Openly embracing racial quotas
This seems silly to me. But I’m white, so I should just keep my mouth shut. The other big news is the World Cup, which we should have all but a few teams set for in the next two days. I don’t know what else is going on really. But I do know somebody needs to beat Duke in the Final Four. Please. And that’s sports.
We’re all gonna die!!!!!!! Oh wait, nevermind. Nobody knows what this means.
This seems incredibly inappropriate. Alleging criminal fraud in the ruling of a civil case should like it might be stepping beyond one’s responsibilities as a judge.
Keep it cranking, boys!
Printer go BRRRRRRRRRR! Fuck it, it’s not real money anyway. It’s all just a game.
I’ve got a better way: just stay away from the shithole altogether.
Unhinged? No, just Irish.
This is as bad as the Cuomo “Italian” excuse. Which means 100% of team blue will accept it.
Dammit, I was hoping this was real. Although it very well might be in a few places. Just not Nebraska.
Get out while you still can. It’s completely going to shit.
There’s no winners here. Oh wait…I guess the guys who won’t be held responsible kinda win. And the taxpayers take it in the shorts.
Here’s a masterpiece. I could play so many songs of theirs. It’s never easy to pick one. So I’ll pick two. Hope you enjoy them both.
And I hope you enjoy this Tuesday, dear friends.
“We’re all gonna die!!!!!!! Oh wait, nevermind. Nobody knows what this means.”
After watching the “scientific community” lie to help the globalist agenda about where the Kung Flu originated from, if you still doubt they were doing the same with AGW, you are a dupe.
Locals here didn’t get the word. More snow scheduled for today and tomorrow. I’m on the lookout for DPs (Displaced Penguins)
Don’t worry, they will “correct” the data eventually to make it look like you never had a winter…
Hell, it was 20F and snow showers yesterday here in NJ. But I guess that’s just “weather”.
Half the scientific community are true believers. The other half simply knows where their funding comes from.
I think your numbers are wrong. It is likely that the true believer percentage is under 10%, but the ones that know government is whom you need to satisfy to feed at the trough are over 90%, with more than 90% of those people taking advantage of that realization. The few that resist, for whatever reason, are then labeled pariahs,
Not only funding, but academic promotions, getting your articles published in the right journals, good reviews of those articles, etc. Plate tectonics and warm-blooded dinosaurs are both examples of discoveries that were suppressed by the elders of the community.
Word, Tonio. The scientific principle was created because the people that wanted science to be real understood that humans did this work and were easily coopted by a system that by its very nature engendered so many opportunities for people with ill intent to abuse it. Unfortunately, the people that “believe in science” absolutely don’t believe in the scientific principle, cause it gets in the way of their agenda.
“true believer…. under 10%” – Depends on how you define true believer. What’s the saying? Something like it’s hard to convince someone of something if their paycheck depends on them not getting it? Most academics are immersed in a milieu of ‘magic money’ from the get go. They go straight from high school being taken care of by their parents, straight into undergrad with either a scholarship or loans, straight into grad school with, in the stem fields anyway, likely a fellowship, straight into a post-doc, then maybe to faculty. I’m not saying getting money and funding is not a struggle, but the struggle is in framing everything the right way to get ‘magic money’ from the funding agencies and academics are dependent on that at least from the grad school stage.
In a perfect world that struggle would be based completely on merit, and to a large degree it is, but inevitably the political preferences/motivations of the funding agencies works it way into the whole process and the meritocracy is ‘restricted’ to falling within those motivations. From an early academic age, you know the game and you know how to play it. The human brain doesn’t like cognitive dissonance; it’s very easy to convince your self of the truth of something if your career seems to largely depend on you believing it. The data are ambiguous enough that you can intellectually justify accepting the narrative if you don’t push too hard. People who are inclined to question it either self-select out or are helped to the door because they’re not ‘cut out for academia’ as they’re not as adapt at the game.
So I don’t think 80-90% true believers is too much – it’s largely a self-selected pool, and the selection process is biased to the true believer.
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I define True believers as those that actually believe the AGW bullshit, not the ones that lend it lip service, albeit vociferously, because they need/want the paycheck. If tomorrow the paycheck came with saying AGW was bullshit, the true believer would not accept it, even going broke, while the shlls would switch, on a dime, and not get any whiplash from it.
But the “go along to get along” people are part of the problem, perhaps a bigger part than the actual true believers.
I explained this to my wife every time she pulled her mask off and complained about still having to wear them. “Quit wearing it and it goes away sooner. You’re being cowed by a vocal minority.”
I think it’s very hard to differentiate true believer from lip-server in the way you define it. It’s all part of a self re-enforcing loop. Funding agencies are populated by people who have come up through academia and have undergone the selection process and are the ones most adept at the political game. You can’t conduct the experiment of flipping a switch and seeing what happens other than in the gedanken sense (and that sheds very little light on true believer vs. lip-server) because we didn’t get here by flipping a switch.
So much this^^^
We went from “Global Cooling” and the new ice age in the early to late 70s to “Global Warming”, later redefined to “AGW”, in the early eighties to now, in the span of less than a year or two… That to me is a clear switch…
To maybe elucidate, maybe obfuscate; I think if you flipped the switch in one area, e.g. the funding, you get a rebellion in academic circles. Protests, letters to congress, they’d be up arms about corrupt politicians and the evil corporations that control them for profit. True believers. If, on the other hand, you could flip the switch on the entire system, these very same people would just as vociferously defend the opposite position because they would have come of age in a system that rewarded that. So that would be lip service. The data wouldn’t have changed – well it probably would have, since it would have been collected in a different system with different motivations, but the physics wouldn’t have. So I would say most are true believers in the context of the world we exist in. In some abstract absolute sense, lip-servers.
Global cooling to AGW – good point. It was longer than a couple of years, more like a generation or two. But I would still say that falls within the true believer camp. It’s not that “this is were I have to go for funding” (though partly), but more that feedback loop. The true belief is that humans and our activity are destroying the purity of nature. How they are destroying it changes – “the data evolve, we are gaining more understanding, science progresses”. If it was lip-service, they would be just as happy, from the funding agencies down to the researcher to move to a new paradigm wherein we were funding and researching how to exploit resources better. But a system has grown and prospered by rewarding the belief that fundamental conflict is pure earth vs corrupt human has created an environment that produces true believers in that fundamental ‘truth’. The exact mechanism will evolve as need be, but it will be in service of the ‘true believers’ in the paradigm that has created them.
Meh. I think 10% is wrong and so is 80-90%. True believers probably account for about 15-25% of the scientific population. About another 20-30% know which side their bread is buttered on. And 45-65% know to pay it no mind because they don’t want their careers to be ruined.
Actually, I should amend that last category. It’s probably closer to 35%-45%, with maybe 5-10% genuinely honest.
I’ll buy those numbers to some degree. I think there are many fewer who consciously corrupt their science to get money (‘bread buttered’) though. And it gets hard to distinguish at some level. Are the ones who ‘pay it no mind’ true believers? I would classify them as so. Because the human brain is very good at accepting something if it benefits it to do so, and I would say they accept the premise.
There’s a difference between putting a DIE statement in a grant proposal even if you don’t believe it because you have to (though in the long term, it will produce/select for people who genuinely do) and believing in the reality of AGW and pursuing the study of how bad it is. The later may have started in a similar position to the former vis ‘true belief’, but they have evolved into/been replaced with people who really are ‘true believers’.
Thanks for the conversation all, got skip out. Have a grant proposal to prepare to Eco Health Alliance.
You should change your handle to Colonel Bat Guano.
Are the ones who ‘pay it no mind’ true believers?
Not necessarily. They probably focus their research on areas where they know it won’t be an issue. They’ll say “Well, I guess it’s right. Somebody must have done the research.” because they want to avoid looking under the hood and seeing what they find. Because they’d know they would have to admit it’s BS or start actively lying in support of it. They aren’t looking to cash in. They just want to keep their head down and do what they suppose is their job. And admitting its BS would jeopardize that.
So it’s 80+% true believers then. I have a lot of scientifically minded people in my neighborhood, living in a tech hotbed and all, and they all worship at the church of global warming.
Subornation. If you expose yourself to true believers (in anything) for long enough, you generally become one of them.
This is why the culture war is important.
I have been around the academic world whole life, and this nails it. Especially now, as we are in the middle of a paradigm change. The old guard will cling to it’s shiboleths.
The fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
I see a return of “nuclear winter” fears. That way the doomers can embrace both AGW and cooling. Never mind the data that the surface of the Earth routinely warms and cools with no significant input from humans. It is almost like the planet and solar system are bigger than us.
Dude, how are you gonna run a graft when you tell people this shit happens whether we want it or not, and what we are doing won’t make a fucking bit of difference (and actually can make shit worse both economically and environmentally) without something to panic them? It’s like you don’t even know who to prog racket, man!
When you say paradigm change, are you referring to the academic world specifically?
No. The world is changing from an internationalist perspective back towards nationalist. The liberalism that defined the post-WWII order is over .
The marxism driven internationalism is dying for sure with the people that the elite see as their serf class, but our elite – the technocratic and oligarchic crowd that want to create a hereditary leadership class based on a cabal of academia, government bureaucracy, political class, and the propaganda people (media & culture) using social media and social scores – are doubling down on it. It’s not accidental that the elites chose to make nationalism evil – by of all things making the very system of government they foisted (fascism) on us the enemy – in order to peddle the global reset, BTW. It’s an us vs. them thing, and that feeling is mutual, across the globe, even though most of these elites have different visions about what that global society should look like. Marxism is a two class system.
