Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely day it always is!
Biden’s Second ATF pick opposed arming teachers
If Schools Don’t Let Boys Into Girls’ Bathrooms, Biden Will Take Their Lunch Money
Bush Dynasty Rejected by Republican Voters in Nearly All 254 Texas Counties
Texas association cuts NSBA ties after investigation of parents-as-terrorists letter
Chicago taxpayer debt averages $135,700 person, study finds
Gas Prices Increased by over 47 Cents in Last Month Alone
Corporations drop from transgender youth program partners page after State Farm exit
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Good morning, Banjos and all.
One recurring theme I’ve seen with people responding to the shooting in Texas is to say that we should fortify schools (metal detectors, armed guards, etc.). I don’t think going even further down the path of schools-as-prisons is going to have the positive effects they’re imagining.
I agree. Instilling even more of a prisoner mindset in today’s kids is not a good thing.
Look, a locked door thwarted the police. Imagine what that would do to a civilian!
And the fences, don’t forget the fences. Maybe put concertina wire on top. Once in, kids will never escape.
It’s a sign that we are now the low-trust Third World country – albeit one where we can still print enough money to turn schools into prisons.
It won’t have any positive effects, and will likely make things easier for future active killers.
The thing that stops rapid mass killers is instantaneous counter-violence. Armed guards are a good idea, but if they’re not willing to engage the killer, then why fucking bother? The rest of the fortification bullshit just gives the killer a concentrated and immobile victim pool.
Yep. Distributed defense–if even one teacher for every 4-5 classrooms were armed–would be better than security doors, cameras, alarms, etc.
Perhaps one good thing along the lines of fortification would be armored classroom doors with good locks.
but of course that could give an attacker a place to shelter
Remove the targets.
Get the kids out, scatter. Push them out the windows if necessary.
Sitting and waiting to get shot isn’t a plan.
They had an armed school resource officer and so did Parkland.
Fat lot of good that did.
SRO’s are not generally the best of the best. If they wanted to they could actually train SRO’s for these situations.
A chicken in every pot and Rambo in every school.
Here in Minnesota, a school in Richfield REMOVED the metal detectors because “it made they children feel unsafe.”. At least the two kids shot dead shortly thereafter no longer feel unsafe. So that’s a win, right?
“If Schools Don’t Let Boys Into Girls’ Bathrooms, Biden Will Take Their Lunch Money”
With a pool chain?
“The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.”
Odd way to write that, as it would also allow let biological females into boys’ bathrooms. Given the explosion of female-to-masculine transgender youth, that would be the more common occurrence.
““Whether you are grocery shopping, standing in line at the school cafeteria, or picking up food from a food bank, you should be able to do so without fear of discrimination,” said Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean, according to the announcement. “No one should be denied access to nutritious food simply because of who they are or how they identify.””
WTF does that have to do with bathrooms?
Everything. After digestion.
I”m trying to picture in my mind what separate schools, boy-girl, would look like in these days of trannyism
/Befuddled in Podunkville
The feds must have determined that school lunch money is the only stick they have to enforce their radical bathroom plans.
They did the same thing with highway money and the drinking age.
…and seat belts…
The grant with strings is their favorite cudgel.
I’d love to see them push that too far and get it taken away from them.
Looks like
Big MikeMichelle Obama is not the only one that wants to starve the kids.The school lunch program is an incredible money waste and utterly redundant with food stamps. It’s based on the idea that poor parents are too stupid and evil to get their kids something for lunch.
Hah! It’s breakfast, snacks, and now dinner.
Don’t eat where you shit?
ZOMG! Biden wants kids to STARVE in order to support the trans lobby!
Loss of school food, ooh. I assume most of us here packed our lunches.
“I’ll pay for my own whiskey, and don’t you forget it!”
My family was poor, I was stuck with the slop they served in the cafeteria.
Same. Though, even many not-poor kids ate the slop. It probably wasn’t as bad as it is today.
Mrs. Jarret made the BEST macaroni and cheese! AND she let you have seconds!
I still remember it 43 years later.
Ode to Mrs. Jarret?
I worked in the cafeteria in high school. It was great! The cooks really took care of us, free food, all we could eat. Teenage Fourscore enjoyed the crabby Ethel May’s bitching, not at us but more directed towards the administration. I think the food was provided through a state program, 15 cents a meal, 70 cents by the week. My folks could even afford that but were happy when I didn’t have to pay.
I’m sure it was great then (“microwave? what’s that?”).
Sounds as if it was good and homemade and independent in the 60s. See “LAUSD crumb cake” or something like that.
Heh: https://momsla.com/lausd-coffee-cake-recipe/
(Moj, if you’re around, would you be the test kitchen?)
(Gah, I should just make a half-batch in an 8″ square pan.)
Naw, I forgot I don’t bake anymore, and don’t have half the ingredients. Not fresh, anyway.
Neh, brh. My interest in ovening died with the poke cake I had to bake for my own birthday because no one else would.
The school lunch program is run as a profit center in public schools. They work to get as many kids on the program as possible and hold costs to under the reimbursement level, thus padding their budgets.
In very early elementary school, I had time – and lived close enough – to walk home for lunch. After they shortened the lunch period, my mom packed lunches for me with a little cartoon critter, “Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear,” drawn on a napkin with a little message, different every day. ***SNIFFLE***?
Aw, is she no longer with us?
Long gone. (I’m old! ?) And she was pretty Bideny for a long time before that.
Well, I see where you get your kind nature, anyway.
Mine can be a bit Peg Bundy.
::blushes:: Kind? Me? Thanks! ?
(Boy, do I have her conned! ?)
That’s really sweet. Moms can be awesome.
She was all about being a mom. I was blithely unaware for years just how badly my parents’ marriage sucked. ?
“She was all about being a mom.”
Damn gender conformists.
Former President Barack Obama raised eyebrows on Wednesday for attempting to link this week’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
1) These things are not related.
2) Fentanyl Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose.
3) Signaling by Obama and other leaders on the left is looking more and more like they are OK-ing “peaceful protests” this summer.
The left believes anyone that stands up to them is an insurrectionist, but when they are not in power they will use violence and destruction to make sure nobody else can be effectively in charge and to intimidate the people. I have a feeling that if we get another summer of love attempt, people will no longer just go along with it and make excuses – I don’t mean the propagandists in the old media, they are not able to be saved, but about the real common man & woman – the fuckers astroturfing that shit will get some real and nasty pushback. and I bet the WH and team blue will blame the people that refuse to let Antifa do team blue’s dirty work, and throw the book at them.
The mostly peaceful protests got shut down real quick here in Cleveland. After the first day, seeing the cops fail to protect the downtown businesses, the business owners at the next ring out showed up with guns and baseball bats to protect their businesses. There were no reported riots that day.
Contrary to what the people that tell you you should just bend over and grab your ankles so the angry can do their thing without escalation, letting these angry people know they will pay a price, works….
Riots are the voice of the unheard…unless you are insufficiently left-wing and get a little out of hand at a protest.
“”In the aftermath of his murder, a new generation of activists rose up to channel their anguish into organized action, launching a movement to raise awareness of systemic racism and the need for criminal justice and police reform,”
“organized action”
When they burn, loot, and kill it is “organized action” and democratic protesting by the oppressed. When anyone else even tries to do any kind of protesting, it is insurrection and fascistic shit that should result in maximum jail time and the loss of their rights.
Yep.
Uvalde is the result of systemic racism. We have been taught to hate ourselves and others like us.
They are actively teaching kids to hate success and the successful, labeling that as acting white.
Acting white works. Quite well, actually.
“new generation” = “the same old, tired commie shitstains that had been looking for an excuse to rampage unchecked for months”
It’s impressive how the man has grown even more repugnant out of office.
While he dips his toes into the Ocean in front of his fortified property.
Good morning, Glibs!
Oh, *very* good.
Free at last
Shit reactions like this is why these elites know they need to replace the electorate with one consisting of more grateful and willing subjects, you evil cad!
The Obama kids are young and Michelle will never shut up.
Someone needs to show her what that hole is for.
(props to Chrissie Hynde)
“Christ, what as asshole!”
Is there something both of these asshats have in common that just makes them smug assholes? I get that one has a Wookie and the other likes to land face fist when pretending he is a skateboard dude, but what drives both of them to be gasbag asshats?
