Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely day it always is!
Progressive San Francisco DA recalled by voters
Feds Seize Data From Retired Four Star General Who Now Works At Leftist Think Tank
Democrats Straight Up Admit The J6 Hearings Are Political Theater
Fox News Is Airing Tucker Carlson Instead of the J6 Committee
Internal Capitol Police review found sweeping intelligence, security failures on Pelosi’s watch
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Hires Milo Yiannopoulos as Unpaid Intern
Buffalo pro-life center firebombed by radical pro-abortion activists
Biden issues ‘heightened’ terrorism warning ahead of abortion ruling
Stagflation Risk Growing, Recession ‘Hard to Avoid,’ World Bank Warns
Shrinkflation: Cereal Brand Cuts Amount Per Box By 17%; Toilet Paper Brand Slashes Roll Size 24%
More than 8 in 10 Americans say the economy is ‘poor or not so good’ under Biden
Majority of Americans Say Depression Ahead
Global Food Shortages Are Beginning, Here’s What We Know So Far
Kamala Harris announces $2 billion Central America investment amid migration crisis
More Ukrainian Refugees Now Going Home Than Leaving
That’s a lot of fucking news! I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day!
Progressive San Francisco DA recalled by voters – not progressive enough. Next person needs to really double down.
And turn off the sidebars.
Turn off your mom.
hey this used to be a family friendly website !
That’s what the people seeing how they are being told to accept the sexualization of their kids these days say about the whole grooming events, Pie….
No need to be rude.
Honestly, I think it would be more rude to ask me to turn my mother on… (Insert teen girl “Ewwwwww!” here)
They really need to liquidate the kulaks and wreckers if they’re going to give San Fransiscans the city they deserve.
I am all for San Fran fucking the idiots that live there and believe in the idiocy they do even harder…
The mayor chooses his replacement. Nothing will change.
Boudin took the fall. The mayor has to get re-elected. This recall represents a sea change. There will still be bums shitting on the streets, but hopefully theft and assault will again be prosecuted.
I really hope so. I knew a lot of people who lived in and around the Bay Area. Everyone moved north and got out, never wants to go back.
I have a former coworker that grew up in the Bay Area and loved it, despite the politics. He’s a conservative Republican. He blames newcomers for shitting up the place and points out his family roots in the Bay Area go back generations.
Housing costs are what finally drove him out of the area. He and his wife have four kids. They bought a house out by Sacramento and were happy.
I lost touch with him or else I’d ask his thoughts on the current situation.
It’s time to reinstate Inspector Harold Francis Callahan.
You’d have to retrieve his “seven point suppository” and clean it up first.
Democrats Straight Up Admit The J6 Hearings Are Political Theater – “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public”
Democrats have given up on pretending they will do things or fix things in office and have gone 100% the way of PsyOpsing the idiots with made up shit. Can’t blame them when close to half the country still believes the idiotic lies they peddled for 4 plus years, and continue to peddle, ranging from “It was not Hillary Clinton & the DNC that concocted the Trump Dossier and then worked with all the unelected and weaponized bureaucratic Obama admin era crooks to undermine an elected president the machine came to despise, because we want you to believe Russia stole the rigged election of 2016 we thought for sure Hillary would skate to” to “Trump is a Nazi, racist, sexist, crazy dude, while we are all saints fighting Hitler”. This is just more of that shit.
They seem to have no idea of the risk of the downside – that there are people who will see through it. They better hope they are right.
They have contingencies to deal with those people, I am sure…
Oh fuck off, I’m talking about the great unwashed that love them some prime-time entertainment and won’t be interested in the political bullshit we immerse ourselves in.
Crying Kinsinger’s performance is sure to bring it home.
The most startling thing about this is the thought of a Marine general leading the left-as-all-get-out Brookings Institution.
Yet not surprising at all. Hackworth was right. Perfumed princes.
That’s some might fine lobbying right there. More depressing is that apparent foreign policy can be influenced within days by a mere email from an ex-colleague.
So Tillerson was going to “act without restraint” until he suddenly and inexplicably “acted with restraint”?
That’s some definitive proof right there.
These are the same people that tell you that by not auditing the last election they have proven their was no proof found there were any problems with it, right?…
I think it’s the FBI deciding they better get a prog or two in court before the midterms so they can say they’re non-political.
They’re reading the winds of change. “See, we can work for you, too!”
JFC that’s a depressing thought, and I thought I’d already fictionally plumbed the depths.
Feds Seize Data From Retired Four Star General Who Now Works At Leftist Think Tank – I thought these military types were all about honor and integrity. Go figure…
“were”
It’s not your father’s military.
whaddup doh’
Liberals seems to care way too much about a channel they don’t watch.
Channels that disagree with the NYT/WaPo editorial boards are bad for democracy.
Article says that Fox will broadcast the hearings on Fox Business. People are capable of changing the channel.
Do we really need ABC, NBC, CBS, CPB, and FOX all livecasting these hearings? Plus C-span? I’m guessing that fewer than 1% of Americans rely on broadcast only and live in markets served by only one network? Also, there is still fucking radio.
The only January 6th related hearings I think would merit that level of coverage would be ones that went into how they tracked down and arrested people for political speech, imprisoned as if they were in a gulag and treated more harshly than mass murderers. And only then if actual change / consequences came to those responsible.
I’d watch if they discussed the CP report that seems to be eluding them.
It’s disgusting that anyone other than C-SPAN is showing this crap.
I hope it backfires spectacularly. Middle America is going to bitch about missing America’s Got Talent or some shit for this propaganda.
I could give a rat’s ass what any of them air. I’ll be watching kung fu movies and drinking bourbon.
Don’t eat Cheetos while doing that. You will end up at the doctor with your ding-a-ling having turned orange…
Erm, that’s what our Pope Jimbo told me happened to him…
The trick is to eat enough cheetos and drink enough beer that your gut gets so big you can’t even see Little Orange Man Bad.
The best response you can give is: Oh, okay. I am more concerned about gas prices, infant formula, and bare shelves at the supermarket.
Bad melodrama won’t sell to the folks that watch AGT.
The propaganda has to be force down the throats of the FNC crowd too because muh-democracy.
The Biden administration issued a similar bulletin warning of increased domestic terrorism threats heading into the summer of 2021, but Tuesday’s announcement specifically claims the forthcoming “high-profile” Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling is prompting “individuals who advocate both for and against abortion” to call for violence, “including against government, religious, and reproductive healthcare personnel and facilities, as well as those with opposing ideologies.”
Is this how the boogaloo starts? Are you people sure that the current economic and geopolitical context is the right time for a civil war? maybe save it until after the impending recession?
I’ll eat my shorts if the Boogaloo starts over abortion.
well with inflation and food shortages, you may need to regardless
Hey Swiss, I found your shirt.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUF_7K5XEAImmAn.jpg
*narrows gaze*
That is *awesome*.
Great, now THAT’s stuck in my head…
(amazing shirt, though!)
Swiss secretly loves the shirt, it is the Packers fans in the background that makes him suspect the image is from Wisconsin and not Bern.
Maybe not a Boogaloo but there has apparently been a rash of arsons at pro life institutions across the country (not worthy of being mentioned on the news, though).
