Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another amazing day!
President Trump announces FBI has RAIDED Mar-a-Lago!!!!11!
FBI raid on Trump compound stands in stark contrast to Clinton treatment years earlier
Biden Admin Sued For Not Releasing Docs Declassified By Trump On Russia Collusion Investigation
Flashback article from last May, is this an act of desperation?
Trump-endorsed candidate Joe Kent overtakes Rep. Jamie Herrera-Buetler in Washington state primary, if it holds, the 7th (of 10) Republicans who voted to impeach Trump will be ousted.
Gas prices to rise back to $4.35 a gallon, Goldman Sachs forecasts
The media begins to notice that we’re running out of cops
Rent Control Backfiring Against California Renters
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“President Trump announces FBI has RAIDED Mar-a-Lago!!!!11!”
But the U.S. doesn’t even grow bananas.
“”After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” he said.”
Unannounced? Did they forget he’s white?
“Did they forget he’s white?”
Orange is the new black.
I just hope they brought their best rods and lures, might as well go for the best you can when you get together an obvious fishing expedition.
I expect all the boxes to promptly be sent over to Cheney and Friends (well, political acquaintances… well, people who are using her ruthlessly and will ditch her withered corpse after they suck every last useful political moment out of her…).
“”Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House.”
Including the W’s from the typewriters?
They should be grown in east Atlanta.
ATLANTA WILL BE INTERESTING FOR THE STUTTGART!! (all caps)
It was kind of hinted at in the song (“need to bring in heat”) but bananas require 14 months of frost-free growth to develop fruit, so even southern Florida probably can’t promise that reliably enough for commercial production.
Hotter than demi Lovato’s spoon even.
It’s occasionally frustrating not getting a pop culture reference but I prefer to not sully my few remaining brain cells with information about celebrities.
She OD’d on some drug that turned her trans.
I guess I should have read the comments before commenting.
“The FBI has said that there was no evidence that the events of that day had been pre-planned”
“You know, besides by us and other federal agencies.”
Marc Elias clearly tells you their goal here….
The machine is desperately fighting to prevent anyone from being able to force the criminal activity into the light.
“None of the events were planned, we just conduct random instrusive searchs on a lark”
Doesn’t look good that way either.
Not even in East Atlanta?
We are living in a fucking banana republic. This makes the whole Watergate debacle look as a joke. The Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens break the law, and the system makes excuses for them – even going so far as to claim there is no crime through lies as the truth says otherwise – but the machine goes at their enemies with made-up shit to protect the machine and the crime syndicate now running our country.
And this can’t be solved playing by the rules, because the criminals in charge are not only not held to the rules, but protected, no matter the crime, by the very people that are supposed to enforce the rules. If you doubt people willing to do this wouldn’t rig an election, the J6 shit show and this criminal action (all intended to disqualify Trump because they fear the American voter and would have to blatantly steal another election to keep him out), then you are missing the point. They told us they saw Trump as an existential enemy. People that feel that way will do anything to get rid of the threat. And they did in 2020. Blatantly, and overnight. it was so bad that they then needed to follow it up with censorship of anyone daring to question what happened, because they knew any attempt to look into the plethora of problems, would leave no doubt that they stole an election to protect their crime syndicate.
I like Pete Quinones quote; “we’re a banana republic with air conditioning”
A/C for now…
What about in East Atlanta?.
What did Trump’s Secret Service detail do? Hold the door for the FBI agents? Mysteriously all wander off at the right moment, like a mob hit?
Would they be around much? (Maybe a place holder) — he was in Trump Tower in NYC. And I have to assume the Feebs pulled out a search warrant (no surprise they could find a DC judge to sign off on a little deep sea fishing, after all) – so even if there were SS agents there, can’t expect they would do anything else.
Trump (and his protection) were in NY at the time according to reports. I have no doubt that was part of why it was done when it was done.
Even if they were there, the correct response would have been to not interfere with the FBI searching Trump’s possessions provided that the FBI had a search warrant.
They almost certainly timed this for when he wasn’t at MAR to avoid the possibility of things turning messy. Because, absent an arrest warrant, SS still has a duty to protect their protectee.
Heard a story once about a conflict at a govt facility between DOE Security and FBI. The DOE demanded that FBI hand over their firearms while in the facility and the FBI balked. Turns out those DOE agents hold a trump card when it comes to nuclear facilities and the FBI had to comply. I would think in terms of presidential security, SS has the same.
I would think in terms of presidential security, SS …
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holds a trump card
The humbling can be delicious.
You can keep your firearms or enter our facility. Your choice. We are authorized to use deadly force to secure this facility.
I recall working TSCIF security and telling people that I didn’t care what their rank was if they weren’t on the access roster.
Final* chess olympiad update:
US tied India 1. Uzbekistan, Armenia, India 2, and Moldova won their final matches.
Final standings, after tiebreakers applied:
1. Uzbekistan 19 pts
2. Armenia 19 pts
3. India 2 18 pts
4. India 1 17 pts
5. USA 17 pts
6. Moldova 17 pts
Moldova is mentioned because that was a huge upset to finish that high. They were ranked in the 50s. They only have 1 Grandmaster on their team, the other 4 are International Masters (the 2nd highest category). I am pretty sure their #5 player earned a GM norm in this tournament, so he is closer to being a GM if not one now. He had 5 wins and 3 draws in 9 matches. He played 6 GMs and 2 IMs. He may not have the rating level still to be a GM, but his rating shot way up.
The #1 player on India 2, which was loaded with young up-and-coming talent, won his first 8 matches and is now ranked in the top 20 in the world. India got multiple teams as host nation. He won’t have to worry about that in the future.
US was pre-tourney #1 seed, India was #2. So both disappointed a little. Norway was #3 and finished 59th. Having the best player in the history of the universe only gets you so far in a team competition.
Moldovans were clearly doping!
“It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning.”
Got anything about the mossy cave of Aphrodite?
David Lynch successfully added to Dune canon.
“ Having the best player in the history of the universe”
Sounds like something Hype would say.
The argument is between Carlsen and Kasparov. Carlsen is the first world champ to grow up in the “can train with computers” era. He plays moves that no one else ever would have played, so I think he trumps Kasparov.
Plus he plays drunk, in a hot tub, on his phone. I don’t think Kasparov is quite that level.
Your geocentricism will be your downfall.
Produce the space alien that plays chess.
Any more advanced species would have solved chess and thus stopped playing.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
It is like the Collatz Conjecture.
It is almost assuredly true, but proving it is freaking hard to impossible.
Or they’d be so advanced that they could figure it out at a glance regardless whether or not they play it.
The sun clearly revolves around the Earth. I dont know what Copernicus, Newton, and Kepler were smoking.
“It all depends on your flame of reference.”
I really hope that wasn’t a typo.
It was an invitation to further punning.
He was making a lacist joke.
