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CONSEQUENCES OF CREATING AN ETHNOPARTY THAT HATES YOU: “[T]he white working class that used to vote Democratic no longer does.” Sawhill noted that when she studied this group back in 2018, what surprised me most was their very negative attitudes toward government, their dislike of social welfare programs, their commitment to an ethic of personal responsibility and the importance of family and religion in their lives. This large group includes some people who are just plain prejudiced but a larger group that simply resents all the attention paid to race, gender, sexual preference or identity and the disrespect they think this entails for those with more traditional views and lifestyles. (Paywalled.)
POLITICAL BELLWETHERS: Sovietologists used to watch who got to stand closest to the premier on the roof of Lenin’s tomb during the May Day parade to see who was in favor. Sinologists would assiduously take note of the Beijing wall posters during the Cultural Revolution. In today’s America, the NYT and WaPo are semi-official news organs, telegraphing the party’s intents while providing plausible deniability. The Federalist takes on the latest shift on Biden from the Gray Lady.
JUSTICE BREYER FOR ONCE NOT COMPLETELY WORTHLESS: Tells us that Justice Thomas is doing fine, tells press to fuck off about SCOTUS confirmation hearings.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MATTY YGLESIAS, ANYWAY? He’s still moping about on the Twitter, desperately trying to be relevant, and serving as a fine punching bag. JHTFC, Matty, people don’t make public policy because of how little kids define women.
TOTALLY NOT JUST ANOTHER JOBS PROGRAM: Army approves reduced physical fitness standards for women, older soldiers. -The Hill.
SHIT NO ACTUAL LIBERTARIAN ASKED FOR: Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed renderings of the “cyber-urban” Liberland metaverse, a small virtual city made of futuristic, curving buildings in the architectural style that made the late architect’s firm famous. When complete, it will offer users the ability to traverse the hub as an avatar, and feature a city hall, collaborative working spaces, shops, business incubators, and a gallery for NFT art shows. The community it hopes to foster will have a focus on self-governance as well as fewer rules and regulations.
THE CRIMEA CATALYST: Via the always-fun Forgotten Weapons comes this article on how the 2014 events in Crimea got us where we are today, with a nice timeline of Crimean history going back to the Thirteenth century. Because I know you wonderful people so very well – Tatar horse archer figurines, figurines by Tatar Miniatures, Steak Tartare.
SMARTASS AWARD: Newly-minted Glibs Poobah Nephilium cleared something up for us. The alt-text on the Glibs website works just fine. It was our understanding of alt-text that was …unsound. Actual alt-text is what appears when the browser cannot display an image for whatever reason. That text that pops up when you mouse over an image is rightly called image title attribute, and can be enacted by putting text in the so-labelled box in WordPress.
“This large group includes some people who are just plain prejudiced ”
Well, I’m sure both of them will come along any day now.
And if they don’t come along, we’ll just hire some agent provocateurs to say what we think these people should say.
“Sovietologists”
That’s an actual job?
It was.
They call them Kremlinologists now. But as Tonio has noted, it would be far more productive to apply their scrying methods to DC>
Kremlinologists may have been more appropriate. Thanks.
Also, “scrying” for the win.
Scry-y-y-y-ing, over Ukraine.
I once wrote a negative review of scrying and was fired for it.
Out with the scrying pan and into the fired.
This is wrong on so many levels.
But it works.
Ukraine Claims Attack Destroyed Russian Naval Ship In Berdyansk Harbor
Funny that some people are paying attention to what they used to call “pundits”. Who still dont know shit and dont necessarily like America. It appears most Americans want some kind of help for Ukraine to fight off the Commie/Fascist Russians. Its working too. America/NATO does not need to put boots on the ground in Ukraine for the paper tiger that is Russia to stall in Ukraine. SAMs, SSMs, and ATMs are enough.
As for Ukrainians, they sunk a Russian amphibious ship and damaged another in port. The third Russian ships went full speed ahead to flee attack.
Turns out the Nazi Ukrainians under Vladomyr Zelenskyy decided to counter attack the Russian Army on 1 month anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine. Very promising. I bet he Russian apologists are very upset at how well Ukrainians are doing.
The Farmers on their tractors crossed the sea and took it out?
It was reported that ukrainaians used Russian video footage and plotted its position in the harbor. Ukrainians then send a missile to hit it. Took out an oil tank and you can see the other amphib ship on fire as it flees the harbor.
Some people still wont admit that America has the moral high ground on most things, including Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine without reasonable casus belli and therefore does NOT have the moral high ground. America now gets to eviscerate Russia’s military effectiveness and World standing because of Putin boneheaded plan.
It also shows China how America will eviscerate any military venture into Taiwan. Sink China’s 30 amphib ships and their invasion of Taiwan is over. Ukraine just sank 1 of Russia’s 22 amphib ships and damaged another.
/www.oni.navy.mil/Portals/12/Intel agencies/russia/Russi
Another tidbit about war in Ukraine is that Russia is believed to have ~15,000 KIA and double that in WIA.
Russia lost ~14,500 troops in Afghanistan in 10 years. Many Russians were appalled by those losses in Afghanistan. What do you think the public will think about that number dying in Ukraine in 30 days?
Has Matthew Yglesias ever known a woman?
She’s Canadian I heard,
*very polite applause*
By whose definition of “woman?”
Or “known”?
I’m sure that Matty could get a handy down on 14th St (DC’s ho-corridor), just like everyone else.
I though K Street was the ho neighborhood?
zing!
You can get fucked there but it costs a LOT more.
“rightly called image title attribute, and can be enacted by putting text in the so-labelled box in WordPress.”
Huh, Thanks Tonio and neph!
Cheers!
Tall Cans!
Tucker thinks it’s obvious — a woman has XX chromosomes and a uterus.
