I’m just kidding. But what does grind my gears is I got this shit in the mail. Seriously, I didn’t order a print magazine. I don’t recall showing any interest 8n Sports, or sports illustrated. I sure as shit didnt show any indication to anyone that I give two shits about women’s basketball.
Thats some kick ass marketing though. Tell everyone the shitty product isnt wrong, its YOU thats wrong for not liking their shitty product.
Its late. Which one of you ass clowns wants some links?
They went from one bullshit story to another, am I suppsoed to be outraged by this?
A delightful, artistic display of trash.
If you call the cops for that, you deserve to get shot.
Sometimes I get the feeling if there weren’t any handouts, these guys would fail at a respectable grift. Like Tony Robbins.
Holy shit, what a scumbucket.
Wait, they can build them but not buy them? This is the screwiest way a government has ever told people to stick it up their ass.
Now go forth and do…whatever it is…you do.
Weird. I started getting a fashion magazine in my ex’s name. She’s not into that sort of thing at all, either.
The girlfriend has been getting a cycling magazine for almost a year now.
I suspect there are so few subscriptions they just send them out unsolicited to get their numbers up in an attempt to hold on to advertisers.
The failed politician gambit!
A few years ago, I received a few unsolicited issues of some magazine; I think it was actually Sports Illustrated, too. They must take surplus copies and mail them out in the hopes of snagging a few new subscriptions. They’ve already paid the printing costs, and adding a couple of thousand to the bulk mail probably doesn’t increase the mailing cost too much.
I got my second unwanted Vanity Fair yesterday.
I’ve never subscribed.
I guess they’re hoping to lure me into subscribing.
“First one is free”
Futurama already did it:
We no can dunk. But good fundamentals. That more fun to watch.
It’s not clear that they even have good fundamentals.
All basketball has become boring to watch. One on one, set a high pick, dribble drive pass out. There is hardly EVER an off ball screen. Has even sunk into the bigger and some lower levels of High School. Best game I refed this year was an eight grade game between to small town teams. Both played 2-3 zone, and both were patient on offense. 12-12 at half, but actual TEAM basketball.
” 12-12 at half, but actual TEAM basketball.”
#whiteprivilege.
LOL
I can’t even imagine how horrible a Pakistan jail would be.
“This isn’t a dildo, it’s a hijab stand!”
That place sounds like a real shithole
At one time within my lifetime one of the deep south states (AL, GA?) had a ban on sex toys. So the retailers repackaged them as novelties, gag gifts. Other oldsters may remember the Spencer Gifts catalog with the model rubbing the phallic vibrator against her thigh – “relieves muscle pain.”
But I suspect there is no such end-run around the law in the Pakistani legal system.
Alabama.
That was my favorite mall store when I was a kid. Better than any candy or toy store.
Texas did, Ted Cruz even argued it before the TX Supreme court on behalf of the state to keep the ban. The ban was ruled unconstitutional, but to this day most shops still have the “novelty gift only” labels plastered on the stuff.
Don’t know how this landed here, it was supposed to be a reply to Tonio.
Don’t be so sure. Islam is largely about following rules by the letter, rather than the spirit. Sort of like how banks can’t charge interest.
https://www.gfmag.com/topics/blogs/what-products-does-islamic-finance-offer
I remember that, but I thought the model was rubbing it against her cheek?
Prison bitch, prison bitch, you’re not like other men
That’s funny. When I went to Harbor Freight the other day, there was a mask on the ground next to where I parked. I laughed.
You didn’t pick it up? Are you not capable of self-governance or do men with guns have to show up at your door because you tolerate littering?
I bet you leave the shopping cart in between two cars.
Vox Stealth Edits March 2020 Article “Debunking” Lab Origin of COVID
Let me guess. They’re going to start labeling as a conspiracy nut anyone who said they labeled people conspiracy nuts for thinking the virus may have originated in a Chinese lab.
That’s just what a conspiracy nut would say
One thing that these people can always get away with is doing a 180 on a story they “fact checked” and still keep the lemmings that follow them not just engaged, but believing contradictory information without suffering any sort of cognitive dissonance… Why would they not stealth edit? After all, that’s how that book 1984 said you should handle information changes to make sure people “KNOW” the left always is in the know.
If Walfart, Tarjay, and other big box stores really cared about their customers, they would have stayed open 24-7, kept all their checkout lanes open all the time, moved essentials from the back to the front, and done everything else in their power to get customers in and out fast while protecting the most vulnerable, along the lines of the Great Barrington Declaration, with special hours or stores.
This is a minor issue in the grand scheme of a manufactured pandemic, but in these stores, they’ve given up on the masks, the tape on the floors, the limited hours, etc, but the @#$& drinking fountains are still shut off.
My gym has gone full normal. Not even the employees wear masks
You lucky bastard.
When I return to the office next week, we are now advised not to touch anything that anyone else touches. ?
My god this is going to SUCK.
“How am I supposed to pee?”
As mentioned late last week, someone tested positive for the Koof. They sprayed poison everywhere and especially the floor. Because we always drop our cake on the floor.
I really can’t keep up with these euphemisms anymore.
Put yer mask back on!
Cuomo mandted that daycares mask the kiddie starting at 2 yrs old. That mandate lasted only a day until he backed it down to a “recommendation” maybe people are really getting sick of his shit? Nah, couldn’t be that lucky.
Are people getting sick of the shit? Not in Philly suburbs – all the counties surrounding Philly recently had a “no” majority on the constitutional amendments that curtailed King Wolf’s monarchial emergency powers.
I live in one of those counties…
People in western MontCo and northern Bucks County are, based on what I saw last weekend, ignoring Wolf.
We want to be ruled.
I don’t.
And Oregon is going full “Papiere, Bitte.” Sadly, the best hope of dashing that stupidity is coming from BLM.
Fomite transmission of COVID is practically non-existent.
I think you should just insist on shaking everyone’s hand until your HR department has a collective heart attack and drops dead.
I like your style.
I’m getting in first and touching every keyboard and mouse in the office.
Want me to stop by and lick everything to put their China virus fears to rest?
Everything?
Marlow described the New York Times‘s business model as “not about reporting the truth,” but “guiding their base — the resistance moms, the people [whose] main identity was hatred of Trump — guiding them in a certain direction.”
Preaching to the faithful. Reinforcing their delusions of moral superiority.
“Satan, we REFUTE you!”
Good morning, WM!
Always nice to see you.
Lol. Only at AIER.
Have a great day, everyone! No shoving asian dudes onto the tracks OK?
Yep. Masks have replaced discarded Tim Horton’s cups as the litter of choice up here. Still plenty of double/doubles laying about but the masks are floating around everywhere.
Here in jersey its still broken crack pipes and old syringes. Nice how some things never change.
Does anyone know why black men commit random violence against older Asian and Jewish people? I’m guessing they are either natural bullies or wanting to impress their new hood rat friends, and those just happen to be the least physically powerful people available. Or maybe they associate those ethnicities with “annoying landlord”.
I think it’s pretty well accepted that urban blacks do not like Asians – and the feeling is mutual.
