality-based mindset to people.
I’ve been laptop-class my whole life and never fallen into that trap.
It really just takes rubbing a couple brain-cells together. The whole banging pans at 7 o’clock thing, while silly, seemed to indicate some recognition of these things from the laptop class but then they went back to instinct and vilify them now.
It is baffling.
As with everything else, it’s a generalization.
Rhy, you came to mind when I wrote out the original comment. I think your background (at least from what you’ve posted here) exposes that you’ve had more than a passing encounter with reality. You’ve seen successes and the consequences thereof. You’ve seen failures and the consequences thereof.
This is in stark contrast to some of my high school classmates who grew up in an upper middle class lifestyle, getting upper middle grades that put them in an upper middle university. Then they graduated into an upper middle job that pays for an upper middle class lifestyle. The worst they had to deal with was mommy and daddy getting a divorce and the incessant shuttling around that came as consequence of that split. Electricity came from the plug. Food came from the grocery store. The car got fixed at the dealership, and the plumber fixed the sink.
I’m laptop class – hell, I’ve worked from home for a decade – but I’m definitely not part of that tribe.
Maybe it’s was the summer construction jobs but more likely that my father lifted himself up by the bootstraps; we were middle-middle class, living hand to mouth for most of my childhood. I was wearing thrift shop clothes long before it was cool.
My father didn’t have kids so much as he had a captive labor force. Our big, old house needed a lot of work, and only rarely were professionals involved.
This is a perfect description Trashy. I work in residential construction in Idaho, the state that is growing the fastest per capita in the nation right now due to the Calexit (some Oregon & Washington too, but I’d honestly say 80% of all buyers are Cali). I get to meet everyone of them and discuss. First thing they do is joke about not changing the place and how they’re not “those Californians.” It does not occur to them how deeply ingrained culture is and how that is separate (not mutually exclusive) from politics. They don’t understand that by bringing the culture with them, they also change everything politically, aesthetically, morally ect….
They are, as you’d expected almost entirely laptop workers. They are, as you’d likely suspect on average, far more rude, entitled, aggressive, litigious…. It is remarkable how, despite being able to pull in serious income at their jobs, they have no skills outside of whatever their job is. I mean, literally don’t know how to tighten a set screw kind of clueless. They usually don’t have any sorts of hobbies that involve any skill or knowledge as though they simply exist to be the perfect cogs in the machines that pay them so handsomely. Despite this, their level of self-satisfaction and their ability to look down at the people that work with their hands is virtually limitless.
I really don’t get that. The most unsatisfying thing about my career has been the fact that I don’t make anything. There is no tangible evidence of value created by my efforts.
Thanks for linking that, Scruffy.
Also, don’t know if you saw my request for a writeup about the Virginia LP. We’d love to publish something on that.
Ok, I’ll put my grammar hat on and try to writes real good for once.
Makers and Takers.
Btw, thanks for the substack references. I’m trying to move away from all other news than what I subscribe to, what I want to pay for a la carte, and substack seems the place to go now. But I’m concerned about trapping myself in a bubble. Looking for critical thinkers like dude above.
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_martha.htm
Nothing new under the sun.
In the map of this article, the blue in the south that makes a U below the Appalachians… I compared it to a topo of the US. The blue seems to sit in a valley down there, and off to the left follows the Mississippi down to the gulf. I don’t know what it means, but there seems to be some geographic influence as well as a big city thing.
/shrugs
I think the big non-urban patches of blue are probably hard union supporters where all those jobs dried up.
That’s mostly the Black Belt.
Black Belt… very interesting. Gonna read up on that. Thanks.
Short answer – other than urban centers like Atlanta, that’s what’s (partially) called The Black Belt, plus large areas along the Mississippi. It started as a geography thing (region only suitable in colonial days for plantation agriculture), turned into an economic thing (same), had therefore relatively large slave populations, whose descendents are still large portions of the populations, and what you’re seeing are racially-identifiable voting patterns.
+ 1 bike lane
Nah. Share the road regardless of whether the road is safe to share.
Yeah, no shit it’s colder. My parents moved just south of there (Pullman) in ’68 from the Bay Area and immediately got nailed by the worst winter in, well, forever. -40 and they had a convertible Mustang.
Do you dare doubt the wisdom of the planners?!
Minnesoda mass transit planners are crowing about how bus lines (and train lines) spur “investments”
The rest of the story is a bunch of planners touting a study that shows people build next to mass transit. Of course, mass transit means “near a road that a bus might drive on”. The story didn’t explain how this causal link operates given that mass transit ridership has dropped by more than half and shows no signs of recovering.
If you build mass transit, people will build next to it. If you build roads, people will build next to it.
They tried that bullshit in Sacramento, extending light rail out to Alkalai Flats, the bum-ridden area north of downtown. Built condos and townhouses out there, but no businesses came in so it was just light industrial and the homeless. No one took the rail.
Uffda. From the same paper: Gold Line will cost $70M more than expected.
Why? Because they are gaming the stats to make them eligible for Federal Transportation $$$.
It would be nice if we could have some sort of feedback that resulted in planners like Beckwith getting fired if those jobs never materialize.
Reminds me of the time we were taking inventory and the manager asked me, “Do we want a high or low inventory?” I said’ Depends if we’re buying or selling but since we’re keeping, let’s go with an accurate inventory”.
Now do riots & crime!