But kids who don’t know what a uterus is use the term “woman” perfectly well, and English word “woman” long predates anyone knowing about chromosomes.
Because that is relevant to the criticism here.
Actually, kids can get confused surprisingly easily on this. Their detection hardware and software isn’t great yet, which is why we don’t usually defer to children on, well, anything.
Except for making massive changes to the world economy in order to fight climate change.
Ugh. There’s a water conservation “public awareness” commercial campaign now in Nevada featuring a little kid lecturing us in front of a low Lake Mead.
Living in the desert, I understand the need to conserve water—it’s why I don’t have a grass lawn but have rocks and cacti landscaping—BUT I don’t need a lecture, and I certainly don’t need it from some snot nosed kid acting superior.
You need water? We have around three feet of snow in the yard. Come on up, you can have all you can carry away!
It might come to that!! Water Wars out west…
Yeah eventually its gonna break the dam and Nevada needs to tell Cali to suck it. But we are Cali-lite so…oh well.
There was once a Los Angeles politician that talked about how much water was wasted letting the Columbia run into the ocean like it does. He was advised by [old school] politicians of the Pacific northwest he shouldn’t travel alone up that way.
Is that kid as annoying as the Walmart kid bitching about whether the food is GMO, Vegan, Organic and whatever else?
Some little fucker pointed at the watermelon in my cart and said “out of season.”
His father was properly embarrassed. “Seen and not heard” is a truism.
So Yglesias thinks the word woman has changed, but doesn’t offer up a cogent definition (or any definition for that matter).
He would not offer a definition by design, because the new thing is that a “woman” is anyone who says they are a woman. But this property is only valid for a subset of identities that is a closely guarded secret but they’ll let you know when you commit a faux-pas.
+1 Felix Frankfurter
+1 Frank N. Furter
Kind of surprised that hasn’t been cancelled for not being sensitive enough.
Tweeeeeet Five yard penalty for confusing former SCOTUS justice with lead character of seventies sex comedy.
The only way Yglesias can come close to winning an argument is to not make one.
Look, it’s perfectly normal for language to evolve, even if the concept of ‘woman’ has been around for a thousand millennia.
This was a total shock, I’m sure.
What planet do these people live on?
So derpy. It’s like they finally discovered actual human beings in their natural habitat for the first time.
Army approves reduced physical fitness standards for women, older soldiers.
As if the army needs to be an effective force that can fight and win wars.
Their drone missile fingers are in tip-top shape.
Just hope we don’t get into a tussle with the South Koreans.
Team Spirit ’88 and our lazy Air Wing asses got roped into a joint PT session with some ROK Marines. It was early spring, cold and rainy. We showed up in our sweats to do a formation run.
ROK Marines showed up in shorts & sweatshirts. Our boot louie decided that we were not going to be smarter than the them so we were ordered to lose our sweat pants. Then the ROK Marines doffed their sweatshirts.
Repeat until we ended up running around the flight line in just shorts.
Yeah, those bastards are a bunch of hard headed soju sucking heathens.
I’m too lazy to read the article, but back in the olden days when I was in the suck, we had different standards. WM’s only had to run 1.5 miles and instead of pullups did the flex arm hang.
Of course, they were not allowed in combat units either.
Did anyone really think that the standards would actually be the same?
At one point the Army made the situp standard uniform. The women’s standard was a few less when I joined. I recall the maximum pushups for women was the minimum for men and women had an extra 3 minutes to run 2 miles. Women had about a 50% fail rate for the 12 mile timed march compared to a single digit fail rate for men. There was a reason women weren’t allowed on the low-level voice intercept teams.
There was a reason women weren’t allowed on the low-level voice intercept teams.
Misogyny or chauvinism?
sharia?
Hey! You got my misogyny in your sharia!
Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently, shoot less accurately than men
There is probably some low percentage of women who make great military folks. Physically fit, good shots, and ready to kill. Many other are posers. The military has learned from 1775 to weed out men posers. Not all men are cut out for military service either.
The sooner America admits this fact and stops using women as political TOLKIENs (South park reference), the better.
Tucker thinks it’s obvious — a woman has XX chromosomes and was born with a uterus.
Some woman have those removed for various reasons.
I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office.
Fat people face discrimination in every aspect of society. Weight discrimination plays a role in hiring, determining wages and firing. (Racism also intersects with fatphobia, with studies showing that fat Black women are discriminated against most in the workplace.) We are more likely to to experience medical bias and misdiagnosis, which can be deadly. I don’t like dating apps, but even if I did, I’m not sure I could stomach opening myself up to a volley of microaggressions alternating with fetishizing messages that turn immediately sexual.
*fast forward*
When the day finally came, I did feel self-conscious. But I felt that way about everything associated with remembering how to be a human again. When it was time to hand my ID to the woman at the front desk, I felt fumbly and nervous like I had forgotten how to do basic tasks associated with being in public. Talking to maskless co-workers was surreal. Ultimately, commuting in heels felt weirder than the fact that I’ve gained weight.
And compared to my experience 20 years ago, things do seem slightly better, at least in my bubble. Nobody said anything rude or back-handed to me. I’m an adult now and there are fewer bullies to hurl fountain drinks at my head. Everybody raved over my pink power suit, which I wouldn’t even have been able to wear 20 years ago because hardly anybody sold plus-size clothing.
How disappointing for someone looking to be a victim.
intersects with fatphobia
Is that really an intersection, or is it a roundabout?
It’s quite often a triple bypass.
Roundabout (acoustic)- Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riE2xHDgODg
Damn. I’d never heard that before. Thanks, bro.
Yes! Very nice.
cool! never heard that version!
Also, what’s worse, the 70 extra pounds or those bangs?
Not even clicking through, but I’ll guess the pink plus-sized power suit.
I’m no Tres…but those bangs are really bad.
The high bangs. Just awful.
Most unbelievable part of the article?
