24 chances to see this instead of 22? Sign me up!
Canada seems set to rethink its policy on a vaccination requirement to enter the country, just in time for the MLB playoffs. They should have been forced to play their games somewhere else, by the way. Bodily autonomy is more important than 81 home games. Next year’s F1 schedule has been released. And it’s a doozy. I just hope Vegas doesn’t suck. And that’s it for sports.
Bring on the pain. But how much will there be? I’m tired of the half-measures. Make it a full point this time and get it over with.
This is great news. I wonder if Biden will take credit for it.
They’re just going back to their roots, don’t worry. They’ll get fascism right this time.
More his speed.
Don’t of it, asshole. This lifestyle is not for you or people like you. You’re more of a Huffy kind of guy. But definitely do the “not having kids” part.
Haha, you dumb fuck. Enjoy your five minutes of fame…and months of misery. Move out of the cities, people.
Well, she’s right. This lady is a fucking racist and an asshole to boot. So they’ll probably give her a raise.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Gee, I wonder which political party he’s a member of. Because the article doesn’t say.
Well, he died doing what he loved. No, seriously. It would appear that he actually did.
Well…he’s right. I know this decision will cause some pants-shitting, but not here. The law was a gross due process violation and needs to be stricken from the books.
Here you go, friends. These guys are still underrated. And here’s another gem. Such simple, great music. Enjoy it.
End enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
It’s more like the 70’s now.
Except Carter wasn’t calling half the country terrorists and all, but yeah.
And re: the front page pic…. ET looks like he’s about to do some Biden sniffing on pre-mods Michael there.
And World War II was in the 40’s
“EXCLUSIVE: America WILL retaliate with ‘a devastating strike’ against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet or bases in Crimea if Putin follows through on threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, US Army’s former European commander warns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11234251/America-hit-Russias-military-devastating-strike-Putin-nukes-Ukraine-says-general.html
“America keeps poking the dragon: Destroyer and Canadian frigate sail through Taiwan Strait to show China it is international waterway – after Biden said army will be sent if Beijing invades”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11233859/US-destroyer-Canadian-frigate-sail-Taiwan-Strait-strength-China.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM3Y6uw6FtU
The US government is the biggest threat to humanity that exists currently.
Unfortunately you are correct sir. Also, Putin didn’t threaten to use nukes in the Ukraine, at least under the implied context of the war in its current form, so what that war pig is saying is bullshit.
“after Biden said army will be sent if Beijing invades”
/unplugs telephone
Hey, 4X20 – if I get called out of the Retired Reserve, I am going to drag you with me!
I’m on to you, you just want fresh honey in the officers mess.
And just as was predicted, the rhetoric on both sides is escalating and will continue to escalate as it spirals out of control. Particularly as a weak President is coming into an election and wants to shore up support.
The Biden Administration doesn’t have anyone with enough political heft who can yell STOP and this is an existential issue for Russia. Let’s hope we get really lucky because right now it’s not looking good.
Annexing Ukraine is an existential issue?
NATO in Ukraine is an existential issue for Russia.
Losing face on a national stage and ceding sovereignty to supranational orgs after spending the last century as one half a superpower duopoly certainly is.
I’m of two minds. First, calling tens of millions of Americans potential terroristic threats is something you do when you’re weak. It’s ridiculous, feckless leadership and hopefully most Americans will see through it. But in the back of my mind, maybe they plan to do something that will almost definitely activate a smaller number of radicalized Americans and this is just to prep us for the brutal clampdowns that will further radicalize more.
I hope it’s just the former.
With all the refocusing of the Fed agencies (especially DOJ) on “white supremacy domestic terrorism” I’ve definitely swung around to the view that they’re desperately poking at their political enemies, trying to get an incident that isn’t an obvious Feeble entrapment so they can spin up from their January 6 mode into full suppression. That will give them the uniparty they so desperately want (they think).
They need their Reichstag fire.
The Ray Epps thing bothers me. Some part of the government really wanted 1/6 to be the killshot instead of the goof it ended up being.
Precisely how we got McVeigh after the feds spent the entire 1980s and early 1990s doing the same thing. History has always rhymed, but the reflective distance of the echo is getting shorter and shorter.
Good piece at TOS by CJ Ciaramella on the FBI and entrapment: https://reason.com/2022/09/04/its-almost-always-the-feds/
I don’t think 9/11 was an “inside job”. However, the more I hear about the Alex Jones trials, the more doubts I have about Sandy Hook.
First, calling tens of millions of Americans potential terroristic threats is something you do when you’re weak. It’s ridiculous, feckless leadership and hopefully most Americans will see through it.
I hear this repeated a lot but don’t see it at all. It seems more like a wishful sentiment than anything with historical backing. Labeling your domestic enemies as enemies of the state is something you do when your strong and are preparing to move against them. The Soviet Union, the Third Reich, the CCP, the Khmer Rouge, etc. all labeled millions of domestic citizens as enemies of the state and began systematically annihilating them from very real positions of strength. Nazi Germany only fell because of external forces and the other regimes lasted decades.
Biden is weak and feckless but is nothing but a figurehead. The Swamp in DC is not. They’ve already begun purging the military and law enforcement of those who won’t follow orders. DC has been fortified by the military. Elections are openly rigged and those who question the integrity are routinely mocked. None of this weakness. It’s solidification of power.
The first statement is my public facing one. The second is the part where I agree with you. Underestimating the federal desire to stamp out opposition seems foolish given your historical examples.
20 years ago, even 10 years ago, I might have scoffed at anything the Feds did because I believe the American people would resist.
