Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a peaceful day it always is.
Border Patrol agent credited with killing the shooter
15 years after worst school shooting, most recommendations not adopted as tragedy strikes again
Rundown of yesterday’s primaries
I made sure to show up and vote for Paxton yesterday.
FBI running internal investigation into its own Trump-Russia probe
Is housing finally going to pop?
That’s all I have for today. I’ll leave you with a song, and go hug my children.
whaddup doh’
FBI running internal investigation into its own Trump-Russia probe
That gives me great confidence that the malefactors will be identified and punished.
*wrist slap incoming*
I know you were being facetious, but this is the reason we are never going to get a fix. If those that abuse the power they have never get punished for that, and in fact, often are rewarded, we will get a lot more of it. and that’s precisely what the machine wants. We really might have no other option but to tear it all down.
“We found we did nothing wrong.”
Or, they’ll hang it on some low level guy and give the standard “The great majority of agents act with integrity” bullshit.
“Everyone not involved in this investigation did not violate any standards on this investigation. That is the majority of our people.”
Speaking of the FBI (and apologies if this was previously posted, I was doing hood rat shit), they foiled their own plot again:
They’re more of a menace than they prevent at this point.
Heh.
They’ll find the malefactors and determine procedures were followed.
“Border Patrol agent credited with killing the shooter”
Watch them accuse the agent of using excessive force before this whole horrible event gets memory holed because the perp doesn’t fit the narrative.
I doubt that’s going to happen.
What specifically do you doubt? Because this perp is not one they want to harp incessantly about as it will hurt some other higher priority agendas.
It’s not going away. This guy is the stereotypical school shooter.
Pay no attention to the perp – the gun is the problem. //the-narrative today
If the usual suspects decide to do this, how long is it before someone points out the problem with these evil fucks is that they have mental disorders, and that this particular individual is Exhibit A when it comes to someone with a serious mental disorder? I get they will scream, rend their clothes, and turn on the person making the accusation, but they are not going to be able to hide that from normals.
It seems the narrative is guns. I don’t think the shooter being hispanic makes any difference. The Stoneman Douglas High School shooter was named Cruz (although he was adopted). The Virginia Tech shooter was asian. So I doubt this will be memory holed.
The shooter was also someone identifying as a trans person….. Odds are that no matter how hard the usual suspects try to make it about guns, someone will point out the issue with people that think shooting schools up is about mental disorders, and that door being opened for people demanding we let people that now say only biologists can define what a woman is, seems like a risk not willing to be taken.
The shooter was also someone identifying as a trans person
link/source?
Disclaimer: lots of bad information in the first few days after these types of incidents, but here is a photo.
I saw this in a tweet ins Spanish from someone familiar with the perp yesterday that I can’t seem to find right now..
Atanarjuat has the tweet….
Note I saw the same images as the tweet Atanarjuat has linked, but the poster was from the Latino community. It was forwarded to me by someone that knew I could read & translate spanish. The language used by the spanish tweeter was not as PG-13 as this tweet.
“Hundreds of social media posts have speculated about the identity of Salvador Ramos, 18, some of which claimed he was transgender without reliable evidence.
Multiple tweets, many of which have since been deleted, included photos claimed to be of Ramos wearing feminine clothing; these narratives were subsequently picked up by conspiracy media, including InfoWars and some politicians including Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who later deleted the tweet.
However, it was quickly revealed that none of the photos were either of Ramos or verifiable as him.
Reddit user, Apprehensive_Ad_995, said one of the pictures attributed to Ramos was actually of themselves, stating: “it’s not me, I don’t even live in texas.””
https://www.newsweek.com/uvalde-suspect-salvador-ramos-trans-claimswhat-we-do-know-what-we-dont-1709950
So who knows?
I wouldn’t be surprised that even if he was gender bending, that fact would be disputed and hidden.
JFC people – why don’t you look in 4chan and see what they have to say?
“why don’t you look in 4chan and see what they have to say?”
That was pretty much my point.
Let’s all take this as a splendid example of just how badly humans can behave – how easily they can be manipulated. Repeating rumors as a form of malicious gossip because it feels good.
The water got muddied when pics from a reddit account that looked like but isn’t the shooter was included with the photos that were definitely him. I wouldn’t jump on the trans thing beyond saying the shooter was deeply deranged.
I want to see this turn into a conversation about the school system/culture producing these shooters.
That’s the real problem.
Also the police were at his home several times before this happened.
This is what I doubt will happen. The gun grabbers will never admit the problem is not the guns but the fucks that use them to do evil. Pointing out some people are suffering from mental disorders, and that the bulk of them seem to be the same sort of mental people that keep getting catered to, these days especially, is one of those offenses that brings the mob down on you. Hard. I have watched adults, and especially adult women, demand they be seen and treated as fragile victims and children, while the mob demanding we treat them as fragile victims going bonkers if anyone points out that if they are fragile victims, they are not ready to be part of adult society as the mob also demands.
I get people are schizophrenic, demanding to be seen & treated as fragile victims when it is convenient and advances the cause, then do a 180 and demand blood from anyone that points out if you identify as a non-adult you should be treated as such, but this formula only serves to create chaos and destruction. Accountability is dead. And without accountability, we can kiss any form of an advanced society goodbye.
This is somewhat adjacent to what you mentioned.
I went to the ghetto middle school in my town. There were fights nearly every day. The terribleness of the school system did not help matters.
“the US is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic”
Yet somehow, we rank low on the list of nations with mass shooting victims.
Yeah, that line is a crock of shit only imaginable by someone who is only familiar with nice, homogeneous European countries.
If you put in America in the same box as Western Europe and Japan, it looks bad on all kinds of metrics. But it is an outlier in that box in way more ways than one. America is closer to Brazil than it is to even the UK. It is sometimes a greater wonder the United States doesn’t perform worse on many metrics.
Someone needs to look up Running Amok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_amok
Far too much leftist bullshit in there to endorse it, but there’s a kernel of truth underlying it. The media and education complex play a huge part in this, but not in the way that is implied here. Unless the children are being forced to reenact the Battle of Chosin Reservoir every year, I don’t know where they’d be getting “narratives about how mass military slaughter is fine”. And they are not being turned into underpaid, alienated gear-turners, they’re being turned into overpaid, alienated email-senders. This dovetails with how much teachers contribute to this problem: despite decades of propaganda claiming the opposite, the average teacher doesn’t give a flying fuck about the wellbeing of their students, except for their pets. To wit, they believe things like:
Whom do teachers work for? What is their responsibility in society? Parents cannot completely offload the duty of raising their children to teachers, yes, but teachers cannot claim in loco parentis for 7 hours a day then turn around and act like they’re not an approximately equal partner in the raising of the children.