I’m someone who actually enjoys working out,
See, now this is how you fat-shame.
I have a feeling that is what anyone who deals with this person wants to do.
My office has a large number of women who definitely packed on some lbs during the pandemic.
I’m at about net zero. I was up a lot, then I was down a lot.
Also, buy a scale and measure every day. Immediate shame for pigging out helps you make course corrections in real time.
That, or you broke the scale?
Seems legit.
On Monday, Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, introduced to Congress a bill which, if passed, would authorize the president of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal to seize Russian property.
The eccentric proposal comes amid international furor over Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, which began Feb. 23.
“Corrupt Russian oligarchs have enabled Putin’s war,” the lawmaker tweeted. “That’s why I have introduced legislation to allow U.S. citizens to SEIZE yachts and jets of sanctioned Russians.”
Maybe you want to actually declare war before doing that.
Unless of course you’re looking to issue letters against any opponents of the regime in DC. In which case, game on.
Eccentric? Well maybe, but it is constitutional, unlike the other FYTW approach.
Next step?
Seize Trump properties, because obvious rooshin stooge!
Democrats are already contacting the Georgia secretary of state to prevent congresswoman marjorie from running for congress in Georgia. DC protests according to democrats are equivalent to the democrats attacking fort sumter.
a gallery for NFT art shows
smdh
We live in the strangest timeline
strangest…. stupidest…
tomay-to… tomah-to…
One of the minor league baseball teams is doing an NFT night. I’ll lift their exact copy:
They’re giving out a Nice Freakin’ T-shirt.
I take it the aquarium was too constricting.
Judging from the amount of blood, that was a pretty serious bite.
Yeah, eff that.
Yeah I got bitten by a python one time and unlike this lady made the mistake? of reflexively pulling away. The result was that I not only bled like a stuck pig, I also got to pick needle like teeth out of my arm for the next couple of weeks as they came to the surface. Do not recommend.
I’ve known someone who has gotten bitten by a python (he had misjudged the feeding schedule), someone who got bit by a piranha (he was just an idiot), and someone who got bit by a tiger (there were questionable decisions made here).
I was bitten by a woodchuck once.
It’s a long story. Probably also some questionable decisions.
Stingray bite here. At least it wasn’t the stinger Steve Irwin style.
A Møøse once bit my sister…
Go on…
“this is why you need two people…”
No, that’s why you get a dog or a cat. Gonna be edgy, get a ferret.
I’d take twenty snake bites before a single dog or cat bite in the same size category.
One of our kids had a couple of those meat slinkies for a while. They were entertaining little critters. We have one of the wild versions living under our lilac bush.
The aquarium WAs too constricting. That’s way too small a habitat for a retic of that size.
The handlers look like complete puppets, too.
Regarding Yglesias, sure the meanings of words change. The problem is that they are being changed with the purpose to deceive. It’s the deception that is the problem.
“Gender-affirming medical care.”
That’s the one of most infuriating euphemisms I can think of right behind “peace officers”, “taxation” and “public servant”.
Are prostate exams and pap smears gender-affirming medical care?
Gender confirming care.
‘yup, there’s the prostate ‘
You using the whole fist, doc?
+1 Fletcher’s
edit: Fletch, dammit.
Close enough – Irwin Fletcher.
The fact that a large portion of the population are quibbling over the definitions of man or woman is straight ludicrous. The appropriate response to all parties is “shut the fuck up and leave me alone you fucking lunatics.”
Stop the ride please, I’d like off.
I don’t see any kind of equality in lunacy between the two sides. I see one side demanding something utterly ridiculous and another side pushing back. My personal opinion about trannies is I don’t give a shit. Live your life how you want to.
But live and let live is apparently not good enough now. I’ve gotten slammed by colleagues for accidently not using the “right” pronoun (they in this case). I have to take these bullshit DEI courses and think about every word that comes out of my mouth and who is going to be offended. I said “warpath” today at work and am now wondering if I’m going to be reported for a microaggression against Native Americans. Now you’re labeled a transphobe if you won’t sleep with a tranny.
All speed to those trying to push back against the DEI insanity.
You have to pick a side or a side will pick YoU
Stop.
Bring that trend to heel.
This trend really needs to be…
*Dons sunglasses*
…deplatformed.
Prince will be happy to hear about this.
What does Lou Reed think?
Oh c’mon, things are looking up.
Yeah, I’m reminded of something my Grandpa used to say: “When you’re flat on your ass, the only way you can look is up.”
Narrator: “This was the first step in The Spice Girls’ planned comeback.”
(You should hear that in the voice of the narrator in Hudson Hawk.)
Yo, they’ll tell you what they want, what they really really want…
We have the inflation, the gas thefts, some bell bottoms… now platforms? Can orange shag rugs and avocado appliances be far behind?
And hey… they remake everything else — where’s my Space: 1999 reboot already?
(And in the spirit of the other responses — surely I can’t be the sole child of the 70s/80s that remembers that show fondly…)
Only a matter of time. It’s on one of the retro channels now.
I have the box set.
No. There is no way they could improve on the original.
OK, they could release a coherent story arc and in order but other than that you know it would be awful.
Don’t forget we got Jimmah in the Oval Office as well.
Love that show. It’s on Tubi too.
Ah, 1970’s disco fashion is back again. At least we can discard those awful eighties “mom jeans” with the waistband going up to the ribcage, right?
Barack Obama hardest hit.
I remember, not long after Saturday Night Fever came out, all the dumbass townies running around with shiny black shirts unbuttoned to the navel, white jackets and lots of gold chains.
Then Urban Cowboy came out, and the same assholes immediately switched to big cowboy hats, boots and big belt buckles, which prompted a lot of jeers (and a few scraps) from us rural types.
Or as I like to call them, Hungarian prostitute shoes.