Narcissism
“Texas Gunman Was In The Room For ’30 Minutes’ Before Tactical Team Breached. Why Did Cops Not Breach Sooner?”
How much of that delay was caused by them having to deal with bullshit potential political fallout because of the stupid times we live in?
How much of that was cowardice on the part of the first responders? I read that when the Border Patrol team showed up, one of the first guys to enter refused to wait until his backup was in position and made entry by himself, getting wounded in the process. Surely those who had been there before him suspected the first to breach would be hit, and perhaps that’s why they waited while children died.
I can’t call cowardice out because I was not there, but I can guarantee you that when you have to make sure you don’t do anything that will cause political blowback, you will not move anything but slow. How many people remember ground troops in Afghanistan and Iraq being paralyzed because their commander had to call a lawyer in DC to clear whatever they needed to do so they could avoid political blowback from the fucking assholes? All of that having been said, had there been armed resistance on site, I guarantee you this evil asshole I hope is being shown the works in hell would not have chosen this easy target.
Gun free zones, like schools, have become defacto and easy target for every nutbag that feels society didn’t give them their due and that wants to do some social media signaling on their way to committing suicide.
I’m down with calling it cowardice. You’re employed to protect citizens, including children, and armed with guns and special privileges. To have that role and then stand by the door and listen to young children being systematically executed is cowardice and every one of those cops are unfit for their positions. I doubt there’s many of us here on Glibs who would stand by listening to the screams of children being executed without trying to stop it. I can’t imagine not engaging… not if I want to every want to sleep again at night.
I have a buddy on a city police force who told me their SOP for mass shooters is to engage immediately with whoever is onsite and to disregard cover if needed. They expect to take to hits but the priority is stopping the shooter as soon as possible. So there’s probably different procedures for different departments. Compare the Border Patrol guy to the School Resource officers. The record isn’t looking good for school LEOs.
That agent that went in to finally deal with that evil asshole while the cops sat idle, here is his reward for doing that….
Do you want a future ruled by by Trumphitler? Because if it’s one thing the Picard tv show tells us, is that unless you get rid of ICE, you get a dystopian future.
??
You’re going to have to live with yourself afterwards.
A useful statistic – about 95% of gunshot wounds are survived.
I’m assuming that’s because handgun wounds vastly outnumber rifle wounds.
That, and also because emergency trauma medicine has gotten really good lately.
Disclaimer: it’s always best to wait until the dust settles with these sorts of things.
But it’s beginning to look a lot like cowardice. Scott Horton posted a bunch of links where parents were yelling at the cops to go in and do something. Eventually a bunch of dads decided they would go in since the cops weren’t going to, and the cops stopped them.
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683
Jesus, if that’s true…
not sure, it’s paywalled, but here is the quote:
Normally I don’t call for violence, but one of those dads who wanted to rush in lost his daughter. The only way to stop cops from doing this shit is for them to understand they will face vigilantism after the fact.
If my kid is in there, you’re going to have to shoot me to stop me.
it seems true.
Oddly, this seems to be something the left is bragging about too.
Um… since it’s completely obvious cops don’t protect people, shouldn’t people just protect themselves?
“That’s the wrong lesson to take from this! You *should* be realizing that confiscating all privately-owned firearms is the correct course!”
Me: I don’t know if the normie proggy froggies are incapable of seeing the equalizing nature of guns, or if they are in on the scam.
It’s the Look at Me syndrome. Abeula should have chased his ass with a slipper.
During a press conference on Wednesday following the school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., former US Representative and Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke confronted Governor Greg Abbott about when the next school shooting will occur, and what the state is doing to stop it.
Beto the faux Latino is trying to lose the election harder than he was already going to.
Don’t mean to get all pedantic on you, but is Latinaux.
Don’t mean to get all pedantic on you, but the word is Latinaux.
Chicago is the home run hitter in so many respects. Easy to understand the Obama fascination and vice-versa.
The definition of kleptocracy is Chicago.
That’s where team blue was able to POC (proof of concept for the non IT people) all their worst and most evil ideas and rackets…
These days they don’t want to bother with doing their crazy shit on a small scale, and they go straight to doing it nationally, which is why there is such blowback.
Texas Gunman Was In The Classroom For Half An Hour Before Law Enforcement Stormed In. Why?
They had to establish a perimeter, of course.
I have no real picture of the sequence of events – killed his grandma, got in a gunfight with cops, then entered the school and killed everyone in a classroom – then finally an Border Patrol guy who happened to be there charged in by himself? But it sure sounds like the cops fucked up several times along the way. Tough to criticize people for not charging a guy with an AR, but that is the job sometimes.
I don’t understand why cops are allowed to not do their job if it might endanger their safety. That is not the standard for any non-government professions. For example, I have to walk I-beams hundreds of feet in the air at my job. There is a risk that I fall to my death. I don’t get to skip the dangerous part. Neither do fishermen, roofers, etc.
You just don’t have a good public sector union looking out for you….
Waiting to verify the intersectional points of the attacker and victims.
Good Morning.
Apologies for the slightly early OT. But for car people this works on two levels. First – another Mustang that can’t stay on the road. Second from the reddit thread – Is that how a baby Mach-E is created?
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I consider that a ray of sunshine and thank you very much.
5 bucks says manual transmission with aftermarket remote start. They have to disable the clutch switch to get the remote start to work, and this is a frequent outcome when someone else parks the car and leaves it in gear.
LOL, hadn’t considered that.
The engineer in me finds that hilarious.
Third hand story from the reddit thread is they weren’t paying attention and thought the parking lot continued on in that direction.
So a non-zero chance a cell phone was involved as well.
If he’d had a V8 he might have cleared the Tesla.
*up votes*
Calif. ?♀️
The Mach-E is not a Mustang. It is an abomination.
I can keep my Mustang on the road.
Poor kitties! Yoga lady sure likes gray.
Some day she will make it up to the kitties by dying and letting them feed off her corpse…
And then they’ll drink her wine? (Sorry, not wishing harm on any of them…)
President Joe Biden’s second pick to head the nation’s gun regulating agency opposed training and arming teachers with military or police backgrounds, an issue likely to be raised at a Senate confirmation hearing today.
It’s a ridiculous concept anyway. Teachers are there to teach, not be law enforcement, after all. What we really need to do is make the “Gun Free Zone” signs bigger. That wat way the killers would be able to see and better follow the law.
Sure, easy to say, but what if the perps don’t read well and believe that there are free guns inside? Signs should be bi/tri lingual for the non-cunning.
The problem is they didn’t put up a murder free zone sign.
Heh. Just dredged up an ancient email from SP. I was being a whiny little cunte and she sent me a screen-shot of my stupid face from a Zoom. That’ll calm your tits in a hurry! She was so awesome. I must say, the image was much more handsome than what was portrayed.
“If Schools Don’t Let Boys Into Girls’ Bathrooms, Biden Will Take Their Lunch Money”
This shit illustrates their priorities. I heard some guy that make the case that the left, because they are too busy killing their own babies and having so few that their numbers are declining, while the right is creating new offspring (especially since a lot of people that are not with the left tend to be more family oriented), is hell bent on indoctrinating the kids of the others into leftist marxist idiocy. The shit they are doing that have destroyed the public education system are intended to allow them to brainwash the kids of those icky others.
It’s part of the reason we homeschool
All state and local agencies that receive Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) funding, including schools, will have to update their non-discrimination policies to include protections for gender identity and must investigate any allegations of discrimination on the basis of gender identity, according to a May 5 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announcement. Obama-era guidance interpreting Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit gender-identity discrimination stated that transgender students must be allowed to use the restroom, locker room and shower facility that matches their gender identity.
Maybe we should reconsider allowing federal intervention/funding into things that there is no constitutional justification for the federal government to control.
insurrectionist bigot
So, was the story that shooterboi go into it with la immigra prior to the school just some fake news?
What I read is that a CBP team was the one that finished him off after the other LEOs who “cornered” him didn’t move in to engage him while he continued shooting kids.
I’m looking and I can’t find the original article where I saw that.
I suspect that if they find anything like that in the story, this thing will be memory holed just like the Vegas shooting.
There was a shooting in Vegas?
Joe Pesci shot several people, and beat a few others to death.