Don’t forget the interruptions to businesses and parking by all the construction to install those fancy, uneccessary platforms for the fancy buses. That killed at least one restaurant here that was driven out of business because all the nearby parking was a construction zone, and patrons didn’t think they’d be able to access the business via sidewalk.
Granted, the fancy buses are designed to need the platforms, but that’s an inherent design flaw making the whole service way more expensive and complicated than it needs to be. And, as always, to give the mayor’s friends contracts to construct that.
He arrives each day to tackle a familiar conundrum: how to prevent Spokane from developing the same kinds of problems that people like him are moving there to escape.
I’ll offer him a suggestion – tell people in LA that anyone who’d actually like him or support him should probably stay in LA and anyone who’d be opposed to him might consider relocating.
Waittaminute! There were Olympic Games? Oh well.
I thought that shit was over too and everyone had gotten their fill of CCP ass swab testing…
Did that American girl who won gold representing totalitarian China decide to stay in the glorious country of her ancestor? Probably not because she can come back to America and be welcomed as a hero on “The View” and similar shows.
Little more than a year and every day will be a holiday.
Good God Man, are you trying to TEdS us?
Just looking forward to retirement.
Careful, JI,it comes quickly and then it’s almost over. Don’t wait too long.
I had originally planned for this April but deferred it one year (when I’ll be Medicare eligible). And not one day longer.
Good for you! Wanna go fishing?
Whistle and Fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G487EDeXadA
Huh… I was expecting this.
“The camera doesn’t lie. Have a nice day, asshole.”
The most vitriolic mask mandaters (not to be confused with two dudes on a date) always get caught without the mask. see it isn’t about the mask. It also isn’t about safety. it is about making sure the peasants obey. If you needed any more proof that these assholes wanting to torch your life for not wanting to, or even forgetting to, wear a mask are evil, that they simply want to mask the serfs so they can clearly let the serfs know their place, all while they go maskless whenever they feel like it – cause they are the elite – immediately making it obvious this isn’t about any sort of health measure, then look at examples like this.
OMG such polyphobia I can’t even.
It has always been about control. Someone here forwarded an article from Gordilock’s thread. These people live in the virtual world. Most of us live in the physical one. They don’t understand why we lose it when folk in the tippy-tappy pajama brigade start complaining about the people that actually sweat for a living. We were heroes not that long ago. Now we’re facists. Eat the rich.
That is one of the more enraging parts of all of this.
They turned on a dime the second Biden got elected and the Trump Vaccine which all of them declared they would never take suddenly became mandatory for all those heroes.
Respect for the woman not backing down when the board member tried the outrage redirect and the police intimidation.
Since stretching definitions is en vogue these days, would siccing a cop on someone be assault with a deadly weapon?
Kudos to the Cop for just walking away. How often does that happen?
It is SW Virginia. In NoVA that woman would have been taken down by a gang of cops and thrown in jail
^This.
Yep. Which also points to the problem of police being involved at all. Schools, airports, etc need to hire private security, with all of the liabilities and restrictions that goes with it, rather than have what is essentially private law enforcement who unquestionably follow their orders (expect in this case).
He was ready to strong-arm her away until the other Board member shut her shit down. That’s why she freaked out. More of this, please.
I’m guessing the other board member doesn’t love the chairwoman
Injuries occurred. Horses were present. Interactions cannot yet be confirmed. Procedures were followed.
I seem to have missed CNN reporting about the mounties lying and saying “nobody was injured at all, even though a filthy antixaxx0r nazi threw a bicycle at our beautiful delicate equine.”
It’s all a lie.
So, lawglibs: that counts as a resignation, right? Does it also count as her transferring her seat to Vaught?
I am gonna take my ball home cause you fucks dare call me out on the rules!
There is good coming from the woke exposing their evil ways, though….
The problem is that a plummeting student base does not lead to firings, terminations and such. Our teachers are going on strike because they deserve more money for all the trauma they’ve had to endure. Sure the student population has dropped by more than 10%, but no way that means that even one administrator should lose their job.
This is the first time in my lifetime that I have seen the adults that constantly talk about how important the kids, which are our future, tell the rest of us that they are going to be seriously fucking over the kids so the adults – themselves – can avoid being inconvenienced.
I watched that before I went to work tonight. It was delicious!
But he said downtown residents had woken to fencing and a “very heavy police presence” as well as checkpoints throughout the city.
Freedom isn’t free.
Buck-o-five?
At least it isn’t Shree-Fiddy…
3 Trillion Dollahs, same as Downtown.
When you need an army of goons and miles of fencing to protect yourself, shouldn’t you question if your actions are really what the people want? I mean you are supposed to be the representative of the folks back home, right?
Surely, you jest. Castreau is a man of the people.
“One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist”, no?
And the winners write the history books.
I thought winners fucked the prom queen?
Winners fuck the Prom Queen’s big sister.
Drag queens can be prom queens.
Don’t drag one of my best victories, Rat!
And the winners write the history books.
Thus is the Arc of History refuted.
Funny thing – When the horse ran over the cripple, Judi’s first thought was for the horse. “That rider asshole kicked!” Horse girls be crazy.
Turns out she was not only disabled but a Mowhawk woman – so excluded from the Twink’s orders. This won’t go over well in that community.
Hey! Who you calling a community?
Reposting from last night, because it deserves to be:
https://youtu.be/EHK5fBm1YWk
Hitting a coach is less bad than hitting a player.
Otoh, if Woody had hit an uga player, I would recommend him for sainthood.