“Ariana Grande has been a major proponent of the platform heel trend for years:”
She’s five feet tall.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MATTY YGLESIAS, ANYWAY? He’s still moping about on the Twitter, desperately trying to be relevant, and serving as a fine punching bag. JHTFC, Matty, people don’t make public policy because of how little kids define women.
Does he have to work to be this stupid?
SMARTASS AWARD: Newly-minted Glibs Poobah Nephilium cleared something up for us. The alt-text on the Glibs website works just fine. It was our understanding of alt-text that was …unsound. Actual alt-text is what appears when the browser cannot display an image for whatever reason. That text that pops up when you mouse over an image is rightly called image title attribute, and can be enacted by putting text in the so-labelled box in WordPress.
Interesting.
And I did mouse over every picture.
“CONSEQUENCES OF CREATING AN ETHNOPARTY THAT HATES YOU”
That’s a big reason why Hillary lost, and she still hasn’t figured it out.
Deplorables and Russians and sexists, OH MY!
Let us not forget that Kamala did not win a single delegate to the convention due to the racism and misogyny… of Democrats.
“‘You’re playing a game with me’: Biden says sanctions were NEVER meant to deter ‘brute’ Putin, will last a year, and promises US will respond ‘in kind’ if he uses chemical weapons in tense exchange in Brussels”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10649093/Biden-speaks-meeting-NATO-European-leaders.html
WTF??
I would say nobody in this administration knows what anyone else is doing, but I get the feeling today’s Joe doesn’t even know what yesterday’s Joe was doing.
You’d hope that the person with the hand up his ass working the mouth would know at least.
And certainly not what tomorrow’s Joe Biden will do, until someone writes it down on paper and he has a chance to read it and ask Jen what she thinks. I actually feel sorry for her.
I worked for a boss in the army that we never knew from day-to-day what the answers might be. Yesterday’s precedence meant nothing. I was not unhappy when he moved on and the new guy was exactly the opposite
My boss’ boss is like that. Also, he expects that we can read his mind.
My last formal boss was (in)famous for having conversations with an imaginary you, entirely in his head, and then holding you to them later.
I will never regret quitting that company.
Yikes. That would explain a lot.
US will respond ‘in kind’ if he uses chemical weapons
He wants to mustard gas Moscow? And they said Trump was the crazy one…
I miss those days of people scrambling around to say the President didn’t really say a thing.
They all work for the media now.
That stupid ass is going to mumble and stumble us into WW3, isn’t he?
oh, so it really was just to fuck over poor people in both countries.
“brute” is what an ingénue says just before her bodice is ripped.
“Take me,” she said, “take me…”
I imagine Biden, slung over Putin’s shoulder, pounding ineffectually on Vlad’s back as he carries him off…
— ‘Sanctions never deter,’ Biden said —
Then why did we put them in place?
“EXCLUSIVE: Living her best life! Hunter Biden’s wife Melissa Cohen, 35, flaunts her toned body on Ipanema Beach in Rio as her husband faces grand jury probe into his murky finances thousands of miles away”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10647847/Hunter-Bidens-wife-Melissa-Cohen-35-flaunts-toned-body-Brazil-beach.html
Short and white not young or lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes,
each one she passes goes, “Gaaah!”
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Elite Class.
All that bribe $$$, and they didn’t get her a boob job.
Sad!
He’s saves that dough for his baby mamas. A Biden’s love is not like the love of a square….
How come she is getting Secret Service protection?
Sorry, but the SS should be for President and any family living in the WH at the time. And it is gone once you leave office.
Ewww
Skinnyfat is not ‘toned.’
“Deshaun Watson faces a SECOND grand jury deliberation in Texas for ‘ejaculating on a female masseuse’ after dodging sexual assault charges in Houston and getting traded to the Browns, who gave him a $230M deal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10648915/Deshaun-Watson-faces-SECOND-grand-jury-deliberation-Texas-ejaculating-woman.html
So you are saying this story has a happy ending?
Definitely a sticky situation.
Sounds like the Browns weren’t the only ones to blow their wad.
Interesting how Browns fans don’t seem to have a problem super-rapey Jim Brown. But they’ve been all-aTwitter about this guy.
Jim Brown broke women’s jaws.
Kareem Hunt is on the team too.
Local press has been spilling bits by the barrel about the trade, with comparisons with Hunt all over the place. You see some places running side by side pieces about how great the trade is, and how it’s going to blow up in the Browns face.
Baker Mayfield might not have to film a a home inspection commercial to transfer the keys?
Come on.
That was the reporting on Jizzabel.
Someone needs to launch a publication similar to Babylon Bee mocking feminist publications and call it Jizzabel. I’m announcing my crowdfunding campaign to get this going. I’ll be back shortly to post the PO Box to send you checks made out to “Cash”.
/waits for Deshaun Watson to get suspended for multiple years
And news just broke that they have also declined to indict.
So given the propensity of grand juries to indict ham sandwiches – what kind of shit sandwich are these accusations?
They’ll indict whoever the prosecutor wants them to indict. I’m guessing the prosecutor decided they didn’t want to proceed but wanted some cover.
“EXCLUSIVE: NYC event planner charged with fatally shoving elderly vocal coach is seen screeching and contorting her face while ‘mocking deaf people’ in video as former college classmates remember her as ‘pure trouble’ and ‘reckless'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10647981/NYC-events-planner-Lauren-Pazienza-seen-mocking-deaf-people-video.html
“‘It’s the perfect evidence of guilt’: Socialite who is charged with manslaughter in shoving death of NYC vocal coach, 87, may face more legal trouble because she hid out for two weeks and scrubbed her social media, experts claim”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10648539/Experts-say-socialite-charged-killing-NYC-vocal-coach-face-trouble-hiding-out.html
Did it mention if she’s single? Uhh…for a friend.
The articles say she has a fiancee that she cheats on and is abusive to.