You think I am funny? Funny how?….
I was listening to a podcast about Goodfellas, and it mentioned that something very similar happened to Joe Pesci in real life, when he was a waiter. He brought it up to Scorsese, and they included it in the movie.
I am sure that was the same for that “They FUCK YOU at the Drive Through” skit he had in lethal Weapon…..
What?! Link, please? Always looking for a good podcast.
I think it was this one: https://youtu.be/vc4mBGIDEeU
Grazie–
well, 48-hr rule, ya know
sounds more like a “no” on that – gramma fight, drive to school, locals freeze, federales finally do something
and that “no” shoulda been “yes”, it was wrong
If Schools Don’t Let Boys Into Girls’ Bathrooms, Biden Will Take Their Lunch Money
In my highschool the bathrooms were practically mixed anyways.
Yeah, but that is because you Euro dudes have been conditioned to sit down to pee by your womenfolk…
I am not sure even the girls sat down given the state of the bathrooms in 90’s highschools.
I had a great hidden bathroom in our high schools underutilized old basketball gym. Nobody went in there except during the occasional blood drive. It was glorious.
Spanking the monkey at school?
Really? Weird. That wouldn’t happen where I grew up.
Gas prices have increased by over 47 cents in the last month alone as the U.S. continues to smash gas price records day by day under President Joe Biden’s leadership.
Listen, Jack. This administrations policies have nothing to do with the, uh…well…anyway…
*turns a shuffles away*
*trips down a flight of stairs*
[Kamala experiences a moment of petit mort]
Chicago taxpayer debt averages $135,700 person, study finds
Swiss is rich he can afford it
I don’t live in Chixago, or even in Cook County….thankfully.
I paid 8.8 for gas this week. Good damn it. Good thing I barely drive.
Driving is a privilege that should remain reserved only for the elite…
Or their chauffueres.
Well DUH! How am I gonna signal I am an elite if I have to do my own labor, huh Festus? Next you will tell me that you don’t have any young children working in your mines…
Now you’ve made me do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B__8N5d_LA
I thought you linked to the “Riding Ms. Daisy” Wayans brothers clip…
Sign in?? wuttafuq? sorry–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCF2nMrQde8
8.8 what? Cloves of garlic?
Kilomegrams
That is his dealer’s street name.
“I started buying from 8.8 ever since 6.9 screwed me over.”
You need an electric car. Use the savings to buy a generator so you can take longer trips away from the grid.
Mount the generator on a trailer so you can charge while you drive.
Litre or hectogram?
oh haha
Fortunately, your lei/litre combo comes out fairly close numerically to the $/proper measurement. Which means you’re below California pricing, but since they have their gas tax scheduled to go up something like $0.18/gal/yr, not for too much longer.
Is that some kind of Nazi code?
I’m not much for angry, shouting Irish bands but that’s a pretty good tune, Banjos. Mornin!
You prefer the weepy drunk Irish bands?
I prefer them passed out, chained to the radiator.
Like your girls?
Me:
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Back below the Tundra line after a rough stretch.
I am unworthy of this place. @#$&*@!
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That is spectacular.
Perhaps you may want to revisit your seed words.
I used words from the recent article by whiz, instead my general randomness. I guessed the wrong word 6 times, and in my frustration I even reused a known wrong letter.
That result is why I (almost) never chase words. Go after BL or TR and see if you can narrow down your options a bit.
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309! Beat that, losers!
/Bottom seed for next tournament.
The second lowest possible score. Very impressive. ?
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So glibs how many more kids need to day for you to give up your guns?
a. 100
b. 1000
c. 10000
d. all of em
None of the above.
Heh, you said day!
The two concepts are unrelated.
Your inquiry makes no sense.
When any of my guns kill one child, I’ll give them all up.
all guns are responsible for killing, as all men are responsible for rape and all whites for the sins of the past
I’m sorry I don’t dance to lunatic ideas.
Would you dance to Lunatic Fringe?
Hell, I danced with the Lunatic Fringe for several years
I’ll dance to anything.
I have a soft spot for Lunatic Fringe. It’s a long story, but ultimately it helped me win $4000 back in the early 90’s.
Your guns must be defective.
The gun buybacks pay in orphans?
Get your Waffle on!
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‘How to Murder Your Husband’ author found guilty of killing husband
https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status/1529721507005407234
He shouldn’t have said her novels were unrealistic.
Or she should settled for the insurance money instead of figuring she could humble brag about it in a book too..
She’s 71 years old. Mom?
Imagine being this person.
A pro-abort on Tiktok tells her infant daughter:
“I could have killed you, but I chose to let you live. Yes, I realize what I just said and I stand by it”
Abortion activists know abortion kills a child, yet they continue to promote the evil, horrific violence
Bedtime fairly soon. An hour or so. Walking rehab is challenging at.times but progress being made. By my count the third time I’ve had learn/relearn how to amble. Next rehab session in 12 hours.
Korean hospital food 3x a day for six days so far. Lots of snacks and candy Lady brought me, tho. All three hospital meals were actually quite good today, however.
Did x-rays today, and the twisting done to me to get in frame was dreadful, but that pain mostly passed. If everything goes well, and it mostly has, tomorrow should be my last full day in the hospital. Then I get to ‘go home.’ That’s gonna be a hotel for a couple of days for some Me Time. Then I’ll bunk w Lady. Few govt errands to ensure and then I am OUT.
Will be sad to have to leave her here. Parents have offered her an All Expenses Paid trip to the US when she has vacation.
Tomorrow is when Inhet confirmation, but the doc has been saying it for about the whole week and I have made much progress.
*crosses fingers*
Then you should be getting the hang of it by now 😛
Evan! Glad you feel and sound better.
Get out of that country before it kills you. Please.
It’s good that you are making progress.
Get out of South Korea as soon as you can.
This was a very good read even if the quote I’m going to mention (out of context) runs a little against the thesis.
There is some irony in quoting a nearly 200 year old source about a problem that is so unique to our time. I wouldn’t really argue that the West is in decline, since we have Spengler and Kierkegaard as earlier signposts; I rather think the question is about the degree of the precipice. We (as they did before us) like to imagine that the water of our culture is pouring over a waterfall, plunging to oblivion. It may be that we are more like the Mississippi – slowly winding across a plain, inexorably bound for discharge into the primeval ocean, but in no great hurry to get there.
Rome was not build in a day. The Roman empire also took over 500 years to get so bad that it could do nothing but collapse…..
Things might be moving aster in our modern industrial age, but the rot still needs to reach the point where it brings it all down.
One reason Rome collapsed slowly was that nothing came along to replace it. I think that’s where we are – waiting to see what’s next if the whole thing doesn’t just collapse.
Two years after he wrote that, the Revolutions of 1848 happened. The U.S. has not had a significant revolution since the establishment of the managerial state after FDR’s death. It is entirely possible that we are, like Kierkegaard, sitting on the precipice of an unknown but drastic change. It’s also possible that the U.S. keeps delaying its overdue revolution, and as a consequence the destination our river is currently headed towards is a stagnant fetid bog.
Ah the Revolutions that didn’t really change much, yes.
True, the specific year is not quite as pertinent as the place of those revolutions in the massive changes that shook Continental Europe across the 19th century.
Given that the 19th century in Europe began with absolute monarchies, multiethnic empires ruled by minority elites, and legally enshrined classes and social status, whereas it ended with all of those gone or barely tottering along, it’s hard to say the changes were not substantial overall.
Side note: arguably FDR’s death marks the entrenchment, rather than establishment, of the managerial state, as James Burnham was already talking about The Managerial Revolution while FDR was still alive and well, but I think there’s still an inflection point at the latter’s death: he was the quasi-king who kept the managers in check, but was replaced with the out-of-his-depth Truman and thus the managers “had to” form an oligarchy of themselves more powerful than the President. Then, over time, the center of gravity of that oligarchic structure moved outside of the formal state.
“Formal State” Explain, please. Yer a smart Monkey. Do tell about this “formal state”. Is it the powers that be yanking the levers or is it some chaotic force fucking things up for their own ends? The last three years tend to point to the latter.
By “the formal state”, I mean what we normally consider to be the government: the three branches, the President and VP, the cabinet, the Departments and their agencies, the Congress, and the courts, and all of the written laws from the Constitution, to treaties, to the United States Code, executive orders, administrative law, UCMJ, court decisions and precedents, etc.