The article is interesting in an unintentional way, because it addresses one of the issues I’ve noticed. All those urban Californians move into sleepy suburb X and start demanding apartments, townhomes, integrated residential city cores, and duplexes. The old timers balk at the change in culture and the change in population density, but are told to sit down and shut up by the enlightened locusts.
I am all in favor of mixed use. I’m in favor of no zoning at all, but radically altering established neighborhoods by decree is not a smart plan.
This.
Mixed use. No zoning, except possibly for heavy industrial. And time limits (25 years) on deed restrictions.
Some deed restrictions are o.k. In Penna. you used to be able to have a graveyard on your farm (esp. when the local Quakers kept you out of their graveyard for joining the revolutionary army to oppose King George III. Anyway, generations later the family sold the land outside of the family and put in a deed restriction that required future owners keep the graveyard intact and accessible (over 100 folks buried there). Well, another 100 years go by, somehow the restriction gets “overlooked” by subsequent owners, and there’s now a 300+ home community on the farm, and the desecrated graveyard is buried (pun) under someone’s driveway.
the family sold the land outside of the family
Stated vs revealed preference in action.
I think the key is to sell all of the land except the graveyard. Instead of a deed restriction, separate that part out and continue to hold it.
Would have been the smart thing to do but in 1830 probably didn’t foresee that owners in 1970 would not be trustworthy.
I am all in favor of mixed use. I’m in favor of no zoning at all
I’m in favor of no zoning over short-sighted zoning (or actively harmful zoning as we’re seeing more and more), but I’m not sure where I sit on “good” zoning versus no zoning. Most everywhere I’ve lived over the past couple decades has switched from single family neighborhoods on quarter acre or bigger lots to mixed high-density neighborhoods, lofted residential/commercial, and row after row of the ugliest little townhomes, all tightly managed by HOAs.
I find myself aligned with the guy in the article. I don’t mind those developments existing in my city, but I don’t want to live in or near them. The traffic issues alone from the increase in density are enough to keep me away.
I’ve also noticed the pattern that the increase of these higher density, lower cost housing developments seem to invariably precede, by a few years, a culture shift in the direction of the local urban core. There’s a cycle where a new town on the outskirts is discovered, it grows fantastically as a first wave of suburbanites look to escape the inner suburbs, the city gets a reputation for good schools and being a great place to live, the city managers start trying to increase density to keep up with the growth, a second wave comes in to take advantage of the “good schools and amenities”, the city gets crowded, and the decline takes hold. Eventually, the people who have stuck around since the beginning see their once small conservative town having to battle CRT and rising social issues. Meanwhile, the cycle has started all over again in the next town out.
My high school made the national news for CRT crap a few months back. My wife’s high school (she was homeschooled, but the one she would have gone to) fired their superintendent in December over CRT crap. We lived a few years a stone’s throw from Loudoun County VA and were seriously contemplating moving across the border line. Good zoning may not have been able to hold back the cycle, but bad zoning sure as hell accelerated it.
I’m not sure there’s a point to all of this besides expressing my internal back and forth on the topic.
A rant from a former Canadian cop (who refused to get the shot).
Sociopaths make up about 3 to 5% of the general population. That’s a lot of potential jackboots.
Speaking as a shaved ape, I object to that micro-aggression.
I gotta say, I like the queen. Not a bad old broad, and a fuck ton better than her son.
But probably not the greatest parent ever, judging from her 2 sons.
Three sons, two daughters. They are febrile folk!
I only count one daughter, but maybe Anne’s packed on some pounds over the years.
You’re right. I always count Margaret. Funny!
Diana was assassinated.
Otherwise, they seem like no worse than any other royal throughout the ages and probably better.
Officials vowed to end the protests through unprecedented protocols, including the Emergencies Act. The law allows the Canadian government to tap into military forces, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made it clear troops will not be needed.
They hammer that endlessly.
“Our Lord Protector Trudeau, in his most beneficent grace, has deemed it unnecessary to send in the troops to crush the insurgency.Demonstrate your gratitude, peasants.”
They are scared shitless of having another Kent state moment.
I don’t think so.
The military told Trudeau to pound sand a couple of weeks ago. I don’t get the impression he has any support there and is framing it to suit his needs.
Justin doesn’t seem to be that concerned about putting down what he sees as a rebellion against him even if it means blood in the streets.
Joffrey Trudeau?
Canadians are not naturally violent people. We have a very long fuse. Justin lit the fuse. Watch and learn. There is a very good reason that the Germans feared us in both conflicts and poor little Justy hasn’t studied his history.
Canadians are not naturally violent people.
Hockey says “hi”.
We are not quite to that point yet. He needs it to be mostly bloodless, as he is still at a tipping point with the population. Canada isn’t the US, with its multiple populations that hate each other.
When you militarize the police, saying you won’t use the military is disingenuous
???. They’ve spent the last couple of decades spreading out the military to every one of our neighborhoods. Even college police departments often have armored vehicles and SWAT teams that have military grade weapons. It has been obvious what the end goal is to anyone paying attention. Public safety = safety of the elites FROM the public.
The nameless, badgeless goons in riot gear with rifles notwithstanding…
JFC! They just ruined a bunch of lives. Mutherfuckers.
They could have defused the whole thing with a simple dialog, rather than going full-on fascist.
I’m thinking they wanted to go full-on fascist.
What good is power if it isn’t used to crush those who refuse to adore you?
