Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a magnificent day it always is!
Protesters Descend On Justice Alito’s House
After Justifying Harassment, White House Finally Condemns Threats Against Supreme Court Justices
Biden’s real options on abortion if Roe goes are ‘extremely limited,’ allies say
Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz: Liberals Censored on Social Media More Often Than Conservatives
Called opponents of critical race theory ‘disinformers’
Reuters: Suburban women in Phoenix, AZ care more about inflation than abortion
Democrats in competitive races not really looking for Biden’s “help”
Democrats Thought Redistricting Would Save Them In 2022. Here’s How Their Dreams Turned To Dust
Biden DOD demands Mike Flynn fork over speech fee even though he helped DIA spy on Russians
Power Grid Operators Warn of Electricity Shortages
Hollywood lawyer paid off over $2M of Hunter Biden’s delinquent taxes
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and mosey on down the road.
GOOD MORNING, GLIBS!
“Protesters Descend On Justice Alito’s House”
All J6 people that have been charged and actually sentenced should file for redress when the left is allowed to break the law but they are held to the most extreme and insane standard of some non-existent law…
Why bother? The Jan 6 protestors filings will just be dismissed.
Giving more examples that the whole thing has become rotten political shit, and encouraging the serfs to take action to take their government back….
You’re too optimistic. The way almost all of the serfs meekly rolled over for the unconstitutional Covid authoritarianism tells me nothing much will happen.
The rollover was because the powers that be scared them with the Kung Flu panic. The J6 attempts to create panic are not working. The only people believing the J6 lies are the ones that would believe the science claiming that the moon is made out of cheese was true.
…Republicans Pounce on Protests
So, um, where exactly is this list of addresses posted? Just curious…
In related news, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and We Have Always Been At War with East Asia.
1984 was NOT a “How To” manual….
Art is in the eye of the beholder, not the intent of the artist.
Morning, Banjos.
I’m doing my candidate scoring from the interviews.
Because the vendors sent me the wrong people, and sent my admins to other postings, I’m getting the worst scores I’ve ever seen.
wrong people sounds hateful to me
Not sure if you saw my other gripes, but the candidates that had the qualifications for the job I’m trying to hire for got sent to the people hiring developers, while I got mostly developers, and state procedure means we can’t go trade resumes so that the best qualified people get associated with the jobs they can do.
Not sure if you saw my other gripe – I did not
state procedure means we can’t go trade resumes – I blame the unrestrained free market myself.
“Record setting.”
Perhaps they mean to say “less Democrat-friendly maps.”
They meant to say “less democracy-friendly maps.”
“After Justifying Harassment, White House Finally Condemns Threats Against Supreme Court Justices”
The message to burn it down was already been sent by the people that declared J6 and MAGA the worst criminal and terroristic shit ever – while ignoring the killing & bombing of members of their team that were in such peaceful organizations like The Weather Underground or other such militant entities – but now want to encourage the rioting, looting, burning, and killing of the summer of love in 2020. Wait until you find out they are using GoFundMe to collect donations from political campaigns & PACs (and they will for some inescapable reason all be team blue supporters or members) to bail out the new rioters.
The weaponized bureaucracy Obama created so Hillary could give us Big Sister and the left wants to remind the serfs that if they are not in power, they will make the country ungovernable.
It seems counterproductive but what do I know about power.
It seems counterproductive to the aims of those currently in power in the Democratic party. This may be getting bigger than they can handle. Certainly there are elements within that party that wish to shake up the structure and seize power for themselves.
Yeah, those elements will seize control of a rump party.
Why do you people love guns more than women’s rights?
this was supposed to be about the alito link….
Shut up and go make me my sammich!
Because they’ve been hurt far more by women than by guns?
[golf clap]
Why do you people love guns more than women’s rights?
It’s ironic that feminism and being anti-firearm are such aligned positions. For the first time in history, there is an easily affordable tool that more than equalizes physical confrontations between men and women. And this tool is vilified by those who profess belief in women’s rights.
Yeah yeah, I know this is just due to the hive mind of the left in rationalizing conflicting beliefs, but the irony is still there.
equalizes physical confrontations between men and women – given there is no difference in physical attributes between men and women this claim seems suspect
conflicting beliefs
I say it is more that anti-gun feminists and soybois want the state to be their protector, so no one needs guns but the state.
Not conflicting… They want to control who dies.
Have you ever met a woman?
I am no biologist, so….
But as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, I can tell you I am all about the ladies… I use the Austin Powers test to make sure they are what they say they are…
Sleep with them and then find out they’re somehow a fembot in the morning?
That’s a man, baby!
Grrrr…..
Because we like using our guns to keep the wimmin under control. Duh.
Ponder that this ↑ is the state of our political discourse these days.
If these fuckers can codify into law that killing viable fetuses is healthcare to be paid for by tax payers, I demand they codify into law regular visits to hookers as PTSD treatment…..
The Biden Hunter Act of 2022?
Well, the federal budget shouldn’t have anything to do with providing health care for anyone in the first place, so good.
Limited government and federalism are supposed to be key foundations of the US government. Unfortunately people want what they want regardless of how they get it. The majority of federal spending is transfer payments.
We live in a world where people have been thought that they should socialize risk (cause consequences to stupid shit suck) and to use government for that. The people running government have also privatized success, for them and the connected, allowing them to profit, under the guise of socializing risk, at the expense of the idiots that cheered on the lies used in the socializing of risk.
Oh, tree of liberty, where areth thou?
I don’t get the debate over abortion. Falling sown the stairs is not that hard / Jimmy Carr
Biden says “there are fine people on both sides…”
Hollywood lawyer paid off over $2M of Hunter Biden’s delinquent taxes
What with all the graft and corruption over the years I imagine the Biden clan owes a lot more than that.
People who use GasBuddy: is it possible to get historical data from their map/database?
I mean in the “heat map” format–they have charts of price over time. Also, is it possible to get raw data from them easily?
The 4 cents off a gallon coupons don’t mean much on a 100 bucks worth of gas.
I actually didn’t realize that they had some sort of discount program. Nor that they were a membership program. I was just looking at their web site.
It’s all slight of hand…
After releasing 4 days worth of oil our government had put in the national reserves when gas was cheap, purely as a meaningless show of impotence to pretend that idiotic maneuver can impact the fact they have crippled our energy industry on purpose for political kabuki, I heard they are now buying back all that oil at premium dollar. So they bought and filled the reserve at a price under $45 a barrel, pissed it away to no viable result, then decided to buy that back at over $100 a barrel.
Their plan is to cripple our economy by design with this sort of genius….
Yeah… the higher courts that also struck down the Dems’ map are composed entirely of judges appointed by Democrats. Oopsie!
That map of Illinois is ridiculous. Even NY Dems aren’t that shameless.
Challenge accepted!
MD Democrats say “pikers”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland's_congressional_districts#/media/File:Maryland_Congressional_Districts,_113th_Congress.tif
something wrong with that so here’s the main page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland's_congressional_districts
wordpress eats apostrophes?
“Democrats Thought Redistricting Would Save Them In 2022. Here’s How Their Dreams Turned To Dust”
1. If you can’t convince the electorate to vote for you, change the electorate.
2. If you can’t win through regular voting, corrupt the coting institutions in your favor using the law.
3. When you still fail to win at the ballot box, use the legal system to steal from or deny the winner the win.
4. If none of these other options work, threaten to burn shit down.
5. Burns shit down cause you need to make sure people now in charge don’t find you had been running a criminal enterprise and demand some kind of justice happen.
Today a crow attacked me in the park. Weird this does not usually happen.
