That new GoT show sucks, but then again I didn’t care much for the actual GoT show. Anyways…
Vladimir Putin makes Latin America an offer they cannot refuse. Seriously, whatever he has lying around is probably an upgrade from what the Juntas are currently fielding:
When only the best will do
First off, its better CNN run this a few weeks after everyone else rather than never. Now these tech companies are creating otras problemas.
In other news, Mexico’s journo kill count is now 15.
I like how NPR frames this as “their propaganda is working.”
Swole Bolsonaro
Apparently there is a tax on undeclared savings in Argentina for which their government can cut… as an incentive. Idiots. In other news Argentine workers held a funeral for workers wages even if the Argentine Peso died half a century ago.
This story confirms my biases for the following: Socialists, Venezuelans, Florida Congressmen, and members of the local yacht club.
Brazil eliminates a tariff on whey protein, and common body building substances. Bolsonaro in light of the news put up this photo on Twatter.
Its been a while since I listened to Disturbed. In case that’s also true for you…here you go.
Could we kill more journalists here?
Wait… we still have journalists? I thought they were all opinion columnists now.
Influencers.
They’ve pretty much all committed suicide.
We do. By criticizing them. Criticism is just as dangerous to journalists as violence. Our journalist are so brave and noble.
It seems Putin is ready to shit in our backyard.
I think State deserves some credit for this development.
Not like he has anything to lose regarding US relations. Don’t know how much equipment he can spare from Ukraine (if there’s even an issue there… I don’t trust any of the reporting from either side) — but if he has some to spare, no reason not to get hard cash for it.
And yes — that it is a pretty clear tit for tat with the US is a bonus.
Russia has expended or lost quite a bit of heavy weaponry in Ukraine. I don’t doubt Russia can fill orders for some discrete items. I’m very skeptical they can provide a full range of weaponry.
Considering how poorly Russian vs NATO weapons are working out, he might find sales a bit…disappointing.
Do they need to worry about buying to take on NATO-bloc countries, or just each other? I’m assuming a scenario more like the South American dreadnought race here….
And let’s remember domestic users. A tin pot dictator with a shitty fleet of APCs is still in good shape vis a vis an unarmored populace.
If there’s anything early ’80s TV taught me — that only holds until a rogue band of special forces mercenaries with hearts of gold roll in and get to welding in a nearby shack….
Or bring in their CIA death-chopper.
See! That’s getting armored!
This is a good point.
Do we have anything left to sell between what we left in Afghanistan and what we gave to the Ukrainians to sell on the black market?
U.S. to announce a $3 billion arms package for Ukraine tomorrow, the single largest yet.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1562120889658970113
This won’t ever end. The worst thing Putin could do to us is slow-walk this war.
Well yes and no.
Fifty percent may actually be used in anger the other sold to the highest bidder. But that is still a lot of ordnance killing Russians.
And the cash goes to defense companies so it’s just more inflationary pressure as the money printer continues. But realistically the cash is staying here. We only send pallets of cash to Iran.
CBS said 30% before they caved and pulled the story.
I’d guess 1/3 is kick-backs to our “leaders”. 1/3 gets sold by the Ukrainians and 1/3 makes it to the front – where it’s quickly destroyed.
This is the same group that insists on popularizing Latinx, a term which actual Hispanics hate.
“They believe something other than the Party dogma — must be misinformation and lies!”
Because I just love quoting ST:TWoK… “I’ll say this for him… he’s consistent.”
Star Trek; The Winds of Kek?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynfu6hSqViI
“Immigrant advocates say the word has a long history in white nationalist circles, and warn that such extreme rhetoric could provoke more violence against immigrants.”
Nazis everywhere.
“Republicans who get their news from Fox News and conservative media were more likely to believe false or misleading narratives, Newall says, and were also more likely to believe that these claims were “completely true.”
LOL
could provoke more violence against immigrants
Like calling on the National Guard as per Mayor Bowser?
She is the black face of white supremacy.
When only the best will do
MiG-21s are garbage.
“Many of them are years, or maybe decades ahead of their foreign counterparts, and in terms of tactical and technical characteristics they are significantly superior to them,” Putin said.
Sure…
Be sure to throw in an extra long table with each purchase.
Mig-21s are garbage.
Ah, but they work for Brannigan’s Gambit.