The shift to nationalism is coming back because so many people were economically disadvantaged by the globalization of the economy which coincidentally made the elite super rich. As I already said: marxism is a two class system. The haves (and they have because they have power) and the have nots. The problem is that if we go back to a more nationalist worldview, as long as the fascist model of government – the public sector controls and chooses the winners & losers in the private sector, for their own gain, while pretending to do the shit they do to help the disadvantaged – remains, shit will stay bad.
The half/half wasn’t meant as percentage. Rather it is a division.
Did they recently install air conditioners at the station?
That is what happened in my home town. Which helped build the infamous hockey stick graph.
Sure, it was no biggee, we knew he didn’t mean it, why would the Russians take it seriously? It’s not like we’ve ever arranged any coups.
He’s an Irish dunce/drunk/douche, so that explains why he was always believed to be one of the dumbest and most corrupt fuckers in his almost 5 decades of being a corrupt bureaucrat until the machine needed to get rid to the existential threat to their globalist agenda by installing a corrupt moron they could control….
We should be eating our vegetables, not “electing” them..
He’s utterly compromised, which I think was the point of electing him. The only way he could avoid facing consequences was to get elected and then he would be beholden to the puppet masters in perpetuity. I don’t have any proof and it sounds kind of crazy but I don’t have a better explanation.
I think they underestimated how compromised and their ability to keep it under control.
But then again, they underestimate a lot of things.
I think the bigger problem is that they consistently overestimate their ability to do things. The machine used to be more effective and was able to handle things back when to keep the serfs happy and distracted. The current crop of credentialed morons, with high opinions of their abilities because they have the right pedigree and schooling, unfortunately can’t even take a piss without getting their own pants & shoes covered in it. As with everything else, their decision making is short term driven, adding up into an inevitable momentum of cascading failure, and then things get even worse in the long term.
I think the bigger problem is that they consistently overestimate their ability to do things.
One of the more sobering factoids is this – a trader who got his calls right 65% of the time would be considered a legend, a rock star in his business. He would be considered an expert of unparalleled ability. That’s only a 15% improvement on pure random guesswork, throwing darts at a board.
It’s been 80 years since there has been a .400 hitter in the major leagues. 4 outta 10 pays big buck, I mean really big bucks.
Compromised so easily controllable…senile so easily controllable…six of one, a half dozen of the other.
He’s utterly compromised politically, as are most Dems, that’s why they considered him a viable candidate. Trump wasn’t compromised politically and it scared the shit out of them.
Biden being mentally compromised never entered into it, I doubt any Dems could tell the mental difference between Biden, Harris, Shillary, et al.
The Irish are dum-dums is not an offensive thing to suggest I guess.
Panetta? Geez, I knew it! That’s all you need, one thieving wop on the team.
“Much better than you, you stinking Irish shit pig.”
David Mamet had fun with the racial makeup of Chicago in that script.
Look, We Irish do not habitually present as dementia-addled curroptocrats.
We aren’t even as drunk as we joke about being!
Exactly! It’s a base slur.
Though some of us do like a pint
Look at this drunk Mick. He can’t even link correctly.
I’m just going to give up on trying to do links on my tablet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2_8Igq7ko4
“This seems incredibly inappropriate. Alleging criminal fraud in the ruling of a civil case should like it might be stepping beyond one’s responsibilities as a judge.”
That’s what you get from activist judges being appointed to the court: a system that is more about protecting the masters and their agenda than one where justice prevails. The machine needs to stop Trump from running, because the people are becoming resistant to the indoctrination, incessant lies about the effectiveness of the machine in light of the abysmal failures occurring daily, and the reality that the elites are anything but. They can’t fortify another election as brutally as they did the 2020 one, knowing that the more of this they do, the more the serf class will realize their will doesn’t matter and the republic is lost, and without that, they know they can’t win. So they need to coopt the education and court systems to dumb down the serfs and rule the way the machine wants since the people are not bending the knee. And if they can’t brainwash the people, then the ill distract them with bullshit where a cuck dude bitchslaps another to defend his whoring wife’s reputation..
It’s so naked. We are still pretending the emperor wears the finest clothes but it gets harder and harder every day. I still don’t get the point of social justice. Maybe I don’t understand power. It seems pointless to be in power if you destroy prosperity in the process. Maybe they calculate that the spoils are enough, fuck prosperity.
“I still don’t get the point of social justice.”
Really? It is blatantly obvious to me: it’s about convincing the low intelligence morons driven by appeals to emotion that you are fighting for them while doing shit that keeps the elite in power and growing their power & wealth while the very people cheering this shit on take it in the ass
We live in an age where the vast majority of people will not only turn a blind eye to any explanation to a dilemma/problem/issue that uses logic, reasoning, data analytics, and facts – be it something incredibly complex or super simple – when it leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. That’s because they need heroes to cheer for and villains to jeer at.. You can explain economics and the law of scarcity to them, in great detail, and some moron will come in and scream stupid shit like “the rich should pay their fair share” and “the rich stole from the poor”, and they will cheer on the moron and either ignore you or come at you with pitchforks.
Yeah, “social justice” is a naked power grab. They can tart it up with all the flowery language they want but it’s still “gimme mine”.
“knowing that the more of this they do, the more the serf class will realize their will doesn’t matter ”
The left is far too narcissistic to be capable of knowing such a thing.
Maybe you are right. I used to believe that too. But the effort put into canceling those that point out the criminality of the left’s actions – see the fortification of the 2020 election – and other such incidents, lead me to believe that it is done on purpose. Whether they know what they are doing or not, it is definitely coming from a place of ill intent.
Hell hath no fury like a narcissist scorned.
Aye, something about public sector seems to attract them more than their private sector equivalents. Maybe narcs are the ones willing to trade money for power.
In the public sector you can do some of the dumbest shit possible and avoid the consequences of that stupidity. Not in the private sector (even if you got a sugar daddy in the public sector). Thomas Sowell has a brilliant quote about how we let people with no skin in the game foist some of the dumbest and costliest shit on us without ever having to face the consequences of their stupid decisions.
People that have never made a productive contribution are making rules for those that are productive. Elon Musk faces it every day and has learned to navigate and prosperous by nodding his head at the right time.
And yet failing upward is commonplace in the private sector.
Once a company gets big enough to have an HR department, a PR department, and multiple levels of middle management, it happens routinely. I’ve witnessed it repeatedly.
Awesome analogy/description of the problem Fourscore! We have the self-aware inept with emotional/mental problems telling the producers in society what is acceptable and how and making real ban k doing this shit. What a fucking racket..
“And yet failing upward is commonplace in the private sector.
Once a company gets big enough to have an HR department, a PR department, and multiple levels of middle management, it happens routinely. I’ve witnessed it repeatedly.”
This is basically part & parcel of the rent seeking monopolistic big industries that collude with the public sector. These companies tend to eventually destroy themselves (see G.E.) and hopefully the current social media monopolies will do the same. The problem is how much damage do they do on their way out.
The productive sector – for sure in the US – are the numerous small businesses that are looked down upon the public sector for not being worth their time.
whaddup doh’
Aw, nothing about me getting bilked to keep an NFL team in a has been (but undoubtedly charming former home of Rhywun) third-tier city?
Did you at least get a reach around?
And I don’t even get a dome out of it. I feel cheated.
*bends over*
A dome? That takes the fun out of lake effect football. Make those nancy southern teams come up here and suffer through wind, snow, ice, and rain.
*Looks at number of Buffalo championships*
Doesn’t seem to benefit them.
A dome is what the pussies in Minnesoda have.
And the cannibals in New Orleans.
If we are playing this game, every NFL team should also be required to put a white cornerback in the field.
That’s one of the big tells that lets you know the whole thing about diversity is a racket: the requirements always go only one way. That and the fact that they absolutely don’t want diversity of thought.
No requirements for a certain number of top psychologists, or whatever to be men, heads of HR departments? It’s all crap.
If the captain of the team gets a C on their jersey, minority hires should get to wear a T on their team polos.
Apparently Jason Sehorn is the last white guy to play a game at corner in the NFL.
I guess you could bend the rules around if maybe a white safety lined up as a corner for one play or something.
All 32 NFL teams will hire a minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season, part of a series of policy enhancements announced Monday to address the league’s ongoing diversity efforts.
Because there is a disparity of non-whites in the NFL…Anyway, you can feel good about yourself for being hired to a position based on your skin pigment.
Marxist liberalism creates a lot of new jobs that pay big dollars and add as much value as the original job that the marxist wanted to assign all of the serfs of low value: turd polisher.
Mrs F demands an Asian lady coach, if not, she will continue to boycott the NFL.
She said as much money as the NFL is bringing in they should be able to afford footballs for everyone and then they wouldn’t have to fight over the one ball they have.
Sounds like the European lady that told the powers that be when asked that she didn’t get why they made 22 guys chase a single football (this is soccer, not real football) and that the game would be much nicer and score higher if they each got their own ball to kick into the goal…
I demand more diversity on the field. Every team must have at least one player of each race on the field at all times, also a transmale. No player can fill more than one quota.
I’m pretty sure someone can get Hue Jackson for cheap.
Maurice Drayton is available.
The temperature at Concordia Research station atop Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau — typically known as the coldest place on Earth — surged to an astounding 11.3 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-11.5 Celsius) on March 18.
So it is still colder than a witch’s tit.
Yes but in a nickel bra, not a brass one!
I believe this wonderful phrase derives from the belief/observation that witches do their witchy stuff naked.
