TTUN basketball sliding toward the NIT
College basketball is getting crazy coming down the stretch. I’ll ignore it until after the Duke home finale and all the ESPN slobbering over Krzyzewski. The FA cup quarterfinals will not see any of the top 3 face off. And that’s pretty much all I can think of for sports.
UNT: a hotbed of stupidity
Sometimes you gotta take a stand. Also “gender-affirming care” is a hell of an interesting phrase. It’s absolute bullshit, but certainly interesting that that’s what the nut jobs are pivoting to.
Just in case anybody forgot that crazy isn’t confined to Russia or Ukraine. What a horrible mess.
Thanks for your permission. Now kindly fuck off.
Are we really doing this now? This seems reckless at bess. Insane at worst.
Oh, that’s a shame. Anyway…moving on.
Biggest dick? Perhaps.
Who is she trying to channel, LBJ? I mean, it’s funny to think she said that, but it’s not funny to see a mayor that drunk with their own power.
This will be interesting. I’m curious to see what happens with productivity.
This all feels unsavory to me. Our government is stealing the property of people not directly involved in the Ukraine situation. People we were perfectly fine with even though we knew their connections yesterday, a week ago, a month ago, and for the past several years. And now governments are just stealing their shit with no due process. So much for the rule of law and the moral high ground.
Here’s a very good song. Better than their biggest hit, in my opinion. But decide for yourself.
Now go have a great day, friends. And an even better weekend.
“Are we really doing this now? This seems reckless at bess. Insane at worst.”
I hear some oligarch already put out a $1 million bounty and Lukoil told Putin to stop.
Economic interests take a back seat to strategic interests. I doubt Lukoil’s plea will achieve anything other than getting their CEO offed.
I wish it were otherwise, but Russia is in this now. The sooner it is over, the better.
Isn’t it a sort of declaration of war?
“Who is she trying to channel, LBJ? I mean, it’s funny to think she said that, but it’s not funny to see a mayor that drunk with their own power.”
Beetlejuice says she has the biggest dick. Chicago fair will make the city enough money to pay off all debt from her showing it off at $50 per visitor!
Michelle Obama would like a word…
Wookies are higher on the food chain that Beetlejuicers..
The more accurate term would be medical malpractice. Though Genital Mutilation is probably the best one to use when describing the actions.
Circumcision is a crime against humanity, but cutting off the whole thing should be praised.
If circumcision were not an established thing there would be a lot more people speaking out against this.
I am opposed to chopping bits of people’s nethers off, however much or little gets cut.
Amen.
I used to see circumcision protesters at the Pentagon bus stop.
“Intactivists”
some conspiracy about the military forcibly circumcising people in combat zones?
It’s not the warm embrace of gender-affirming care until you administer hard drugs.
Follow how the terminology changed. Gender reassignment surgery (aka sex change) to gender affirming surgery to gender affirming “care.” Each iteration obfuscates what is actually going on there.
Just like “the dole” became “welfare” became “access.”
“Access” is particularly obnoxious and dishonest.
The fact that language is abused to successfully PsyOps people produced by the current education system, is criminal. I think that unfortunately until someone decides to redress the fact the pen has been allowed to completely overshadow the power of the sword, and some sword slinging happens to the people abusing the pen, things will not get back into balance.
George Carlin talked about this years ago…
I was coming here to post that…
See also abortion and how it became women’s health.
Ain’t nobody protesting Planned Parenthood over mammograms and pap smears.
Remember the left’s obsession with Richard Spenser? That all came to a screeching halt when they (thought they) baited him with a question about Planned Parenthood. He started singing the praises of PP in that most of their clients were icky brown and black people so he was totally onboard with their mission. I don’t think I saw anything about him since.
Ha!
They really don’t understand their opponents.
Why should they understand their opponents, they don’t even understand themselves.
I have never considered that terrible possibility, but that seems likely.
When most people talk about genital mutilation, they are referring to infants. In this case, since they think children can consent to a major medical procedure, it’s not mutilation because it’s voluntary. But don’t worry, they’ll never use this as justification for saying children can consent to sex with an adult.
whaddup doh’
Unsurprisingly, Friday is one of the more popular telecommute days, so the office is really quiet.
I may be the only person on this floor.
I would rather work from home Mondays & Tuesdays to avoid asshattery.
I chose tuesdays and thursdays, so I wouldn’t have two consecutive office days.
I don’t see them as days off since I still have to work my ass off anyway. The only benefit is I get to do it in my underwear and while using my personal computer to post here.
If my working made you think I regarded telecommute as days off, I appologise. I simply am accustomed to the terminology of “Office Days” (In office) and “Telecommute Days” (working remote). Neither is a day off.
Word.
Telecommuting sucks; because our network thru-put while using the VPN makes a 30 second job take 10 minutes and makes 15 minute data queries time out.
Bobarian LMD – I didn’t know we worked at the same place.
I would pick days to be weekend-adjacent.
But then I’d be stuck in the office on days when everyone else is here too.
I picked Monday and Tuesday to get it over with. Plus a lot of holidays fall on Monday.
The fact that Friday is the popular WFH day tells me that many people regard WFH days as quasi-holidays. Adjust your productivity expectations accordingly.
They’re state workers, they’re not working on Fridays anyway.
Probably safe to say if they are government workers that they are not working on any day that ends in “Y”..
*hangs head in shame*
I draw a distinction between local/state employees and federal, because it puts me in a better light to do so
Consider the civilian DoD employees I know, most of them are most productive when they don’t do anything. Actually getting them spun up is usually counter-productive.
hey now…..
you’re a rock star?
Get your game on
Hahaha, a rock star? No, I am a leech. Not something I like, but there you have it.
And I don’t dislike those DoD civilians (most of them anyway), or the uniformed folks – everyone is just there, happy to collect a paycheck. What I dislike, no – outright despise, is the system and the politics; it is politics that drives the system and the system produces what the politics demand. And at no point is sanity allowed to prevail.
Get paid? Or was the line get laid?
They’re state workers, they’re not working anyway.
FTFY
Many do. Granted, in the office you encounter the same thing.
One thing I did to combat the Friday fatigue was block off my schedule from noon on and set it as innovation time. I don’t get to use it that way every week, but if I don’t have any burning deadlines, I spend the last four hours of the week being creative and innovating solutions to the processes and roadblocks that hamper my productivity. It give me a mental boost before the weekend, and it provides a change of pace after doing the same thing for 40 hours over the prior 4.5 days. I would say that my last promotion was, in substantial part, due to this practice.
That’s actually a pretty great idea. One of the biggest issues of working in corporate accounting is never having the time to improve processes because we’re always trying to get the numbers out.
It would be great if I could wfh, especially with gas prices these days.
“This will be interesting. I’m curious to see what happens with productivity.”
I can already see the snowflakes declaring this is an act of terror against them and taking action to start canceling their companies. As for productivity, I told my boss my productivity would be going down as the commute time and all the office shenanigans time will eat into my work day which will remain of the same length of time whether it is when I work from home or have to come in. and I consider the cost of paying for parking and dealing with assholes on the road in & out, to require a major adjustment.
According to the article, it’s get the jab or get a pink slip.
Living up to their slogan “Be evil” again.
How would HR handle someone claiming the identify as a cyborg and telling them that the clot shot would ruin their circuitry and damage them permanently?
I actually would prefer working in the office because there are much fewer distractions. However, I fervently hope that bringing us back doesn’t happen right away, because the fucking gas prices are going to murder me. I have a 30 minute commute and a truck that averages about 18 per gallon. Oof.
Fire their asses.
As for productivity, I told my boss my productivity would be going down as the commute time and all the office shenanigans time will eat into my work day which will remain of the same length of time whether it is when I work from home or have to come in.
My boss walked back what some of the senior management said yesterday about expectations of days per week in office. Most of our offices are simply no longer conducive to real work that requires any level of mental focus. They’re woefully undersized and poorly designed for such work. As a result office time is for “collaboration, team building, and socialization”. In other words, meetings and jabbering around the water cooler.