You didn’t happen to kill someone a year ago, did you?
Did you get a corvideo of the incident?
Amateur corn?
You’re in trouble now. You fucked with crows.
Crow wars?
?
Crows will be shitting on your grave out of spite. They don’t forget.
You need a red & azure ribbon.
I love you so much.
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Crows have incredible memories.. Did you fuck with it somehow? Maybe you should wear a disguise, go back, and see if it still wants to fuck with you…
I have a hawk that has build a nest at the top of my long driveway, and whenever I drive or walk out that way she goes freaking nuts and divebombs me. Just hope she doesn’t fly into my car’s windshield and ends up unable to take care of her chicks.
Did you fuck with it somehow? – not that I know. I don’t bother them and they don’t bother me
Looks like the fact one of them came after you disproves your assertion you have not fucked with them Pie….
Like women, crows hold grudges….
I thought wolves were your natural enemies?
Wolves? The creatures of the night? He loves the music they make!
Creature of the night?
Met my expectations.
It’s not fair that those poor womenfolk in red states can’t get abortions. Equity demands that NY provide FREE abortions to any out of state birthing person who wants one!
https://www.wamc.org/news/2022-05-06/hochul-will-ask-feds-for-funding-for-out-of-state-patients-seeking-abortion-if-roe-is-overturned
(it’s also not fair that the oppressed womxn have to travel to come to NY, so Equity demands that NY taxpayers also pony up for transportation, lodging and CHILDCARE for the stunning and brave aborters.)
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/James-backs-proposed-state-legislation-related-to-17159556.php
Don’t forget a per diem.
I have watched a whole bunch of fugly women say they will stop having sex to protest. I want to point out that they are a bunch of liars. While I know that some desperate men will put it in anything, I can without a doubt say that someone like Joy Behar only gets laid if she pays premium money for it.
The Bee did it!
Stolen from somewhere else, but:
Even feminists hate feminist men.
Didn’t RTA, but from the first URL it looks like they’re trying to get federal funds to subsidize abortions in NY for non-residents.
Wait for the other shoe to drop: the demand that the Federal government reduce funding to states that restrict abortion to pay for the subsidies in unrestricted states.
That wouldn’t surprise me. The feds do that already with highway funds.
Governette wants fedbux. AG is less optimistic and willing to settle for $50mil local.
I wasn’t actually joking about the “equity” bit.
An effrontery? Who talks like that?
Commies
People who insist on calling abortion “health care”.
…If you listen to her attempting to pronounce it, not Cordell Cleare.
They should require them to stay in state and work off the bill.
“”It is not enough to have a right to an abortion in name if you do not have the resources to access it,” state state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi…”
I would like access to my Second Amendment rights, but guns and ammo are just so damned expensive. Also, those articles sure did go to great lengths to not use the word “women.” I love me some unbiased news.
Folk still around? I’ll repeat my post from last night:
“Up WAAAAAY too early. Having fun in my hotel. I’ve got about 4.5 hours left here before I need to bounce back to Lady’s. She wants food. This is an old routine for us. I am going to smoke up in the hotel and…probably make an excuse to go to the store and more legal and illicit substances to go with my vacation.
I think I can technically leave today if I really wanted to. Midnight Run and avoid any possibility of…issues surrounding me. But I kinda like it here. I can’t just disappear on Lady and my other friends. I should. But I’m safe and secure. It’s kinda nice. The world is a strange place. Best to look on the bright side. Otherwise you spiral downward.
I’m a little speck in Saturn’s rings, spiraling around, adrift, but with a constant gravitational pull towards the center, the goal, which is to again be on my own. I miss kitty. Stability is nice. So is Lady. I want to be my own swirl. Right now, though, every bit of assistance is crucial. I’ll soon spiral off into my own galaxy. For now, holding pattern continues. More like “aiming” and “planning” rather than “holding,” though that’s a part of it.
Life is odd. Look for the best in everything. To do otherwise is wasteful. I plan on something interesting to happen today”.
Life is odd. – yes
Look for the best in everything. – not my style unfortunately
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20. Not bad today.
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My last guess on the upper right was one letter off. I only had two letters on it at Guess 9, so it’s amazing I only missed it by that much.
Not Chumptown — but pretty bad.
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Ridin’ the line
Check your email…when you get a chance…if you want…it’s a free country.
You check yours!
would you two stop flirting?
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Pretty good day.
Yeah that’s a great score!
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Makes up for my chump last week.
Bleh.
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50/50 on the top right; guessed right.
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Jay Edidin
@NotLasers
Trans rights and abortion rights are aspects of the same whole: bodily autonomy and self-determination.
https://twitter.com/NotLasers/status/1523419399902068737
From the replies
@gunslnger
Along with the right to refuse injection of an experimental drug.
Vanessa the Nintendo fangirl ?️⚧️
@Vanessaissweet
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@NotLasers
you people always go back to vaccines like its some gotcha moment fail to notice that not taking vaccines will kill people while letting people abort and transition literally kills no one and its not an ‘experimental’ drug
FinalGear
@OCFinalGear
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@Vanessaissweet
Tell me, how many people has the vaccine killed compared to how many people covid has killed?
Abortion kills a fetus, not a baby.
You do realize that mrna vaccines have been being tested the past 5 years, right? And they’ve been studied the past decade. Not so new huh?
I never got how the number of years mrna was studied mattered given there was no wide spread treatment implemented until now. Not even in farm animals
Even the logic of “mrna vaccines have been tested, so COVID mrna vaccines are safe” fails. Try getting a new SSRI approved by the FDA on the basis of “well, other folks have done this before, so we should get a pass on this one.”
With so much success, I might add.
A decade from now I expect the very people defending these vaccines to scream the loudest if we discover there were long term consequences, because evil big pharma…
The left went from “fear and loath corporate big pharma” to “worship at their altar”, because…
…the experts and leaders told them to. That simple. People that not only can’t think, but refuse to even try.
Shorter tweet response thread “I want cake!”
Ugh.
We have such a wealth of information on the long-term effects of chopping off tits and balls and halting puberty with hormones.
The consistent thing about all of this is that they are rebelling against nature. The “nature is good” idiots deny it at every turn: your immune system doesn’t work, pregnancies are bad, your biological sex is just a social construct.
GMOs are bad at least.
Primarily because they help feed more people.
I obviously missed it. Whose magic hat did this Jankowizz disinformation walla get pulled out of?
She earned it you mean man
Nuland’s maybe. She was clearing up any disinformation to do with the Ukraine prior to this gig. Everything worked out great there.
She was picked because they all felt based on her artistic performance that she is one of the better liars in that crowd of crooks.
Video of the first combat loss of a Russian T-90M tank in Staryi Saltiv (previously recorded). Interestingly, the source claims it was destroyed by a Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1523930571784794112
The Swedes name every other gun in their arsenal after Carl Gustav. It could mean anything from a 9x19mm subgun to a 20mm recoilless rifle, to the more modern 84-mm man-portable AT gun.
The gun jesus channel had a video recently about a smaller rifle that was used to help aiming recoilless rifles.
https://www.military-today.com/firearms/carl_gustaf_m4.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_m/45
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_20mm_recoilless_rifle
The age of mechanized warfare is coming to a screeching halt and a close because of the evolution and advancement of smart loitering munitions. The US Marines were correct in abandoning their tanks and replacing them with the capability to use smart munitions to kill any armored opposition they encounter, especially while staying out of the armored entity’s range. A lot of experts claimed the Marines were wrong here. I think that even if you account for the fact that the Russian conscription system produces one of the weakest and most useless soldier possible, the way things have gone in the Ukraine for the armored element, proves the point that protecting such systems, without the ability to completely dominate the air space, is impossible.