Perfect. I’ve been lo….my friend has been looking for a new dom.
See, she just can’t get a break in her fight against the Patriarchy.
“Michigan school board president is removed after ‘choking and slamming head of fellow member and mother of three into a table – leaving her with two black eyes following disagreement at meeting'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10647803/MI-school-board-president-removed-beating-Treasurer-slamming-head-table.html
So the FBI will investigate the parents?
It’s Flint. The water made her do it.
School board in Flint? My first though was “so that’s what Michael Moore has been up to.” Then I remembered that he’s the only millionaire in the world that still couldn’t get anyone procreate with him. Does a lack of children disqualify you from school board membership? It probably should.
Is that wrong? That’s how we decide which projects get funding each year at work.
No, they will charge Rick Snyder with battery.
what surprised me most was their very negative attitudes toward government
[Insert expostulation of amazement]
Totally strange that people might not like an entity that constantly vilifies them. But, at any rate, skepticism of the government is white-supreme terrorism.
They are there to help!
We pay a lot in taxes. Roads are crappy. Service at the Post Office is crappy. The DMV is crappy. Public schools are crappy. The people whose salaries we pay seem to hate us. Why should I have have a negative attitude toward government? It’s a real mystery.
Biden’s diversity hire nominee has 3 last names. Change my mind.
What is the protocol when two people with two last names get married?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs#Marriage
You know, if we had an even partly competent president, our country could be set up for the next century. Drill for more oil and gas, and sell it to Europe and the rest of the world. That would defang a dozen bad actors like Russia and Iran. I would assume the federal government would make money off leases or whatever, so they could use that money to build nuclear power plants. As the country transitioned to nuclear, the money from oil and gas would still roll in, and could be used to pay down the debt. With cheap energy, the economy would boom, and the country would be more attractive for manufacturing.
But I’m just a simple programmer, I’m not one of those Davos geniuses.
But that would make for a strong nation, not a willing cog in the New World Order. Sigh.
^This.
The president (or at least his handlers) are quite competent. Their goal isn’t to make America strong but rather to weaken it as much as possible. That’s the entire driving purpose behind the green energy initiatives and DEI initiatives. And it’s been very successful.
“That would defang a dozen bad actors like Russia and Iran.”
How do you propose to defang bad actors like the US government?
Burn the Hoover building to the ground, irradiate the earth it stood on?
Then Ft. Meade and Langley.
An addendum to my anti-Biden ravings from this morning:
There are a lot of people (Jamie Dimon, anyone?) sitting on very large piles of zero-interest federal debt who are going to be extremely unhappy when that waste paper gets marked to market. I don’t think that’s what they had in mind when they were pushing Slow Joe for the nomination.
This is news only to NYT readers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/world/europe/ukraine-germany-military-russia-scholz-lithuania.html
Germany Is Ready to Lead Militarily. Its Military Is Not.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted Germany to revolutionize its security doctrine. But the war has also exposed how weak a link the German military is in NATO.
If only there were a president urging NATO members to live up to their spending commitments.
And Japan too.
I remind you of Ismay’s words about NATO’s purpose, to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down“.
Anyone want to do a 9-month condo/house share rental in Charlotte Amalie
Question mark
I really doubt that Charlotte’s lady parts are big enough for even a single day rental, but less for multiple people over 9 months.
Other parts can share the load.
+1 Eiffel Tower
*high five*
High five(s). Plural.
Did you get to St. John? The Mrs. and I would move there in a heartbeat. We stayed at Maho Bay, back when they had an eco-resort.
Was supposed to go on an excursion to St John but they canceled. I like that St Thomas is ‘Merican, despite their bizarre road rules.
If you Zoom this weekend, I may do a slideshow featuring Maho.
* Swoons *
Oooo!
Ooooohhhh, awesomesauce.
This is if I can get these motherfucking files uploaded to Google drive
$2000/mo
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/111-Annas-Fancy-Saint-Thomas-VI-00802/2068824346_zpid/
Whats it like for white devils?
13% white divils.
My current zip code is ~40% white divils IIRC
* checks *
76% white debils. I mean, if you consider Irish and Italians white…
85.34% white.
Speaking of Italians, I hope Rufus isn’t too depressed this afternoon…
?…
Knocked out by North Macedonia?! ??
Lucky Poland.
Can a lucky statelet step up to the plate and knock out the US again?
67%. Probably a third of them middle easterners. I do wonder at some guy fresh off the boat from Egypt puzzling through the race list when the census form arrives. Process of elimination?
Ok scratch that https://vifreepress.com/2018/01/united-nations-study-u-s-virgin-islands-new-murder-capital-caribbean-fourth-overall-world/amp/
You’d think the Caribs would be chill
I wouldn’t. Lots of desperately poor people there.
I’ve been in desperately poor places where people didn’t murder each other at the rate of 49/100k
You’ve been to Shreveport?
I haven’t.
I hated the poor neighborhoods where I’ve been forced by circumstance to live.
I need to move even further away than I am now.
Yikes. Slightly under the rate for Baltimore.
This may be stale but I love this story,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/man-bites-dog-democrats-propose-massive-fossil-fuel-subsidy.php
Lol.
If the definition of “woman” can change, then so too can the definition of “alt-text” change.
Nice alt-text, Tonio. Especially the one about going back to check for alt-text.
Hey all, I’m collecting can lids for SP.
1) Take a lid, rusty or not (preferably a canning lid, but whatever you can get), write your glibs handle on it along with a message of appreciation for her immense contributions to this site. NOTE: you may get better results using a fineliner permanent marker.
2) email me at trashy-glibs [at] disengage [dot] co (and let me know what your glibs handle is) to get the destination address for the lid.
3) shove the lid in an envelope and get it in the mail by April 1st.