Contrasted against the formal state is the informal state, which consists of the academy (universities and affiliates, K-12 education systems), media (press, radio, television, streaming services, etc.), the nonprofit sector (activists, community organizers, thinktanks, charitable orgs, NGOs, etc.), the military-industrial complex, the pharmaceutical-industrial complex, and other publicly traded companies. While the latter wield a lot less direct power, they wield considerable indirect power through either setting the agenda (academy/media) or acting as a plausibly deniable arm of the state (corporations, nonprofits).
I know. It was a redundant question. I was just twisting your tail, Friend K.
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The Revolution will not be tweeted.
Desperately trying to remain relevant and help team blue rig the elections they are about to take a shellacking in November 2022?
Butt not monkeypox?
I guess “scorn” and “ridicule” and “nope” are signs of “pandemic weariness”.
“The CDC recommends taking a Covid-19 test after domestic travel “if your trip involved situations with greater risk of exposure such as being in crowded places while not wearing a well-fitting mask or respirator.””
Are there really people out in public wearing respirators to avoid COVID?
Trench warfare in the 21st Century. Hard to watch as brave men kill each other for stupid asshole politicians. The last Ukrainian throws back several live grenades before his luck runs out.
https://youtu.be/W7sytOW4B7M
I’m starting to think that when the left screams “how many more children have to die before you give up your guns?!” they aren’t making a rhetorical political statement. They’re making a threat.
In one of the Stone Ukraine documentaries, the question was asked “how many people needed to die in protests to bring down the government?” When the answer of “100” came back, they (the people working for Victoria Nuland) put snipers on roofs and killed 100 protestors.
Holy shit. I’ll check that out. Reminds me of Albright and her 1 million Iraqi children starving to death quote
They want us dead but will settle for our submission.
You may have that backwards. I know Milton said, “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven,” but I can’t imagine that ruling over a piled dead bodies is very much fun. Or very profitable.
They don’t want everyone dead. Only their enemies.
Those are some nice children you got there we wouldn’t want anything bad to happen would we
Got some good pointers from y’all a few days ago regarding starting a garden. I realized I was gonna spend more time thinking about it than actually doing it and I’d just waste the limited growing window I have, so I just cleared up maybe 80 sq feet and tossed some seeds in. Marigolds, okra, green beans, and radishes. We’ll see what happens.
It’s really not hard. I still have to finish mine, but the weather has been cooler so we’re not missing out on much growing time. The biggest challenge for me is weed control. We’ve used all kinds of landscape fabrics but each year the quality keeps getting worse. This year we’re trying cardboard for the first time.
My goal is to have a better looking garden than what they had in the CHAZ in Seattle during the summer of love.
A sign that says “I identify as verdant cropland”?
Looks like the ocean may need to be vaccinated
Had a thought re the Texas shooter…
Could addiction? to social media and gaming cause a sort of Cabin Fever? …coupled with a lack of physical interaction with humans?
I mean, yeah, you’re still in society and appearing to interact – digitally. But it’s not “real.” And because the interactions are not real, is it an isolation intense enough to cause Cabin Fever?
/IANAPsychologist
I think the problem that creates these broken people is a combination of the social media pressure and the fact kids are given participation trophies and are told they should have self esteem when they have yet to accomplish anything. Social media 24/7 seems to be incredibly stress inducing. And getting rewards for doing nothing of note leaves most sane people feeling like they are a fraud too. How many of these fucks that shoot other people are just broken fucks that would otherwise have committed suicide, but because of social media, have decided they need to go out with a bang (sorry not punning) on social media?
Social media is far, far more corrosive than videogames.
I hear the usual idiots on the right talking about first-person shooters and how it desensitizes youth to violence, but the reality is that social media gives them actual reasons to hate people.
Of course, all of the adults are addicted to social media too, so they don’t talk about that.
^
In video games, you fight computer-generated drones and pseudonymous avatars of random people you will rarely ever encounter again.
In social media, you fight real people whom you often know in real life and can brigade them, applying social pressure and widespread derision.
Well said.
Growing up is hard to do, harder when one doesn’t have family support, family figures to emulate. We tend to gravitate towards similar groups, the jocks, the nerds, the malcontent, which ever group we seem to fit in best with.
Even after we leave school and we are more on our own, we try to fit in with the work group or another. If the work bunch tends to stop for a beer or two or three we may find ourselves doing the same sort of thing . If the gang plays softball we’ll dig out an old glove and try to make the team. Most of us need some sort of emotional support for a few years.
Yes, I don’t know if social media caused this or merely accelerated it, but there has been increasing alienation, intolerance, and intolerable behavior among adults, which of course spills over to the children, who are more emotionally sensitive than adults.
Groups of friends and coworkers seem to fall apart and fail to form in the first place more often than in the past.
The people that needed us divided, so we could be more easily conquered, destroyed the feeling of community. That created a whole bunch of forced loners that simply couldn’t handle the fact they were isolated have developed sever mental issues (and a lot of envy and anger towards others) that feel they need to act out to get attention.
Neither one is.
Seems legit.
Today I posed as an NGO worker in Eagle Pass TX bidding farewell to illegals before they boarded their bus to disperse into the USA just to ask them where they are all going, majority of them said “Miami & Florida”
I couldn’t find the latest one but here is Kamala accompianned by bongos https://youtu.be/x0_R_fipxDY-
Sorry for the misspell. I’m more than a little drunk. Times are harsh. I watch Gutfeld on my break and they are really coming into their own. Kat and Tyrus especially.
Kat Timpf looks a little more lethargic than usual.
Lovely hair on Dagen!
Beto is an inspiration to us all, and a credit to his race.
So well-spoken and clean!
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E18/365631
First-quarter economic growth revised down slightly to negative 1.5% annual rate
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/first-quarter-economic-growth-revised-down-slightly-to-negative-1-5-annual-rate
Anyone think it will be positive for Q2?
Only for Raytheon
QUICK, PRINT ANOTHER $4 or $5 TRILLION DOLLARS!
Maybe it’s transitory
The recessionary economy is transitioning to its preferred identity as a booming economy?
Pronouns: Bull/Bear
I was thinking Mongoose/Cobra
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-insists-party-elites-shed-overseas-assets-eyeing-western-sanctions-on-russia-11652956787?mod=djemalertNEWS
“ China’s Communist Party will block promotions for senior cadres whose spouses or children hold significant assets abroad, people familiar with the matter said, as Beijing seeks to insulate its top officials from the types of sanctions now being directed at Russia.”
The Great Divorcing is under way.
Hunter Biden hardest hit.
This is being done so that when they do their invasion of Taiwan the usual sanctions makers will not be able to affect them in any way that has consequences. Remember, the CCP will do whatever is best for itself. If none of the CCP people have assets that can be affected by sanctions, then the CCP will be far less inclined to have to worry about descension in the ranks. If the Chinese people take it in the ass, they can just blame the others. Win-win, and the road to the invasion gets easier.
The people in charge there are not stupid. They’re learning a lot from Russia right now.
I was thinking yesterday that “The Great Divorce” should be made into a movie.
It would be one of those limited release Christian movies that get primarily shown at churches and etc, not a Chronicles of Narnia type release.
What about Perelandra?
Or, “Till We Have Faces”?
Yes, and Yes. The former as part of a trilogy, of course.
But I wasn’t thinking about them yesterday.
I loved “Till We Have Faces” but not sure I got it. It has been about 25 years, should probably read again.
It’s an excellent book.
The “Out of the Silent Planet” / “Perelandra” / “That Hideous Strength” trilogy would be an epic. I found THS to be completely terrifying.
Actually, you what movie I want to see?
Peter Jackson’s “Mr. Bliss”.
Well I understand they have a half dozen mistress each can they trust them is the question.
I thought Fb had algorithms for this sort of thing.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the Uvalde shooter made three facebook posts in the 30 minutes before yesterday’s attack:
– “I’m going to shoot my grandmother.”
– “I shot my grandmother.”
– “I’m going to shoot an elementary school.”
I guess they concentrate on censoring conservative/libertarian “misinformation”.
One might think that it would be fairly simple to screen for direct threats of violence like that and provide for notification to the authorities.