One of the more interesting conjectures from science fiction (Falkenberg’s Legion and related books) was that eventually man-portable air defense would neutralize air power over the terrestrial battlefield. I wonder how that might apply to smart loitering munitions – seems like SAMs could be tweaked to make those less survivable as well.
So, when do we get the giant stompy robots?
Well, we missed the Global Civil War in the 90s, so Macross Island is safe.
I’m more concerned about the rise of the Star League.
Johnny Sokko has a sad.
I’ve never understood the fascination with giant robots. If man-portable (or smart loitering) munitions are deadly to tanks, how much armor would you need to put on something like that to keep it from getting cut off at the knees by a squad of infantry?
I think you get 16 points/ton unless it’s ferro-fibrous.
Fun, more than anything.
Yeah, imagine a hit by an anti-tank round on a knee or hip joint of one of those things. The armor would have to be incredible. Plus their height would make them a prominent target from the ground and from the air.
The Corps is on it…
https://www.therobotreport.com/sarcos-defense-wins-us-marine-contract-guardian-xo-exoskeleton/
We will need to make sure that The Phone Company is heavily armed.
Well, that was interesting. I’m sure it makes sense in a certain context. Outside of that, I feel like it would have been amazing had I been trippin when I read those lyrics.
Quick lore dump – In the backstory of BattleTech, when the Star League broke up, a chunk of the military fled into the unexplored reaches and founded the Clans with megatonnes of plot armor (their society would have collapsed poste haste had realism been applied). Three hundred years later, during the ‘current day’ of the setting they came back to attempt to reform the Star League, with a goal of taking earth. Thanks to their plot armor, they were more advanced and more shooty than anyone existing in the setting (basically playing on easy mode) and steamrolled most of the factions.
The interstellar communications channels are controlled by one faction, ComStar who manage to pull a secret galactic-peer army out of their ass not once but twice (but the second time is out of scope for this discussion). The first time, they go to the Clans and say “Look, we both want Earth more or less intact, so instead of blowing the shit out of it, lets have our proxy battle over here (Tukayyid).” ComStar won, so the Clans stopped advancing towards Earth.
Oh, make no mistake, I do kinda love the setting, but there are parts that just make no goddamn sense.
Ah, a video game! I’m clueless there, though I did enjoy watching my son play Call of Duty. Thankfully he never tired of my comparisons to reality. He was shocked when I taught him to load rounds into a pistol mag and to actually change mags, contrasting that to merely flipping one’s wrists in the game (or so it appeared to me), and how mags just loaded themselves automatically to full capacity – haha! And on and on…
Nothing in the Battletech universe makes any sense.
But boy have I killed some serious time enjoying that game.
I’d say (with a lot of ignorance of specifics) that current SAMs would be ridiculous overkill for most drones. And also that the drones would be far cheaper than current SAM tech. You’d need a new class of SAM (which I’d bet is being worked on) and probably also more conventional AAA could make a comeback for denial of airspace to small drones. Imagine big automatic shotguns for lower altitude drones, big old Bofors style AA guns for higher ones.
The trick is finding and tracking them from the ground, I’d imagine.
Also, maybe mini-EMPs and jammers to bring drones down without affecting the rest of the field so much?
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/ukraine_deploys_anti_drone_jamming_guns_to_its_forces_on_the_donbas_frontline-1986.html
I always figured airburst munitions would work well.
A return to flakk cannons?
As I suggested
The Sergeant York was ahead of its time.
That’s my point – we *have* the technical know-how, even if it hasn’t been applied in these scenarios yet. Honestly, the survivability of a drone would seem to be *very* low if people were targeting them – and I can only imagine that they radiate quite a bit of EM if they’re communicating in real time with satellites. Much like a modern SAM is much cheaper than an airplane, something capable of taking down a drone should be significantly less expensive than said drone.
You do not understand the economic model of the MIC – cheap is anathema.
Small drones are hard to detect and counter. Nobody will want to waste a hyper expensive SAM on them. Not even a cheaper MANPADS one like a stinger missile, which costs over $100K per unit these days, and nobody will want to fire a $1-4 million dollar Patriot missile (depending the variant) at it for sure. Those are saved to kill fixed wing or rotary aircraft that are worth millions (and future unmanned strike vehicles that also will costs millions to field but will be cheaper – supposedly – than maned platforms). using any sort of SAM against a small drone that could be worth as little as $10-$50K to field (UCAVS tend to be a lot more expensive, but they you are talking real military type drones) is a quick way to go broke. That’s why China’s asymmetrical plan to attack US naval targets uses ballistics missiles that cost as much as, and often less then, the US Navy’s anti-ballistic SM6 missiles. The US NAVY is hard at work trying to upgrade the energy generation of their Burke class destroyers and working on the newer DDX platform to have an insane energy generation capacity from the get go so they can field one or multiple solid state lasers to reduce the interception costs.
The current drone neutralization projects/efforts all focus on the use of microwave weapons (fry the electronics just like you would with an EMP) and firing the air intercept lasers on surface platforms as I mentioned previously (at a fraction of their top output) to burn the drone’s sensors or the drone itself. I have even seen some concept of “smart bullets” fired from common military rifles, but again, the $25-50K cost makes that solution untenable unless you are shooting down expensive military drones (where the bullet might not do enough damage anyway).
The holdback is always power generation, and the idiots demanding the military go green are going to make it prohibitively expensive to produce that energy. Hopefully the power requirements for space based tech will force the development of nuclear power generation to go main stream. Today’s gen 4 reactors use liquid Thorium and neither melt down at great risk nor produce highly dangerous waste like the old Uranium ones did, and they would solve all power generation issues.
I’ve heard opposite stuff about the war there. The tiny spotter drones – like the one this footage is probably from – are very handy. The big armed drones they got from Turkey and Israel are supposedly getting killed by Russian air defenses before they can engage.
A military drone, armed and with military grade sensors, make the use of an expensive SAM (Russian BUK SAMs cost about $150K each we estimate) worth it. You would not try to use them against light loitering munitions because of either cost or simply a lack of enough missiles to make a difference (save them for expensive platforms).
Yep. If you have to use a $100k missile to kill a $10k drone, the enemy can empty your arsenal or bankrupt you if they can make their drones worth killing.
If you have a different kind of AA gun (electromagnetic, airburst, high rate automatic small projectile) that’s cheaper and effective, that’s what you use.
Depends on what that $10k is capable of destroying. It’s possible a $10k tool could be more productive than a $100k tool.
That’s true, to a degree. But if your adversary can field 10 offensive weapons to your 1 defensive weapon, and your defensive weapon is single-use, you lose eventually.
Agreed. If you haven’t seen these…
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/07/14/us-marines-mini-drones/
Neat. Years ago at the Knob Creek shoot, I saw a prototype that the guy who developed the LM-7 was working on–a .22 long rifle belt fed, solenoid fired gun that was sized as a payload for a small drone. The gun itself could fire around 1100-1200 rounds per minute of .22LR, so with the right stabilizing/targeting software on the drone, you could put that stream of fire on a head size target at a decent range. Even a small cartridge like .22LR is pretty potent at that rate of fire.
The problem with traditional AAA is that they are not light and super maneuverable. They’re more of an area denial weapon than a dynamic element of an evolving battlefield.
Something like this adapted for targeting aerial threats (preferably with a radar tracking/targeting system) might be useful against small drones, given the right cartridges.
CWIS….
Just don’t use the depleted uranium shells for drones? Maybe use fused shells that frag?