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-abortion-terrorists-firebomb-buffalo-pro-life-pregnancy-center/
Riots are Arson is the voice of the unheard. Until it isn’t.Ugh…strike to end after “are”.
If it starts during a depression, we’ll have to resort to cannibalism too early in the campaign, and Americans are not good eating these days.
Too marbled?
Shrinkflation: Cereal Brand Cuts Amount Per Box By 17%; Toilet Paper Brand Slashes Roll Size 24% – most cereal is garbage anyway and a bidet is better than paper
Your bidet comes with a drier? I’m not leaving with a wet backside. How expensive are Romanian bathrooms?
I use the hairdrier
Gives the hair more volume, am I right?
+1 blowout
Yours doesn’t?
The idea is that you would still use less paper in the long run.
Cereal sucks, but haven’t manufacturers been shrinking packaging for years already (in response to inflation)? Eventually they’ll just be selling individually wrapped corn flakes.
They’ll shrink down until they get to the existing single-serving size. Then sell those in bundled packs. Then introduce a larger family size to complete the cycle.
“Now available with financing!” There’s a new GMAC – General Mills Acceptance Corporation.
Kamala Harris announces $2 billion Central America investment amid migration crisis – wow the situation can be resolved so cheaply and no one thought about it now? I see presidential material in that fine woman.
Ukraine gets $60B and Central America gets a measly $2B?
Racists
Nothing racist about it, it’s all a measure of who pays a better kickback rate.
10% for the big guy.. WWBD?
10% or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Big Guy
Considering the Jan6 thing was demonstrably a false flag orchestrated by Alphabet Bois (eg, Scaffold Commander), of course they would also instruct intelligence to stand down.
Here’s the thing – the internal parts of the govt don’t communicate particularly well under the best of circumstances. So the notion that you get great communication as part of some conspiracy – that’s where the plausibility breaks down.
Majority of Americans Say Depression Ahead – I am depressed already so where does that leave me? I need to stockpile whisky
Relax, we’re already in a depression. They just can’t announce it till after the mid-terms.
Not only announce it, but pin it on the newly minted republican congress.
“As Speaker, Pelosi serves as the mayor of the U.S. Capitol, overseeing the sergeant at arms. ”
They should replace her with a cheeseburger.
You’re one of those soft on crime types who’s going to let Mayor McCheese out of prison after his scandal, aren’t you. After what he did to all those young potatos, I thought you’d be the last one to want to see him released.
Maybe the Hamburglar can steal her away, then.
** grimaces **
Replace with a ham sandwich and then indict her.
Democrats Straight Up Admit The J6 Hearings Are Political Theater
It has been since the beginning.
“With their control of Congress hanging in the balance, Democrats plan to use made-for-television moments and a carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings…to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it,” The New Times reported.
The propaganda will continue apace.
Channeling the Butthole Surfers, should have been a better insurrection and hanged all of them from the lampposts instead.
SJWednesday: For The Umpteenth Time, Science Is Not An Institution, It’s A Methodology
It’s both a cult and a dessert topping.
So no human races. Also no breeds of dogs, horses, or cows with different characteristics?
Humans share 98% of DNA with chimpanzees so don’t think of distinguishing between them.
that is exactly how we got monkeypox
What you talking about Willis?
I thought it was blood spray from monkey knife fights.
Well one thing it does tell us involves X and Y chromosomes (yes I’m aware of the rare exceptions and cases where multiple copies are inherited) but we’re supposed to ignore that information gleaned from science when determining what a woman is.
These are the same people who want to make everything about race.
???
Seconded. This requires a magnum clue bat.
The Scientific Principle was killed, skinned, and is now worn by the worst assholes you can imagine, peddling political agendas, and hoping their skinsuiting will lend their evil, politically-driven idiocy, legitimacy.
Science is a person, not a process.
I can’t tell what that person is railing against. It’s just a wall of verbal diarrhea.
By racist pseudoscience, I am referring to a collection of obsessive, fan-fictional notions that human beings can be meaningfully separated into groups with different essential characteristics on the basis of genetics. If human races are biological groupings picked out because they differ profoundly and meaningfully, then we can rank them. And if we can rank them, we have a justification for racial discrimination.
Ranking requires value judgements, which are different from science. But this is true of pretty much any scientific result.
It’s political theater, all the way down.
These political theaters need more John Wilkes Booth for my tastes.
I heard they’re letting Hinkley out. That’s a start.
The proliferation of these false notions requires all of us who are able—the scientists, citizen-scientists, and journalists who compose our scientific ecosystem—to formally dedicate themselves to their demise. We should do so not only out of a moral obligation but also, perhaps chiefly, in the name of protecting science.
To these people, SCIENCE! is nothing but religion in drag. Absolute truth, priesthood, arcane ritual, catechism and all.
IFLS IFLS IFLS
James Blish wrote that in the 1950s. I’d say he was prescient.
What does a man need to do to go to jail?
https://edwest.substack.com/p/what-does-a-man-need-to-do-to-go?s=r
“In February 2020, Uzair Bhatti and Mohammed Aseeb Ali were out celebrating a friend’s birthday in Blackburn when, in an unprovoked attack, they set upon 20-year-old Mitchell Gibbons. The two men beat their victim so badly that Gibbons was left in intensive care for weeks, fighting for his life. He had to have part of his skull removed and has ‘life-changing injuries’.
Guess how many years Bhatti and Ali will have to serve in jail for this appalling crime? Fifteen? Ten, maybe? Surely not less than that.
Answer: None. Not a single day. The judge ruled that going to prison might cost them their jobs and that he was satisfied neither was a threat to society. For putting a random stranger in intensive care and almost killing him, they will only have to carry out some unpaid work.”
“In Britain, you can get a longer prison sentence for an obnoxious tweet than for assault + grievous bodily harm.
Because it’s high-status to romanticize criminals as “victims of capitalism”, and it’s low-status to defend freedom of speech.” – K N
I was thinking it would be one of the proggy DAs in the US until I read the last paragraph.
That’s one way to bring back vigilante justice.
The State is removing its only real justification for existence.
^This. People forget that the state also protects criminals from the public. If the state doesn’t mete out justice, eventually the public will.
These political theaters need more John Wilkes Booth for my tastes.
Bring back the Grand Guignol, with real blood and gory vivisection starring real politicians.
I’m sure y’all remember from TOS the testosterone-lacking Dave Weigel? In case anyone missed it, he’s been navigating troubled waters over at WaPo. (TLDR version: he got suspended for a month because a narcissistic rich girl who also works there got mad at one of his tweets.)
Let’s not forget the best quip about Weigel, who posted a picture of himself at a shooting range holding a weapon awkwardly. P Brooks replied “it looks like someone said ‘here boy, hold this while I take a piss’.”
Funny how so many of the “libertarian” writers from TOS turn out to be proggies.
They’re a weird thing which you might call a Regime Prog. Unusually deferential to the system. According to that video (I hadn’t heard this previously) Weigel organized pro-Iraq War rallies when he was in college. This is also why I had to quit listening to the 5th Column podcast, Moynihan’s gushing praise for things like the NYT.