Once I get all the lids, I’ll assemble them in a way that only a trash monster can, and I’ll send it up to SP to replenish her stock and keep OMWC in check.
I’ll continue posting this in the links threads this week.
NOTE: Athena has graciously offered to put messages on lids for those who, for whatever reason, can’t. (athenaofprogtown at the gmail)
NOTE2: If you don’t hear from me within 24 hours, let me know on here.
For some reason, it never sinks in that it is Thursday until I see Tonio’s fiery porta-potties. It’s become a ritual of sorts.
Tonight is Netherbeast Incorporated?
God damn.
I’m not a country fan, but I love Willie Nelson. First rate talent and just a cool guy.
Didn’t see Willie in Luckenbach but I bought a cup any way. If you’re a musician bring your instrument(s), there will be a jam session in the back room and you’ll be expected to join.
Or just pull up a chair and enjoy, as I did.
Thot Thursday may or may not be on topic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220324203919/https://www.barnorama.com/30-hot-and-busty-girls-7/
You decide!
Moar Tartar!
Ok, I’m impressed.
I have a link to that Jeremy’s Razors commercial…
Yes! Here it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s92UMJNjPIA&feature=youtu.be
*standing ovation*
Too bad I have enough razors, blades, and shaving equipment to last 30 years. Otherwise I’d give them some business.
I use a safety razor for beard touch-up, but I think I’ll order one for my carry-on. I still think TSA won’t let me have a real razor.
Fan-tastic!
Great cans on the brunette, too.
“I can’t say that I love you; but I don’t mean you any specific harm”
Tempted to make that my e-mail sig at work.
That’s fucking beautiful.
Is that a McLaren he’s driving in the beginning?
I think so. It doesn’t sound like one, though.
I was told that insulting half of your customer base was bad business
/Winstoningishy thing.
I think that’s still accurate for a lot of products. Do you know the politics of your hose bibb supplier?
The DW, OTOH, is enmeshed in politics and this is actually amazingly smart marketing. Harry’s is the 800lb gorilla. Stealing market share is the name of the game and they will likely do so.
Do you know the politics of your hose bibb supplier?
Yes, he’s an unrepentant Maga-ist, he drinks Bud Light, and roots for the Raiders, I hold none of this against him. He knows his plumbing and that’s why I buy from him.
Lol.
Why do I bother arguing with someone more reflexively contrarian than myself?
Because you don’t risk coming to an agreement?
https://unherd.com/2022/03/this-war-can-save-liberalism/
Mr. End of History. Sounds like he thinks we need some TOP MEN to fix everything. “Liberal Order” indeed.
From “The Hill”
What US intelligence got wrong on Ukraine
Why even read that?
To keep it under a 10,000 word count they should probably switch to what intelligence got right. That would fit nicely in a corner next to the classified ads.
I think Churchill would have a hard time writing as many words as would be needed.
Best part is they start out praising what they claim they got right.
US intelligence didn’t accurately predict the collapse of the Soviet Union.
That should have been the end of the agencies just for being shitty at their jobs.
Adam Carolla’s March Madness Madness: (part 1) https://youtu.be/lgmgIONdGa4?t=2602
Baffling
The pandemic intensified population trends of migration to the South and West, as well as a slowdown in growth in the biggest cities in the U.S.
The exodus from the biggest U.S. metropolitan areas was led by New York, which lost almost 328,000 residents. It was driven by people leaving for elsewhere, even though the metro area gained new residents from abroad and births outpaced deaths.
Metropolitan Los Angeles lost almost 176,000 residents, the San Francisco area saw a loss of more than 116,000 residents and greater Chicago lost more than 91,000 people from 2020 to 2021. The San Jose, Boston, Miami and Washington areas also lost tens of thousands of residents primarily from people moving away.
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The U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2021 estimates also showed micro areas — defined as having a core city of less than 50,000 residents — gaining population from mid-2020 to mid-2021, after years of slow growth or declining population. The small population gains were driven by people moving there, as deaths continued to outpace births in many of these communities. Growth in micro areas was led by Kalispell, Montana; Jefferson, Georgia; and Bozeman, Montana.
Demographer William Frey said he believes the growth of micro areas and decreases in the biggest metros will be temporary, taking place at the height of people moving during the pandemic when work-from-home arrangements freed up workers from having to go to their offices.
“There is clearly a dispersion, but I think it’s a blip,” said Frey, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s metropolitan policy program, Brookings Metro. “We’re at one of the lowest levels of immigration in a long, long time, and that affects big metros like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. That is going to come back. With the natural decrease, we will go back to normal.”
Keep telling yourself that.
I think the ~50k metro areas are going to see sustained growth. Big enough for “amenities” but small enough to get away from in twenty minutes.
“Bozeman; you’re just ten minutes from Montana in any direction.”
A realtor friend of mine told me that people moving from Chicago are the reason prices are so high on homes in my area. The most recent house we looked at was listed for $375k, they had multiple cash offers over $400k and it sold for $461k. I can’t compete with that on my piddly West Michigan salary. We’ve pretty much hit pause on the house search.
Housing market in one sound
Hazards to navigation, giant lizard division
A man was killed after hitting an 11-foot alligator while driving in Florida early Thursday, authorities said.
John Hopkins, 59, was headed eastbound on Country Road 672, about two miles west of Country Road 39, in Lithia when he struck the alligator in the roadway at 12:30 a.m., the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
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The alligator was also dead at the scene, according to officials.
Fucking Florida, man.
I knew John Hopkins was doomed when this study came out.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/johns-hopkins-university-study-covid-19-lockdowns
Does Hilary have an alligator guy?
Sitting in the backyard watching birds fight. They are loud and vicious.
I bet Oscar the Cat could break them up real quick!
Submitted for hypocritical tweet of the week.
https://mobile.twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1506757801586089991
Perhaps we can send her over there to sort things out.
I know how to build a trebuchet.