Yeah, but that is super heavy and, what, 20-30mm? For small drones you could use one in 7.62x51mm or even an upscaled .50 BMG, either with bursting or heavy shot shells (for low altitude threats).
The amount of damage a hail of small projectiles following each other closely can do is amazing, so a very high rate of fire .22 could do the job in many cases, I’d bet. Imagine a rotary cannon in .22LR spewing 5,000 rpm or so. Or downscale the M134 to 5.56x45mm.
You Rang?
Yeah, those are really cool. I’m a little surprised they didn’t catch on for defensive perimeter type applications, but in most cases, an M134 could do the same job and not oto much of a weight penalty (which you don’t care much about if it’s stationary or on a ground vehicle).
Here ya go: LPWS.
Something like that but lighter.
And no tracers. There’s no point to the tracers with an automatically targeted system. just gives your defense position away (if your radar emissions haven’t already).
Youtube wants tracers for effect…
Seems a hell of a coincidence that a drone happened to be zoomed in on that particular tank at the moment the guys on the ground with a recoilless rifle hit it.
Hey I just pass it along, I don’t confirm accuracy. You cannot believe anything really.
Ukraine’s forces are not able to come out and do combined arms warfare with the Russian military, which despite the ineptitude of the troops still has numbers (especially artillery) on their side. So they are opting for asymmetrical attacks. Find an enemy weak point, and kick their ass there. Having a drone locate a lone tank (or small tank unit) and then coming in to kill it quickly so you can melt away before the enemy can respond, would fall within that scope. The most important requirement to make that form of warfare work is battlefield awareness (intel), and working drones are key to give you that awareness.
Another lesson learned from this conflict is how ineffective Russian battlefield jamming – a component that everyone else believe was one of the most powerful aspects of the old Soviet and new Russian military was – has been and continues to be, and how weak their own intel gathering is. Everyone believed Russian area denial capability was something epic. The Moskva now being a new reef in the Black Sea, and if one is to believe it, their replacement flagship (one of the newer Adm. Gorshkov ships) also taking a missile hit show their naval capability isn’t as badass as everyone believed. Ukrainian drones operating despite the jamming efforts show that capably also is lacking (granted the unknown and previously not fielded Starlink tech allows the Ukrainians to sidestep that jamming problem but the Russians should have corrected for that by now if they could). And the fact Ukrainian ground forces can hide from Russian surveillance drones by using some weak ass yoga matt over their heads to cover their IR signature when moving around, shows that if the Russians ever had that advanced detection ability, it is completely degraded (ether because the tech is worthless/old or the troops simply have not got enough training to effectively use them).
Seems a hell of a coincidence
Not if the drone operator is in contact with the ambush team.
Last month, regarding Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, Jankowicz tweeted that she “shudder[s] to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities.”
At the Wilson Center, Jankowicz led a team that released a report last year on the “impacts [on social media] of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation.”
According to the report, social media companies “should create a cross-platform consortium to track and respond to online misogyny, similar to existing consortiums which counter terrorism and extremism.”
Jankowicz also emphasized what she described as the prevalence of misogyny in her recently published book, “How to Be a Woman Online,” writing, “To be a woman online is an inherently dangerous act.”
Yes, yes, of course. Freedom is slavery.
I think Nina is a true blue Kool-Aid drinker. She’s not a grifting cynic like the geriatrics in charge. She believes the Patriarchy is coming for us all.
It sure as hell came for women’s sports… And I bet Nina cheered it on not realizing she was being sekshually abused by the patriarchy yet again…
Queen of the useful idiots.
“To be a woman online is an inherently dangerous act.” – as far as I am aware based on the best data, at least half or more of people abusing women online are other women
Fixed that for ya.
Mean words and disagreement now constitute “danger”.
Stick and stones are meaningful tools of political power, and names will always hurt me!
Junior HS cafeterias declared a war zone.
“To be a woman online is an inherently dangerous act.”
When I encounter a situation that is dangerous to me, instead of avoiding it, I bitch about it in a book.
Sounds like collusion. Somebody call the FTC.
If this were a truly enlightened society, women would be barred from using the internet, for their own good.
No, they should have their own internet.
But then the trans are women faction and the TERF faction should have different internets.
Would it only have 66% of the bandwidth of the Menternet?
We need ManFlix and Manazon.
ManFlix: pretty sure that’s what Thursdays became.
I believe women’s internet is a circle of hell.
Rolf Degen
@DegenRolf
The popular idea that people on the political right have a greater negativity bias goes down the drain in large-scale replication failure
https://twitter.com/rechelon/status/1523738509752041472
I mean all sociology is bunk anyways
Tard Tuesday: The
TeutonicMoronic Titwillowthe activist–judges giveth, the activist–judges taketh awayeth
This is the part that pisses these sorts of idiots the most I think. They are used to the concept of different rules for them vs. their enemies, and when the enemies start using their tactics back against them, they feel life is unfair.
Life is unfair. That is a lesson that for some people comes late in life or not at all.
The problem isn’t that life isn’t fair but that so many idiots think that whenever they don’t get their way, no matter how ludicrous or stupid what they want is, that that is not fair…
Exhausted tears are the tastiest.
Extra salt
I’ll take “Things That Never Happened” for $500, Alex.
The only people I have seen go fucking nuts about masks are the ones freaking out that someone isn’t wearing one. I am sure some idiot somewhere got pissed they were told to wear a mask, but in general the response is to just tell the fuckwads demanding that “Have a nice day” and not going there.
“I’m tired of being angry every day when I look at the new”
You and me both sister; which is why I don’t look at the news for the most part.
Tired of Struggling (from the halcyon days of 1997).
You need some rest. -eeeeest..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJESEpEPlI
Best movie evah! (except for the one with the rubber shark according to other Glibronis).
“Where the white womens at?”
“RepubliKKKan campaign”
Magic swap!
“Living in a constant state of despair and anger is exhausting.”
Yes, it is. You should stop.
I agree with her(?). Its exhausting for everyone who tunes into/participates in the culture wars. What she(?) is experiencing is just the mirror image of what her enemies in the culture war have experienced for decades. Its just that now both sides are engaging, for better or worse.
Many politicians’ homes have been set ablaze overnight in Sri Lanka. This one belonged to the Minister of Mass Media (whatever that position meant):
https://twitter.com/Karmabash/status/1523831726048522240
Maybe it is the minister for disinformation
Sounds like the Sri Lankans have got the right idea. The Bard was so close when he said “First, kill all the lawyers”.
I’m told that ‘lawyer’ in the time of the bard, was really closer in meaning to the modern ‘politician’. The historical equivalent to lawyer would have been ‘barrister’.
They should have electrified the cords to make sure anyone trying to rip them out would get one heck of a deadly shock…
The security guards should have had batons with which to administer a wood shampoo.
Tard Tuesday: Pension Fund Sues To Lose Money
You know, people running pension funds also owe fiduciary duties to the beneficiaries. And there is a large and rapacious plaintiffs’ bar to enforce those duties. Here’s hoping some soulless shark of a lawyer brings a class action against the people running that pubsec fund.
They are asking for it, quite openly.
So my office just reinstituted masks and social distancing because people are catching the Kung Flu. So no conference rooms, spaced seating, and the cloth/paper chin diaper talisman all the time. I told my leadership I will not spend money and waste time driving into the office – which we were told needed to happen to restore the collaborative zeitgeist – when there will be no collaboration going on, until that goes away again. They were not happy, but they couldn’t argue with the logical fallacy they are caught in.
It ain’t easy being cheesy!
