Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful day it always is!
Inflation hovers at 9.7% in producer index, right near highest on record
GOP senators demand vote to defund vaccine mandates before funding government
Louisville activist arrested for attempted murder of mayoral candidate pushed socialism, gun control
Conservative political satirist and journalist P.J. O’Rourke dead at 74
Jury Finds New York Times Not Liable In Palin Defamation Case: ‘Unintentional’
Biden, Democrats Eye Suspension of 18-Cent Federal Gas Tax: Report
Truck Trailer Prices Up Nearly 30%
59% of U.S. Voters Support Canadian Truckers in ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protest
Freedom Convoy truckers remain defiant in the face of Justin Trudeau’s draconian new measures
Seattle’s Nanny-State Soda Tax Backfired Spectacularly New Study Shows
Bob Saget’s family files an injunction to prevent more details about his cause of death made public
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh’
“Inflation hovers at 9.7% in producer index, right near highest on record”
According to an article I read the other day, if you use the calculations we had in the 80s for inflation, the ones they changed so they could hide inflation’s impact, we are at over 15% right now.
Yes
Clinton changed the rules on that and counting unemployment.
yup
Pretty sneaky, sis.
Yeah, I get the feeling the economy is already worse than it was in the early 80’s.
There’s still so much public money sloshing around that it easily masks the real pain hiding behind the debt ridden smoke and mirrors. What a colossal waste.
The part that “scares” me is the number of people who have bought into the narrative that this time its different. The slow, tepid recovery from 2008 has allowed people to go a decade without a downturn, and the number of people I run into who believe that we should be “taking advantage of the interest rates” by getting into sky-high debt is sobering. Your low interest rate doesn’t do much for you when your $3k mortgage comes due and you have $500 in the bank.
Unfair! I demand that Biden cancel
student loanmortgage debt.I’d say at least 20%.
“Inflation hovers at 9.7% in producer index, right near highest on record”
Fuck Joe Biden.
This is Wednesday. do we really want to temp sugarfree?
Is it not written, “Thou shalt not tempt SugarFree, the author”?
Well, you just wrote it just now, so…
“Has it not been written?”
Temp him where?
It would be fun to watch the prudes try to deal with him.
“GOP senators demand vote to defund vaccine mandates before funding government”
Are they just grandstanding? I tend to not take team red seriously about this shit cause while they are not a crime syndicate like team blue, they are usually a bunch of lying opportunist hacks.
I figure they are getting a share of the money.
Paul and Lee aren’t grandstanding. The others? Who knows.
I’m a pragmatist on this one. I don’t care if they stop it for votes or because they believe in it (pause for 15 minutes of uncontrollable laughter). I just want it stopped.
“Jury Finds New York Times Not Liable In Palin Defamation Case: ‘Unintentional’”
This is why they feel they can keep lying without impunity. This law needs to be changed.
At the very least, knock it down to a “reckless disregard” standard or something.
Unintentional, didn’t give a shit if it was true or not and couldn’t be bothered to check, what difference at this point does it make?
If you just made it up on the fly how could you know it wasn’t true? It could have been.
Freedom Convoy coverage has vanished here after reporting that they were cleared away from the Ambassador bridge. Trying to make the story go away? Gordi still in twitjail? Judge Nap have a n opinion on the situation?
Gun control advocates are inherently more violent than people who oppose gun control.
They suffer from typical mind fallacy, just like everyone else.
What I find quite telling is that most of them want EVERYONE ELSE to not be able to own weapons so they can keep a monopoly on violence. When you want to riot and do your Christmas shopping early whenever you can create a politically advantageous bullshit campaign for the marxist movement, armed people, able & willing to resist and defend their property and things, have to be a bummer to your riot, rape, and loot groove.
typical mind fallacy?
Believing that other people have the same values, beliefs, paradigms, thought processes etc as yourself.
The Copernican Principle applied to humans. Equally as unsupported.
They go far farther than just believing. They demand it to be part of the collective. Anyone that even deviates by a bit can and will be targeted for termination from the collective. This shit is quasi-religious. Nobody is a bigger enemy of a religion that its apostates.
Well yes. If you don’t have the same values/beliefs/etc as them then obviously you must be defective. Either morally or mentally. This will require you to be reeducated or institutionalized, whichever.
That pic in the DM article is right up there with buffalo hat guy in terms of iconicalness. It must be the use of fur hats.
Canadian guy does have a better beard. But Buffalo Hat guy’s facepaint really makes the image “pop,” yanno?
“Published in PLoS, the study found that consumers responded to the tax by purchasing less soda—and purchasing more beer, instead.”
I don’t see the problem here. Besides excise taxes being stupid in the first place.
Soda will make you fat, but not necessarily make you hit your wife and fall down the stairs.
You say ‘no thank you’ for the soda, because soda makes you fat.
“Biden, Democrats Eye Suspension of 18-Cent Federal Gas Tax: Report”
Must be cause they want to make sure Obama’s disproven claim that you can’t drill your way out of high prices is bolstered again. The one way to lower energy prices doesn’t suit the people running things that have invested in green tech and will not get huge returns if the consumer is allowed to choose.
It is standard election season theater. They aren’t proposing to repeal the tax.
“Louisville activist arrested for attempted murder of mayoral candidate pushed socialism, gun control”
How sure are we that this wasn’t a lone rogue gun doing it’s thing? We already know SUVs run over Christmas parade honkeys on their own and then the story disappears, so I suspect this story will do the same.
Because the bullet damaged the clothing of a politico with a (D) after xer name.
Poor Bob, why won’t they leave geek costume aficionados alone?
Crack Mayor’s brother has turned against Brandeau. That’s five Provinces down, five to go.
Wait, what? Ford blinked?
He was ready to use the shock troops just a couple of days ago.
No political career can survive without the acceptance of Nunavut.