Picking up chicks?
/Kissinger
Trudeau was in a bind. He has no arguments other that his go-to narratives of fascism, racism, homophobia, etc…
He couldn’t possibly debate because he would lose and he’s not going to take that chance.
And now this tyrant is going to make her financial tyranny permanent.
Maybe I am just an overreacting conspiracy nut but I find this shit absolutely terrifying. “Due to your support of group X, all your assets have been seized.”
“Due to your social credit score…”
This is why getting the fuck out of dodge has been so high a priority for me. Granted, I thought it would be a gradual drift towards capping and/or seizing retirement accounts. I didn’t figure they’d go straight for seizing bank accounts of wrongthinkers.
The need for control jumped ahead of the need for cash.
But but but Bitcoin fixes everything!!!!!
/libertarians that don’t understand the State will brook no competition
Right. This isn’t that hard for the state to get around. They’ll outlaw cash and only allow the major banks under their control to be the ones to make payments to all vendors. Without cash, you’ll have a really hard time turning your Bitcoin into spendable currency if the banks won’t accept your money without proof that it didn’t come from converted crypto. You’ve got to be pretty hardcore to put up with getting everything including groceries through the black market.
That is why I cashed out.
I took a personal day for today.
Aren’t you the boss?
Yes, and I answer to the owner.
Ah, thought you owned the business
Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour officials were looking into how the blockades had been funded.
“We’ve launched inquiries to see whether there was foreign influence. I’ve raised the issue with Secretary Blinken, my counterparts also within Canada have raised issues, because we’re very preoccupied with the financing, through crowdsourcing, first, and also the disinformation campaign linked to it,” she said.
Go ahead, fucko. Declare war on America. Joe will surrender.
Today in “in over his head“.
There’s the usual, debatable “vax good!” boilerplate but overall they make a good case against the illegal mandates. Bonus sportsball hypocrisy content.
Where did he actually admit they don’t work?
Looks like at a press conference.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
An anti-Karen
Another good one. Thanks, Holiness!
Ex-offenders in Maryland moving closer to jury eligibility
Has anyone asked them if they want to be eligible?
Hmmm.
Assuming that more ex-con jurors = more jury nullification = fewer ex-con jurors, where does the equilibrium wind up?
The Big Bad Wolf is circling the flock
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday said Ukraine may witness “a significant amount of combat power move very quickly to take Kyiv” if Russia invades Ukraine.
Austin, during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” said the international community should “look at what’s on the other side of the Ukrainian border” to discern the type of force Russia would use in the event of a military incursion against Ukraine.
“So in terms of the types of things that could happen, one only need to look at what’s on the other side of the Ukrainian border,” Austin said.
He specifically pointed to sightings of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and rocket forces, calling the situation “potentially very, very dangerous.”
“We see a lot of tanks and armored vehicles there. We see a lot of artillery. We see rocket forces,” Austin said.
I do not believe a single word any of these shitbags say.
Nor should you. This is about creating a narrative where Biden “wins” against Putin when Russia doesn’t invade.
In the meantime, he’s making the entire situation very unstable and ripe for an accident with disastrous repercussions.
Ukrainian Ambassador: “Let Me Remind Everyone We Are At War” With Russia And Have Been Since 2014
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/02/20/ukrainian_ambassador_let_me_remind_everyone_we_are_at_war_with_russia_and_have_been_since_2014.html
It’s all bullshit at this point. Wag the Dog type bullshit.
https://summit.news/2022/02/21/ukraines-defense-minister-slams-inappropriate-speculation-about-russian-attack/
As if the Ukrainians know anything about Ukrainian geopolitics.
I guess we can appreciate that President Brandon’s SecDef knows what a mechanized warfare invasion would look like.
So, the heavy handed crimes against the protestors, is it the RCMP, or the OPP, or both? Anyone know?
I bet it was the Mounties. I’m down with the OPP
Both as far as I know.
I saw RCMP. They had cops from as far away as here.
OPP? Yea, you know me.
Whelp, signing off for now. Hope that all of you lovelies have a great one! I’ll try not to shit my shorts today. Better food, better mileage.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union writes about the stupidity, failure, and lies that make up American foreign policy towards Russia over the last 3 decades.
Again will recommend the Ricochet.com podcast by Jon Gabriel interviewing Gray Connelly- 3 weeks old but still very relevant. Posted link yesterday.
Morning reminder for VA glibs to post in the forum – update your status for the Gourmeltz meet-up on Sat. Thanks
I am flexible on the time.
Thanks for the reminder.
Hiyaa! Yaa tax cattle! Get back in your cubes!
https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/eric-adams-calls-out-nyc-workers-to-return-to-offices/
From the sidebar: https://nypost.com/2022/02/20/tennessee-woman-had-sex-with-9-high-school-students-for-vapes-cops/
O.o
14-17 year old males have to be bribed to have sex? RUFKM? Maybe Alex Jones is onto something.
I can only imagine the hell that poor husband is going through right now. Trying to give his son a fist bump on the down low while publicly agonizing with his wife about how terrible it all is. If he has daughters it only gets worse because they are all going to want a piece of the drama too.
“Human trafficking by patronizing prostitution.”
:rolleyes:
What? Prostitution in Tennessee? Four Pinocchios! There isn’t any ice on the lakes there.
Wait, is that Krysten Sinema?
She had to bribe them with vapes because she wasn’t smokin’ hot?