But my rage is boundless and terrifyingly imprecise?
Maybe it’s just me, but…
Kiely’s family released a statement Monday expressing how “eternally grateful” they were for the love and support of the last few weeks.
“We have weathered a storm of unfathomable force, and it is purely thanks to the army of warriors, matriarchs, healers, and helpers holding us up that we continue to stand today,” the statement read. “While we accept this sadness cast under death’s shadow, the rising sun shines light upon us, reminding us not to mourn our loss, but to celebrate Kiely’s spirit and the gift that we all received in knowing her. Kiely will surely remain with us even though we will not get her back.”
And “just like that” my empathy fades away to nothing.
Apparently the Placer County rescue teams also play a lot of D&D on the side?
Ha! What a larp.
That’s how he rolls!
A similar case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db2LrZaX2ew
we still have journalists? I thought they were all opinion columnists now.
Steno pool for the DNC.
Its been a while since I listened to Disturbed.
They can be a bit unsettling.
It is a good album — but this is still much more often my mental theme music.
Disturbed “Down With The Sickness” REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Opera Singer
A
betterdifferent version.Agreed, much better version
That should be Institutionalized!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV-Nyhw_Qs
“Putin added that “almost all” of the weapons he is willing to sell across the globe have been used more than once in combat”
Um, That might not be a selling point. Will you need your own tractor to acquire the equipment?
Kursk type submarines available… you break it, you buy it… must be picked up by buyer.
These things lose 30% of their resale value the second they roll off the manufacturer’s lot. May as well buy them used.
This means the weapons system has been tested in the field in a war scenario, not that the specific unit you’re buying has been used before.
The next thing.
In India, a large number of children have been diagnosed with a newly discovered infectious disease, and even professionals are uncertain as to where the outbreak may have originated.
According to a report published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal, “tomato flu” was first discovered on May 6 in India and has since infected more children ages 1 to 9.
“Just as we are dealing with the probable emergence of fourth wave of COVID-19, a new virus known as tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in India in the state of Kerala in children younger than 5 years,” the Lancet Journal wrote on its website.
Tomato flu was first discovered on May 6, 2022, in the Kollam district of Kerala, and as of July 26, 2022, more than 82 cases in children younger than 5 years old have been reported by local government hospitals.
That name is racist against tomatoes!
/Bob the tomato
Bob the Tomato has a sad
OFFS.
There is so much swirling around in India it’s a wonder that more of it hasn’t escaped.
even professionals are uncertain as to where the outbreak may have originated
I’d start by finding out if any labs in India are getting CDC funding.
Argentina – where inflation is expected to hit 90% by the end of this year.
Nice. I bet the answer will be more spending, borrowing, and taxes. It will work out great.
Republicans were also more likely to endorse rhetoric that echoes the so-called “replacement theory” — the false conspiracy theory that Jews or elites are deliberately replacing white Americans with immigrants and people of color.
Totally debunked. A complete fabrication. Paranoid fantasy, and nothing more.
You really believe in replacement theory?
Maybe one of the many Democrats who have cheered it on can explain it to us.
I guess these are the new “climate deniers”.
After her primary defeat, GOP Rep. Liz Cheney tells @jonkarl that she will focus on working to keep election deniers out of office.
“I’m going to work against those people, I’m going to work to support their opponents. I think it matters that much.”
Have at it Liz — you can start with Stacey Abrams, President of Earth.
Oh…. not *those* election deniers, huh?
And continue with Hillary Clinton circa 2016.
And what about those who think Trump is going to try to steal the 2024 election? Of course that would be impossible because our election system is completely secure.
“Biden could announce student loan forgiveness TOMORROW: President is ‘leaning towards wiping $10,000 from Americans making less than $125,000’ – as new model suggests plan could cost up to $980 billion over 10 years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11138005/Biden-leaning-wiping-10-000-student-loans-Americans-making-125-000.html
CWAA
And in a just and sane world he’d be immediately impeached for appropriating Congress’s power of the purse.
^this
What the actual f?
100%
But Trump was authoritarian.
I read somewhere that they might not even check who’s qualified for it, cuz it might be oppressive or something.
🙄
Is it taxable income? If yes, then way more people will qualify.
COD is taxable income…for now.
No. I was asking which line on the tax return one should compare to $125k.
Whoops.