He was making a lacist joke.
No supplies there.
I mean, if you think Kasparov never played drunk, I don’t know what to tell you. I agree that Magnus is probably the GOAT, though.
Bobby Fisher played whilst barking mad though.
He wasn’t even the first American to do that.
Do Russians get drunk?
Do Russians get Sober?
‘Having the best player in the history of the universe’
I’ve heard a bit about him, is he really that good?
Oh yeah.
By rating, yes.
Some say there is rating inflation, so that maybe Kasparov or Fisher or somebody would have been higher rated in their day. But chess knowledge builds, and he is standing on the shoulders or giants, as he has all of their games to work forward from. Plus computer training, that they didn’t have. He can train with computers that destroy him. Analysis says he is the player most likely to make the computer move.
And he is an endgame genius. He can grind out wins from drawn positions and draws from lost positions. You cannot make an endgame error vs him or he will pounce.
I wasn’t joking about the stuff above. He will play online tourneys on his phone while sitting in his hot tub. Or drunkenly destroy GMs online.
Also he and Hikaru Nakamura, unplanned, pissed off the overly serious chess community in a major tournament last year or the year before.
They were playing in the final round of the qualifying session, top 8 made playoffs. Carlsen had already clinched #1 spot, Nakamura had clinched #8. They were going to play in first round of playoffs, so neither was going to show anything serious in their match.
Match went 1. e4 e5. Normal.
Then on move 2, Carlsen played Ke2, which is the “bong cloud” opening made famous by Nakamura. Nakamura would play it as a joke online. It is an objectively bad opening. Nakamura laughed and played Ke7. The double bong cloud. Carlsen retreated with Ke1. Nakamura retreated with Ke8. They repeated those moves 2 more times and had a draw.
That’s funny. I guess you’d only do that if you were high…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVCst6vyV80
Carlsen is autism done right.
I’m sure he trained with computers at some point but my understanding is that he hates playing against computers and won’t do it.
There is no point to playing against them. The best have ratings estimates of about 3200, that is 300-400 pts greater than him, he can’t remotely hang with them.
Not only that but he’s said that playing a computer only makes you worse at chess. Computers don’t play like people so optimizing strategy against a computer leaves you vulnerable to natural moves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1BAcOzHyY
His brain is different.
Jfc. Fuck me. He literally has no other thoughts or memories. He reads no other books. He is the platonic ideal chess master
Eh, he’s no Capabanca.
Jesus, CapabLanca. Damn lacist L.
From Philadelphia to Portland to Los Angeles, killings and gun violence are rising
“From”?
Mostly peaceful disputes?
Well, since we broke the seal on going after former Presidents, the dirt DeSantis digs up on the multigenerational Biden extortion racket should be illuminating.
Or let’s say Trump wins in 2024 (strange but not impossible). He would definitely have cause to dig up dirt on Biden. Too bad the alphabet agencies would resist and stonewall at every turn. Maybe Trump will be vengeful enough to go to war with them.
I do think this move is essentially an admission that they are afraid Trump can win in 2024.
I do think this move is essentially an admission that they are afraid Trump can win in 2024.
I don’t. It’s an ongoing debate here whether the government is lashing out in weakened fear because they know they are losing like a cornered rat or, alternatively, are secure in their ascendency over us plebes and are now gleefully moving to next stage of punishing their enemies. I’m in the latter camp.
There’s no reason to fear Trump winning in 2024. The election was rigged in 2020 and it can easily be done again. Many of us watched the ballot count somehow decrease for Trump in VA in realtime on live TV. That’s beyond banana republic brazen, far more than this Mar Lago raid, and the nation yawned. They’ll just do the same if needed with DeSantis presidency. If DeSantis wins, it’s only because he was allowed to and won’t rock the system.
If DeSantis wins, it’s only because he was allowed to and won’t rock the system.
Allowed by WHOM exactly?
The gatekeepers… The very ones that are destroying the republic because they fear that orange guy you so dislike from coming back and wrecking their plans like he did the last time.
Are you the Key Master?
C’mon name some names and stop with the hand-waving about shadowy figures.
They’re not shadowy, they’re working in broad daylight, we just don’t have the thousands of names.
Well let me help you, Trump named the GA Secretary of State and Governor, both Republicans.
Allowed by those who control the voting process, especially the vote counters. Those vote counters and equipment doesn’t spontaneously organize itself on voting days, right? There has to be some sort of control over the voting process. We got a a glimpse of that control with that whole emergency zoom session on election night to “fortify the election”. Following that meeting, counting was paused in key states. Then those who counted the votes followed their orders.
The whole thing was done in the open. We’ve been over the different methods in detail and ad nauseum as it was happening. I won’t recap here other than there being multiple videos of paper ballots being electronically counted for Biden that weren’t marked for Biden. Other places ran whole stacks of votes for Biden through the counting machine, retrieved them, and ran the stacks through again up to five times. And of course watching the vote count for Trump going down in VA on live tv. Other Glibs saw that as well and I still haven’t heard any hint of explanation for how the ballot count could decease that wasn’t fraud. Well, other than “who you are going to believe, me or your lying eyes”.
I see, so what you see on TV is reality? Chauncey Gardner, is that you?
50 fucking states run vote counting, and every one is part of a corrupt bargain?
Zuck’s big lie now is that the money was spread all around, when in fact it was highly targeted. The money went where it would have the most impact and potentially cost Trump the win. I also have no trouble believing a LOT of people really did vote against Trump. The problem I’ve always had with this was that the fraud only delivered a Biden win, not a Democratic wave. OK, that’s possible, but why bother with just that? Particularly if you have an all powerful conspiracy to overthrow the true electoral system?
That’s completely unnecessary. Not only do you not need 50 states, you don’t need fifty cities. And there doesn’t need to be a corrupt bargain between them if they go into the job with a common goal. Spontaneous order is real.
He’s not claiming spontaneous order – I’d be better with that by a long ways.
I see, so what you see on TV is reality? Chauncey Gardner, is that you?
Yes, to directly answer your question, I would expect the official vote counts being displayed across every major tv network to reflect reality.
I have no idea why anyone would think it’s okay for the official vote count being shown to the voting populace to not reflect the actual vote count. This mismatch between presentation and reality is one of the fundamental aspects of those banana republics that even bother with the charade of voting.
They’re weak.
Strong people don’t behave this way.
The problem they have is that most of the country hates the elements of the Fed gov that they have interactions with. Even my progressive wife sounds like an anarchocapitalist when she talks about regulation of the insurance industry.
The genius of the founders was in creating a set of institutions where if their officers did their jobs adequately with the properties that ensured that if a critical mass of people felt they were being oppressed, they could alter the course of the institutions to a less oppressive direction without having to destroy them.
That’s why the U.S. government has persisted so long despite being oppressive and predatory during its entire existence. When the government rises above a certain level of predation or oppression, it triggers a political reaction that results in the oppressed getting into the system and altering its course to oppress them less.