The reaction to Covid wiped away any illusion about this that I still held. We (including myself) point to the Swamp as a bugaboo, but the sad truth is they actually do represent the interests of at least tens of millions of our fellow American citizens. Our neighbors, colleagues, and even family/friends who would not only cheer when their opposition is placed against the wall but would gladly even take part it the executions. Regardless of the federal government, this country will never be unified again. The rot is too deep and the divisions too wide. The only question in my mind is will it be a peaceful divorce or a violent purge.
And natural result to being placed against the wall, or threatened to, is to do the same to your opponents. Principles are dead, fuck the other guy lives.
Same here. I thought I was already a pretty cynical prick, but the COVID hysteria made me realize I was cluelessly naive if anything. I told my mom when the “two weeks to flatten the curve” bullshit first started and toilet paper was as scarce as plutonium: “People will be compliant initially, but there’s no way in hell they are going to put up with this shit for more than another month or two. When their paychecks stop coming they’ll be out in the street asking for scalps.” The cavalry ain’t coming.
When their paychecks stop coming they’ll be out in the street asking for scalps.”
Hence the need for bread and circuses. For the large part, paychecks (or payoffs) did not stop coming.
Partly true, but let’s face it, those nanny state checks weren’t replacing an entire income for most people. They were in a blind panic like frightened children, and behaved accordingly.
there’s no way in hell they are going to put up with this shit for more than another month or two
I predicted riots by Memorial Day 2020. I got them shortly thereafter, but not for the reasons I expected.
Count me as another person whose perspective has substantially shifted due to Covid. My wife’s perspective shifted much more drastically than mine, which is why we have been planning a relocation to a quiet corner of the country rather than staying in touch with a major metropolis. “People” are no longer a vapid, but generally harmless group to us. They are dangerous and stupid.
Dumb, dangerous, panicky animals
Solidification of power is how I see it too along with (hopefully misplaced) confidence.
Were there WW3 vibes in the 70s? It seems like the prospect of a broader/longer war is all but certain. I hate it.
Not that I remember — we had settled into a bit of a detente, iirc. Wasn’t until Reagan came in and spun up SDI that the media started their pants pooping about how we were driven to the brink of war.
I mean, it wasn’t sunshine and roses — there was still an outside possibility and all, but it was pretty much simmering with proxy wars and no overt moves mode. But I was pretty young, 4×20 and others who were paying attention to the news instead of Space: 1999 will doubtless have more informed views. 😉
We were so tired of VN that we just just wanted to be left alone and enjoy the NCO/Officers Clubs, Happy Hour. I was at Ft Hood, waiting for the Middle East, practicing desert operations. Took another 20 years before it became reality.
People like me needed some quiet time
No. WW3 vibes didn’t hit until the Dems needed to scare voters in the 80s.
WW3 vibes didn’t hit until the Dems needed to scare voters in the
80s1964 Presidential election.+1 Daisy commercial
Which was a pretty great fucking partisan flip given that it was FDR and Truman that gave us the start of the Cold War and JFK who damn near started WW3.
Which was a pretty great fucking partisan flip
+1 Southern Strategy
We have a plan to pass our negative legacy to our opponents.
There were radical vibes in the 70’s. So many domestic bombings the press gave up on reporting all of them.
Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough is an interesting examination of that time period.
Race Relations/drug problems, equal opportunity were the military headlines, post ’75.
There were WW3 vibes all through the Cold War. The difference was that adults were in charge back then. Even Carter – a former Naval Officer who served on nuclear subs – was very careful to stay well away from that nightmare.
Our current idiots are trying to give the imbecile in the Ukraine long-range missiles – which he’ll immediately use to hit civilian targets deep inside Russia.
👆👆👆
They’re morons who think that the model UN they did in high school prepared them for the harsh reality of geopolitics. The US has gotten its way for so long that they can’t comprehend or accept compromise with a peer competitor.
At least we’re still getting pretty decent cars…
No, we’re not. There all over-regulated over-complicated crap.
Oh, wait, that was sarcasm?
Not sarcasm. They maybe over regulated, and overly complicated…but you can still get high horsepower ICE vehicles.
Of course, it’ll cost you $36,000 for a base model, and all that horsepower is coming from a 3 cylinder double-supercharged aluminum engine strapped to a featherweight body that will be totaled in a minor fender bender due to fuel economy standards… Life’s a tradeoff.
Which has an evaporative emissions system with 25 trouble codes entirely made of plastic with a calculated life of exactly 1.25x the warranty period.
“featherweight body ”
Not anymore. Even a Lotus is overweight now.
The body in white’s non structural areas are the approximate thickness of aluminum foil. Elsewhere the body is high strength steel.
This steel plus 25 electric motors and 10 airbags and 3 miles of electrical wire are part of the reason for the pork.
I’m keeping my 93 miata forever. It’s so light! It’s my lotus “at home”.
something something red barchetta
Well, you can, but they lack style, mostly due to excessive safety regulations.
::looks at driveway::
I’m not so sure I agree.
We were way cooler about domestic bombings back in the ’70s.
They apparently served as great resume fodder for university faculty job applications from what I can tell.
I refuse to raise kids in a country that values f—ing guns over children’s lives
How about where people value cars over children’s lives?
And dogs. Don’t forget the designer dogs he wants to “raise”.
Still though, if him owning a couple vanity pets and a base Macan are the cost of him never reproducing, then it’s a small price to pay. Hell, I’ll donate to the gofundme if that’s what it takes to make it happen.
I want a binding contract.
This kind of binding?