I’m not sure how showing up in office every other week is better than having a team lunch on the schedule every other week. My meetings are usually with India or California, not with the people in my office.
OTOH, I have an interview next week with a company that advertises WFH as integral to their culture.
My profession has worked on an apprenticeship model since its inception a century ago and remote work has not been good for either retention or the growth of new employees. The crusty veterans know what to do and may even be somewhat better off at home, but they are supposed to be working alongside the newbies and mentoring them.
So we get fed a bunch of lies about how we can make this work, but now that the data is there I can tell you straight up we need to get people back together pronto.
There are certain professions that will never lend themselves to working from home. Can you see a car mechanic or A/C or Furnace repair tech telling you to bring over your unit to their house for them to fix? Then again, there isn’t a single IT focused job that I think can’t be done from home. Heck, I could do my job from Uranus as long as they solved the internet connectivity issue and time delay due to distance…
My boss is the only coworker I share an office location with.
Everyone else – who I talk to much more frequently – is located around the world.
But yeah, my next job, if there is one, will be WFH or else.
OTOH, I have an interview next week with a company that advertises WFH as integral to their culture.
Excellent.
Best wishes!
gender-affirming treatments for children
That’s a funny way to say “child abuse”.
Lindsey is a fucking lunatic, as is Hannity. I fear we’re going to push the edge of war with Russia until the public gets the ever-loving shit scared out of them. If we’re lucky. we’ll be able to ramp it down and no there will be no unfortunate “mistakes.”
Unfortunately I’ll have a long wait before I can vote against him.
I’m going to guess that Putin is as aware as we are of Graham’s actual standing in this country.
I’m sure he is.
But if one is operating under the assumption that Putin has lost it and gone mad, stupid provocations of that sort would appear to be a very bad idea. And what happens if someone inside Russia takes a shot at him and misses?
I suspect he’s more a setter than pointer.
Putin knows he was McCain’s little buddy who showed up in Ukraine after the coup to loot the place.
The Russian foreign ministry spokesman had a response this morning. Basically they said every country has crazy people.
That’s a good sign.
He is crazy. Wish the Republicans would actually oust him. Completely irresponsible, and probably illegal.
ZOMG! Off with his head!
Polytechnic University of North Texas has a terrible football team.
Well, they have to be true to the school.
I agree that The Sun Always Shines on TV is a better than Take on Me but they are both good, well produced songs.
I’d never seen the video for “Sun” before. Neat what they did with the mannequins. At first it looked like some sort of weird gimmick but as the video goes on you realize just how much effort they went to to arrange that whole scene.
You’ll get no argument from me. They’re outstanding. Although some of the lyrics of Take On Me are silly.
“I’ll be gone in a day or two”
The dude doesn’t even know when he’ll be leaving? Is it tomorrow or the day after? Also, does the song take place over two days, since that changes to “in a day” later in the song? Why is she gonna run away with a dude who doesn’t really even know his travel plans? Women like a bit more stability than that.
“I’m leaving. You have to decide to come with me or not. But the plans aren’t really that firm.”
Come on, man. Get your shit together. Tell her when your train* departs and that you’ve bought her ticket as well. Hand it to her and tell her you’ll meet her in the platform.
*If they were American it would be a plane since we’ve moved past the 19th century
I love your commitment to reality based song lyrics, but–it is an ’80s song.
We had a 45 rpm of these two songs –“Take” on the A side– that my mom bought when it was a popular song. I remember thinking I liked the B side better at the time.
Just turn on the radio. Or better Spotify.
You will get your fill of reality-based music.
Nobody even bothers with innuendo or metaphor anymore. They just say that stuff right out loud.
Ladies sing about how wet their lady parts are and how they want some guy to put his hard man parts in them. Not fringe stuff either.
How do I know this?
I was trying out Spotify because it works with Android Auto. I had a bunch of teens in the car, so I put on “top 50”, to play the top 50 songs in the US.
Yeah. Mistake.
First song mentioned jizz on her chin. Skip.
Next song was a lady singing about riding a hard d. Talking about how she wants to pound that thing.
Next song…. Yeah, they didn’t get to hear the next song. I put on good clean rock and roll. AC/DC talking about how she shook him all night long. Oblique metaphor, as God intended.
I remember when that was the domain of minor alternative artists like Peaches.
Society dumbing down even more. Give me some nice 1940-50’s oldies about loving your one and only, thanks.
Idiocracy here we come.
My goto these days on SXM.
Progressives and Objectivists love trains. What does that say?
*If they were American it would be a
planestreetcar sincewe’ve moved pastwe’re nostalgic for the 19th centuryThat’s crazy talk. Where’s he gonna “be gone” to if he takes a streetcar, six blocks away? She could just walk beside him for the ten minutes it takes him to get to his destination. And then walk back home. There’s no commitment to running away with someone taking a streetcar. You’re not even leaving your neighborhood, let alone your life, behind.
You forgot to get your transfers, you could have ridden all over the Twin Cities for a dime. Another dime an 2 transfers to go home.
They only stopped when people were getting on or off.
STELLAAAAAAAAAAAA
Even the ones that are whorin’ for fun?
Oh, this isn’t a pickup song. It’s a run away with me song. Totally different dynamic.
Ah OK. I lack dept in the “Run away with me” department as I knew better than letting them thing there was some sort of long term commitment, so thanks for the edumacation.
They’re not native English speakers.
Listen to Opus’ “Live is Life” sometime.
Have you ever interacted with women? They all want to be whisked away on a private jet to France get some S&M. 50 zillion copies sold don’t lie.
Hell, sounds like a good time to me too, I just know I don’t have any chance of that happening to me unless it’s my private jet.
Shit, people should have known about that from that movie back when with Redford taking Harrelson’s character’s woman played by Demi Moore away from him after offering to pay him $1 million for a night to go to town on her ass.
There is a reason the hot & crazy matrix guys that spend some 20 mins explaining the numerous quadrants men would place women in had a 2 minute skit explaining the guy matrix and how there are only 3 quadrants when it comes to women rating guys: young/hot/poor and good for a fling, poor/so no go for real relationship, and rich (fugly or otherwise), which is what they want to marry.
This is true, and not even just on an anecdotal level. When I used to work at Emory University there was a lady down the hall who studied this across many cultures. It is actually a hardwired feature of females in the human species.
Not only that, across all societies women will marry the provider and then after one or two kids they will have affairs with the alpha male bad boy.
This is the source of the so-called 7-year itch. It is a hard-wired behavior that makes women no longer find the provider attractive and want to seek out a side piece.
The clincher for this scientific comes with anecdotal evidence. Guy used to work with head plugged into this. He had been done wrong by a woman who left him with two small children to care for. So he gave up on women. His pickup line was,”just so you know, we are not dating.”
20 years ago, in the earliest days of the internet, he had figured it out. He met women online, not at dating sites, and they just started sending him naked pictures unsolicited. Because he publicly put it out there that he was not interested in a relationship, they knew that he would not be chasing them around and messing up a good thing.
So he hooked up with all sorts of a-list women. Wives of pro athletes from other cities as he was traveling for business, things like that. Their plan was that they would go 2 hours out of town and meet him at a hotel that he was staying at. That way nobody could catch them. And he would leave, so no chance of anyone finding out.
It was a real eye opener.
This is why I drive an old truck and (usually) keep a raggedy-ass beard. I’m genuinely concerned that if my combined net worth and actual appearance were evident, my marriage may be endangered.
The song is very dramatic, isn’t it.
I remember arguments on das Radio with teen Mädchen calling in to argue over the merits of their various hits. “Living a Boys Adventure Tale” seemed to come out on top with that set.
Sigh. At 13 I tried to figure out a way to get to their concert that was 300 miles away. Without my parents knowledge. I didn’t manage, but I wanted to go so badly.
