Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Over 60 Percent of CEOs Expecting Recession, 15 Percent Already in Recession: Survey
Treasury Secretary who said inflation wouldn’t be a problem believes recession is not inevitable
Whistleblower memos show Homeland chief misled Congress about disinformation board
What’s funny is that the Jane in Jane Roe eventually became a prolife advocate.
Tucker Carlson Exposes Ashley Biden’s Diary and the President’s Politicization of the FBI
Number of Americans who think the US has poor moral values hits record high: Poll
Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards Trade Public Barbs After 18-Year-Old Daughter Joins OnlyFans
Americans’ belief in God falls to new low of 81%: poll
Swimming Governing Body Bans Males Who Have Undergone Puberty from Competing as Women
Man turned away from giving blood after he refused to say if he was pregnant
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh’
Good morning! Good morning!
waffles! Long time no see! Just ate one of your brethren for brunch yesterday!
Oh…maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned that?
Waffles are delicious. I don’t know what happened to the site to give me my old profile picture back, but I’ll take it. Some of my finest art.
There have been…issues, but they are being addressed as time and circumstances permit, for which we’re very grateful.
“Over 60 Percent of CEOs Expecting Recession, 15 Percent Already in Recession: Survey”
So which ones are the idiots that think things are just fine? I have a feeling something about them will make them stand out as dumbasses…
Look for the rainbow splashed logos and the Ukraine flags. That’s a good place to start.
I’m sure the Fortune 500 CEOs are unconcerned – golden parachutes, govt bailouts – what have they got to worry about?
Staying in that hereditary credentialed elite expert class aristocracy their global reset lords promised them…
I’ve met a few CEO’s. What a Fortune 500 CEO wants is to be a Fortune 50 CEO. Bad results because of recession and stagflation aren’t helpful.
Must be a corollary to Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
That kind of ambition is not usually satisfied by a big balance in the bank account.
The ones that the balance satisfies retire at age 45 to go enjoy the money.
Talking about a recession as though it’s already happening is a good way to accelerate the road to recession.
I’m of the mind that pretending that we aren’t does us no good and delays getting through to the other side. I have no doubt Q2 numbers will print recession outside some insane fudging.
Those would be the ones that are funded by the CIA
That horse left the barn a long time ago.
And it seems that no matter how often we show that the weaponized 3 letter government bureaucracies Obama left us with are now actively working towards the priorities of the globalist mandarinate’s global reset – with the dnc in charge of that in the US – some people keep cheering because, team….
You made a dead man cum – Nixon.
There was an interesting screed by Roger Stone over the weekend about Nixon. He was laying into Jason Miller as being a scumbag like John Dean who, according to Stone, was responsible for Watergate and then hung Nixon out to dry in order to save himself.
Stone is bonkers, but the level of detail provided and my new appreciation for DC backstabbing leads me to think it’s at least partially true.
There was some theory in a book that Dean was the one who pushed for the burglary, because the DNC had dirt on him. He sued over it and won, so there probably isn’t much proof, if any. Was that what Stone was talking about? Dean certainly “turned state’s evidence” to save his own ass, but I don’t think he claimed at the time that Nixon was behind it all, just the coverup.
Holy fuckballs. I’ve never heard of any of this. I’ve got a LOT of new reading material being queued up.
Watergate at 50.
IIRC part of the accusation was that Dean intentionally kept Nixon uninformed so that it looked like Nixon was lying to the public.
Nixon was no saint, but there sure were a lot of shitheels that came out of that administration like Dean, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.
Like the Stasi and Praetorian Guard rolled into one.
I thought the CIA was the praetorian guard. I’m starting to seriously believe JFK’s assassination was an inside job.
Since I work nights, I listen to a lot of overnight radio. Primarily Coast-to-Coast AM.
Some of these whack-jobs can make a very compelling case for the CIA colluding with the mafia on a number of occasions including taking down JFK.
It was the guy from the X-files.
CSM FTW!
I think the FBI had far more to do with Trump’s expulsion. They knew all the Russia stuff was faked before the Mueller shit-show even began. They looked the other way instead of going after Antifa and BLM 2 years ago and there was never a hint of investigation into election fraud. They didn’t strangle Trump in his bath and proclaim and new emperor, but it wasn’t far off.
The Secret Service was in on it too – they had to know that he was being illegally wire tapped in 2016.
Your right about recently, but the number of foreign contacts involved (both in Russia and the UK) and the extent to which the Dems have clearly been compromised by the chicoms makes me think the CIA may have had a hand too.
I guess it isn’t necessary, as you say, the FBI was sufficient, or almost sufficient to stop him… If the CIA had done it they probably would have succeeded.
Quite possible. Remember, Seymour Hersh thought the Russian stuff was “a Brennan operation”. It makes perfect sense if you look at how the DNC hack scam played out. The CIA set up the fake hacking operation, and used the DNC and Perkins-Coie, with their FBI connections, to put it into play.
– Seymour Hersh
I don’t doubt that all of the TLA agencies had their fingers in that pie. The entire security state is completely out of control and totally unaccountable.
Anyone that by now is not up to date that the Mueller shitshow had nothing to do with them believing Trump was a Russian plant and everything to do with them setting up a racket to get him to do something – anything – they could then use to accuse him of obstruction with, has not been paying attention…
I don’t really doubt that much any more. LBJ hated JFK, and it is pretty well known that LBJ wasn’t averse to having elections fixed and people killed.
My opponent has intercourse with SHEEP!
The hate was delightfully mutual. JFK, Bobby, and the White House staff referred to LBJ and Lady bird, behind their backs, as “Colonel Cornpone and his Little Pork Chop.”
I’ve been called worse.
Oh- since you mentioned BBQ oysters Orleans-style, I found a recipe yesterday for grilled ersters.
Its on my to-do list soon.
Citation: https://www.thespruceeats.com/official-dragos-charbroiled-oysters-recipe-1135643
History is full of stories like this…. I have never understood the people that believed without any doubt that it couldn’t have been the US cabal that decided Kennedy had to go….
The biggest reason for believing that is the files being sealed for near-eternity.
NATIONAL SECURITY!
A concept that didn’t really exist prior to the National Security Act of 1947.
Keep digging. The Future of Freedom Foundation has several Youtube videos talking about the JFK assassination—especially the autopsy
“Treasury Secretary who said inflation wouldn’t be a problem believes recession is not inevitable ”
The evil fucks that came up with fascism realized that marxism was a doomed ideology, because in any collectivist system where you had to pick the top men for their loyalty to the cabal in charge and its moronic ideas, the end result would be a mountain of dead bodies and the rest of the morons living in misery with a boot on their neck as the lack of expertise would result in ever more disastrous things occurring. The idiots that had to fortify the 2020 election are proving this concept out right now by putting some of the most evil people in positions of authority, cause their priority is a global collectivist reset that will keep the credentialed elite’s need to be part of a hereditary aristocratic top -men system viable in a world where they are afraid their ineptitude and downright callousness will eventually turn the serfs against them.