Welch is intolerable. The takeover of the LP by the Mises Caucus has caused him to show his true colors.
He’d rather have Bill Weld on the LP ticket than any attempt at principled opposition. Why even bother with the LP then? What’s the point other than to run a social club for NOT DEM-REP?
I think I just found what you were referring to: https://reason.com/2022/06/03/can-a-post-takeover-libertarian-party-improve-on-its-historical-run-of-2012-20/
Ok Welch, the vote total for Johnson/Weld was higher than other LP campaigns. Now, remind me of what policy victories we got as a result?
Holy fuck, he looks back on 2012-2020 as successes for the libertarian party? Those were years I was embarrassed to call myself a libertarian.
You can’t run milquetoast wannabe’s as a third party, especially when the difference between the third party and the big two is double digit percentage points.
You have to be impolite and in your face to the worst people in this country including the government and it’s agencies, the media, and the woke mob, while offering real solutions to peoples’ problems. Sorry if that means Vermin Supreme and Naked Strip Dancing Fatass are no longer the face of the party.
The fact that during a time when people were kicked out of work by executive fiat, forced to take an experimental drug, and were told not to celebrate Christmas, and the LP didn’t see it as the softball down the middle as it should have been is an absolute disgrace.
That was the Libertarian Moment (TM) don’t you recall?
From his perspective, they managed to navigate highly charged political waters without losing any of their DC friends. To them, that is a success.
Spineless assholes…
The fact that during a time when people were kicked out of work by executive fiat, forced to take an experimental drug, and were told not to celebrate Christmas, and the LP didn’t see it as the softball down the middle as it should have been is an absolute disgrace.
Supposedly, some folks at the LNC and Cato were fine with lockdowns.
Their justification was similar to Ron Bailey’s claim that vaccine mandates are libertarian. “You have a right to be free of people spreading infectious disease.”
Nothing.
Their showing in 2016 was purely a protest vote against the two main candidates. Weld was reprehensible from a liberty aspect and Johnson was a bad joke. Neither contributed a damned thing to the election.
That’s their claim to fame. They managed to capture a small minority of voters who couldn’t tolerate Trump/Clinton. What an accomplishment.
Then Jorgensen in 2020 was somehow even more milquetoast and useless.
My break with the 5th Column was 80% Welch and 20% Moynihan.
Welch was defending one of the Russia Collusion committees and blurted out “We don’t know if it is a fishing expedition until the committee finishes its investigation!” Uffda.
Welch is also the one who loves, loves, loves NATO and thinks it should be expanded until it includes everyone except Russia. Anyone still listening to the 5th Column? Any chance he has figured out that NATO expansion threats have pretty much caused the current mess?
Why doesn’t he just go join Niskanen?
No, Welch still sucks NATO cock, bigly. Somehow he is under the impression that it is always 1982 in the Iron Curtain.
Moynihan is 80% apologia for the MSM and explaining that he’s met these really horrible shitbags but they’re very nice in person. I’m sure there have been many corrupt shitbags that were nice in person. I don’t care that Bernie Sanders is personable. He is a warmed over Communist shitbag and apologist for some of the worst rulers in the last 50 years. Occasionally, Moynihan hits on an idea or references a connection or a book that is interesting. It’s fishing for nuggets with him.
I mainly subject myself to their nonsense so I can get Kmele’s take.
Sanders isn’t even a principled commie shitbag. He mouths the words, but is quite happy be a public sector parasite. Actually maybe that makes him a true commie in the Soviet mold, with his trappings of wealth and dachas.
Moynihan did a 5th Column podcast once with Tina Brown where they literally discussed how important it was to be invited to the right DC cocktail parties.
“Dave Weigel’s got marks all over his body from women touching him with ten foot poles.”
LOL
The joke that got Weigel suspended: “All women are bi, you just have to figure out whether -polar or -sexual.”
I thought that on the twitters retweets are not endorsements
You sure that is a joke though, Tonio….
There is a reason that the best jokes tend to have a real big dose of truth in them…
The obvious response is, “Why not both?”
Figuring it out is the same method – give ’em 2 margaritas and stand back and wait for it.
LOL they pulled that shit a few rounds of shrinkflation ago – I think in the 90s – when the standard can went from 16 oz. to 14 or 12.
They must have the most sophisticated coffee tech on the planet.
That, or they think we are all idiots..
Narrator: They think we’re all idiots.
And they’re right, about the vast majority, anyway. A woman in my neighborhood recently went off about a local gas station cheating her because the pump said she’d pumped a gallon into her gas can, but tHe CaN wAsN’t EvEn fUlL!!1! Someone had to explain headroom, and the importance of the numbers molded into the gas can…
I bet you she is also one of the people that if you were to ask where electricity comes from, will scrunch their face at you in disgust, and tell you smugly that it is the wall socket, of course…
At least she had a gas can. Not a plastic shopping bag or similar container.
You can really see it if you start looking at old recipes that call for a can of X. Those recipes don’t all quite work the same, since the size of the cans have changed.
Cans of tuna used to be 8 oz. At least pasta and milk are still the same.
Now tuna cans are 5 ounces. I really hate that shit, keep the portions the same, just charge me more, you assholes aren’t fooling anyone.
They tested that out and the evidence was absolute that it was fooling most people, or they wouldn’t have done it.
It’s weird that it is less expensive to produce new, smaller packaging.
Why? You retool to use less material to make the packaging and save over time. That or you just put less content in it.
You telling me the boxes that are half empty are really half full?
Yup, I encounter that all the time.
Stop & Shop burger buns are still $2.99, but the went from a 6 pack to a 4 pack.
If you used metric there would be no reduction.
I’m gonna have to rewrite all my recipes that call for 1 can of this, and 2 cans of that.
I actually started doing some of that a few years ago on recipes that were handed down by one of my Grandmas.
For example, the holiday Chex mix would call for “2 boxes, 1 box”, etc., and I realized even then that “1 box” of Cheerios isn’t 22oz anymore.
It throws off all the family recipes. 🙁
Do we really need ABC, NBC, CBS, CPB, and FOX all livecasting these hearings? Plus C-span? I’m guessing that fewer than 1% of Americans rely on broadcast only and live in markets served by only one network? Also, there is still fucking radio.
Did the Cubans allow (competing) song and dance shows to be broadcast when el supremo Castro was addressing the nation? You will listen, and listen good.
Viewing should be mandatory.
/goes to hunt for scene from Max Headroom showing an illegal off switch
Did a quick search which led me to find that non-dimmable light switches are verbotten in Califuckistan.
I couldn’t find a video of the scene, but I found the exact quote.
+1 Lidlocks on my glazzies
Let me up. I’m going to be sick. Get something for me to be sick in!
It’s just part of the treatment.
Do we really need further proof that the major media are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC?
Collusion between the media and the DNC? Horsefeathers.
If I was on the committee, I would offer up Simon Cowell style critiques of the testimony with my allotted time. “Sorry, sir, but in spite of my colleagues’ attempts to make you seem like some kind of revolutionary, I’m just not feeling it. It’s a no for me. You will not be moving on to Leavenworth. Do come back and audition again next season.”