Instead, they seem to spend all their time on COVID vaccines and masks, probably because the government is paying them to do so.
Too busy fact-checking dissent on climate change, COVID/vax, etc.
I have a private FB group for alumni from my fraternity. It’s only about 200 people and no one I don’t know personally. One guy made a ‘fag’ comment about someone doing something stupid. That post was removed and I had a warning emailed to me within 5 minutes of it being posted. Don’t tell me they don’t monitor that shit.
Probably automatic. ?
A fraternity is toxic masculinity anyways. I supposed you abused the poor wimminz in college?
FB doesn’t let you talk about ciggies?
Pretty standard stuff these days. The asshole who shot up Pulse was on Facebook for the entire event, and even Googled ways to clear a rifle malfunction.
Immediate action for the smartphone age
Surf youtube
Pause video
Orient weapon
Replay video
Try to clear malfunction
Stash phone in pocket
Must…not…cackle hysterically in the office…
seriously? I had not ever heard that. wow
Yup, and it’s not the only case. Almost every RMK either reloads or clears a malfunction at some point. Keep your eyes open; if the right people are around, you end up with the 2015 Thales train attack.
I’m not surprised at the malfunction; I’m surprised he had time to do an online search to figure out what the immediate action should be.
Without regular practice at handling firearms and immediate action drills, I can imagine an amateur / novice would have extreme problems figuring out how to clear a malfunction.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
nice!
My wife will do that but I can still out hobble her
Saw that one before. Ages well! Thanks, Pope!
I think about this, now and then. We should go back to teaching about the Seven Deadly Sins. The Papists weren’t necessarily wrong about everything.
*and not as a how-to-get-ahead manual
K. Harris’s favorite book!
The great white [extremist] threat!
OK, all together now “Christ what assholes”.
The ADL ceased to be a force for anything good or worthwhile well over a decade ago. I believe the shift came somewhere around the time of Obama’s election.
“How to Lie With Statistics”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51291.How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
They’ve read it I see although it was more intended as a warning.
were those murders racial, or just murders by people who were associated with white supremacy?
First paragraph shows the latter
Black people kill black people in droves. But their biggest threat is white-supremes. The former Vice President said so.
Black-on-white homicide is also over ten times as likely as white-on-black. To wit, homicides by race of perpetrator and victim (2016 data):
White-on-white: 2854 (1.2 per 100,000)
White-on-black: 243 (0.1 per 100,000)
Black-on-black: 2570 (6.3 per 100,000)
Black-on-white: 533 (1.3 per 100,000)
(based on these FBI stats and the 2017 population estimates by race from Wikipedia)
Crime stats are a white-supremacist conspiracy theory, obviously.
The theory of government enacting “neutral” policy driven solely or even primarily by data has always been a lie on the whole, but it’s becoming more apparent day by day.
Data is racist if it doesn’t support the narrative.
Is the per 100k of the perp’s race or of the victim’s race? Or some sort of geometric mean?
I don’t think you can do per 100k with two differently sized groups.
For example, the white-on-black rate is 0.1 per 100k white people, but 0.6 per 100k black people. Black on white is 1.3 per 100k black people, but only 0.2 per 100k white people.
Yes, if you look at it solely from the victim’s perspective, white-on-black is more frequent than black-on-white. But if we’re going by victimization alone, white murderers’ victims are almost half as likely to be black as the black share of the population (7.5% of white murder victims are black, whereas 13% of the population is black) and black-on-black victimization is about 5 times as likely as white-on-black.
These are perpetration rates, so the capita in question are the perpetrator’s own race. Victimization rates instead look like:
White-on-white: same
White-on-black: 0.6 per 100,000
Black-on-black: same
Black-on-white: 0.2 per 100,000
I don’t think you can do per 100k with two differently sized groups.
I must disagree; the entire point of looking at per-capita rates is to account for the different sizes of the groups.
My point is its not clear which group should be the denominator. But if I had to choose, the victim makes more sense to me.
Or, as I said, the geometric mean of the two group sizes.
Regardless, black-on-black is by far the worst category.
And of those 244 murder victims, how many were white?
hard times create strong men
strong men create good times
good times create weak men
weak men create the New York Times
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1529707554535878657
When Musk called out the Democrats for being the party of division and hate, he slipped up by not adding “envy”.
It’s the party of all the deadly sins.
Muh-insurrectionisms!
Florida House Rep. Randy Fine tweeted a warning to Joe Biden on Wednesday about efforts to take guns away from American citizens.
Rep. Fine said that efforts to do so will show Biden why the “Second Amendment was written in the first place.”
“I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our President — try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place,” Fine tweeted.
That’s actually true but Twitter’s not the place to say it. That toilet of a platform flushes away all context.
In other words, it reads as a threat when it isn’t.
It can only be construed as a threat because the majority of the population is historically illiterate, even and especially when it comes to American history.
True but when it comes to how it’s construed it is what it is. Shouldn’t be that way but there you go.
I disagree that it’s not a threat, but it’s only a conditional one.
I’ve been beating this horse a lot lately, but if Biden wants to make a real difference he needs to tone down the existential “us vs them” fight to the death talk. He’s the most divisive present I’ve ever seen, and he’s never met a problem without escalating it 10x with his angry hate speech. (Yes I went there).
I agree he is the most divisive so far. I fear that that is what partisans on his side want.
I would say Obama was more divisive. Less angry shouting, but he drove the wedges that Biden is flailing away at.
Absolutely. Obama sold himself as a moderate on race relations while he worked non-stop behind the scenes to increase tensions.
That’s a very good point.
Pish posh. He is the great unifier. A president for all Americans, just like he said in his inaugural address. You’re just an evil right-wing bigot that hates government and progress.
No one really wants unity. I don’t – I want to be left alone. The left doesn’t want unity, they want submission.
I don’t believe in Unity..
if Biden wants to make a real difference he needs to tone down the existential “us vs them” fight to the death talk.
Depends what you mean by a real difference. If you mean unify the country and calm down conflict, we’re very much well past that stage.
And I would strongly disagree that toning down would be a good thing even if possible. It’s an “us vs them” death talk because that’s where the country’s at and there will not be any turning back. And personally I don’t want unity if that comes at the price of submission and ascendency of the state over the individual in their vision. Better for the masks to be off the Dems and the eGOPs then for the ratchet to continuing to be clicked behind false words and phony smiles.
I think about this, now and then. We should go back to teaching about the Seven Deadly Sins. The Papists weren’t necessarily wrong about everything.
Taking away a population’s moral framework and replacing it with nothing certainly seems like a bad plan.
Aint nothing wrong with a but of lust here and there
“Butt of Lust” will be my new band name.
Why are libertarians so obsessed with buttsex?
Because vaginas are so scarce in libertarian circles?
Pack it all up and go home. JI wins the internet.
Agreed. Comment of the day.
Q: How do you fight a tank with an AR-15?
A: It’s all about where you shoot it! When using small arms against a tank, the place to shoot it is in the supply chain.
https://twitter.com/IntentPerson/status/1529539585436708864
I was going to recommend that you shoot it in the politician.
You don’t. You target the vast support structure required to operate it. Likewise for fighter jets, as the former VP so illustratively stated one would need to be able to “take on” the government. It is not beyond the realm of possibility to turn these items into multi-million dollar paperweights.
If they don’t have infantry cover, you just wait for them to dismount to piss or refuel.
A pound of sugar in the fuel tanker works too.
Here’s a US Army training video called “Crack That Tank” from the World War 2 era. In summary, for infantry the idea is to focus small arms fire on hatches and vision ports to make the tankers button up, which will reduce their visibility and battlefield awareness. As the tank comes closer you hide in a foxhole, and if it passes close enough you throw a Molotov cocktail at a certain ventilation port.
https://youtu.be/taHFUKKKmJM
Take out high ranking officers in the rear echelon when they take their afternoon break in the local coffeeshop or tavern?
“Hey, it’s 5 PM, time to head for the O Club”
/Fourscore remembers
This cries out for a mind expansion meme…
How exactly do you expand a vacuum?
According to the cosmos, It pretty much happens naturally.
Doesn’t take much explosive to dislodge the tracks
When a tank runs out of fuel and ammo, you seal the hatches, light a fire under it, and turn it into a modern day version of this.