Many urban markets are run by South Asian or East Asian immigrants. People in those neighborhoods often feel they are being price-gouged by the markets because their prices are so much higher than those at Walmart. One of the many reasons why promoting economic illiteracy is in the interests of the Democrats.
Weird, they’re both BIPOCs.
Nope. BIPOC was invented specifically to exclude Asians.
They are AAPIs. You know, since Mongolians and Samoans have so much in common …
A few years back I was approached by a guy who looked distinctly Polynesian about a ghost-writing gig. The gig never materialized, but the guy was very open and genial, and described his younger years in Samoa in some detail. Interesting fellow.
But I had to bite back the urge to ask him it it was true that “you’re Samoan if somebody loves you.”
A few years ago I was in Hawaii for some Army training. We had a rare afternoon off so I was riding the bus to where a few of us had decided to go for dinner, having arranged a ride back later so I could drink at dinner.
At one stop a big dude got on – probably about 6″ 2″ and 230 lbs – med/small for a Samoan but that’s what he looked like to me. He sat down in the seat next to me and after a number of stops got out a map to check where we were. I noticed it was a tourist map in Japanese so I spoke to him in Japanese which turned out to be his native language.
I’d say we were mutually surprised.
Why does the caged bird sing?
Internalized white supremacy, duh.
It’s like you guys are retards or something.
don’t be retardphobic
I scare myself.
It is the same dynamic that gets Jewish populations targeted, they are the at least marginally successful merchant class and as such they garner the resentment of populations that aren’t.
Not to mention that East Asian cultures, by and large, are very blunt and do not really care what you think. I am thinking Chinese and Koreans, the Japanese seem much more inclined to avoid shaming people.
Yup. Pure envy.
Well, not quite pure; it has a heaping helping of racism on the side, served piping hot by Democrat race-baiters who insist that EVERYTHING is about race.
One of the dynamics of our new cruelty is that racism has become a one-way street. So, as democrats teach that only whites (and any group who gets to be white for a day) are capable of racism, many racist acts are whitewashed. Which has an eroding effect on the moral compass of many people.
I thought it was because many older Asians don’t trust banks and therefore carry a lot of cash on them, making them easy marks for street thugs. Knock them down, rifle through their pockets, run away with wad of cash.
Anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
Will the flags be at half staff?
NPR has been pimping their coverage of the Happy Day of Holy Martyrdom. Today they had a special report about how BLM is teh awesome and anything bad you hear about it is a right-wing misinformation effort using fake accounts. They didn’t mention if the notorious hacker 4chan was involved.
Related:
A Year After George Floyd’s Murder, It’s ‘Open Season’ in Minneapolis
Paywalled, but the story is really in the first few paragraphs. Fuck you, proggies.
The only lives that matter are those that can be stood on to advance the cause.
The only death that matters is Floyd’s.
Everyone else is expendable.
A Year After George Floyd’s Murder
Fentanyl Floyd died of a drug overdose. He was not murdered.
Calls for a celebration. Warm weather, what’s not to light, er, like
“What did you get for George Floyd Day?”
“A 70” flatscreen TV and some sweet new kicks.”
Winner!
We hosted an All-Star event of victims’ families
The best quote was from a local
I really want to give her the benefit of the doubt and read that as her condemning the grifters who are profiting on her loss. I am worried though that she is going to say some truly horrible things when she doesn’t get $27M like the Floyd family.
Baseball birthdays:
Miguel Tejada, Joe Judge, Bob Knepper, John Montefusco, Dave Hollins, Chris Young, and Lip Pike.
Pike was one of the stars of the National Association, which predates the National league. He played 5 seasons in the NL after it was founded: 1876, 1877, 1878, 1881, and 1887. He played 5 games in 1881 and just 1 game in 1887. He was 26 in 1871 in his rookie year, so in theory, he could have fought in the Civil War. No idea if he did or not, might be interesting to look up. The NA had to have had a few civil war veterans.
From wikipedia: On August 16, 1873, he raced a fast trotting horse named “Clarence” in a 100-yard sprint at Baltimore’s Newington Park, and won by four yards with a time of 10 seconds flat, earning $250 ($5,400 today).
That’s fast as fuck! Outrunning bullets fast.
There’s an annual marathon run in a couple places that are man vs. horse runs. Sometimes a human even wins.
The horse would probably always lose if it weren’t for the vet checks. They let the horse cool down and they aren’t counted against the horse’s official time.
They quit doing that in 2010. Now they only deduct the 15 minute head start the humans get.
And they make it 22 miles instead of the 26.2 mile marathon, because at 26.2 miles the horse would always lose, even with the vet checks.
Isn’t that slower than the record for a human?
Pretty sure in 1873 he wasn’t wearing spikes and the track wasn’t prepared for human footing.
I am also sure the timing was sketchy.
The first “official” 100-yard record under 10 sec was in 1890.
I am sure Pike was blazing fast, but world record fast?
Certainly not today’s record but that’s damn fast for a white boy.
He is jewish, so not white?
Despite being a longer run, a full length marathon versus 21 miles, the 2019 NYC marathon had 24 runners who beat the 2019 horse’s time for 21 miles.
Admittedly not an apples to apples comparison, paved streets versus cross country. Still.
That’s how our ancestors got fed. Just follow the prey until it keeled over from exhaustion. Doggies helped.
Regardless of exactly how correct the “endurance hunter” theory is,
horses are remarkably fragile. Forced marches that humans will
mostly survive will kill most of the horses. Especially under conditions
of bad terrain and inadequate food.
Which makes sense. A horse doesn’t have to run for 21 miles, it just
has to run longer than the lions or cheetahs or whatever is chasing it.
Well, actually it only has to run faster than the slowest member of the herd.
Texas legislature passes constitutional carry. Abbott has indicated he will sign. ????
Politicize the law
Law professor Jennifer Taub recently wrote that federal prosecutors need to return to an era of punishing white-collar criminals — and that the effort should begin with Trump.
Tell me again what actual crime (other than being not-Hillary) President Cartoon Villain perpetrated while in office.
EMOLLUMINTZ!
Genocide and illegal bombing and war making. But that is neither white collar nor something they are interested in prosecuting.
Well, he did drop a lot of bombs on people.
You know who else dropped a lot of bombs on people?
These guys?
The Gap Band singer’s girlfriend?
citation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44
These guys?
The 1999-2001 St. Louis Rams?
Pigeons?
Uh-huh, mostly Democrats and the fake news people though
Preet is lurking in the wings in full makeup and costume, silently doing his vocal and facial warmup exercises.
I pictured that and laughed!
He won the election the cabal thought they had rigged in favor of their candidate Clinton, and then proceeded to mock and expose them as fucking inept morons trying desperately to destroy the competence power hierarchy because it threatened their credentialed dumb fucking asses. And for that crime he and anyone that was part of that movement MUST be punished to set the example for anyone else… DO what the cabal wants, or pay the price…
“Mean” tweets. Middle-east peace deals. Generally being unabashedly pro America.