IMHO, the rise of information technology allowed the government to really ramp up the predation and oppression faster than the corrective feedback could kick in. The government’s OODA loop became much much faster than the unwashed masses. And once the corrective feedback started to kick in, the government’s advantage on the OODA loop front allowed them to suppress or coopt each movement trying to correct them. That’s why they appear ascendant right now.
But there is another feedback loop. Fascism doesn’t work. Fascism impoverishes all elements of society. Thus the host (the unwashed masses) is less able to supply nourishing blood to the parasite (the government). This increases poiitical disconent while also disharmonizing the various factions inside the government. A prosperous society could afford boondogles like green energy and free health care simultaneously. A struggling society can afford neither on its own. So rather than the factions working in concert to loot the unwashed masses for their mutual benefit, the factions instead start fighting each other for bigger slices of the pie.
In the 1980’s everyone thought the Soviet Union would be around for centuries, when in fact they were less than a decade away from collapse. The U.S. government is in a similar boat.
I encourage everyone to encourage the people you interact with to envision ignoring or disobeying federal dictats. Because that sort of mass disobedience is going to be what saves us.
Even my progressive wife sounds like an anarchocapitalist when she talks about regulation of the insurance industry.
Although that almost entirely state regulated.
Isn’t there a saying about people are most conservative when it comes to issues they know the most about?
“Even my progressive wife sounds like an anarchocapitalist when she talks about regulation of the insurance industry.”
Tell her about the Gell-Mann Effect and maybe you can flip her…
“The Gell-Mann Effect, also called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect describes the phenomenon of an expert believing news articles on topics outside of their field of expertise even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within the expert’s field of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding.”
WHY SPECULATE?
A talk by Michael Crichton
I agree with this. These aren’t the signs of a truly powerful actor, but rather the death throws of a dying ideology.
I can’t see the FBI doing DeSantis’ or Trump’s bidding.
Well they shouldn’t be doing anyone’s bidding. Investigate violations of the law, period and get the fuck out of counter-intel.
If we’re going to go with “should”, the FBI shouldn’t exist.
At this point, any Repub who takes the White House and isn’t a lefty sock puppet is guaranteed 4 years of harassment and non-cooperation by the FBI/DOJ/Intel complex. There will be no dirt dug up on Biden after they do their little prop forma tax thing with Hunter.
I think it really depends on if his own party is also fighting him.
“Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, argued that the raid is a step toward accountability.
“That’s what happens when you break the law, try to steal an election, and incite a deadly insurrection,” she wrote on Twitter. “Donald Trump should be in jail. I’m glad to see the FBI taking steps towards accountability.”
DEADLY INSURRECTION!!!!
I am sure she hasn’t prejudged this case of….? Perhaps she can explain what laws were broken then?
Innocent unless proven Trumpy.
The fucking sad reality is that this seems to be the standard….
There is neither something rational (unless you go with a crime syndicate trying to protect is criminal activities) nor something intellectually honest about these people’s derangement towards this guy. He seems to live rent free in their crazy minds, and they can’t let him move out…
Have patience. You don’t know what you are going to catch when you cast your line.
It is a desperate fishing expedition…
And when they find nothing they will be left having to invent something. Like another Russia collusion thing…
She has her man, she’ll find the crime.
A deadly “insurrection” in which the government killed a few protesters. . .
That turd Jaypal wasn’t born in this country, wasn’t raised here, and has zero business being a US congresswoman.
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Yeah, yeah, I know. But, I fully understand the desire of libertarians to say to the thin blue line Republicans, “Can’t say we didn’t tell you.”
Since there is no way out of this mess other than the wholesale destruction of the federal law enforcement apparatus, erasing the Thin Blue Line off the GOP is fairly important.
Yes
That needs to be hammered home at every opportunity.
The alternative is far worse.
The question becomes can you do that without those people going over to the Democrats instead?
The problem here is that one party is the pro-government party. Which side are government employees all gonna be on?
You almost need to use some subtlety and guile here to clear out the worst people and parts. . But Trump definitely does not have that.
You are onto something there. As government employees grow in numbers, and vote, you end up with a permanent group that votes their interest, which is always pro-government. Hence the perma-block of votes for Democrats. But how much of that bloc is government employees? 10%? 20%?
I’ll eat my hat if Republicans do anything about the FBI.
Does a scolding and wagging a finger count as “doing something”?
Good point.
In my mind, no.
Abolishing the FBI and replacing it with nothing is all that counts.
A hat made out of taco shells? Yes please!
David Axelrod, former White House adviser in the Obama administration, said on social media that Garland “would not have authorized this raid, and no federal judge would have signed off on it, if there weren’t significant evidence to warrant it.”
Sure, Dave.
“Why would they arrest him if he’s not guilty? They don’t just go around arresting people for the fun of it.”
It’s a self licking ice cream cone, Jack.
Trump is so clearly guilty that he should be thankful that they bother with courtesies like warrants and investigations instead of proceeding directly to verdict.
Now do the warrants for spying on the Trump campaign over the Russia collusion hoax.
“If you read through that entire report, the AP cites statistics and provides quotes from various officials in five cities. Take a look at this list of names and see if you notice anything in common. Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are all cited. It should come as no surprise to most of our readers that these are all cities that were subjected to violent BLM riots during the Summer of Love and all of them later attempted to “defund the police” in various ways.”
Too bad BLM wanted to “defund the police” not legalize drugs. If it weren’t for enforcing drug laws, and the violent crime caused by prohibition, there would be more than enough cops.
Now crime rates are up in each of those cities, particularly violent crime rates. Response times are up and case closure rates are down.
As they used to write at TOS, reviving the old tradition of private eyes for solving crimes and privatizing roads (and therefore traffic enforcement) would help immensely.
What about thief takers?
Never heard of them. The Wiki article was heavy on the corrupt aspects of the system, but I’m still against the state monopoly on criminal justice.
‘An original gallows ticket for viewing the hanging of one of the most notorious thief-takers Jonathan Wild with his “Thief-Taker General” emblem design on the top was executed for operating on both sides of the law’
Sounds like a system that worked better than our current one already.
I miss coherent, English sentences.
Haha, it is terribly worded and seems to be missing a comma at one crucial point. It would work much better as two sentences.
Local news has been talking about the trouble that the Cleveland police are having in hiring new recruits. Not much sympathy for them from me.
Hear hear!
Harumph harumph!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JN99jshaQbY
Makes you wonder if BLM isn’t a front organization for the larger street gangs.
Wonder?
Too bad BLM wanted to “defund the police” not legalize drugs.
One of the NH BLM chapters actually talked about ending marijuana prohibition. I was… shocked.
I guess WP decided to assign me a random avatar.
Not sure what to think of it.
I… I think you should change it.
Drunk, I’d give it an 8.