Pride
Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the WEF hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats and experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world. Lest this characterization be seen as overstating the case, Schwab himself said as much this year in opening the conference: “The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world. But two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, that we serve not only self-interest but we serve the community. That’s what we call stakeholder responsibility. And second, that we collaborate.”
This is the call to action for elitists the world over. They appoint themselves the representatives of global interests — without elections, without accountability — and then create mechanisms of national and international order to control citizens over whom they claim to preside. Schwab himself has decoded his favorite term, “stakeholder capitalism.” He wrote in Time magazine in October 2020, “Free markets, trade and competition create so much wealth that in theory they could make everyone better off if there was the will to do so.” To do so, however, would require taking hints from Greta Thunberg, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter; it would require “building … a virtuous economic system” in which companies abandon their core mission of serving customers and shareholders and instead embrace answering questions like “What is the gender pay gap in company X? How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted? What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions?”
You might think you know what’s best, but you don’t. We do.
You might think you know what works, but you don’t. We do.
Relax, and it won’t hurt so much.
Killing the proverbial golden goose.
You would think these assholes could just enjoy being rich and leave us alone.
I guess it becomes boring.
The pyramidion of Maslow’s Hierarchy should be changed to something about obtaining absolute power over others.
People who dress like Sarek
https://images.app.goo.gl/NV27uG1WKtW9cojy8
shouldn’t be listened to.
Or some Superman XIII villain. Yuck, would rather kneel before Zod.
Shorter Bond villain: “We haven’t tried real communism yet.”
Probably the most unintentionally funny article you’ll read today.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3501737-democratic-discontent-brews-with-federal-reserve/
Yeah, it’s all the Fed’s fault. Has totally nothing to do with policy enacted by legislation or Executive fiat.
Congress needs to be forced to directly legislate what they have delegated to the agencies.
Just ignore all of that spending we do that you have to fund.
And ignore that we’ve created a debt so large that hiking rates much at all puts the entirety of the federal apparatus in jeopardy.
But externalizing blame is the entire point of these arrangements.
Yep, came out of nowhere. Greedy corporations decided to get greedy and mop up all that cash so lovingly laid on the public by vote-buying legislators. Now, “hey, we warned you!”
Why would they raise rates last fall? Putin didn’t do anything until this year.
It’s a mystery
Hopefully now its actions will have a very effective impact in stopping inflation.
It literally causes boom/bust cycles, depressions, and inflation. FFS.
Here’s video of cowardly cops wearing body armor tackling a father who wanted to save his kid, if you want to ruin your day.
I’ve seen a report that three security types fired at the shooter and missed, while shooter wounded all three of them. How does an 18 y.o. kid with no discernable firearm training or range shooting take down three “trained” cops? I live near a police shooting range and they are out almost daily firing their weapons at targets. Looks to me like the lack of “gun control” is in not hitting what you are aiming at.
If he had a type of red-dot optic, it’s possible he could outperform them if they were working with irons. It’s crazy easy to make hits with a carbine with a mounted optic at short range.
rifles are vastly easier to use than handguns.
Rifles are basically easy mode.
Also, those SROs probably haven’t touched their sidearms in two years. Police training wasn’t all that great before, but COVID completely hollowed it out.
That is beyond words. I would vote not guilty in a heartbeat if vigilante justice caught up with each of them following this.
There’s actually a cop with his taser drawn to use against the parents. And others with their rifles in hand facing the parents and not towards the shooter.
The shooter better have been already dead at the time that video was filmed.
Perhaps, hopefully, that is the answer, and the shooting was over when this video was taken.
I can’t watch it. I might stroke out.
I could only watch a few seconds. WTF.
Same. Too enraging.
Eventually we’ll get the whole story. It sure sounds like the only reason it was ended by a Border Patrol agent is because he was able to make it past those assholes because of his uniform.
That would be my early stage hypothesis as well.
Just a thought (not a sermon).
When the boogaloo lights off, it will be the women who flip the switch. Not because women are evil or petty or whatever you may think I’m getting at. No, it’s because women are more social than men (in general). Women are the glue that hold community together, and as they fracture, so fractures the country.
I’m happy to sit here in this quiet little corner of the internet and ignore all of the goings on. I text a few buddies here or there. I hang out with y’all an hour a day. My wife, OTOH, is plugged in with a zillion friends, constantly texting, doing social media, etc. She maintains our connection to the community. As her connections fray due to each successive CURRENT THING, that community gets smaller and smaller. And it’s not like she’s out there trumpeting her views from on high. The obnoxious loudness of the TMITE drones has driven a wedge between so many groups that used to be close.
Women will be the harbingers of the coming conflict, not because they will be uniquely at fault, but because one of the last social glues left is distinctly female and it’s failing.
Interesting. My family has a wedding coming up. They declined to invite the unvaxxed and have spoken about how it will NEVER be safe to see us again in person.
This is how you separate the wheat from the chaff, Friend.
Even now that it’s obvious being vaccinated doesn’t protect others?
Did you call then dumbasses?
I caught COVID from someone who had been vaccinated. I recovered faster than my vaccinated/boosted GF, and I have not had either.
I swim in the Hudson River to boost my immunity.
So your immune system is tempered in raw shit!
(love Carlin)
Kramer is that you?
I do not socialize. I have no girl besties left (IRL or otherwise) because my last one and I had a falling-out over something not political. If I went to church (not falling away, just got out of the habit of going during the kung flu), I’d have friendly acquaintances, but probably not also ideologically simpatico beause I hang out with you people. My libertarian views at church aren’t always understood. (I won’t go so far as to say unwelcome, because when I do speak up, people like what I say; they just never thought of it that way before.) So I wouldn’t know. I don’t want friends because then I’d have to BE a friend and I don’t have the brain space for— Oooh, shiny!
I was not invited to a wedding because I was unvaxxed. I didn’t even care because I didn’t want to go.
I am due for a new company-provided laptop. Because of the type of work I do, I have some specific needs for specifications for a high end CPU and lots of memory. Our IT folks have said it could take up to two months to get my new laptop “due to component shortages.”
I looked on Dell’s web site (we use all Dell machines) and configured a new laptop to my specs and I could have it delivered in two days.
WTF
Dude, you’re getting a Dell! ?
I’m not. Fuck that guy.
Excellent!
*does Bill and Ted air guitar*
The approved vendor has no inventory. You got the stock answer.
We went through this for usb-c docking stations at work, My division president said fuck it and let us expense them.
First, Dell’s retail and corporate chains are completely separate and unrelated.
Second, Dell’s fulfillment dates are barely even guesses at this point.
(disclaimer: My company is a Dell reseller.)
Huh.
By the second, do you mean that their web site might be wrong about delivery, or that their corporate supply chain may be wrong, specifically?
Could be either one or both. It’s weird out there, man.
More 2A lies.
Biden: “Second Amendment Is Not Absolute”; There’s Always Been Limitations
The limitations were on slaves, Joe.
1) You could actually own and operate several cannons. Madison was asked about it once and he replied (in modern vernacular…) “Motherfucker, yes of course. Why the hell do you think we wrote that?”
2) Idk wtf you are talking about with the inventor of the AR platform. That was sold to civilians well before ever getting a military contract.
Someone put gramps out on the deck and give him a pack of Werther’s.
They lie, we know they lie, they know we know they lie, yet they don’t care.
They do have the gaslighting down pat, I’ll give them that.
Because we aren’t the audience for their lies. They’re lying to themselves and their supporters. They have to give their behaviors at least a patina of normalcy and legitimacy. So, they’ll make up these insane lies that anyone not deliberately evading will be able to see through. Because they and their supporters will deliberately evade the seeing the lies for what they are to maintain that pretense of normalcy and legitimacy.
Yes, the lies are not for us. And this may be why, so far, “fact-checkers” and “disinformation boards” haven’t really worked. The purpose of those institutions is to make their side’s own lies the only acceptable truths. But the lies have, to the other side, become so transparent, repetitive, and ultimately hollow that the fact-checking and disinformation labeling falls flat on its face. This is why they want so desperately to censor instead. What they can’t achieve through imprimatur they will instead achieve through preference falsification.
The hard caramels? Hey, I like those things.
https://bequetconfections.com/pages/varieties
(soft, though)
They (used to?) sell those at Whole Foods. They are fantastic.