That last one really, really pissed of the fucking intellectual class that hates the concept of a competence based system.
Morning glibs! Stay safe out there
Hi leon!
Get them before they get you.
The fact that I know more about National Association baseball than I do about the WNBA should be some sort or indicator. Whether about the WNBA or me, I have no idea.
“Why you need to give a shit. Reason four will shock you!”
I hate this “journalistic” technique. Everything is written by twidiots now.
And why not? They’re dirt cheap, and what is their audience gonna do? Complain? Stop reading?
FaactCheck: rhywun is wrong
Can you give me a list of reasons why you hate it?
Reason 1: It’s fucking stupid.
Reason 2: See reason 1.
Reason 2 shocks me.
“What does the W stand for? The Worse NBA?”
Don’t forget to wear your lilac today for the Glorious 25th of May.
Ours aren’t blooming yet but down in the City they are about a couple of days from full flower.
here they’re already done
Still here, but they’re no longer producing scent. When both they and the honeysuckle are at max, my neighborhood smells like an old ladies’ perfume shop.
I read that as cooch and then I felt the shame.
Very timely. No actual lilacs on offer around here, but I do have a tie that can substitute.
– Blake Wheeler
Shot block.
Yeah, it happens. Ow!
BODY PAINTING AND BODY TAPE MODELS ON THE RUNWAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6F_yA8ONz8
Why, Thanks for that Pie!
“Abandoned masks are killing the environment: Why I pick up random spit-soaked trash, and You Should Too.”
I have a mask in my pocket which I keep reusing so I don’t cause the trash I aint picking it up
I’m no Fauci, but I’d think that picking up a used mask would be against the recommendations of those who believe in that the ‘vid will kill all that it touches.
I’m just predicting a future wave of NPR think-pieces.
Well at one point he did say people should probably not shake hands ever again.
Wait until we find out a 30 mile floating island made up of old discarded masks is killing the jelly fish in the pacific for these flakes to go all bananas…
and You Should Too
Won’t that contribute to the spread of convid?
Politicize the economy
U.S. President Joe Biden will rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them domestically into battery parts, part of a strategy designed to placate environmentalists, two administration officials with direct knowledge told Reuters.
The plans will be a blow to U.S. miners who had hoped Biden would rely primarily on domestically sourced metals, as his campaign had signaled last autumn, to help fulfill his ambitions for a less carbon-intensive economy.
Rather than focus on permitting more U.S. mines, Biden’s team is more focused on creating jobs that process minerals domestically into electric vehicle (EV) battery parts, according to the people.
Such a plan would help cut U.S. reliance on industry leader China for EV materials while also enticing unions with manufacturing work and, in theory, reduce pandemic-fueled unemployment.
Placate the “electricity comes out of the wall” party. And the unions.
Good thinking.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
And please his Chinese masters. Obviously, nobody in the Harris(Biden) administration learned anything about becoming dependent upon foreign resources largely produced by hostile nations.
Who in the world would have actually thought that, given his and his party’s rhetoric? Especially now, after they’ve taken concrete steps to destroy the further development of US fossil fuel sources, which was the major factor in potentially getting the US out of conflicts around the world?
I’m partial to the argument that trade and international interdependence begets, if not actual friendship, then at least cooperation, however, that interdependence has arguably caused the US to attempt to become and remain a global hegemon, and all the consequences that sprout from that.
“ as his campaign had signaled last autumn”
Suckers…
The doublethink in rhetoric was strong, given the Democrats contain these two coalitions with opposite agendas: manufacturing labor unions and environmentalists who want to eradicate fossil fuel use.
The union members shoulda guessed they’d get the pointy end of the stick from Biden and voted their jobs.
Unioni members probably did vote that way, union LEADERS, however…
As a young man I dreamed of a union factory job, drilling a hole in a piece of metal, 40 hours week, for 40 years. Security
/sarc,
So international NIMBYism, just shift the mining and processing of materials to areas where they have next to zero environmental protections. It’s downright unethical.
As long as the dirty source for my consumption is out of sight. Did I mention I also buy indulgences when I can’t hide my dirty consumption?
It’s the opposite hypocrisy demonstrated by Norway.
Pump up massive quantities of oil and export it in order to financially support their socialist utopia, while claiming environmental hero status for being a largely fossil-fuel-free society.
They talk about the evils of fossil fuels, but their entire social structure would crumble without it.
NIMBYism at it’s finest
This shit happens all the time. Not sure why they had to drag race in— Oh, never mind. There’s a Narrative™ now.
Subways and the aggressive mentally ill just don’t mix well.
It’s all Reagan’s fault for gutting the mental health care system!
That’s terrifying. If I go to NY ever again I will be standing as far from the tracks as possible.
Always stand against the wall or a column until it’s time to get on the train.
I put my weight on one foot so I can’t be pushed, well, easily.
Hmmm. Allergies, a slight head cold passed along from the Grandkids or the plague? Not sickly at all but the nose has been running all day. Should have kept the ‘stache.
It was your natural defense!
The Wall came down…
Did you hear the Call?
I really dig that band!
Incredible
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1397170440142000131
Yes, incredible. There seems to be an entire other way to look at that situation that has somehow escaped them.
Morally wrong is not a consideration. Political outcomes are the only metric.
Biden’s White House is now quietly working to enlist labor support as it tries to build a case that its green policies are creating jobs, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that could determine whether the strategy wins congressional backing, according to two organized labor sources familiar with the campaign
Biden officials have reached out to unions across the country asking for specific job-boosting projects the administration can take credit for, the labor sources said.
“We want to be SEEN AS people who are doing something.”
“asking for specific job-boosting projects the administration can take credit for”
Killing pipelines?
Regular consumption of milk is not associated with increased levels of cholesterol, according to new research.
A study published in the International Journal of Obesity looked at three large population studies and found that people who regularly drank high amounts of milk had lower levels of both good and bad cholesterol, although their BMI levels were higher than non-milk drinkers. Further analysis of other large studies also suggests that those who regularly consumed milk had a 14% lower risk of coronary heart disease.
The team of researchers took a genetic approach to milk consumption by looking at a variation in the lactase gene associated with digestion of milk sugars known as lactose.
The study identified that having the genetic variation where people can digest lactose was a good way for identifying people who consumed higher levels of milk.
Prof Vimal Karani, Professor of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics at the University of Reading said:
“We found that among participants with a genetic variation that we associated with higher milk intake, they had higher BMI, body fat, but importantly had lower levels of good and bad cholesterol. We also found that those with the genetic variation had a significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease. All of this suggests that reducing the intake of milk might not be necessary for preventing cardiovascular diseases.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-link-cholesterol-million-people.html
Maybe they should eat more bugs.
*shrugs*
You mean to say that diet and health are dependent on genetic factors?
Would that mean that different people react in different ways to pathogens and medicines too? That administering health like you’re treating a herd of cattle is a bad idea?
I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
“The study identified that having the genetic variation where people can digest lactose was a good way for identifying people who consumed higher levels of milk.”
That’s a hell of a finding right there. I didn’t see that coming.