Living in the land of tentacle porn has affected you.
BAZINGA!
English 5.
Interesting. Could be related to the update. LMK if you have trouble changing that.
HAWT
Though the report does not expect increases quite so large, rising prices would still hurt the Biden administration, which in recent weeks has sought to capitalize on the drop in prices and play up actions it has taken to increase oil supply.
White House officials have pointed in particular to President Joe Biden’s March decision to release 180 million barrels of oil from the U.S. emergency stockpile, which they said likely caused prices to drop by some 40 cents per gallon.
“I may have accidentally burned your garage down, but that shovel I borrowed last summer didn’t get burned up.”
Interesting bit of history that I knew nothing about.
‘Sisters in Resistance’ Review: Three Women and a Diary
Mussolini’s son-in-law kept a wartime journal. His wife, an S.S. double agent and an American socialite joined forces to obtain it for the Allies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sisters-in-resistance-review-three-women-and-a-diary-11659995581?st=txn0hkupxkobmbp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Just for you.
What do you call a cicada that ran out of Viagra?
Semi flaccid.
寒い!
But I like a good bilingual dad joke.
His wife, an S.S. double agent and an American socialite
This is why I give a fuck about an Oxford comma.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves
I remember when that came out – I should pick up a copy.
*eyes book backlog…*
Not sure what to think of it.
It kind of makes you look like George Jetson’s maid.
I get that the deep state wants to destroy Trump anyone else not vetted through them (via Epstein island previously). But they are too stupid to realize they are also destroying what little faith in the system normal people had.
The problem being that around half of the country is not only fine with it but is actively cheering it on.
They’re banking on the fact that historically most revolts failed.
Grab the system while you can and then you almost sure your survival.
The FBI raiding Trump’s house convinced a lot of people that the system is now too far gone to save with an election.
NPR should rush out and do another poll about political violence. See how strong “faith in the system” is.
President Trump announces FBI has RAIDED Mar-a-Lago!!!!11!
I stay away from the news for a few days and we go full banana republic.
“go” or “confirm status as”?
Well, we are Rock/Banana now.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“What are we looking for? I’ll tell you, when we find it.”
It’s not entirely clear why the FBI targeted Mar-a-Lago. Trump, who was not there, predictably characterized the search as a Democratic hit job. But the feds were apparently searching for classified records Trump stashed in Palm Beach after leaving the White House. He has already returned some files that the National Archives said belonged to the government, but Bloomberg News and the New York Times reported that the raid was focused on records he might have kept.
Theft of government records is the least of Trump’s legal worries, however. Attorney General Merrick Garland appears to be finally bringing the full weight of federal law enforcement to bear on the former president. Depending on how aggressively Garland pursues Trump for the attempted coup that he and his co-conspirators tried to engineer after he lost the 2020 presidential election, the list of criminal charges could include seditious conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the US and obstruction of official proceedings.
“Conspiracy” is what the feds charge you with when they can’t prove you committed a crime.
Police: We have a warrant for your arrest.
Prole: On what charges?
Police: We’ll decide after we interrogate you, ransack your home and workplace, collect your financial records, and any other actions we deem necessary.
“It’s not entirely clear why the FBI targeted Mar-a-Lago”
I think it’s quite clear, myself.
The official word so far that the FBI raided Donald Trump’s compound at Mar-a-Lago looking for classified documents stands in sharp contrast to the way the bureau and Justice Department acted seven years ago when similar questions arose about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Garland’s choices in the months ahead will have momentous consequences. His correct course of action would be to demonstrate that no president is above the law and indict Trump. As the Jan. 6 committee hearings have already demonstrated, Trump and his team were awash in crimes — including creating slates of false electors to be used in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential vote and pressuring former Vice President Mike Pence to withhold certification of the 2020 election. The Justice Department has convened a grand jury to investigate both of those efforts.
Trump also incited the violent insurrection that took place on Jan. 6, and he did nothing to stop a mob he knew to be armed until after it stormed the Capitol, endangering federal legislators and the police protecting them. He has shown little remorse for the damage he set in motion before, during and after Jan. 6, and his statement about the Mar-a-Lago raid was littered with unhinged distractions his political base will lap up.
We can save a lot of time and money if we just go ahead and lynch him now.
Jeebus. So, not only was the mob armed, but now Trump knew they were armed? Every week the bullshit gets deeper and deeper.
Trump-endorsed candidate Joe Kent overtakes Rep. Jamie Herrera-Buetler in Washington state primary, if it holds, the 7th (of 10) Republicans who voted to impeach Trump will be ousted.
Does anyone know how true this is? If so a RINO is replacing a RINO.
Kent admits he was (is) in the CIA on a podcast.
The CIA is a corrupt Deep State organization that pushes America into endless wars. Whistleblowers reveal the elites store blackmail on all their agents in order to control them for life. There is no such thing as ex-CIA.
According to Kent, the CIA can create “a totally new life” for its agents. Now, just in time to run for congress, Joe Kent “quits” the CIA to move to Washington and is immediately launched into the national limelight. Meanwhile, candidates in the district and across the country running against the same class of impeachment Republicans get nowhere near the same levels of attention. It’s almost as if the role was prepared for him.
Joe Kent is controlled opposition working for the Deep State.
I can safely say that this is nonsense.
ES is a fed confirmed.
Hoping someone inside the FBI goes whistleblower despite the fact that Trump didn’t pardon any of them.
In the end, though, Garland’s primary responsibilities aren’t gauging what kind of jury pool he might encounter or how an indictment will ripple across MAGA-land. The American democratic experiment is at stake, and Garland’s core duty is to charge Trump for the crimes he committed and then let the judicial process run its course.
The cartoon villain must be brought to justice.
The pantomime dragon is foreordained to die at the hands of the virtuous knight. Justice and Truth demand it.
What happened to the “no reasonable prosecutor” standard?
Oh, so Preet will be handling this case?
What crimes would those be?
CRIMES AGAINST DEMOKRASEE!
Insurrectionisming!
I think you mean “Just Us demands it.”
Rent Control Backfiring Against California Renters
Totally unforeseeable that price controls do not work.
*at the stated goal. They work great at creating concentrated winners and dispersed losers.
And Cindy Lauper went to court “to get her $3,250 rent lowered to $508 for a suite in a building where some units rent for $10,000. The judge said she was being too ambitious, but the singer, whose hits include ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun,’ still came away with permission to pay only $989.”
Money changes everything.
(And yes, I know that was originally done by The Brains.)
Money greases everything…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMXoPC-Q4Qg
What do you keep at your workplace?
NJ Hospital Bomb Hoax Leads to Rifle Stockpile in Employee’s Unlocked Closet: Cops
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/cops-responding-nj-hospital-bomb-threat-find-weapons-cache-of-39-guns-in-workers-closet/3815595/
Bonus points for this new kind of ultra deadly ammunition.