Tard Tuesday: Great. Now Do Federal Entitlements and GAAP
As somebody predicted, the groundwork is being laid for impeachment proceedings. Whether they pull the trigger or not is to be seen, but I’d put it at better than 50/50.
Oh please make it happen. Let’s hash this out and get it over with.
Until the Ds can disqualify enough Rs for insurrection, they are going to have trouble getting the two-thirds vote to convict for political crimes.
Impeaching Justices for interpreting the Constitution as written. That should be fun.
Nah, it’ll be impeaching them for lying under oath during their confirmation hearings. Y’know, because that’s something impeachment should be used for.
If they were actually under oath, the newest Justice was caught lying.
Also, Sotomayor did the same thing of saying something was “settled law” and voting against it.
Don’t think they have much to stand on, but if they want to spend the time on another failed impeachment I am all for it.
It will be child’s play for the ‘Pubs to bring identical charges against most if not all of the lefty Justices.
It’s different when we do it!
I’ll believe it when I see it. The GOP is still trying to pretend that we’re in normal political times and all they need to do is act like the adults in the room to finally get that supermajority needed to get back to liberty and constitutionality.
Some are, and some aren’t. MTG and that coalition is very clear they do not think so, and the election of Trump was a clear sign that the base knows this too. But, the Cocaine Mitches and such on the gravy train of DC want things to be the same.
On the other hand, the left is pissing itself over the clear signs that the players mentioned above are both playing by the same rules that the left thought it owned, and writing their own rules.
And this, more than anything, is why the left is shitting itself over Twitter changing hands, and foolishly attempting to start a bureau of propaganda, er, disinformation suppression.
They sure they want that standard when they just confirmed someone pretending not to know what a woman is?
I”m just…so..very..tired. Living in a constant state of despair and anger is exhausting.
And she will never grasp the simple truth. Making every moment of your life about politics is poisonous and self-destructive.
But, but, but – how ever will I get people to do what I want if I can’t force them to?
Tard Tuesday: Mob Rule Is Good Until It Isn’t
a nearly half-century-old fundamental right and reshaping the lives of millions of Americans
1. They’re not dispelling the perception that they’re historically illiterate. 50 year old fundamental right? Yeah, okay.
2. Reshaping the lives of millions of Americans? Boo fucking hoo. Stop using murder as birth control, ghouls.
Rights exist only wen the power of big government tells you they are a right, you neanderthal!
Viva la Waffle!
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What Is “The Current Thing”?
A vacuous meme? A sly insult? The secret key to the Discourse?
https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/current-thing-meme-twitter-elon-musk-marc-andreessen.html
Like the NPC meme itself, “the current thing” is an accurate and concise observation of the behaviour of large groups of loud people who do not appear to have their own cognition.
It’s not rocket surgery, guys. It is whatever propaganda that members of the Hive Mind like Slate are currently pushing hardest.
The pivot from COVID to Ukraine in 48 hours was truly remarkable.
Propaganda theorists will be studying that one for centuries, if we live that long.
I love this quote “Nevertheless—surprise!—the meme is mostly used by certain self-appointed social critics on the political right to skewer an earnest liberal straw man.”
I’m confused. Is it earnest, or is it a strawman? I feel like it can’t be both.
Interesting plot twist in the TOK household. Mrs. TOK’s favorite gym is closing. The owner lost his lease and decided to open a pot business in Michigan. She looked high and low for another gym, and after much deliberation we decided to buy the equipment from the old gym and start our own. There is a lot to set up but it looks like we can make this work.
So you’re opening your own business? Or am I misreading your comment?
Yes, we are opening a business. When my youngest was born I had a web site/marketing business and I loved it. But I couldn’t get health insurance, so I had to close it down. I’ve been wanting to start something else ever since. And this just fell into our laps.
Good luck, man.
I’d be very interested to hear your ongoing experience doing that. Owning a gym is on the wife’s bucket list.
Once things start rolling this would be a good Glibs series.
*grins*
Tales of the weak – run it on weekend mornings.
For a gym owner, Tails of the Week, with pics, seems more appropriate, no?
You probably know this, but get your accountant and lawyer lined up first.
We have a friend who owns a very successful real estate company, and he set us up with a business advisor who’s talking us through all of the steps. I’m confident we have a good team.
I would think having lots of liability insurance would be a big hairy deal for a gym. Good luck!
I would look for industry associations. They often have member insurance programs that are shopped at a national level and come in with far better pricing than what you could get if you chase it yourself.
Additionally, they’ll have legal and accounting resources to draw upon.
Good for you, TOK. A labor of love. Now you need a lease/place of business and some local Glibs that need the exercise which is to say, most of us.
Wow! Good luck in your endeavor!
I would assume so.
Congratulations, good luck!
Maybe you can work with the former owner to have a hotbox instead of a sauna in your gym.
That would be an awesome name for a Pot shop. The Sauna. So much better that most of the crap that goes on now.
Congrats on the new venture!
Awesome.
*points to avatar*
Congratulations! And all the best of luck with your new venture.
Cool! I hope that it works out well for you.
Excellent! Entrepreneurship for the win!
WOW!
That’s fantastic, Kevin! I’m really stoked for you guys!
Awesome. Getting a good deal on your initial capital investment is an excellent start.
Having been gym business-adjacent for a number of years, the thing to remember is that this is fundamentally a retail business, I think. Subject to the vicissitudes of fads and the general public. Which is just a challenge, not an insuperable barrier, but something to keep in mind.
Congratulation TOK! Owning a business was one of the more challenging, frustrating, and rewarding things I have ever done.
Starting your own? Excellent. Best wishes!
I did a stoic thing yesterday. I went to lunch with my mom and dad, who are lifelong Dems. Someone brought up Desantis, and my mom said he was going after Disney. And my dad said he was a dictator and he’d never vote for him for president. It’s still really shocking to me how people can be brainwashed this way. But I used some applied stoicism and just let it go, and we had a nice rest of our day together.
Had to do the same thing with my mom on mother’s day.
She said she couldn’t believe how many “idiots quit wearing masks” in airports.
As one of those “idiots” it was hard to be quiet, but I managed.
My mom eventually got the message after every attempt to engage in political/current events/social media talk was met by me changing the subject.
Same boat here. One of my best friend’s mother told me the other day “Isn’t it wonderful that Biden is president?” In all seriousness. Amazing how many people just plow into the sea of lies and swim about, content.
Pretty much what I do. Sometimes with a short preface along the lines of “Who knows what’s really going on. You can’t trust any of those people.” Which is generally met with agreement, or at least acquiescence.
A real stoic never reaches for the check.
I guess I never really got the TEAM thing. Sure, I voted for a few Dems when I was young and stupid but I don’t see how any sane person could vote for what they have become. It was completely natural for me to stop voting for them when I realized they weren’t doing me any favors.
This is where I am. I was a D for a long time, mostly over civil liberty issues such as freedom of speech. And growing up with the Meese AG office, this seemed natural. But watching all those people turn on a dime when their team was in place was sad, and it was even more depressing when when you see the same people who installed much of my beliefs do this, such as my mother who literally grew up with the Berkeley Free Speech movement.
My mom sees no problem with rising inflation because she lived through the 70’s and it was NBD.
Flynn’s withdrawn plea never reached a final conclusion because Trump in November 2020 pardoned Flynn, an act that removed any further criminal exposure.
But the Pentagon continued to investigate the RT dinner, and its inspector general concluded Flynn did not seek the Army’s approval to accept the money, even though he cleared his dinner in advance with the DIA.