It’s truly bowel-shaking research.
I imagine that the researchers are experiencing earthquakes of doubt and remorse, for opening this can of ethical worms.
Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse, for the uninitiated.
Never leave her all alone in her time of need.
As far as I understand it actual medical science has already decoupled blood serum cholesterol level from dietary cholesterol and fat intake. Regardless of the level of these substances in the diet the body produces the amount of cholesterol it needs or doesn’t need.
I’m a thin bastard and my cholesterol’s always been mildly high. It doesn’t seem to rise and fall as a total due to diet but what I eat does appear to effect the ratio of good to bad and my triglycerides fairly substantially. Taking fish oil really evens out those swings for me though as long as I don’t get too stupid.
Which one of you ass clowns wants some links?
*raises hand*
Now go forth and do…whatever it is…you do.
After that ride? *lights cigarette*
*drops butt into empty, heads back in*
Maybe if the WNBA chicks looked less like female praying mantises we’d be more likely to tune in. That S.I. cover is sorta terrifying.
Pushup bras wouldn’t hurt ratings. Notice Pie’s black tape project video had 1.4M views.
Beach volleyball uni’s or go home.
Sandhill crane protecting its young from a gator. Why does it risk its life like this? Because any genes giving rise to the tendency have a good chance of being located as well in its young. In effect, these genes are looking after copies of themselves located in other bodies.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1396941744407670785
The Selfish Gene goes into this phenomenon pretty well
The Outagamie County Sheriff’s office told residents of Appleton, a city just north of Lake Winnebago, to avoid calling the police when a train of lights appears in the night sky because they’re just satellites.
Such an alien concept.
A black man pushed an Asian man onto the subway tracks in Queens Monday morning then fled on foot.
Just monitor the Asians. He’ll have to try to assault another one an hour later.
Politicize the IRS
Audit rates for the wealthiest Americans are nearly 80% lower than they were a decade ago, driving the tax gap to an estimated $1 trillion annually. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts wants to close that gap and hold the wealthy accountable by strengthening the budget of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
On Monday, Warren introduced the Restoring the IRS Act of 2021, which would remove the agency’s base budget from the annual appropriations process and provide $31.5 billion in mandatory funding. This would nearly triple the IRS budget — it received $11.9 billion from Congress for fiscal year 2021. Warren’s press release said this funding would help close gap between the taxes wealthy people owe and what they actually pay through more staffing and stricter enforcement.
“For too long, the wealthiest Americans and big corporations have been able to use lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists to avoid paying their fair share — and budget cuts have hollowed out the IRS so it doesn’t have the resources to go after wealthy tax cheats,” Warren said in a statement. “The IRS should have more — and more stable — resources to do its job, and my bill would do just that.”
One does not “use lawyers, accountants and lobbyists” to cheat on one’s taxes. Lawyers and accountants find legal ways to reclassify income in order to shield it from tax liability, based on the law as written and passed by people like Elizabeth Warren.
If you want to make those lawyers, accountants and lobbyists rich, there is no better way than increasing their billable hours.
That was always my favorite argument for the fair tax. Remove the deadweight of income tax preparations from the economy.
I always thought there was something wrong with people having to hire someone to help them comply with something that everyone is required by law to do.
Fun fact: The single largest lobbyist opposing the Fair Tax was H&R Block.
It’s like Planned Parenthood opposing OTC birth control pills. Whycome they want to restrict access to birth control???
You don’t even have to go that far.
Keep the existing tax rates, give everybody the standard deduction.
There would still be a lot of wiggle room for what constitutes income and when it is earned, but it would chop out a big chunk of the space for the tax attorneys and accountants.
which would remove the agency’s base budget from the annual appropriations process
Go all in and grant it authority to write the tax code.
What is up with that cunte trying to remove everything from its place in the constitution?
Oh, that’s right, she doesn’t believe in that old document, just raw, unbridled power.
Take the least accountable, most hated government agency, remove it from budget oversight, and pump it full of steroids.
I don’t see any way this could possibly go wrong.
We are a small business and we have been told that cause we use a CPA that it must mean we are trying to not pay taxes or get out of taxes from a proggie friend of ours. Maybe they said it in jest, but seriously that is what they believe.
I certainly prefer to pay as little over the amount I am legally required to pay. Same when I pay for goods and services. I don’t refuse credits, deductions and exemptions on my taxes or Lowe’s 10% veteran discount.
Yep to all of that. Our liability was extremely low because we pay someone to follow the insane tax code and find us all the breaks we can. And I always make sure I get my 10% discount. I get my 20% discount at Subway cause of teen and 10% off groceries for the other teen. You offer it, I take it.
I’ve done my own taxes since TWO CPAs screwed me over because they didn’t ask for information I didn’t know I had or was supposed to give them.
If I have to compile all this information FOR you, the job is 7/8ths done. I might as well do the last 1/8th myself.
My aunt the amateur tax guru told me wjat I should be doing so I got a 1040-C and an IRS booklet and studied it line by line.
I filed an amended return (the second VPA had filed electronically for us without our consent). I did the taxes. The IRS forgave us the 41c we owed because of a miscalculation.
Then I switched to TurboTax when I got tired of doing them by hand.
One of our customers is a money guy and whom we immensely trust so he gave us a list on who he would trust his taxes/business with. However, the moment I think you screw us over, I am going the route you described above.
The IRS sent me a letter on my 2019 taxes that I owed $1400 more on less calculated income. We’re sending a letter back saying they’re wrong.
So international NIMBYism, just shift the mining and processing of materials to areas where they have next to zero environmental protections. It’s downright unethical.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Very similar to people who oppose all GMO foods. The foods that literally keep people from starving or going blind from malnutrition.
The Treasury Department released a report last week that found the tax gap totaled nearly $600 billion in 2019 which, if left unaddressed, could rise to $7 trillion over the course of the next decade.
What the everloving fuck?
MATHS!
think of all the free daycare 7 trillion will buy
My assumption is that’s the sum total over ten years. That’s Congress’s favorite way of describing expenditures and income.
But it’s entirely possible that after inflation has its way with us, 7T will feel like 600B in ten years.
Seems it would be a lot cheaper to simplify the tax code. Make compliance easier and real fraud harder at the same time.
Bitching about hard to calculate lost revenue is of course, another feature of the current code.
Exactly why I’m in favor of taxes on real property only. Compliance is trivial
and fraud is difficult at the payment and reporting level. I realize that
the valuation of the property is subject to manipulation.
Have I finally won a convert here to the Single Land Tax movement?
Well, not exactly. I don’t recall much beyond my own thinking on the matter,
and as I understand it, the SLT doesn’t tax buildings, which I don’t have
an objection to, so I’m probably a SLT heretic.
But in general, yes, I think that something along the lines of a simple single tax
would be best. I keep meaning to write an article about it, but then I realize
all the other stuff I need to get done today (for whatever value of today) and
put it to the back of my brain again.
https://www.glibertarians2017.link/2017/03/12/in-defense-of-the-single-land-tax/
Here is my first of 3 articles on the SLT. 4 years later, parts 2 and 3 havent been written yet.