I like the trebuchet idea. I think I’d rather have someone who doesn’t really know what they’re doing build this particular one.
Afghanistan or Ukraine?
She’s signaling so hard, it’s hard to tell.
OFFS!!!!!
#BringBackOurGirlsSchool
That’s the way to virtue signal; I learned it from the former First Lady.
Why wouldn’t you use the same protest tactics on backwards theocratic warlord governments who have no concept of human rights as you would use on film studio execs for not casting a handicapped Muslim trans teen as the next Captain America?
I mean…aren’t they in school in the photo?
Getting the love he deserves
https://christopherdiarmani.com/19129/common-sense/christine-anderson-mr-trudeau-you-are-a-disgrace-for-any-democracy-please-spare-us-your-presence/
It pains me to see Minneapolis lumped in with Seattle and (gulp) Berkeley.
How the Minnesota Nice have fallen…
Why did assume that would never happen? Why did you assume that Minneapolis would only change in ways you like and why did you assume it would never end up like Seattle or Berkekey?
I thought Minneapolis would take longer to go off the cliff. Seemed like plenty of other libtowns would go sooner, particularly because Minnesota has lots of farm-raised, hunting, fishing, churchgoers.
But they love them some blue Politics, boy.
Part of why I left in 2018 was the relentless encroachment of Somalian and other head-to-toe covered Muslim women into my suburb and then to my immediate neighborhood. I didn’t care about the religion; I cared about the fact that they monolithically want to implement a separate (Sharia) legal system and a parallel society. And it is the Catholic Charities and Lutheran Charities falling over themselves to see how many more they can import and stuff together in segregated communities.
No more melting pot or moderation.
Not very sustainable…
Wouldn’t many libertarians regard that are as a rather reactionary pariochial socon attitude?
Winston, this libertarian-ish person would greatly appreciate you shoving that platitude up your arse, sideways, with no lube.
SO MUCH THIS.
To be fair, they were never nice to begin with.
When you can’t win, ban your opponents form running.
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – A group of Georgia voters on Thursday asked state officials to block Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection, alleging she is unfit for office because of her support of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol.
In a legal challenge filed with the Georgia Secretary of State, the voters claim Greene has violated a provision of the U.S. Constitution known as the “Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause.”
The clause, passed after the 19th Century U.S. Civil War, prohibits politicians from running for Congress if they have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States, or “given aid or comfort” to the nation’s enemies.
A proper SC would squash this because given the timing of the legal challenges, they are aimed at sitting reps or those that want to run. Tie them up in court, have a willing press to propagandize and let the process be the punishment.
A proper people would round up the plaintiffs and drown them.
You know…with talks of war, food shortages, fuel shortages, inflation…..there is a tipping point that is being reached for
So we either starve and get totalitarianism or get shot for complaining about it and get totalitarianism.
Speaking of that…
Ohio Supreme Court denies Democrats’ request to move the May primary election over redistricting delays
Keep in mind this is after three (I believe) cases that went to the Ohio supreme court saying the maps were improperly drawn.
Democrats know that republican legislatures are gonna come out ahead from 2020 census appropriation numbers and district maps. Only state legislatures are constitutionally permitted to redistrict.
So of course democrat judges are trying to ignore the constitution and stop the redistricting that fabors republicans.
The Dems are obviously unacquainted with the Iron Law:
Me today, you tomorrow.
Because if I’m looking around for people who are no longer my countrymen and trying to destroy my country, I think I know where to find them.
Oh man. So I went down a hole now to find kung fu films with ‘Iron’ in the title and I found ‘Iron Swallow,’ about a female vigilante named… Iron Swallow. Did the bad guys titter when she announced who she was?
Titter? They only just met ‘er!
https://girlswithguns.org/iron-swallow/
I was expecting a different Girls With Guns.
The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) has a ridiculous plot (I’m not into supernatural chop socky), but it is entertaining.
“When you can’t win, ban your opponents form running.”
From the people that bemoan “democracy dies in darkness.”
“Democracy dies in darkness. So we’re turning off the lights.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1507074994748399616
You will Eat the Bugs…
Those motherfuckers have already put millions on the edge of starvation with COVID restrictions. Now they’re going to push them right over the edge, and they’re proud of it.
The icky people must die.
It’s the third world that’s going to feel it the worst. For all their affirmations of wanting to help the poor, they’re doing everything they can to kill them.
Feature, not bug.
Third Worlders starving will reduce population growth…
Modernity and Progress!
Sorta like
Biden said:
“We are going to get rid of fossil fuels.”
How about we just get rid of fossils?
Regarding this gender definition nonsense, it’s far more important, and way less contentious, to acknowledge the following:
Some girls don’t like pink or are tomboys. Doesn’t make them boys “trapped in a girl’s body.”
Some boys don’t like sports or guns and do like poetry. Doesn’t make them less of a boy or mean they’re really a girl.
Some girls are attracted to girls. Doesn’t make them boys; makes them gay.
Some boys are attracted to boys. Doesn’t make them girls; makes them gay.
Oh, also, kids (and adults) can go through phases. Hold off on the drugs and surgeries.
Some adults are attracted to kids; they are perverts and should not be in positions of power over kids.
Horsecocky! We all fit into our prescribed shapes as we learn as toddlers.
This is me. I’ve had people ask “why aren’t you a lesbian?”
Because I don’t want to eat pussy?
Don’t do aft stuff and don’t eat pussy…starting to question your libertarian cred here
LOL @ “aft stuff”
KK might not be a man either… which is a tautological impossibility for a libertarian.
Well said, Ms Splosives.
It’s hard to be a teenager. Some grown up feelings and still dependent of one’s parents financially. Reality is every respect hits when it’s time to face personal responsibility and realize that not cares about your feelings.
Mentally correct all the grammatical mistakes and the sentence will make more sense.