Fourteen rounds of high-capacity ammunition were also found.
But were they fully automatic rounds as well?
What the fuck is high capacity ammunition?
Are we talking about cluster bombs or fuel air explosives? is this some kind of MIRVed component?
The fuck is it with idiots writing this shit?
They’re just prepping us for more AI generated articles.
Don’t Hollywood magazines require high-capacity ammunition?
A-Team clips? The ones that never run out of ammo?
So the only charges were for having a rifle with certain banned cosmetic features, and two magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Precisely the kinds of things SCOTUS recently said were unconstitutional.
It’s NJ we have to let the process work.
Which is likely to happen in roughly 10 years at the earliest.
Alone a layoff? That’s not actually a name.
Good morning, Banjos!
Merrick Garland has gone from “the guy who got jobbed out of a seat on the Supreme Court” to “thank doG that fucking hack didn’t get onto the Supreme Court guy”.
Is he evil or spineless?
Embrace the power of :AND” your holiness…
Garland is a scumbag. And an angry one that feels he is justified in causing damage to those that blocked him from being on the SCOTUS court.
The two are not mutually exclusive…
Why not the both?
Alright, what is this embed tag? I tried using it on the “write your own html” view and it looked pretty borked on the “highlight and click buttons” view.
I don’t think much of Cocaine Mitch, but I am starting to think he knew some shit about Garland.
He’s not wrong.
President Biden seemed unfamiliar Monday with the specifics of the massive spending bill dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act that Senate Democrats passed Sunday, saying it funds healthcare “and God knows what else.”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/biden-says-inflation-bill-funds-healthcare-god-knows-what-else-in-bizarre-speech/
At this point, anything beyond “President Biden demanded to know who turned the channel from MeTV before Matlock” is pretty unbelievable.
Won’t anyone think of the poor, poor renters*?
* I am calling them renters even though they are failing to pay rent (the primary requirement of a person who wants to be a renter)
Tenants.
Squatters.
What’s your sense of the reasons why so many people are being evicted?
They aren’t paying rent?
Tard Tuesday: Tardation, A Celebration
CAKE!
“A White House official said it was not notified about the search.”
Gimme a break.
By that they mean Kamala and Joe had no clue, which I can believe since they’re not running anything.
But I’ll bet good money that Susan Rice knew.
We haven’t heard from her for a while.
She’s been busy running the country.
They weren’t notified because they ordered it, so no notification required.
Lots of Ukraine flags and pictures of a triumphant-looking Hillary Clinton. Checks out.
Too early in the morning for Democratic Underground.
I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
That… is apparently some really good paint.
“Gas prices to rise back to $4.35 a gallon, Goldman Sachs forecasts”
I call bullshit.
We will be lucky if it ONLY goes that high. The élite have made it clear tat they only want people that can afford expensive but useless green solutions to be able to move freely. I guess they are taking a page from the olden days of marxist nations where the best way to control a population is to restrict their ability to move freely. And keeping the plebes unable to afford gas to go anywhere makes them easier to control.
This is not a real war.
VIDEO: American actor Jessica Chastain meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
OMFG, I knew she was a self-absorbed, self-important twat, but this is Steven Seagal-level, over the top idiocy.
I knew she was a self-absorbed, self-important twat
You could just go with “actor”.
Queue up Team America’s Alec Baldwin puppet.
https://youtu.be/qOH9trJLedk
Why, O Lord, was this not the exact moment where your grace guided a Russian missile directly into that meeting room?
Gas would have to drop another fifty cents to get to $4.35, here.
Yikes. It peaked at $4.99 here. A benefit of living in a semi-free state.
This smarmy weasel sometimes says the right things.
Democrats want to make the IRS larger than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and the Border Patrol combined.
That’s a terrible idea. We should abolish the IRS!
Eh, does he really believe that though.
There is no way he really believes that.
Gotta say that Trump’s new ad sucks. Boring. You gotta dance with the chick you came with and this isn’t her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk94EKBWZJA
I think he lost the beat too.
He still brags about Operation Warp Speed and the vax.
This is udderly ridiculous.
WEF agenda in full swing…
Ireland to cull cows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For every 10,000 cows culled, the Department for Agriculture in Ireland estimates 45,000t of carbon dioxide equivalent would be cut from the atmosphere.
So still a “plan”, but ponder the insanity of spending capital to destroy productive assets.
What capital, aren’t those tax dollars at work?
It’s antihuman insanity.
Not my Irish butter!
Estimates? You need to get precise measurements. Now stand behind that cow all day with a gas sensor.
How much carbon dioxide will we cut by killing elephants, rhinos and whales? Or horses?
They want to cull people. It’s not like they’ve been keeping it a secret.
That’s totally fucking insane.
Never enough
The landmark climate legislation passed by the Senate after months of wrangling and weakening by fossil-fuel friendly Democrats will lead to more harm than good, according to frontline community groups who are calling on Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency.
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But the bill makes a slew of concessions to the fossil fuel industry, including mandating drilling and pipeline deals that will harm communities from Alaska to Appalachia and the Gulf coast and tie the US to planet-heating energy projects for decades to come.
“Once again, the only climate proposal on the table requires that the communities of the Gulf south bear the disproportionate cost of national interests bending a knee to dirty energy – furthering the debt this country owes to the South,” said Colette Pichon Battle from Taproot Earth Vision (formerly Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy).
“Solving the climate crisis requires eliminating fossil fuels, and the Inflation Reduction Act simply does not do this,” said Steven Feit, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law (Ciel).
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A cost-benefit analysis by the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), which represents a wide range of urban and rural groups nationwide, concludes that the strengths of the IRA are outweighed by the bill’s weaknesses and threats posed by the expansion of fossil fuels and unproven technologies such as carbon capture and hydrogen generation – which the bill will incentivise with billions of dollars of tax credits that will mostly benefit oil and gas.
“Climate investments should not be handcuffed to corporate subsidies for fossil fuel development and unproven technologies that will poison our communities for decades,” said Juan Jhong-Chung from the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, a member of the CJA.
You don’t compromise in a Holy War.
That’s what I was thinking exactly. The bill isn’t radical enough.
Blood for the
BloodGreen God!Kill them all…let Gaia sort them out.
Ah, I was looking for this image the other day:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZqaKf1X0AEa_r5?format=jpg&name=small
Same weather map (roughly), 13 years apart.
Nope, totally not scare-mongering.
Gone from a nice sunny day to a red hellscape. Perception is reality.
Just to bring something a little lighter, here is a story about Michael Jordan — at the height of his physical powers — got beat one on one in basketball by a 16 year old kid. And Jordan was trying to win. There might be an extenuating circumstance but still Michael Jordan got beat in one on one basket ball by a 16 year old kid.