Do you even special interest bro?
With the inflation they are laying in, I find this plausible.
I understand why people sometimes drown their cars in places that are both unfamiliar and deep, but narrow. However, here they are just basically driving into a lake.
Storm Dennis: Why do drivers keep misjudging flooded fords?
Because the US promotes Marxism now.
According to Human Events, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has issued a directive to all “Diplomatic and Consular posts” in regard to the commemoration of the death of George Floyd on May 25. Human Events says they got a leaked copy of the directive. …
The directive encouraged the usage of BLM terms and messaging.
Bullshitting, communication characterised by an intent to be convincing or impressive without concern for truth, is ubiquitous within human societies. Across two studies (N = 1,017), we assess participants’ ability to produce satisfying and seemingly accurate bullshit as an honest signal of their intelligence. We find that bullshit ability is associated with an individual’s intelligence and individuals capable of producing more satisfying bullshit are judged by second-hand observers to be more intelligent. We interpret these results as adding evidence for intelligence being geared towards the navigation of social systems. The ability to produce satisfying bullshit may serve to assist individuals in negotiating their social world, both as an energetically efficient strategy for impressing others and as an honest signal of intelligence.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33998304/
I knew the mask consensus was crumbling when I began to notice masks, even the better ones, showing up in all sorts of places where one rarely sees garbage anymore, much less (allegedly) life-saving medical devices strewn about. Yet there they were, on boardwalks and parking lots, even on fairly remote mountainsides.
I’ve seen people dropping their immune systems on the ground ever since the mandates started.
Titty Tuesday is the mind-killer. Titty Tuesday is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.li/MC3hg
Project Veritas released a video involving facebook insiders and how facebook tries to keep quiet or hide “vaccine hesistancy”.
About 23 minutes.
I received a mail from Project Veritas last night that says they will have more coming out today.
It seems like they are pretty smart about the way they release their stuff, designed to build anticipation.
It shouldn’t be surprising. Facebook works heavily with Poynter Institute on “fact-checking”
Poynter is the parent of Politifact and is funded by a who’s who of shitheads, Gates, Koch, Soros, Zuckerberg, Google, etc…
“The Poynter Institute is perhaps the most respected think tank in our business, an organization seeking to “fortify journalism’s role in a free society,” among other things through its sponsorship of the fact-checking outlet PolitiFact. A few weeks back, it held a virtual convention called the “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking.”
The three-day event featured special guests Christiane Amanpour, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Brian Stelter, and Senator Mark Warner — a lineup of fact “stars” whose ironic energy recalled the USO’s telethon-execution of Terrance and Phillip before the invasion of Canada in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Tickets were $50, but if you wanted a “private virtual happy hour” with Stelter, you needed to pay $100 for the “VIP Experience.”
The Poynter Institute is a partisan joke.
Oh, that is from Taibi yesterday.
Stelter is on the case! Whew.
lolffs
“festival of fact-checking”
Orwell would be proud.
You know who else “fortified” a once but no longer trusted institution in an ostensibly free society?
WE NEED SUGARFREE AT TIMES LIKE THESE
Will sour cream, bacon bits and chives be provided?
The Vox Stealth Edit story got me to wondering if any research has ever been done comparing the rate of accuracy of the claims made in InfoWars to the that of claims made by Vox, MSNBC, or even the New York Times. My initial, kneejerk assumption is that InfoWars would have a higher rate of inaccuracy. But, really, at this point, that’s just a guess. It could well be that the notion that InfoWars is particularly inaccurate is one of those things that everybody knows because everybody knows. That is, that it is a characterization of the world that is only accepted as true because nobody has bothered to verify or dispute it. I’d find it hilarious if InfoWars did prove to have a higher accuracy rate than some of those “legitimate” news sources. It would be great to poke people with “Well, you can’t expect every news outlet to be an InfoWars, but surely the Times can do better…”
Infowars is a comedy site.
Perhaps. But, does that mean that the “legitimate” news sources are more reliable?
I’m half convinced it’s a disinformation effort by an intelligence agency.
Combine actual conspiracy with bunk conspiracy and discredit the former with the latter.
I understand why people sometimes drown their cars in places that are both unfamiliar and deep, but narrow. However, here they are just basically driving into a lake.
Not far from my grandparents’ farm, there were some posts along the road in a low-lying area near a creek, with vertical height marked on them. I never really knew what they were doing there, until I saw water up to about the 3 1/2 foot mark.
We have to prepare for, you know, the thing.
Pres. Biden speaks at briefing on the Atlantic Hurricane Outlook and preparedness efforts at FEMA headquarters.
Left out of the ABC quote:
“But uh there’s uh you know to be you know beginning uh this effort for 2021 is uh I think we’ve learned a few lessons from 2021 as well. There’s help as through the we you know through being there to help clear roads rebuild uh main streets uh and so that the families…”
Anyway, I guess hurricanes are the next crisis.
Yeah, and today’s paper says Biden wants another $1 billion for FEMA to help local communities prepare for “natural disasters.” How about for “man-made disasters” like Democrat party policies?
How about for “man-made disasters” like Democrat party policies?
$1 trillion?
Hurricanes are awesome if you are the President.
No one can blame you for them.
Gives you an opportunity to throw billions of dollars to connected groups in the region
Also can be blamed on Climate Change which gives you an excuse to grab even more power.
W disagrees.
Obama second term, right there.
Biden’s Administration is starting to look like two Category 5 hurricanes colliding together – Carter/Obama combined to make a Voltron supervillian.
Joey O’Carter, misery index master!
I was thinking more about hurricane Sandy, and how it gave him a chance to look presidential right before the election, but I do like the cut of your jib.
Yep. If we’re going to have a climate emergency, there needs to be something tangible to point to. Get ready for reports of massive disaster in places you’re unfamiliar with, and the unheard locals thinking “meh.”
Yes, my tinfoil hat fits quite comfortably.
Glibs
Yes.
This.
They are test-running UBI. It is failing, spectacularly.
Good. It turns out sending everyone a check every month is hard.
I never thought of it that way, but you’re right. And I’m kind of ok with having proof that paying people not to work makes them not want to work. and finding this out before they start sending checks to everyone.
Thus spake the mob
Apetition demanding that Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene be expelled from the House of Representatives has garnered more than 50,000 signatures.
The change.org petition has gained tens of thousands of supporters in just over a day as Greene was widely condemned for her comments comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust.
——-
The petition is calling on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to “immediately” expel Greene following her latest controversial remarks.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene cannot even be trusted to be on any committees and is only in office to disrupt order and cause chaos,” the petition states.
They’re trying really hard to get me to like her.
Didn’t they have a petition of sorts in November?
“Maxine Waters/Ilhan Omar/Bernie Sanders cannot even be trusted to be on any committees and is only in office to disrupt order and cause chaos.”
This game is too easy.
Fucking donkeys clutching their pearls as if they’ve never seen politicians using hyperbole before.