Forget the two-minute hate, how about the eight-hour hate?
“Some men have begun identifying as women after being arrested for heinous crimes, but corporate media outlets often refer to them as “women” even if they only adopted their female identity after arrest.”
Well, that’s obviously bullshit.
“This routine misgendering has led to headlines that portray biologically male criminals as women, obscuring an important component of the story: that the crime was in fact committed by a biological man. In many cases, these criminals take advantage of policies that allow males to be housed in women’s prisons if they simply identify as women, even without undergoing medical sex change procedures.”
Basing on that they just say they identify as women is a stupid policy, but no amount of transitioning or “undergoing medical sex change procedures” can change biological sex either.
Nobody could have seen this coming.
England fans in Germany arrested for ‘making Nazi salutes’
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1534187531880869889
Soccer makes people Nazis!
*football makes people Nazis!
both do
Nazis make people sock’er!
As long as RTL Nitro keeps airing Ein Käfig voller Helden every weeknight.
I hate the “Here’s what we know so far” formulation.
The truth is that more often than not what they mean is “This is wat we want to influence you to believe happened”…
And fuck Gmail’s POP servers for being down for 24 hours now.
Google must be letting the NSA backup all their content so they can use your emails to go after white supremacists…
Story time
Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered impassioned and at-times emotional remarks at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control.
McConaughey, a Uvalde native, said he and his wife, Camila Alves, spent most of the past week with the families of those who were killed in his hometown. He showed pictures of their artwork and brought to the briefing room green Converse shoes like the ones that one girl wore every day that were used to identify her body after the shooting. She had drawn a heart on one of the shoes.
He said he needed to tell their stories to show how action needed to be taken to honor the lives of the 19 children and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School last month.
I hope he was wearing a spangly evening gown and stiletto heels.
Fuck off, dipshit, the action of a violent lunatic doesn’t justify violating the rights of law-abiding citizens.
They do have a point. If we use their logic, we should have disarmed the government a long time ago.
Almost literally waving the bloody shirt there….
great minds think alike
When I looked on TV…and saw the news….I just got in my Lincoln…took a ride…something special about it…. just smooths out my soul….let’s my problems drift away…..
I was against school shootings before I was paid to be against school shootings.
*golf clap
and urging more action on gun control.
That’s not alright (alright alright) with me.
The McDonalds in Marana AZ got rid of human cashiers — your only option is the self-serve kiosk. Giant step backwards for our society. Takes like 20minutes to order $57 of food (a quarter pounder, burger not meal, is $6.50 in Joe Biden’s economy!). Bring back the humans
https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1533948876935139328
I don’t really mind the self service stuff.
And even longer when they use a human cashier and there’s people behind them with cash out waiting to purchase a single meal.
McDonald’s sucks.
I only eat bacon eggs mcmuffins there, occasionally, at breakfast
“a quarter pounder, burger not meal, is $6.50 in Joe Biden’s economy!”
Yikes! Is that true?
The problem with self-service kiosks are (apparently) people like Masters who don’t know how to do anything on their own. Otherwise they are great.
Can you order a Mc10:35 on the robot?
McConaughey said, “Due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an AR-15 rifle, most of the bodies so mutilated that only DNA test or green Converse could identify them. Many children were left not only dead but hollow. So, yes, counselors are going to be needed in Uvalde for a long time.”
“We got to take a sober, humble, and honest look in the mirror and rebrand ourselves based on what we truly value. What we truly value. We got to get some real courage and honor our immortal obligations instead of our party affiliations,” McConaughey said.
He continued, “Enough with the counterpunching. Enough of the invalidation of the other side. Let’s come to the common table that represents the American people. Find a middle ground, the place where most of us Americans live anyway. Especially on this issue. Because I promise you, America, you and me, we are not as divided as we are being told we are.”
Now hold your breath until you turn blue.
Now do shotguns at close range.
Or any other rifle cartridge.
Do .223 into gel first for comparison.
Fuck off, shitstain. And go fuck yourself for using those dead children as a backdrop for your grandstanding ignorance.
This “come to the table, find middle ground” bullshit is sickening. The 2nd amendment crowd has “compromised” many, many times over, yet the gun grabbers always want more.
Fuck you, “shall not be infringed” means what it fucking says.
I just want to know why this one new law will work when ALL of the existing ones didn’t. What fucking magic is that?
Exactly. Someone should ask exactly how (whatever proposed new law) would have prevented the nut from EVER getting a gun somehow and committing said crime.
Oh, we made him wait 3 years. OK, then he just does it at age 21 instead of 18. You didn’t prevent it, you just delayed it.
The dumbest part for Uvalde in particular is the killer had 5 grand, right? He’s on the border. Would it really be hard for him to have bought one off some cartel thug? Dude was in it to die, i don’t think risk was deterring him anyway
Progressives see any and all concessions as a sign of weakness and an opportunity to gain cultural momentum. They can’t be compromised with, because they don’t believe in it themselves.
I tried to get this through to my wife. She’s thinks the right is making a mistake by not grabbing some common ground. She thinks the left is winning over hearts and minds by trumpeting the fear.
I pointed out how all of the “reasonable” middle ground wouldn’t have done a damn thing to stop any of the shootings, and it finally sorta clicked for her. The gun lobby NEEDS to emphasize that guns aren’t a totem. Making them a pain in the ass to own reduces the number of lawful people who are proficient and armed. It doesn’t deter Johnny Psych-meds from jumping through hoops to get his Columbine moment.
The one true statement in his bloviating.
Occupy Democrats are circulating a shoddy little meme by someone named Andrew Wortman who claims none of the Uvalde victims are having open-casket funerals because they are all to mutilated for that. Nope, at least one little girl is being buried OC in a tiara.
Disclaimer: Even though I come from OC people, I find the practice horrible.
My wife’s family is OC. Mine doesn’t even do funerals.
I make it a point not to go to funerals out of spite, cause these people will not be attending my funeral anyway…
When I pass I want dynamite glued all over my body, and I want to be detonated in a circus like environment.
I want to be cut into chunks and mailed to people that I disliked in life.
I like that too. Who gets your poop filled colon?
Ah, the Richard the Lionheart.
Due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an AR-15 rifle, most of the bodies so mutilated that only DNA test or green Converse could identify them.
This false talking point will not go away.
Find a middle ground
Adhere to the Constitution as written.
we are not as divided as we are being told we are
I think we are.
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I didn’t like the squaredle game linked there.
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Miss Villa i Pini 2021 -Malo VI.
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Thanks all for the comments on the QB article on monday! Sorry I wasn’t around to comment. To answer a few questions:
Wordle word list – I’ve been using the wordle list with QB for a couple weeks now and haven’t encountered any solution that wasn’t in the list. With the UMichigan list, I’d occasionally have to add a word.
Randomization – I added a simple randomizer to the word selection so it doesn’t just select the #1 from the impact list. Now it pulls from the top X (I think I have it set to 5) and does a random select on those. I want to try weighting that selection eventually.
Undeclared constants – yeah, it’s pretty bad! I was rushing through some parts and didn’t bother to code with the reader in mind.