Hier – https://youtu.be/HxZKUFv-E_E
It’s a great development, even if I want that fat bastard to be rendered and used for candles anyway.
PJ got out at the right time. He’d had lots of fodder these days but would be like the guy in a round house looking for a corner to pee in.
He did really solid work at the National Lampoon and Playboy when both of those magazines meant something.
I read several of his books along the journey…
He stopped writing books when he ceased to be amusing. Sadly he didn’t stop writing/talking elsewhere.
Later on he endorsed Hillary.
It was hardly a ringing endorsement, but disappointing nonetheless.
He could have declined to endorse anyone.
For a guy that was once in a hippie group in Baltimore that called themselves the “Balto-Cong” – he sure ended up embracing The Man at the end….
Parliament of Whores was a defining read for me back in college. To see him become a statist authoritarian was depressing.
Yes.
Trump must have personally belittled him is my thought. PJ always seemed to be walking raw nerve. Ah well, we’ll always have camper’s cramp…
Trump exposed a lot of what people were hiding behind masks. Trust is down across the board. Not because of what Trump did, but because what people did in response to Trump.
Most (not all of course) old folks end up valuing comfort and security towards the end. It’s just the natural order and not his fault really.
old folks end up valuing comfort and security towards the end. </em.
Are we still talking about endorsing Hilary Clinton here?
Clinton’s corruption and authoritarianism was comforting compared to all the made up scenarios in his head like Trump launching nukes with mean tweets.
“Most Democrats want social media censorship: poll
Additionally, 44% of government employees state that they want to restrict speech online…
The poll of 1,000 American adults from Jan. 4-5, 2022, found that among Democrats, censorship more than doubled over four years. CNSNews reported that 25% of Democrats in Jan. 2018 expressed a desire for social media speech restrictions compared to 57% in Jan. 2022.
The wealthier a person is, the more likely he or she is to support censorship. Of people earning less than $30,000 annually, 27% support censorship, compared to 52% of people earning more than $200,000 a year, CNSNews stated.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/most-democrats-want-social-media-censorship-poll
Democracy dies in darkness.
People that refuse to believe what the collective wants them to believe are a danger to civilization. Civilization can only be healthy if the masses are mindless drones.
I can’t believe what has happened up here. Nominally free thinking people are gripped by mania. “Bring on Torquemada!” they cry. This is not what my Grandparents fought and died for. We’ll keep resisting , as best as we can. Flags, horns, colourful posters. They have stuck their dick in the hornets nest.
Fear is a powerful tool Festus. And people that are driven by the feminized emotional society we live in these days are very easy to scare into accepting all sorts of evil if they are but told that evil will protect them from their fears.
Thousands die in crowded theater and no one hollered “Fire”
And they are getting it.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1493734966391304193
Defiant Ls suspended.
Twitter suspends Defiant-L’s account, so they are responding to the demands of their user base.
Why the WSJ is occasionally worth its high subscription cost. Long read, however.
A Crucial Clue in the $4.5 Billion Bitcoin Heist: A $500 Walmart Gift Card
The more recent crypto scam is people telling other crypto currency owners that they are running a campaign of some kind and if target transfers their crypto currency into the wallet of the person running the campaign, they would receive a huge reward. This is an innovative play on the whole Nigerian oil prince racket of old. You would be surprised how many smart people holding crypto currency fall for this stupid shit because their greed blinds them to the fact that when you move the currency, you lost the currency. And many of these rackets I suspect are run by government affiliated entities from countries we would usually label as shitholes.
I seem to recall you mentioned a former girlfriend that didn’t remember, “if it seems to good to be true…”
Yup…
“Under-fire Eric Adams plays the race card: New NYC mayor suggests white reporters are racist in covering bail reforms and surging crime – and threatens to stop talking to press”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10516499/Eric-Adams-blames-white-media-negative-media-coverage-bail-reforms-amid-NYC-crime-surge.html
CWAA
Didn’t take him long to show his true self, eh?
Nope.
The Post should put him on the front page with the headline, “Don’t criticize me, I’m black”.
Why criticizing Eric Adams is a January 6th moment.
Hasn’t he learned how to plant questions with friendly journalists?
Do you mean like NYPD plants guns…
Inflation…right near highest on record
When inflation was high in the 70’s and early 80’s, you could get over 5% in a bank savings account and well over 10% with CD’s or bonds. So there was still positive yield on “safe” savings.
Have just sold a house that was close to paid off last week, we get to sit and watch our cash depreciate in value until we buy the next one.
Yup. The fucking of the American taxpayer and saver is going to be massive this time around.
Every day, every single day, our family’s retirement decrease $200
I bought my first house with an 8.5 % loan and started an IRA that was paying some astronomical mount, I forget the %, in the mid ’70s.
I refinanced about 2000 to 6.25% and thought “This is a crazy low rate, I will never beat this!”
I’m to the point that I’ll take PMI over this shit. I’d rather pay 10% down and get the money out of the bank than watch the sum wither away in the face of price inflation.
PMI is what, an additional .5% to 1% on the loan?
But I keep getting offers from all the credit card companies for super high interest to open a savings account with them. With a whopping 0.50% APY!
I want the savings rate to keep up with real inflation and for both to be relatively low.
“and force towing companies to drag away the 400 rigs”
That would be interesting to watch.
I’d slow walk, have equipment “break” and generally not get the job done.
unionize?
Remove one wheel. “Sorry, it’s cracked, not road-worthy.” That’s how you do passive-aggressive.
Sabotaging equipment is particularly effective right now as a lot of parts are generally unavailable.
I’d call in sick with COVID like symptoms. Gives you a 10 day pass with each sniffle day.
“sorry eh, but I had a scratchy throat this morning. Yah, don’t wanna go spreadin’ da Covid ya’ know?”
What’s Emilio Esteves been up to lately?
Probably quit doing coke in the 90’s so probably very far up his own ass with Yoga and such whatnot.