It takes a village.
Ultimately all they ever really meant by that is they want all the power of parents and none of the responsibility.
When my son was young I gave him the choice of video games (with first-person shooter) or actual shooting. He had to make a choice because if I was going to teach him about guns, I was not going to have him taught something different by the game industry.
Similarly, my kids don’t do toy guns. Or paintball, airsoft, etc. I never have either.
They have LOTS of exposure to and use of real ones.
Mentally, you can’t hold to the 4 rules and really do stuff like that.
Sure you can. You just need a good grasp on the difference between reality and fantasy. A lot of people don’t have that.
an agent rushed into Robb Elementary School without waiting for backup
and
I’m told that that BORTAC agent went in with his technical group with other agents.
Well, which is it young feller?
“Is housing finally going to pop?”
Considering how the people in charge’s actions, no matter how well intended or the reasoning provided for it is, seem to elicit the worst outcomes possible constantly, the housing bubble going “BOOM” is a question of how soon.
FBI running internal investigation into its own Trump-Russia probe
Of course it is. And by internal investigation, mean coverup to make sure nothing sticks to the squeaky clean FBI.
Is there any downside to the housing bubble popping? Lower prices will benefit people who have been saving for a home.
People who were depending on the value of their home?
If you’re speculating on the value of your home, you should sell now while the prices are outrageously out of whack. They can’t possibly stay like this forever. Nor will they stay at rock bottom forever, after the correction.
A good dozen “FOR SALE” signs popped up on neighborhood homes in the past week.
You know that. I know that. Most people here know that.
A depressingly large number of people do not know that and treat their house like an ATM.
You would be too late.
Who was it that just cashed out of Jersey a couple of months back, Drake?
Yes – although the housing market in the Carolinas is still insane right now. So we are just renting and waiting.
Yeah, but if you can wait it out. Your timing on selling was impeccable.
Which is good because the timing of our purchase in 2007 truly sucked.
Maybe they can’t move now? Although I doubt housing prices are going to drop below where they were a couple years ago.
Yeah, it’ll just likely pause.
The people who recently borrowed huge sums of money to buy a basic suburban home are going to be underwater a long time. On the other hand, if inflation continues, all that money they owe won’t be worth much.
As I get older, I have less and less sympathy for people who make unwise decisions and then expect to avoid the consequences (this also informs my position on abortion).
While selling our house a few months ago, we saw some insane offers come in. People with literally no savings living in an apartment and offering way over a half million for a house. One of them wanted us to pay their closing costs because they were so broke.
A big wave of mortgage defaults and foreclosures is coming in the next couple of years.
A big wave of mortgage defaults and foreclosures is coming in the next couple of years.
This is what I’m saving for now.
We sold our house in Carolina with a waiver of appraisal.
The offer we accepted was a 50% cash offer, so the fact that they paid way above what it would appraise at didn’t matter.
Our neighbor who sold a month before us had to accept about 10k less than the agreed offer because of the appraisal.
Let’s buy the most expensive house we can qualify for.
Yeah housing is really weird at the moment. Inventory is low. Recent buyers have sweet loans (they may have overspent on purchase price, but low rate with high inflation). There’s a lot of cash floating around with no obvious place to park it.
Park it in a strongbox, on my front porch…
Or they’ll quit paying the mortgage, get foreclosed on and take the hit to the credit. And get rewarded for it by Team Blue idiot politicians again.
Downside? You mean, like the mortgage backed securities market getting crushed, setting off another crisis like 2008 only worse this time with inflation already running hard, the employment market already fubared? How bad could it be without a single policy tool to manage the financial crisis left in the toolkit, and not an adult to be seen on economic policy generally?
Other than that, I can’t really think of anything.
I am not sure I see the downside there.
The biggest problem in 2008 was that they didn’t let all the failures fail.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’m not sure it’s going to pop, when there’s still an actual shortage of housing. Vastly reduced construction for a decade after 2008, plus demographics, has created a perfect storm. And there’s another factor I don’t see mentioned enough, the rise of Airbnb. Many homes and condos (and even rented apartments) are now being used exclusively as short term rentals, and that isn’t likely to change any time soon.
If anything, news like this about a drop in sales for new homes will make things worse. If new construction slows, that just makes the shortage of existing housing even worse.
There is a growing trend of local municipalities outlawing Airbnb-like arrangements in some residential neighborhoods.
Joe Biden makes me tired.
Joe Biden has been a corrupt liar his entire life never once adding any value to society. Dancing in the fresh blood of children to make incoherent political points is what he does.
It’s amazing how much damage he has done. Destroyed a generation of young black men with the crime bill. Championed bombing Serbia and Iraq. Everything he has done to Ukraine. Of course he’s a figurehead for even more nefarious people like Victoria Nuland who work in the background.
And the first president in a century to personally administer a beating to a black man and the only one to ever brag about it publicly.
Make that 2 centuries.
* sensible chuckle *
I wasn’t tearing up until I saw the Johnny Cash song
Johnny Cash can reduce people to tears who don’t even speak English.
Appropriate music for today.
And I don’t speak english real good
for the first time in more than 40 years, a Bush will not be serving in U.S. public office
America is a deeply propagandized nation with severe institutional rot, but we do make some right choices from time to time.
It is inevitable.
How long did the Adams, Harrison, or Roosevelt dynasties last?
I am fine with the Paul dynasty continuing.
Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, we’re free at last, from the bushes, anyway
Now, if we can just kneecap Chelsea Clinton and every last one of the Kennedy fuckers…
One of the Based Caucus, maybe Thomas Massie, should create a bill to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.
Or, they’ll hang it on some low level guy and give the standard “The great majority of agents act with integrity” bullshit.