Learning – QB doesn’t learn from prior runs. I’d love to experiment with some sort of reinforcement learning as a comparison to the rote logic branching I’m doing now, but that’ll have to wait.
Undeclared constants – yeah, it’s pretty bad! I was rushing through some parts and didn’t bother to code with the reader in mind.
No problem, this is why the Lord gave us IDEs like PyCharm. You should see some of the code our “professionals” churn out.
I do not like bare constants in code.
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Arrrgh! After getting UL, I decided to not use the third seed word and tried to go for a guess that could be right and still give useful info. But the worst case scenario happened and one word still had 5 options, and it still took another guess to pin it down. My worst of the week.
I don’t see Gross’ score yet, but it’s not looking good. *hangs head*
Shit, he posted last night, and got a 22. Good going, Gross, hope to see you after the next round of eliminations.
Stupid game
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That CARET is still a good seed word.
Jes’ sayin’
SJWednesday: Look At Me Edition
First, I had understood in the comments of these very post that all chicks are bi
bi folks are often judged according to the gender of their current partner. Because she’s in a relationship with a cisgender, heterosexual man, others often assume that she’s straight. – who gives a shit what someone who presumably does not really know you thinks? Seriously, if people think you are straight what difference doers it make besides loosing oppression brownie points.
There’s no joy or meaning in life unless you can control others’ thoughts.
Seriously, that’s how these people think.
First, I had understood in the comments of these very post that all chicks are bi
polar and/or sexual as I’ve read
besides loosing oppression brownie points
*GASPS*
How can you possibly be so cruel? OBP [which I am totally stealing] are EVERYTHING!
U down with OBP?
If we can reduce intersectionality to money ball, yes.
“A band is going to play, people are going to be like ‘Go Charmee, you’re out!’” she says.
Did you forget to hire a band?
Oh, fuck off. I think we do need a “Great Reset”, just not the one they think.
“Bisexual erasure intertwines with racism, ableism, transphobia, and other forms of marginalization to harm bi folks in all our intersecting identities.”
Hey, she left out capitalism, colonialism, and homophobia!
the tendency of both straight and queer communities to overlook, ignore,
and perpetuate negative stereotypes aboutpeople who are attracted to more than one genderLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKK ATTTTTTTTTTT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’MMMMMMMMM SPEEEEESHULLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!
Fuck off, attention whore.
There’s a solution to that…
Sleep around more?
I was going to go with leave your bedroom at home and keep your private life private, but that works too.
I would say that Charmee needs some therapy for those huge throbbing self-esteem issues, but therapy is probably what created them in the first place.
That’s partly due to bisexual erasure
The transtrenders have really ruined it for all the other alphabet people.
Attention whoring is a zero-sum game.
Oh, the humanity!!!
Because she’s in a relationship with a cisgender, heterosexual man, others often assume that she’s
straightmonogamous.heaven forbid!
“I don’t want special treatment from anyone, I just want the same opportunities as my fellow female athletes”
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges answers criticism from those who say she shouldn’t be competing in women’s events
https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1534204596276666368
What is the key word in there I wonder
The loons demand your respect.
Pearls were clutched
Voters in two of the most liberal cities in America sent a clear message to the Democratic Party on Tuesday: they want their leaders to refocus on the most basic functions of government by ensuring their safety, protecting their quality of life and restoring order.
For months now, voters in San Francisco and Los Angeles have voiced their concerns that daily life in their cities appears to be spiraling out of control. Residents in San Francisco have been contending with a rise in burglaries and car thefts, as well an alarming spate of hate crimes directed against Asian Americans. Los Angeles residents have witnessed a sharp increase in violent crime, while city leaders have been grappling with a homelessness crisis that has led to the proliferation of tents and trash across parks, sidewalks and public spaces, while exposing an untreated mental health emergency on their streets.
It’s almost as if support for “police reform” and “social justice” as espoused by the progressive fringe of the Democratic Party is a mile wide and 3/8 of an inch deep among the voting base.
It’s different when the hobo jungle is in your neighborhood and the bums are shitting on your sidewalk. And you’re afraid to let your little girl ride her bicycle in the street.
a mile wide and 3/8 of an inch deep
I recall measuring the depth of an oil film over water in high school physics.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Wow. That’s fantastic.
Thanks as always, Holiness.
Dyson Is Secretly Building Robots to Perform Your Most Dreaded Household Chores
Going a step beyond the vacuum, Dyson wants to give your household tasks a robotic helping hand.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a40155186/dyson-household-chore-robots
Imagine a robot picking up toys strewn about your home. Or maybe a robot bleaching the kitchen counter after it meticulously washes your dishes and places them in your drying rack. That’s the vision of the future that Dyson hopes to make a reality with an engineering push that welcomes robots into our homes to complete arduous, repetitive household tasks. That could make your least favorite chores a thing of the past.
dishes, laundry and cat box are my top three
You can already buy a robotic cat box. https://smile.amazon.com/Litter-Robot-Core-Bundle-Whisker-Beige/dp/B09L5C718D/
I’m trying to save him $50.
https://www.litter-robot.com/litter-robot-4.html
only $650 for a little robot.
I would insist on Roboto doing the dishes before cleaning the cat box. I’m sure it would sanitize itself, but still.
It’s not flying cars, but it’s a step in the right direction.
“Welcome Gotham to the future!”
Hmm… wouldn’t mind a robot that does kitchen work, clears the table and cleans kitchen. But my kid needs to learn to pick her sh*t up without robots.
“Queens man, 51, charged with murder of Chinese food delivery driver ‘after argument with staff over duck sauce’ was a hoarder whose refrigerator was filled with the condiment”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10895095/Queens-duck-sauce-killer-OBSESSED-Chinese-food-condiment.html
Skinflint SOB holding out on the duck sauce? Dude deserved it.
You can have it. It’s not worth fighting over.
Perp found out it wasn’t made from real ducks?
How would you write the obituary for this poor fella?
It is a monstrous crime but those protesters can fuck right off their “hate crime” BS.
Exactly convict him of murder.
And, of course, the myriad of NYC and NYS gun laws he broke, but didn’t magically prevent him from killing the guy.
“Kristen Stewart announces she is partnering to create the ‘most gayest, most fun-est’ ghost hunting series ever made”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10894613/Kristen-Stewart-announces-partnering-create-gayest-fun-est-ghost-show.html
How do you make a haunted house more lesbian if the ghost already moved in with you?
Domestic violence?
Meat beatings?
I bet the lesbian ghost hunters destroy the spirits by scissoring their sheets into ribbons.
Yeah, the ghost U-Haul has probably already moved on.
I think I read this story on Literotica…
That’s partly due to bisexual erasure, the tendency of both straight and queer communities to overlook, ignore, and perpetuate negative stereotypes about people who are attracted to more than one gender.
“Pick a lane, you’re confusing me!”
That’s the point.
*sigh*
People were running around unable to figure out why something usually reliable wasn’t working. Issue finally gets brought to my attention. Take one look at it and go “The problem is with NFS on [Server].” Things are back up five minutes later.