They revived the Mighty Ducks as a Disney+ show and apparently they offered him whatever they had in their wallets at the moment to come back. It worked. No idea if anyone watches it, but based on the average quality of Marvel and Star Wars shows, I have to assume it’s not worth my 4 year old’s time.
Tow truck drivers in Australia said they weren’t going to be removing trucks.
Giggity!
The Infinity Open needs ROs. Mid-north TX in October is completely tolerable. Researching pet courier costs now.
Sweet holy fuckballs, quotes are ranging from $1800 to $4k.
Time to start taking long drives with her I guess.
RO = Range Operator?
Official, but yeah.
What do you need a courier for?
She’ll only fly in first class.
Oh, a courier for his pet dog. I read that as “pet courier” meaning some special type of courier for his guns or something.
First class flight would be cheaper — these quotes are one-way.
Hmm. Never shot that one.
So far in ’22, except for gallivanting up to Rochester in August, I’m staying mostly in the MD/VA/NC axis.
I have family in Houston who want to meet the dog. Getting a per diem and partial travel costs would make the situation much more attractive.
It’s supposed to be a good match, too. The Texas boys tend to put together some nifty stages.
I did already apply to RO the SIG nationals in CO which is just before.
Also:
What, like ballboys? Except high school girls in Wranglers?
I’ve been to a couple of majors where the Boy Scouts or Police Explorers did all the stage resetting. It’s wonderful. This should be standard procedure for Level II and up matches.
Agreed. At the 2006 Limited Nationals it was so nice not to have to paste.
Of course, at our Level I matches, we have some jerks who come in from other states and further away in our state who treat the match staff like crap and don’t paste their own.
https://www.rt.com/news/549541-migrants-mouths-sewed-protest/
What?
Destabilizing the entirety of Central America by encouraging mass migration is working out so well.
Just goes to show what a terribly racist country America really is. Those poor stitch-witches are protesting the fact that the United States are actively embargoing needles and thread.
Did I just watch the Wednesday SF teaser trailer?
Literally sewing lips shut? What?
That sounds an awful lot like kink-shaming there, miss.
SJWednesday: Now Do Priuses
Uh no. Men that are are suicidal usually mean it. It’s not graze across the forearm but an actual do or die situation. This has been settled behavioral science for nearly a century. What the fuck?
“Central to this problem is men’s interest in owning firearms.” asserted the government funded fabulist, without evidence.
An actual example of begging the question.
*sound of window smashing downstairs
Wife: “Honey, you call the police, I’ll go take care of this”
*Wife slides out of bed, drops into kung-fu stance, cautiously approaches hallway.
END SCENE
Oh wait, that’s not how any of this works.
You have to be crazy to believe that shit.
The Louisville shooting stinks like a false flag gone wrong. It’s possible the shooter intended to miss and then get away–to highlight the gun and “violent rhetoric” issues for his political side. Was the candidate or their staff in on it? I’d be really surprised if they were.
Was the shooter stupid or deranged enough to think that a false flag attempt on the life of a politician would serve him? Well, the alternate argument is that he was stupid or deranged enough that the actual death of a politician at his hand would serve him.
He think he was just nuts. Not a false flag, just an internal democratic party fight.
Maybe. But was he nuts enough to kill or nuts enough to try to frame an attempted killing as a political issue?
last sentence should be: Well, the alternate argument is that he was stupid or deranged enough to believe that the actual death of a politician at his hand would serve him.
Bolding mine. RIP PJ.
I wonder if it was the libertine side of libertarianism that turned PJ off so much that he just became another Rockefeller.
He was a libertine in his younger days. That was sort of the point of Republican Party Reptile right? Isn’t that the one about drunk driving on the curvy mountain roads with the young woman in his car?
He definitely did a shitload of drugs and drank like a fish.
I think it’s just the case for most people that, when your surrounding environment and social circles are primarily composed of the same people you’re satirizing, you will inevitably develop affection for them and gravitate towards becoming what you previously disdained. PJ O’Rourke was a luminary of a literary world that is almost entirely composed of leftists. He appeared on NPR often. He wrote for Rolling Stone for many years. He lived for years in DC (although not recently). He certainly disagreed with them on most subjects, but at a fundamental level they were his people. I think it’s revealing how he described Hillary when he endorsed her over Trump, saying something like she’s terrible, but terrible in a normal way.
Yep, I think that is it. Sort of similar with George Will, they didn’t want someone “outside the system” running things. One of them used the devil you know description.
Trump was a blank slate (in more ways than one). Whoever got to him was going to drive policy. He literally could have done anything. And that is scary to insiders.
Superficially he was a blank slate. In practice he mostly operated like a boilerplate politician. He made no attempts whatsoever at doing anything that could be considered profoundly disruptive or radical. At best he turned the wheel on the aircraft carrier enough to change it’s direction about .01 degrees.
Forgot to add, this is why I don’t trust libertarian writers who live in DC or LA or NY. Like, oh, say, Reason staffers. It takes someone of uncommon fortitude to willingly make oneself a social pariah among one’s peers. We joke about cocktail parties, but there truly is something to the idea that being persona non grata with the vast majority of the people around you is something few people will abide.
Manhattan Contrarian has a sad…
Heh….it’s not an ironclad rule, more of a rule of thumb.
I can sympathize with that.
As chip said, you cant trust libertarians in NYC.
?
I hear Omaha is nice (from absolutely no one).
You obviously don’t hang around with furries.
This reminds me, I really need to write the article about that time (May 22, 2019) Warren Buffet laid me off.
Not personally, of course. But I was working for a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire, so he can’t even deflect partial blame.
I enjoyed him on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me when I used to listen to it 10 years ago.
No. Like so many other libertarian conservatives, 9/11 broke P.J.’s brain.
If P.J. O’Rourke was a punk band, Give War A Chance was his major label debut.
Ah, that’s right. I remember his shift right around then.