“In a lengthy thread, the liberal activist said children are a luxury good affordable only by the few — “the new boats,” he called them.
“Yes kids are nice but most people can’t afford them so it’s nice to have friends with one but not have one yourself. Pets are the affordable version of kids today for Millennials and Gen Z,” Mr. Hogg said.”
It’s not like they are people or anything.
I wonder if he will wonder why for once no one is telling him how dumb his latest statement is?
“You know, usually when I say something in the press I’m flooded with responses from people telling me how stupid I am. This time? Why if it isn’t crickets, it is people agreeing with me. That is strange”
Pets are the affordable version of kids today for Millennials and Gen Z,” Mr. Hogg said.”
Maybe, but kids last longer.
Pets aren’t going to look after you when you’re 80. They’ll just eat your corpse when you fall down and can’t get back ip.
It’s like listening to Average Reddit User every time the little dweeb opens his mouth.
GT, if you’re still there, I am overdue for chores and stuff, but this just occurred to me: what are you standing on? My tile kitchen would be hell if not for this: https://www.gelpro.com/
Thanks! Don’t do TOO much standing around in one place, but if they make one with handles that I could roll up and carry around, that might help! (For all I know, kitchen floor is 70ish-year-old linoleum!)
“Also BIG reason I will never have kids in the US- I refuse to raise kids in a country that values f—ing guns over children’s lives,” he said.
I’m not one to judge, but make damn sure you have cleared the chamber before using a firearm that way.
Well if he doesn’t, he won’t have to ever worry about having kids!
Don’t they have a dedicated “Illinois politician” wing at the prison?
Federal Tennis Prison, yes.
The higher prices mean that consumers are spending around $460 more per month on groceries than they were this time last year, according to Moody’s Analytics.
Yikes. That’s higher than my entire grocery bill has ever been.
She has a dog? That’s almost cruel. I’m suprised she isn’t being slagged for it.
You didn’t check the comments, did you?
Didn’t watch, but I was hoping that was the boyfriend’s dog.
The comments is where the crazy is. /looks around nervously…
Huh.
Hmmm… Vegas pricing… ugh. $100k? Figured it was mainly so Lewis and company can schmooze with the celebs, but holy hell. Not going to bother with that then.
24 races — are they doing the restructuring to reduce shipping/logistics next year too or is that later? Seems like with that many races they’d need the shorter travel times just to get things ready.
Bummer to see Circuit Paul Ricard dropped… I really love racing that track in the video games and find it more entertaining than the article implies. We knew Spa was staying at least for next year (they announced that agreement during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, so no surprise there. Funny that I usually find China boring and that got added instead of France — but there’s got to be a lot of “follow the money” there. Probably means more pimping of Quanyu Zhou (or however you spell his name), who was okay in F2 but seems pretty “blah” in F1 to me.
And gee… Monaco stayed. What a shock. I’m so, so surprised. No one ever would have seen that coming.
Ok… enough F1 / sports ranting… back to the grousing about the other news links. 😉
Looks like a lot of double- and triple-headers next year but there are some long hauls in there (see how Canada is sandwiched).
They need to abandon the pretense of being “green”. They’re not going to upset real racing fans in doing so.
Racing is not green. How could it possibly be? Spectacular uses of energy should be celebrated imo.
“Brooklyn liberals form vigilante group called ‘Park Slope Panthers’ to patrol upmarket area after a homeless man killed a Golden Retriever by hitting it with a large stick and dousing it in urine
‘Do we want to organize a community safety patrol, and take our park back? Think what the Guardian Angels did to take back the subways in the 70s/early 80s,’ wrote Panthers organizer Kristian Nammack, 59, in a social media post organizing organizing the group, ‘We may also get to wear cool berets. I’m being serious.’
But inside accounts from the Park Slope Panthers’ first meeting sound less like a group of residents rallying around defending their neighborhood, and more like a wokeness workshop too timid about offending anyone to get anything done.
After the incident, Nammack, a financial consultant who was a member of the 2008 Occupy Wallstreet protests and describes his politics as ‘left of Lenin’, decided to organize the group to clean up the neighborhood.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11232823/Liberal-vigilantes-Park-Slope-residents-patrolling-Brooklyn-man-killed-Golden-Retriever.html
something something government not providing security something something citizens step up to protect themselves.
I expected more of this over the last couple of years, honestly — though it sounds like Left-Of-Lenin boy really should have found a group that had some idea of what they were doing. (I can’t criticize too much, because if I had to form a neighborhood watch I’d probably be equally incompetent…).
Than a ‘financial consultant’ with ‘Left-of-Lenin’ politics? I highly doubt it.
“About fifteen minutes after the meeting started, a trio of twenty-somethings in medical face masks and eyeglasses joined the group to say they weren’t ‘super into abiding by the structure that you’re setting up.’
Another person, white, joined in and asked why the group was appropriating the name of the Black Panthers.
Beyond agreeing on their name, the group also couldn’t seem to agree on what to do about the man who killed Moose, who had recently been seen chasing another woman and her dog yelling ‘Let’s see some action here!’ according to Common Sense.
‘So, it sounds like this person has been pushed out of an unimaginable amount of systems,’ said an attendee, adding that the man was likely ‘neurodivergent.’
Another person – a white woman named Sky – chimed in to debate the very definition of crime.
‘Crime is an abstract term that means nothing in a lot of ways,’ she said. ‘The construct of crime has been so socially constructed to target black and poor people.'”
Stupid drivel by someone who’s clealry never been robbed or beaten.