If I thought that removing Congress people via petition would work in all instances, I’d be behind the idea 100%. Unfortunately, I suspect that some petitions would be more equal than others.
By all means, let’s scratch the surface of why batshit crazy people keep getting re-elected.
“Apetition”
From Chimpan A to Chimpan Zee!
is only in office to disrupt order and cause chaos
So an improvement then.
following her latest controversial remarks
“Hey, AOC, why do you support terrorists?” ?
I’d say that the American voters are getting what they voted for, good and hard, but I’m not convinced Biden actually won that election.
DENIER!
Don’t you know that the absence of any evidence (especially when you refuse to look for any) means it didn’t happen? Science denier! Election denier!
I thought an absence of evidence was proof of a coverup. No?
The winner of the election is the one who takes office, regardless of how much fraud and cheating you feel they did to win.
Spent about four years pointing that out to my wife during the Trump years, and yet in mid 2020 she was still saying he wasn’t the president.
I’m pretty certain the weapons grade cheating put Biden over the top. He’s not “my” president, because I didn’t consent to being ruled, but he is “the” president.
Sadly, this pretty much covers it.
Same thing with a Mandate. If you can get your legislation passed, you have one. Nothing else matters.
Comment page for the ATF’s proposed 80% lower rule is open.
As expected, they’re proposing a regulation that would be really easy to abuse by fedgov.
“I used to believe the Republican Party stood for decency, family values and good faith principles, but any continued support of Marjorie Taylor Greene renders that demonstrably untrue.
“She is an active security threat to her colleagues, is unfit to serve the good people of this country, and she’s directly harmed our civil liberties and freedoms with her divisive and hateful rhetoric.”
The petition was created by David Weissman, a U.S. Army veteran and former vocal supporter of Donald Trump who has since disavowed him to become a Democrat.
Such legit.
That loon at least didn’t show up in my hometown to exhort the locals to riot if Chauvin didn’t get convicted, so I’m a bit less worried about the “danger” from her than I am from Waters.
Hey, you can’t question the integrity of an Army veteran, those people are all saints and are above reproach.
Because nothing guarantees civil liberties and freedom like censoring anyone who dissents from The Narrative via “divisive and hateful” rhetoric.
The government is gonna hand back stolen liberties if we’re united in our love for said thieves?
“I used to believe the Republican Party stood for decency, family values and good faith principles…”
No you didn’t.
^^ this.
Nobody who believes that is going to run to the Democrat party.
Seems it would be a lot cheaper to simplify the tax code. Make compliance easier and real fraud harder at the same time.
You slay me.
What would happen to poor turbo tax
Silly Brooks, you can’t carve out exemptions for your friends and favored demographics if you do that.
I’m only like 45 miles from Appleton, and work at night, I ain’t seen these UFO lights! Why I never see interesting thang!?
Why I never see interesting thang! – you either drink to much or not enough
I saw them in Algoma last year, so they definitely are flying over Wisconsin.
We saw them in Ohio Saturday night. We didn’t know what they were and then looked it up later on. Around 11:15 pm.
Starlink train? I am just jumping in here without any knowledge of what is being discussed.
If you were putting mind control lasers into orbit, isn’t that exactly what you would want people to believe?
This latest simulation update is weird. It is like the developers couldn’t decide between a ’50s, ’60s, or ’70s aesthetic, someone get Elon on the horn, I think we need a hotfix.
Yeah. If we can somehow get to a decentralized internet I’m all for it.
Isn’t there a theory about being able to use all of the mobile phones to enable that?
Windham, NH audit op-ed.
It may be that the AccuVote machines can sometimes mistake a fold in a ballot as a bonafide vote for the candidate whose name, and the associated oval, happens to be on a fold on that ballot.
For those voters using an absentee ballot, the ballot is folded to put in an envelope for mailing. One of the things that the Windham Audit is taking note of is ballots that had been folded on or near a candidate’s name. This may be the reason for the original vote discrepancy.
For an office with a single winner, such as for Governor, the candidate names are on the same line. If there is a fold on that line, and the machine reads your vote and one or more other ovals as a vote, then the machine is programmed to identify an overvote and record that as a blank vote. If this happens, your vote for that office didn’t count.
For the State Representative race, many cities or towns have more than one Representative, with Windham having four. For these ballots, the Representative candidate names are staggered on different lines, supposedly to make the ballot less confusing to the voters.
In this case for Windham, a candidate whose name and the oval happen to be where the ballot is likely to be folded can get an unfair advantage in two ways.
Why Jobs Are Bad For America
Well, Browning shotguns are made in Mikoru, Japan, a country where it is near-impossible to own a gun.
Can’t wait to hear someone smuggled out all the parts and built themselves one or more of these shotguns… Like happened when I worked at Pratt & Whitney and some guy ended up arrested after he retired for trying to sell a fully assembled engine he had been smuggling out parts for a full decade….
I would bet good money that this factory has a process for triple cross checking every barrel and receiver made on the floor to ensure all of them are accounted for at every step of manufacturing. And I expect the people working there are screened to ensure they are not gun nuts.
It’s almost like you live there.
Also do you have any idea where and how you buy ammunition if you do have permission to own one?
Never mentioned that the person doing this had a fucking clue.. After all, the moron that stole parts for a $5 million engine had no idea on how to sell that shit (this was before the days e-bay or even the internet) even though he tried to sweeten the deal by offering 2 5 gallon cans of AvGas.
Assuming that’s under the certification question. That’s beyond awesome!
As a side note, my father did find a gun shop in Tokyo when he was lecturing there.
He bought a muzzleloader and had it shipped to the states.
One Piece at a Time?
I thought the exact same thing.
Most countries, that wouldn’t surprise me. But in Japan? Yeah, I’d bet that it not only hasn’t happened, but that very few of the employees even considered it.
I hadn’t heard about that. Given the whole train of certification for aviation parts it seems remarkably odd that he didn’t think anyone would notice.
From what I remember, he got around the system because he would fail the part during inspection, then take it home. I just know that when they caught him they send him to pound me in the ass prison. I think they did leave him his pension though, unlike the guy working at Budweiser that admitted he had been peeing in the beer vats for decades after he retired…
They do a good job too. There’s just something about the craftsmanship from a country with a suicide for dishonor culture (or used to be that at least).
Mrs. A and I both have Citoris made in Mikoru. They’re fine guns.
Citoris ? A google search for that returns stuff about what you may expect it does
+1 Blue Waffle
Google results are extremely NSFW, for those of you not knowledgable on the memes of the mid-oughts.
My search for it revealed nothing
I knew Japan exported sporting arms, but didn’t know much else.
BTW – A quick Google yielded the company is Miroku – they are located in Nankoku. I had no idea where that was and learned in the southern part of the country.
An artist for my company (and firearm enthusiast) has a buddy from Japan he knows from internet gun forums.
Once a year he travels to the United States to play with and shoot guns. Last year I hung out with him. Nice guy.
Similar story here. The guy’s skills are amazing.
I have an AK74 made in Romania. Ask Pie how easy it is for him to get one.