Government is our god, now.
South Park did it.
Still agnostic/atheist on that too.
“Whistleblower memos show Homeland chief misled Congress about disinformation board”
And anyone that believes the people that came up with this horrible and evil concept have decided to not create this entity because of the backlash, having given up on the concept of controlling the programming and punishing and disappearing the decenters, is going to really hate finding out they were played.
Now it’s just the ‘freedom and goodness board,’ with the same exact dictates.
“Number of Americans who think the US has poor moral values hits record high: Poll”
According to the good-think people, the problem is the people that think we have the moral decline and the consequences of that shift wanting to stop the moral decline they approve of.
Without defining “good moral values,” this is only an indicator of discontent.
Good-think people believe good moral values is whatever they feel like demanding others comply with that day…
“Without defining “good moral values,” this is only an indicator of discontent.”
This. Speaking only for myself, I have wonderful moral values, but have spent my life violating those values all too frequently. Values are easy, action is much more difficult.
I have never violated my moral values. This is the advantage to having moral values that are highly elastic.
But then you never know the thrill of doing something naughty.
I’m not sure if I have violated all of your moral values, either.
Defining moral values is the fundamental problem we face. Post-modernism has chipped away at the very idea of truth so it’s become impossible for society to define what good morals even means. Whether assault, vandalism or theft are moral actions are up for debate in right now. Seriously. Unfortunately the questions about those actions aren’t actually moral or philosophical, they’re entirely political depending on where you’re willing to declare your loyalty.
The highest moral good amongst a disproportionately powerful and influential section of our society is now whether or not you ever give trans, gay or POCs the sads. That is the beginning and end of their morality. Being a reliable person who is a good spouse/parent/neighbor and contributes to the “social good” of government “charity” through taxes is all completely irrelevant if you have the wrong thoughts about a position that was just established ten minutes ago.
You can indiscriminately commit arson, assault, participate in riots and mass looting and still be a morally good person in our new gaslit reality as long as your social media bios contain the right pronouns and flag emojis. No need to have any personal responsibility. No need to keep your promises. No need to respect your neighbors, loved ones or elders. Take what you need (want and need can be used interchangeably) and never apologize. Scream at anyone who isn’t as enlightened as you. Whatever you need to do to shape the world into what you want is justified for fairness (fairness, equality and equity can all be used interchangeably.) Anyone who opposes you hates democracy and minorities, which as we know are the only two clearly, undebatably objective moral goods.
A basic moral framework and consensus is the single most important building block of a functional society and that is intentionally being chipped away at with sledgehammers by people who want to pretend that the 20th century wasn’t one continuous highlight reel of their ideology being the most disastrous and murderous ever conceived. We must burn millennia’s worth of thought, philosophy and societal experimentation to fulfill Marx’s prophecy.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, not defining “good moral values” is precisely the point.
A. Racism is the ultimate sin.
B. The U.S. is irredeemably racist.
How could the US possibly have good moral values?
Religions without redemption burn themselves out.
President Joe Biden told The Associated Press on June 16 that it’s “not inevitable” that the United States will hit the grim economic milestone, adding, “Secondly, we’re in a stronger position than any nation in the world to overcome this inflation.”
Joe Biden’s America: it’s grim milestones all the way down.
Shhh!
It’s funny because it’s true.
Now we know it will be worse than a recession. Especially if the same transitory idiots are saying we may not even hit a recession.
I’m sure we are in a better position than most other countries. But I’m not going to bed happy knowing while things are more expensive for my family, other families are starving to death.
It’s already terrible.
And gonna get worse. Our leaders are monsters.
Being a “good citizen of the world” used to be a lefty thing. But I’m seeing now how our western “elites” are just devastating these poorer countries. They don’t care how many people die on the other side of the world as long as we get our green energy and massive surveillance systems (aka pandemic control).
I did read an article about Davos where they interviewed leaders from southeast Asian countries, and they just ripped into the globalist crowd. It was nice to see that.
The “good citizen of the world” crap was always hubris soaked activism. It’s the same distinction between environmentalism and conservationism. Conservationism says “I can make this place better by keeping it clean and taking care of wildlife habitats and reducing my impact on the local ecology.” Environmentalism says “I can save the world by making up pithy sayings and advocating for crippling regulations”
^^^ THIS. [Stealing all of it]
In a nutshell, the difference between conservationism and environmentalism is stark/
Conservationism aims to protect the environment FOR people.
Environmentalism aims to protect the environment FROM people.
In practice the difference is stark too. Conservationists will protect species via game management to ensure that game is available for all to hunt. Environmentalists will protect a species and allow disease and poaching to bring it to near extinction. See various species in Africa.
“Man turned away from giving blood after he refused to say if he was pregnant”
As someone that gives blood every 8 weeks, I am confirming that the question of being pregnant is idiotic since it used to not be asked if you told the survey you were male. Now you have to answer it anyway. The Red Cross deserves to take it in the teeth for doing this shit even more than the fact that they still make you put on masks to donate.
Like I said last night, you can either print one standard form or multiple forms some of which omit questions the user might find offensive.
This is not the Kulturkampf moment people are making it out to be, IMHO.
I am a Rapid Pass guy, and it doesn’t ask me which questionnaire I will take. It does ask me for gender and race, and when I tell it fuck off on both questions, they Red Cross people you deal with look at you and enter the information you chose not to provide anyway. My days as a donor are coming to an end after 40 years of this shit..
Yup, I always refuse to answer on any form, but then I get my gender and race assigned, which is a hate crime as I am a lesbian afro Asian, not a white male. 😉
Cool, wannafud?
Will love you long time?
+ 2LiveCrew
Me so horny.
Yup. It is the single easiest thing you can do to strike a small blow against the bigotocracy. Simply refuse to answer surveys. I’ve been on the other side of the coin, and there are a lot of people who get really uncomfortable when their boss tells them to go through and categorize people by race and gender based on their names or their employee photos.
How can you tell what people identify as based on that?
Male and female has nothing to do with the sex assigned at birth! Sounds like a hate crime.
Yup, that’s what makes people uncomfortable. Especially when they have a spreadsheet on their computer of the genders and races of everybody at the company. I flat out refused to do any of that shit, and I know some of my more progressive coworkers were really uncomfortable with it, too.
I just read in our weekly “newsletter” that some VP got rewarded for forcing her department to undergo “diversity” reeducation.
I am not comfortable with this.
If you answer “yes” to question 23, skip to question 27.
That’s how you have one form for everyone and dont make people answer irrelevant questions.
Used to work that way… They recently changed that..