*narrows gaze*
Yeah, what about the neighborhood thugs? Who are they going to mug if the rich people don’t come into the city?
Also, I would think that the drop in commuters is super good for Mother Gaia. Think of all the carbon not being pumped into the air because people stay home.
It couldn’t be that Adams is worried about his fat cat buddies who own a lot of commercial real estate in the city? The people who are going to lose their shirts if people don’t start coming back down town.
Also, I would think that the drop in commuters is super good for Mother Gaia. Think of all the carbon not being pumped into the air because people stay home.
No. I’ve heard the drop in people commuting makes driving more attractive so people leave public transit to drive which makes the Earth cry.
drop in commuters
You say that like mass transit doesn’t keep running regardless of ridership.
Not only does it keep running, but some are increasing service to encourage ridership, so long as taxpayers continue to subsidize the loses.
OTH, getting shot in front of a major transit hub during the evening rush hour is A-OK, motherfucker. Do your fucking job asshole.
Man Shot Outside NY Penn Station After Dispute Inside Transit Hub: Police
Not afraid of any of that.
I am sick of the mask mandates and where the fuck am I going to eat lunch with my Papiere?
End the bullshit theater – ALL of it* – and I will consider returning to the office.
*Some of it is mandated by Joe
*without Papiere
I’m not afraid of it either. But I believe my risk of actual harm is greater from a crazy or physical violence than if I catch COVID.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-6-stabbed-nyc-subway-system-mayor-announces-new-safety-plan-rcna17032
Unreal.
Maybe, maybe not.
The crime rate is still hugely below where it was when I moved here a couple decades ago, and I have never witnessed any personally. FWIW, the cities where I grew up and went to college are WAY more dangerous in comparison, and I have plenty of personal experience of crime in one of those places.
The fact of the matter is that this isn’t 1990. The risk is still pretty damn small in this city.
You and I came at the same time. I remember the 90s.
And I came from Philly…
Bad Orange Jumpsuit Man
Former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner predicted that former President Donald Trump “will be indicted,” asserting that his “days are numbered.”
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ruled last Thursday that Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, must comply with subpoenas and answer questions under oath as part of an investigation led by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Kirschner on Saturday uploaded a short video to Twitter, overviewing that decision and providing his analysis of the situation.
“Donald Trump will be indicted,” Kirschner asserted. “I’m not sure which jurisdiction will indict him first but he will be indicted.”
Fap fap fap.
And then what? We’ll all live happily ever after?
Banana republic, here we come.
Well he won’t be able to run in 2024 and clean the Dems clock.
Personally if I were a Dem I’d want Trump to run again in 2024. He’s got so many negatives and his recent bragging about the vax and pushing for everyone to get vaxxed isn’t endearing himself to the base.
If you pull a bunch of blatant legal shenanigans to bar Trump from running, you are freeing the GOP from a potentially bruising fight. Someone like Desantis will be able to get the nomination without alienating the Trumpistas.
Of course if I was a Dem I’d be wondering who I could run in 2024 that wasn’t crazy, corrupt or both.
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It seems like their thought is “Sure we will lose to a Republican, but as long as it isn’t Trump we don’t care”.
Yeah there’s no strategy here. They just really really hate Trump.
It’s not dissimilar from republicans wanting to see Hillary punished. They’re probably better off with her being an active democrat, but they understandably hate her.
Quite different actually. Hillary actually committed said crimes. Donald trump likely didn’t commit these trumped up crimes (no pun intended).
This is akin to trying to indict Hillary for the murder of various persons connected to her over the year, as opposed to trying to indict her for having a private server of classified material that she wiped when the law came knocking…
Which is crazy because the only thing that really unites and energizes Democrats is having Trump to run against.
The walls are closing in!
Bicycle glibs:
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/16/moment-cyclist-charged-at-by-bull-during-california-rock-cobbler-race-16118834/
This is why you don’t put Schlitz in your water bottle.
An oldie for you: https://youtu.be/CzVFTpdZF-s
How did I never see that one before?
You’re not my supervisor!
should have brought his cape and sword
That race looks awesome. I might do it next year.
Shower time. Bbl.
That’s a fine reminder to “wash yo ass!” Redd Foxx RIP
Way to assume his gender! Sean might be going to a baby shower. Hanging out with his girls and celebrating life.
twice a year whether needed or not…
db – saw your message. Replied.
Who was it that was going to the LP convention? Was that a local, state or national one?
We can purge our way to peace and harmonious unity.
It hasn’t ever worked in the past, but that’s no reason to listen to the naysayers. This is the 21st century. We’ll get it right this time.
The virtual world people actually can, that is until they inevitably turn on each other.
It won’t take long. Once they all realize that none of them have the skills to work anything that is required for actual survival. See the Soviet Union after the farmer purges. All the time we spend hysterically scream about the lessons we need to learn from the rise of the Nazis while the left does everything in its power to pretend like the hundreds of failed leftist controlled regimes over the past hundred years didn’t happen. I have to wonder if they actually do want to “get it right this time.”
EMA SAVAHL Beachwear 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGDDuNRP_Ks
EU Parliamentarian Representing former Communist State (Romania) Calls on International Community to Isolate Tyrannical Trudeau Regime
Add to the long list of shit I never thought I’d see.
Preachy Eastern Europeans!
How many times have you seen this in the EU transcripts:
Romain: Let us …
I did like the way they eventually took care of their tyrant.