A new analysis released Tuesday from the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that forgiving student loan debt for this income demographic could cost between $300 and $980 billion over 10 years.
Very precise.
“Global Warming could cause sea levels to rise between 1 cm and 50 ft over 10 years”
– Penn Wharton Climate Model
Precise enough for government work.
Well, I guess we know why he needed all those IRS agents. Not only are you screwed if you incurred no debt or paid yours off, but you’ll get audited to make sure you’re paying your fair share.
I can’t wait to see the look on the lucky recipients’ faces when they get a 1099 for the canceled debt.
https://money.usnews.com/loans/articles/how-to-prepare-for-taxes-on-forgiven-debts#:~:text=If%20a%20creditor%20discharged%20a,when%20filing%20your%20tax%20return.
https://taxfoundation.org/student-loan-debt-forgiveness/
Exempted through 2025 by last years legislation.
Credit to another glib for point that out recently.
Oh that most definitely will never be a political football
For Total and permanent disability.
Fuck me.
Cool – another transfer from the poor to the rich. Anybody still not getting who the real base of the Dem party is?
^^THIS.
(Also true for the supporters of the Liberals in Canada.)
I already paid back my loans. Where’s my money, Joe?
https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/john-mcafee-faked-his-death-ex-girlfriend-claims-in-netflix-doc/
I’d like to believe.
Boss.
Apparently one thing about the mistress — she’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When she comes at you she doesn’t seem to be livin’… until she bites you, and those black eyes roll over white.
Iowahawk weighs in.
He has mastered the art of Twitter. Quip and go back to old car pics
His weekend car ID service is a don’t-miss for me.
Sound, fair fiscal policy is what this administration is about.
The White House is expected to announce a plan to cancel a chunk of student loan debt on Wednesday, in addition to an extension of the existing payment pause, three sources with knowledge of the situation told The Hill.
Sources said President Biden’s intended measure will include $10,000 in loan forgiveness for borrowers who make less than $125,000 annually, as well as another payment freeze for roughly four months.
The $10,000 figure would be the largest forgiveness of federal student loans per individual to date.
“…. and if it succeed, why then none dare call it treason^w bribery….”
Right up there with the GA senate runoff of 2020 — “vote for us and we’ll give you a BIGGER check straight from the Treasury”. (See also: only survive until the public determine they can vote themselves money from the public treasury… sigh…)
He’s not forgiving anything. He’s writing a big check to the banks that made the loans.
^^^ THIS. Bailouts worked a treat in 2008, no reason not to do it again. It’s settled law.
Effectively giving people money will reduce inflation.
FAIR SHARE!
FAIR SHARE!
FAIR SHARE!
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/poll-most-in-us-say-they-want-stricter-gun-laws/
More lies and gaslighting.
Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
Fuck off, slavers.
Well, the part about gun violence trending upward is true.
Stay strapped!
Yes, it is – because Democrats are deliberately pursuing a policy of increased gun violence.
Really believe that, pols? Then fire up the amendment process and let us find out. Until then, “shall not be infringed” seems perfectly clear to me even if the lawyers can lie about contorting it.
Push poll is pushed.
Gorram it… looks like the government found their 12 idiots.
The URL says “charges,” and the article text uses charge and convict interchangeably.
JUST IN – Twitter stock falls over 5% amid whistleblower allegations.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1562151005831286784
They really thought they were going to kick Elon’s ass in court?
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/paul-pelosi-dui-00053335
Paul Pelosi gets 5 days in jail, 3 years of probation in DUI $7000.00 in fines
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/paul-pelosi-dui-00053335
A story so nice, you link it twice! 😉
And apropos of nothing — but solely because I think it every time I see your handle.
“Putin says he’s ‘ready to offer’ allies, including in Latin America, the ‘most modern’ military weaponry”
They will have to pay for shipping from Afghanistan.
Needs moar David Suchet.
Queue the outrage in 3 2 1…
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/sanas-startup-creates-american-voice-17382771.php
“Silencing BIPOC voices! Literally erasing brown bodies! REEEEEEEEEE!”
And accent be damned, unless it revises language idioms, people will still be able to tell and do the needful. If they replace it with a full text-to-speech / automated response based on the script… then why have the organics in the loop in the first place?
Only necessary because Americans are uniquely racist.