At this point is any Norinco stuff currently sold in the US?
Imports were mostly banned by Clinton’s admin. Bush finished the deal when it was his turn.
Bipartisan!
No great loss – there are cheaper boat anchors around.
At this point is any Norinco stuff currently sold in the US?
Yup.
err… That’s what she said?
I had a Charles Daly, 20 G, O/U made by Miruko. I gave it to my bee partner. Beautiful gun but after not shooting it for 50 years it was time for it to move on.
Sometimes we have to leave the party before it’s over.
I’m not pleased because my 2 year old outboard has decided it doesn’t want to run. (I checked the thermometer (or whatever the inside joke is))
The only bit of amusement I have gotten out of this is when I called the service center to arrange an appointment to get if fixed.
Me: I have a 10hp Mercury outboard that won’t start
Guy: Hey! I was just going to call you. We ran that engine all weekend and it ran great. Started with one pull this morning
Me: No, I think..
Guy: I’m telling you it runs great!
Me: Let me fin-
Guy: ONE PULL! We ran it for a half hour this weekend to get it up to temp and everything
Me: No…
Guy: I’m telling you there is nothing wrong with that motor.
….
,.,,
I finally got in a word when he ran out of breath and told him that I was impressed with his service guys because the motor I was talking about was still hooked up on my boat in my yard and I hadn’t even heard them start it once.
The sarcasm finally got him to shut up and understand that I wasn’t some other guy who had also dropped a 10hp Merc outboard off last week. He apologized for not listening and then went off on a rant about how the other guy was driving him crazy with all his complaints when his motor was just fine.
I’m going to say that if I ran that shop, I wouldn’t let that guy anywhere near a phone (or a customer).
Yeah, I suspect that 10hp Mercury will cost less to replace than my A/C will your holiness, so pardon me for not feeling your pain…
I worked on a project with Mercury several years ago. I might have to call some of them up and give them shit about their motor.
Of course, they will say that anything under 25hp is being built in Japan and really isn’t one of theirs.
Just to add to your pain, Alex, my wife just got back from the repair shop and all her AC system needed was to be recharged so a cheap fix.
Yeah, I was told that I have a system leak, and that the cost to find it would run between $3K and S4K (because of the system being 14 years old and the coolant it uses being ultra expensive to get and them charging insane rates to look for a leak) to repair. A new unit will cost me around $9K because they can reuse a lot of the setup I already have. Considering I want to sell the house in the next few years to move out of “The people’s republic of Connecticut”, I figured it would be better to just replace and tell some urbanite looking for a more rural home they are getting a new A/C system which is why they better make it rain for me.
Crazy about a Mercury?
Did you explain to him that you can’t run an outboard motor without water to cool it?
Either that or that’s the reason your motor won’t run…
Oh, it’ll run for a little while without water…
Did you check the blinker fluid?
In the dashboard, I can only find my articles from 2020 onward. I know there was a cleansing of the system, but wasn’t there a way to find the older ones? I was looking for a link to my “most hated article in the history of glibs”.
Looks up…Archive links…
Like this one: https://www.glibertarians2017.link/
Reading is hard.
I just clicked on login and then looked around there.
Nah ever so often I ask for Spud’s bacon making article and forgot I can go through the archives also.
I was looking for a link to my “most hated article in the history of glibs”. – you need to narrow it down
The kissing of the CCP ass is just disgusting.
Fine — refer to them only as “Free China” versus “Commie Occupied China”. How’s them apples, Pooh Bear?
Signing off for now, Friends. Steak, pertators and portabello mushrooms await.
Today I found out there is such a thing as European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2021 Public Choice Award and this thing in Romania is among the winners
Wooden Church of Urși Village, Vâlcea County, ROMANIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnU5Wig7ET8
let’s scratch the surface of why batshit crazy people keep getting re-elected.
At some point, is it not crazy? Or, at least, is it not outside the level of tolerance for not crazy? Greene believes the QAnon nonsense. Okay. Is that wildly more crazy than legitimizing Hamas? Is that outlandish compared to, say, letting grown men into girls bathrooms? Is that some sort of gamechanger relative to being okay with riots and getting rid of the police? Hell, is it “batshit crazy” compared to removing a duly elected Representative who’s committed no crime?
This almost seems an echo of Trump. There was a lot I found distasteful about him. But, compared to what? Compared to abandoning every principle the country was built on to get rid of him? Compared to elections that directly mirrored our own State Department’s description of red flags for rigged elections? Compared to that, my differences are trivial.
She’s a bit flaky but no less so than people those who are signing the petition are lionizing. They can go to hell, if the people of Georgia get tired of her shit they can vote her out.
I’m still not clear what Greene actually said and believes. Anyone who believes something shady happened with the election, that the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab, or in the existence of something like the Cathedral is now labeled a QAnon sympathizer. Along those lines, something like 99% of commenters here would be labeled QAnon believers by the left.
Right. As I was saying below, she agreed with some random comment in a social media thread about our election integrity. She’s not really a full QAnon believer.
If I thought that removing Congress people via petition would work in all instances, I’d be behind the idea 100%. Unfortunately, I suspect that some petitions would be more equal than others.
To make it truly DEMOCRATIC! you have to let people from outside that district vote to remove. That will learn the hicks to elect doubleplusungoodthinkers to the Hallowed Temple.
I remember the article in the guardian about how US is so influential in the world everyone in the world should get to vote in US elections.
I’m not convinced they don’t.
So my thought a few months ago was that certain PTB wanted lockdowns to drive up unemployment and the ‘need’ to provide stimulus/recovery monies, which in turn makes it harder for employers to hire workers unless they pay more. It would seem, they are getting their $15 minimum wage after all without even passing legislation and using the pandemic to backdoor it on business.
Between that an inflation, $15 will be the de facto minimum wage. Yeah, I know zero is the true minimum wage.
John Cena is assho.
John Cena apologized in Chinese on Sina Weibo after calling Taiwan a country during an interview promoting Fast & Furious 9
I’m gonna be nice and just assume he’s dumb. I mean he *looks* really dumb.
He pissed off the primary consumers of his movie franchise. Of course he’s gonna apologize.
He’s not dumb. He’s probably being coerced a bit by the studio.
He was fun in Psych and that is all I really know of him.
Trump 2.0: This is how you respond to leftist reporters.
Eh, I think a better response would be “what a stupid question. Anybody in this room could do your job better than you, but somehow you get paid for it. If that ain’t the definition of privilege I don’t know what is.”
Greene believes the QAnon nonsense. Okay. Is that wildly more crazy than legitimizing Hamas?
Is it any crazier than believing there are TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS just waiting to be scooped up by adding IRS agents and increasing the number of audits?
Note that QAnon really is nonsense, but does Greene really even believe it? The sole evidence for this is her agreeing with a cherrypicked comment in a Facebook thread.
I don’t know for sure if Greene believes the QAnon nonsense or not. I’m saying, even if she does, is thinking that our society is dominated by high-placed pedophiles so outlandish, post-Jeffrey Epstein, that its a major break compared to all those other things, that I should have a problem with her? At this point, I don’t think so. I think it’s a lot less crazy than a lot of things that are proudly being pumped to me in the media.