People vs Fossil Fuels, a national coalition of more than 1,200 organisations from all 50 states, recently delivered a petition with more than 500,000 signatures to the White House calling on Biden to declare a climate emergency, which would unlock new funds for urgently needed climate adaptation in hard-hit communities, and use executive actions to stop the expansion of fossil fuels.
Siqiniq Maupin, executive director of Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic, said: “This new bill is genocide, there is no other way to put it. This is a life or death situation and the longer we act as though the world isn’t on fire around us, the worse our burns will be. Biden has the power to prevent this, to mitigate the damage.”
Genocide? It’s matricide! They’re killing Mother Earth!
*weeps*
Oh, it’s a death cult all right.
OFFS.
And in other news, a million kindergartners just sent a petition to the White House demanding more milk and cookies during recess.
>>needed climate adaptation
like air conditioners for poor people in the southwest?
I am seriously trying to understand what sort of document Trump would have had that would justify this response.
Only thing i can think of would be some intelligence that would show that the Russia BS was BS.
Everyone already knows the Russian BS was BS and if Trump had such a document he would clearly not know it. Otherwise he’d just reveal it, right?
I dunno. It’s weird. I don’t get the whole “important documents” schtick. What could be so important?
It’s a copy of something they already have.
?
It’s something they need to plant.
You’ve got tin-foil lining that chapeau, don’t you?
These are the same people that pushed the Russian Conspiracy claim for years, despite knowing it was fraudulent, and backed it up with falsified evidence to a FISA court.
So, I wouldn’t put it past them, and wouldn’t rule it out of hand.
Or you go total tin-foil-hat, and it’s not what Trump had, it’s what they just planted!
Except these darn crazy conspiracy theories keep coming true.
These are documents that Trump declassified. These are documents that PROVE there was an FBI/CIA/DHS/DOJ agenda to go after him on information they KNEW was bullshit. They were declassified and Trump ordered they be released, but the various agencies involved slow walked that order until they could stop complying with it after they fortified the 2020 election. Trump kept his own copies so he could release them if they ever went after him with these bullshit claims again. This raid was about removing those documents from him so they could avoid that scenario playing out. So I now suspect some new Russia collusion shit is about to be dropped because they HAVE to disqualify this guy from running or the crime syndicate Obama created from the weaponized US bureaucracy will have to resort to assassinating another US president to keep their racket safe.
So why not just release them himself then?
As I commented below, declassified documents would STILL have to go through a review process that would redact sensitive information before making them public. The big fight between Trump and the various agencies was that after his order to declassify the documents these crooks then redacted all the details that proved they had known they were acting on pure lies and behaving criminally. When trump ordered them to change the redactions they kept slow walking it until they fortified the 2020 election. The need to release the documents with redactions that didn’t hide their criminality went away after that. But the unredacted copies Trump kept would still be a problem if he went scorched earth when they decided to just go after him (the one scenario where I think he wouldn’t care about the legal implications of releasing unredacted documents).
Please realize Trump never ordered a damn thing. That was his gross failure at running the govt. He talked (and tweeted) shit but didn’t follow through.
Actually it is documented that he ordered the release of these documents and the machine just played it for time…
Here ya go…
he agreed in the final minutes of the presidency
You issue pardons on your way out the door, not instructions for work that you SHOULD KNOW won’t be done.
Alex, this may be drugs-ass, but this just dropped yesterday. Coincidence with the raid?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/08/biden-sued-for-not-releasing-docs-declassified-russia-collusion/
It’s a receipt from the Ukraine payments to the Bidens!
HE PAID IN PIEROGIS!!!!!!!!!!!
At what point will we be deemed to have committed an act of war against Russia?
The Pentagon announced Monday that the US has sent anti-radar missiles for Ukrainian aircraft to target Russian radar systems, marking the first time the Defense Department has acknowledged sending the previously undisclosed missile to Ukraine.
Colin Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, said at a press briefing that the US had sent “a number” of the missiles without specifying how many the US has provided or when they were sent. Kahl did not explicitly say what type of anti-radiation missile was sent.
A defense official told CNN the type of missile sent was the AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM).
Produced by Raytheon, HARMs have a range in excess of 30 miles, according to the US Air Force, making them one of the longer-range weapons the US has provided to Ukraine. The missiles can be used to target Russian anti-aircraft radar systems, such as the S-400, which have made it very difficult for the Ukrainian Air Force to operate over large swaths of Ukrainian airspace. The missiles can also target Russian counter-battery radars, which Russia uses to target Ukrainian artillery.
When will the Russians start attacking arms shipments bound for Ukraine?
Dunno. Did we go after China for supplying arms to the NVA?
They do not have much ability to do that, or they just might have.
something something Gulf of Tonkin
When will the Russians start attacking arms shipments bound for Ukraine?
When they think they can win an expanded war. Attacking those shipments at sea would likely lead to the extinction of the Russian fleet (at least, any that weren’t in port). Attacking those shipments coming by land through Europe would mean attacking Poland, etc. directly. The Russians have their hands full with the Ukrainians. There’s not a lot they can do about those arms shipments until they cross the Ukrainian border.
So any truth to the rumors going around that the FBI MAL raid was to take back documents Trump had declassified that proved there was a deep state plot against him, but that the agencies ordered to declassify and disseminate slow walked, and then later, never released, so that Trump would not be able to use these documents to prove the malfeasance of the crime syndicate Obama created and was hoping to hand over to Hillary to finish?
I mean nope. Trump would just dump all the documents to the public already. What would he be holding them for?
He only knows how to work twitter from the app that someone else installed on his phone?
Even if they are declassified, just dumping documents could result in legal action if the machine claims that in the process he disclosed methods or compromised people, which would be criminally prosecutable. There would have to be redactions, but the redactions themselves would be challenged. Especially if he had to redact information that proved his case. Dumping the docs outright was never an option, because the system put protections in place to punish anyone doing that.
Except you’re claiming the documents prove the system is corrupt. The justification would win out.
That’s a real bad assumption to make… Especially since it would give the machine the very excuse it wants to disqualify Trump. This isn’t a fight to prove who is right or wrong (good or evil) but one where the machine needs any excuse possible to take Trump out. I am not going to be surprised if there is an assassination attempt on Trump in the very near future. This guy is that much of an existential threat to the machine (because he is a loose cannon that represent the people that know the state is corrupted and needs to be dismantled as it can’t be saved/repaired).
Is he though? What did he really do that was so dangerous to the system? The system seems like it’s doing just fine to me.
Also, if Trump really had documents that implicate those people and didn’t reveal them he’s an utter coward and piece of shit.
He forced the system to expose itself as a weaponized political crime syndicate? The biggest damage he caused was to the machine’s ability to lie to people and have the vast majority of them just go along with it. At least half of the country now knows these fuckers are evil.
No, because if he declassified them – redacted or entirely – while he was president that action was unreproachable. The president is the ultimate classification authority, and all is derived from that.