Exactly. You WILL participate in the subversion of reality in order to create a new better reality.
Fair enough. If they deliberately changed the form in order to accommodate pregnant persons, then it’s derp.
But I still don’t think it’s a hill to die on. This guy went on and on about how people need his blood to survive, but he’s not giving any until they remove the silly question. Just answer the stupid question and save some lives. The guy bleeding out in the ER needs blood, not a culture warrior.
^^
Same with the juneteenth bullshit, IMO. Enjoy the summer holiday, don’t get wrapped up in the culture war bullshit. Save the emotional energy for something that actually accomplishes something for the deconstructionist left.
I dont get Juneteenth off.
I am off to work right now. I view national holidays as falling into one of four classes.
Celebrates the Concept of the USA- Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving
Do it Because the Western Nations Do it- Veterans Day, Christmas, New Years,
Evil and Shouldn’t Be a Holiday- Presidents Day
Payoff to Gov Employees and Sucking Up for Votes- Juneteenth, MLK Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day
Isn’t President’s Day just a renaming of Washington’s Birthday? The one pres actually worth recognizing.
AFAIK, Presidents Day is a mashup of Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays…so they cancel each other out, maybe, in terms of deserved recognition?
re: President’s Day. The holiday’s official FedGov name is still Washington’s Birthday, it’s been coopted by states and calendar makers over the years to include them all.
Fuck the Red Cross. After Katrina, I went to Mississippi with a group from my church and we met up with another church in the area that was housing folks that had been displaced as well as visitors that had come down to help out.
I remember meeting one man who had loaded up a horse trailer full of tools and he was going to drop it off at the nearest Red Cross donation station. They told him they were only accepting cash donations. Never mind that all the hardware stores and grocery stores were sold out of everything, cash wasn’t what people needed.
So he took his tools and found his way to the church we were staying at to give away to people that needed them and to also help folks repairing/cleaning their homes.
I had always assumed it was just stupid bureaucracy, but I’m more jaded than I was back then, and I’m now convinced that it was cash only donations because it’s easier to skim a bit off the top
“Not only is a recession not inevitable, but I think that a lot of people are underestimating those strengths and the resilience of the American economy,” Deese said.
We have plenty of checks left.
And there you have the problem in a nutshell: these fuckers have concluded that since the US had the strongest and biggest economy, and the dollar was king, that they should be allowed to run the economy like your average third-rate banana republic without consequences….
When the cost of debt servicing reaches a typical historical rate we’re going to be well and truly fucked.
Believing you’re special is a great way to get reminded otherwise.
The numbers I heard in college in ’98-99 was 150% of GDP (that was when Japan was around that and we were around 50%). At the moment, we appear to be approaching that and IIRC Japan is around 200%+ (rumbling along, but no real growth – particularly with aging population). Although at the same time, Japan is “aging”/degrading far more gracefully than I expect we would see here due in part to geographical size, demographics, etc.
When you have to borrow money to pay the interest its too late to stop digging
I still don’t understand why they’re doing this. There’s something being accomplished by these treasury stooges going all Baghdad Bob, but I don’t know what it is. If they really wanted to go with the idea that there’s no waterfall ahead, they’d have their media lackeys trumpeting positive news. Instead, we get mixed articles where the treasury stooge looks like an idiot. Why?
They still believe in Keynes, or at least their more retarded version of him. Their job is to sell the economy and to keep those “animal spirits” going.
In other words, they’re paid to lie about it.
They tried, real hard, to tell people not to believe their own experiences and lying eyes, and to keep believing things were awesome. Unfortunately for the people that think the way to deal with problems is to control people’s opinions/knowledge of things, rather than actually correctly diagnosing the problem and then working to fix that, people are only able to do that until the thing they are told to believe (or not) costs them serious cash and causes them serious pain. And this economic collapse is kicking the lower classes in the teeth real hard.
But there are limitations to their lies because the one thing they fear the most is a complete loss of confidence in the Fed as an institution.
Who still has confidence in the Fed other than morons at this time?
Think of econ PhD’s as a bunch of medieval theologians.
Aquinas hardest hit.
These people are morons of the highest order. They have been given unfathomable power due to government excess since WW2. We are seeing the end game which occurs when you give morons the power previously reserved for cabal elites, who have passed on but left their corrupt system in place.
The best thins that could happen is a collapse of big government power and control. But that won’t come easy. Too many levers of power remain untouched. Morons like shiny levers.
“Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards Trade Public Barbs After 18-Year-Old Daughter Joins OnlyFans”
Can’t wait on her first sex video clip! Over and under that it is a gangbang vs. some crazy shit with some animal abuse?
“whats the name of your act?”
“THE ARISTOCRATS!”
“Swimming Governing Body Bans Males Who Have Undergone Puberty from Competing as Women”
So this decision was made to keep the groomers happy by encouraging minors to still be vulnerable to their machinations?
Lia Thomas off in a corner crying.
ugh… man tears
Yes
Someone has a concern
Hillary Clinton is adamant she’s not running for president again. But that’s not stopping her from worrying about her fellow Democrats and their choice of hills to die on.
In an extensive interview with the Financial Times, the former presidential candidate said Democrats should be careful on their platforms.
“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” Clinton responded. “Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”
The alternative is so frightening. Take your meds, granny.
“America first” was frightening…to the commie rat fuckers.
For globalism to work, America must be destroyed and brought low.
I had a discussion with an eurogeek this weekend where they pointed out that the orange guy had a real bad reputation in their country. The eurogeek got really pissed when I pointed out he lived in a western European country, heavily steeped in marxist bullshit, where support for US presidents always seemed to be higher for those that sold the US out to the rest of the world (like Clinton, Obama, and now Biden). A phenomenon that was the inverse case in European countries that had undergone the yoke of marxism.
Exactly. Why should I want a president who is popular outside our borders?
I don’t want everyone to adore us, because that just means we’re being doormats. Mutual respect would be better, but I will take dislike if that’s what it takes to stand up for our interests.
George Washington was greatly admired abroad, even in Britain, and his death in 1799 sparked widespread mourning. Yet he was the “no tangled alliances” guy.
Obligatory.
Those dudes should now do Trump!
Yeah, but someone with the same policies today would be literally Hitler.
It was wild to me in college to find out how many foreign students had a high opinion of George W Bush.
She must be talking about some level of accountability for the shitheels in charge, including her.
🎶 That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight
Losing muh democracy 🎶
R.E.M. That shizz, yo!
“…whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”
So cheating will be their only priority.
If it saves our Democracy, it is worth it.
Everyone in the know knows that democracy means democrats and globalism win!
The capital D is the key.
*Monica Lewinski agrees*
Excuse me, the word is “fortifying,” thank you.
The common definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.
Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the first quarter of 2022 (table 1), according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Unless you think that the quarter that will end next week was better than Q1, we are in a recession.
Recession music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDGKKNM7a7s
I would have also accepted The Kinks, Low Budget.
Obviously, but the’experts’can’t help beclowning themselves by putting out wishful thinking rather than real analysis.
The problem with the experts is that they come from the public sector or academia. The two places where people are never held accountable or responsible for real bad ideas or implementation of ideas..
What’s the over & under that the people that think the way to solve problems/issues of their own making is to use propaganda to set opinion, will simply change the definition of a recession, and then, tell us the problem is with us idiots that believe things are bad?
Worked for FDR, sort of, until reality and the Supreme Court didn’t.
Throw in a Pyramid scam supported by future generations
If we’re not in recession neither is Nicholas Cage’s hairline.
*Kif sigh*
Checking in on the upcoming (Nov) PA Baconfest, and the website says they’re still requiring masks on the shuttle bus. Guess I’m boycotting again this year, cuz I’m not fighting for parking downtown.
What are the chances they really enforce the masking?
Dunno. They made the effort to put it on their website though.
I went to my local post office this weekend. Big sign up front that you needed a mask. I didn’t wear one. One Karen gave me a look. Nobody else, despite the fact they were all masked, gave two flying fucks about me not earing it. I left feeling robbed cause I sure wanted to tell some Karen to shut the fuck up and mind her own business….
I was just at the post office last week, I didn’t notice any signs or masks.
I think they still have a sign up at our PO, but almost nobody wears one except for a few of the staff.
I saw one person wearing a mask over their chin while in the pit at a concert last night. Those are the people I don’t get. It’s like seeing an adult carrying around a security blanket.
Another take on Hillary’s interview
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Democrats should be focused on winning elections and suggested they should not treat the transgender debate as a priority.
Clinton made the comments in an extensive interview with the Financial Times published Friday. The reporter pressed Clinton to state her position on some of the issues Democrats have pushed for on the national level that are unpopular among most Americans.
“Democrats seem to be going out of their way to lose elections by elevating activist causes, notably the transgender debate, which are relevant only to a small minority. What sense does it make to depict JK Rowling as a fascist?” the reporter asked.
“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” Clinton responded. “Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”
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“I think that it is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win,” Clinton said at the time. “I understand why people want to argue for their priorities. That’s what they believe they were elected to do.”
“Look, I’m all about having vigorous debate. I think it’s good, and it gives people a chance to be part of the process,” she added. “But, at the end of the day it means nothing if we don’t have a Congress that will get things done, and we don’t have a White House that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive.”
I wonder why that other site didn’t think that part part about transgender activism wasn’t important.
“Productive.” I do not think that word mean what you think it means.
Do us all a favor, be productive and issue at least a million pink slips to government goons and contractors. Then spend the next four years playing canasta for matchsticks. that would be productive.
“we don’t have a White House that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive”
Did this bitch say this with a straight face? I know, TDS and all. But this sentence is NO FUCKING WAY describes the Biden administration.
Filthy capitalists are already ruining Juneteenth!
TW: NPR
Who fucking cares about this made-up shit? Even the people they are trying to pander to see through this shit and don’t give a flying fuck.
If visuals by the tv news people, and writeups in the local newspapers, are any indication, the community of descendants of formerly enslaved people, also largely ignored the events.
I bet they are more concerned with being able to afford gas, rent, utilities, and food… Shit they will soon only get from government and be made happy for I am told by the globalists…
Juneteenth Menthol Cigarettes, Collector’ edition, Each pack is numbered and authenticated.
The politicization of the financial systems continues apace.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/simon-ateba-african-reporter-who-heckled-psaki-says-payments-firm-axed-sites-subscription-income/
The left wants to make sure their political enemies pay a price for exposing their idiocy and ineptitude. Even when that is more work than them actually doing what it takes to be competenet.
I think we should have a meeting about the messaging surrounding our idiocy.
Too much negatives.
The backlash is underway,
https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-to-lose-parliamentary-majority-in-stunning-upset/
Left and right gained over Macron’s “center” party. Notably, the both ends of the political spectrum want out of NATO.
Re: the guy who refused to say if he was pregnant on a blood donation screening form:
Tell me you have never donated blood before without telling me you have never donated blood before.
Every single time I have donated blood, back into the late 1990s, I have been asked to answer a question about whether I’m pregnant. I can’t remember if there’s ever been a time where there was a box you could check as being “male” and be excused from answering the “female” questions.
It’s a good point. Lots of forms I use regularly have questions with N/A options in them – so they can use the same forms for everyone.
Meh. Every location has their own blood donor org. When I was in TX, they were some kind of Red Cross affiliate. Here they are not.
Right. I’ve donated at several–Red Cross, Central Blood Bank, others I can’t recall…pretty much the same process and questions everywhere, with minor quirks.
Good morning, Banjos!
Number of Americans who think the US has poor moral values hits record high: Poll
And the very next link confirms it!
Nicely done!
“Swimming Governing Body”
Thank Cthtulu we don’t have one of those. The smooth-brains in the US Congress could barely dog-paddle in a kiddy pool, wearing water wings, without drowning.
You say that as if their drowning would be a bad thing.
As long as they aren’t drowning where I had my tragic boating accident.
From Grumbletarian’s link:
But while companies are working continuously to remove their Juneteenth items off shelves, experts argue that companies that are selling and promoting Juneteenth-branded products are tone-deaf — claiming they are only profiting off Black suffering.
“When a corporation comes in, uses that further marketing march and then capitalizes off it and sells it, what we’re seeing is modern-day colonialism,” said Ferraz.
Experts say the true meaning of the commemoration can easily be lost through consumerism and widespread consumption.
Where would we be without experts to tell us what to think?
Buffalo shooter wears “full, military grade grade body armor” (i.e., a plate carrier.)
NY congressvermin: ban soft body armor:
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1106192556/new-body-armor-rules-in-new-york-miss-the-vest-worn-by-the-buffalo-killer
lulz
I’m not going to put my thoughts in writing.
Does the NYSPJ not have enough bribe money for a carve-out?
‘cover civil unrest in the U.S.’
Hokum: but I don’t want you to cover unrest in my state.
Miltary grade, adj.:
Manufactured by the lowest bidder, to compromise specifications, with a politicized bidding selection process.
You should only be allowed to buy body armor that doesn’t. You know, for the children.
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At this rate, I’ll be down to zero in just a few days.
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2 Fast 2 Fauci is gonna be awesome!
Not desperation!
Deese was responding to suggestions by Bream that Biden might look desperate traveling to Saudi Arabia — a nation he has previously condemned for its human rights record, including the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — at a time of increasing energy prices. Critics on both the left and right have said it is wrong for Biden to seem to give the Saudi royal family his stamp of approval by visiting there.