I think the flip was when he had a kid.
A lot of the book is great, the chapters on Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland in particular.
The Gulf War parts…..eh, not so much.
I will add that reading Parliament of Whores in high school probably did more to shape my political opinions than anything else. It remains a classic and dead-on accurate.
Food for though: When real labor awakens to the true parasitic nature of the Left, the whole system comes crashing down.
In September of 1981, the Soviet Union seemed an uncrackable monolith. On its frontiers stood a NATO force that would last only a few weeks were a conventional war to break out. The Soviets could rely upon apologists in Western academia and the media to amplify their propaganda and stifle voices demanding freedom. Yet the opposition of a labor union to Soviet Communism powerfully undermined its claim to legitimacy. The very symbol of that communism—the intersection of a hammer and sickle—implicitly claimed the entire Soviet system was just one large pro-worker’s union. We remember that Solidarity was the exception to the general rule that the central political authority controlled all unions in the Soviet Empire. We are reminded of that when we see modern American Unions paradoxically support open borders-style immigration and slavishly support the Democratic agenda.
That’s an interesting parallel that this article draws between the damage the Solidarity movement causes to the marxist movement and the current disaster playing out in Canada right now. The USSR’s downfall started the day Lenin declared the existence of the USSR as a communist paradise and then immediately proceeded to write orders to kill his enemies. But the real nail in the coffin came when the working class turned against the marxists indoctrination in Poland, and then across the rest of the Soviet evil empire. The left’s rebirth of the new race based marxism is now also under attack by the real working class – the truckers – and they are in a panic, because the elite that usually are the ones in power peddling the lies they don’t believe in and holding all others to rules they never follow themselves, sees the parallels.
I would suspect that Castro’s illegitimate child would be one to quickly understand the threat this real workers movement would mean for the lefts race based marxist movement.
The parallels are almost endless.
Unsustainable economic policy. Check.
Vast foreign entanglements and militarism. Check.
Geriatric and decrepit leaders. Check.
Rampant internal corruption. Check.
Black Swan event highlighting the corruption of the entire governmental edifice. Check.
The sick thing is that there are many people in this world that will take away from the lesson of the USSR that a tighter grip on society is all that was needed to prevent the collapse.
Many of them live in Russia.
It didn’t help that the policies of the US in the 90’s and 00’s only worsened the Russian economic situation and threatened their borders.
Don’t forget China. The two top lessons the CCP walked away with was that you wanted absolute control of what people knew/believed and that it was necessary to insulate government from direct control of the economy, even when it is a top down planned economy, because of the inherent conflict marxism creates between the need for people in charge to be loyal foremost to the top men and you wanting the smartest most capable people in charge. So the CCP abandoned marxist economic policy for fascism, then worked with the west to make themselves a ton of cash and coopted media to make media work for them.
Fascism is simply a refinement of Marxism.
China still blows. A quarter of the country lives on under $15 a day while they host the most embarrassing Olympics of all time.
Which is why there are many Russians today who figure, “Well, we were poor as Soviets, and we’re poor now, but at least under the Soviet Union the world feared us”
??
Americans have a very dim-witted view of Putin’s popularity in his own country. It’s colored by our idiotic domestic politics.
I think Putin may be more popular even here than Biden actually.
It’s not even close. Putin’s domestic approval has remained above 60% for twenty years.
No I mean here in the US. I was kind of joking but only kind of.
It’s going to be close.
*orders 2022 Putin calendar*
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Calendar-Vladimir-Putin-English-Russian/dp/B09JP3GVX7/
I certainly have a lot more respect for Putin than Biden (low hurdle there). Putin’s smart and tough and will do what he believes is best for his country – the opposite of Biden on all counts.
Russia has been a broken and corrupt country for centuries. The US had didly squat to perpetuate it or cause it. Go read Anna Karenina – even there the petty nobles can see the current system sucks, other world powers are on the rise, and they are a decaying empire, but they don’t know the way out. Levin tries, but the peasants won’t trust him, and the rest just carry on and hope they aren’t around when the guillotines come out.
I don’t disagree. I’m merely pointing out that US policy has exacerbated the situation. Expanding NATO was a foolish, unnecessary, and dangerous enterprise.
Disbanding NATO was really the appropriate response. NATO only existed to counter the Eastern Bloc.
Close. NATO also existed to slosh cash into a lot of pockets
More central planning done by better leaders like the squad and Maxine Waters is all we need, right.
The firearms found at Coutts, Alberta stink of Glowie. Strangers show up and start making noise? Then they bust the guys. Apparently a shipment of guns has mysteriously gone missing in Ontario. 2000 of them. Guns have a mind of their own so they will be presently be found in the nation’s capital. Nothing to see here, Citizen. Move along.
Being able to convince people that the truckers pose such a threat sure as hell would allow Castro’s illegitimate child to pretend he had good reason to go full tyrant…
Read today that 60% of Americans support the truckers and so do the majority of Canadians. He’s not winning the narrative despite the media all being on his side.
Trudeau’s a cornered rat.
If he loses this round, his political career is over. His ego isn’t going to allow him to go quietly, so he’s going to pull out all the stops if he can.
Saw even Quebec is pulling mandates now. He stands alone… against truckers… who are 90% vaccinated…. after we know the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection.
Dude looks nuts.
He is nuts.
Hopefully he goes full Ceaucescu.
You never go full Ceaucescu
The Hair that Walks As a Man lost as soon as he called the protesters racists, homophobes, etc. Everyone sees truckers on a daily basis, they know who is driving the trucks, and it ain’t just white men.
They should check those Sikhs’ turbans for weapons…
ZOMG! He’s got a knife!
Isn’t the daily wear knife some tiny thing?
Depends. Some Sikhs carry a picture of a kirpan, because its really the mindset that counts. Some carry a straight-up chopper.
Why check, of course they have weapons.