Last week, the Army’s Office of the General Counsel sent Flynn a letter revealing the DOD planned to seek collection of more than $38,000 the retired general received as speaking fee and in-kind expense reimbursement through the U.S.-based speaking bureau that arranged Flynn’s participation in the RT dinner. RT paid more than $45,000 to the speaker’s bureau, which disbursed Flynn’s share after deducting its own share.
“The Army has determined that in December 2015 you failed to obtain the necessary approval in accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 600-29 before accepting compensation from an entity substantially owned or controlled by a foreign government in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution,” the letter stated, making no mention of Flynn’s preclearance from the DIA.
They should just make him donate $40k to black lives matter, in the service of justice and DEMOCRACY!
They’re trying to block Flynn from ever working in government again.
He’s got his fucking pension. If he wants to work, he can get an honest job in the private sector far the fuck away from govt.
I think it’s more about keeping him out of a potential Trump administration.
After the abuse they showered upon him in the courts, I’d imagine he’d want to get even.
Team Obama hates Flynn., He was part of the group that called them out on the idiotic nuclear deal with Iran that they somehow wanted to everyone to believe made Obama a great world leader ands statesman. Bending over and grabbing your ankles to get ass raped by goat fucking Ayatollahs doesn’t make you a statesmen: it makes you a fucking evil stupid douche.
So every retired general officer, is seeking pre clearance for any speaking engagement or any other situation where they may indirectly receive foreign money? Really?
I never got nuthin’, even my wife says she’s tired of my BS.
No speaking engagements ever.
Even at the Township Board meeting I was told to “Sit down and shut up”
But I used some applied stoicism and just let it go, and we had a nice rest of our day together.
Nice The only way to win is to not play.
Why is Britney Spears posting THOSE naked snaps? Fans fear for pregnant star’s mental health as she learns to live without conservatorship – but psychologist says singer, 40, is simply ‘re-living youth snatched from her’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10800451/Psychologist-says-Britney-Spears-naked-shots-40-regaining-control-conservatorship.html
thicc?
Crazy.
after much deliberation we decided to buy the equipment from the old gym and start our own. There is a lot to set up but it looks like we can make this work.
Good luck.
Warning: Pointless Gripe ahead
The gym I joined here has a bunch of Hammer Strength machines and power racks. What a bunch of crap. Given the chance, I’d sell it all for scrap.
and power racks. What a bunch of crap. Given the chance, I’d sell it all for scrap.
Wut.
This is going to be a Warty gym. Dozens of bars and many tons of plates, dumbbells, and kettle bells. Lots of squat racks and benches. Almost all of it is Rogue. A few bikes and rowers, but nobody is going to spend and afternoon watching Netflix on a Stairmaster.
You need a good hip thrust machine and a pec deck
So… Squat More?
I call fake weights
This is Joshua Smith, a client of @GeorgetownLaw
‘s Civil Rights Clinic. In May 2020, while visiting family in Virginia, his legs went numb. 911 was dialed.
12 hours later, he ended up face down in a jail cell, unconscious and permanently paralyzed. Let me tell you his story
After the 911 call, an ambulance took him to the ER of a local hospital in Galax, Virginia.
Noticing that Smith had previously been on opioid medication, the doctors and nurses assumed he was looking for drugs. They gave him a shot of Benadryl. Then they called the cops on him.
https://twitter.com/jesusrodriguezb/status/1523720324855914498
thread…
Hang them all, including the judge.
Rope, lamp posts, woodchippers….
Jeezus. I need a Pope Jimbo Daily Ray of Sunshine after that.
“the doctors and nurses assumed he was looking for drugs”
This shit needs to stop. I happens way too often.
The pivot from COVID to Ukraine in 48 hours was truly remarkable.
Propaganda theorists will be studying that one for centuries, if we live that long.
The baffled stars of the Panicdemic are all wandering around stunned, like hitchhikers suddenly abandoned at an interstate rest area in South Dakota.
if we live that long. – who is we?
Not you Kemosabe…
Clarifying her skillset & qualifications…
If that was actually a problem (it should be), over half of those people would be disqualified.
Wut.
I’m not opposed to power racks. Not at all. Just clunky overbuilt junk.
To me, power rack = squat rack…but I guess that is not necessarily the case.
This is going to be a Warty gym. Dozens of bars and many tons of plates, dumbbells, and kettle bells. Lots of squat racks and benches. Almost all of it is Rogue. A few bikes and rowers, but nobody is going to spend and afternoon watching Netflix on a Stairmaster.
Bueno.
I am not familiar with Rogue.
Only things I know about them is they sponsor The World’s Strongest Man and I believe Tundra uses them in his home gym.
Yeah, most of my stuff is Rogue. They really got a nice foothold during the crossfit boom. I found my stuff on FB marketplace, so I didn’t pay retail. The stuff is quite nice.
Same with our home gym. So far, so good. Of course, a home gym doesn’t take the beating that a commercial gym does.
The bars are the only things that really take a beating in commercial gyms. As it turns out, people do stupid shit!
The bikes and rowing machines, too. For the same reason.
Scruffy you missed this one in your ‘tard Tuesday round-up.
Oh that’s a good one.
From a political framing point of view, it’s almost perfect. They’re blaming the problem they won’t solve on a problem they can’t solve and using it justify the creation of more problems.
So just like BLM?
Its COVID redux. The problem isn’t the virus/climate, its the response. The green energy push is driving up energy prices, which is a main driver of inflation.
LOL!
“Trust us, not your lying eyes.”
One of my best friend’s mother told me the other day “Isn’t it wonderful that Biden is president?” In all seriousness. Amazing how many people just plow into the sea of lies and swim about, content.
With the grownups back at the tiller, we can all relax.
Really? Could you list the wonderful things for me?
No mean tweets! What else do you need?
Inflation, war, shortages, censorship, senility.
When times get really bad, it makes you appreciate what you had.
He’s not orange!
It’s nice to have a president that wouldn’t survive a spray tan.
Bono and The Edge just single-handedly ended the war in Ukraine with this stirring rendition of “Stand By Me” repurposed as “Stand By Ukraine.” Next up they’ll be performing an acapella version of John Lennon’s “Imagine”
https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1523418231100559360
I take it Bono is done with his perpetual Africa tour now.
Did he stop clapping his fecking hands?
Behold the power to propaganda.
Oh, and kill me.
“to”, “of” – whatevz
If we wish to control inflation, we must address climate change now.
We can burn all the excess cash to generate electricity!
What did I win?
Carbon release from the cash burn.
Inflation is happening because evil people have prioritized their cash cow over reality impacting the serfs. See the climate change bullshit agenda.
[재업로드] 맥심x한국모델협회ㅣ내추럴사이즈 모델 도전기!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Q4wkCVOJY
I don;t know what the squiggly lines mean but I assume thicc
Asian thicc… Love you loooong time!
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Democrats are the cause of all our problems, but republicans, and especially the old establishment type republicans, are NOT going to be part of the solution if they can get away with that.
Democrats are the cause of all our problems
I wouldn’t let Team Red off that easy. Uniparty gonna uniparty, and all that.
That’s what the rest of my sentence was saying: team red people that let team blue shit stay afloat are also part of the problem.
Team Red will not only NOT undo the damage from Democrats, they will pile on top of it their own stupid shit.
More needless Indiana gun deaths.
Alabama corrections official Vicky White dies after she and escaped capital murder suspect Casey White were captured in Indiana
Assholes all the way down.
This was in Evansville. Good to know Evan is still safe somewhere in Korea.
I believe he is moving to Indy.
I think I am the glib who has most recently lived in Evan’s Ville. Two months in 2019.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
One way ticket to women’s internet for her.
It was completely natural for me to stop voting for them when I realized they weren’t doing me any favors.