Now that’s wiccan bumper sticker I could get behind.. Although in a parallel with nudist colonies, it prolly will be mostly the women you would rather never see naked that will be the most enthoused about doing this…
Never mind.
Wicca was a remarkably successful attempt to get gullible young women who wanted to believe in something to take their clothes off.
Like trans women showing women how to do sports, it benefitted the patriarchy!
Too bad they don’t alllook like cast members of The Craft.
Back in the early-mid 20th C, obesity wasn’t really a thing.
Buffy taught me that witches are good and pretty
https://youtu.be/wjohhUyfCeY?t=27
Yeah but it was was mostly just Look Away! The flopping was alarming. Middle-aged second-wavers. Mom?
Note that they didn’t mention that and always downplay any measurements going the other way. That or they “correct” the measurements suddenly making it look like there is warming…
But you are the heretic if you point out that this “science” sure looks like the same bullshit we got during the kung Flu reset agenda, where they lied to us constantly and punished the people that pointed out they were lying.
We had a much more demeaning and repulsive description for the cold when I was a younger man. Pretty much offended everyone.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state lawmaker apologized on Monday after he publicly cited a persistent but debunked rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in school bathrooms to accommodate children who self-identify as cats.
Lots of people get duped by urban legends. Politicians are not immune to this.
What do they give the kids tat self-identify as not fucking idiots and are unwilling to play this game? Suspensions/Detentions?
That question has never been raised.
In what grade do kids learn to play “Doctor” with demonstrations from the teacher and custodian?
Thinking of coming out of retirement
Is that the home ec class examples that produced such foods as “hiding the salami”, “bopping the baloney”, or “choking the chicken”? OK, the later two are solo sports, but you get the point..
the later two are solo sports
Pairs baloney bopping may not be as popular as the singles division, but they sure seem to have fun.
It’s interesting how this one makes the news, but top prog-fascist politicians use debunked stats and urban legends with impunity.
The Pentagon says it may have to go back to Congress for additional money to support Ukraine’s battle to defeat Russia’s invasion
We’re not obligated to do anything for Ukraine. But US citizens must suffer anyway.
The only thing that pissing on a forest fire accomplishes is getting your dick burnt.
Ukraine is where the most corrupt people in the machine were laundering the tax payer provided lucre they were stealing, and now that Putin wrecked that shit, they need to go back to the old fallback of plundering money allocated to the military or military efforts. Your have to rob the bank to make bank, yo!
They’re still doing it. $325 for democracy and human rights in and around Ukraine. Like that is actually a priority for anyone (or should be) while the country is unsuccessfully repelling an invasion. No, it’s an opportunity to skim off that into the usual pockets.
Headlines: Inflation destroys Pentagon’s ability to maintain a viable fighting force!
Are they draining unit cohesion from the front hole or the back?
I thought it was the fact that our leaders sold out to the CCP and were hard at work making the military unable to fight them that was the issue.
“The court is tasked only with deciding a dispute over a handful of emails,” he wrote. “This is not a criminal prosecution; this is not even a civil liability suit. At most, this case is a warning about the dangers of ‘legal theories’ gone wrong, the powerful abusing public platforms, and desperation to win at all costs. If Dr. Eastman and President Trump’s plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution.”
Whatever you say, Shirley.
Now do Hillary Clinton’s emails, the Clinton’s charity work, the Biden family’s criminal enterprises, and Pelosi’s investment agenda to start with…
Bet you that this asshat will find no problem with any of those, and will defend them.
Canada went 18 for 19 in the World Cup qualifying rounds and all that they had to do was to recruit a bunch of African players.
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Yeah, today was embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as the other day when I missed two words, but still.
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Worldle in 1.
‘I happen to think that Joe Biden, you know, he’s Irish, really has a great deal of compassion when he sees that people are suffering. And I think it overwhelmed him in the sense of seeing all of the horrors that were resulting from this war.
So you are saying that his temperament is not conducive to the office of president.
Now I’m envisioning Strawberry grinding her teeth at the podium when asked about that at a press conference.
I’m just imagining some real potential her husband has to induce strong physical reactions in her during loveplay.
Canucks remain mediocre. All is well.
Be happy man, you got Trudeau to “represent”… Or not.
Some of us loathe him more than the KKK hated Obama. He has actually done worse.
Burnham noted in his statement that Carter’s “crime/fraud findings were not subject to the presumption of innocence, proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or any of the constitutional protections normally applicable to criminal proceedings.”
Merely the deranged ramblings of a political partisan. That’s why the Ministry of Truth puts it out there like front page news.
Brian Flores: “I was only interviewed so teams would abide by the Rooney Rule.”
NFL: “Nonsense! Also, we’re revising the Rooney Rule such that all teams actually have to hire the following number of minorities in the following positions…”
The “I Speak Jive” rule.
CockoldSmith has his own Twitter account. It’s pretty funny.
LOL
Jesus. He represents as a Black Man. What do Black men usually hold dear? Pride. Will Smith has been cucked. What does he do? He slaps down a smaller man to make himself seem worthy. Fuck that cunte. I’ve always loathed him.
I am not sure if once Obama’s term was over that the KKK had not been turned into one of his biggest fans considering the damage he did to race relations in the country.
I have been informed that cuckolding was purely a white man thing.
The internet has been lying to me.
I can’t remember where I read this, but supposedly Lewis and Clark had a black guy named York along on the expedition. At some point they ran into some natives living in tipis. They had never seen Africans before and one of the native men invited York to have a romp in the tipi with his wife.
Heh.
C’mon, man. You can’t take the things I say at face value. It’s ridiculous!
President Joe Biden said “nobody believes I was talking about taking down Putin,” during his remarks on his 2023 federal budget at the White House on 3/28/22.
25th. If I started talking the way that he has Judi would be looking into assisted-living accommodations for my wrinkled ass. “That, that, that cat was looking at me sideways! Come on, Man! Dear God! That grey cat cannot remain in power!” Later – “I never said that!” What the fuck, Stars and Stripes Friends?
Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal
Nice.
But it was not for BIO WEAPONS research, so it was totes cool… Who was the asshat that told congress that after the Obama admin’s grandstanding law was passed banning bio weapon research in the us, the CDC started funneling money to third parties that then gave the money to entities like the Kung Flu lab in Wuhan, but not to dual research even though they were doing gain of function work, again? You know the little fella with a Italian name that constantly told lies because he and his boss Collins were both personally involved in financing some of the vilest regimes in the world doing bio weapon research, but refused to admit that. The asshat that kept making people do the hokey-pokey, but with masks?
And nothing else happened.
Well, not to the Bidens. Stuff has certainly happened to the Ukraine for getting mixed up in the globalist corruption games.
The difference between the Bidens and the Clintons – the Clintons run a tighter ship.
It’s all crime families at the top. The Clintons, Bides, Obamas, Pelosis, and Bushes, all are just crime families.
Just highlights that corruption moved offshore in the age of globalization, foreign aid, and the Unending War on Terror.
I’d bet that 80% of DC is up to their ears in it.
80% would mean up to their neck. I’m willing to bet that they are all in it up to their noses. Republicans too.
This is maddening. It’s like a little corruption would be a problem but when the corruption is gigantic and over-the-top no one cares.
The timing of all of this hinted heavily at some revelations being in that data dump. I’m guessing the Russians didn’t already have the data, combed through it when it was published, realized that we had been swinging our dicks around in Ukraine more than they had known, and activated or expedited their plans for Ukraine getting a NATO invite.
All the surface level noise is just that. Russia doesn’t care about the Russians in Ukraine. They do care about having a US puppet regime cooking up pathogens on their doorstep.
Oh God. Watch the documentary on pathogen research facilities around the World. They have scientists in regions where the yearly version of MERS, SARS, bird flu, swine flu, etc typically originate. They try to find, investigate, and mitigate new strains of these deadly viruses.
I have not seen any substantial investigation or reporting that Ukraine was some super lab for banned biological weapons.
Same with Ukraine being more corrupt than Russia, American Democrat Part, Switzerland, Romania, China, etc.
Some People leaning on Russian propaganda a bit to justify Russians murdering Ukrainians. Its so obvious. Its like when Democrats try to hide their crimes. Only idiots believe Democrats.
Its “Pandemic” on Netflix. It was eerily released Feb 2020. It has quite a bit of Lefty narratives but they talk about virologists around the world trying to identify, study, and mitigate each years deadly viruses.
Like some Lefty shows, they dont realize that they release good info among the narratives. Lefties seem to think people only pay attention to the narrative not objective evidence and then form their own opinion.
I’m annoyed.
This morning, before my alarm went off, I was having a very pleasant dream. There was a song, a song that I felt I hadn’t heard in a long time, and in the dream I was excited to hear it again. It was upbeat, with very pleasant harmonies and overall a very uplifting song. I was aware enough to know that it was a dream, but I was going to listen to the song for real when I woke up and looked it up in my collection.
Then my alarm went off. Immediately, I forgot what song it was, and couldn’t even remember a note of the melody. I tried hard to think of what it might have sounded like, and thought “maybe Simon and Garfunkel.”
And now I have “Mrs. Robinson” stuck in my head.
Needless to say, “Mrs. Robinson” was not the song in my dream.
Was it perchance one of Cuckold Smith’s tunes?
Let me help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9aHrgtf2zY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsY8l0Jg3lY
It was A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission) wasn’t it? That’s their best one.
“I’ve been Ayn Randed and nearly branded a communist ’cause I’m left handed!”