Oh, and as someone who has been – fuck you you stupid cunte, go take a long walk in the ghetto and experience your abstract term and social constructs.
Comedy writers everywhere would be proud to have written that scene.
Seriously. Are we sure this isn’t a joke site?
I’m pretty sure Monty Python covered it decades ago.
Tellingly, they don’t give a fuck about, say, Asians getting beat on by black gangbangers with impunity, or Jews getting assaulted in the streets by Palestinians and Palestinian sympathizers for no other reason than being Jewish. But hitting a loose dog with a stick and pissing on it? Start the revolution… once the committee meetings have been finalized and a BIPOC-majority leadership has been established, of course.
Good luck finding that in Park Slope.
Why? I thought it was also known as park slant, no?
I’ve never heard that.
No, it’s like 99% white.
This is why when the strongman shows up, a large number of people will sign on for the security he offers. They’ll quietly outsource what they obviously can’t deal with themselves and they won’t care how he goes about doing it.
“I offered the world order! And rich Corinthian leather!”
The Daily Mail article leaves out the best part. From the Bari Weiss version:
🤣😂
It’s hard to believe so much insanity is just a couple miles north of me.
For the love of all that is holy, please stay out of Bay Ridge you weirdoes. Stick your tiresome faux-commie fiefdom.
“To that a woman – also white – responded saying ‘Using the Panthers as your group’s name is kind of abhorrent to me. It feels antithetical to what the Black Panthers would stand for.'”
This article was hilarious but left me wanting more. Fortunately the follow-up article was there.
All those school teams named Panthers should be ashamed.
I assume Panthers was chosen because of the alliteration. And because Panthers are fierce and neat animals.
While it is absolutely good news, it should be tempered by the realization that a lot of the percentage increase in survival rates is merely short-term gains at the very end of a person’s life rather than anything approaching a cure. In some ways it can be just as difficult dealing with the treatment and the extra few months to couple of years that it can squeeze out of the end of a life than succumbing swiftly to the illness. I’m grateful for every extra moment that I got to have with my mom, owing entirely to an EGFR mutation-targeting drug that didn’t even exist 10 years ago. Nevertheless, she still died just shy of 2 years after diagnosis.
At a certain point more days become meaningless. My Mom spent her last 10 months in a nursing home, coherent and lonely.
Exactly. A lot depends on quality of life. We were very fortunate in that my mom’s medication had very little in the way of side effects so that she was able to live relatively normally until dying very suddenly, but there was certainly an element of stress involved with receiving treatment and anticipating what comes after. Medicine often measures success purely in terms of survival. Which isn’t wrong per se, but not always an unvarnished good either.
Sometimes longer isn’t better.
/Limps quietly away
You are going to live forever and I refuse to believe otherwise.
Having what looks like about a 50 pound dog living there too. He must be happy.
I could swim a mile / Down the Nile 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqPJp7Q7qE
She does say she is not renewing the lease.
Because she misses L.A.?
Morning, Glibs.
I would agree with the Texas judge safe for the problem where my state had an issue where they dumpviolent felons back on the streets while they’re still very violent ant prone to hurting people within days of release. Then again, given how they’ve gone and criminalized everything here, I’d probably benefit in the long run from such a ruling.
I would agree too – if the punishment is adequate, then they have paid their debt and are citizens with all rights restored.
I could go either way during the probation period as long as it does not run on for years.
Indictment != conviction. Bring the evidence, get the conviction, and then ban them from owning or purchasing guns all you want. Just being indicted should never incur any penalty until conviction. Pre-trial detention can be used in cases where the accused is likely to pose a risk to public safety until trial. New York morons doing away with pre-trial detention and bail is their own unique fuckup that shouldn’t implicate the constitutional rights of everybody else.
They also don’t keep them for long enough after conviction. I know it doesn’t get as much news as the pre trial murder sprees.
Unique? IL is joining them come New Year’s Day…
I was astonished that the moonbats in SF pushed back on that with the Chesa Boudin recall. There may be hope yet.
Chicago is going to have to go back to the worst of the 1970s before they change anything in IL.
That’s what I was thinking too. It’s gotten to where jaywalking while wearing a Trump hat is a felony. The term has started to lose meaning.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
‘orning ‘ordles:
Warm up round was okay… tried a couple of different seeds to try to span common letters and it wasn’t great but wasn’t bad. Keep thinking of trying Hype’s Mom… *cough* I mean Hype’s challenge, but nowhere close so just being happy with using it to wake the mind up.
Daily Duotrigordle #203
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 06:47.94
https://duotrigordle.com/
Main event used the same words… and much less pleased with the results. Tolerable, but I wouldn’t say a particularly great day. I’m sure y’all will do better, you almost always do!
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Everythings coming up Milhouse! All my guesses worked first time with no whiffs today, which is the first time in a long time.
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Nicely done!
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It started so well… too bad I had to waste 3 guesses on upper right. I had all the letters for bottom right right after I finished bottom left.
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Tripped up on UR for a bit, but no Chumptown yet.
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Showoffs. 😉 Good job, folks.
Bah.
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Let’s double down!
No Student Loan Borrower Left Behind
It costs money to send kids to K-12. When will parents with younger children get relief?
Biden said pandemic is over, so what happens to his already weak justification for forgiving loans?
When he said the pandemic was over, he wasn’t speaking with any authority.
sin,
The White House
It really is astounding how often the “White House” rescinds what Biden just said. Granted, most of the time it is an obvious gaffe that they are walking back, but other times – like the pandemic is over – it is something that is just a statement of the President’s feelings.