Plus….. I think about it this way.
Is the FBI ever gonna really release documents that implicate itself?
Hell no.
Trump would have a moral obligation to release them. Now. Legal retaliation be damned.
I’m not convinced this is even true though.
“Trump would have a moral obligation to release them. Now. Legal retaliation be damned.”
Yeah, he wants to not be boxed out of being able to become president again. Something far more important than just exposing the criminality of our government. Your mistake is to think that these documents being released would make any difference. The machine would just downplay it and then go after Trump. It is naïve to think justice will come from simply exposing the nefarious criminality when the entire system is rotten to the core.
To give you one simple example of how often they ignored established prudence, I remind you that he also ordered our military to stay out of Syria, stop being woke, and to do its job well. They did none of that. Every single US bureaucracy fought him despite the fact they had neither the legal right or obligation to do that. You think they care WTF the law is? I would say the 4 years of his presidency, the fortified 2020 election, the criminal Biden family getting cover, and the latest raid on MAL, all prove the machine’s rules are only enforced to hurt their enemy and to protect itself.
Which — if true — only makes his failure to release documents worse.
Only if you can’t understand that the full release of the documents would do anything but guarantee he would be disqualified from running as president again..
I mean who gives a shit if some coward asshole runs for president again?
Yeah, I see your problem..
Which is all that actually matters to the arrogant prick. If he gave a small percentage of the fucks he claims to have about the country, he’d release everything he has and tell his supporters to back DeSantis.
What I mean is I doubt the man has truly damning new information on the Feds. But if he did, his failure to release it regardless of potential legal consequences was cowardice. There are some things that are just too important.
What I suspect is they just used this as a legal excuse to search his place for Jan 6 stuff.
Your expectations seems to be the problem. Human nature is human nature.
As I already pointed out, if he had released these things the system would have canceled him, swept this under a rug, and gone back to business as usual. if you miss that point it’s on you.
Trump wants a chance to go at the machine. I feel that’s far more important than proving the machine is evil and corrupt. if you have not come to that conclusion yet, you will never come to it.
And thinking DeSantis will not be owned by the machine is stupid. He is a politician. That means the machine has a grip on him already.
Problem with that is that Trump had his shot at the machine, and the machine kicked his ass. I’m not sure why he thinks he deserves a do-over.
I see why you’re such a Trumpster. The contempt you display for those who dare to disagree with you is just like your hero.
“I see why you’re such a Trumpster.”
I am not a Trumpster, but I do understand right now he is the only one that I actually feel will fight this machine and has a chance, albeit a small one, of stopping them. That makes him an ally. Those that think they can go into this fight without him and do anything but get squashed are crazy IMO.
Wrong. He did NOT order the military out of Syria. He talked about it and tweeted it but he never ordered it. He got talked out of doing that stuff because all of the DC weasels in his administration would never violate the consensus (the true holy of holies). But the fucking consensus is not the product of one, or even a few evil geniuses – it is straight up groupthink.
He didn’t do that, you are correct.
But at least part of the reason was he didn’t know we had as many troops in Syria as we did because the bureaucrats were lying to him.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-troop-levels-syria-jeffrey-interview/
He can declassify, but unclassified information can still require controls per legislation like the Privacy Act. The president can only remove classification controls. I’m not sure if there are legal consequences for releasing treaty controlled information.
The Meadows memo that Alex linked mentions the Executive Office of the President is exempt from Privacy Act constraints.
Yep any president has the freedom to classify/declassify at will in any means they see fit. Kinda hard not to as CiC and the chief diplomat otherwise.
He must not have been fully confident of the advice from the White House lawyers since the documents were sent for Privacy Act review.
Uffda. The Bee is awesome
That’s perfect.
It’s not as if them making excuses when BLM started burning down Minessoda in the middle of the lockdown Kung Flu shitshow, because racial justice was either far more important than preventing transmission or a prophylactic to transmission, didn’t already prove the fucking concerns were all bullshit.
Guy at work (under 30) is back to wearing an n95 when he is not sitting down at his desk.
can you throw rotten tomatoes at him and laugh?
Covid face masks ‘devastating’ bird populations all over the world
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/covid-face-masks-devastating-bird-populations-all-over-the-world/ar-AA10lCX4
I should print and hang it up in the coffee areas.
Good. Stupid people should be conspicuous.
He’s kind of a perfect embodiment of elitism. He is an Elijah Watt Sells award winner (top CPA exam score), but unable to think critically.
Impeccably credentialed. Intellectually deficient.
At least he’s walking the talk. Of the three coworkers who were insistent that every one else should wear masks, zero have resumed wearing one since it’s no longer required.
Miss Perla Veneto 2022, Hotel Mioni Royal San, Montegrotto Terme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6etp-1CC8
Whatever it takes
The Biden administration said Monday it was shipping its biggest yet direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine as that country prepares for a potentially decisive counteroffensive in the south against Russia, sending $1 billion in rockets, ammunition and other material to Ukraine from Defense Department stockpiles.
The new U.S. arms shipment would further strengthen Ukraine as it mounts the counteroffensive, which analysts say for the first time could allow Kyiv to shape the course of the rest of the war, now at the half-year mark.
Kyiv aims to push Russian troops back out of Kherson and other southern territory near the Dnipro River. Russia in recent days was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the southern port cities to stave off the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“At every stage of this conflict, we have been focused on getting the Ukrainians what they need, depending on the evolving conditions on the battlefield,” Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, said Monday in announcing the new weapons shipment.
Proxy war for fun and profit.
That’s like… two? Three dozen?
That the Russians keep destroying these weapons systems is a feature, not a bug, for the people who get paid to replace them.
“That the Russians keep destroying these weapons systems”
By flinging armor and artillery into the way of rockets?
Good idea to deplete our weapons stockpiles while poking China.
No to neighbourhood ‘nudging’ – energy leaderboards are no solution to sky-high bills
https://capx.co/no-to-neighbourhood-nudging-energy-leaderboards-are-no-solution-to-sky-high-bills/
Lis Costa, managing director of the Behaviourial Insights Team – aka the Nudge Unit – has said her team is ‘considering the full remit of its policy toolbox” to reduce household demand. Along with subsidies for vulnerable households, she has proposed sending letters to households to let them know how their energy use compares with their neighbours.
This is not the first time the Nudge Unit has proposed ‘energy leaderboards’. Back in 2011 they suggested emulating US firm Opower’s ‘success’ in a neighbourhood energy comparison scheme which resulted in a reduction of 2-3% in energy use.
Fuck You, I want my A/C – especially with the humid swamp that is Michigan in the summer.
My house is actually fairly efficient for heating and cooling because it is partially built into a hill. It is the insulation – asbestos anyone? – that needs replacement; or the whole house should be reclad with insulation and then siding.
These would be physical electronic leaderboards, like jumbotrons, yes?