Enigma “Return to Innocence”
(I only say that because I heard a song on the cruise over the speakers that I recognized from the late 80s or early 90s that is very similar to the Enigma song, but I still can’t find it)
Sadeness?
Nope, sadly. The one I’m looking for has far less instrumentation and has more female voices. I don’t know what language it’s in, either. It may not be an Enigma song.
So frustrating
Not pop, but non-English female voices that made a bit of a splash in the ’80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye1dgqDANWg&list=OLAK5uy_n9yg2yxV-5qM6alw4Qwt9NVVGHTp1NshY
And is also quite awesome. When they slam those dissonances, it’s like someone pushing a thumbnail into an itchy nerve.
Kind of like this, but more mellow & melodic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9f-Co9APg
Lorena McKennitt?
Enya?
Not Loreena McKennitt. Possibly Enya, but haven’t found it.
I want to say it’s a native American language/chant, that has been arranged as a new age song, but I’m not sure if that’s correct.
Once I get my voice back, maybe I can hum it to a reasonable approximation
Was it perhaps, this?
Very close, but more like late 80’s/early 90’s
Ashley MacIsaac?
This won’t help you now, but they have a phone app that listens to the ambient music and tells you which song is playing.
Shazam…yeah, I had uninstalled that a while back 🙁
Cause it also listens to what you say and reports it to the Illuminati, man!
A pox on past consultants.
Someone with very poor english skills wrote up a set of scripts, one of which is a perl script that does nothing but run ‘system’ commands, meaning there was no reason to run it in perl at all.
Should be easy to convert to a shell script.
Trivial.
But them ripping it out of the script where it belonged to make it a separate perl script makes no sense in the first place. The real problem is that the syntax is for an older version and the arguments need to be updated… And I’ve got other work to do. Oh, look, there’s a ‘delegate’ button. Somebody must have made me a manager. At least I found the problem to point the underling at.
I have seen simple shell commands wrapped in Python because error handling in bash is a pain.
No error handling here. The whole reason we were even looking at it was because it failed without explaination or notification
A perl script that’s a pain in the ass to understand and debug? You could knock me over with a feather.
Actually, no. The actual perl script was so simple that there was no difficulty at all understanding it.
What made no sense was breaking out those two lines and making them a perl script that just ran the system command.
Architectural design preferences….
Like assholes everyone has one, and most of them stink…
You write Perl scripts to obfuscate what you are doing.
In that case, said past consultant utterly failed.
Consultants only fail when they don’t get paid. If they deliver a steaming pile of shit and you take it and pay them for it, they win, and the poor shlob left to maintain it is the one that loses.
The pychos in Azov go and prove Putin right (assuming the videos are real).
That’s a bold move when you have already lost, are surrounded and cut-off, and the war is just an end-game now.
It’s not like we (our governments) didn’t already know they were sadistic bastards. Hell, we’ve been paying them to do their thing for years.
Free market water – grass watering will take care of itself.
It’s not fair that only the rich people can own grass!
That is the historic purpose of a lawn…to signal you are rich
And soon it will be again.
And it wont mean that in places that get regular rainfall.
Poor Kentucky folk can have nice green lawns.
Heh. I haven’t mown the lawn for two years. I work nights and don’t care to go outside. Neighbors are asshoe!
Meanwhile… here I can get cited by the city for not watering my lawn and letting it die.
I’d imagine that would be better than a hay field.
But what if the guy comes out of the audience and slaps that idiot grin right off his face?
“It was a mistake, clearly,” former Democratic Montana Sen. Max Baucus, a onetime U.S. ambassador to China, said on Fox News over the weekend. “He may think that personally — I think a lot of Americans think that personally — but he is the president of the United States, so he cannot say that publicly.
“The more the United States says things like that publicly,” Baucus added, “the more it closes our potential negotiations between all the parties who are involved here, the more it corners Putin, the more Putin might get more dangerous.”
Other Democratic strategists, however, say the criticism is overwrought. After all, majorities have also been telling pollsters that Biden needs to be stronger.
“Politically, I actually think the president is where most of the American people are,” said Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist and veteran of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. “And I think in a moment where the president is struggling to kind of stay above water or get above water with his popularity, I think the president may be saying something off the cuff that’s going to register well with most of the country.”
But Payne cautioned that Biden has to be careful not to cut into his appeal of competence — an attribute that took a big hit with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.
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Paul Begala, a veteran Democratic strategist and former senior adviser in the Clinton White House, cheered Biden’s off-the-cuff remark.
He called Biden’s Warsaw speech “historic” and believes it “will rank right up there” with iconic Cold War moments from presidential addresses, like when John F. Kennedy in 1963 gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in West Berlin, and Ronald Reagan’s call to Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” between West and East Germany in 1987.
Overwrought.
Joe is a titan of history. They’ll be reading those words off his Presidential Plinth for millennia.
??
Tho, he is trying to usher in Cold War II: Global Thermonuclear Boogaloo so there’s that I guess.
If we are lucky enough to avoid WW3, we’ll have to settle for a permanently flaccid economy and greatly weakened dollar.
Yay declining empire!
After all, majorities have also been telling pollsters that Biden needs to be stronger.
Our DUM-ocracy!
You forgot the good sports news of Cori Gauff getting her aww kicked. Of course, the commentators were still gushing about her.
Missed that but yes the gushing over her is nauseating. They want the next Serena so bad.
I wonder if they will have anything to say when Medvedev (Stateless) walks all over everyone again. Besides more expressions of lament that Nadal isn’t there.
Tree guys are hard at work in the backyard. Taking down 9 mature trees that are too close to the house. Most of them top out over 100 feet.
The wife is so nervous she’s fit to be tied.
Timberrrrrrrrrr…..
They know what they’re doing. Mostly. *experienced tree-faller*
I’ve done plenty of tree felling myself, but this all requires climbing and rope work, which I don’t do. I’ll be cleaning up afterwards with my DC-rated woodchipper extraordinaire.
I’m not concerned about it. The trees need to go. My neighbor narrowly missed losing his whole house to a mature oak a couple of weeks ago during a wind storm.
“tree felling”
Euphemism?
See my avatar, experienced at roof repair as well.
I’ll be cleaning up afterwards with my DC-rated woodchipper extraordinaire
What kind of chipper do you have? No one rents them anymore so I’ve been thinking about buying one of the 3” diameter ones from home depot or harbor freight. I looked at getting a PTO one for my tractor, but can’t justify spending that much.
This one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tsiJA4-VjI
One of the perks of being in the equipment business.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Nice! That’ll do the job.
But you get to watch them feed the smaller bits into the woodchipper, and dream.
Keep your hands to yourself!
Tree services have been busy since January cleaning up from the storm. I apologize that we are keeping the woodchippers busy.
I unwittingly dropped this in a dead thread yesterday:
I recently re-connected with an old high school buddy, and learned he’s a pretty fucking cool gunsmith.
That looks like some nice stuff.
*snort*
“McLube release agent”
I…ah..need some release. And if the lube smells like french fries, all the better.
But when it comes to how Biden is handling Putin and Ukraine, Begala thinks Biden has done a good job standing up to him.
“He knows Putin is evil, and he knows that weakness invites aggression, and he’s going to meet that evil man with steel,” he said. “And I think he’s been terrific on that. … Walt Disney used to say, ‘My movies are only as good as my villains are evil.’ And I think that’s true in political messaging.”
It’s all stagecraft. Until the sky is on fire, anyway.
Biden seems so incredibly ham-handed and impotent against Putin, especially with regard to the countries refusing to participate in sanctioning Russia. It seems what the regime really wants is a long, bloody insurgency against Russia, using expensive American weapons. If their overall competence thus far is any predictor, there will be peace soon.
Today’s leadership class is all about controlling the narrative cause actually solving problems seems to either be too hard or counterproductive…
Right now it’s 29* out in Brooklyn, which, as a 51 yo handicapped man, is a boring city. Nothing opens until 11 at the earliest, or this time of the week. It’s almost as dirty as Philly, and there is shit for getting around; all the subways run Manhattan but not across other Burroughs. Sad. I don’t know about crime though. And there are nowhere near the number of homeless here.
That Biden excuse is piss poor.
I spent the weekend in Philly. Holy shit that city is filthy. I went to a show, no more vaccine passes or masking of any kind. It’s been what? About 2 months since they unwound the restrictions? Barely a memory. We really are goldfish.
I don’t really know which neighborhoods are shit or not in Philly, To me they all look like shit.
Democrats losing an election is a threat to democracy, or something.
“It is absolutely essential for our democracy that we win,” Pelosi said. “I fear for our democracy if the Republicans were ever to get the gavel. We can’t let that happen.” …
“I don’t have any intention of the Democrats losing the Congress in November,” Pelosi said. …
“Everybody said redistricting was going to be horrible for the Democrats. Remember that? Not so. Not so. If anything, we’ll pick up seats rather than lose 10 to 15, which conventional wisdom said that we would. There’s nothing conventional anymore, and it certainly ain’t wisdom,” she said.
I guess you guys will have to fortify this election like no other election has ever been fortified.
It’s right there in the word “democracy”! If democrats don’t win, that means you lost democracy….
Democracy – I do not think it means what she think it means…
https://pasteboard.co/9CPaeKosgHdX.png
https://pasteboard.co/DNYgq7KDsDSY.png
For those afraid to click, these are brilliant, Orwellian takes on the “In this house we believe” yard signs. They skewer the Ukraine interventionist crowd.
I tried uploading them to the glibs media library but kept getting errors
oh, and thanks for the compliments!