A president who was really in charge would be firing a half dozen staffers a day after they tried walking back his policies. Or maybe Biden learned from Trump’s impeachment on the Ukraine phone call that you contradict the bureaucrat’s favored policies at your own peril.
If the successive presidencies of Trump and Biden have taught us anything, it is that:
1. The President doesn’t get to go against the Bureaucracy
2. The Bureaucracy is owned and operated by Obama loyalists
What is going on here? The Linx have some story about a 2 bit crook from Illinois? Where are the links to the story about indictments finally dropping in the huge Minnesoda food fraud case?
Our poor new Somali neighbors! Ever since they came here all they heard was people saying “Think about the children”, so they did. And they figured out a great way to make children pay off and now they are in trouble?
It also irritates me that the Feds are making me stick to my principles. I’d love to do nothing but heap scorn on these fraudsters, but then then the Feds have to go and start using asset forfeiture against these assholes and making me defend their rights.
The article does not mention that they are Somalians.
*looks at names and pictures*
Oh.
This scandal broke months ago. The recent news is that indictments just dropped finally. Anyone paying attention already new that the fraud was being run by the nonprofits that our new Somali neighbors love to set up.
It is interesting that the story named Mayor Frey’s aide Abdi Salah, but didn’t mention Ilhan Omar’s buddy Guhaad Hashi Said.
So the days are getting shorter here. It’s 5:45 AM and still not light out. The overnight temperatures are dipping into the 50s. I went for a walk at around 4:00 AM. The nice, crisp, early fall feeling in the air, a crystal clear sky full of stars, all the rest of the world in bed, no blasting stereos, no dogs barking, no power tools, no raw gas fumes, no roaring engines. For me, the tranquility at that hour is like heaven. I suspect it’s one of the reasons I’ve been a night owl all my life. Perhaps it’s because I’m rounding the bend into middle age, but that sweet serenity is about all I really want out of life. I’m with sloop, fuck the cities.
I woke up at 6:25AM, still not quite light out. Took my dog out and heard a loud obnoxious motorcycle rip down an adjacent street.
Yep, gotta get out before the morning traffic. I live right off of a highway, and it’s already jumping.
And now the kennel is starting up. Time to fire up the background noise generator.
Except for some fire engines in the distance, this morning has been peaceful. The back door is open, letting in the sounds from passing birds, before it gets too hot. Next week this will be the norm with highs in the low 70s.
AIn’t that the truth. Sunrise here is 0740 today, sunset at 2000. Supposed to be 48 and light rain, so typical for this time of year. Tourist season is wrapping up, so even the highway is quieter than it was a month ago.
I’m the opposite of a night owl, but I generally walk over to the office to start my day between 0600 and 0615. It’s lovely right now at that hour; as you say, peaceful, crisp, silent.
I lived in cities for almost forty years. I’d had more than enough of that.
Me too, I worked in some bigger cities but when the opportunity came I headed for the bush. Well, as close to bush as available, “back home”. Now after 30 years it still feels good every morning. Visitors keep saying how quiet it is, except for the neighbors that we can hear shooting in the evenings.
Country boy(s) can survive.
“Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune is slashed in half as Meta chief loses $71 BILLION this year after pivot into Metaverse: Share price plummets by 57% in a year
Zuckerberg, 38, was worth $142 billion in September 2021 but his fortunes have dramatically fallen, and now he is worth a mere $56 billion”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11233743/Zuckerbergs-fortune-falls-71-billion-far-year-Facebook-founders-net-worth-halves.html
I’m sure he’ll manage to get by somehow.
He’s still in the three comma club.
As long as he still has a car with doors that go up!
Tres Comas
An Oxford man, eh?
well played
Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzMUrB-Um1Y
He’ll only be able to fortify half as many elections now.
Environmentalists said the nationalization of Uniper should prompt the government to steer the company away from fossil fuels.
Keep your eye on the ball, Greens. It doesn’t matter if people are freezing and the economy is in ruins, as long as your fanaticism is appeased.
Hair shirts for everyone!
In today’s guaranteed to piss you off news: https://pjmedia.com/columns/hans-a-von-spakovsky/2022/09/20/this-should-terrify-every-american-doj-harasses-citizens-for-exercising-their-first-amendment-rights-n1630918
Yes, that pisses me off.
As mad as you are today, I’m sure you will be just as happy in a week or so when the US Attorney who issued that clearly illegal subpoena is fired for violating people’s rights.
You’re a funny guy, Pope.
Frankly, I was so excited to see that after what I think must be like 5 years, PJ Media has finally fixed their borked CSS that left unformatted hyperlinks across the top third of the page in place of a nav bar, that I almost forgot about the article.
I’m pretty much pissed off all the time, so this really doesn’t move the needle.
Question: how do we make money from this?
More of Joe’s “protecting democracy” in action.
Regarding Nikki Haley’s name usage, when contacted for comment, Robert Francis O’Rourke had no comment.
Putin finally made his big speech. Looks like the negotiation door has been permanently closed and the Next Phase Of The War is about to start. After the referendums in the Donbas, attacks their will be attacks on Russia – and the Russian Army, not the local militias will take the lead.
Putin is going to formalize the conquest and annexation of Donbas. And no, its not a “liberation” – when you keep what your army has taken, its a conquest. And no, I will give no validity to a vote held under Russian guns.
So Putin moves conscripts into Ukraine. Many of the units recently pushed out of northern Ukraine were Russian professional soldiers, not local militia, so I don’t think this is an increase in the quality of Russian forces. Still, Russia has always believed quantity has a quality all its own, so I’m guessing this will revert to a grind on the Donbas border. Which suits the WEFfers just fine. We’ll see how it plays out in Russia.