“unmistakably white”
OFFS. Who are the racists again?
I did not know this bit of trivia. I knew NYC proudly shouted it, but didn’t know it was on the consent form. Brilliant.
https://apnews.com/article/religion-venezuela-new-york-caribbean-city-97d01964ca0d0211bb1c45fe3b789f7f
I see “asylum” is another word that no longer has any meaning.
They literally explain in the first two paragraphs that they are economic migrants, then proceed to call them “asylum seekers”.
Never change, AP.
Swole Bolsonaro looks like Swole Pat Sajak.
Thanks for the lynx, Señor!
I loved looking at the MiGs at Oshkosh. They looked incredibly primitive, but still fucking cool!
Primitive, yes. So’s the comrades can make ’em in their backyards from a makeshift forge, and fuel ’em up with potato vodka distilled in their crawlspaces.
I saw a ton of stuff at the Nellis AFB museum. All sorts of cool stuff there meant for Red Flag.
“A Belated Vindication for School Reopeners
The Stolen Year acknowledges the public schools’ COVID failures but refuses to hold anyone responsible…
When Kamenetz doles out blame, it is reserved for Donald Trump, for America, for stingy wrong-thinking legislators, for underfunding, for systemic racism.”
https://reason.com/2022/08/23/a-belated-vindication-for-school-reopeners/
TW:TOS but worth reading
Sounds like NPR broke her brain. She sees the problem but is incapable of seeing the source of it.
FUUUUUUCK YOU!
More like fuck us… coming AND going.
It will continue for a while. Ukraine is a populous country…
You really believe in replacement theory?
I find it fascinating to hear the very same people who for decades have been saying “Demographics is destiny” as shorthand for “We will bury you” so desperately pooh-pooh-ing the notion.
Now, we can get into a sophistic quibble about whether “replacement theory” only pertains to “immigrants” newly arrived via transport directly provided by the DNC, but you’ll have to do it on your own.
I am not anti-immigrant, but the situation as it currently exists is completely untenable. And branding anyone who says so as a racist gets us nowhere.
It’s a nice little propaganda trick. Find the most crackpot reason to oppose something, and then claim that’s the ONLY reason why anyone would oppose it.
I’m not those people and I never thought you were racist. That’s why I asked. I agree with you the situation is untenable.
I still don’t know why you invoked replacement theory. It’s the pet theory of bigots.
“NYT now promoting the nutty idea that children should wear masks in crowded spaces as a precaution against *monkeypox.*”
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1561348558657306626
TMITE
It makes sense when you consider that kids are short. It’s kind of like how it must suck to be a midget in a crowded elevator.
How about this, show some personal responsibility and refrain from your fuckfests for five minutes so you don’t bring the shit home.
It will work this time for sure.
Jesse lightens the mood.
Troll game is solid.
We may need a bracket to figure this out.
“I was being nice, don’t know what your problem is”
Perfect way to handle it.
“This is what they’re doing to kids”
https://twitter.com/Kicksbuttson/status/1561894016278560772
WTF?? Also, don’t click on that.
I was just about to post that.
The poor girl (clearly a cutter) who had her breasts removed is gonna be homicidal some day.
Solving self-abuse with more abuse
Click on that.
Everybody needs to see what they’re doing
It is way too easy to create fakes these days and gin up outrage. I think I believe one of those pics is real, the one about the moron who is attempting to supply drugs. There’s no context for the other pics. It’s impossible to say what they are and stuff like that can be repurposed very easily to fit a narrative. Some of them could very easily be fake or showing pictures of something else entirely, and then someone else created context around them to confirm biases.
There’s plenty to be outraged about but this is just clickbait stuff.
I’m not sure these photos are real, but if you look into standard genital “affirmation” surgery, it’s horrifying inhuman stuff.
The seas will boil
Maintaining the status quo for greenhouse gas emissions could risk the extinction of up to 90 percent of marine species, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Researchers, led by ecologist Daniel Boyce of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, looked at some 25,000 species, including animals, plants, protozoans and bacteria. Under a high-emission scenario, they determined that nearly 90 percent of those species will be at high-to-critical risk across 85 percent of their distribution. This scenario involves an increase of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius in global ocean temperatures by the end of the century.
About 10 percent of the ocean overall features ecosystems that are considered high-risk based on a combination of endemism, climate risk and the threat of local species’ extinction, according to the study.