Whenever I encountered one of those idiot signs, especially in urban areas, all I felt was that the people that put that out were pretending to show their pedigree but really hoping the thing would work as some sort of talisman to keep the rioters & looters away from them…
The tell is that they put them out in the suburbs where they are safe from war, looting, and their girls competing against boys in women’s sports.
…which is mostly what you just said.
404: Reading comprehension not found
You just validated it, so I see it as an upvote Mojeaux…
I think my favorite was someone here suggesting a bumper sticker reading, “In this car we believe in turn signals”.
So, how is it that the NFL is exempt from the law?
Quotas are still illegal last I checked.
They operate under the anti-trust exemption that the Supreme Court granted to professional baseball (under the FYTW clause).
This cunte really needs to take a long walk off a short pier.
In a recent interview with Technology Review, Gates discussed his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” and emphasized the benefits rich nations could produce by moving to “100% synthetic beef.”
“I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,” Gates said when asked about how countries can help to reduce methane emissions when it comes to food production. “You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time.”
The nonrich will get soy and bugs while the rich get Wagyu. Yeah, he can fuck right off.
Horseshit. The production cost for lab grown beef is so far out of line with market that it will be decades before it’s a reality, if ever.
Nope.
He can choke on a bag of synthetic dicks.
Legit LOL.
Bravo.
“I do think all the rich countries should move to 100% doing things that make me and my friends richer.”
I watched “The Battle of Britain” last night. The special effects (or whatever they called it) in the aerial combat segments was pretty bloody impressive, for the horse-and-buggy days.
Also- Susannah York. WOOD.
“Unhinged? No, just Irish.”
So, their excuse is that the President is a drunk?
Not sure how it makes sense otherwise.
The showdown appears to be over Russian gas and whether Europe will pay in rubles. The EU says that’s a violation of contract, but Russia says that seizing their reserves already broke the agreements and that because of the bank restrictions they cannot exchange foreign currencies, so pay up.
Of course, the final say will be whether the EU can go without gas for an extended period.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/03/28/g7-says-paying-for-russian-gas-in-rubles-is-not-acceptable/
Does anyone else get the feeling that a lot of dominos are falling at once, none of them good for the American regime?
*raises hand*
If Russia wins this particular battle, the sanctions will have achieved making them more economically secure.
Congratulations should be issued to our foreign policy “experts.”
STEVE SMITH WILL CONGRATULATE THEM!
I think neither Russia nor US/EU/NATO will win this one. The former has demonstrated the limits of its hard power, and the latter has demonstrated the limits of its soft power. The end state is likely a shift in the balance of power away from “the West” (including Russia).
The frustrating thing is that this is an opportunity for the US to win big. Really big. Just ramp up energy production, sell it to Europe, and in the process kneecap Russia and the Middle East. Use the money made to build nuclear.
Yes! It’s so simple but they want the wrong kind of power, so they’re willing to sacrifice economic stability and a measure of independence.
There’s something to be said for the argument that economic interdependence helps stability, but, as we’ve seen recently, there are limits…we can become too interdependent such that other countries can exert excessive influence over our internal affairs. They’ve decided that they don’t need to play by the nice guy rules anymore and see an advantage they will press.
These people are used to fleecing/laundering money through high-margin, low-production “industries” like the NGO complex, academia, public sector, and other connected entities. Ramping up energy production does not get anyone to bend the knee or send a cut to the big guy. Despite much wailing about “Exxon profits”, it’s not actually that profitable to ramp up primary production, refining, and distribution (especially not without protective tariffs). The economic incentives aren’t really there, and the political incentives definitely aren’t there.
You’re right; people don’t realize how much it really costs and how much risk is involved in major capital investment in real manufacturing. I live in an area where a major corporation spent nearly ten years deciding on a project (in competition with others in potential locations around the country) that is costing them around 7 billion dollars to build and will have been in the construction phase for 8 years before it makes a single pound of saleable product.
That is an incredible investment and definitely has promise for profit in far out years, but it probably won’t even pay for itself in 10 years of operation. But it represents knowledge, planning, work, determination, and not a small amount of hope.
To say that corporation doesn’t deserve profits after all of that is appalling to me.
I work in a similar industry, and while we don’t have billions to throw around, we are working on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of projects that will represent returns in the future. Fuck those people who say we don’t deserve to profit off that kind of vision and hard work.
It’s not about money as much as it is about power. The desire to fuck over low-margin/stable-revenue business is not driven purely by market forces; it is also about stamping out independent power structures: higher-margin/volatile businesses are easier to influence and control.
The political mainstream is absolutely opposed to the emergence of real labor power. This is also why unionization efforts are greedily gobbled up by the AFL-CIO; it is about capturing the institution before it can grow too large. (tangential musing: the cucking of the Teamsters, or who really killed Jimmy Hoffa?)
Any investment worth making long-term that pays off will also result in some accumulation of power. This holding of power, while mostly benign and unrealized, still poses a threat to the establishment.
They want a system that allows them to loot the tax coffers. That’s not doable with either the existing fossil fuel energy sector or a nuclear sector (because of security concerns). The green energy bullshit however is just money for the taking.
“Win big”? What kind of toxic masculinity is this?
Nobody in either side of the ruling uniparty wants America to win anything.
It might work out for the Europeans until around mid September.
Wild speculation is always fun. Here’s a quality example from a commenter at Moon of Alabama:
source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/ukraine-smoke-and-mirrors-around-poisonous-peace-talks.html#comments
Speculation 2 is standard issue gold-buggery.
Yeah, sounds like a whacko. Just one domino thinking.
“Get out while you still can” – *looks around at new asshole neighbors* I think we need to change the messaging to “it’s not so bad and will probably get better tomorrow.”
“he’s Irish, really has a great deal of compassion when he sees that people are suffering.”
I don’t know about that, it was probably just the booze talking.
When I was a kid, the local mullet wrapper ran Molly Ivins’ op-eds a few times a month. Naturally, she kinda rubbed me the wrong way — doubly so after 60 Minutes tried pairing her with P. J. O’Rourke on a kind of Point-Counterpoint back in the day. So I read KDW’s takedown of her this morning with glee (scroll down about 2/3 of the page).
My only question is, why now? Woman’s been dead for fifteen years.
“KERA-TV, my local public broadcast outlet, is showing Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, a documentary about the famous progressive journalist.”
I am now officially a 100% remote worker, according to my contract!!
huz-zah!
RV shopping?
RV or apartment shopping. Housing in Johnson City is ~$1/sq ft
Plus I’d get to live in a place called “Johnson City” LOL
That’s horribly expensive.
DC is $3.50
Oi.
I’m used to somewhere just north of $0.50
I also have a history of hating the neighborhoods I’ve lived in. There might be a correlation.
You also pay income tax in your state (as do DC, VA, & MD residents). For me, not paying income tax will work out to ~$4000/year
I don’t pay them, they steal it before it gets to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gX1EP6mG-E
That’s fine if you like the hustle and bustle of a big city, KK. Tourists on their way to Fredericksburg will start stopping in JC just to look at someone with a real job.
Wink, Van Horn, Alpine
I’d really like Erwin/Unicoi, but there’s not too much for rent in those areas.
KK, on a serious note, my son is moving to Bartlett, TX, one of the old ag towns that sort of died. Fine old buildings. A developer is trying to bring it back. I think they have a website.
Bartlett, TX Close to Austin but still too far to commute. Temple/Bryan/College Station not too far away
This MN/VT hybrid can’t handle the TX climate, even the Hill Country. Even TN is iffy, but I think I can deal if I can get up in the hills.
Yay!!!!!
Biden calling for Russian regime change is pretty much the least of my issues with him. Everyone knew he wanted it anyway.
It’s the part they aren’t supposed to say outloud, and it has nothing to do with the Ukraine. The left despises Putin because he is a nationalist who does what he thinks is in the interests of Russians. He doesn’t allow huge waves of Third World immigrants, doesn’t suppress or cancel whites and Christians, doesn’t embrace LBQ…whatever, and doesn’t let global corporations financially strip-mine his country. The man is obviously evil.
^
Though it is just one axis of many, the
United Fruit CompanyIMF/WEF/WTF set is upset they can’tgrow bananas in Guatemala anymoreprofit off of Russia’s resources and workforce.Yes. The near total blackout in the West on any ideas by Aleksandr Dugin is a huge tell.
Dugin’s sin seems to be a rejection of the moral and cultural nihilism of the West. He doesn’t endorse fascism or communism, but he rejects globalism and promotes national identity.
Nationalism, like populism, is just a stepping stone. One still needs to keep a destination in mind.
And that’s where I think he’s lacking. I’ve downloaded his book and have it on my list of things to read. We’ll see if he expounds on a way forward other than “not that.”
The man is obviously evil.
Not to mention all the murders.
Something, something, Arkancide
Woodrow Wilson led us into the crusade to make the world just like America. Winning the Cold War sealed the deal. What part do all of these stupid peasants around the world fail to understand?
Trotsky and Wilson, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Sloop is my musical tulpa.
Talking Heads are a superior band! I loves them!
Tonio, I’ve got something written it that might be worth submitting. What’s the best way these days to get it on the radar?
written up*
Oops, he did it again
President Joe Biden appeared to reveal that the U.S. is training Ukrainian forces in Poland — stating for the first time since the war began that American troops are actively teaching Ukrainians to fight and kill Russians.
The United States has been providing billions of dollars in weapons and other assistance to Ukraine, with much of that aid going through Poland. The president spent part of last week in the country, meeting with U.S. troops stationed in the southeast and delivering a speech about the West’s unity in the face of Russian aggression.