Mentally correct might be more correct than technically correct.
That’s a great, succinct list, Hayek.
Some boys don’t like sports or guns and do like poetry. Doesn’t make them less of a boy
I’m pretty sure it does.
Kidding!
Are you? There’s a reason Animal ain’t writing “Profiles of toxic Masculinity” about Donne, Thomas, and Bukowski
Cowboy poetry
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbarlVOfnI
IDK, I think Bukowski is pretty toxically masculine. Also William S. Burroughs and John Cooper Clarke.
Agreed, but most people aren’t as sophisticated as you and I, and regrettably fall back on antiquated gender stereotypes.
Get a load of this bigot. Cancel xir!
Good list. Addendum: Some adults are agenda-driven ideologues who convince vulnerable, confused teens to do irreversible things to themselves that they later regret.
And a very, very small proportion of the population has clinical gender dysphoria and benefits primarily from therapy with hormones and surgery as a last resort. But only as adults with fully developed brains.
https://whdh.com/news/dug-the-worlds-largest-potato-revealed-to-not-be-a-potato/
To think that Michael Moore almost got away with it.
Well have inflation, food shortages, war, etc., occurring but least no mean tweets. This what the “adults in the room” think.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/western-newjersey/warren-county-commissioners-approve-99-5m-budget-taxes-reduced-by-3/article_e894ea3e-aba1-11ec-b8b3-9f6319947b65.html
Lowering taxes on NJ.
*falls out of chair*
My company has an annoying fondness for the “burning platform” cliche. In the unlikely event I do PowerPoint presentation, I’m to work in “burning platform” just so I can use the flaming porta-potties pic.
What does that even mean?
https://lawliberty.org/the-global-recession-of-classical-liberalism/
Looks like the “the miseries of the pre-liberal world” are returning and thanks to the “cosmopolitan internationalist liberals” at that.
WTF is a city hall doing in Liberland, anyway?
I was laughing at the whole design. Prominently featured government buildings? It’s all apartments, no individual houses? Throw in some self-driving cars that take you right to a cocktail party at the NYT office and you’ve really do have a Cato libertarian’s paradise.
So, a dystopian hellscape.
Calhoun’s rodent utopias say hello.
FAA HQ – Hey we need to inspect for confined spaces.
Me – Cool, have at it
FAA HQ – This place has confined spaces, you can’t enter
Me – Okay, can we get training so we can reclassify
FAA HQ – No we don’t do ad-hoc classes and you will have to wait for funding
Me – The equipment is broken now and provides wind-shear and microburst prediction for air traffic…
FAA HQ – WHY HAVEN’T YOU FIXED THE EQUIPMENT!
I am thinking…I need a drink.
what’s the deal with ‘confined spaces’?
OSHA.
Shove the FAA HQ Reps into the confined space and lock them in.
Just one drink?
Multiple drinks were had
Doesn’t make much sense. On a ship, if you have to “gas-free” a space due to fumes, that’s one thing – especially if there are ventilation issues. Far less of an issue on land, moreso since it sounds like you’re not on an exceptionally tight schedule either.
A small space without proximity to fumes/exhaust/etc should not be an issue in itself – “confined space” my ass.
STEVE SMITH MAKE FUMES IN CONFINED SPACE
*watches the fishman enter an unpurged manhole without a gas detector, pushes lid back into place*
*adds competent person training to the fishman’s annual training schedule when he gets out*
Confined spaces are no joke. Just after I graduated from college two guys at Los Alamos died in confined space. One guy passed out and the other guy dove in after him. Six months later I nearly died in a confined space. My coworker went down and I went in after him.
Mitigation can be simple. For example, a harness and cable on the worker and an observer outside.
Imagine my surprise that an organization dedicated to safety cannon provide basic safety information.
I agree but this isn’t a hazardous atmosphere. It is a radome that looks like this. During the evaluation, no atmospheric conditions were noted. Its a small crawl space, in the the pedestal of the antenna that we have to climb into that is deemed a confined space. Granted we lock everything out, tag it, and remove all mechanical movement of the antenna while we do the work…but sure,….confined space it is.
Good interview by Tom Woods of producer of documentary on Stop the Steal movement and 1/6.
He also got a permanent ban by Twitter and You Tube for this documentary.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2090-january-6-and-stop-the-steal-a-filmmaker-tells-the-story/
what’s the deal with ‘confined spaces’?
Mitch Hedberg (I think):
“I’m not blocking the fire exit. I’m first in line.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Ultraman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Kamen_Rider_(film)
Shin kill me now.
I’m about tibia looking into those. I wouldn’t fibula.
It could be pretty humerus.
Are you getting a puppy?
Amazon even did a Kamen Rider show called Amazon Rider, I think. It wasn’t half bad
I hate updating browser versions.
It’s always a crapshoot whether they’ve taken away some feature I used or redesigned the UI to emulate the chrome garbage more.
Someone posted a link to this groupthink tank Institute for the Study of War
https://www.understandingwar.org/who-we-are
Washed up perfumed princes, children, and academics that understand everything without taking the time to actually learn the trade. In short, our betters. And they’re claiming to brief senior leader regularly. Which I don’t doubt. One loop at their who we are page is enough to dismiss them out of hand.
No nothing pikers.
Fucking autocorrect. Know nothing pikers.
Trump sued Hillary, et al in federal RICO legal action. Discovery will be a hoot!
It would appear Trump is parlaying his Stormy Daniels legal victory into a similar legal win against the Clintons and other Democrats. Even if only from juicy discovery.
Trump also might win after a judge finds for him after massive democrat evidence spoilage sanctions.
Everything I touch tonight is breaking.
All I wanted to do was paint a few things, assemble a few things, relax. But I’ve broken a bunch of stuff – even the glue. Now I’m all stressed out and have more work to do to fix it all than I was even hoping to get done.