In addition to the threat this poses to biodiversity around the planet, the results of the study present a major threat to people in the global south, with the biggest danger to species native to low-income countries that rely heavily on fisheries in the tropics and subtropics, according to Boyce and his colleagues.
Mmmmm, cioppino….
Wake me when the Great Barrier Reef dies off like they said it would years ago.
Wake me when even the people who originally created the “high-emission” scenario start to claim that it’s anywhere near the most-likely scenario to actually occur.
The fucking doomsters are like 0-42 in their apocalypse predictions in the last 40 years.
I wonder what it would take for them to give it a rest?
A dirt nap
They won’t give it a rest until the public holds them accountable and refuses to go along with their policies and studies.
So, never.
Mother Nature laughs at us. She can make the seas boil all she wants and there ain’t a goddamn thing we can do about it.
“the journal Nature Climate Change”
Misinformation is lethal
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is reviewing safety and security measures in response to an “abundance” of threats and misinformation on social media about the agency and its employees, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in a staff memo released on Tuesday.
Rettig said the steps include new risk assessments, monitoring perimeter security at facilities, designating restricted areas and reassessing exterior lighting and entrance security. The actions follow “an abundance of misinformation and false social media postings, some of them with threats directed at the IRS and its employees,” he said.
I’d be interested n a breakdown of credible specific threats of violence vs random internet monkey-howling.
“We need to turn the IRS into another enforcement arm of the DNC in order to combat the misinformation from white-supremacists that the IRS is turning into another enforcement arm of the DNC.”
/Obama 2012
No one really likes the IRS. It’s the Hilary Clinton of three-letter agencies.
I like the idea of the fuckers having to endure supermax style security going in and out of their workplaces.
I hope it makes every day a grind and drives them toward suicidal ideation.
Glibfit.
Raping harbor seals to death requires agility, determination, and cardio. Practice hard to play hard.
The music makes it good.
Evening plan: sit on patio, watch BigJetTV, gradually become impaired, watch sunset, bed.
In sports news that star fuckers won’t mention:
Maccabi Haifa become first Israeli team in seven years to qualify for Champions League
It’s obviously the result of Jewish tricknology:
The game was tied when Red Star striker Milan Pavkov turned the ball past his own goalkeeper in the 90th minute, giving Haifa the 5-4 aggregate win.
What a brutal way to lose.
Alternatively, have a penalty kick.
wut
“Russia sincerely cherishes the historical strong, friendly, truly trusting ties with the states of Latin America, Asia, and Africa and is ready to offer its partners and allies the most modern types of weapons,” Putin said at the opening of the Army-2022 International Military and Technical Forum outside of Moscow. “From small arms to armored vehicles and artillery, combat aircrafts and unmanned aerial vehicles.”
What could possibly go wrong?
“The Federal Government has zeroed import taxes on food supplements, such as Whey Protein, creatine, BCAAs and multivitamins, and various sports nutrition items, in addition to reducing taxes on various other items from 11.2 to 4%, such as dairy proteins and Albumin,” he wrote on his official Twitter account.
Good. Taxation is theft.
I kind of like Putin or at least don’t hate him. Maybe he’ll give me a Mig-21 if I ask nicely enough.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hj16LFERsI4
Looks like Woody’s been into the Ripple again. I wonder if that stuff was really a thing back then, I’d love to find an old bottle of it somewhere.
Looks like it, or at least it’s successor was
Once again Gallo led the way, with a product called Ripple, the wine so beloved by Fred Sanford. In 1961, Gallo introduced Boone’s Farm, which eventually replaced Ripple and became, for a time, the best-selling wine in the U.S.
From this article
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2022/08/nj-will-assess-its-response-to-covid-murphy-says-but-sets-no-timeframe-for-review.html
No one will be held accountable for anything.
What this requires is an impartial and open review. I’m sure they’ll get right on it.
We joke. But it MUST be done. We have to INSIST. Fight of fit even. Don’t let the bastards and bitches get away with this.
Just today yet another tard epdinediplogist at the Univ. of British Columbia was saying measures must come back and double masks if need be.
And this point, seriously, either investigate these criminals or just fucking bash them at the knees. Three years of this pseudoscientific bull shit. Effing quack psychopaths run our institutions.