One chalk ‘X’: $1
Knowing where to draw it: Priceless
aaaaaand now you just reinforced that you’re the only one that can solve problems, so they’ll all come to you. Congrats! 😛
It just leaves them more in a pinch when I bail.
Ask for more $$$.
On today’s episode of “Things I never thought I’d see”:
Harry Potter playing Weird Al.
I need to watch that. Is it out yet? I saw the trailer on Roku.
Dyson Is Secretly Building Robots to Perform Your Most Dreaded Household Chores
[utterly predictable juvenile allusion redacted]
My brotha from anotha motha…
My Boogaloo prediction for about a year now has been that it will ultimately be the west coast that secedes. In 2020, Democrats held a War Game that ended with the west coast seceding if Trump won. Between Roe, the SCOTUS gun decisions ready to be released, getting their collective taints kicked-in in November, and losing the presidency, I very much think it’ll happen.
If you are a betting woman, I will wager that it won’t. Pick the terms.
I’m not the betting type, more of a happily to admit I was wrong type.
Well, Bye.
I don’t think a secession is in the works.
The loud leftists running things want nothing less than to rule everything. They won’t accept a rump state, and the more grasping they get, the more of the ambivalent, squishy center that wuld otherwise tolerate their madness gets driven away from them. Civil war is possible, but not territorial division, as their strongholds are not as strong as they would like, and far from contiguous.
Consider how well they managed Seattle’s CHAZ.
“The local warlords will now have direct control over their Autonomous Zones.”
“But what of the food supplies, how will the warlords maintain control.”
“Fear will keep the local populations in line-”
“It hasn’t so far.”
“Remove this defeatist unbeliever.”
I dunno. All three coastal states are really split: WA and OR east-to-west (pretty much straight down the Cascades), and CA north-to-south.
If it’s the progs that want to secede so they can prog harder, they’d really have to carve away the less proggy sides of the states, as they get their way already.
Same with the inverse, but in order to lower the proportion of progs.
Split CA right down I-5, it’s even a narrower split than OR/WA.
TrumpLand and the Clinton Archipelago
There are no states where progressives control the land. They only control the cities.
The only solution is to build walls around the cities and then starve them.
Here in WA that’s really clear, as it’s about 3 counties that control the state from a Congressional and Gubernatorial perspective.
But the vast majority of the land area of the state isn’t nearly as proggy.
Same further south. Its not really even a true east-west divide. Even in the Portland metro area, one of the counties is purple to reddish.
True. As Kinnath alludes to above, it seems to correlate almost perfectly with population density.
It’s one of the things that entertains me about Ohio. Here, the bigger cities (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati) are all heavy D strongholds, most of the mid sized cities (Akron, Toledo, Dayton, etc) are as well. However… they don’t have the votes or the power to control the state. So my local news (heavy D) will constantly complain about how the state is forcing the cities into some terrible freedom that they aren’t prepared for. As an example, Ohio has a bill pending to allow teachers with a CCL and who pass 24 hours of training (instead of 800 hours) to have the option to carry a gun on school grounds. Two local headlines:
There’s similar complaints about the shift to constitutional carry, and how the cities are going to suffer because of it.
There is an active secession movement in Northern California that seeks to form a new state. If you travel to the north of the state you will see many many signs, stickers, and flags supporting it. That has far more chance of success, although I would still say it is highly unlikely to happen. If it somehow did I would be buying property there in a second as it would likely be one of the most, if not most, liberty friendly states in the country.
Shikha is that you?
I thought H1-Bs were limited in time, and you would have to get a green card to stay beyond the term, which would solve this ‘problem’, no?
I propose we expand the program to 0 visas issued.
Healthy young people are dying suddenly and unexpectedly from a mysterious syndrome – as doctors seek answers through a new national register
I wonder what has changed from 3 years ago?
It’s because they haven’t vaccinated enough.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-06-08-22/index.html
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48.7% of people over the age of 12 have been fully vaccinated and received at least one booster dose in the US.
I’m slightly surprised and optimistic.
It’s heartening to me to see the falloff of Initial Shot only, to 1 booster, to 2, etc.
People are lazy – myself included – so that can account for some of it, but I think that more people have realized that these shots aren’t doing what we’re told they do, and have stopped chasing the next boost.
When you comply and get it anyway, you might start asking some questions.
Vaccines are by far the most powerful tool available against the coronavirus, protecting people from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and dying from the virus.
Pretty much none of that is true, or is at the very least lacking in evidence. Drake’s link helps to explain why they are so desperate to get everyone vaxxed, so they can eliminate the control group and shield the “vaccines” from potential scrutiny for these “mysterious illnesses”.
Vaccines are by far the most powerful tool available against the coronavirus
Miss/Dis-information.
We do have a problem with vaccine uptake that is very serious in the United States
Fuck off.
Agreed. They can fuck right off. I suggest the Top Men take all the shots for me. And for everyone else. Take 200 of them if it is so great.
I know of at least one otherwise healthy 26 year old who just died in their sleep this year.
COMPLY SERFS!
Hopefully these morons will learn that even the gatekeepers will be bitchslapped about the neck, chest, and head if it suits the masters…
Who am I kidding?
Today’s mood – https://youtu.be/Sl37BfzrGeg
May I suggest a change of pace? (lyrics NSFW)
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Hires Milo Yiannopoulos as Unpaid Intern
They see me trollin’, they hatin’…
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a pro-life center in Buffalo, New York, was firebombed by activists allegedly aligned with the radical pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge.
CompassCare said that the windows leading into their reception room and nurses’ office were smashed, and fires were lit inside. Firefighters and officers responded early in the morning to smoke emanating from the building.
These aren’t the
droidsdomestic extremists you’re looking for.DOJ: that’s clearly just a local issue, no need for us to be involved/interested.
Late addition to the RC Dean post on the economics of hospitals – everyone involved in the healthcare arena makes good money – the doctors, nurses, overpaid lawyers (kidding, sorta), medical device manufacturers, pharma companies, insurance companies – but the nexus where they all intersect – the hospital – rarely does.
OTOH, every hospital I drive by is perpetually adding new buildings so if they can afford to keep expanding their facilities they must have some cash on hand…
Clearly those new expansions are from loans, grants, and bequests.
More seriously, every hospital that doesn’t go out of business continually expands like a tumor, resulting in a convoluted, labyrinthine interiors.
In Evansville, the clinic were my daughter had her feeding therapy looked like a separate building from the main hospital. But they were connected, you had to walk thru a basement that was mostly utility rooms and storage. And there weren’t clear directions on how to do it.
Keep the scam alive
“I think what took everyone by surprise, including the White House, was how quickly the industry came to a screeching halt,” Abigail Ross Hopper, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, told CNN. Data from SEIA showed 318 solar projects were delayed or cancelled in the last two months, which would have supported between 50,000-100,000 jobs.
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While much of the solar industry felt the effect of the Commerce tariff probe almost immediately, it flew under the radar for a while, initially not getting much attention from the White House.
“It took a little bit longer to sink in than I had expected it would take,” one industry source familiar with the discussions said.
Hershman said Granholm was “supportive and understood the issues early on.” And clean energy trade associations communicated their concerns early to Biden’s White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and US Climate Envoy John Kerry. But the administration response sped up when top White House officials including Klain and Ricchetti got involved.