NEEDZ MOAR TRAINING VIDEOZ
Jeremy Siegel complaining about the monthly reduction in the money supply yesterday and the risks to the broader markets. It’s an open question as to whether that is the Fed reducing it or it’s because of economic contraction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDQ5uVvxmM
But contrast that statement with this chart: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM1NS
If the markets can’t tolerate a comparatively minor reduction after the incredibly mind-blowing expansion, we’re in for some interesting times.
The mind blowing expansion appears to be, at least in part, a change in definitions in May 2020.
Even subtracting that, the rate of change from 2020 onwards is incredible.
M3 may be a better view.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S
Savings accounts were added to M1 in May 2020
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SAVINGS
coupled with the unusually high savings rate thanks to the helicopter drops and lockdowns
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
I read that the murderer had a shoot-out with two cops before entering the school. Now, the snotnoggins on Twitter are saying, “See? Good guys with guns don’t work! We need to follow the sensible policy of confiscating every privately-owned firearm!”
Where does an 18 year old get the money for this kind of hardware?
https://twitter.com/AngiesByKim1/status/1529210409248509953/photo/2
And I keep hearing about the grandmother…where is his mother & father?
I read he worked at Wendy’s.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/robb-elementary-school-gunman-salvador-ramos-bought-two-rifles-on-his-18th-birthday-texas-officials-say
Wendy’s pays enough to drop $4k+ on your 18th birthday and have a decent looking pick up?
I didn’t say it was, but if he was living with his parents, got a credit card, etc. it doesn’t sound unbelievable. Although a DailyMail article says he was bullied for being poor.
So who knows this soon about anything?
My 17 year old recently bought a mint 1991 Corvette on fast food wages/tips. It’s crazy what these “entry level” jobs are paying right now.
And we are a $7.25 minimum wage state. She makes at least $20 per hour.
It’s not a ‘Vette if it doesn’t have Cross Fire Injection and the Doug Nash 4+3 transmission.
God bless GM…
Lol
If he had a shootout with the cops prior then why didn’t they follow him in? How did he manage to off 14 kids before they stopped him?
If it’s true that a Border Patrol guy stopped him, they seem to have done nothing at all. Best to wait for the dust to clear, of course.
Also it was “a good guy with a gun” who eventually stopped the murderer.
They will tell you it was a government approved good guy with a gun, and point out that is a very important and clear distinction……
Border patrol is not government approved. Biden wants to cancel it.
In this case they will suddenly claim it is for the narrative…
It was buried deep in the AP story.
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683
This version of the article is different from the one I read earlier, though. The earlier article implied that the two officers had been shot by the murderer.
According to the headline of this article, all the people who weee killed were in one room.
This validates my opinion that in the case of a school shooting, the priority should not be to lock down and wait for your murder, but to get the fuck out in any way possible.
It’s 19 kids now.
The media may be including the shooter as one of those “kids”.
Math is hard.
Just for reference, that’s the same body count as Detroit and Chicago combined last weekend.
I eagerly await the Presidential Tour of the Midwest…
…and it’s every week end in those cities plus many randoms in between…
Society forced that poor young man into a life of crime and despair. If only he had been allowed to wear a dress and hair ribbons in the fourth grade, all this could have been avoided.
“As a nation, we have to ask, when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name, will we do what we know in our gut what needs to be done?” Biden said.
“We have to act. Don’t tell me we can’t have an impact on this carnage,” Biden added.
I guess the “gun lobby” is the climate change of political activism.
I get to see CNN in the gym(I try to ignore it, but it’s on the TV right by the dumbbell area).
What I did see was all “guns are bad, m’kay”.
Then in the car heading home, I hear about “an anguished and angry Biden”.
Next was the FDA head preparing to answer questions about a year long gap in the inspections leading to the formula shortage.
I said, “you mean preparing to obfuscate and NOT answer questions”. I could feel my blood pressure rising.
This is why I don’t listen to any news.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
The truth will get suppressed and a narrative will be spun upon lies.
If they say “gun lobby”, they can invoke seedy, fat-cat lobbyists, with bags of ill-gotten cash.
What he means is “gun owners” – i.e., around 40% of the country.
I guess I’m the gun lobby because I don’t want to be blamed for something I didn’t do, nor were any of my guns involved. I just refuse to be punished for someone else’s wrong-doing.
What sort of shitlord are you, refusing to be responsible for things you didn’t do? You’re in the same group!
Thanks for the music, Banjos. If we’re gonna have a weepy Johnny Cash day, let’s dive right in. – https://youtu.be/k9IfHDi-2EA
SP, I love you and miss you… thank you.
Border Patrol agent credited with killing the shooter
Luckily they showed up with rotten vegetables to solve the problem. What’s that? They brought guns? No matter. We need to disarm all peaceable people anyway.
Only agents of the state should have firearms…..
Jeremy Siegel complaining about the monthly reduction in the money supply yesterday and the risks to the broader markets. It’s an open question as to whether that is the Fed reducing it or it’s because of economic contraction.
Dumb panicky herd animals.
The FBI is conducting an internal investigation into the bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation, also known as Crossfire Hurricane.
Procedures were followed, etc.
“We can’t and won’t prevent every tragedy, but we know they work and have positive impact. When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down, when the law expired mass shootings tripled.'”
Bullshit.
That’s right up there with his billionaires pay an 8% tax rate – so full of shit that there will be no fertilizer shortage in this country.
Also, Virginia Tech (the deadliest school shooting), Sandy Hook, Columbine, and perhaps most school shootings (I should probably look it up to be sure) did not involve assault weapons.
Neither the most deadly schoolchildren incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
Lord have mercy, never heard of that one.
Of course you haven’t – it doesn’t support The Narrative.
I learned about it either here or at HnR.
I just learned a new word that I will immediately forget.
Here is a new word for ya:
Adminomania: A delusion that increased administrative and bureaucratic intrusions into people’s lives will actually improve something, fueled primarily by a pervasive blindness to unintended negative side effects. See Title IX.
I am having trouble finding it, but I think the deadliest mass school deaths was caused by janitor who rigged the boiler to explode back in the 1930s or 1940s.
Using a firearm to commit mass murder should be ineffective. The counter is having armed citizens that can quickly and immediately put the shooter down before he gets too far.
If firearms were banned and somehow a mass shooter couldn’t actually get one (pretend it’s a Lib fairytale world), these psychotics would just switch to fire and explosions using everyday materials that have the potential to cause death on a much greater scale without an effective counter.