I had to look this up. I’m a sucker for a story with a happy ending.
They’re treating the queen of England with Ivermectin
https://twitter.com/calvinfroedge/status/1495757427681210369
As they say, big if true
As Joe Rogan might say, “I can afford people medicine, motherfucker.”
Why wouldn’t they? Proper dosage is safe as all hell so if it works, great, if not, you move on to another treatement. That is what has pissed so many people off here in the States.
Punching down
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Sunday to slam claims made by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) about his taxes.
Musk responded to a tweet containing a video of last week’s CNN interview with Warren, during which she says Musk pays “zero” in taxes.
“You know how much he paid in taxes? One of the richest people in the world? Zero,” Warren said.
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Musk refuted the Massachusetts senator’s claims, saying he not only pays taxes but made history with his tax payments last year.
Musk has owed $11 billion in taxes after trading Tesla shares.
“Will visit IRS next time I’m in DC just to say hi, since I paid the most taxes ever in history for an individual last year,” he wrote in a tweet. “Maybe I can have a cookie or something …”
The senator and tech titan have feuded before over Musk’s income, notably in December when he referred to her as an “angry mom” after she accused of him of “freeloading.”
It should be illegal to mansplain to a United States Senator. That’s like betting on the Special Olympics.
I don’t know if I blame the media or education for this continued lie and convenient political wedge. Honest fact checkers would be able to squash this back when Buffett and his secretary made this bullshit claim but they will give us “technically….” answers.
How would Fauxcahontas know about Musk’s taxes? Isn’t it a federal crime for IRS to release individual taxpayer information? She’s claiming, in public, to know something that shouldn’t be bandied about. Musk ought to sue her, subject her to discovery, and get her to testify – plead the 5th if she wants.
her victims — all of whom were between the ages of 14 and 17 — and offered them items such as vape pens in exchange for sex.
Oh, no, please don’t throw me in that briar patch over and over and over!
I blame the inherent sexism of math for the double standard when it comes to teacher/student relationships.
In this example, it is easy to see how many times 16 goes into 38. If the sexes were reversed, people get mad because calculating how many times 38 goes into 16 is much harder.
2 pump chump confirmed.
If I were here lawyer, I would negotiate that she goes to a male juvenile facility as part of her plea. That’s how you troll.
Eating vegetables does not protect against cardiovascular disease, finds large-scale study
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/02/21/frontiers-nutrition-cardiovascular-disease-risk-vegetable-intake-does-not-protect/
yes!!!!
But it looks like eggs do. Half a century of medical consensus out the window.
This has to be the most accurate take on LGBTPOCOTR that I’ve seen yet!
https://twitter.com/RageGoldenEagle/status/1495537304080846848
lol
Are you sure you didn’t view that through your pro-pie blinders?
Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Trans People Of Color Over The Road?
Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Trans People Of Color of the rings
LMAO
I see the subtle narrative shift for the truckers is they were now planning on overthrowing the government? lol I guess if that worked here in the States, why not try it in Canada.
If you successfully claim that, then anyone who did anything at all to support them was supporting the overthrow of the government. Which makes it very easy to go after anyone who disagrees with the government.
A friend sent me a video of this dude, Aubrey Cottle, aka Kirtaner, bragging about hacking Givesendgo. I went down that rabbit hole for a bit this morning, reading about hacking, which I don’t really understand.
Do any of you know why he wouldn’t be arrested for stuff like what he’s done? He openly brags about hacking all kinds of things. He’s been photographed, has bio’s online. Is his location a secret? What’s the deal?
Right thinker that stopped the overthrow of Canada?
FYTW
Or, same reason they largely ignore Antifa.
I don’t have a good answer for you. In college, I did computer security research, and we found several available vulnerabilities we could have exploited to control systems owned by others. Something that’s branded into you doing this kind of work is that you’d better be sure you have specific permission from the people you’re attacking, otherwise its a crime (specifically, a felony) that can have severe consequences. Specifically, while I’m not a lawyer, I believe it’s a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (the same act that Aaron Swartz was charged with), which has potentially substantial consequences.
I think that likely this is just a prioritisation thing– the government doesn’t really care about this crime. But I haven’t been down the rabbit hole.
I’m guessing he’s an informant for a 3 letter agency. The Givesendgo hack doesn’t even have to be related, but the informant status gives him a shield unless the gov decides to revoke (which they won’t).
Yeah, it’s pretty clear at this point the True-Doh! gov’t wants this kind of shit to happen to the wrongthinkers.
Perusing CFP links after not having viewed much news over the past week I see that the Democratic People’s Republic of Canukistan has gone full fascist with a
gang of thugspolice force that might not be entirely domestic. And theCanadian Crime Familygovernment is threatening to treat all protesters as terrorists even if/when they disperse. Interesting times…///AlexJonesWasRight
And elected representatives are being censored for bringing up queries from their constituents regarding facts that are verifiable against the censors’ lies to the contrary.
Clearly we need to send a bunch of Indiana firearms further north.
Won’t tactics like these lead a number of Canadians to conclude “I’ve nothing left to lose” and actually start to take out politicians by means other than the ballot box? J.W. Booth had a damned good portion of his life still ahead of him; however, some 70 year old Canadian trucker may just figure “sic semper tyrannis.”
Not just pols. A number of cops that were involved in the violence against the truckers have already been doxxed, and I assume more will be in the coming days — it’s pretty hard to stop the so-called “weaponized autistics” of sites like 4chan. I expect Canada’s going to see a number of “midnight runs” on cops and their families in the months/years ahead. Looking over your shoulder for the rest of your life isn’t all that enjoyable.