They just put out some new stuff and are doing a world tour. Sadly its just LA and NYC in the US.
Hm. I can’t imagine anyone from that day buying any of the new albums. Except the few who bought everything in between.
There are very, very few bands that I have followed for that long.
The Church is the only one I can think of. They continue to put out good stuff.
It is not accidental that the dumbest and most destructive ideas and movements hitting us these days come from academia. Academia is probably the only other entity outside of the public sector where you can make horrible and costly mistakes without having to face sever consequences. Intellectuals, but especially those in academia and protected from the consequences of the real world, are the most dangerous thing out there. Maybe Pol Pot was onto something when he just decided to off anyone with education, and had he simply distinguished between those that were educated in something where the real world still forced them to keep their feet on the ground and the morons in the arts and studies fields that do nothing but dream up destruction and evil, things might have worked out differently for him. Jeeze, I never thought someone would make me reconsider Pol Pot being anything than a monster, but these fucking academics in the bullshit fields sure as hell are pushing me to rethink things.
As a person who wears glasses, I cannot see Pol Pot as anything but unhinged. It was more a case of blind chicken and corn than anything else.
Pol Pot is a monster, but the “free-thinkers” in the academic class are a greater problem we are ignoring today as well. By my count they have caused more deaths than Ole Pol ever could have done, and Pol is now pushing up daisies – a well deserved fate – while these fucks are still stacking corpses.
Huh, it don’t think they’re that bad, yet. But where do you think Pol Pot came from? Same type of shitty academics pushing crap ideology.
Stupid people doing stupid shit to each other feels like the universe creating a looped system to take care of itself… win-win…
Pol Pot was an academic and a journalist in his earlier life. Slaughtering all the intellectuals was probably just him eliminating the competition.
Reaching for Tenure.
What a horrible mess.
Old and busted: Middle east violence
New hotness: Eastern Europe violence
You do get a better class of refugee.
And now governments are just stealing their shit with no due process.
Hmm, maybe if someone wrote a story about that, illustrating the inevitable consequences…
*taps fingers impatiently*
*joins in*
Next episode is already in the can. After talking about the free-flowing writing, the muse answered my prayer. Halfway into the chapter after.
Government stealing private property is okay as long as they get a Bill of attainder, right?
It’s all for a good cause.
https://imgur.com/a/SO8Bx85
I like it
Nice
Blocked by work proxy. What was it?
Robin: I hate anti-vaxxers.
Batman: SLAP. Russians … you hate Russians now.
Ah, I see.
Are the Ukrainians anti-vaxxers or are the pharmaceutical companies evil again for not supplying them enough? I need to know what to believe.
The Ukrainians are the good guys because they had a democraticly elected government overthrown by a CIA coup. Belarus and Kazakhstan = bag guys because the coups failed there.
It’s how democracy works.
Russia = Trump = evil
Ukraine = Biden = good
The sad thing is that I that I have heard both team blue and team red describe this the way you just presented it, which is kind of far more worrying to me.
That’s Our Democracy.
Big Pharma is evil for profiting off vaccinations that you should be forced to take by benevolent government. Employers are righteous in forcing employees to vaccinate even while they steal the value of employee’s labor.
Ukraine actually has a pretty low vaccination rate. About 35%, I believe I read.
And yet the denunciations of them, huffing that they deserve whatever they get because they’re not vaccinated, seem not to exist. Funny, that.
Putin only wants to demilitarize, denazify and vaccinate Ukraine.
Thanks.
did you make it? you should tweet it, or authorize others to do so
Nah, got it off a Mises Caucus chat board.
YOU TWO-TIMING SON OF A BITCH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhkHG-oKCEU
Hmm, thought this might be the two-timing SOB.
One of my favorite movies.
“What heart.”
This dangerously ignorant cunte has no idea how the world works.
This is a good moment to renew my call for a no fly zone, at the invitation of the Ukraine government. I fear if this continues, we will have to intervene in a bigger way
Oh, I suspect he does know, but he doesn’t like that and wants others to risk their asses so he can grandstand or keep his pile of loot.
How are you going to save Ukrainians when there no longer any Ukrainians? Or anybody else?
Why didn’t the Allies think of imposing a no fly zone over Poland? We could have avoided war.
Was it covid or the vaccines that made everyone really stupid? I don’t remember people this dumb speaking in public in the before times.
Forget it Drake, it’s Twitter town.
He’s just making sure that no one edges ahead of him to get hired by MSNBC
This shit is fucking depressing to me because I am certain it will kill off my favorite Suess work.
Looks like I’m going to be in Palisade CO October 10-18. Days will be busy ROing the “SIG Presents the USPSA Open/Limited/PCC/Production Nationals(tm) sponsored by SIG;” but any advice on good and/or cheap (but at least adequate) places to eat would be appreciated.
If anyone want to stop by the match, I’ll be the bearded middle aged rat wearing a NROI jersey.
That’ll narrow it down I’m sure.
Heh.
Colorado? It’s kind of annoying that USPSA keeps choosing states that are not particularly good on gun laws for their Nationals. I shot at the Limited Nationals in Berry, IL in 2006. IL? Really?
It’s all about the venue. There just aren’t that many shooting ranges that can accommodate 30 stages and 700+ shooters.
I get it… and the Berry range was nice.
You ever get out to the Southern Utah Practical Shooters range? First time I shot there, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven…
Next on the menu.
The Moldovan ambassador to the U.S. said Wednesday his country is prepared to defend its borders if Russia or Belarus were to invade the former Soviet republic.
“The country is prepared [for] any kind of scenarios, including the very worst-case scenario,” Ambassador Eugen Caras told Fox News in an exclusive interview. “So we will be defending what’s to be defended.”
A day earlier, video surfaced showing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko standing in front of a map that appeared to indicate the Moldovan breakaway state of Transnistria as a potential next target.
Russia should take all the meme countries.
If Putin went after Moldova, it really would be WW3.
I honestly don’t know how they would have the logistical capability to do that, given how poorly they’ve performed in Ukraine and how quickly they must be running through their munitions.
If we weren’t ruled by idiots, we’d be selling anti-tank and anti-air missiles by the boxcar to these countries.
And anti-shipping, to any country with a sea coast.
Why should we be involved to the extent of stealing money from American citizens, laundering it through the Military industry, and then providing said weapons free of charge to these countries half-way around the world?
It would certainly enrich the American politicians, but I see no benefit for us intervening if Russia wants to expand.
Sorry Dean. Missed the “selling” part in your post. Amen.
Normally, when we “sell” arms to a country, we’re also providing them the foreign aid to pay for it. It’s just a wealth transfer from the taxpayer to the MIC.
I’m pretty sure Russia already has had troops in Transdnistria since the breakup of the USSR. My guess is that they intend to take the whole Black Sea coast in order to have a contiguous land connection to that area.
OT- Mammogram report: Taken back right on time at 8:15, out the door by 8:30. More physically awkward than painful.
Now to acquire breakfast.
So they fondled your boobs and didn’t even have the decency to buy you a nice meal? The freaking cads…
…and results just like that. No problems. ?
Good to hear.
Good.
Robby has been a bad boy:
He said he was shocked to learn that you could be banned from YouTube for reporting facts .
Really. Shocked?
It has only been about a half a decade or more. I personally have probably written more column inches in the reason comments about this very topic then Robbie has cokumn inches of his own.
But he’s surprised.
Robby is one of those guys who will lay out a shit ton of facts and then willfully refuse to draw obvious conclusions based on those facts because it upsets him to believe that he has put his faith in the wrong people.
The sad thing is that on issues of freedom of speech, he’s the best they have over there at reason. Heck, other than the jacket he is probably the only one who actually leans hard towards libertarian.
Honestly, I don’t even know who is still at Reason anymore. I think I’ve read things there maybe three or four times in the past year.