But to date, the Biden administration has painstakingly made the case that that is as far as they’ll go. On March 22, Jake Sullivan denied that Americans were “currently” training Ukrainians. “We do, of course, have U.S. troops defending NATO territory,” he continued.
That’s not what Biden said Monday. After delivering remarks about the White House’s new budget request, Biden answered a reporter’s question about comments he made when meeting the 82nd Airborne in Poland, in which he implied American forces would be going to Ukraine. Biden denied that’s what he meant, adding: “We’re talking about helping train the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland.”
Pressed again, Biden said, “I was referring to being with, and talking with, the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland.”
It’s possible Biden meant to say “American” when he said “Ukrainian” on the second instance, or he exaggerated the extent to which American soldiers advise the Ukrainian forces on how to use the security assistance the administration has provided.
It’s just that Irish blarney getting away from him again. The man loves to tell stories. Pay no heed. It’s not like we want open combat between the Russians and NATO. That would be crazy.
Actually that seems fine to me.
Nothing could be better for peace then the US informing the public they are practicing to kill Russians.
I…. remember a lot of outrage about a story of Russians having a “bounty” on American troops in Afghanistan.
That seems unrelated.
The greatest instrument of peace is letting the other side know you’re well prepared to annihilate them.
Or we’re stumbling our way into another world war.
Advertising what you’re doing and making the training facilities a legitimate target is a bad idea. He should keep his mouth shut.
point taken
He should keep his mouth shut.
Who runs Barter Town?
After the power vacuum, a new warlord.
I thought the greatest instrument of peace was the Mellotron.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N07-YAKtRAw
I can’t imagine how people are/were able to simultaneously be outraged about the Russian bounties story and think that the US pumping weapons into Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers is a good thing.
That actually seems easy to explain: tit for tat.
“They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue”
Except, of course, that the bounties story was total bullshit.
“It’s OK when we do it.” You don’t have to think much deeper than that.
We are already supporting Russia’s enemy very openly and obviously so this story seems hardly of special consequence.
In the previous case, we were supposedly on semi ok terms with Russia so them paying to kill our people would’ve been an escalation.
Some of us want de-escalation before it gets out of control.
True, but if Russia put bounties on our troops in various places *now* would you be surprised? I wouldn’t. That’s kinda where we are.
obligatory
We are already supporting Russia’s enemy very openly and obviously
Let’s not overlook that they are Russia’s enemy because Russia has invaded, what, three times now?
Whatever commitment Ukraine made not to mess around with NATO was voided when the first Russian soldier crossed the border years ago.
Nothing is fine. He is acting like my Grandfather when he started losing the names of his Grandchildren and then started referring to us as “Hey, You!” He’s bonkers. We’re fucked. That anger (it’s not really anger but more frustration) thing might kill us all. Reminds me of when Grandma started putting dirty dishes away in the cupboards. Not good.
That’s true. He doesn’t have consistent messaging with anyone else. He is completely off the rails.
Damn it, Festus, now everyone knows…Can’t trust kids nowadays
When that bully rolls in with his straight razor you have to get out the pool chain.
Honey-Comb was a sweet fighter! I,I,I, mean sleet fighter! Boy that blizzard of ’57 was something! The next day I shoveled the roof at the orphanage. Corn-Poop thanked me, personally. We were best friends after that and you can take that to the bank, Pal!
They should go back to the Basement Containment Facility strategy. You’ve proven over and over again that he can’t be trusted to talk in public without fucking shit up royally. Put him back in the basement and leave him there.
But then people will point out he is being hidden because he is senile and lost in space!
No, they will continue to hope enough of the shit gets filtered out by their partners/accomplices in what passes for the media and that most of the low information voters will never see reality.
I finally found the adult in the room, and it’s Macron. Even the person running against him says he’s doing the right thing.
“I wouldn’t use those terms, because I continue to speak to President Putin, because what do we want to do collectively? We want to stop the war that Russia launched in Ukraine, without waging war and without escalation.”
Nice.
And don’t forget that France is also a big swinging nuclear-armed dick in the world too. They carry it differently, though.
They threaten gas warfare with the stench of arm pits and cheese before resorting to atomic warfare.
Don’t forget the insults.
Touche!
Still seems like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
Yeah, he’s one of the few with any sense on the issue. He had to step up though considering the English speaking world has taken leave if its senses.
The interesting thing is that he has been on Team Schwab for a while now.
Perhaps there’s some fracturing behind the scenes.
Doubtful there’s any real fracture. It seems more likely to me he’s trying to outflank Zemmour.
i.e. having already well compromised Macron take a slightly deviant tack so he can win is far preferable to having the guy who named his party Reconquest (and has lived up to the name so far) get anywhere near the presidency
Figures the French would be the first to submit.
“It’s me nature”.
France negotiated the end of the Russo Georgian war, too.
OK. And how do you propose to do that? The time-tested Stern Memo technique?
Situational ethics
Startling disclosures about Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife advising President Donald Trump’s White House to keep up its fight to overturn the election results spurred a public outcry, but that outrage won’t easily translate to changes in lax ethics policies at the Supreme Court.
Even longtime advocates for such reforms acknowledge they face major hurdles at the court and in Congress, which has been considering ethics reforms for more than a decade.
But reform backers are hoping that the revelations that Thomas ruled on a case where his wife’s own text messages might have been at issue will spur pressure on the justices to take action.
“I don’t necessarily think it’s the winning strategy to getting a bill signed on this by Joe Biden, but you can’t just do nothing,” said Gabe Roth of Fix the Court, which advocates for ethics reforms and greater transparency at the court. “This is unprecedented in terms of having evidence of a specific case and that a spouse may have been talking to the justice about it.”
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Democratic lawmakers are expressing outrage about Thomas’ failure to recuse.
“The entire integrity of the court is on the line here,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “All I hear is silence from the Supreme Court right now.”
Just like when they begged Kagan to recuse herself in matters related to Obamacare.
“The entire integrity of the court is on the line here,”
If only. I’ll give the left this, the progressives have much better fantasies than the conservatives. The problem is that they think this is a bad thing.
No they don’t. They know what they are saying is pure bullshit. But they want people to think it is true/important because that would benefit them.
They know what they are saying is pure bullshit.
And so do I, hence why I called it a fantasy. But as far as fantasies go, I’d much rather entertain it than the conservative fantasy that appointing milquetoast establishment figures like Kavanaugh and Barrett to the Supreme Court will turn the tide of the culture war.
The Supreme Court is the most potent left-driving ratchet in this country. On every major issue, the Supreme Court has either driven this country leftward or else prevented it from reacting rightward.
We should be appointing constitutional originalists. If the right starts appointing judges that legislate from the bench, but with a rightwing bent, we have not solved the problem, only created different ones.
In order for that strategy to work, you’d have to control the legislature almost always, you’d have to get at least 8 if not all 9 justices on your side, you’d have to impeach whenever one strays from the path, etc. There is not enough consistent popular support, legislative discipline, nor sheer anti-entropic mustering of political energy, in order to make that happen. Though I’d love to be proven wrong.
Instead, the best way forward is to delegitimize the institution and eventually abolish it. The occasional and almost always tightly scoped “victory” is not worth the frequent and almost always wide reaching “loss”. Good bye and good riddance.
This alone would not be enough, but it’s a start.
The only way forward is decentralization and the collapse of the federal government. It will not cede power of its own accord.
“Instead, the best way forward is to delegitimize the institution and eventually abolish it”
YES!
The only way to fix most of our problems is to drastically roll back government to something akin to what the constitution allows, but that ain’t happening unless Washington D.C. gets nuked frst.
I’m not sure that ends in our favor.
Imagine if a constitution was written today.
Horrified yet?
We need to try to save what we’ve got, for now.
We need to try to save what we’ve got, for now.
It’s already gone. All that remains is a costume, and it’s worn by our enemies.
+ 1 skinsuit
Good God. Do you people not even “Great Reset”?
As a Minnesodan, I’m sorry.
I might have to temporarily rescind my personal aversion to voting just so I can vote against her.
*throws salad comb at PO’d Nick*
Shut your mouth! She’s the bestest evver!!!!
GUILT!!! By association. Tainted, tainted, I say! His wife is a witch!
So they’re really arguing that husbands should keep their wives in line? Sure you want to go with that?
“It’s OK when we do it.” You don’t have to think much deeper than that.
“God is on our side.”
The frustrating thing is that this is an opportunity for the US to win big. Really big. Just ramp up energy production, sell it to Europe, and in the process kneecap Russia and the Middle East. Use the money made to build nuclear.
I wonder if anybody is looking seriously at modular nuclear powerplants on floating offshore platforms.
Elon, are you there?
Funnily enough — that would be Russia.
Good morning, Sloop!
And good morning to the rest of you miscreants, malcontents and co-conspirators!
Unpopular take: Talking Heads are overrated. LDW is a great song, though!
*throws down gloves*
*wraps bar of soap in towel*
We need to talk Tundra
I’ll cop to being a malcontent and yes, Talking Heads might have been better mostly if they went harder and less sideshow. They were pretty talented but went with the weird.
Better version of TH song.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Fuck off. You are killing me.
Wonderful.
Thanks, Holiness!
I see your “Daily Ray of Sunshine”, and raise you….
The jokes have quit telling themselves
There you go again, Jimbo, ruining my day
the conservative fantasy that appointing milquetoast establishment figures like Kavanaugh and Barrett to the Supreme Court will turn the tide of the culture war.