I’ve been hearing a blunter formulation from more and more quarters lately – they hate your guts. And, honestly, I have to say I kind of agree with it. Increasingly, what I see from the Democrats is a party that hates my guts, that wants to “stick it to me”, and would feel schadenfreude if I suffered. I mean, sure, the Republicans mostly suck. But, I get the impression that at least a few of them can stand the sight of me. At times, I’d like to vote Libertarian. But, at this point, I’ve got to balance doing so against the possibility of someone who hates my guts getting elected. Fortunately, I don’t think that’s a huge issue in SC.
The confounding factor, for me, is that they hate my guts enough to conduct widespread vote fraud to swamp my electoral voice. I’m not playing craps again until the rigged dice are replaced.
Not voting, that’ll show em!
I don’t want to punish them, I just want to stop playing a rigged game. I don’t understand the impulse to VOTE HARDURR!! in the face of widespread fraud. It’s a corrupt system, stop lending it legitimacy by continuing to use it.
Would you like a cardboard sign to hold from the heights of your soapbox? I get your frustration; I also get the fruitlessness of your ‘solution’.
The problem is that every time your team wins you still lose. Bush Jr and the Trumpster did not help the current inflation problems with their excess spending. Economics is not a strong political suit.
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” – Thomas Sowell
every time your team wins you still lose
I don’t have a team. Pretty much means I’m not winning because I don’t even get to play the game.
I also get the fruitlessness of your ‘solution’.
Voting moar harder and not voting seem equally fruitless in a corrupted election system. At least not voting is a form of protest, a withholding of legitimacy and consent.
Well that’s a perfectly apathetic response. The alternative is do to something really distasteful and engage more with the political process. Ignoring it isn’t going to make it go away.
But at least I don’t feel dirty on the day after. Back 40 years ago, when I was a believer and wasted my time I did feel dirty the next day.
Ignoring it isn’t going to make it go away.
Engaging in the political process isn’t going to make it go away either. There is absolutely nothing that any of us can do to change the system. The only way to change the system is to end the system. And that won’t happen through the ballot box. There are some individuals who could initiate this change, but I’m not one of them. I’m guessing the same for our fellow Glibs.
Withdrawal from the system isn’t apathy. It’s focusing on what aspects of our lives that we can control and change.
Fair enough SSD, there is what you can control and there is what you must endure. There’s just no point in hoping for change or believing that you are defying the authority you are willing to endure.
Withdrawal from the system isn’t apathy. It’s focusing on what aspects of our lives that we can control and change.
This is a lot of what I’ve gotten from the Stoics. Gospels, etc.
It’s not ignoring, really, but prioritizing.
I keep voting third party in the hope that one day we can end the stranglehold of the purple party. And I mean any third party. Here in NoDak it’s always Libertarian (I think Constitutional once). But at this point I would vote Green Party or Socialist before Dem/Rep.
But my budding journey into Stoicism is making me rethink even bothering with that.
I hate to be one to agree with JI* but even if they are cheating, which they are, it is important to be a part of the process as 1) not every level is corrupted, as we saw in Virginia 2) a mass of voters is harder to overcome with said cheating and, most importantly in my mind 3) this is how libertarian (or what ever your poison of choice is) get propagated. The voices need to be out there for people to hear them and see how they affect them.
tl/dr if you don’t vote and take part of the process, you are ceding the field in its entirety to them. And we see what that has brought us.
*just kidding, I like JI and appreciate differences of opinion.
I was being charitable. They most definitely have moved on to hating my guts.
The clearest indication that Democrats hate us, meaning Libertarians, was when we were mentioned specifically as evil people a number of times after November 6th. Amazing. Also just the total abandonment of anyone who doesn’t work at a tech company. Are you a trucker? A construction worker? Democrats could care less about you. Your needs pale in comparison to over educated tech workers.
They seriously believe that relying on just the elites and the free-shit brigade is a long-term winning strategy. Maybe they’re right, I dunno but it looks like a losing strategy at the moment. I guess it could work if you move the entire middle class into the free-shit brigade.
Eventually you run out of free shit and have to resort to the time-honored methods of repression.
“Well, alrighty then.”
That is, of course, their strategy. The world they envision cannot tolerate a vibrant, moderately wealthy middle class. They want feudalism.
Morris, whom Hunter Biden’s friends call his latest “sugar brother,”
Hunter’s always relied on the kindness of strangers.
“Oh, I’m not going to be able to get to your request for the next two weeks because I’ll be on vacation.”
“Don’t you have a team? Can any of them work on it?”
“I don’t trust them to do basic tasks.”
/lies but accurate representation of discussion with another group.
“What are you wearing on your feet?”
Quick way to end any and all requests coming your way..
I’m the one trying to get them to do work.
Ask them if they are wearing any underwear or going commando then…
Well no wonder they resent you.
LOOK OVER THERE!
Another upstanding activist lost to the alt-right. ?
I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am.
Biden Team Sees China Tilt Aided as Putin Falters in Ukraine
Even if it doesn’t, they plan on engaging China militarily at some point. They’re obviously eager for it.
I think you miss the point that China’s CCP is actually even more eager for that fight than we are, but they are playing us and want it when they are ready to kick our ass (not now or in the near future when the cost would be too much and the outcome unsure). That fight is not going to be avoided if the rest of the world doesn’t wise up and stops financing the CCP’s ambitions and economic/military growth.
You may really, really want to believe if we leave them alone they will return that favor, but that is how we end up in a war for sure.
So what you’re saying is, nuke them now and let God sort it out?
/Cathy Newman
So you’re asserting that China is a military threat to the physical USA?
Or just to our bases and client states scattered across the globe?
The Middle Kingdom wants revenge for the 100 years of colonial humiliation pushed on it back when. The CCP has made it very clear their goal is to put China back where it belongs: at the top of the world. And they are willing to use anything and everything to get that done. Their planners believe that successful invasion of Taiwan could be achieved by attacking our assets in the Pacific, that means taking out not just the important facilities in Guam but likely also Pearl Harbor, and holding the line. They expect that win for them would create enough of a political and economic cost for the US to force us into permanent decline (and make all other partners in their sphere of influence turn away from the US). If not, you bet your ass they will nuke us, and they are sure as hell fielding new nukes and delivery modes to make sure they can do that.
China’s fighting doctrine is based on the same crazy shit as the USSR’s which believes tactical nukes are fine to use to win, I remind you.
The problem is they are running out of time. China won’t be able to execute any military campaign in another decade.
It’s about time. We haven’t been “doing enough” in Asia lately. Let’s “do more”.
I wonder which authoritarian shitholes we’re going to cozy up to next. I would think the commie Vietnamese wouldn’t be dumb enough to trust a military alliance with the US.
Who wants to be our next cannon fodder country?
“Where everyone’s a loser and the points don’t matter!”
I wonder which authoritarian shitholes we’re going to cozy up to next
My guess is Australia and New Zealand.
ANZUS II: Nuclear Cooties Boogaloo!
Indonesia seems appropriately chaotic and just unstable enough. Bonus is that it’s another place with large muslim populations so we can still piss off the middle east.
Chinese island building plus ethnic issues with the Chinese.
Are we cozying up to them or signing a basing agreement with East Timor? I forgot which side of self determination of oppressed ethnic minorities in breakaway regions we were on.
I have a new youtube channel to watch. Made by Madman . He appears to be Russian, so I’m surprised he hasn’t been cancelled, or at least demonetized.
In addition to the stuff he makes (like the little shop stove in the link), his video/editing skills are really impressive. I could do without most of the music, but….