The guy in Nice killed 86 and injured almost 500 with a truck.
Another good example.
That wasn’t very nice.
Ds also want to limit ownership of trucks.
That’s the one from Gustave.
There’s this also, but not directly intentional.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
I misspoke above. The Bath Massacre was the deadliest intentional incident, the New London one remains the deadliest/accidental school incident.
IIRC, until the 9/11 attacks, the largest mass murder in the US was the 1990 Happy Land Disco arson – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire
That only took $1.00 in gasoline.
It would cost $7 now.
Before that even
https://www.ebay.com/itm/393675366334
Licensing and background checks for gasoline purchases?
Joe can say “Ba Bye” to his cherished heirloom shotgun
ISTR in Japan and China, their wackos would go into elementary schools and kill children with a knife.
Local boy Barry Loukitis used a 30-30 at Frontier JHS back in ’96.
The AWB did not even ban “assault” weapons. And there was no discernable effect on crime.
Maybe I can scoop up a foreclosure next summer.
My fear is that the Fed will funnel money into Blackrock or whatnot and snap everything up as it comes on the market.
I think that if they try, OWS will seem like a minor nuisance by comparison to the reaction.
When they tell the usual idiot that has not yet figured out government never fixes any problems they are doing this so they can get rental property that they will make available at rent controlled lower rates, the morons will clap like circus seals.
There is no more dangerous revolutionary than the recently deprived. Those who never had anything tend to be grateful for scraps.
My house has gotten ridiculous according to the Zillow/Realtor estimates. Seems to be that smaller house/properties have exploded in cost. I flirted with the idea of selling and living in an apartment until the market “correction” blows over but that would come with it’s own problems (for instance, how do I find a house if massive conglomerates are buying them all up?). So I think I’ll sit it out in this house until after that even though it will reduce my return on the place and stick to the plan of eventually moving and renting it until it is paid off.
But can you stand your RV that long?
Border Patrol agent credited with killing the shooter
Were the cops out in the parking lot hiding behind their cars?
Surely you can name me one law, whether or not it would pass constitutional consideration, that would have prevented this attack.
14 children and a teacher dead.
Another shooting. And the GOP won’t do a damn thing about it.
Who the hell are we if we cannot keep our kids safe.
This is preventable. Our inaction is a choice.
We need nationwide, comprehensive, commonsense gun safety NOW.
If this comes up at work, my response is going to be a simple “No, you can’t have my guns.”
Nope, we’ll just get the same old shit they trot out every time – even when it is shown how it would not have mattered in the case at hand.
Because with all its onerous gun laws, California has no shootings, right you sanctimonious weasel trying to score political points before the blood is cold?
And you’re all about keeping children safe as you kept masking (but not for him or his party guests!) longer than almost anyone else and have various laws looming on forced mRNA vaxing of the children, you evil fuck.
Going to go take the morning walk I need to resume the habit of and not think about these things for a while.
And the answer if we did take your crap seriously would be “Then push for a Constitutional Amendment and see how it goes, asshole.”
“Why won’t the people whom I constantly and loudly blame for all of the country’s problems fix the country’s problems?”
“Why do they oppose all of my well intended, poorly reasoned efforts to write laws?”
NPR had noted scientist and phliosopher David Hogg on to say “if it saves one life, it will be worth it!”
Then later they played some local senator claiming that by not “doing something” we are implicitly “approving” of mass shooters.
Then later they played some local senator claiming that by not “doing something” we are implicitly “approving” of mass shooters.
Hmm, let’s apply this logic to gangland shootings and related spillover violence…
Well obviously America approves of our foreign policy – Americans never make the govt change it.
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Good enough to beat me
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Repeats mantra: “At least I didn’t chump…. at least I didn’t chump…”
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The Senator from Sandy Hook?
Dumbasses.
“I am here on this floor to beg — to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues,” he said. “Find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely. I understand my Republican colleagues may not agree to everything I support, but there is a common denominator we can find. There is a place where we can achieve agreement…”
Let teachers arm themselves.
He concluded: “What are we doing? Why are we here? What are we doing?”
Being a hyper-emotional, sanctimonious twat by the looks of it.
Did he literally get down on his hands and knees?
What you are doing is exploiting the mentally ill in order to strip away the rights of responsible gun owners.
*Just guessing in the particular case, but I’ll bet either the FBI or local cops knew he was nuts and it was ignored.
I thought I was a gun rights absolutist until I started imagining my obese borderline-retarded goldbricking Florida public school teachers handling a firearm in the same room as me.
Notice this never happens to homeschooled kids.
Pix or it didn’t happen.
That was the guy who said that not passing new laws meant approving of the shootings.
Sorry, but the SP news has me down. No Daily Ray of Sunshine today
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Precedent: “The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.”
Just got this email, sounds legit.
That sounds GREAT!
I hope you responded quickly so you don’t miss out.
You should probably send your full SSN just to be safe.
I’d include my financial account numbers too, just to be safe..
For a few days recently I was getting almost daily calls on my landlne wanting me to claim my prize. I was very rude, the last call was the I’d won the Publisher’s Clearing House and they needed some info. I told the guy with an Indian accent to “Shove the Prize Up His Ass: Hope I didn’t lose 7K a week for life.
You are playing this wrong Fourscore. I have had hours of entertainment by giving them incomplete information, changing the information constantly, going back and forth on what they are asking, and so forth. I love talking to telemarketers about the shit they are peddling, then telling them to give me their number cause I had to be somewhere else but promised to call them in the middle of the night to continue the conversation. One of the most entertaining calls involved spending over an hours with some dude that was trying to have me give him access to my windows box, failing miserably despite him trying to get me to let him hack it step by step (while doing nothing and telling him I had), before I blurted out that my computer ran Linux. Man, did the idiot freak out and curse something wicked before he hung up on me.
Just cut to the chase and give them your bank accounts and access credentials….
Isn’t that how all the major investment funds recruited their CEOs? Those not headed by Nigerian princes, of course.
Honestly, I’m a little surprised there wasn’t a pivot to “Need to get my funds out of Ukraine, please help!” style emails. Seems the natural con of the year.
This one was refreshingly different.