“We have significant interests, national security interests, in the region, as well as economic interests as well. He will vigorously represent American interests, while also vigorously representing American values,” Deese said of Biden’s July 13-16 trip, which will also include a trip to Israel and the adjacent West Bank.
Deese also spoke at length of various steps the administration is taking in connection with oil companies to help lower energy prices — while still attempting to make it possible to address long-term clean energy and climate goals.
“The reality is,” Deese said, “we are a net exporter of oil, but more important than that for the immediate term is what we can do to increase supply. As you said, supply came down precipitously during Covid; we want to see that come back and come back online. In the near term, the companies have a very powerful market incentive. Prices are high, and their profit and profit margins are high, and what we are encouraging is that they take those and put those profits to work to increase production.”
He added of the administration: “If there are practical things we can do, we’re willing to listen and willing to be open.”
Does that mean Joe will pack his knee pads and goat furry costume?
The people now blaming the oil companies and their greed have repeatedly told us they want to price energy so high that it will make the lucrative green energy rackets they peddle a viable solution despite the fact that shit doesn’t have a chance in hell to ever be able to meet energy requirements for anything but some third world economy.
‘Jamal Khashoggi’
Why do we give such a shit about this guy versus all the other people who get fucked over around the world. Why do we need to alienate an important supplier over him?
The fact anyone remembers him makes this all very fishy. China can fuck over the whole if Hong Kong and that’s no problem for the powers that be, but one asshole (and if they like him, no doubt he was one) gets offed and I’m supposed to torpedo our economy and foreign relations? I’ll pass.
China owns these people making hay about Khashoggi, so they can’t fuck with the CCP…
Queue Cena apology.
Certainly seems that way.
KSA is within the American sphere of influence but is very much not playing by the script. The goal of bringing up Khashoggi is to try to influence US/UK/EU “leaders” to apply pressure on the Saudis to be more “liberal” and “democratic”. Whereas, bringing up the writers and editors of dissident media in Hong Kong has basically zero chance of influencing the PRC, and if anything will likely make them become worse.
This sort of thing would never happen if the government owned the airlines
The federal government could take action against U.S. airlines on behalf of customers, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Saturday.
Many Americans have endured delays, cancelations, and other travel complications during the coronavirus pandemic, and in recent months, after many pandemic-related travel restrictions were lifted.
Following Buttigieg’s own flight being canceled, forcing him to drive from Washington to New York, he said his department has authority to enforce action against airlines that do not sufficiently maintain consumer-protection standards, potentially requiring them to hire more staff.
I hope he slapped the counter and yelled, “Don’t you know who I am?”
Of course there is no consideration of bringing back all the personnel fired for refusing the clot shots.
Fuck that little shit and his overblown ego. It’s people like him, along with suck-up CEOs that have kneecapped the airlines.
Get the hell out of the way and let it sort itself out.
Ignore Acela and Bolt Bus.
No shit. A train to NY leaves every hour from DC.
That’s hilarious. He shouldn’t have been taking a plane anyway, he didn’t want the excellent service the government is already providing, that is more green, etc?
How many of those delays were caused by government action?
Meh.
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LOL!
I’ll bet we’ve chased off a few feds here, too.
Now that’s how you fucking do it…
Awesome. Fucking Sal got busted stealing meme for his merch. Too bad because a lot of them are great.
LC1789 always gave me glowie vibes.
ouch
This sort of thing would never happen if the government owned all the oil companies
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Surveillance,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Heather Boushey responded to a question on whether the White House is considering price controls on energy by stating that “all options are on the table in terms of energy.” And that President Joe Biden is “willing to use all of his powers that he has available to him to take next steps.”
Co-host Jonathan Ferro asked, “You guys are taking this very seriously. The Washington Post is out with a story this morning on a range of issues, proposals that you’re putting forward at the moment. One of them is imposing price controls and banning exports of U.S. energy, and I’d just like to know first up, how seriously we should be taking that reporting this morning.”
Boushey responded, “Well, certainly, as the president made clear over the course of this week, all options are on the table in terms of energy. He sent a letter this week to oil refiners to say, hey, you all need to do your part. And that was part of showing just how important this issue of inflation and gas prices is to the president. He understands that this affects the pocketbooks of American families all over the country, and is doing what he can to make sure that the prices that people pay at the pump are fair, even given the fact that we are in the midst of this unprovoked war by Putin in Ukraine that has upended oil markets, leading to shorter supplies and increases in prices. But one of the things we also know is that refiners are — that there’s a gap now, a growing gap between how much they are paying for the oil that they bring in and how much they are charging at the other end. That gap used to be about 50 cents, it’s now over a dollar. And so, that is one of the things that the president is focused on is this week. And then, as he said in the letter to them, he is willing to use all of his powers that he has available to him to take next steps. But he wants to talk to them first, figure out what they can do together.”
Only the Ministry of Plenty knows how much petroleum products should cost.
The thing that kills me are the people that hear these asshats claiming the energy sector is evil for not pouring mountains of money into generating more oil & gas drilling when they know that the asshats have not changed the stance that they will destroy the fossil energy sector ASAP, and then say, “Yeah, those evil energy sector people not wanting to piss away their money is totes bad”…
Ration cards instead of prices! /not a very good slogan
the fact that we are in the midst of this unprovoked war by Putin in Ukraine
Fuck you, Douchey.
They just wanted to look at a tranny’s junk?
Member when we used to be able to determine what a duck was?
There should be a maximum amount of time you are allowed to fondle the tranny’s junk imposed to make it legitimate to look at their junk!
If it was a witch?
Looked at used car prices over the weekend. Holy shit, it’s worse than it was just a couple of months ago.
Used cars are selling above new car prices.
The thing that will make new cars more expensive to own is the interest rates for the loans these days…
Testing
Passed.
https://twitter.com/academish/status/1538577401378217985
You passed with a C-
Used cars are selling above new car prices.
Because you can actually drive away in one?
^^ the local Chevy dealer, usually with over a hundred cars on the lot, had less than 20 when I drove by the other day. Interestingly, the dodge dealer next door was full.
New cars have to be ordered. When we bought our Telluride last year, we ordered it in April for August purchase.
They told us they didn’t care if we actually purchased it when it came in or not, they could sell it same day if we declined.
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I am gonna call serious bullshit on this.
Which democrats are “secretly panicking, privately or otherwise”, at anything Biden for his messaging? The correct language is that they are panicking at how often, despite multiple attempts to get the idiot to say what they want him to, he finds ways to fuck the messaging shit they gave him to parrot to the dunces, up.
‘Democrats were frustrated “because he’s so slow in figuring these things out, not just tariffs but also student loans. He’s been sort of slow walking that,” she said.’
She could have just stopped at slow.