The Supreme Court is the most potent left-driving ratchet in this country. On every major issue, the Supreme Court has either driven this country leftward or else prevented it from reacting rightward.
Until some President appoints a justice who obtained its law degree from a school other than Harvard or Yale, that will never change.
Another missed opportunity for the Bad Orange Man.
An alternative reform would be to move the Supreme Court from Washington DC to, say, Mobile, Alabama. It seems like a nice enough town. It’s near plenty of beaches. I’m sure a Supreme Court Justice could live a wonderful life down there. And you could remove them and their spouses from the Georgetown social set. And you’d impose some self-selection on the type of Justice you’d put on the Court.
Counterpoint: Walmart’s corporate headquarters is still in Bentonville, Arkansas. Do you think Bentonville has had a bigger influence on Walmart or do you think Walmart, the country’s largest employer and #2 on the Fortune 500, has had a bigger influence on Bentonville? See also: fed transplants trying to turn WV blue; they may not succeed (yet) at the state level, but the local level is a different story.
Bentonville is actually quite nice. Plenty of upscale commercial with little to no crime and none of the big city drawbacks.
But I’m yet to figure out if the Walton family politics are dribbling down to the broader population in the area and what the future may bring.
I’d be less concerned with the influence of the Waltons per se than the office drone horde and their particular brand of “the personal is political, national is local” politics.
^^
I’m a bit hesitant to expand our Ozarks land search to the Bentonville area for exactly that reason.
I’m a bit hesitant to expand our Ozarks land search to the Bentonville area for exactly that reason.
Democracy is two
wolves and a sheepNPCs and one person with an actual mind deciding onwhat’s for dinnerwhat to believeRelated, Walmart has 10k Silicon Valley employees and gee, guess what?, the ones I’ve had minor interactions with act like every other entitled tech employee.
Counter-Counterpoint: Walmart’s corporate HQ staff is probably a lot larger, relative to the size of Bentonville, than the SCOTUS staff would be relative to Mobile.
This is true (I hope) but wasn’t quite my point. It’s not so much Walmart’s size as much as its capture by the overculture that’s the problem. Walmart is independent of Bentonville, but not independent of mainstream views. You can take the SCOTUS out of Washington DC but you can’t take the Washington Post out of the SCOTUS.
Looking at South Africa might be somewhat instructive here. Their original supreme court was situated in Bloemfontein, which is about the same size as the Mobile metro area. The end result seems to be the neutering of that court and its effective replacement with a different court in Johannesberg.
Why does the Pentagon need more money?
The ultimate virtual signal for all these city politicians would be to send all the military surplus they bought for their police departments to the Ukraine. Send those tanks, MRAPs and other crap right on over. Would only require cost of transportation and they also wouldn’t be on the hook for maintenance.
I fully support this idea.
Pope Jimbo for Pope!
Duloot has a nice armored carrier:
https://www.cbs3duluth.com/2022/03/28/developing-man-barricaded-inside-vehicle-duluth-police-ask-public-stay-away-area/
Out-of-towners mention our crime rate. New York has 8 million people — over a million were never even robbed once. Anyway, if you call the cops there’s a three-year waiting list . . . Question: Which is easier? Buying a gun or a politician?
Buying a gun. Of course.
A spokesperson for the governor’s office said it also does not include golf courses, many which are irrigated with recycled, nonpotable water.
Of course it doesn’t include golf courses.
I wonder if he’s going to prohibit people from painting their grass green.
At least when you buy a gun, it stays bought.
*golf clap*
New York has 8 million people — over a million were never even robbed once.
So my chances of not being robbed are one in eight? Do these people even listen to themselves?
Do y’all watch Bridget Phetasy’s Weekly Dumpster Fire?
I listen sometimes. She’s pretty funny!
I love her conflicted feelings about Elon, and of course her “WOMEN” schtick.
You can demand answers as to why this program to catch CCP spies was canceled all you want idiots, but don’t expect any honest answers.
Racism, duh. Oh – you mean real answers? LOL
They needed all those resources to investigate the Jan. 6 insurgency.
ding-ding-ding
I bet Swalwell was behind the move to de-Fang Fang that program.
He didn’t just defang it, he nuked it.
Protecting himself is what he was doing… Case that dude is the CCP’s bitch.
He is a whore. He owes no stronger allegiance to the PRC than he does to his own country. The CCP is already realizing this, of course, and has begun to incorporate it into their strategy: they can’t buy loyalty over here because nobody has any loyalty to sell. They can only buy influence.
This is one of Dugin’s criticisms of the West. Our nihilist politicians are nothing more than reality show actors meant to entertain and distract while the actual rulers loot the treasuries.
He’s not wrong. The problem, though, is that the alternative has a fundamental weakness. Whether it be Franco or Chiang or Lee Kwan Yew or Putin, when the competent leader shaped in the fires of a different era dies, who is capable of succeeding him? Every leader capable of forming a semi-independent political system against the West seems to come from a period of civil war or internal strife, which like a crucible forged a strong man, but strong men create good times and good times create weak men, and then …?
“Our” system has the advantage of weak stability: we’re already well past the strong men stage, and we haven’t quite reached the weak men create hard times stage yet, so it still looks good.
(obligatory nod to North Korea and Cuba, where strong men did not create good times; those political systems seem more stable than the “middle ground” of Franco/Chiang/Pinochet/etc. but also are pretty miserable states)
His political philosophy does have the slight taint of Juche to it.
‘Taint of Juche’
Was a 1973 porno featuring Kim il Sung.
Was a 1973 porno featuring Kim il Sung.
Sensible chuckle followed by barfing
Probably for the same reason they went after SpaceX for “discriminating” against foreigners.
The “I Do Cars” guy has a few viddys about this turbocharged Porsche 928(!) he bought. A lot of undoing previous hackery, et c.
BUT- the way it’s set up, there is a big single turbo at the back, tucked up by the transaxle. Boost then goes back to the front of the car.
I foresee diabolical turbo lag. It must be fun to drive in the rain.
Looks like Douglas Macgregor is going to be Dave Smith’s next guest:
https://youtu.be/tyXMxP8PnQI
Should be a good one…
Scott Horton, as usual, kicks all kinds of ass on Kennedy.
Scott needs a sandwich or two.
There is such a stark difference in the speaking style between people who blather and have nothing to say and people who are well-informed.
Asking to be slapped on the front page and no link to John Anderson? Shame.
https://youtu.be/9QzqV28LdJ8
But it worked so well last time
Numerous members of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee expressed support during a virtual meeting on Monday for a draft proposal that would dramatically remake the party’s 2024 presidential nominating process, signaling that the committee could pass the measure when it meets again in April.
The draft proposal would end the Democratic Party’s current nominating process structure — where the Iowa caucuses go first, followed by primaries in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — and instead implement a process that would prioritize more diverse battleground states that choose to hold primaries, not caucuses. The new structure would require states to apply to hold early nominating contests and the rules committee would select “no more than five states to be allowed to hold the first determining stage in their presidential nominating process.”
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Committee member Maria Cardona, a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator, highlighted the need for the “party of diversity” to “actually implement a process that is trustworthy and open and transparent that also reflects all of the diverse communities that we say that we represent.”
“We can’t just continue to do the same thing over and over again because it is tradition or because it is the status quo. Our country is changing. We need to change with it,” Cardona said.
We need somebody really crazy to appease the fringe, next time.
I look forward to the Stacy Abrams/Ocasio Cortez ticket.
Neither of those two would accept being second fiddle.
Thunderdome… Two bitchez enter, one man leaves?
I don’t know those ethanol queens in Iowa have been remarkably compliant in juking the results to keep the outsiders down.
You think some other state will go along with your plan to have “voting issues” that prevent Bernie from outright winning?
Yeah but there are too many white people in Iowa. That’s all that matters any more.
You can’t argue with the race grifter’s take. Clyburn saved Biden’s ass in SC and look at the payoff.
Kamala and KJB.
The only problem is that by the time it gets to SC it is usually too late for extortion. This new plan will fix it.
Uffda. NYC Cabbies are invading Minnesoda!
Ummmm…. Sounds like you guys were the ones left standing when the music stopped. Sucks to be you, but that’s the biz.
Costly medallions you say? Hmm wonder how it is those could be so scarce?
Yeah, sounds like their beef is with the city.
NYC has some program where they are paying $65M of the cabbie debt. So the taxpayers of NYC are already coughing up a giant chunk of money.
But it is totes unfair that they even have to pay back a single dollar!
??
Pants-on-fire lie. As anyone who has ever taken Uber or Lyft in NYC and wondered why it cost five times as much as anywhere else.
Leah Daughtry, another member of the committee, said, “We cannot be stuck in a 50-year-old calendar when we are trying to win 2022 and 2024 elections. This has to be an ever-evolving process.”
It’s not just the Republicans we’re worried about.
It’s the fear of those sexist/racist primary voters that didn’t give Kamala her due! [Ignoring that she couldn’t even win her home state.]
Walmart’s corporate headquarters is still in Bentonville, Arkansas.
I thought they were starting to ease themselves out of Bentonville, to someplace more civilized. You can’t attract truly qualified top tier employees to a shithole like Arkansas.
This may be so but sounds like a pre-telework plan. Now that every office drone aspires to never even go into the office, does it matter so much where the office is located?
As long as there’s an internal chat or forums where you can bring your non professional life into the company!
Pithy but likely accurate observation by Yarvin (paraphrased): “The New York Times is run by the employee Slack channel, not the hereditary monarchy that owns it.”