Heh. Good luck with that! Ever tried to to touch a Black person’s hair?
More on that Defiant L’s twitter suspension:
https://twitter.com/matthewyoung31/status/1493748152721096707
Fuck twatter and this new thing that they demand you log in.
No login, no credit for your eyeballs to sell to advertisers.
Clear yo cookies.
That would make me lose access to all those porn links Q gave us….
Brave lets me read it without logging in. I agree, logging in = no go.
The four year old is asking questions that are entirely too deep for 8am. Questions like “why does elmo’s house turn into a crayon drawing?” and “is elmo talking to real people or are they all in his imagination?”
I don’t know, kid. I don’t know. Maybe we’ll find a different puppet video for the 1 year old to watch.
Tell the kid that’s what happens when you do drugs.
This would be better for a 4yo…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXSVnIC4Ag
Your kid isn’t asking profound questions about climate change, white supremacy and transphobia? You are never going to get many likes.
Hobbes says real.
But what do Locke and Rousseau think?
Don’t forget young Amy Carter. Nukes are forever
But then your 1 year old will be a little bit of a grouch….
Joe Biden hardest hit
As President Joe Biden makes a final diplomatic push to stave off a Russian invasion of Ukraine, he is faced with looming political consequences at home that could have long-lasting effects on the Democratic Party’s ability to maintain its power in Washington.
A Russian invasion of Ukraine, which White House officials have said could occur as early as this week, would be likely to drive up gas prices amid the highest inflation in decades, wipe out significant gains in the stock market and give Republicans a new line of attack to argue against Biden’s foreign policy acumen — putting an already unpopular presidency on even shakier ground with voters heading into the fall midterm elections, Democratic strategists and pollsters said.
The White House “needs to prepare the American people for what might happen in Ukraine if Putin invades and how that war impacts American national interests,” said Michael McFaul, who was the U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We can pretend that wars far away don’t affect us, but history, especially World War I and World War II, shows they tend to eventually influence our security.”
Poor Joe. He’s just an innocent victim. Minding his own business, he is.
Didn’t the Biden administration simply make up that Putin was planning to invade and no country in central Europe thought so?
Pretty much.
Including Ukraine funny enough.
Yep. The US media breathlessly reports “RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE MASSING ON THE UKRAINE BORDER” and the Ukrainians just shrugged and said “Yeah, they always have troops on our border”
The whole thing is a rather hamfistedly obvious attempt to hype a nonexistent invasion so that President Oatmeal Brain can preen that his wise diplomacy prevented the war, thus in theory boosting his hilariously awful polling.
They might try to spin it as a victory for Biden and whatnot but only partisans and fools are going to but that. If anything it shows that Russia could invade if they decide to and all we’ll do is wrong our hands and issue empty threats (which is all we really should do but making such a big deal of it is a huge mistake). Frankly we know that going to war with Russia over Ukraine isn’t in our interests and now that’s plainly clear to everyone.
The Russian Ukraine invasion has been just around the corner for weeks now.
two weeks?
Two weeks to flatten the Kiev.
OK I LOL’d.
That’s………….That’s the best I have seen in a long time.
Bravo.
Thanks!
OK, so I put it out there…. https://twitter.com/FlyingFastNLow/status/1493967913467977728
Yep, I’m going to guard against any Swiss contracted eyelids on that one.
I am so gonna use that, db.
feel free to retweet
You’re still cracking me up.
Like I have a Twitter account.
I didn’t have one until a few weeks ago–created for a project I’m considering
“To be clear, if Russia decides to invade, that will also have consequences here at home, but the American people understand that defending democracy and liberty is never without cost,” Biden said.
Defend liberty? We should try that here.
No, no, no – here is about obedience, liberty is for other people and we must defend it for them.
Democracy dies without Democrats in power!!!
The Biden administration appears to be arguing that the vaccine mandate should stand because it’s cheaper than testing.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1493727645565128704
There are only ever two options.
It rubs the lotion on its skin. Or else it gets the hose again.
That’s not coercion, that’s choice. EDUCATE YOLURSELF
And only one of those is acceptable–the other, beyond the pale, and only even considered by the most evil, racist people imaginable.
False choice.
That doesn’t make any sense.
That is Beyond Stupid®.
They’re going to test them incessantly anyway.
If the cash flow from the vax dries up, they’ve got to backfill with something.
In the article about the Senate vote on defunding mandates, why are there links to every Senator except Cruz and Rand?
A ‘Fair Fares’ PrA ‘Fair Fares’ Program So Exclusive, Barely Anyone Can Qualify For It
Remember folks:
AD = Aggregate Demand – the total planned expenditure in an economy.
AD=c-i-g-x-m
Aggregate Demand is composed of various factors C, I, G, X – M
C= Consumer spending
I = Investment (Gross Fixed Capital Formation)
G= Government Spending
X= Exports
M= Imports
So – consumption, investment, spending – they are all the same!
Let’s not account for the massive piles of money that are already being thrown at “the poor”.
https://beckernews.com/san-francisco-stunner-voters-get-revenge-on-school-board-for-abusing-children-during-covid-44178/
Yeah, but a commie gets to pick the replacements. So…not really a win in the end?
The entire system is corrupt so until they throw it all off, it’s going to suck for them.
But that’s what they wanted.
At least some people’s eyes have been opened.
Alright Glibbies. Need to feed the pets and and get some sleep. Five Provinces down, five to go. BC will be the last one, I just know it. Have as best of one as you can!
And the hits just keep on coming
President Biden is launching a multi-pronged program to reduce industrial sector greenhouse gas emissions.
The centerpiece of the plan, which will cover activities like manufacturing and cement production, is $8 billion in spending on Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, a Department of Energy initiative funded by the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. (Clean Hydrogen, also known as Green Hydrogen, is created using low-carbon energy sources and can be used as a replacement for natural gas in uses such as heating.)