There’s a few reasons I can think of for slow-walking “forgiving” student loans:
1. It makes the accountants nervous which means more crossing of tees and dotting of eyes.
2. It’s more useful as bait to dangle in front of voters than as a fulfilled promise.
3. The people making the decisions don’t need it anymore and won’t benefit from it.
4. It’s essentially monetary policy by another name, which means crowding in on Treasury and The Fed’s territory.
#2 – just like all of the idiots I know that believed Obama would remove marijuana from the DEA Schedule after his re-election.
It isn’t just him. Karine tried to answer a question about the stock market the other day and it made Biden sound downright brilliant.
It’s a goddamn train wreck. Too bad we’re along for the ride.
I think their biggest problem is remembering the lies and bullshit each one of them has peddled so they can pretend to keep a coherent messaging in the age of video cell phones…
I’ve been telling people this lately. They were so desperate to get rid of Trump, they would have nominated a chimpanzee. So how are you enjoying your chimpanzee?
Obligatory.
“Fina, the group that governs swimming competitions worldwide, has minted new rules that exclude males who have experienced puberty from women’s competitions.”
Who knew that world swimming was run by Nazis?
Well, look how many years the commies were doping their female athletes.
Relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgZXL3tL1A
Hurtful.
Swimming is exactly where I’d expect to find white supremacists. 😉
Hardest hit
This rapid rise in the cost of a home is particularly impactful for the LGBTQ community, which is less likely to own a home. First-time homebuyers have to pay the higher prices without getting a boost from the value selling an existing property that they own.
According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, 50% of LGBTQ adults and 64% of LGBTQ couples own their own homes. For non-LGBTQ groups, those numbers are 70% and 75%.
Historical data on home ownership rates by sexuality were not tracked by the Census Bureau, but surveys from the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance suggests that home ownership for couples and singles in the community has been trending up since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. Zillow reported in 2021 that LGBT people accounted for 12% of homebuyers, up from 7% in 2019.
Some real estate firms have started initiatives to help this growing group with the homebuying process, such as the KW Rainbow Network from Keller Williams.
Ryan Weyandt, the CEO of the Alliance, said President Joe Biden’s executive order that offered broader protections against discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation has also boosted confidence for buyers. But, he added, the current home-ownership gap has put the community at a disadvantage.
“I do think it is an unfortunate reality that we are probably going to be disproportionately impacted by higher costs, if not prohibited from purchasing all together,” Weyandt said.
What happened to all that extra disposable income gay people are supposed to have? You know, the “no kids” dividend.
DINKs?
Exactly. And more urban where ownership is lower.
More urban and skew younger. Need some controls to see if there is a real difference or not.
The DINKs were the only ones who could afford property in the Bay area for years.
And why the fuck do we care about the rate of homeownership by sexual preference?
Equity. *Shudders*
The high cost of homes is about to correct itself. The high cost of borrowing lots of money is going to replace it.
The same place all that “violence against LGBTQ people” comes from: there is a vast gulf between a middle-aged white gay gentrifier and a tranny street-walker “of color” but it’s useful to conflate them together politically.
Believe Jussie!
SyStEmIc HoMoPhObIa!
What a steaming pile of horseshit.
Sir, I own horses and I can assure that does not come out of their asses. Nor does what come out of their asses stink nearly that bad.
Liberate the tits!
https://archive.ph/7CJAS
Mammary Monday.
A partial explanation for the COVID lockdowns in China has emerged.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bank-protest-stopped-by-health-codes-turning-red-depositors-say-2022-06-14/
The Chinese bank run has begun as their bubble is popping.
Somewhat relevant.
There’s not much they didn’t get wrong. In fact, their incompetence and maliciousness was almost universal.
“You’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training.”
Transcript of speech I gave to my balls while standing nekkid in my backyard:
My wife, Ayako, and I ….uh….diddin spend any of the past week in Uvalde.
In fact, I don’ even know or care where the fuck it is. The wife and I diddin share
any stories, tears or memories with the people living there. I suppose I…uh… I could have
done that and then told you about it so that I give y’all a verbal photo op while
pretending I wanted to keep it unknown to the public.
You know what else I diddin do? I didden meet no morticians or funeral directors
that had the grizzly job of prepping dead children. I may be just a small time boy at heart,
but I…uh… I do know that doing something like that cuz I had a political axe to
grind would be scummbaggery.
There were a whole bunch of vague terms and gibberish I avoided this week. “Real change”
“responsible” “viable” “honor the deaths by keeping the dreams of these children alive”
None of that shit. Only partisan hacks… uh… stand on the graves of kids to push for tyranny.
So, we stayed here in Tokyo.
I diddin’ drive in my pick up truck to Uvalde. In fact, even if I had, I wouldn’t fucking tell
you because it would obviously be… uh… a transparent attempt at making me sound
like one of y’all average guys.
Finally, certainly diddin’ ask the horse shit question to people “How can the loss of these
lives matter?” As if anyone is saying to themselves “Let’s make their lives matter less.”
So, I stayed …uh…away from Ubaldy. There’s death happening evry where and so I’m
juss gonna sit here talkin’ to my balls, instead.
You sound clean and articulate.
Drumbeat of hate and fear
Two incidents in which far-right extremists targeted LGBTQ events earlier this month marked what appeared to be a shift in focus for white supremacist activists.
A group of men with ties to the white nationalist Patriot Front was arrested outside a Pride event in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. The same day, alleged members of the far-right Proud Boys crashed a children’s drag queen storytelling event and shouted homophobic and transphobic slurs, in what Alameda, Calif., sheriffs are now investigating as a possible hate crime.
Earlier iterations of Patriot Front and the Proud Boys were among the neo-Nazi factions who sought to intimidate the Charlottesville, Va., community at the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
So, why would members of a white supremacist group — many of whom, in the case of the Idaho event, had traveled from other states — choose to target a local Pride event?
Extremism researchers say the far-right activists are seizing on an opportunity of heightened attention around cultures that they have always seen as a threat to their hateful interests. And the particular events the extremists chose to target that Saturday had in recent weeks drawn negative attention among the far-right online networks that fuel their hate activism.
I know you are, but what am I, hater?
If it isn’t abundantly clear already: if you have the right politics, you can “protest” in ways that are blatantly illegal, like riots and looting, shouting in front of judges’ private residences, firebombing anti-abortion pregnancy clinics, etc. Consequences will be minimal: police will be diverted away, arrests will often fail to result in prosecutions, bail will be set very low or waved entirely, prosecutions will strike plea deals where the government gains nothing from the “deal” but the charge and sentence is drastically reduced, etc. Whereas, if you don’t have the right politics, your mere presence is a “hate crime”, you will often be preemptively arrested and charged before even doing anything, the prosecutors will not go easy on you and the deals will require you to snitch, etc.