“When it got to the level of where Ron Klain and Steve Ricchetti fully understood the scale of the economics and the job implications, quickly the conversation turned at all levels to what would a constructive way out of this economic situation look like,” a source familiar with the discussions said.
Ultimately, Ross Hopper said arguments about job losses were particularly persuasive with the White House, but administration officials were also concerned about less solar being deployed, affecting the reliability of the electricity grid and energy security during Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.
If an industry collapses as soon as the government stops propping it up, maybe we should let it die.
A 100k jobs? Pull the other one.
Compare and contrast:
“Green” energy
Not “green” energy
Have they figured out a way to recycle or dispose of solar panels in an ecologically responsible way?
Bury them under the windmill parts.
https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1534512818904522753
OFFS!!
Stagflation Risk Growing, Recession ‘Hard to Avoid,’ World Bank Warns
C’mon, man. This is the best recovery in American history.
*whispers* And it’s because we are building back – uh – you know the thing.
Toilet Paper Brand Slashes Roll Size 24%
Toilet paper math.
What I noticed about the TP change was that at some point after I started saving empty tubes to use as yarn spools, the tubes themselves got shorter.
I hadn’t considered that dimension.
Fat-handed people hardest hit.
Majority of Americans Say Depression Ahead
Stock up on Prozac. Oh, you meant – never mind.
German supermarket chain Rewe reportedly set up notes Tuesday warning customers that they are only allowed to purchase one “critical” product as supply chain problems hit the European continent.
I thsink vee all know (((who))) is responsible.
What the hell is a “critical” item?
There are no states where progressives control the land. They only control the cities.
That’s because progressives are smart. Cities are where the best shopping is.
“These, we think, are pretty sizable direct investments in economies the size of the three countries in question, and they will be responsible for creating tens of thousands of jobs,” a senior administration official said in a call with reporters Monday evening.
And jobs will be created. Good jobs. And people will have these jobs. They will work at these jobs.
Another unprecedented event.
l0b0t – I saw the post about what is going on with your ex after I got back from the gym. Sorry. You’ll be in a better place soon.
San Francisco voted to recall Boudin with 61%, compared to 39% who wanted him to stay as the district attorney, according to results at the time the Associated Press called the race.
Those are pretty lopsided numbers by San Francisco standards.
🙂
“With their control of Congress hanging in the balance, Democrats plan to use made-for-television moments and a carefully choreographed rollout of revelations over the course of six hearings…to persuade voters that the coming midterm elections are a chance to hold Republicans accountable for it,” The New Times reported.
I think this won’t turn out the way the Democrats think. But having said that, I’m not certain the Republican Wave will be as big as some think.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a “heightened” terrorism advisory ahead of the Supreme Court’s expected reversal of the nation’s landmark abortion rights ruling.
So, more glow ops?
They are expecting pro-life people to riot because they’re so happy about the decision. I wish I were joking about that.
Ummmm…
*retreats to hermitage to avoid catching whatever virus causes that particular type of stupid*
Hey! Open-link-in-a-new-tab is back!
Thanks, O Wizards of teh Intertoobz.
*sacrifices skwerl on makeshift altar*
Don’t know if you saw my question yesterday, Brooks, but did you find a place in ID like you hoped? If you detailed that, sorry I missed it.
NPR had an interview with a Capitol Cop that had been injured in the Worst Insurrection Attack on the People’s Temple of Democracy since the War of 1812. It was a fairly long interview, and it was uncanny– the guy literally said nothing original. And I don’t just mean idea-wise. Each phrase he uttered was a repetition of a news meme.
The Capitol Police work for Pelosi and McConnell. They’re going to parrot the uni-party line.
Really Pelosi – there is no Senate Majority Leader.
Interesting read: Rethinking the Second Amendment
You might want to sweep up those narcotics between your ankles.
Naomi’s point was that she was rethinking gun control and thought everyone should get trained on gun usage and that she had become a gun owner. It’s not what you think. Because she spent too much time in college she buries her point under 100 pounds of sludgy verbal diarrhea. But she does get there.
Yup. Certified red-pilled.
“As the greatest danger is that of disunion of the States, it is necessary to guard agst. it by sufficient powers to the Common Govt. and as the greatest danger to liberty is from large standing armies, it is best to prevent them, by an effectual provision for a good Militia” – Madison
The power to rein in or overthrow the federal government was the entire point.
She still has a ways to go, but that was heartening to read.
Don’t know if you saw my question yesterday, Brooks, but did you find a place in ID like you hoped? If you detailed that, sorry I missed it.
Yes. I closed on a place Monday. Finally. It’s hardly the home of my dreams, but it will do for now. A “Manufactured Home” with a decent sized quonset metal arch shop, on an acre outside of Pocatello. It’s mostly surrounded by horse and cow pasture.
It needs work, to put it mildly (like every square inch of carpet is going to get ripped up ASAP), but I am a man of simple needs.
Well, congrats! Really happy for you, I know it’s been a search.
I’ve spent much more time in northern ID, so can’t speak to your area (only been there a few times).
Manufactureds can be just fine – lived in a few of them, liked them alright. And, at least the work you’ll put in will be for you and not a landlord!
it was uncanny– the guy literally said nothing original. And I don’t just mean idea-wise. Each phrase he uttered was a repetition of a news meme.
“He talks! Just pull the string.”
[insert ’60s Chatty Cathy doll advert]
Who wants to tell him?
Chilean President speaking to high schoolers in Ottawa alongside PM Trudeau:
“feel always compelled to question authority… we need rebel people”
Lol, well everyone behind him is masked up.
the right kind of rebel that is, not the wrong kind
We need to rebel against independent thoughts and threats to our democracy.
He knows his audience. High school kids are great at rebelling by dressing and acting like everyone else.
“feel always compelled to question authority… we need rebel people”
The single most important question? Am I OBEY-ing hard enough?
It’s the damnedest thing – every time I put on these glasses…
They are expecting pro-life people to riot because they’re so happy about the decision. I wish I were joking about that.
Anti-freedom religious zealots are going to round up all the harlots and shave their heads and parade them naked through the streets, because that is the obvious logical outcome of the slightest tampering with Roe.
“Look at how differently California and New York governments treat tobacco and fentanyl.
Cigarettes: “Care if I die?” & “Quit Today”
Fentanyl: “Do it with friends” & “Don’t be ashamed you are using, be empowered that you are using safely.””
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1533237449870020608
Sad he still finished in 3rd behind an NPC republican and fucking Newsom.
What’s the purpose of this? My tinfoil hat says that they’re trying to get people utterly dependent on gov’t, or trying to get things to a point where they have justification for martial law or something.
But I don’t think that’s necessarily the case (although the consequences may be indistinguishable) . Maybe these folks really don’t see the connection or disparity? Maybe it’s a lack of awareness?
I dunno, but it boggles me how this happens, and there’s a part of me that wants to assign intent.
Most fentanyl made in China and imported across the Mexican border.
Reverse opium war?
Sorry if I wasn’t clear, but I was commenting on the disparity in messaging from the gov’t. Why is one addictive substance vilified, and one essentially encouraged?