Costco too, I hear.
And according to their website, the frou-frou cooking shop downtown. I can only imagine the markup.
The obnoxious loudness of the TMITE drones has driven a wedge between so many groups that used to be close.
Even more destructive, in my view, is the compulsion on the part of the braying drones to actively seek out people to alienate. Vast segments of society were once content to live in blissful ignorance of one another. Not now.
We used to have to go along to get along to a certain extent. The atomization caused by tailor made social groups via social media is causing all kinds of problems.
It’s that, but it’s primarily the impetus from the cultural Marxists throughout the education system and media that’s driving the polarization. More and more people are waking up to the realization that the lunatics are running the asylum and they want you submissive or dead.
Mostly agreed: it’s a multifaceted problem with no easy solution.
Why is this commie-compromised cunte even still in office?
Rep. @ericswalwell: “What’s going to protect [students] is to not allow dangerous people to have access to firearms … to not allow assault weapons in the community … This is by design that [mass shootings] happen, it’s not a defect at all.”
Sure if you count decades of psychotropic drugs in kids, destruction of the family and deliberately creating soft targets. IOW government is assho.
So, how does Eric the Inbred propose to remove the assault weapons from a community that already contains a shitload of them?
Gun control is over. We won, you lost, learn to cope.
There’s also the proliferation of “administrative staff” at schools, the education schools churning dumber and yet more aggressively conformist teachers, the lack of any meaningful accountability for either of those two groups thanks to unions and boards of education, the increasing feminization of education (which ramped up significantly during COVID), the maladjustment and alienation that schools increasingly inculcate in people who shouldn’t/can’t/won’t go to college, the slow removal of standards for disruptive behavior and virtuous achievement, the decline of external sources of authority and upbringing like scouts and sports, etc.
N.B. by the feminization of schools, I am referring to the driving out of maleness and tolerance for male traits, which may be well and good for female students, but is not so good for male students. Arguably, coeducation is the root problem here: the needs of young boys and the needs of young girls are not the same, and no one system can suit both their needs well for very long.
Arguably, coeducation is the root problem here: the needs of young boys and the needs of young girls are not the same, and no one system can suit both their needs well for very long.
I think coeducation is a far cry from the root problem. I’d argue the root problem is compulsory education at government run schools. You would see problems in such a model even if the schools were separated by sex. In a free market school system, it may very well be that a separated-sex model would prevail, though I’m sure you would see some very successful coeducation models as well. Perhaps vouchers would allow different flourish and allow parents to select what works best for their children.
Yes, I’d agree wholeheartedly that mandatory education is closer to the root than coeducation is. But vouchers are just a step in the right direction, and the anti-voucher people generally hold enough institutional power to ensure competition among schools is limited to only a few axes, with gender segregation generally not being allowed.
the anti-voucher people generally hold enough institutional power to ensure competition among schools is limited to only a few axes
Completely agree. I was envisioning a scenario where there were no restrictions on school models. So you’d have your typical schools, prep school, boarding schools, and then who knows what would evolve.
One Glib, and it might have even been you, mentioned such a scenario would have them thinking about opening their own one-room classroom in something like a strip mall where you could educate 10 students for $10k each with minimal overhead and make a good living while providing an excellent education. That’s kind of where I was headed.
I have mentioned that, but not the idea of opening one myself.
Discontent with the Federal Reserve is brewing among Democrats, even those who voted earlier this month to confirm Fed chairman Jerome Powell for another 4-year term.
With inflation at 40-year highs and the prospect of a recession looming large over midterm elections later this year, Democrats are worried the economy could cost them their majorities.
And the feeling in the party is that if the Fed had acted quicker, Democrats might not face such tough headwinds.
The very same Democrats whining and stamping their feet because the Green New Deal and Build Back Better were thwarted?
They’re the party of Marie Antoinette.
The very same Democrats running from the high fuel prices we would have if any kind of carbon tax had been enacted in order to save Gaia.
In news that makes me grin – it looks like the mouse may get some more unwelcome scrutiny.
Corruption Probe in Anaheim, Calif., Grows, Drawing in Disney
It’s 7 AM. Neighbor thinks it is time to fire up his angle grinder. Asshoe!
While I agree with you, I envy anyone who can function so early.
FBI Special Agent Brian Adkins described in the 100-page filing a corporation referred to as “Company A,” which allegedly uses its power to influence policy makers in the city, and mentions an employee of the company who allegedly helps arrange meetings between Anaheim power brokers and business leaders.
Hey, look over there! A massage parlor!
“Yo toes rook bad! Reel bad! You pay me I fix! No Pain!
It seems that the thing to do among the twitter cool kids today is to pretend that they have no idea that emergency exits exist.
Reason must be so proud.
That’s why we are here rather than there.
Yes, make only one entry, search everyone going in, X-ray their school bags. Make it something ran by some newly created federal agency like the Teacher Security Administration. We’ll call the insides of schools the sterile environment. And no one will ever attack the packed lines waiting to get in.
+1 government union job
The Federal Administration of Teacher Safety and Other Stuff
ISWYDT…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes/qt0447184
Justice
U.K. Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has imposed a windfall tax on oil and gas majors as the government scrambles to alleviate the country’s worsening cost-of-living crisis.
The measures come a day after a deeply embarrassing investigation into lockdown parties at Downing Street and amid sustained pressure on the ruling Conservative government to do more as soaring inflation pushes up the price of everything from food to fuel.
“The oil and gas sector is making extraordinary profits not as the result of recent changes to risk-taking or innovation or efficiency but as the result of surging global commodity prices driven in part by Russia’s war,” Sunak told lawmakers in the House of Commons on Thursday.
“And for that reason, I am sympathetic to the argument to tax those profits fairly,” Sunak said, prompting jeers from opposition lawmakers.
Sunak said the government is imposing a “temporary targeted energy profits levy” with a so-called “investment allowance” to incentivize oil and gas firms to re-invest their profits. The new levy will be charged on the profits of oil and gas companies at a rate of 25%, before being phased out when commodity prices return to more normal levels.
The decision to impose a windfall tax on energy companies marks yet another U-turn for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government. Sunak had previously rejected the one-off levy, saying that while it sounded “superficially appealing” it would ultimately deter investment.
Please explain how this alleviates the cost of living crisis.
Please explain how this alleviates the cost of living crisis.
No gas = free
It turns out that Putin’s real goal was to get “the west” to destroy itself. And it seems to be working.
Putin is bin Laden?
It’s an oldie but a goodie and it works. Unlike our pols, the Russian politicians seem to be able to learn from vicarious experience. Considering the economic groundwork they laid down in advance it’s almost like they’ve gamed this out.
Former President Barack Obama raised eyebrows on Wednesday for attempting to link this week’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
Fuck off.
The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.
Abolish the public schools. Abolish this federal funding.
Attorney General primary candidate George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and the nephew of former President George W. Bush (R), was rejected by Republican voters in all but five of Texas’s 254 counties.
🙂
Please explain how this alleviates the cost of living crisis.
Oh, that’s quite easy. Inflation poses a challenge for high government officials, especially when they’re under scrutiny for living it up while imposing misery on the public. Having a large kitty of funds to redistribute to selected cronies gives those government officials the ability to extract future employment at inflated salaries from those cronies. Therefore, the higher cost of living today is offset by future earnings.
One more reason to not listen to BTS.
BTS To Appear With Joe Biden At White House To Discuss Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
I can’t wait what non-PC thing Brandon says and how MSM will cover for him during this.
Where is this scourge of anti-Asian hate crime occurring? Who is doing it? Or we not gonna talk about who the main perps are?
Nope! They’ll pay lip service to a problem that may or may not actually exist, discuss no particulars on who’s doing it or how to prevent it then some how spend 200 million on a solution and never track where it went or what the efficacy was.
WTF is BTS?
*clicks*
OFFS!
Boys to Soys, the latest craze
*eye twitches*
Reading through “Columbine”, and one of the things that stands out the most to me is how much the cops actively made the situation and the aftermath WORSE.
A (long-ish) thread
I should not have read that.
I had to tap out. Holy shit.