I did see, though, that former Reason staffer, that dyed-in-the-wool defender of liberty Cathy Young, now works for…..Bill fucking Kristol.
I still subscribe to the magazine and they have a lot of familiar faces: Bailey, Sullum, Tucille et al. Tucille’s probably the best but everyone has good stuff.
Yeah, Robby isn’t bad, but like your say doesn’t seem to arrive at the correct conclusion that there is a large majority of people in media and academia trying to silence him and anyone like him who would report inconvenient truths.
It’s an annoying willful blindness from someone who should have learned by now. Maybe he’s just too close to the problem to see it. Maybe it really comes down to cocktails.
Hmm, measuring inches?
When is the court going to issue it’s decision on Bruen and how is New York going to weasel out of the spirit of the decision?
*looks over last night’s thread*
Sometimes I drink and say things. Wasn’t too bright to begin with, add alcohol and that’s what you get. I just might try to tackle that subject sober over the weekend and write an article.
Don’t knock drunk posting man… It makes for some of the most epic shit.
Somebody wrote an article on a similar topic a while back. May be worth tracking that down and playing off of it in some way.
Noted, thanks.
What’s the mystery topic?
The value of animal life versus a human.
The lawsuit claims she then went on to say, “My d— is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d— in Chicago.”
I can believe it.
Maybe when the former First Lady isn’t in town.
SHRILLARY CLITDONG
That shit made me crack up. Thanks Q.
No, BLOCK INSANE YOMAMA’s wife.
She keeps it in a jar in her desk drawer.
Of course, it is a “transition” or “reset” intended to make you poor and controlled.
“We’re working through an energy transition…The reality is, we have to take some time to get off of oil and gas, we recognize this. This is a transition.”
Unfortunately the only plan they have is to throw money at cronies and expect that one day, the country will be powered by windmills. Meanwhile, we’ll turn off the spigots at home and rely on getting energy from places like Russia and Iran.
“This is a transition.”
Well, we certainly did chop our own nuts off.
“Looking at every single tool” … except you know, producing more of what is used right now. They are making their push, using Russia/Ukraine as the cover, to go ‘green’
And ignoring nuclear power as hard as they can.
It’s energy affirmation.
My gasoline identifies as carbon neutral.
“Texas state House candidate fighting child gender-affirming care is shouted down at a college campus event”
This is probably meant to make me infer that the speaker is unpopular, but it really means that the left as always is trying to silence their critics, this time using the heckler’s veto.
We support rendering 11 year old boys permanently sterile!
The damn birth-rate is too high! /people who probably should not have been born themselves
You’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
He just can’t go away quietly.
If only it didn’t take a war to get rid of him.
If there is any silver lining to the war, it’s that something was finally big enough to knock Fauci out of the news cycle and end his way-over-15-minutes.
As absurd as we find it, there is still a sizeable proportion of this country that revere, dare I say even worship, Fauci.
Here are some of them in action.
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My favorite part: The chryon at the bottom says “Report: Russia Planning Public Executions in Ukraine”.
Well enough of that. We’ve got serious issues to deal with, like begging for absurd mask mandates.
They sent him to the YT circuit to bolster and shore up the young people.
“the unvaccinated are a threat to society”
Send the unvaccinated to Ukraine; their mere presence will cause Russian soldiers to burst into flame.
On Lindsey Graham, I wonder who makes that decision.
By the way it was presented and the way it was covered, it is clear that this was not Lindsey Graham going rogue, this was Lindsey Graham delivering a message that had been decided upon by the establishment.
Every morning show covered it, and not as “Republican goes crazy”. It was quite clear that this was the official approved message, but was being delivered as a trial balloon with a messenger that they felt safe and denouncing if it went sideways.
I wonder how that sausage gets made? Everyone was on the same page the moment that he made the statement. That involved at least dozens of people. Does a handler from some think tank bring it to him as a suggestion? Does his CIA contact bring it to him? Who is in the room when options are being discussed? It clearly is not sleepy Joe and Kamala. Neither one of them seems to have much of a clue as to what is happening. Well, particularly not the Veep.
Interesting observation, I have been staying the hell away from the major media outlets. They only serve to make me want to throw things at my TV.
“CDC numbers show more than 90 percent of people in U.S. can ditch masks”
My research shows that people could have always ditched masks because they don’t do anything, but I guess that actual science doesn’t count as science anymore. How about philosophy and ethics? Not relevant, huh? Go die fuckers.
There is a difference between science and The Science.
Exactly.
The Science is whatever the powers that be need it to be to keep the serfs in line.
I’m sure she will continue her trail of success.
The White House is actively discussing sending Vice President Harris to Warsaw, Poland, and Bucharest, Romania, in the coming days to show solidarity with Ukraine as it faces an escalating Russian invasion, sources familiar with the conversations tell The Hill.
The discussions involve sending Harris to visit troops stationed in Romania and potentially to the border with Ukraine, where a refugee crisis has seen more than 1 million people flee that country since the Russian attack.
The trip could happen in the coming weeks, one source said, adding that there is no active dialogue about sending President Biden to the region.
“A presidential visit is a heavier logistical lift,” the source said. “The vice president has a smaller footprint and is historically more nimble.”
The vice president’s office declined to comment on Harris’s travel plans. But a White House official said Harris has been “deeply involved in the administration’s engagement with allies and partners.”
Kamala Harris, Ukraine czar.
Possibly a positive sign that they’re willing to send her that close to the fighting. Or maybe they’re hoping for an accident.
Biden would never approve his insurance policy being taken out.
The White House is actively discussing sending Vice President Harris to Warsaw, Poland, and Bucharest, Romania, in the coming days
Hope the White House sprung for the deluxe kneepads. That’s a lot of country leaders.
https://youtu.be/xPHXfJZpSms?t=32
“A presidential visit is a heavier logistical lift”
Can’t send him to talk to people who might actually take what he’s saying seriously. And then there are the pallets of Aricept and cadre of Presidential diaper changers that have to tag along. Not to mention the enormous quantities of pudding cups and ice cream required to keep him upright and mobile during a visit like that.
No, this is certainly a job for Cackles the Clown. Her extensive knowledge, experience and intelligence will rally the troops and lead to victory!
You know the thing is the time and the time is now to seize the time!
Together!
So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that’s wrong.”
This sounds like she took some speech about how it is wrong for a burly guy to force his way onto a chick and replaced the people with countries to make a point…
She is being told to talk to her constituents like they are children. She did it with the NASA video also. Or she has great contempt for anyone outside the political class.
Or she’s just really stupid and that’s the best she can do.
Oh, there will be a trail, alright.
She’s visiting you Pie. What an honor!
“A presidential visit is a heavier logistical lift,” the source said. “The vice president has a smaller footprint and is historically more nimble.”
Meaning we aren’t sure Ol’ Joe could make it alive.
It’s going to be hilarious watching her explain to them that Russia is this big country that is next to the smaller country called Ukraine.
This is how the world ends?
Go ahead and seize Friday Funbags’ super yachts.
https://archive.ph/2tve4
I like motorboats better than yachts.
^
“And now governments are just stealing their shit with no due process. So much for the rule of law and the moral high ground.”
Yeah, not sure how anyone can support this. Unless they’ve done something illegal (and it’s been priced in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt) there no basis in law for crap like this. Completely immoral, illegal and furthermore dangerous to allow governments this power.
I really don’t understand it at all. I don’t get how anyone thinks it is remotely legal. They don’t even pretend. They just toss out a few demagogic arguments that amount to Russia bad, Putin bad, these people are oligarchs and they are bad, therefore steal their stuff! That will show them!
Not sure that that is an argument that you can take to court.
Your honor, we stole the plaintiffs property because we really don’t like the government of the country that he comes from! Plus, he’s rich!
Does that mean that Trump supporters get to just go out and steal s*** from Rich Democrats?
“Not sure that that is an argument that you can take to court.”