And they’re *still* threatening to ban vaping. I can’t think of a better way to prop up sagging cig taxes.
Assholes, the lot of them.
I love the commercials with the “What drug is worth betraying your friends over?!” and it’s about vaping… I’m not a smoker, but pretty sure that people aren’t stripping copper wiring out of homes to feed their nicotine habit.
“That’s metal. In UR LUNGZ” ugh
No, it’s not. They’re flat-out lying. Shocking, I know.
Wonder who read the riot act to the CDC?
CDC Shifts Monkeypox Mask Guidance After Criticism
https://www.wsj.com/articles/monkeypox-case-counts-rise-as-authorities-step-up-response-11654625438?st=ajnwj1blanprnu6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Didn’t matter, news stories ran with their initial recommendation and from what I can tell, no edits/corrections made. Story is out…mask up.
“according to the FBI, in 2020 there were 27 instances where the race of a perpetrator in an anti-transgender hate crime was identified in DC. in none of those instances was the perpetrator a white person. in 10 years, only two perpetrators were identified as white”
https://twitter.com/SaysSimonson/status/1534210599554539521
But you know, transphobia is racist, somehow.
That Andy Ngo guy crunched the numbers a while back and IIRC, in no case was it a so-called “hate crime”.
It was always either a domestic dispute or a drug deal gone bad.
“SCOOP: The Jan. 6 committee is privately split over what actions to take after the public hearings.
Some members want big changes on voting rights — and even to abolish the Electoral College — while others are resisting those sweeping proposals.”
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1533547730798247936
Wait…the the Jan 6 committee is a legislative committee now?
Le Shock, they’re all about making sure TEAM maintains power going forward. Who could ever have forseen it.
Get that Constitutional Convention fired up. Make it a twofer and get rid of the 2A at the same time.
Constitutional Convention? That is a relic written by a quill pen and white slave owners. We just bog all those rights down through the bureaucracy now.
So The Atlantic has come around on living with COVID. But they can’t stray too far from the orthodoxy. I can’t understand a thing in this paragraph.
It’s true that SARS-CoV-2 hospitalizes and kills a smaller percentage of kids than adults. But that small percentage has ballooned into catastrophically large absolute numbers. Experts have also dismissed the notion of stacking childrens’ stats against adults’. The more apt comparison, rather, weighs the life unimmunized kids could be leading if they were vaccinated. The availability of immunizations has turned COVID-19, especially in its severest forms, into a vaccine-preventable disease; that alone, experts told me, makes the shots worth taking.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/06/kids-under-5-covid-vaccine-fda-authorization/661200/
Guess what crazy people; the only kids not living normal, unimmunized lives are yours.
The more apt comparison, rather, weighs the life unimmunized kids could be leading if they were vaccinated
Amazing. Our kids are essentially unaware about Covid. They don’t wear masks, play with friends, attend large parties, and enjoy activities like martial arts class. They haven’t been vaccinated and never will be. It is pure mental sickness in the parents that would prevent their kids from leading a carefree kid life.
All of them had Covid. We wouldn’t have even known except they had very slightly elevated temperatures, I don’t even know I’d call it a fever, when the wife and I tested positive.
No no no. You don’t understand. They are marked for life as unclean and cannot have the glorious contained and controlled life we expect parents to provide them with. In the new US Manual on Progressive Parenting, please refer to page 53002-1 for great how-to guides and to locate your nearest government parenting coach.
Am I crazy or is this a flat-out lie? How do they explain all the hospitalizations of people with The Jab?
I’ll take my experts over your experts.
The more apt comparison, rather, weighs the life unimmunized kids could be leading if they were vaccinated. — meaning turn the screws on the kids until parents relent and shove a vaccine in them.
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“TSMC is the world’s largest contract manufacturer of semiconductors, accounting for more than 50% of the global foundry market, which involves businesses purely making chips for other companies.”
“If the US and the West impose destructive sanctions on China like sanctions against Russia, we must recover Taiwan,” said Chen Wenling, chief economist at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. The research group is overseen by the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning agency.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/top-economist-urges-china-to-seize-tsmc-if-us-ramps-up-sanctions#xj4y7vzkg
Russia v Ukraine – the gift that keeps on giving.
The more apt comparison, rather, weighs the life unimmunized kids could be leading if they were vaccinated.
Is that a reference to arbitrary and punitive restrictions imposed by “experts” to restrict the activities of those non-immunized children?
Or is it about the imaginary “dangers” arising from being exposed to this galactically deadly virus?
Mortgage demand falls to the lowest level in 22 years amid rising rates and slowing home sales
Move Along. Nothing to See Here.
Prices here are starting to decline and homes are on the market longer, but there is still a long way to go. I’m reading that there is still an overall shortage of properties.
Will be interesting to see what happens with commercial.
Vegas is still ramping upwards…but I suspect we might be getting out by the skin of our teeth…
I may have waited too long. Sigh.
There is a lot of pent up demand. I expect the market to flatten out and maybe contract a bit.
The ReFi market has been throttled by the interest increases.
Of course, everything can come crashing down if the recession is deep enough, long enough.
FWIW… rents in NYC are supposedly at at all-time high now.
Apparently the city is not quite emptying out the way all those breathless stories were proclaiming.
How can it, the poor residents can’t afford to move after paying their rent!
When people can’t buy, the rent.
Is the demand dropping? I can see re-fi’s dropping because of interest rate increases, but is the demand less for mortgages?
Anecdotal ‘data’ incoming:
I ask because I’ve been keeping an eye on our regional market, even though we purchased late last year. There are nearly zero properties in a 50-mile radius of us that come close in features, let alone price to what we have (~2-8 acres, not-fancy house, not in a city’s limits). If we were in the market now, we’d potentially either be settling for something not as ideal (which isn’t always wrong, of course), or waiting.
Could it be that it’s the supply that’s dried up, and people are just waiting? I know there are a few Glibs that are in that situation.
Yeah, we sold in MN and haven’t bought out here yet. Signed another lease for another year to see what’s gonna shake out.
FWIW, a property I was watching dropped 50K today, after 37 days on the market. A year ago that was unheard of.
Ya, that’s rare.
We have some friends who got into a place a few months ago after the seller’s previous buyers fell through, and she was desperate (had already committed on another place), so the price was dropped by about 35k for our friends.
But that’s still the exception, for sure.
In our case, we overpaid to some degree (although ours wasn’t even the highest offer!), and will be underwater if the market crashes, but we’re where we need to be, and love the place, so no plans to move.
I doubt demand has changed much, unless you count all the people who have just given up for now. Everything that hits the market sells, but existing home sales keep dropping, which means there is a supply problem.
Just a lovely Romanian cake with some little impalement done by Vlad Dracula
So many unused stakes.
Too few golden goblets sitting unguarded in crossroads.
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Upper right took me 4 tries of rhyming words.
If I could have figured out bottom right, it would have given me upper right with plenty of time to find lower left.
Ugh.
you need to sacrifice a seed word in those conditions.
For example: CHUMP/CHAMP/CHIMP burns up four common consonants that appear in those rhyming words.