Adams said that white-collar workers who continued working from home were hurting service-oriented businesses that rely on a steady stream of customers.
You know what? Screw ’em. I remember the comments from service workers in NYC about “finance bros” or “Stern kiddies” or whatnot. And this is coming from people I had thought I was on passingly good terms with. Now they want to cry in their beers about people they held in contempt not being around to foot the bill anymore? Why should I care? This is, by the accounts they rendered, the world they wanted. I’ve found that the service workers in a lot of the rest of the country are just as happy to take my money and are willing to be civil in the process. If New York service workers want to be the “champions of the proletarian revolution”, let them do so on proletarian tips.
The businesses that were hurt closed a year and a half ago.
Nobody is running a service-oriented business at a loss these days in hopes that the laptop class will come back.
PS. What about the service-oriented business near where the laptop class live? The neighborhood pizza places and sub shops. Why don’t they matter? They’d be flying high if it wasn’t for bullshit theater imposed by blue governments.
There is nothing etched in stone that says a worker has to be fed lunch in Manhattan and not Brooklyn or Islip or Carlstadt.
It’s the mindset. They think they’re entitled to your business. Adams’ entire argument ignores the question of what makes the life of the “laptop workers” more rewarding or enjoyable. Nope. They don’t matter as anything but cash cows. They’re supposed to foot the bill and shut the hell up. They’re there to support the local service workers (and, of course, the commercial real estate owners) who need their free cash flow. And when they’re insulted, they’re supposed to nod along and pretend they’re honored to be insulted. Because why not. They’re there to pay the bills and shut up.
You’ll notice that Adams didn’t deign to spare a word about how New York can make it so that “that accountant that’s not in his office space” is motivated to go back to NYC. Nope. He should just do it out of duty.
the commercial real estate owners
This particular lobby has been ignored quite a bit. I think they’re starting to squawk a little more as certain doom encroaches upon them.
They shouldn’t get special treatment but if it forces NYC to back off, then great.
I know a guy in commercial real estate in Minnesoda. He is predicting a huge bailout for the people that own downtown office buildings.
Everyone left during the pandemic and now no one wants to go back. Not only because of the pandemic rules but because the “Defund the Police” movement has made downtown dangerous too.
All those suburban women who are the second income have said “FUCK NO” when asked to come back.
Target shifting tons of jobs from its downtown offices to the suburbs is a huge blow.
My buddy jokingly says that the city will buy the owners out and convert to “affordable housing”.
but if it forces NYC to back off, then great.
It won’t. Because, they have the same mindset. They think they’ve bought a riskless cashflow that can only pay them off. Think the medallion owners before Uber. Only on a scale of hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s hard to erase a hundred years of history. For decades, they had a captive market. If you wanted to be in finance or advertising or whatnot, New York was the place to be. So the entire class that had to be there to play in those businesses could be treated basically like crap. Because, as much as they were screwed over, they weren’t going anywhere because that’s where their jobs were. The pandemic may have changed that. The pandemic kind of proved that ubiquitous broadband internet obviated the previous need for physical proximity. You can build the same spreadsheet models in Jacksonville, FL, West Islip, NY, or Cordesville, SC that you can build in Manhattan.
I think the commercial real estate owners don’t see that handwriting on the wall. They’re too invested in the status quo. I think their pushback isn’t going to be about pushing NYC to be a more attractive place to live or work. It’s going to be about how they can force people to go back there.
We’re officially (mostly) not going back – leadership, to their credit, has said “ok, we’ll start looking to sublet space in our brand new (2019) 19 story headquarters”.
I think leadership at a lot of places might balk at that.
My company recently (within the last 5 or 6 years) opened a 20-story operational HQ in a downtown (not NYC). There’s a lot of back and forth about trying to get butts back in seats there.
I don’t expect to be brought back to an office. I lead a team spread out across the US. The closest two people on the team are over 100 miles apart. We get together once a quarter.
So far I’ve heard no talk about bringing back the remote workers from my office – a one-story mix of enclosed offices and cubes on the outskirts of a Dayton suburb, with just a few light industrial neighbors. I don’t know if those of us who work onsite are just going to keep rattling around this largely empty building or if the head honchos will look for smaller digs. I just hope we don’t move any further across town from my house. ?
Yup, and they have a LOT of pull in places like NYC.
Climate justice
Nearly 13B cubic feet of new natural gas capacity in the U.S. may be subject to new policy changes by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which will now increase emphasis on the environmental impacts of proposed pipeline projects, Bloomberg reports.
In the regulator’s first policy update since 1999, FERC voted Thursday along party lines to begin considering how proposed gas projects could affect climate change, how they would affect local communities seen as most subject to pollution, and whether such projects are even in the public interest; any project expected to emit 100K metric tons/year of CO2 equivalent emissions “will be deemed to have a significant impact on climate change.”
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FERC Chairman Richard Glick said the policy changes will provide more clarity to pipeline developers on how the commission will balance the need to expand affordable natural gas to customers against environmental interests.
They only want what’s best for us.
Buy more sweaters.
Or, just die.
How about justice for big utilities? Wisconsin legislature may pass bill to grant utilities a monopoly on building transmission lines.
The Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesoda have already passed similar bills. My guess is that this is a payoff to Excel Energy for going along with the mandates to have X% of electricity come from renewables.