As if they care anymore. Justine Castreau just seized a bunch of property from actual peaceful protesters just for having the audacity to try and redress grievances toward his regime. The Cathedral has long had the attitude that they are the true owners of all the serfs’ shit, they’ve just finally decided to rip off the mask and say that if you don’t play by their arbitrary and constantly shifting rules, they’ll revoke your privilege to temporarily have possession of any of their stuff. I can see a lot more crypto in the future; until they ban that of course.
The Canadian situation is beyond the pale. It will be interesting to see if Canadians are the Canadians that I know from the Midwest, hunters and outdoorsmen who don’t put up with this crap and love hockey, or if they are the Canadians I know from South Florida who are basically milk toast versions of Manhattan residents.
There are some of reach, but it seems the Manhattan variety out weighs the rest.
Like with covid or any number of things recently, principles are being thrown on the ash heap of history for the sake of expediency. They are Roperites.
I just conveyed this story to my wife a few days ago in regards to the oligarchs.
I can’t possibly see how this would ever be used against Americans!!
Next the government will start locking up foreign nationals in solitary without charges.
It is interesting to see us spiral towards the same attitude that gave us internment camps and the resulting reparations.
No, see, these are bad people this time, so internment is OK
Rights are only for the innocent.
It’s Bush all over again. All the machinery of the state doesn’t go away just because too alleged crisis passes.
I wonder how many people are against female genital mutilation, but also support gender affirming care?
THAT’S DIFFERENT YOU TRUMPISTA FASCIST NAZI
Again – this is why I say cognitive dissonance isn’t really a thing. If it was, these fuckers heads would explode a la Scanners.
Probably not that many. The anti-female genital mutilation crowd tends to be conservative; proggies are too multi-culti to dare challenge barbaric cultural practices.
Pretty sure the rad-fems have no use for barbaric cultural practices, though that may range into TERF turf these days.
All radfems are trans-exclusive. You can’t be a gender abolitionist and agree with someone who says they have the essence of a gender.
He said he was shocked to learn that you could be banned from YouTube for reporting facts .
Bless his heart.
How is he to know? The people at the cocktail parties aren’t going to talk about it.
He could swallow a whole bottle of red pills and remain as clueless as he’s ever been. He’ll be back at the cocktale parteez in no time talking about how it was an honest mistake on the part of Alphabet and it’s really those Trumpalos that are the threat to liberty.
It’s fake cluelessness, at least I hope it is. For his sake.
You can be banned for citing the CDC before the “science” changed and then changed again.
?
That standard is going to be applied to everything.
You know who else has yachts we can steal?
The $500 million Y721 will be, at 417 feet long, the biggest sailing yacht in the world when it launches this summer. In a pissing match with other tech billionaires — Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and media mogul and new People magazine owner Barry Diller — Bezos, 58, wins.
In fact, even his yacht’s secondary support boat is bigger than Brin’s elegantly futuristic $80 million yacht, the Dragonfly.
We’ll balance the budget!
Jesus, his golddigger has gotten even more hideous.
I don’t know which is more fugly, her or the ships. I’d take the HMS Britannia over those vessels.
“I’m going to go hang out with my buddy Barry”. Does he have good drugs? Underage hookers? Wtf?
Got something against ludicrous cheekbones do you?
It’s the more plastic content than an Auton.
Celebrities like to hang out with each other and rich nerds like to surround themselves with celebrities. I doubt any of those celebrities even know what Barry looks like.
Don’t link shame, Mayne he likes fucking an alien.
She is looking quite a bit faker since the last pic I saw of her a year or so back. Can’t she afford a better plastic surgeon on her benefactor’s dime?
417 feet? That’s more of a small cruise ship than a yacht.
You can only show your epic bad guy mojo if you have a yacht big enough to hold a smaller yacht in its pool, dude…
The Y721’s main vessel boasts three decks — one with a swimming pool — and, with three gigantic masts, it can claim eco-credentials by being powered largely via a cutting-edge propulsion system that harnesses kinetic energy under sail.
There are rumors of a cutting edge navigational device called a sextant aboard as well.
Next they’re going to exempt sailing had from carbon taxes.
If I didn’t know better I’d think all this green stuff was just a grift to give the rich more tax breaks and punish everyone else.
They already exempted private aircraft from the Green New Deal stuff.
So, yes.
I say, would you by chance have a link for that?
Nope. I recall reading it months ago.
Now that the precedent has been set, I wonder if Russia or some of these other nations that have grievances against America will follow suit. It would be interesting to see what would happen if a bunch of tech giants had their yachts seized by Russian forces. Maybe Eric Schmidt has his private jet seized when he lands in China.
How often do our oligarchs make it over to Iraq on their yachts because they should get first dibs.
Somalia beckons “come visit our sunny shores”.
“Look at me…..I’m the oligarch now”
Well since Eric would be there to pick up some suitcases full of cash, I don’t see why they would seize his plane.
Russell Brand did a video on the Bezos yacht a few weeks ago. They are dismantling a historic bridge to get it out to sea. The bridge was destroyed by Nazis, then they rebuilt it as a testament to their resilience, with a vow to never dismantle it again. Ironically, now it’s being dismantled again for another type of authoritarian. And the government went along with it because it will “create jobs”.
If it was destroyed by Ze Germans, a vow to never dismantle it ‘again’ makes no sense. And how far does such a vow extend? If you ever need to conduct repairs, you could very well have to take part of it apart to replace a component.
That said, I’m of the opinion that “everyone in this story is an asshole”.
Isn’t Brin Russian? I guess we are perfectly justified taking his yacht.
Now that the precedent has been set, I wonder if Russia or some of these other nations that have grievances against America will follow suit. It would be interesting to see what would happen if a bunch of tech giants had their yachts seized by Russian forces. Maybe Eric Schmidt has his private jet seized when he lands in China.
Yes, exactly. I can’t wait for the posturing, barratry and fingerpointing at the Hague. “They can’t do that! It’s just different when we do it!”
Like Condaleeza Rice on tv denouncing Russian pretextual invasion.
Why does this come to mind?
I really like how they portray the devil in that movie. He doesn’t have to tempt people, we’re perfectly happy doing it to ourselves.
Also, there are a lot of good quotes with my name.
“I’m a little more than that, Kevin!”
“What’s the game plan, Kevin?”
“Don’t be so hard on yourself, Kevin!”
David Corn on twatter is trumpeting jobs numbers to fluff Biden. Hi-fuckin-larious.
When they’re done kicking Putin’s ass, they can move on to Canada
The world has watched in horror since Russia invaded Ukraine late last week, triggering what could be the largest land war in Europe since World War II. And Zelensky’s defiance has not only united Western opposition to Russia, but also inspired foreign volunteers and Ukrainians abroad to fight for the cause.
“This is not just Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Zelensky said on Sunday. “This is the beginning of a war against Europe, against European structures, against democracy, against basic human rights, against a global order of law, rules, and peaceful coexistence.”
It’s going to take some real voodoo magic to resuscitate the rule of law.
Almost exactly backwards.
I can maybe understand Ukrainians wanting to go there and fight but any foreigners that get suckered into dying for that ubercorrupt regime are to be pitied.
Imagine Lord Beaverbrook whooping up WWI to Americans with Twitter. Well, that’s pretty much what we have today.
He’s literally a clown.
The new alignment is the rainbow-woke-globalists against the nationalist normals. Unfortunately, we’re currently on the side of the former.
Thoughts on the S&W Sport II AR-15?
Does that come with the thing that pops up or do you have to add that yourself?
Depends on the state where it is sold.
Is it the one with the brick sized gas block?
Not a bad choice. Probably the cheapest complete AR that can be counted on to run.
https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/defensive-ar-15-setup-for-regular-people/
Also, I don’t know how up-to-date you are on running the AR platform, but a refresher is always good…
https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/use-ar-15/
Thanks
When asked about American foreign fighters he [Blinken] said the US has been “clear for some time” in telling “Americans who may be thinking of traveling there not to go.”