Yes, and with little flag holders for the Red Sickle and Swastika flags displaying proud ownership.
Guy at work (under 30) is back to wearing an n95 when he is not sitting down at his desk.
There seemed to be an uptick in mask fetishists at the grocery store yesterday.
It’s cause of the monkey pox…
Well, the mask does keep them from swallowing some dick.
So fewer fake N95s, more gimp masks?
Considering how monkey pox is transmitted, they should be wearing them over their butt-holes. Wait, this was for COVID?
Well this pilot got his Red Wings.
https://jalopnik.com/watch-this-anxiety-inducing-video-of-a-small-plane-flyi-1849385953
That’s when you know someone is watching over your sorry ass…
That’s some good flying there
Except for the part about overshooting the runway to start things off – but I should reserve judgement as that may not have been straight-up pilot error.
Hey no one’s perfect 😉
The best flying you can do that ends in a crash.
Monday’s package allows the U.S. to deliver weapons systems and other equipment more quickly since it takes them off the Defense Department shelves.
In addition to the rockets for the HIMARS, it includes 75,000 rounds of 155mm artillery, 20 mortar systems and 20,000 rounds for them, 1,000 shoulder-mounted Javelin rockets, and other arms, explosives and medical equipment.
A feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that.
There was no shooting in Vegas.
Of course not, it was in the Unincorporated Place of Paradise.
Did you change your avatar in solidarity with Trigger Hippie, or do we have a slow-moving avatar Great Replacement happening?
I didn’t do anything. Apparently our avatars are being replaced by the pod avatars.
My avatar got changed to my previous one… I’m okay with it 😉
Except for the part about overshooting the runway to start things off – but I should reserve judgement as that may not have been straight-up pilot error.
I can’t help thinking “good flying” involves a completely uneventful arrival at your destination.
“Gone from a nice sunny day to a red hellscape. Perception is reality.”
I was talking a couple months back with a true blue, dyed in the wool proggie about the (nice and safe topic) weather a couple months back as I was doing work on her SF rental house. She was wearing an N95 mask, outside the house. She lives in a suburb of SF that has incredible weather (best by government test!). I mentioned that I had played in a band many years ago at the street fair that celebrates that designation. “Well it’s not the best weather anymore,” she remarks with what I perceive to be a look of scorn under her mask. “Oh, did they lose the Best Weather in the US designation?” I asked. “No, they still have it, but it’s no longer nice weather. It’s way too hot in the summer now. Because of climate change.” That ended that conversation.
So later that night I of course had to check for the hottest day on record in that town. It was almost a century back. Well, maybe it’s just cumulatively hotter in the summer. So I looked up a number of record highs on random days in the summer. Lots of record high days in the distant past, but pretty spread out through the decades. There was less record highs in the last decade or so than in other decades. I knew before this that even standard climate change theory holds that most global warming happens in the winter and at night, but that isn’t the message that the media sends out. Perception is indeed reality.
But that sciencey dude, Tyson, assured me on CBS on Sunday, that the melting of all the ice caps would raise the oceans to the height of the Statue of Liberty’s elbow!
Good news for northwest Jersey and Penna. Pocono Mtn. residents – will now have ocean front properties. No confirmation yet that Tyson’s prediction had set off a huge scramble to unload property on Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, and the Hamptons.
Where in SF? I wish I knew your city better, but maybe I’ve heard of it.
I was working on her rental in Golden Gate Heights, which sits just above the Sunset. It’s an area that gets a lot of summer fog. The June day I was working there on her rental you couldn’t see across the street there. By contrast, her home is in Redwood City, about 20 something miles away and was sunny and 78 degrees that same day.
Yup creech, whenever I get in global warming discussions with friends I always bring up the fact that the actions of the elite that cry loudest about global warming demonstraterevealed preferences quite different than their stated preferences.
(Danke. I enjoyed your lovely city very much, when I wasn’t trying to find a parking space.)
Ahhh, Harold and Maude…
Indeed Tox, lemme know if you ever come back for a visit. As much as Sf and the Bay Area have been screwed by progs, it still has some very nice places to visit.
I’m sure we can come up – collectively – with something better than my 5 seconds of thought:
When they come for you, hoping your guns aren’t at the bottom of some lake.
Then they came for the libertarians, and I did not speak out—
Because there are no real libertarians.
Bravo!
Not really a response, but I have always smiled at this gem from the late Florence King:
“When they came for the smokers, I kept silent because I don’t smoke.
When they came for the meat eaters, I kept silent because I’m a vegetarian.
When they came for the gun owners, I kept silent because I’m a pacifist.
When they came for the drivers, I kept silent because I’m a bicyclist.
They never did come for me.
I’m still here because there’s nobody left in the secret police except sissies with rickets.”
*whispers to roomba*
Little Red Riding Hood is en route to Grandma’s house. I repeat. Little Red Riding Hood is en route to Grandma’s house.
End of message.
I like how your… unique threading style means I have no idea if this is just random or a response to something.
It keeps things fresh.
I once received a coded phone message from my first sergeant “The geese are flying north.” It meant report tomorrow for mobilization.
Honestly I don’t think the low-level Civil War ™ will ever go truly hot.
The frog will just sit in the boiling water and won’t be able to jump. It’s like Western Europe. You can see faint glimmers of rebellion but nothing ever becomes a spark. This is just the death throes of a republic that, over the course of its inception, is decaying into rule by a permanent shadow government.
If there isn’t a hot civil war or states don’t start seceding, it will all collapse before too much longer. The economy can only take so much stimulus, money printing, and regulation before it implodes. People can only watch so many biased prosecutions and rigged elections before they lose interest. Once nobody is employed, shooting FBI Agents or those 87,000 new IRS guys will just be a way to pass the time.
Given the tale UCS has been regaling us with about hiring, I don’t think we’ll see those 87,000 new IRS employees for some time.
A favored agency can hire much faster than I can.
I think Niven said that years ago. 1970s. Sad he was right.
Then they came for the libertarians, and I did not speak out—
Because there are no real libertarians.
So long, poseurs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBAgrYl-zwQ
The United States Senate ratified Finland and Sweden’s entry into the NATO, strongly backing the expansion of the transatlantic alliance in the shadow of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Senate voted 95 to 1 in favor of Finland and Sweden’s accession, making US the 23rd country to formally endorse the Nordic countries.
What is the over/under on which comes first, Civil war or World War III?
Good question. I’m guessing Civil War, since a nice foreign adventure will probably have its usual unifying effect on the masses.
Please stop making me defend OMB.
This here. I’d love to be able to look back at Trump as a guy who did the country an unconventional service during his one term. But if my enemies insist on making him the casus belli for their assault on 70% of the citizenry, well . . . .
Biden Invites Group Of Kids To White House To See If His Sense Of Smell Has Returned
Snopes declares False since Biden doesn’t have the strength to pick up a potted plant.