The usual racket by the Ukrainian shysters is either to tell you they hacked your camera during that chatrubate session you had with the bearded dude with tits and will post it to your family & friend’s social media accounts unless you give them $2K in Bitcoin, or that they are the IRS and you need to go buy $2k worth of gift cards and share the information with them ASAP to avoid pound-me-in-the-ass-prison.
We will seize all your assets and get an arrest warrant if you don’t respond now.
Better than the text I got
“We are a xompany that knows your house. We will speak to you if your follow this link about making offers”
Don’t mess around with the xompany.
Is that a trans-owned company?
Wut? No I am a purdy lady looking for nice man with money to date?
Shouldn’t he require your social security number as well?
Too obvious. This way some chump’s like “hey, this isn’t asking for SSN… maybe it’s OK to bite”
I was once told by someone that the spammers misspell and make the emails blatantly obvious to detect as fakes because when they do get a response they know they are dealing with a guaranteed moron.
What?
Check the darknet. It’ll all be there, plus my SSN and probably my DL number. And no telling how many of my old credit card numbers.
Now here’s some real concern trolling
Let me guess. When they invoke “democracy” they mean democrats and the crazy shit they peddle wins?
Democracy is “shit we like,” fascism is “shit we don’t like.”
https://www.thesgnl.com/2022/05/disinformation-governance-board-us-monika-richter/
Horseshit.
Even if its intentions were pure (they weren’t), it would be hijacked and twisted to nefarious ends in mere moments.
wasn’t designed to support democracy
Perhaps not Democracy. Because to you “democracy” means getting everything you want politically.
I’ll give them credit for developing a full dictionary of terms that mean nothing but sound really important. They’re nothing more than bullshit artists.
“digital-information-and-communications architecture that wasn’t designed to support democracy”
LOLWTF that even mean?
LOLWTF that even mean?
“We need more censorship”.
It means they loathe the idea that people can think for themselves and make their own decisions.
Allow me to introduce you to Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook . . . .
“…online radicalization that can lead to real-world harm…”
Like confused kids dropping into chat rooms and then deciding they should chop their genitals off?
Which is clearly why we have to ban 18 year olds from buying rifles and ban “assault” weapons.
Shooter bought the two assault rifles from a FFL on his recent 18th birthday.
Hasn’t the media been reporting he had a handgun and a rifle?
If so, it’s odds-on that wasn’t his loadout.
Somehow doesn’t seem like a Quordle day either — but I’m sure someone else would start the scores sub-thread if I didn’t, so here we are.
And today (continuing the general theme) sucked. Didn’t SDF it, but back to good ole Chumptown for me. Doing the whole ’60s computer dump just to share my gorram pain at the annoying guess pattern and that I had nothing to work with on the upper left.
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I don’t play, so maybe I don’t understand, but didn’t you use up 25 possible letters in your first 5 guesses of the upper left?
How did you not then figure out it was JJJJJ?
He used 25 letters that weren’t in that word while trying to solve others, not necessarily 25 different letters.
At most, he would have used 16 letters getting to the UR, no more than 18 on LL, no more than 21 on LR. Possibly as few as 18.
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Ugh.
Oh…
The blood of every child that dies of gun violence in this country is on the hands of the Republican Party.
I so wonder what the obsession with blaming your political enemies for the acts of people suffering from mental disorders really is about….
The party of baby murderers is standing on a pile of dead children trying to bully me into giving up my right to defend my children against child murderers.
The new talking point is pro-life people, in any capacity, cannot square with being pro-2nd Amendment.
They’re in their hearts communists. All they care about is power. I genuinely believe not a single one of them gives a shit about a single one of those children as the human reaction to this is “my God, that’s pure evil” not political talking points. They can screech all day and every day, it will make no difference as the day of trying to debate them in good faith is long dead.
I remember the outpouring of sheer glee from gun grabbers immediately after Sandy Hook happened.
Agreed
“Look, if it were possible, I would give every new fetus a gun to defend itself against abortion. Since that is not possible, laws are needed to protect the unborn.”
The problem with retail politics is you have to adopt slogans like “pro-life” and “pro-choice” to make the platform more marketable. Everyone knows, or ought to know, that those terms are just code for “anti-abortion” and “pro-abortion” respectively.
However, you should never let your enemies use your slogan against you. The left certainty doesn’t. You can’t “but I thought you were pro-choice” a leftist into supporting personal choice in matters they don’t care to allow. By the same token, the right should not define themselves too deeply as “pro-life” because that is just a ticket to having a leftist come along and convince them that if they don’t support [leftist hobby horse du jour] they’re a “hypocrite” because [circuitous link between what the leftist wants and a vague interpretation of “pro-life”].
“I see. Therefore, you cannot be against mass shootings of school children since you believe it ok to kill them in utero. i.e. killing children is *totes* cool”
Keep tossing fuel on the fire I guess.
The fun part is that that is the bog-standard opinion of 99% of the Hollywood “elite”.
Russian disinformation!!!
Are you trying to make people rush out to buy more guns?
“I don’t want to nickel and dime this. I don’t think that that is going to do it. I think we need some really drastic action here. We need a moratorium, perhaps, on gun sales. Who will say on this network or on any other network in the next few days it is time to repeal the Second Amendment? You cannot say that. Well, why not? Why not? I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way. They didn’t even know what a bullet was. It didn’t exist until the 1830s. They had any idea that there would be this kind of carnage. You have to believe that the Founders of the country would not support it. I support all gun control legislation. Not sensible gun control legislation. We don’t need the sensible stuff. We need the hard-core stuff that is going to protect ourselves and our children.”
Literally every mention on the topic by those people betrays your retarded, ill-informed opinion.
Not sure and not going to bother to look but I’m just going to guess that the bullet invention claim is BS. Also, they’re mind reading dead people now and advocating policy from it.
A bullet is a projectile launched using an explosive. Same with a musket ball. They even made cartridges back in the day that contained the requisite powder and ball to operate the firearms, which are comparable to modern cartridges in that function. So basically Michael Moore is a malicious, stupid asshole.
Yeah, cartridge is what I meant, my bad, and even that claim is apparently nonsense.
That kind of stupid burns my retinas to witness it. James Puckle patented his crew-served, crank-action flintlock in 1715. It was capable of firing round bullets, for use against Christians, or square bullets, for use against the Musselmen. I really need to avoid the tweeters today.