If Americans want to help Ukraine, “there are many ways to do that, including by supporting and helping the many NGOs that are working to provide humanitarian assistance; providing resources themselves to groups that are trying to help Ukraine by being advocates for Ukraine,” he said.
Send money to established, well-regarded international relief organizations. Like, you know, the Clinton Foundation.l
Of course you’d say that, you gutless weasel.
May sound pessimistic, but how long before aid to the Ukrainians winds up being owned by the Russians?
I’m doing my part by dumping out my Russian dressing and replacing it with Thousand Island.
Or by Hunter Biden.
Hopefully the Ukrainians have Hunter advising them on their military strategy as his consulting expertise seems to be quite valuable.
Next week? Next month? Who knows? But I’m willing to bet it will happen.
I can maybe understand Ukrainians wanting to go there and fight but any foreigners that get suckered into dying for that ubercorrupt regime are to be pitied.
Wutwutwut? I have been assured by the Legitimate American Media that Ukraine is a tranquil bastion of DEMOCRACY! where happy smiling peasants in colorful native costume hold hands and sing the national anthem before they skip gaily out to the fields to tend their flocks.
Russell Brand did a video on the Bezos yacht a few weeks ago. They are dismantling a historic bridge to get it out to sea. The bridge was destroyed by Nazis, then they rebuilt it as a testament to their resilience, with a vow to never dismantle it again. Ironically, now it’s being dismantled again for another type of authoritarian. And the government went along with it because it will “create jobs”.
I have seen several stories about that bridge, but they never quite manage to getting around to saying whether the “removal” will be permanent or temporary.
Temporary.
They’re putting the pieces back once the boat is clar.
Temporary and Bezos is paying for it. I am not sure if that makes it okay or not.
I missed GlibFlick last night. Gotta catch up.
“I won’t back down from communist riot thugs,” Younger said on his campaign Facebook page Thursday.
Looks like you did.
In response to a request for comment from CNN, Younger emailed, “I do not cooperate with leftist media.”
On the other hand, this is good.
Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that Covid-19 levels have dropped significantly enough that more than 90 percent of people in the U.S. can go without masks.
You could always ditch the face diapers. Fuck the CDC.
Well in good news our Greaseball Guv announced last Monday that March 14 is the magic day that Science! has declared safe for the children to take off their masks at school. Really it is being left up to the school districts now instead of the state, and our district, the SF Unified has said they will continue forcing the children to taslismask. Luckily our kids our not in the government schools so their school announced yesterday that masks are optional starting March 14. Their school started full time, in person classes Nov 2020 and we moved them there because they were one of the only schools here doing so at that date. Most of the Catholic schools here did some type of hybrid bullshit for most of last year that wouldn’t work for us. My six year old has been saying that he didn’t remember what school was like before masks.
Save pixels, recycle a meme. https://twitter.com/MENAConflicted/status/1499460223865704452?t=8v6B5OqeCXCld8hXjlGJEQ&s=19
Not everyone is supportive of the idea of foreign fighters in Ukraine.
US-based extremist tracking organization SITE Intelligence Group has warned of the involvement of outfits such as Azov, a paramilitary group whose logo is the Wolfsangel, a symbol appropriated by Nazi Germany.
“Following Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, far-right communities online have rallied to the side of groups like Azov, both in terms of fundraising and stating their intent to fight alongside them,” a SITE report says.
Yes, yes, of course. This is all just a ruse to establish the Fourth Reich.
well there are probably a bunch of actual nazis in that group,
One wonders if that group has any actual influence or are the media just giving them attention because agitprop.
major influence probably not. local influence in some small area possibly.
Our government is stealing the property of people not directly involved in the Ukraine situation. – the government should not do that but I doubt most oligarchs are not involved… they are the boyars of Russia.
As the virus is winding down, my company will probably soon get back to office work. I hope for 3 days from home but probably will get two.
The Feds just unmasked their employees in offices.
Oh but you should see the ridiculous gating requirements and they are standing up weekly testing for the dirty unvaccinated.
So much for the “winter of death”
It was a ‘winter of colds’. It burned through our facility and no one ended up in the hospital or severely ill. 10 free days off though.
Temporary.
They’re putting the pieces back once the boat is clar.
That was always my assumption, but it’s harder to spool up the outrage machine if you can’t imply a precious national monument will be razed to satisfy the depraved whimsy of an evil oligarch.
My company is off course social signaling hard on Ukraine. Donating money for refuges, helping organize employees as volunteer to help etc. I am unsure about donating. One of the funny things is that for most of the last 30 years Romania and Ukraine were not exactly friends, having territorial disputes. Also the ethnic Romanian minority in Ukraine is not exactly well treated, though maybe that will change. I still support Ukraine over Russia because fuck Russia.
Also I have no idea what news to believe. I go for none.
Best course. I think we will have to wait a while to find out what has really happened.
Makes sense. Ukraine may be asshole, but they’re not dangerous like Russia.
The Vermont governor is demanding that his legislature spend $1 per Vermonter to donate to Ukraine.
I also learned that VT has the population of Tulsa.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/state-department-official-warns-president-xi-will-face-serious-consequences-if-china
Why do I get a feeling that we fed China information, they said pound sand, we wait til after Putin does his little adventure and now we are getting tough with now two nuclear powers only to realize we don’t have the footing to do anything?
The question is: will there be a learning experience
We are going to just keep doing what we’re doing with the general issue and that’s how we’re going to do it.
NBC asks Kamala Harris if Biden will sanction Russia’s oil and gas industry.
Harris responds: “As it relates to what we need to do domestically as well as what we need to do in terms of this issue generally, we have, as the president said, reevaluated what we’re doing”
It has to be on purpose right? Please tell me she is putting on a performative show of acting the court jester.
I’m sorry, I know words came out of your mouth, but they said precisely nothing. Would you care to try again?
with extensive price controls, Russia can then unleash massive fiscal expansion – compensation for families of dead soldiers, for massive unemployment caused by sanctions/withdrawal of multinational corporations/loss of export markets
the shortage economy is baaaack!
the state channels petrodollars into war spending + safety net for citizens + industrial policy.
and industrial policy speaks to ideas of transforming the central bank into an ‘institute for development’
to be clear, I dont think MMT ever claimed to be a theory of the developmental state.
MMT is a theory of why the macro constraint to a developmental state project is not ‘how will we pay for it’.MMT is right that you cannot have a developmental state project under Wall Street Consensus macrofinance.
but once you make that intellectual leap, slope just gets steeper.
reviving a developmental state project under conditions of war and sanctions is, in my view, impossible
https://twitter.com/danielagabor/status/1499653086171828226
This person should be on Kamala’s team.
Good morning, peeps!
The propaganda machine is working. It has united left and right in hatred for Russia. I have flummoxed two family members, one from each tribe, when I asked why the Ukrainians are special in comparison to, say, the people of Yemen.
They each told me how brave Zelensky is. It’s bizarre.
YouTube/Celebrity politician knows how to work the socials…go figure.
why the Ukrainians are special – because fuck Russia?
I mean for Europe there is the whole back yard thing unlike Yemen. For US it is the fact that EU are buddies more or less. And we all need to fight climate change together.
Plus, isn’t it our ally fucking around in Yemen? I can hardly expect people and especially the institutions to be neutral here.
Another example of “propaganda works”.
Does no one remember a couple of weeks ago when zelensky denied there would
be a russian invasion and did nothing whatsoever to prepare his people?
That right there makes me believe the CIA was heavily involved…US was screaming it was going to happen at any moment and he was like “What?” and then it didn’t materialize until we continued to push and push.
It really did feel like Putin had no intention of doing an actual invasion until after we began loudly signaling that we were not going to do anything about it .
We sounded like Brer rabbit begging not to be thrown in the prior patch.
Zelensky’s moronic statement about obtaining nukes while in Munich didn’t help.