I’m sure the gang at Buzzfeed felt much the same. I suspect the employee Slack channel runs the Times because the employee Slack channel, for the most part, reflects the views and sensibilities of that hereditary monarchy. Because, from what I can tell, that Times byline is a lot more crucial to those Times employees than any of those Times employees are to the Times. The only leverage the employees seem to have, from what I can tell, is the intellectual consistency of their premises that the Ochs-Salzbergers lack.
Yeah, much like Bezos and the WaPo, I don’t think the hand of the “king” comes down heavily or often, but it does get brought down from time to time. However, the ideological distance between the owner and the employees is likely not very large. Our “elites” are not so elite; many of them really are just silver spoons who “got lucky” and spend every day trying to apologize for it (without necessarily giving up their wealth or lifestyle, which to be fair would be quite foolish). However, I posit that the tail (employee Slack channel) is wagging the dog (owners) more often than not.
However, I posit that the tail (employee Slack channel) is wagging the dog (owners) more often than not.
I think you’re right. But, the reason the tail wags the dog is that the tail is where the dog claimed the tail should be.
Ochs-Sulzbergers: Republicans are lying fascists spreading disinformation to destroy everything that is good and decent. And disinformation needs to be shut down at every possible venue!
Employees: Yeah!
Ochs-Sulzbergers: And we’re going to have a Republican write an editorial on a particular current event
Employees: Why would you do that? They’re lying fascists spreading disinformation. We don’t want to provide a venue for them to spread disinformation!
Ochs-Sulzbergers: ….
Employees: You do stand against fascism and disinformation, don’t you?!
Ochs-Sulzbergers: Oh, of course we do. We’ll reject him immediately.
Heh, I feel like we’ve closed the loop to the discussion about true believers above.
My $0.02: nearly everybody is a true believer. The actual number of dissenters is pretty small and procedurally irrelevant.
The only reason it appears otherwise is that most people are not ringleaders, so the masses who “go along” may look like they’re not true believers, but a church isn’t composed of only bishops; and, not everyone has the latest talking points the minute they’re released, but it remains prestigious to stay in line with the talking points, so e.g. one day you can be talking to Mr. Jones and he’ll say “what, no, transgender swimmers shouldn’t compete with biological women” but then a week later he’ll say, “congratulations to Lia Thomas!” and downplay or deny the conversation from a week before.
Every once in a while a J.K. Rowling comes along and jumps off the train at her preferred stop, but even then, remains in line with the talking points on all other matters.
There has to be more to this story
Why is this guy pleading guilty to this at the same time he is denying he did anything wrong? Also, a guy is going to go to go to jail for hugging girls? That must have been some crazy amount of ass squeezing.
I think the dude is getting rail roaded because he looks like a deviant*
*I have no idea if he is getting rail-roaded or not. Just seems like a weird story.
I can’t imagine that “school resource officer” is a prestigious posting to begin with. Sounds like he made enemies on the force.
Is this behavior not common in high schools among the support staff? The head gym coach was fired my senior year after getting a student pregnant.
A couple great Talking Heads tunes there from sloop. It’s hard to pick a fav from them but I really love this one as I’m a huge Afrobeat fan and this is their homage to that excellent musical genre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92avHmgDRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7hC8p5DJ0
Absolutely a contender pist. Stop Making Sense is one of the best concert videos ever made.
Anyone else looking forward to the interview with Hillary after some trans dude/woman wins in 2024 and is proclaimed “First Woman President”?
Bonus points if Trump transitions to win it.
If Trump came out and said he was transitioning it would be the end of the whole tranny cadre’s thing…
Even better would be if a friendly rules that Wilhelmena Clinton is a totes different person than Bill Clinton and is therefore eligible to run again.
Imagine the fight when Wilhelmena asks Hilary to join her on the campaign trail.
This may be so but sounds like a pre-telework plan. Now that every office drone aspires to never even go into the office, does it matter so much where the office is located?
I saw that pre-plague. As I recall, it was being driven by whatever business school wizard was (is?) CEO. Most likely at the behest of his wife, I suspect.
Hey Trashy:
can lids inbound … I hope they get to you in time.
Big shout out for Athena. Thanks for setting up a can-lid outsourcing service!
What am i missing? Trashy is a back alley moyhel?
Email me at trashy-glibs at disengage dot co (yes the “M” is intentionally missing from the end) to get an address to send a can lid to help SP properly threaten OMWC. Write your glibs handle and a message on it if you want.
I’m gonna keep track as people indicate their lids are on the way. Once I have a critical mass, I’ll start sending out “received” notifications via email. Nobody’s gonna have their lid left behind.
I sent an email letting you know that I put mine in the mail yesterday. Don’t worry about responding. I don’t want to add more bs to your plate.
If you could tell us when you get them, that would be helpful in getting another one out in time.
I have yours.
Excellent, thanks.
Mine is hitting the mail today.
Me too. Priority mail yesterday.
I would have mailed mine sooner but they took some…fabrication.
lol. I too turned in an “art project”. In the enclosed letter, I pointed out that it probably wouldn’t look impressive to anyone who hadn’t seen the first five or six iterations.
In fact, Trashy will probably think it was a result of a new therapy where 3rd graders with nervous system disorders were given can lids.
I was the kid who couldn’t color inside the lines. Somehow I need to put together a non-embarrassing piece of art using a bunch of can lids. Not sure how I’m gonna pull that off…
Wire hangers, wire cutters, needle-nose pliers, and fishing line.
If the tin can lids are not enough to drag the fishing line down, use (fishing) sinkers too.
First thing, go buy some glitter…
*looks at glitter patch on couch from 4 year old’s dresses*
No, I’m good
Massively overengineered tin can lid?
Let’s just say there are mechanical fasteners involved.
Understood
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https://store.vansaircraft.com/1-8-x-1-8-universal-head-rivet-lb-an470ad4-4.html
Related, Walmart has 10k Silicon Valley employees and gee, guess what?, the ones I’ve had minor interactions with act like every other entitled tech employee.
That could be what I was thinking of. They were having trouble turning Bentonville into a Mecca for tech geeks.
Which is kind of weird, considering Walmart was on the bleeding edge of computer inventory systems and logistics for a long time.
Walmart has a program where they basically open their systems up to their suppliers and make the suppliers manage inventory in stores.
The suppliers can see inventory of their products in various warehouses (national, regional, etc) and in stores. They have to maintain a certain in stock percentage or pay a penalty. Pretty ruthless.
I know about it because a Walmart exec defected to Target and was making threats to implement the same thing there. A client of mine (a manufacturer’s rep who did a lot of business with Target) had me to to meetings to assess how much work it would be.
Luckily the Walmart/Target exec didn’t have the juice to get it implemented after all the squawking from suppliers.
So way in the way back times, some exec was hired at Walmart and they tried to rebrand like Target. The first step was taking out their fabric department. Wall Street did not approve.
I don’t know representative this is, but around here the Walmart shelves always seem emptier than the Target shelves.
I’d agree.
But maybe that just represents sweet lucre to Walmart?
It gets me to never want to set foot in Walmart again, preferring the grocery store or Target instead, but I don’t think I’m their target demographic.
This was back in 2005 or so. I have no idea if they still have that program or not.
Before anyone thinks that this is another reason why Target is better than Walmart, let me say that the reason our client existed was because Target was notorious for holding back payments for goods because some form or procedure had not been completed correctly. A lot of manufacturers paid my client to manage the red tape for them.
Target’s unforgivable sin for me was when they changed to a dress code of either business formal or khaki pants/red shirt. Spending a lot of time cooling my heels in the lobby of their corporate HQ, I was a huge fan of the old dress code that resulted in lots of young ladies wearing increasingly slutty/informal clothes. How dare HR put an end to that?!
Yeah, I’m only looking at the consumer end. I hate going into Walmart to get 5 things and finding out 3 of them are sold there but aren’t currently stocked.
Though, I used to work for Walmart, but at a different location (which doesn’t quite exist anymore; they moved to a larger building and have a different clientele today). Their inventory system was a mess circa 2010, and it took a large amount of human effort to keep from falling apart. It might have been revolutionary a decade prior but was coming apart at the seems even then. This may or may not be why things are so bad today.
When I worked at Walmart ~2000-2001, in the fabric department (natch), when we got down to the last 2 yards of fabric on a bolt, we scanned the bar code and a couple days later, we had a new bolt. Like magic.
When my daughter worked at Walmart, the dairy case was her baby, she said they were always out of stock on something, mostly eggs, I think, that just never came in. She did not do reordering.
Neighbor of mine worked for a Walmart supplier. They relocated him to Arkansas to manage supplies at Walmart. Good deal for him because the standard of living for his family of four went way the hell up compared to NJ.
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Well done!
Headline I just saw:
“Covid cases up nearly 70%”
From three to five?
3->5->8->13->21->35->58->96->160->267->445->743->1240->2070->3456->5771->9637->16093->26875->44881->74951->125168->209030->349080->582963->973548->1625825
A MILLION CASES IN LESS THAN THIRTY DAYS!!!!111
Believe the models
Few realized it at the time, but Michael Mann was a prophet, and the hockeystick graph is now the holy gospel of all science.
And you better agree with him or he’ll tie you up court for years.
+ exponential increase
Oops.
We used to start fires to cook with C4. If it can’t go boom, then you can be an idiot.
Update on the winning Mr. Mojeaux: He won tickets to see Santana. Hopefully no masks will be required.
Cool, are they letting kids sit on his lap now or is he still social distancing?
I think you have Mr. Mojeaux mixed up with OMWC.
Nice deflection