A functioning republic would string up legislators for engaging in such blatant cronyism.
Yay “democracy”!
“He arrives each day to tackle a familiar conundrum: how to prevent Spokane from developing the same kinds of problems that people like him are moving there to escape.”
Easy: don’t elect Democrats for anything including dog-catcher.
“Ivermectin does NOT stop Covid patients from becoming severely ill, trial reveals…
However, both doctors and patients knew which group the patients had been assigned to, and this kind of ‘open-label’ trial design could have introduced bias, potentially overestimating the effect of the drug, the researchers said.
The results of the trial were published on Friday in the JAMA Internal Medicine.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10528177/Ivermectin-ineffective-preventing-severe-COVID-19-study.html
I saw that. I know that there’s been some criticism of the trial but I haven’t read it yet. The typical naysayers have jumped all over it, but the results seem to lie way outside what others have been seeing.
Not saying it isn’t a good study, but I want to see the debate first.
The typical “ivermectin” naysayers…
“Canadian man who ‘hates the taste of tap water’ is blasted for spending $2,000 a month importing glass bottles from Europe that he keeps in FOUR fridges”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10528215/Man-blasted-admitting-spends-2-000-month-bottled-water.html
That’s a lot of fucking water.
Unless the money is stolen or otherwise not his to dispose of, I’m not seeing why this is news.
Because it’s ridiculous behavior?
I’ve said that for decades about my rellies in Normandy and friends/rellies in The Netherlands and Germany. They simply will not drink out of the tap; all water meant for drinking comes as bottles bought at the store. It’s kinda eye-opening to go into a French hypermarché and see several huge aisles filled with nothing but bottled water in all shapes and sizes.
Apollinaris *is* pretty tasty, TBF.
TBH, I don’t like tap water either. I either want milk or something with bubbles.
That said, I don’t refuse it or waste money on water in bottles.
And there is this.
Ottawa’s mayor says any vehicles seized during the police crackdown on the occupation of the downtown should be sold to cover costs incurred by the city.
“We actually have the ability to confiscate those vehicles and sell them,” Mayor Jim Watson said Saturday.
“And I want to see them sold. I don’t want the return to these people who’ve been causing such frustration and angst in our community.”
The mayor told CBC News that Ottawa has that power due to the Emergencies Act, which was invoked by the federal government last week.
Steal people’s property and eliminate their means to a livelihood. Let them eat cake, I guess.
“Due what now? Due process? I’m not familiar with the term.”
Notice his reasoning is “frustration and angst” and not, I don’t know…any law other than their overarching yet to be debated Emergencies Act.
They’re going full-blown totalitarian over blocking streets and blowing horns. OK, really it’s over wrongthink but they’ll never admit that.
Where are the trucks full of food? How come our grocery stores are empty?
That is what the mayor would be asking in a just world.
I wonder how many leftys are troubled by what’s happening in Canada? Sure, they’re punishing bad people, but surely some leftys understand “me today, you tomorrow”, right?
Does Greenwald count? Based on his twitter, very few other lefties are troubled by it.
I just ignore the replies to Greenwald. Ever since he crossed over to the dark side, he’s been flooded by trolls, bots, and lunatics.
They’re obsessed with him.
The LockPickingLawyer does algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvcg92EjSaw
Huh. Is commenting working?
Yep.
Ahh… I guess something doesn’t like my rumble link. I tried posting a rumble link to a video calling for a general strike in Canada. That post is.. .nowhere.
Nope, in the spam queue.
yes
I tried posting two links and nothing.
Protesters pelt police with poo.
Man mugs mimes with meat; millions make merry!
Feces flung at fucking facists
“Hidreley Diao uses AI to capture what historical figures would look like if they were modern people.”
https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1495468276423528451
Are they being a bit generous with Cleopatra? Also, no bob and bang?
“If Disney characters were people, by Hidreley Diao.”
https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1495469902857228290
Not posted yet?
Reality needs to take a beck seat to a community’s (and by that I mean the duly-recognized leader of the community’s) feelings.
TW: The Atlantic.
I couldn’t make it far in that.
All I can say is, knock yourself out, hon. And leave me the fuck alone.
That’s news to me…
What a broken person. Stay home then.
Yeah, that stuck out.
Pretty sure the studies said the exact opposite.
A fairly open call for mob rule.
I expect to hear no complaints when it’s turned on her.
I moved to Spokane in ’89 and the dislike for relocating Californians was strong then. Nobody seemed to object to a single guy moving from a tiny state like New Hampshire. I came out here just in time to help vote out Tom Foley when he was Speaker of the House after he voted for the “Assault Weapon” ban and sued the voters for trying to introduce term limits.
There has been a steady decrease in the quality of life here as the population has grown and the slow merger of the surrounding towns into one big sprawl. Matching the timeline of the article, I noticed traffic started to get much worse around 2014. Since them, almost all the road construction in the city has been “improvements” such as bike lanes and turning 4 lane arterials into two lane (w/ center turn lane) roads to improve “life quality” and attract new comers.
Here in sunny Pahrump Nevada we have an all-day “wind advisory” today. Right now, it’s still as can be, no leaf twitching. But when they forecast wind, it usually means they ain’t kidding.
So for now I’m sitting out on the patio in the sun. It’s only 58 degrees but it feels awesome in the sun.
I am going to suffer during desert summer, but for now it is bliss.