The administration is also creating a Buy Clean Task Force that will prioritize buying products with lower carbon footprints for federal agencies such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation. On Tuesday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality will also issue guidance on how to ensure that carbon capture and storage — a process in which emissions from factories or power plants would be captured at the smokestack and stored underground — can be done in an environmentally responsible manner.
“With these announcements, we won’t just be creating more manufacturing jobs, we’ll be advancing clean manufacturing, so that we can lead the world with an industrial sector that is rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions [and] rapidly reducing local air pollution,” a senior administration official told reporters during a Monday press briefing.
Let’s take the rent money to the dog track and invest it.
There are only ever two options.
Failure is always an option.
Anyone seen the L0b0t recently?
No and I’m getting worried. He wasn’t on the zooms Friday or Saturday.
There are a bunch of people I haven’t seen in a long time.
I’m sorry. I’ll start bathing more often.
I’m quite concerned.
No, I haven’t. Last I saw of him was a reply to a comment of mine late last week, which I replied to and didn’t see a response form him.
I can reach him directly. I’ll let you know.
Thank you.
username. gmail.com Lobot’s is tricky. Iobot? L0bot? lob0t? Who fucking knows, it worked once. Good luck and God speed!
I am concerned.
My email never landed. I thought he just got busy or went to sleep. His address is a combination of the above. I tried.
Did you try l0b0t at gmail?
I have his email. I will email him when I get to my office.
I contacted him via his Go Fund Me
I also emailed him.
Have just sold a house that was close to paid off last week, we get to sit and watch our cash depreciate in value until we buy the next one.
#METOO.
But I’d rather not see a Bidenomics-induced 50% haircut in the market, so there it sits.
Same. Fucking housing market is still insane.
not everywhere
Good morning, Banjos!
That’s all I got for today.
That’s a lot of lynx!
RIP, PJ. You were funny until you weren’t. It happens.
Happy to see the truckers are staying the course.
59% of U.S. Voters Support Canadian Truckers in ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protest
Good news! Of course 85% have no idea they exist.
Have a great day, peeps! Keep that misery index trending down!
Black pill: 41% of US voters support an authoritarian regime trying to crush peaceful demonstrators. Not sure that the Chicoms got that high of an approval here re Hong Kong.
(*40% of Americans supporting authoritarianism is probably low period, just change the names/parties involved)
Since much of Biden’s agenda to address climate change would require construction of products such as wind turbines that utilize steel or cement, it is important to reduce those emissions as much as possible.
“As you look at things like steel and cement and aluminum, the real opportunity to decarbonize comes from harnessing technologies that weren’t available in the past,” said the second administration official, referring to green hydrogen and carbon capture-and-storage, as well as the potential to use new, low-carbon materials in some products.
We should build those wind farms out of plastic!
Bamboo dude, bamboo…
low-carbon materials
And here I thought steel, cement, and aluminum were pretty low-carbon.
Oh, you mean dust-to-dust? Let’s take a gander at batteries, then.
WTF is “green hydrogen”, anyway? It was my impression that refining hydrogen was very energy intensive, with a net loss of energy overall (it takes more energy/electricity to refine the hydrogen than it produces).
At some point, you just realize that they hate humanity and want us all to suffer in order to sate their lust for moral superiority.
I wish they would just decarbonize themselves.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Lol. Cats are weird.
Thanks, Holiness! I like this new feature.
We are suffering through the first year of a kitten/cat.
I rigged up a jig stick with a soft body minnow. He loves it when you cast it out and twitch it back. The only problem is that if you play in the “wrong” room he will grab it and start walking back the “right” room. And if you decide that means you can quit playing he starts howling. Then Mrs. Holiness gets mad and says you are just being spiteful.
So I am now officially lower on the totem pole than the cat.
Well, the bottom of the totem pole is officially lower than everything else on the totem pole.
Learn to make mead. It will help you climb a few notches.
Join the club. I would never give Mrs. T an ultimatum: “me or the dogs”, because I know where I stand.
Are you done with pups or just taking a break?
Forwarded, Thanks Jimbo, the world is still good
I have a cat that I can totally see doing that. She’s a Tortie.
WTF is “green hydrogen”, anyway?
It’s made with pixie dust.
I thought it was a special D&D classification of dragon.
“No, don’t shoot a fireball at it!!!!”
it is the one not in hydrogen bombs
“Published in PLoS, the study found that consumers responded to the tax by purchasing less soda—and purchasing more beer, instead.”
Isn’t it funny that higher taxes are supposed to make people drink less soda (or smoke less) but that higher taxes on labor don’t decrease the demand for it?
In other news, my prediction came true, SF recalled three school board members. Not like I think that is going to change a damn thing here, but it is at least something, especially as the lead proggie had a 79% recall tally, you don’t often see that kind of number in an election that doesn’t have Kim Jong on the ballot.
Some alert sirens going off at Starbase TX on the live streams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBuR1g3iVs
It’s aliens.
And they’re just in time, I might add.
Road closures starting at 11am ET – exciting! If they clear the village (Boca Chica) then we’ll know a test flight is imminent
Looks like a static test fire imminent
Yeah, they have been receiving methane and LO2 deliveries in the last day or two. Unlikely to be a flight, but possibly a booster static fire. I’d be concerned at firing that booster with the Ship 20 so close by on a transporter.
Probably just a cryo test on the booster today. I don’t think they’ve accomplished that yet on that booster.
Actually cryo test on S20. It’s venting at the moment.
Conservative political satirist and journalist P.J. O’Rourke dead at 74
1. I read funny stuff of his
2. He got less funny in old age
3. If he remained libertarian he would still be alive. I was the lack of drinking whisky and driving fast while getting a handy what killed him
“Asked about an uptick in crimes against Asian Americans, @PressSec says “we’ve seen this rise unfortunately because of hate filled rhetoric and language around the origins of the pandemic.””