I really need to avoid the tweeters today.
And any other day ending in y.
FTFY
The thing is, this is exactly what they should be saying. Stop with all the end-arounds and just do what you really want to do, and push to repeal the 2A. If you have as many Americans on your sides as you think you do, it’ll be easy.
Yep. A decent rant that resurfaces on days like today…
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/08/rant-second-amendment-repeal/
I think the last thing the left wants is a movement to repeal the 2A. It will, of course fail, and in the process bring attention to the fact that our current laws are so obviously and blatantly a violation of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”.
Why give up the mostly winning approach of death by a thousand cuts? It isn’t like they are Republicans.
At what point in development do leftists start caring about the lives of children?
Fuck the GOP and their obsession with guns.
Fuck you, @tedcruz.
Fuck you, @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema.
HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE TO DIE?
To answer my own question: when it becomes politically expedient.
The left is totally powerless but also they never feel even the slightest need to treat their enemies as equal partners at the negotiating table. “Fuck you” is definitely how you start asking for things you can’t get without the other party’s cooperation.
Ah, she’s crawled out from under her rock. Wonderful…
Oh, that’s rich.
How many children have to die? Ask Chicago, which has extensive gun control laws.
We need to outlaw guns, that way the gangs that run guns in gun-control cities like Chicago can apply their skills and methods to the rest of the country. I’m sure that will make children everywhere much safer.
If we ban guns, we’ll turn into Japan (1 murder/100,000 residents/year) not Brazil (22 murders/100,000 residents/year) through the magic of being a “developed country”.
Excuse me, but who is obsessed with guns here?
Blah blah blah health care in crisis
These staffing and supply problems are all happening at a time when “our hospital capacity is running high due to folks catching up on care and other needs,” Nathan Chomilo, a pediatrician and health-care leader based in Minnesota, told me. And now, in some places, flu and other respiratory viruses that had been almost completely suppressed by widespread masking are back in force. People who were infected with COVID in past surges are returning with heart failure, diabetes, respiratory problems, and lingering symptoms of long COVID.
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Health-care workers sometimes feel as if they are living in a different world from those around them. Through the pandemic, they have wrestled with the gulf between the horrors they saw in their workplaces and the casual attitudes they beheld outside. For many, that cognitive dissonance is greater than ever. The relentless surges locked them in a two-year dystopian stasis, from which they are emerging to find that their old lives are unrecognizable. Many callers to Mona Masood’s physician support line have talked about lost friendships and imminent divorces. “We were holding back this wall, and it gave everyone a chance to keep going and get through,” Masood said. But that created a chasm between health-care workers and the rest of society—a pattern that Masood also hears among veterans returning from war. “I feel distanced from my outside-of-hospital friendships,” Marina Del Rios told me.
Dystopian horror stories are titillating.
Somehow the masks “almost completely” suppressed the flu and other respiratory viruses, but not, you know, COVID. Also, how convenient that all the “symptoms” of being a fat lazy fuck can now be attributed to “long COVID” instead.
Not just influenza, but also common food borne illnesses too. Decreased social contact and increased sanitation has effects, not always negative. Who would have guessed? Not to worry, things will return to normal where doctors and restaurant workers can’t be bothered to wash their hands.
The flu was also suppressed in places without masking.
Disclose.tv reports that people drop the fashionable virtue signaling when the prospect of freezing to death in your apartment looms.
It’s a good thing bringing a long-dormant power plant back online can happen overnight. I’m sure the people who used to work there will also have been just waiting around for years for the government to call them back.
Eh, winter is at least a few weeks away.
I can’t find 100% trustworthy data, but it looks like Germany’s electricity usage doesn’t really drop in the summer despite residential A/C being uncommon.
Between this and overturning Roe, I pray they’ll finally find the balls to secede. Let them create their communist hellscape. I’ll build an underground railroad for the future refugees.
The ones who talk about secession have no power. The ones who have power will accept nothing less than universality. Changing that is a necessary prerequisite to making secession happen.
OK, but remember to take a nice picture of yourself with a gun for when we print the money.
Going to get really confusing when you can’t buy two banjos for less than 10 banjos in the future.
I think Banjos is already taken
It’s 2022. The phrase will be Underground Hyperloop.
Is this demented, commufascist cunte threatening me?
Speaking from the Roosevelt Room of the White House Tuesday night, President Joe Biden addressed the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. An 18-year-old man stormed the school, killing 18 children and three adults.
During his remarks, Biden didn’t use the time to honor the victims and their families. Instead, he rehashed old jokes about deer wearing kevlar and ranted while reading the teleprompter.
He also claimed it was time for Congress to “do something,” but did not say what specific law would have prevented the killer from carrying out his heinous crimes. He blamed the situation on “the gun lobby.”
Deer wearing Kevlar doesn’t make sense anyway. A 30-06 will go right through it, they need at least a plate carrier.
An 18-year-old man stormed the school
Did he? I thought he was fleeing the Border Patrol and wrecked his truck there.
Que?
In the wake of the school shooting in Texas, former DHS officials turned CNN flack Juliette Kayyem demands Biden suspend immigration enforcement in the area of Uvalde “because of the political issues in Texas.”
A few minutes later, Kayyem doubles down:
“We need the federal government to say right now, everyone is essentially safe harbor right now in terms of immigration status.”
Again, she suggests it’s because of “all the politics going on in Texas right now” dealing with immigration.
Tbf it’s not like they have really been enforcing immigration laws anyway.
After Jake Tapper read a statement from Texas AG Ken Paxton about making sure there are armed defenders in schools, Kayyem first suggests he’s talking about arming the students.
She then goes on to scoff at arming teachers (which is a popular program in other states) and seemingly placing guards there.”But that’s so defensive,” she whines. “You’re just going to play defense all the time?”
What a dishonest cunte.
“We need to put out a giant ‘brown people welcome’ sign where we just had a mass shooting” would be considered racist if spoken by a Republican.
?
That whole article makes this guy seem like a known bad guy.
Also I’m still pissed that his oil tanker spilled.
Sackcloth and ashes
If tonight, Americans do turn heavenward in pain and grief for the lost children of Uvalde, Texas, they may hear the answer delivered in the Bible through the words of Isaiah:
“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”
We will learn more about the 18-year-old killer of elementary-school children: his personality, his ideology, whatever confection of hate and cruelty drove him to his horrible crime. But we already know the answer to one question: Who put the weapon of mass murder into his hand? The answer to that question is that the public policy of this country armed him.