I am so tired of this. Over and over, the same play. Invent some “white supremacist” conspiracy where there is none, then widen the circle until it includes the entire Republican party.
After so many iterations, I am convinced that the goal here is to create white supremacists where none previously existed. The KKK was completely depleted as a political force by the end of the 1990s, the “Southern Strategy” had essentially eliminated Wallacites and segregationists from Southern politics, and lots of people sincerely felt that the racial divisions of the past were well on their way to being healed. Of course, Rodney King upset this balance a bit, and we saw that, increasingly, the focus on “systemic racism” did not die off accordingly, but shifted from the rural South to the urban North and West. Police forces were one of the few high-paying blue collar jobs left, and so naturally, become bastions of the otherwise gutted white working class, especially as law-and-order politicians stood to benefit from siccing them on high-crime areas. Now, as the police forces get cucked and culled in the name of DEI, the locus of the white working class moves elsewhere. However, the feeling of being left behind and vilified does not diminish, if anything it increases, and this is spurring a new form of reaction. The shtick here, though, is essentially to prod the people whom you hate and have treated poorly into lashing out, and then to turn them into Calvinist sinners who must have always been with the Devil, and then cast further aspersions against their fellows accordingly.
If you wanted to recreate the KKK, you could hardly do better than to manufacture material conditions which will lead to its resurgence. Of course, thanks to the very same demographic change that totally isn’t happening (but it’s a good thing that it is), the definition of “white” has been considerably watered down, and no small number of reactionary outbursts seem to be coming from people whom the original KKK would have considered mongrel mutts.
They need white supremacy far above the actual supply of white supremacy. Say’s Law for the win!
Yes, they essentially view anyone who can’t pass their ever-changing shibboleth tests as indistinguishable from Hitler, get annoyed that it’s taking so long for all these hidden Hitlers to identify themselves, and so wish to speed the process up.
Are antichildgroomer and white supremacist synonymous now cuz it looks like they’re trying to conflate the two?
Of course. Troglodytes hold all the wrong opinions.
Yes. They are both enemies, and enemies are all the same.
Hoffer (repeat ad infinitum):
Don’t know much about Hoffer, but he’s exactly right. And such a mass movement exists very extensively, and often without recognization as such, in the West today. The only fixed point of American/Western European morality from 1945 onward is:
evil=Holocaust=Nazism=fascism=right-wing=illiberal=unequal=segregation=slavery
A devil, but no God.
Oh, you really need to read The True Believer.
Seconded
I recommend reading it like one would read the Stoics. First as self-reflection, then as commentary on others.
I keep a list of quotes I like and have quite a few by Hoffer. Another one I like is:
“It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.”
OK, here’s my nutbagery showing:
Based on previous photos and that recent ludicrous one where all the malefactors posed on their knees with hands bound (but their faces still obscured!) I believe Patriot Front is purely a FedGov org.
Even if they’re not Feds, they were arrested for showing up to counter protest peacefully. WTF! This is the real story, that you can now get arrested for pre-crime. Listen, if they had been armed to the teeth, I might understand intercepting them. But last I checked, protesting and counter protesting are both Constitutionally protested free speech.
Meanwhile, is anyone looking into the mostly-peaceful no-abortion clinic firebombings?
Much tolerance…
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/06/19/ukraine-parliament-passes-new-laws-seeking-to-purge-russian-culture/
This is how you lose every inch of territory where Russian speaking people live.
The most disturbing application of Celebration Parallax yet witnessed: Azov isn’t ethnically cleansing Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and it’s good that they are.
Thing is, this is just a continuation of what was going on before the war started in earnest. I can find videos of Ukrainian nationalists openly talking to the media about the extermination of over a million Russians in couched terms.
https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/16/ukraine-tv-host-genocide-russians-nazi-adolf-eichmann/
There are others that predate the war.
Not all and whatnot but there are a surprising number of loud and proud straight up Nazis in the Ukraine and our media and the left here have embraced them. Strange fucking world.
The problem with calling them Nazis, despite it obviously being accurate, is that to an outside observer, it doesn’t look accurate. There is none of the traditional targeting. They’re not going after Jews, blacks, Arabs, homosexuals, or even communists. They’re targeting Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians. But as far as Western media is concerned, the latter don’t exist. So first it can’t be ethnic cleansing because it doesn’t fit the WW2 template, second it can’t be ethnic cleansing because no such ethnicity even exists, and third it can’t be ethnic cleansing because it they’re all invaders.
Reminds me of this quote from Apocalypse Now…
“We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn’t know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it… I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God… the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men… trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment! Because it’s judgment that defeats us.”
Yes – the Ukrainian Army was massed in the east and shelling the Donbas a week before Russia invaded. That is why most of their ground combat forces were there and are now trapped in the east.
I give it ten minutes before Nancy pushes the same bill here.
What might appear as disparate targets by white supremacists and other far-right extremists, hate group trackers say, are all part of one aim: dismantling democracy in order to establish a white ethnostate.
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“They see gay rights, immigration, interracial contact — and especially the birth of interracial children, feminism and several other social movements — as all being a problem because they believe that those things will undermine the white birthrate,” she said. “They see those as apocalyptic threats that are somewhat interchangeable in a larger project of protecting and preserving whiteness itself.”
We must expose them as subhuman, and excise them from society. They deserve no rights or respect.
Everything that goes against the narrative is white supremacy and can be dismissed. Convenient isn’t it?
They see those as apocalyptic threats that are somewhat interchangeable in a larger project of protecting and preserving whiteness itself
Completely missed (on purpose) by the government propagandist is how much of the white “supremacist” movement has been recruited in a reactionary way due to the leftists’ singular desire to stigmatize whiteness and straightness and Christianity and traditional lifestyles.
Yeah, there are the legit neo-Nazis, but they’re few and far between. A much larger group are people who have decided (stupidly, IMO) to play on the left’s identity politics playing field. They’re not supremacists any more than a black person celebrating Kwanzaa or a Hispanic person celebrating Cinco de mayo is a supremacist. “protecting and preserving whiteness” is only a bad thing to the left because of the last word. If it was “protecting and preserving blackness” or brokenness or whatever other racial designation, it would be heralded as a noble pursuit. I can’t blame people too much for aligning against that sort of blatantly hypocritical racism from the mainstream institutions. Granted, I think they fell into a clumsily laid trap when they frame everything around race. It’s not about race, it’s about tearing a civilization and culture apart that they believe gets in the way of their utopian authoritarianism.