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1493704409108332562
“#Asian #American women are being stabbed to death, pushed in front of trains and bashed with bats at an alarming pace in the #US. Don’t fu**en tell me it has nothing to do with the flood of disgusting anti-Chinese reports in Western media.”
https://twitter.com/AndyBxxx/status/1493412030501748739
At least they stopped blaming white supremacy.
Gee, who’s pushing those ladies in front of trains?
Psychotic vagrants, for the most part. No idea of their politics.
Female Asian reporters, apparently
I wonder if anyone has bothered to provide some examples of the “disgusting anti-Chinese reports in Western media”.
I won’t hold my breath.
You cannot criticize the CCP without being racist. It is gospel.
“I have no doubt that this is who is behind @DefiantLs getting banned”
https://twitter.com/BackAgainPeeps/status/1493741188188418050
CWAA
No shit DefiantLs got banned? Keep it up Twitter! Doing a heck of a job.
There isn’t enough server capacity in the world to document all the leftist hypocrisy from the last few years.
But the “I’ll never take the Trump Vaccine!” before pics are especially hilarious.
So barely 2 months are Michael Nesmith dies, PJ winds up dead. What really happened out in Baja in the 80’s? Who’s trying to cover it up? And why now?
2 months are Michael Nesmith? which two?
*2 months after
I vote for July and August to be renamed Michael Nesmith. One big long month.
Whatever was in the trunk of that Malibu finally caught up with them…
“Oh, I don’t think you want to know that”
They always do this.
“How will our True Socialism work? Lol, who cares?! It just somehow will! Because I say so! Details tbc.”
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1493187455448719369
To Be Faaaair I also heard some libertarians saying along the lines of I don’t know how X will be accomplished but given a free society solutions will be found.
To be fair to be fair, these are not all libertarians, the free market has a track record of doing this, and many libertarians who say this do not claim it blanket about everything, and do provide a framework for how many things can be accomplished.
To be fair to be fair to be fair, some libertarians are excessively optimistic of libertopia and do err on the side “things will just be solved”
To be fair to be fair to be fair to be fair, some libertarians think declaring “X needs to be solved” is begging the question.
Some libertarians do hate the children that are not gainfully employed in the mines
I would go with “working” rather than “gainfully employed”.
As a deontological libertarian, I don’t have to even worry about things will be accomplished. The end results are not my problem.
Today, in confirmation bias
Peter Naughton, a 46-year-old who works at the Walmart in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, said most workers are worried about the mask requirement going away. He plans to keep wearing his mask because it protects him and other people.
“It’s not over. It’s still here. It’s going to be here for a while,” Naughton said of the pandemic. “So we need to, you know, take precautions …You never know if another variant is coming, which is very possible.”
That AP dupe could easily have found ten employees (most likely did) willing to gleefully celebrate freedom from enforced masking.
But no. Those poor Walmart employees are all cowering in terror because their corporate overlords put profit before people.
If you’re going to work sneezing into your mask, you might want to reconsider your life choices. Don’t tell me WalMart doesn’t offer you sick days.
IEA Debate: Should classical liberals accept “Net Zero” as a given?
https://iea.org.uk/iea-debate-should-classical-liberals-accept-net-zero-as-a-given/
YES
“Opposing net zero is reminiscent of those final Japanese soldiers who continued fighting World War II for decades on various Pacific islands. We can perhaps excuse their dedication on the basis that they simply were not adequately informed that the war had ended. There is no such excuse for foes of net zero. We know the battle against acting on climate change has been thoroughly lost.
The polling is stark: most people believe the climate is warming due to human activity (72%) and that concerns have not been exaggerated (68%). Though support for action is weaker when people feel a personal cost, the question about ‘net zero’ in itself is not particularly controversial. Almost 4 in 5 (78%) strongly or somewhat support the net zero target. Net zero also has strong support across the major political parties. Even net zero’s most stringent opponents cannot conclude that there’s a realistic chance of the target being repealed.
If we can already see that it is futile to continue the fight then why bother?”
NO
“At heart, the notion classical liberals should accept anything as ‘a given’ is a nonstarter, given that we believe in the right of the individual to dissent, however misguided. We are with Locke not Hobbes on questions of toleration. We do not believe that individuals must espouse a state religion outwardly whatever they believe inwardly. We do believe that the legitimacy of the state comes from consent not absolute authority.
Both aspects are relevant to the modern state religion of Net Zero, and its defining belief that the central purpose of Government is to drive us all to that outcome, with or without our consent.
The ideology of Net Zero is somewhat different to the dry-as-dust scientific viewpoint that to halt man made global warming, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (principally CO2) from human activities must be equal to or lower than those sequestered, either in biomass or storage. The fundamental science is uncontroversial, and can be demonstrated in a lab, with debates today focused on climate sensitivity, and how warming manifests itself through extreme weather, flooding, micro-climates, biodiversity, and activities like agriculture.”
Its almost like believing that there is a problem, and supporting a given solution to a problem, are not the same at all.
“We must do something, this is something, we must do this” is a joke, you know.
To be fair to be fair to be fair, some libertarians are excessively optimistic of libertopia and do err on the side “things will just be solved”
Does every problem get solved? No.
But it’s still better than solving the problems of some at the expense of others through coercion and force.
true, but there are utopian libertarians out there
Yes but they’re stupid.
If you can’t get two libertarians to agree on what Libertarianism is, how can you get the to agree on Utopia?
Try On Haul – con mi amiga Zache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONG1R6lPbs
J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books@JASutherlandBks·3h
Police are fucking incompetent when it comes to injured people.
I witnessed a traffic accident once where a sedan made a left left turn and broadsided a small SUV. The SUV went off the road and overturned.
I stopped and went to the SUV, helped the driver out of the /1
https://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1493923234793799687
well why would they be they are more on the side of hurting people, not fixing
Pretty typical.