Problem is, Russia doesn’t have the demographics to support quantity as it once did.
They’ve been at war with the Ukrainian government since the 2014 coup. I don’t think any election shenanigans will be needed.
Patrick Lancaster posted some pretty damning video interviews with villagers in the Donbas. Kiev has been deliberately shelling villages and killing unarmed civilians there for the past 7 years. In every interview, he asks the villagers for clarification which side has been killing the residents, and the answer is always Ukraine.
Maybe Lancaster is on Russia’s payroll and it’s all staged propaganda. If not, it provides an insightful first-hand account of the situation actually experienced by the Donbas residents.
Reminds me quite a bit of Andy Ngo’s work.
“Look inside a NYC woman’s 80-square-foot, $650-per-month apartment”
My workbench is 40 square feet. Will she pay $325 to live on it?
Be careful what you wish for, IB. Better to get a van and park it down by the river and list it as a rental property in a quiet neighborhood
🤔
You rascal.
I’d rent it to her for $250, but retain the right to drill anytime you want.
Phrasing?
You’d be the tenon to her mortise?
I’M NO TURTLE FUCKER!!!
Wait, wait, wait…. Oh, mortise. Nevermind.
Greetings Glibbies,
I feel bad about missing Sensei’s 3D printing posts, I could’ve just sent the ready-to-print .stl or gcode file. D’oh!
What else did I miss?
Welcome back!
How many emergency services and police investigative people does it take deal with one inflamed protestor?
Man sets himself on fire in apparent protest of Abe funeral
The man, believed to be in his 70s, sustained burns on large parts of his body but was conscious and told police that he set himself on fire after pouring oil over himself, Kyodo News agency reported.
Bet he wishes he was dead. Burns hurt so much. Worst pain I’ve ever.
My understanding is once you burn through the nerves less pain, but the infection rate and possibility of death increase exponentially.
Yep.
3rd degree = no pain
2nd degree = incredible searing pain
Getting to 3rd degree without substantial 2nd is rare and limited to people caught in structure fires. Given this man’s age, recovery will be difficult.
Good morning, Sloop!
Germany nationalizes country’s biggest gas importer Uniper
It’s like they only have a single playbook.
“ran a free, community hot tub from his Essex Street home for nearly 50 years.”
Yeah, no. My OCD wouldn’t even allow me to get in the hot tub at the gym. Gross.
The Femmes are one of my favorite bands. Hard to explain how amazing they were when they first started touring the upper midwest. Great memories!
Why nationalize a gas importer when the issue is Russia closing the spicket in response to German government policy?
closing the spicket
Racist?
Closing the spicket – and redirecting it elsewhere. Russia says pipeline to China will replace Nord Stream 2.
Because Russia didn’t actually turn off the spigots, yet.
Russia is demanding payment in rubles and refusing to abide by price caps, but they’re willing to pump gas. Germany shut down Nord Stream 2 at the terminal, and is holding some parts for Nord Stream 1 in order to get it back up and running fully. Russia may be exaggerating the problems caused by the missing parts, but Germany is stalling the process in any case.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/German-Gas-Buyers-Resume-Nominations-For-Nord-Stream-1-Supply.html
“Ready”, but not shipped.
My point is that the EU is fucking itself. The governments are waging economic warfare on their own people and blaming Putin for it.
It’s a pretense for spurring NATO to action.
“Remember the Maine!”
^this. From Putin’s speech the other day to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. More Kremlin propaganda? Or a reasoned analysis that anyone here might say about the green energy and the bizarre war against fossil fuels?
Putin is what the prog-fascists were afraid Trump was. A based strongman outside the control of the US Deep State.
And the American government is waging economic and political warfare on its own people and blaming Trump for it.
Funny how trends reverberate like that.
This is really going to help Japan’s tourist industry.
Japan weighs plan for ban on hotel guests without masks -media
I’ve noticed more and more, while still a very small number, of Japanese not wearing masks in public places in YouTube videos and media. I guess the possibility of hordes of tourists deciding not to follow non binding requests is too much for some in the LDP.
According to my friend a few young people have had enough with the mask.
However, the pressure to conform to social norms there is far higher than the west.
Of course!*
I also see the (mostly likely don’t give a fuck anymore) ojiisans doing it, or some variation like a mask pulled under their nose/chin or pulling it down to speak or such.
*Been watching Steve’s POV on YouTube and laughing my ass off at his coaxing his underpowered kei truck on Texas freeways. Anyways he has an early video about first going to Japan as a salariman and having a customer call him back and chew him out because he didn’t hang up the phone right.
https://youtu.be/kRwVWLdxGfU
I’ve seen a few of his videos.
Did David Hoggg just come out? I can see him now rolling around in his Boxster with a designer dogg in his lap. Also, he gets 3 g’s in his name because he is a bigger grifter than Boss Hogg.
Are you claiming that Hogg is a pillow biter?
That would explain his failed pillow company.
Nobody wants a pre-bitten pillow.
Sloopy wants to know if I am claiming the Boxster is a Porsche.
Does the 914 count? At least it was air cooled.
It most definitely is a Porsche.
I got rid of my 991.1 2C by the way. Got a 991.1 GTS a few weeks ago. It was too good a deal to pass up. It’s freaking amazing. I love more horsepower. And I love having the last of the NA GTSs, which is the best of the 911s, in my book.
Life is good.