“Harrowing footage emerges of desperate parents being restrained by cops while school shooter was inside locked classroom with their kids for up to ONE HOUR while SWAT team searched for key”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10857101/Texas-school-shooting-cops-restrained-parents-trying-save-kids.html
“150 cops had descended onto the scene but it took 90 minutes for them to get to the shooter and stop him “
When you need help in seconds, the cops are only an hour and a half away.
And you don’t need a gun in school because many people can be shot in seconds anyway. ///SomeCongressCunte
“REVEALED: Female online gamer reported fellow player – now suspected to be Salvador Ramos – who threatened to ‘shoot up a school with an AR-15’ to the FBI just hours before Uvalde elementary school massacre”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10856403/Dead-Daylight-player-threatened-shoot-school-AR-15-days-Texas-massacre.html
Who knows?
The SWAT team was searching for a key?
I really hope that turns out to be bullshit…
Yeah. They’ve really lost the plot these days.
the maladjustment and alienation that schools increasingly inculcate in people who shouldn’t/can’t/won’t go to college, the slow removal of standards for disruptive behavior and virtuous achievement
It seems as if we have reached a point where the schools (unionized teachers, administrators, “advocacy groups”) have openly abandoned their duty to the vast majority of their clientele. They shower the slimmest fringe minorities with money and attention while ignoring their central mission, which is to teach the teachable.
When I was a kid and being left to pass time at my aunt’s place, my G.I. Joes frequently rode over my niece’s Ken doll w/ their tank, and then went over to show Barbie a good time. Now they just seem to get Ken pregnant…!
*zing*
Unpack the contradictions in just these two paragraphs from this article.
America Has a New Dominant COVID Variant — and NY Already Knows It Far Too Well
The goalposts aren’t moving for vaccines anymore. They just tore them down and set fire to them.
Overnight it transformed from a real vaccine into merely a therapeutic and then from a broadly effective therapeutic to one that has a significant delay and narrow window of effectiveness
The talking points went from “The vaccine was going to stop you from getting infected” to “The vaccine works to stop covid for most people if they have enough doses” to “The vaccine protects you from the more deadlier variants” to “The vaccine, especially if you keep taking boosters, helps reduce the symptoms of covid if you get it”. Soon it will mutate to something else because there is no evidence that being ULTRA vaccinated does anything but damage your immune response, and they can’t have that getting out.
Of course, given what’s in the Pfizer document release, they knew this all along, and simply lied to us with the cooperation/complicity/encouragement of the FDA, NIH, and CDC.
Hm…
Bruh I’m looking at the history of school shootings. Mind-blowing, kids brought guns to school until the 70s.
Only 3 school mass shootings between 1903-1966.
What happened?
(Didnt take off until the 90s)
I will tell you what happened: we have generations of kids that have had their head filled with marxist bullshit, compounded by social media demand for leftist conformity, resulting in way too many of them ending up with severe mental disorders, that now feel they will show society and those others that did them wrong a thing or two by doing evil shit like this.
That’s certainly part of it, but not all. The family breakdown is likely even more responsible. This kid was from a highly dysfunctional, broken family. Have you heard some of the comments that they have made to the media? The mother sounds like a complete head case. And then there is the social contagion that we are dealing with that started with Columbine and continues with all the copycats. That and the fact that jet fuel was added to mental illness in this country by the lockdowns and assorted government fuckery over the past two years.
This is fine.
China is preparing for war. First, Xi orders Chinese banks to risk asses and insulate against potential U.S sanctions. Now Xi is directing Chinese nationals overseas to divest of any assets. China has been hoarding grains for over a year.
You may not want war with them, but when they want war, you will get it anyway…
CHINA HUMAN BANKS RISKING ASSES, STEVE SMITH KEENLY INTERESTED! WILL INVESTIGATE. AND BY INVESTIGATE, MEAN RAPE CHINESE ASSES.
Not the Bee
Female avatar sexually assaulted in Meta VR platform, campaigners say
Bitch wanted it with that outfit….
+ 1 Mitsuko Miyazumi
Heh.
“She was totally asking for it!”
“What?”
“Look at what she’s wearing!”
“Look! What she’s wearing??”
“It’s Purple!”
“Oh…okay….NO!!”
https://youtu.be/mqgiEQXGetI
That’s awesome!
Holy shit, I have tears coming from that one.
take your headset off?
Finally. For a couple of months now due to an ‘update’ that was auto-installed without my consent I have been unable to view articles here that were not at least 2 days old.
My deepest condolences to OMWC and Webdom. I have never felt such a deep sense of loss for the passing of someone I never met.
We always had guns in school. Principle, Vice – P, Coaches, teachers, bus drivers and the parking lot was full of trucks with full gun racks in them. School shootings —-> Zero.
Ideas matter. Ideas shape culture, culture shapes character. The rise of socialist ideology here has not produced anything good and it will only get worse.
Good to hear from you.
It’s good to hear from you.
Sorry about your technical difficulties.
I have never felt such a deep sense of loss for the passing of someone I never met.
THIS.
That should been a block quote.
Welcome back. Good to hear from you.
I’m a conspiracy theorist, I guess. I don’t believe every crazy thing that is thrown around. I usually like to hear some confirmation from alternate sources, including legacy media, before I adopt a narrative in my own mind. I try to refrain from vomiting my craziness anywhere but here. I never understood the “drops” by “Q”, but I enjoyed reading people’s attempts to interpret them.
I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if it eventually was revealed (say, 75 years from now) that there were four armed unidentified persons who flashed badges and herded the kids and teachers into one classroom and shot them dead and this Ramos guy was crying in a closet when they shot him and planted an AR-15 on his body and the reason the parents weren’t allowed inside was that they would notice these four guys in tactical gear slipping out the fire exit.
There is no one even hinting that this crazy, impossible scenario actually occurred, except me.
I have a very dark view about a lot of things going on right now.
Also, I sometimes look at “Crazy Days and Nights”
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2022/05/todays-blind-items-russian-old-hollywood.html?m=1&hl=en
I would. Forgetting other issues, you have to be a truly sick individual to mow down kids at point blank range. One of the reasons this crime is actually
astronomically rare.
One of the reasons this crime is actually astronomically rare.
For individuals acting on their own. It’s not all that rare for governments or their agents to kill kids in the line of duty (as they see it or are told it).
That’s why I say it’s a crazy theory.
The only thing I can accept as true right now about this shooting in Texas is that a young man with mental problems somehow got hold of a firearm, killed his grandmother, then went to the school to murder children. The police, for whatever reason, failed to stop him. They apparently kept the parents from doing anything.
But, I am suspicious.
It’s like Epstein’s “suicide”. Every single precaution taken to keep him from dying failed at the same time. The guards were asleep. The cameras weren’t working.
What a coincidence!
Something similar went through my head, if only because it doesn’t seem any crazier than all the other recent conspiracy theories that have turned out to be fact.
Hey, I actually finished one of the three articles I promised two weeks ago!
Progress!
Now I have to bother to submit it and format and shit.
Worth reading – https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/active-killer-math
If you’re not following Greg’s blog, you are needlessly depriving yourself of a lot of useful information.
I still think these are managed by the government. They need this shit. It’s an election year and they got nothing. I am not a conspiracy nut, but an FBI that can use trickery of the weak-minded to compel folks to be terrorists is an FBI that can use the weak-minded to be school shooters.
I used to think that, I am not so sure anymore.
I am talking about myself, not EAP.
What happened to me is that I listened to the YouTube video “The Wizard of Oswald”. Interesting stuff that is debatable, like witnesses who reported hearing shots from “the grassy knoll”, whether Oswald could have hidden the gun and made it down to the second floor in a minute and a half, why Oswald defected to Russia, but was immediately repatriated without question when he returned, etc. Stuff that can be explained to show that, yes, he did kill JFK, by himself. That video relies heavily on a document that indicates Oswald was either trained or worked for some intelligence agency—I think it was the CIA, but the document was later shown to be fake. Even the “magic bullet” can be reasonably explained by the seating position of Pres. Kennedy and Gov. Connelly
What caught my attention is the question, “Why did Oswald use different kinds of bullets?”
Then, some time later, I read through the “Prayer Man” thread on Education Forums, and found Sean Murphy’s arguments to be persuasive. He goes through the Warren Commission testimony of everyone on the TSBD front stairway, eliminating each of them. He also goes in a long tangent about the meeting in the second floor lunchroom.
Did he? This is the first I’ve heard that claim.
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