Re: Ukraine:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-mocks-us-requests-full-list-ukraine-invasion-dates-year-ahead
I’m afraid the Russians are whipping our ass in the meme war. Gentlemen, we can’t afford a meme gap! Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman: hubba freaking hubba.
I can’t help but compare Maria Zakharova to Madeline Allbright.
*barf*
Jeezus dude, don’t invoke the wildebeest.
I read the title of the article in the link before looking at the website and thought Babylon Bee. Truth is stranger than satire.
Pretty sure I’ve seen her in milf porn
So it’s 7pm in Russia. The Ukrainian President said that the Russians told him today was the day that they were going to strike, that leaves only like 5 hours left. I’m sure it’s getting dark, what do you think they’re waiting for? I mean this whole situation is super really real for realsies and not just a massive tax-payer wasting game of political theater, so this must mean Biden managed to use his super diplomacy powers to diffuse the whole thing right?
. I’m sure it’s getting dark, what do you think they’re waiting for – they attack when least expected. sneaky fuckin Russians
Did he forget to convert the date from Julian to Gregorian? Julian is about two weeks behind Gregorian.
What day did the October Revolution happen in Russia?
25 October/7 November 1917.
remember, remember
some day in November
I can’t remember the reason that thing you’ve been teasin’
Should ever be forgot
If there’s one thing I was taught in the army, it was that attacks only happen at BMNT. Stand to, yo.
Did he send Kamala there or am I misremembering?
Can’t make this shit up.
https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/1493758059268947970
Glowies.
Well, they ran with all the “crypto is bad for the environment” stories and that seemed to work. I literally had a friend bring this up as a reason for his crypto hesitancy.
Next up, Bitcoin literally funds Nazis.
#1 VMO Exercise: The Teardrop Squat Ft. Knees Over Toes Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9dWYfloOQ
I am seeing more and more about this guy as a knee health “guru” and most reviews I saw think he is legit
uk telly shows full frontal nudity on tv after 9pm. i mean full on cock and balls with shows like naked attraction
but this is too much in an advert
https://twitter.com/okshookie/status/1493909612344524802
thicc?
Thats fit not thicc
My digits for lolbot are out of date. They are his work #. Update your contacts, asshole, don’t freak us out like that!
The fundamental science is uncontroversial, and can be demonstrated in a lab, with debates today focused on climate sensitivity, and how warming manifests itself through extreme weather, flooding, micro-climates, biodiversity, and activities like agriculture.
According to our model, our model is correct.
yep. They can totally replicate the climate of an entire planet in a lab.
either way the answer is socialism
there you have it
For the umpteenth fucking time, lab experiments are the lowest form of evidence.
I take that back, computer models are the lowest form of evidence, if you can call it evidence at all.
lab experiments are the lowest form of evidence. – unless we are talking viruses
Well, if you really want to prove its deadly, you release it into the population.
Just sayin’
Speaking of which, where’s TGA?
The last 7 days of closed house sales in #Seattle and the surrounding area with at least 2BR and 1200 sqft, no other requirements.
I can’t even.
https://twitter.com/98codes/status/1493745489870659584
this shows the superior prosperity of liberal cities I would assume
Reefers Restaurant & Rum Bar; 78C6+382, Port Vila, Vanuatu
https://twitter.com/_restaurant_bot/status/1493938746416324610
looks as if it is too warm and that beer is unlikely to be craft. pass
You drink rum drinks there. Duh.
Looks great to me. Even with mediocre beer.
Definitely. Long-ass flight, though.
“Holy f*ck, @LasVegasSun. This editorial was written after the alleged shooter, Quintez Brown, was identified as a left-wing BLM activist.”
https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1493940597652131844
“The alleged shooter, a 21-year-old political activist, was arrested near the scene and later charged with attempted murder along with four counts of wanton endangerment.
While there’s been no indication yet that the activist had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.
The New York Times documented this trend in a story last week based on a review of more than 75 indictments related to threats against lawmakers since 2016.
“In recent years, and particularly since the beginning of (Donald) Trump’s presidency, a growing number of Americans have taken ideological grievance and political outrage to a new level, lodging concrete threats of violence against members of Congress,” the newspaper wrote, adding that the threats “surged during Trump’s time in office and in its aftermath, as the former president’s own violent language fueled a mainstreaming of menacing political speech, and lawmakers used charged words and imagery to describe the stakes of the political moment.”
We’ve all heard this with our own ears: Trump drawing cheers at rallies by suggesting violence his opponents, GOP lawmakers and candidates trying to whip their followers into a frenzy with talk of taking up arms against so-called forms of “tyranny” like mask mandates, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar posting an animated video showing him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword, etc.”
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/feb/16/escalating-hateful-rhetoric-leads-nation-down-a-da/
“That cart has fallen over the cliff; time to hitch our horse to it”
Not so fast – you better shoot the horse before you hitch it up.
Of course, none of this had to with #Resist ass clowns encouraging violence.
…concrete threats of violence against members of Congress,
How about actual violence against Republican members of Congress?
That’s an impressive pile of bullshit.
Well done, NYTimes, for gaslighting America.
Yeah, like that extreme right wing so-called comedian walking around with what purported to be the severed head of Hillary Clinton.
“Biden, Democrats Eye Suspension of 18-Cent Federal Gas Tax: Report”
How are they going to build more bike lanes and other stuff favored by the in-crowd? Oh, right. Borrow.
Taxes are no longer about funding the government – that pretext is gone. They are just for defunding you.
They’ll replace it with a mileage tax.
That doesn’t make sense…they would do both.
Suspension, or deferment?
Remember that #COVID19 nose swab test you took?
This is fine.
why would it not be? you need this for public health
Consider this…
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-police-linked-a-woman-to-a-crime-16918673.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
And apply it on a larger scale of the asshattery of what is the US Federal Government.
*shrug*
I never took one.
Just stay out of the hospital for the rest of your life and you should be good.