Every other democracy makes some considerable effort to keep guns away from dangerous people, and dangerous people away from guns. For many years—and especially since the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School almost a decade ago—the United States has put more and more guns into more and more hands: 120 guns per 100 people in this country. The years of the pandemic have been the years of the greatest gun sales in U.S. history: almost 20 million guns sold in 2020; another 18.5 million sold in 2021. No surprise, those two years also witnessed a surge in gun violence: the spectacular human butchery of our recurring mass slaughters; the surge of one-on-one lethal criminality; the unceasing tragic toll of carelessness as American gun owners hurt and kill their loved ones and themselves.
Guns make people crazy. Guns cause hopelessness and despair and dread.
Not a steady grinding drumbeat of hysterical morbid panicmongering from the government and their stenographers.
I don’t remember the United States putting a gun into my hands. Did I miss another covid relief mailing?
If we can publicly finance abortions and other unenumerated rights, it seems only fair to provide vouchers to help people exercise the enumerated ones.
Fuck limited government, sign me up for my government gunz!
Government guns will be the quality of government schools.
Pot-metal pistols for everyone!
*looks at Model of 1911A1 and doesn’t comprehend*
“If you were a real Christian, you’d support gun control”
I’m not a Christian, real or otherwise.
What’s interesting is that public support for gun control has been trending down for years. Although there are sometimes spikes right after incidents like this because people want to seem sympathetic.
“Who put the weapon of mass murder into his hand? … The years of the pandemic have been the years of the greatest gun sales in U.S. history”
Since we’re into regressive causality, why stop at the access to and purchase of the guns? Seems like the author is admitting that the pandemic response played some role.
The lobbying groups and politicians who enable these killers will dominate the federal courts and state governments, as they do today, until the mighty forces of decency and kindness in American life say to the enablers:
“That’s enough! This must stop—and we will stop you.”
Democracy is all well and good, until we’re outnumbered by the people who disagree with us.
Oh, they’re banning SUV’s now?
They’d certainly like to.
until the mighty forces of decency and kindness in American life say to the enablers:
“That’s enough! This must stop—and we will stop you.”
President Puddin Cup is already on it…while demonizing anyone that disagrees. You know, with kindness and decency.
I see Steve Kerr also had his moment on this topic last night.
Look, if I know one thing . . . it’s that has been mediocre former NBA players should inform me of all my beliefs. They must be smart, they can dribble a basketball
Durham, the Disinformation Board and the 2024 Elections
I actually think this is on point.
I wonder if all of the media coverage and political screeching has any effect on the prevalence of this stuff?
/asked no one in the DemoOp Media or Camp because self-awareness is an excluding character trait
My best Quordle score yet.
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I wonder if all of the media coverage and political screeching has any effect on the prevalence of this stuff?
Social contagion.
I’ve no heart for snark this fine morning. Lost two beloved people over the last week. A Father figure and someone else that was always willing to kick me up the back-side when I got too Eeyore! Fuck cancer!
+1
“Default”
The U.S. has announced that it will not extend an exemption permitting Moscow to pay foreign debt to American investors in U.S. dollars, potentially forcing Russia into default.
Up until Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department had granted a key exemption to sanctions on Russia’s central bank that allowed it to process payments to bondholders in dollars through U.S. and international banks, on a case-by-case basis.
This had enabled Russia to meet its previous debt payment deadlines, though forced it to tap into its accumulated foreign currency reserves in order to make payments.
However, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control allowed the exemption to expire early Wednesday morning.
Russia has built up substantial foreign currency reserves in recent years and has the funds to pay, so will likely contest any declaration of default on the grounds that it attempted payment but was blocked by the tightened sanctions regime.
This seems ill-advised.
Certainly the weaponization of the international financial system will have no unwanted side-effects.
I dunno.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-freezes-japanese-assets
And nothing happened after that….
No spoilers!
And Tom and Sally lived happily ever after….
Oh, and let me move my naval assets closer to you!
December 7 is a ruse, war was declared on July 26.
HanThe U.S. shot first.Battle of the Billionaires
https://www.newspageindex.com/05/2022/24/657638
“Foundation for Freedom Online”
OFFS!!
One wonders when a sub rosa attack on a company, funded by someone with a large short position against that company, crosses the line into market manipulation.
I fear we’re going to see more unhinged people shooting people up. We have a mental health crisis in this country, mostly from the Covid nonsense and now due to economic stress. Add to that the division and anger we see all around us, spearheaded by a president who’s blaming every problem on “those people over there”, and who “won’t rest until they’re destroyed.” We desperately need to deescalate on so many fronts and yet we have the rich and powerful ramping it up in an attempt to increase their own power and wealth.
They’re just shooting the wrong people.
The states went too far institutionalizing the mentally ill in the 50’s. In the 80’s the Feds stepped in and the state hospitals were being shut down – we are way too far in the other direction now with crazy homeless camping in big cities and known nutters being ignored by authorities until they snap.
Huh. Who would have thought that a culture dominated by a nihilistic death cult would produce monsters?
The Ruskies may get to try out those hypersonic missiles on British ships.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10847419/Royal-Navy-escort-ships-carrying-Ukrainian-grain-Black-Sea.html
So much more sane than negotiating.
And apparently it’s the mining of the port by Ukraine that has everything so effed up.
https://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/Pages/MaritimeSecurityandSafetyintheBlackSeaandSeaofAzov.aspx
British warships could be sent in to protect freighters carrying crucial Ukrainian grain and break Putin’s blockade of Black Sea ports that is threatening to cause a world food crisis
I wonder what sort of food crisis WWIII is going to create.
We’re all going on keto diets shortly.
Yeah, if they are actually stupid enough to try to do that they’ll be sunk and then we’ll be riding the slippery slope to Armageddon.
Both the Stark and Samuel B. Roberts are available for ship naming. just say’n.
“This might be the greatest athletic feat I’ve ever seen”
https://twitter.com/ronnietshirts/status/1526579548699168769
FDA says senior officials didn’t receive infant formula whistleblower report due to ‘mailroom issues’
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/25/fda-whistleblower-report-infant-formula-00034999
The Top Men version of the dog ate my homework.