After the past year, I’ll believe fucking anything.
I’m not even saying I believe it. I don’t. But, I don’t find believing it so terribly outlandish that notions like dispensing with fair trials, silencing debate or science consisting of blind obedience to authority pale in comparison. All kinds of people have ideas I consider a little kooky. Hell, I’m sure a lot of people would find my ideas kooky. But, right now, I think we’re seeing some of society’s kookiest ideas being preached by authority like gospel that must be enforced. From what I can tell (granted, I only know the basics), the QAnon people aren’t pushing anything on me beyond being opposed to pedophilia. And I’m good with that.
This, it isn’t just Epstein. You’ve got the (repeated) Catholic church scandals, the Penn State, USA gymnastics. In every case, people knew, and yet covered it up. Thinking there’s a paedophile ring in upper government isn’t crazy.
Not, I have no idea what Q anon people believe, but that broad idea; not crazy.
Going back further (and abroad), there has been more than one “elite” pedophile scandal overseas, too. I recall a big semi-covered up one in Belgium from awhile back.
There’s a certain logic to it. The kind of manipulative, narcissistic person who would be a pedophile is a natural for politics (electoral or bureaucratic). They are naturally driven into underground networks because their sexual practices are disgusting and illegal, and they know they will need protection if they come under suspicion. GIven these dynamics, the only real surprise would be if there aren’t pedophile rings operating at least in part inside the government and other insular institutions.
Fair enough. But, thinking that it’s some sort of organized, coordinated. pervasive, activity? That seems like a leap of faith. Not saying it’s crazy. Just that I’m not convinced and it seems like a stretch to go that far.
Is there a single, massive, overarching conspiracy that involves practically everyone at a high level in government?
Nah.
Are there ranking government officials who are pedophiles? I’d be shocked if there weren’t. Do they get protection if suspected? Dude, “ranking government officials”.
Precisely. But, if you accept the latter as true (and it almost certainly is) is it “crazy” to think the former? Meh. Wrong? Sure. A little kooky? Maybe. But, not outside the realm of possibility.
*Birds of a feather flock together.
*Birds enable each other.
*Birds create a network to get their jollies.
*Birds protect each other by keeping their mouths shut.
*Suddenly, the flock becomes a coordinated, pervasive activity.
It doesn’t start out that way.
This. You don’t have to jump all the way to the illuminati to recognize the possibility of cabals forming around shared fondness for certain illegal activity. Does that make QAnon any less kooky? No.
OK, University of Kent has a tardigrade collider. That is awesome. The tardigrades can survive up to Mach 0.9 impacts. That is also awesome.
https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/1397110896514805760
I think it’s mean to call University of Kent folks tardigrades.
I built a retardigrade collider. They made it through safe because of the helmets.
Too Many Asians in Math?
@joboaler
: “mathematics is the most inequitable subject.. you can predict who goes forward in mathematics by.. their racial background”
Her math framework says “32% of Asian American students are in gifted programs compared with 8% of white students”
https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/1396964341262348289
I remember there was a sport called chess boxing. To make math more equitable make each math test have a playing basketball component.
People won’t dig into things like, work ethic, family life, the overall environment that people thrive in as part of the equation because it never points to race.
Thomas Sowell looms large.
Correlation ≠ Causation.
Because pushing more students whose parents don’t a shit about their education and who are unprepared and who are uninterested into gifted programs will totally work this time.
Deal, every firearm that delivers less than 30 rouonds per trigger is OK, right?
https://twitter.com/Tactical_review/status/1396889245499940868
Obligatory.
Antifa’s role is outliving its usefulness it seems if Brennan is making such comments.
*EXTREMELY SHOCKED FACE*
WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE SEEN THIS COMING??!!?
– 1 Night of the long knives
I’ve never seen so many narratives get backpedaled at once. At this rate, the left will be apologizing for the Russia hoax and for stealing the 2020 election by next week.
To be fair! His whole statement is there are bad dudes and gals on both sides.
Fuck that Easter Island head looking skull faced bastard. I hated him when he criticized the right and I still hate him now.
To that, I have no disagreement. He is a lying piece of shit and he knows it. He threatened the POTUS with his dog-whistle comment about being screwed six-ways from Sunday by the IC.
Agreed. He belongs in jail.
Hmm. “Jail” isn’t a brand of woodchipper. Disappointing.
I thought it was scandinavian, pronounced like ‘yale’.
Not the bee?
REPUBLICANS POUNCE!
This is the NYT for ya. No, the article isn’t about the fact that attacking Jews is an evil thing, but that doing so helps the right point out the left is full of anti-Semites!
FFS. Nevermind people being beaten in the street, the Republicans could use this to gain power! We can’t have that!
I wonder if it’s occurred to her that it’s only a “gift” to the right because the right seems to be the only ones inclined to do the right thing and stand up to antisemitism.
They’re incapable of separating their moral judgement from their political desires.
“On closer inspection, though, the reason for this investment comes clearly into view: That, like the people who openly root for a shooter to be of a particular color or political persuasion, Rubin and Co. believe that the answer to the question, “Where did the virus originate?” is much less important than the answer to the question, “What will Americans make of the answer to the question, ‘Where did the virus originate?’” Or, put another way: What has really mattered to those who have been scornful of the “lab leak” theory was not the underlying scientific question of whether it is true, but what the people they dislike might think and say as a result of its being discovered to be true.
And, indeed, if it is true that the COVID-19 outbreak was the result of an accident at a laboratory in China, we might well come to reevaluate some things. We might come to see virologists both as the villains and the heroes of the piece. Western criticism of the Chinese Communist Party — which far too many left-leaning Americans have decided represents “xenophobia” — might increase. There might be a great deal of justified anger aimed at the handful of people who have cause this much suffering and damage. We might have to acknowledge that Tom Cotton was right about something. And we might end up less worried about Donald Trump’s having called it the “China virus.” It is certainly not a coincidence that the people who have been the most dismissive of the lab-leak theory are the people most desperate to avoid these eventualities.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-lab-theory-cover-up-when-truth-serves-prejudice/
I read everything now through the filter of “This is what somebody wants me to believe. Who, and why?”
^^^^This. I have been trying to get that across to my teens. Be skeptical, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Why do they want you to see an event in a certain way.
https://twitter.com/JoePCunningham/status/1397185918365224967
Wow
“the scientific animation that shows how it is virtually impossible…”
Where do you even start with morons such as these? What makes an animation “scientific”? What gives anything scientific immunity to skepticism and criticism?
Trump said mean things about China.
Dude, we can get more accurate COVID-19 theories from Dragonball Z than something you put out.
AHAHAHA
Won’t open for me. I assume it’s a cartoon debunking the lab theory or some nonsense?
Ah, opened: just keep in mind that the WaPo fact checker isn’t a fact checker but rather a narrative manager and you’ll be fine.
a narrative manager
Stolen.
Why do you not trust people that have proven to be untrustworthy?