Well, let’s be honest here – both the scum of the left (the larger group) and the scum of the right (much, much smaller) are playing right to my Hoffer quote above.
brownness*
Effing autocorrect
The force that held this fractious country together from the end of the Civil War until the fairly recent past, and survived for a while into the Civil Rights era even, is American civic nationalism. It venerated men of action, like Washington, Jefferson, Grant, and Lee, and cast their sins as forgivable blemishes rather than totally compromising failures. It heavily emphasized Americana and pride in the country’s founding ideals, but it also didn’t shy away from the fact that the country’s historical stock was predominantly white and Christian.
The gist of it was that we all, now not just white and not just Christian, get to sit in the shade of the trees that were planted by generations past. But there has long been a faction, now the culturally dominant faction, which resents the planters of the trees, and would rather chop them all down than to sit in their shade. Once they have succeeded well enough, it becomes very difficult to say we can still sit in the shade of trees that are now gone. The biggest challenge for anyone who sincerely wants to keep this country together, and who also doesn’t want to go the path of South Africa or Rhodesia (which, yes, came from very different circumstances, but are obviously “acceptable outcomes” for the left), is figure out whether American civic nationalism can even be salvaged anymore, or whether something else is going to have to replace it.
I’m officially in freakout mode
Wassamatter???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXgSHL7efKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrRJqCSeEQ&t=59s
And far-right influencers and publications have used their platforms heavily in recent weeks to agitate against LGBTQ culture, reported the hate group watch dog Southern Poverty Law Center.
In the days leading up to the incidents in Idaho and California, Libs of TikTok, a social media account that aggregates and ridicules LGBTQ causes, had repeatedly posted about both the Coeur D’Alene event and drag queen storytelling events, including the one in Alameda.
Oh, no! Not ridicule! Such devastating cruelty cannot be tolerated.
Ridicule is hatred! Only the most earnest of adoration is acceptable!
Ridicules, by re-posting progressives previous posts. OH THE HORROR!!!
Since you call me a Nazi, I adhere to the doctrine of Adolf Eichmann, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that you and your children never live on this earth. So that you can feel what it is like when innocent civilians die, so that you can feel all the pain and suffering.
When you say, ‘We didn’t start the war, it was Putin, we didn’t want this war’ – we didn’t want it either. But you have to understand that this is not about peace; it is about the victory of the Ukrainian people.
We need victory. And if we have to massacre all your families to do it, I’ll be one of the first to do it.
A peaceful bucolic democracy, just minding their own business until Putin pounced.
It’s an ubercorrupt shithole with a state sanctioned Nazi problem. The Nazi stuff isn’t the defining characteristic of the nation and is actually exaggerated for propaganda purposes by the Russians, understandably so, but it is an interesting phenomenon.
No, no, no – the entire world is a Manichean struggle, and we are on the side of the angels! You must BELIEVE!!!
Except those sort-of nazi militias were granted official recognition as part of the Ukrainian military. That’s when they became more than just BLM or the KKK with guns, Once the war started, in some areas they were put into the role of the Gestapo – shooting regular soldiers who tried to retreat rather than die gloriously under Russian guns.
rather than die gloriously under…
Which ironically enough is a very Russian view.
The Russians are Klingons?
In the Bolshevik ‘defense’ of Petrograd, Trotsky had machine gun squadrons behind the front line of Bolshevik forces in order to shoot anyone attempting to desert.
Russian Revolution: Good Thing, Bad Thing? has an amazing take-down of the horrors of the Bolshevik/Communist revolution and aftermath. Watch all three episodes.
Sorry, that goes to the middle of the first episode.
Completely missed (on purpose) by the government propagandist is how much of the white “supremacist” movement has been recruited in a reactionary way due to the leftists’ singular desire to stigmatize whiteness and straightness and Christianity and traditional lifestyles.
What was known in the distant past (2008 or so) as “Western Culture” has been rebranded as “White Supremacy” and must be reviled and eradicated by all goodthinkers.
Poor misunderstood Putin…
Must be sarcasm because I sure don’t see where anyone suggested that.
Poor misunderstood Azov Nazis…
Nobody flying cover for them here. Plenty of harumphing about how terrible Ukraine is (it is not a nice place)…their invaders, not so much.
To be sure, the invasion of Ukraine is a crime of the highest order and the entire Red Army officer corps including it’s Commander in Chief, should be executed…
Bee Tea Dubs, are you going to be in Butlerville at the next of next month? Trying to figure out which bottles to bring.
Must we recapitulate the narrative that one can get from every mainstream English-language source?
I’d love to see a solid explanation of Putin/Russia’s actions from an anti-Russian perspective that isn’t straight out of the State Department’s press releases. So far, the only one I’ve gotten (not here, obviously) is that Putin is actually the globalist, his Russian Empire is multiethnic and multiconfessional, and so the Azov Battalion is going to usher in the Ukro-Reich which is ethnically pure and staunchly Orthodox.
I don’t believe that narrative, nor do I find it appealing even if I did believe it (what’s wrong with multiethnic empires?), but it’s certainly not US DoS approved.
I hear the dnc hates him cause he played the Clintons with that whole Skolkovo project. If he had only let them steal tax payer money and had not then stolen that tech to make his and the CCP military more deadly to the globalist cabal’s vision of the future.
And before anyone accuses me of being a Putin stooge, I am rooting for all participants here to lose. Putin, Ukraine, the Clintons, the Bidens, the dnc, and any other scumbag involved in this idiocy.
What Fauci was imagining – and very few people picked up on it at the time – was the construction of a new social system. It was not just about this virus. It was about all pathogens and the whole functioning of society. He believed – or he decided to come to believe – that a re-engineering of the social order could successfully beat back common pathogens and bring about universal health.
Self-ownership is the real disease. When will people learn to accept the beneficent ministrations of their superiors in the expertocracy?
All them degrees (and all of those years climbing the bureaucarcy) gotta mean something, right?
The biggest problem with the credentialled bureaucracy is that its priesthood has lost the most important criteria for avoiding corruption, is their need to convince other people of their infallibility and to keep the veneer of legitimacy despite practically always getting shit wrong.
Razorfist on Canyon Diablo, AZ.
Interesting history.
I am without dispute operating from a position of low-information speculation, but it seems to me we pretty much double-dog-dared Putin to invade Ukraine in the beginning of this fiasco. Could he have been dissuaded? I am not qualified to say, but we’ll never know.
One opinion on the topic: https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/15/michael-brenner-american-dissent-on-ukraine-is-dying-in-darkness/
The continuing assertion is the the Biden administration pushed for an all-out assault on the Donbass by Ukraine with the intent of provoking a Russian military response.
Putin takes a lot of criticism at home for letting that mess fester as long as he did. They would have done this operation shortly after the 2014 coup when it would have been a lot easier.
Cheap laugh at David Brook’s expense:
https://twitter.com/TimJGraham/status/1535684655986397184
ZOMG!
These people are the dumbest fucks in society but believe they are smarter than everyone else (and especially those that didn’t go to college like them to study partying and activist journalism).
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