BTW the GMP violations here didn’t line up with the actual bacteria found. So while the concerns may or may not have been valid even if they had been addressed they likely wouldn’t have addressed the specific issue that was sickening infants. But you aren’t going to get stories like that from MSM.
An inside look at the FDA’s mailroom.
I figured the report was too big for the mail slot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDsnFUVwsfo
Oh man, I completely forgot that Blue was in that movie. It’s been nearly 30 years, I need to watch that movie again.
Oh bullshit…
It’s really hard to keep track of all the different MOGAI and their preferences/interrelationships. But I guess that “hedgehogs” are really into “bears,” but “bears” are not interested in sleeping with “hedgehogs?”
https://twitter.com/ChannelInteres/status/1527652671150346242
“Amazon is such a powerful force in online shopping that sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are alternatives to get your goods or order your groceries.
Take this quiz to find out if you’re getting the most out of your $139-a-year membership:”
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1529069770699595783
Totally non-biased reporting.
I dropped Prime. I still get free delivery but have to wait a little longer. The delay is normally somewhere between 0 and 3 days.
Same, except I’ve never had Prime.
President Biden called for changes to gun laws Tuesday
Fuck off slaver.
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, won in GOP primaries. Greene held off five challengers, advancing to the general election to try to win a second term.
Good.
Not mentioned: Sarah Stogner lost.
Stogner lost decisively.
OK, I looked and I now hate both candidates and the office they are running for.
The myth that Texas is an unregulated quasi-libertarian paradise/hellhole is surprisingly strong given the massive amounts of evidence to the contrary.
Yes. Heavily regulated, property taxes are high, etc… On the Cato freedom list Texas is mid-pack. It is frustrating.
We desperately need to deescalate on so many fronts and yet we have the rich and powerful ramping it up in an attempt to increase their own power and wealth.
You’re just not hitting it hard enough. I tell you, it’ll fit.
Democrats say Google must curb location tracking before Roe repeal
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/24/23140279/democrat-letter-google-location-data-abortion-surveillance-geofence-warrants
“We believe that abortion is health care,”
Love it
I am good with that. I hate having my location available to anyone but me regardless.
National security apparatus clanks into action against recalcitrant Dems.
That’s their reason?
Fine, whatever….
There’s that “pregnant people” again.
??
If they find just one more anti-narrative issue (like kiddie porn or a climate change screed) with the Texas psycho, the TMITE is going meltdown beyond recovery. The incoherent babbling will be epic.
Radical Post-Birth Abortion manifestos?
Democracy dies in the ballot box
Greene’s victory is a loss for Georgia, and the country. She is arguably the purest expression of Trumpism as an ideology in Congress, not to mention the strangest member of the congressional MAGA squad. In a group that includes scandal-plagued firebrands like Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Matt Gaetz of Florida, that’s saying something. She displays no real interest in or skill for governance, but she’s effective at promoting white nationalist and authoritarian ideas, and she has a gut instinct for how to use disinformation and media stunts to stay in the news. Worst of all, the Republican Party establishment seems to have accepted her extremism as the new normal within the GOP.
Greene hasn’t even completed one full term in Congress, and yet she has gotten more national media attention than many veteran lawmakers do in their entire careers. Her Trumpian tendency to use controversy — typically tied to bigotry and conspiratorial claims — is a big reason why.
Some people truly ought not to be allowed to vote, I guess.
Did they leave any insults out of that screed?
Why does this sound familiar for some reason???
“hasn’t even completed one full term in Congress, and yet she has gotten more national media attention than many veteran lawmakers do in their entire careers. Her tendency to use controversy — typically tied to bigotry and conspiratorial claims — is a big reason why.”
https://www.nickiswift.com/277787/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-most-controversial-moments/
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!
she’s effective at promoting white nationalist and authoritarian ideas
Show your work.
her extremism
relative term is relative.
typically tied to bigotry and conspiratorial claims
Show your work.
Nick Fuentes – she knows and likes him, talked at his conference! Nick Fuentes – some Catholic Latino type – you know like you’d find at any ol’ KKK gathering.
Translation: we tried to pin a bunch of bogus “scandals” on her and this time it didn’t work.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump
The continuing fetishization of Trump from the Left and the Establishment Right is one of the key indicators that it’s all one uniparty at the top. To think that the notion that down ballot GOP party insiders won in states that Trump lost was actually put forward as evidence against cheating by the elite.
Greene has provided a playbook for future hard-core Trump-wing newcomers. Stirring up maximal controversy, spreading disinformation and trafficking in white nationalist ideas can be a winning MAGA formula, especially among Republican voters plugged into right-wing media. Sure, such politicians will only undermine the legislative process and help tilt the country closer to democratic collapse — but in red districts, they will have good shots at re-election.
Getting re-elected by your constituency? That’s not DEMOCRACY! that cultural genocide.
I think the best news of today is that we can put to bed the idea that Trump is any kind of kingmaker in the GOP.
Good. Maybe he won’t run in 2024 after all.
Odd list of headlines for the short podcasts by Radio New Zealand’s Checkpoint program: there were at least two (maybe three) stories on the Texas shooting, including how the US is once again “grappling” with gun control; a story about PM Jacinda Ardern speaking with Stephen Colbert about gun control; then a story about the wave of drive-by shootings carried out by gang members in Auckland.
First the Land O Lakes chick. Now this.
The “Cherokee Indian” sat at the corner of Jefferson and Cherokee in St. Louis, MO since it was commissioned in 1985. It grew to be both a symbol of the neighborhood and area as well as a marker for directions for St. Louisans and tourists alike. That is until a group of “progressives”, decided to have it removed. Behind the move was a property magnate, not from the area, and a comic book owner, also not from the area. The store owner, intent on moving his store into the space behind the statue, called a rush meeting to have it removed while feeding the press stories that the community supported its removal – something far from the truth.
Liz of the Fauxhicans has a sad.
Relevant.
I never cease to be fascinated by how the left manages to fetishize POCs while erasing them from the public square.
Too many syllables. Colored people is easier to say and write.
| ron73440 on May 25, 2022 at 7:35 am
| I get to see CNN in the gym(I try to ignore it, but it’s on the TV right by the dumbbell area).
It’s like the jokes write themselves.
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