The invasion probably would have happened at some point anyway given the overall environment, but that was a dumbass diplomatic move for the ages.
I think it’s a mistake to ascribe any significant influence in the short-term from the US in pushing Russia to invade Ukraine. Certainly pushing Ukraine to join NATO played a large role, but let’s not kid ourselves that Putin had any intentions other than invading as soon as the forces began building on Ukraine’s border.
When Putin issued his ultimatum that was globally shot down as not serious, I mentioned reading someone’s take that the buildup was serious and war was coming. That Putin would have never phrased those ultimatums in the way he did unless it led to either getting everything Russia wanted or war. It made sense at the time and makes even more sense as events as unfolded.
We have lived in an era of unparalleled peace in human history, which has put normalcy blinders on war between large states. Many people desire war.
Unfortunately very true.
The Yemen comparison has one of two effects. It either confuses people who have no idea what’s happening in Yemen, or it enrages people who do know.
Oh thats a country? I thought that was a local dialect of “Yeah man” /99,99% American Population
It’s all good man.
The progs I’ve talked to see this as an extension of the solidly established Trump-Putin co-conspiracy sphere. They are absolutely convinced that Trump – and Trump alone – laid the groundwork for this and that Biden was simply dealt a bad hand. Therefore opposing Putin is a continuation of their war to save American democracy.
The conservatives I’ve heard seem vaguely pissed off that we didn’t occupy Russia in the 1990s. They see this as finally ending the cold war.
And, yeah, few of any of them seem to know about Yemen. TBF: Yemen can be characterized as a civil war, in that you don’t have a sovereign state invading another sovereign state.
The Cold War did end, back in 91. The Warsaw Pact was gone, yet NATO persisted. We had an opportunity to seek a lasting peace and squandered it.
Hell, we actively thwarted it.
I wasn’t politically aware back then but WTF were we thinking?!
Well NATO wanted it’s grift to continue, for one. Everybody was busy trying to loot Russia and Yeltsin was a fool.
But I think most of it was just damnable arrogance and a resolve on the part of MIC/DC to make certain we always had an enemy that they could work the populace into a frenzy against and justify their existence.
Rothbard predicted back in the 60’s that once the MIC bureaucracy was built up, we would never be rid of them. They would find or make justifications for their continued existence.
History ended, we won, we’re going to dance and piss on the graves of the fallen powers. Yes, honestly, it was THAT bad.
Razorfist said it best the other day. Russia went to great expense to get Trump elected, and then when they succeeded, they did…. nothing?
Truly an American hero
A teenager who tipped off the FBI about his father before the Jan. 6 riot and then gathered evidence after the attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Thursday that he was “nervous and paranoid” about his dad’s demeanor when he decided to contact federal authorities.
Jackson Reffitt, 19, the son of Jan. 6 defendant Guy Reffitt, told jurors in the second day of testimony in his father’s trial that he was in his room at the family’s home in Texas and Googled “FBI tip” on his phone after his father talked about plans to go to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.
“I didn’t know what I was doing. I just felt gross. I don’t think I can explain it. I just felt uncomfortable,” Jackson Reffitt told the court about his decision to tip off the FBI on Christmas Eve. He said he decided to “shut off my day” by watching TV on Christmas and getting on his phone so he wouldn’t dwell on the matter.
We can replace all those Nathan Bedford Forrest and Robert E Lee statues with a kid hiding under his bed texting his FBI handlers.
Kid’s a fuckin’ scumbag. If he were in my family, we’d cut off all contact.
My momma always told me, nobody likes a rat.
Kick him out of the house and cut him off.
Wait, he’s only 19, what’s he supposed to do, get a job?
C’mon, man
*insert quote from 1984 about what little shits their kids are*
I went searching
Through the Citadels of Sin
When Men can’t walk or freely talk
And Sons turn their Fathers in
Jackson Reffitt said Thursday that he had a “pretty great” relationship with his father before 2016, around the time he was entering high school. The pair disagreed about politics, Jackson said, adding that he moved further to the left while his father moved further to the right during the Trump era.
Jackson Reffitt told the court he decided to tell the FBI about his father, who was affiliated with the Texas Three Percenters, after a dispute on the family’s text chain in December 2020, just weeks before the riot. He testified that his father had talked about doing “something big” in August 2020 but that nothing ever happened. Then, after former President Donald Trump lost the election, Guy Reffitt started talking about how Congress had made “fatal mistakes” and saying something big was coming, his son said.
“When are you going to realize the Democrats are using race to keep minorities suppressed? We The People are willing to die to protect their safety. We did it in the Civil War and now we are doing it again. It’s the government that is going to be destroyed in this fight,” Guy Reffitt wrote. “Hold my beer and I’ll show you.”
If delusional bluster is now the same as treason, we’re going to need a really big gulag.
trolley problems are getting complex
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1499534410034688006
Take a simple ethical problem and confuse and mutilate it. We only like binary choices when it fits our narrative.
I still support Ukraine over Russia because fuck Russia.
The enemy of my enemy is still an asshole.
I don’t see why I should support either, really. I’m more than willing to believe that Putin is scum and Russians are committing war crimes. I’m also of the belief that the West has, for 30 years, recklessly involved itself in eastern European affairs and foolishly influenced Ukraine to believe that they would be protected from Russian aggression.
It’s not my problem nor in my interests to intervene.
if by eastern European affairs you mean fucking everybody, sure.
It’s not my problem nor in my interests to intervene. – your country thinks otherwise
your
countryGOVT thinks otherwiseLet’s not confuse things.
If there was referendum what % of US voters would support giving weapons to Ukraine?
You have a point in that the all-out propaganda assault we’ve had over the past couple of weeks has been rather successful. Most Americans don’t give foreign affairs a whole lot of thought, particularly now when inflation is ravaging us.
The interesting thing would be asking those people in favor of giving weapons to Ukraine *why* they believe that’s a good idea.
why* they believe that’s a good idea. – because fuck Putin?
because fuck Putin?
Mostly. The average American has no clue about the history nor any inclination to find out.
Their first reaction to hearing any statement from DC should be to say “I’d better go learn something because they’re definitely lying to me right now.” But mostly they’re just happy to jump on the virtue signal train.
Even the rabid “anti-vaxxers” see this as an opportunity to find solidarity with their family members and countrymen that shunned them just two weeks ago. Re-establish the tribe under the threat of a new enemy.
Yeah, I’ve seen “polling” turn on a dime before and after big propaganda pushes – on issue after issue after issue.
The fact of the matter is – and this is hard for me to say but it’s become too obvious to ignore – that the vast majority of people are simply ignorant of almost any issue the pollsters choose to question them about.
Fuck Putin, sure…..but why do we have to be involved? Of what strategic benefit is that to the US?
Lindsay 2.0 was pretty good regarding judicial confirmations. But this Lindsay 3.0 sucks again. He’s like LindsayME.
I can see now how Japanese were sent to internment camps. How long before we start sending Russians? The backlash against them seems far worse than against Muslims after 9/11.
Upper management is going off on a rant because the IT consolidation was so rushed to meet governor’s deadlines that no one has an authoritative record of what servers even exist. They have had multiple failed pushes to get it together, but each was either bungled or abandoned for another top priority initiative, and now they’re doing it again because Upper Management got embarassed politically.
I don’t like getting ranted at for the failures of the one ranting.
Well that is what being a servant gets ya
I’m in the Civil Service, not a Servant, learn the difference.
well a member of the civil service is a civil servant,
Which is not a mere servant.
details.
… except your moniker literally states “servant”, so …
It’s the difference between a Secretary and a secretary.
which one gets spanked by the boss?
^^^Better answer than mine.
The one that doesn’t win the Kentucky Derby.
Dude, missing the point.
If you call yourself a servant, you can’t then turn around and say you’re not a servant, when in fact you are. “In the civil service” is nanometers away from “servant of the public”.