There is a cow in my back yard.
fatphobic much? Sexist also. I am sure the nice lady is metabolically healthy
The reboot that will have OMWC changing his tune about Jaws
Regarding Russia’s partial mobilization. It seems there’s a split between people who believe Russia has been fighting with one hand tied behind their back and people who believe the end result will be the dissolution of Russia or at least Putin. I’m not sure what seems more likely but the latter feels like state propaganda so I’m inclined to be at least somewhat skeptical.
The mobilization is a necessary legal step for calling up hordes of reservists who would be sufficient for holding territory that’s already been taken. That’s what bit them in the ass on the recent counteroffensive where they had so few people they basically had to bug out without a fight. It does look like the chance for a peace settlement is over but I doubt Putin or the Russian state is in serious jeopardy.
If Ukraine can’t win and Russia can’t lose we may be well and truly fucked.
Peace was an option. Now it isn’t. Disheartening.
It was very early on. You can thank Boris Johnson who almost single-handedly torpedoed it for that.
Western media loves to depict Putin as the boogie man. In reality, he’s a relative moderate in Russian politics. If he gets replaced, they’ll like his replacement a lot less.
Yep, plenty of right and left wing Russian ultranationalists waiting in the wings who are champing at the bit to let the military completely off the leash.
I assume everything is propaganda and we have no idea what is going on except the gas bill is gonna be a bitch this winter
Imposing another massive hike would mark the central bank’s toughest policy move in its fight against inflation since the 1980s — another period of sky-high prices. It would also likely cause economic pain for millions of American businesses and households by pushing up the cost of borrowing for homes, cars and other loans.
The Fed’s anticipated actions would increase the rate that banks charge each other for overnight borrowing to 3-3.25%, the highest since the 2008 global financial crisis.
They didn’t learn their lesson then, why would anybody think it will be different this time?
Wasn’t the fed rate 20% or so back then? How is 3 or 4% gonna matter?
“We must keep at it until the job is done,” he said at an August central bankers’ forum in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses. These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain,” he warned.
The Fed is like an overindulgent parent bargaining with a spoiled-rotten child.
“If you do this one thing for Mommy, and pretend to behave for just a little while, we can go back to having ice cream for breakfast every morning.”
Were the central bankers disappointed to discover that Jackson Hole was not a pit full of $20 bills?
I’ve had ice cream for breakfast and quite frankly I don’t recommend it.
Cinnamon ice cream on a Belgian waffle was one of my favorite treats as a kid.
They keep chasing the runaway spending / money printing with interest hikes but nobody wants to stop it.
/looks at feature image
Joe Biden channeling ET every time he sniffs someone’s hair?
Oh that second song… chef’s kiss. One of those I forgot about, but still love and know all the words.
+1 candy-coated tongue
Powell’s Jackson Hole comments also preceded new economic data that shows inflation, as measured by the latest Consumer Price Index report, is still elevated at 8.3% for the year ended in August. Moreover, the monthly reading from July to August showed that headline inflation crept up by 0.1%, when most economists expected it to slow. Core CPI, (which strips out volatile components like food and gas) rose twice as much as economists were expecting. That triggered a meltdown on Wall Street.
They need a new set of conjuring bones, I reckon.
In Shangri-La there’s a circle of monks singing the story of the world and only they know how this is all going to end.
The story stopped. Footage…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATw85tzqOhc
The Soho Forum
@TheSohoForum
It’s debate night in New York City! @WardHayesWilson
and @hobeyoco
will be debating the resolution:
“It is imperative to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
https://twitter.com/TheSohoForum/status/1571909804658163712
this is a sily debate given we cannot eliminate nuclear weapons, so should has nothing to do with it
“imperative”
Old Saracen Tower On The Amalfi Coast With Sea Access For Sale | Lionard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwIx3ONrDhw
the tower looks sort of nice
Economists at brokerage Nomura Securities, for example, changed their forecast from 75 basis points to 100 basis points last week. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said he doesn’t think gradual increases in interest rates have been working to tamp down high prices: The Fed has hiked rates four times already this year, and inflation remains near 40-year highs, he pointed out.
But it’s unlikely that the Federal Reserve will raise rates by a full percentage point. The consensus amongst economists and Wall Street analysts is still for a 75 basis point hike, with just 18% projecting the larger hike, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
I love how these Deep Thinkers maintain the fiction that the Fed can actually affect inflation while Biden & Co are doing their damndest to flood the economy with helicopter money.
We’re going to need a bigger tennis prison…
Trans activism is homophobia in drag
This can’t be accurate. Everyone knows that Burlington is a hot-bed of KKK Amish white supremacist homophobes and MAGA extremists.
The more-oppressed must beat the less-oppressed to prove how oppressed they are!
“It is imperative to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
If things continue on their present course, we’re liable to see a noteworthy depletion of the nuclear weapons inventory.
“We didn’t mean get rid of them by using them!”
What is the best morning routine?>
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xhoAnJMtxjA
I suspect “shitposting on Glibs” isn’t on his list.
So, Matt Walsh started investigating Vanderbilt’s monstrous tranny clinic.
It’s ugly. How did the monsters respond?
Yep.
You want a strong man? This shit is how you get a strong man.
I’m surprised they even tried to cover it up after the fact, usually they just double down amid counter-accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, followed by a flurry of SLAPP lawsuits.
They trial balloon the things they know aren’t burned into the collective ethos and they double down on the stuff that they know they have a critical mass of support on.
The ritualistic castration of children is a common theme in decadent empires. It never lasts forever.
I hope they archived everything somewhere besides archive.org.. wouldn’t be surprised if archive.org “excludes” the stuff they deleted.