He’s no Colin Chapman. This table is not going to get blown away
Heinz has released the weirdest of their weird new products and here is a 59-second review:
https://twitter.com/thatbilloakley/status/1523829199215071233
They dropped their spotted dick a couple of years ago.
Damn! A coyote showed up in the middle of the morning here in my back yard, hassling the geese and ducks on the pond. I had to round up my cats and bring them in.
Now I’m scrambling around trying to find some .300 Blackout ammo for my suppressed Ruger American. I may have to load some up. But I never zeroed the rifle properly because I was still working up handloads for it.
Is this a first world problem or a third world problem?
First world.
Third world wouldn’t bother with the suppresor or the fancy nonstandard calibers, and would be dealing with bigger predators going after the children instead of a coyote going after the cats.
A friend texted me back to say in the 3rd world, they’d be sending 7.62x39mm out of an AK and not caring whether anyone heard it.
So he agrees with me.
basically, yes
Third, because if we were truly a first world nation, you wouldn’t have those killing machines.
First World
Third World problem is when it’s your neighbors looking to eat your cats.
Or eating you…
I feel you. One of the annoyances of handloading for multiple guns, you never seem to get ahead of the load development enough to stockpile.
Good reason to keep a silenced long gun in ready condition.
*checks status of Form 4 application for suppressor*
*deep sigh*
When the ATF went paperless, they said “90 days or less”. The 90 days ran a week ago.
“‘Who just said the N-word?’ German cop interrogates group of NY Orthodox Jews after one called them Nazis for refusing to let their group of 100 board flight home because some refused to wear masks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10799895/Orthodox-Jews-NYC-barred-boarding-connecting-flight-refused-wear-masks.html
I’ve seen this one before.
Nagger?
Good morning, Banjos!
I love the meme. Gonna piss off a bunch of people with that – so thanks!
Also, I love that song.
Love.
North Korea Isn’t “Totalitarian,” It Shows How We In The U.S. Can Develop Towards #Socialism, by @rainer_shea
https://rainershea.substack.com/p/north-korea-isnt-totalitarian-it?r=68×5&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
In the DPRK, torture is strictly forbidden, with solitary confinement not being practiced and even juvenile detention centers not being part of the justice system. Also unlike in the U.S., those convicted of crimes in the DPRK don’t become disenfranchised afterwards, contrary to the outrageous claims of generational persecution that are put forth by the opportunistic defectors who’ve been paid to fabricate atrocity stories. Outside perceptions of the country are also manipulated when it comes to how DPRK elections work. As the Marxist blog Write to Rebel has observed about the country’s process for picking candidates:
No-votes arise when the discussions of the masses become too contentious. In a certain sense, the masses sometimes have too much power. The elections exist to mediate this and come to truly democratic conclusions, where the will of the majority is enacted. The elections are not a barrier to democracy, but rather an expression of it…
Pie wins grand prize for Tard Tuesday.
Yeah, mine pale in comparison to this. I admit the loss and cede the competition for today.
So, do the Apaches get land back from the Comanches?
I know there are a lot more, what time are we looking to go back to?
Based on their economic policies, I’d say roughly the Stone Age.
That would be the end result.
But we would all have equity!
Harrison Bergeron nods.
I’m glad that we have freedom of speech so that incredibly awful opinions like this can be aired and appropriately laughed at.
Stop being judgmental about the Norks. After all, Kim Jong Un and Hawkeye from the Avengers series are the only people on the planet that played a round of 18 hole golf and shot 18.
Pope – sorry about stealing your thunder, but the Bee delivers today’s ray of sunshine.
Chrysler Motors: Bring back the PT Cruiser! – why though?
Ha!
That would be neat!
Spider-Man 3: Make the whole movie one extended goth Peter Parker dance scene.
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dLE-EPVodQ
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
@MayorofLondon
The cost of living and spiralling rents could soon lead to a devastating homelessness crisis. I once again urge the Prime Minister to grant us the powers we need to introduce rent controls to relieve the pressure on renters in London.
maxwell marlow ?? ??
@maxwell_marlow
“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing” – Assar Lindbeck
But Lindbeck was wrong in one sense. Bombing removes supply and demand, rent control removes just supply.
https://twitter.com/maxwell_marlow/status/1523655724634574848
Khan is an evil fuck. He knows damned well that rent control will fix nothing except make some connected people really wealthy.
A friend texted me back to say in the 3rd world, they’d be sending 7.62x39mm out of an AK and not caring whether anyone heard it.
I let off a couple of rounds from the 1911 at a coyote I deemed to be getting entirely too bold, one morning. From the upstairs deck of my place in Montana.
If you are just shooting to scare them you are doing it wrong..
He was doing the two in the chest and one in the head routine.
Mozambique
A Cato Tweet:
I would not be so sure for gay
Johnson too had a bunch of sheep fuckers working for or against him back in the day… I want t know if that was a first…
And?
And Cato has successfully signaled its virtue. Yay them.
Another FDR innovation: During the administration of presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, journalist Stephen Early became the first White House secretary charged only with press responsibilities. [wiki]
If you are just shooting to scare them you are doing it wrong..
Let’s just say a .45 doesn’t drop as much as I thought it would. It kicked up a puff of snow just above and beyond his head. The second shot was at a rapidly receding target. But he quit coming around.
I like to solve those problems permanently.
7.62 X 39 is a helluva number
That’s a common misconception. Most pistol rounds drop only 3-5″ at 100 yards, assuming a 25-yard zero.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is raffling off a gun.
Bring back the PT Cruiser! – why though?
As front engine, rear wheel drive, why not?
Called opponents of critical race theory ‘disinformers’
A licky boom boom down.
“To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community—the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms.”
https://twitter.com/LoriLightfoot/status/1523844510735908864
I can’t even.
As I said, the official response to this on the left will signal whether they will be unleashing the shock troops this summer to riot again. Using “call to arms” in this context is dangerous, lady. This needs to be a time of reconciliation, not agitation.
I fear the Democrats will be pushed toward excusing violence this year. This will not be a fun summer.
If they are not in power and calling the shots, then they will make sure nobody else can do any of that….
Fuck the supreme court. The police should be coming for those of you grooming kids in school. And those in the LGBT community that have not lost their mind and want to groom or transition kids better stand up against the people hiding in their community that want to sacrifice them all for agendas that are clearly way past deserved rights for LGBT adults.
I’m going to guess that up until last week she was frequently complaining that Chicago was awash in guns.
Also, that she doesn’t know what the word “arms” means.
I am gonna call you out on that claim she doesn’t know about not knowing about arms. From what I have heard she is big into fisting, and that involves arms…
Here is an excellent reply to that tweet.
Dammit, that’s not the right one, it’s the response to that. This is it.
Revolver’s take on other SCOTUS precedent that should be overturned
They left off US v Miller.
I know you were referring to the 1938 case, but this applies also. Along with Smith v. Maryland you get the third-party doctrine.
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
Rereading the ones I knew and reading some I had never heard of was rage inducing.
So now we aren’t just Team America – World Police, we are World Court?
I thought Assange was over-reach.
charges of conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States
I guess the US can also start taxing all foreigners living abroad.
Makes sense to wrap up any loose ends if US government agencies assisted or entirely orchestrated the assassination.
Are you implying that the US .gov doesn’t stick their dick in everything?
Traitors to the cause! Ban their women cards! Besides, everyone knows it is birthing people…
Va. case focusing debate on constitutionality of ‘geofence’ warrant ends with guilty plea
You will get at least one warning from me when you violate the Constitution. You may get more because I’ve already demonstrated that I’m flexible when it comes to adherence.
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