I don’t think anyone in the history of the Civil Service has served the public.
Yes, my Nom de Forum is a play off the general term for a government employee. My joking around with other people could easily have been taken more seriously than intended. I do know people who get offended over such and should have been cleared that I was not. Mea Culpa.
I don’t like getting ranted at for the failures of the one ranting.
Less likely in the corporate world, but a standard feature in political environments.
The question is: will there be a learning experience
Haha, you slay me.
Hell must have frozen over.
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asserted Thursday that Israel could be a “potential ally” to the Islamic kingdom.
The Crown Prince highlighted Saudi Arabia hopes Israel will work to solve the “conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.”
“We don’t look at Israel as an enemy, we look to them as a potential ally, with many interests that we can pursue together”, Salman said.
“But we have to solve some issues before we get to that”, he warned as the Times of Israel reports.
This has been Israel’s goal since turning their policy against Iran in the early 90’s. They figured it would be better to have an enemy geographically more distant and on the US’s shit list in order to make peace on their borders. They recognized that the US was never going to give up on the Saudis as they underpin our currency system.
Fairly brilliant, really.
“greedy .. means that the more hours you put in, the higher your hourly pay. .. It could be which hours. Is it weekend? Is it vacation? If I say jump, do you have to jump? .. earnings go up disproportionately with that”
But it makes sense that pays more.
It seems needlessly moralistic to call such jobs “greedy”. Yes they demand more time and flexibility, but they also pay more to compensate for their added demands. What exactly is the problem?
She complaints that too many industries let workers be distinctive individuals instead of “individuals who are highly trained, talented, responsible healthcare providers [being] extremely good substitutes for each other.” Identical substitute workers is her ideal.
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1499497942058561550
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M799-si5gig
20 Historical Euphemisms for Self Love – ? Edition
https://twitter.com/k8_lister/status/1499473950056796168
BRB I need to “gallop my antelope”, then I’m going to “churn some butter”.
use the post just above this one
Where are our anti-flag-desecration lawmakers? What has become of them?
They were already for the thin blue/red line flags.
I wish you cuntes would stop sexualizing and gender-bending children.
To all the LGBTQ2SIA+ children and young people across the country, I want you to know that you are seen, you are loved, and you matter. The state of Oregon remains committed to honoring and protecting your right to be yourself. #ProtectTransKids
The left has all-but won this one. I wonder what’s next on their checklist.
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
weak
5*8-(9+7)=24
Am I playing the wrong game?
9d chess move is russia blows a reactor deliberately so as to fukushima any attempt by europe to get off russian gas
https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1499540101763903494
WarTwitter is disappointing. Then again, this is where our next crop of officers will be drawn from.
A decidedly pro-Russian take on the state of the conflict, but worth reading.
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/03/04/russia-ukraine-2/
He goes on to mention that Russia has prodded the US/EU to show the rest of the world that they consider the financial system to be an instrument of war and that there will be repercussions from that.
ah yes it is all about denazification.
It is strange that their Nazis work for Jews.
The complaints of the Russians in eastern Ukraine being abused and even killed by them are certainly legitimate.
Admittedly, I don’t understand this whole Stephen Bandera worship thing very well and how that works out with Zelensky. But it has been mentioned on other sites that their primary motivating animus is against Russians and not Jews. It’s obviously highly nationalist in nature.
I really do not have enough info of what was going on there before the invasion. But I expect both sides did some unsavory things… Including the neonazi elements.
Pretty much what Andrei Martyanov has been saying. The Ruskies seem to have been pretty restrained in their use of arty and rockets so far. The Ukrainian army has lost all ability to manuever.
The surgeon general calls on Big Tech to turn over Covid-19 misinformation data.
They will be coming here next.
“instant messaging systems” would imply personal communications that we are to be secured….ah fuck it.
Couldn’t the SG just walk over to Fauci’s office?
I missed the part where the Surgeon General has the authority to demand fuck-all from private companies.
SOOOO much more important than all those boring, confusing numbers from Pfizer and/or Moderna. /COVIDiot
LOOKOUT ROBBY!
It would be nice if any one of “Big Tech” had the integrity to tell the Surgeon General to go fuck himself instead of eagerly complying.
And what is the baseline? Most of the “disinformation” is turning out to be true, piece by piece.
Good essay.
Kayfabe In Kiev.
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Craziest 2 minutes of TV news ever, with opposing guests on the Ukraine war hosted by Indian TV. the ending is a MUST watch.
https://twitter.com/skbozphd/status/1499298691156705282
That’s amazing.
Which one of you with young children is this?
Mom is horrified to discover husband has been making bottles slowly on purpose: ‘I would never look at my partner the same’
I never did it right anyway so my ex always ended up making them. Then again, I didn’t neglect the kid while she did it, it just screamed in my arms while I went back to sleep. The joys of being able to sleep through anything.
Weaponized incompetence.
It’s maddening.
There is a certain amount of this in any relationship on both sides. It’s just a matter of the degree that it is used.
If you take to social media your issue in this way I think you’ve got bigger problems.
I don’t know how to operate our clothes washer and dryer. It is part of the deal we struck years ago in which I became the only breadwinner and he “retired” and became the hausfrau.
Unfortunately he doesn’t do as much housekeeping as I’d like, but he’s all over the laundry and dishes.
After a time, my wife wouldn’t let me give my son a bottle in the middle of the night because I fell asleep holding him.
My daughter was breastfed so I couldn’t feed her anyway.
Heh.
That warmed my heart.
“Well, this motherf***** has been stalling in the kitchen, taking forever to make a bottle [so] that I get overwhelmed with screamo in bed — so I’ll turn around and WANT to be the one to get out of bed every time. And he gets to stay in bed all night, and it was MY choice.”
Variation on a theme
Good song choices today. “The Sun Always Shines” is my favorite of theirs too.
I had a crush on Magne Furuholmen when I was a lass…
Ha most gals (and certain guys) went for the pretty one.
Ah, yes. Morten Harket. He was my sister’s fave.
Sister and I shared a bedroom so we had a-ha posters up and all that classic 1980s nostalgia…
Derp stranded on a receding tide.
Here’s the kicker for me:
Faithful? Party loyalty? Why? What fucking purpose is served by standing by your team? Get the fuck out of politicking, and go do something useful.
Now talk to me about Republicans in Baltimore.
Another “liberals in the mist” article. Pass.
It makes me wonder if those types are paying attention to their team’s platform, though.
Narrator: They don’t like you.
Getting what they wanted, good and hard.
Dammit. Just got into a stupid fight with the wife, stemming from a minor thing that I solved on a personal level years ago (bad stereo line in my truck that gets rf interference) that she now thinks is a sign of mental decay. And she is off to work in that truck and I can’t deal with this shit for hours now. She is going to bring up everything that I either don’t care about, or think is a low priority as signs that MS is fucking up my mind.
Sorry for venting.
Sorry to hear it, zwak. My husband occasionally pokes me with a stick about my temporal lobe epilepsy, blaming it for anything I say or do that he does not like.
Of course I then bring logic and reason to the discussion but he’s such a stubborn ass that he digs in and projects his fucked up state of mind onto me.
Whaddya do?
You can control only how YOU think and feel. So keep a stiff upper lip and drop the argument.
As JOSHUA said in War Games the only way to win is not to play.
This seems reckless at bess. Insane at worst.
Agreed. Even omitting the moral aspect of it, it’s just plain stupid for the U.S. to try to introduce this game. The U.S. has the biggest, most powerful, military in the world, by far. The rational policy for a country in that position is to maintain the terms of competition to where that advantage is multiplied and emphasized. Normalizing assassination as an instrument of foreign policy does the opposite of that. No matter how powerful and overwhelming your military might, even the smallest third world cesspit can find some psychopath willing to shoot your leader. In fact, it may very well be that the weaker and more miserable a country, the more likely you would be able to find a trigger man.