I was expecting the deplatforming of Matt Walsh.
C’mon Twitter, catch up.
Southwest Airlines
@SouthwestAir
We teamed up with @guitarcenter
to surprise a flight full of Customers flying out of Long Beach with a ukulele and a lesson. By the time they arrived in Honolulu they were pros.
https://twitter.com/SouthwestAir/status/1572284484720168962
I believe that was Dante’s fourth circle.
“Conan, what is the definition of hell on earth?”
What’s the definition of an eternal optimist? A ukulele player with a pager.
Reminds me, I keep meaning to buy a ukelele. Would be something fun and easy to grab as a break between study/work compared to the acoustic. Plus when Cowpoke is old enough it’ll be a good 1st stringed instrument.
Every time I hear Nayib Bukele’s name, I want to call him Bukelele.
That’s better than what I think of.
What is the best morning routine?
Sex and coffee.
duh
At the same time? Hot.
Hot and black, just how like them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JANcVXHqNTI
Cancer death rates continue to fall, driven by new treatments and improved screening
Also every death is now a covid death.
Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard sue Florida for violating their rights
If these same attorneys had traveled into Mexico and volunteered their time to help the Venezuelans secure refugee status there, they might not have found themselves in the terrible predicament of having been forced to… voluntarily board a plane bound for a wealthy enclave that claims to love immigrants.
Who gave them that idea?
When you embarrass the left you are smacking a hornet’s nest of lawyers.
More like a nest of gnats with hornet pretensions.
“false promises and misrepresentations”
Like maybe how the attorneys told the immigrants they’ll be independently wealthy after the lawsuit?
Immediately find a bunch of migrants that Biden flew around the country and get them to sue.
There’s money to be made.
“false promises and misrepresentations”
The people who said they wanted us here don’t actually want us here!
The German government says it’s agreed to nationalize the country’s biggest natural gas importer, Uniper, expanding state intervention in the industry to prevent an energy shortage resulting from Russia’s war in Ukraine
That’s not why you have a problem.
DeSantis Does The Unforgivable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juqe15zttRQ
Tim Dillon cracks me up, though not as much as he cracks up his podcast producer Ben
also is there actual wine made on martha’s vineyard?
Tim Dillon Is Not Leaving His LA Building Quietly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce99pyLiV7s
Anything interesting come out of Putin’s latest address?
War were (all but) declared.
Wait, wasn’t there war already?
“Special military operation” was the term previously used. So I guess now it is ‘war’ war.
After the new Republics join the Russian federation, attacking them would be an act of war against Russia. Then the actual Russian army might show up instead of the local militia or bunch of Chechens.
Sort of. Russia was still pretending this was some kind of limited engagement. Now it is taking steps to formally treat this as a war, including having the breakaway Ukrainian regions declare themselves as part of Russia. Biden and co will call it a sham. Maybe it is. But Russia wants to follow international law at least far enough to keep China, India, etc on board. This seems to me to be a serious point of no return kind of escalation.
It will be interesting to see if we scale up into winter or the fuel-sabotage makes Europe scream for peace.
“But Russia wants to follow international law at least far enough to keep China, India, etc on board.”
That train left the station, derailed, rolled over and burned when they, you know, invaded Ukraine. You think India is going to applaud that, when the CCP has been nibbling at their part of Kashmir since the 1960s?
India has not condemned Russia.
Russia wants to follow international law as much as we do, which is not much.
NASA’s SLS leak check fill today has already failed. LH2 leak detected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3P_FB633k
Nothing to see at that video though
Russians Living in Estonia to Have Guns Forcibly Confiscated by the Government
The headline might be a tad optimistic.
Ah, and what’s the extent of the threat?
Europe, your experiment with young chick prime ministers should probably be shelved.
629, hoo boy. I dove a little too deep into civil war 2 fear porn last night and it looks like the increased gun sales from the pandemic never really let up. It’d be damn near impossible to disarm Americans now.
They’re all Hillary clones. High on their own power, loathing the masses, and completely incompetent.
at least you can have guns in estonia
Not if you’re a rooskie apparently.
FDR smiles up from Hell?
Looks like Russian nationals…does this include Russian-speaking Estonian citizens? I know Russia has been using the doling out of passports and citizenship as part of their salami slice tactics for a while, at least since Abkhazia.
NASA’s SLS leak check fill today has already failed. LH2 leak detected.
Tell me again what a good idea it is to have hydrogen-fueled cars, and how it will be no big deal having hydrogen tanks all over town.
Meh, lithium fires aren’t much better. I’m sure a lot of people were a little uneasy about having thousand gallon gasoline tanks every few miles at one point in time too. Life’s a risk. I suspect hydrogen refueling stations not operated by an incompetent government bureaucracy would probably end up with an acceptable safety record over the long run. Which isn’t to offer a defense of hydrogen vehicles or their practicality.
The current push is towards solid-state hydrogen storage in metal hydrides or metal-organic frameworks, thus eliminating the storage pressure problems.
I don’t know where they are on cost-efficiency though.
Previously the only acceptable way was to store in a titanium lattice, which was stupid expensive. I can’t imagine it has improved much.
What the NBA Can Learn (and Take) from EuroBasket
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10042844-what-the-nba-can-learn-and-take-from-eurobasket
“The pacing alone made the games more watchable than a lot of NBA regular-season affairs. The ball was moving up and down the floor like an ’80s NBA game, or almost like a soccer match. Things just sort of flowed, and that was true of every country in the field (at least relative to most NBA action).
Part of that is the result of what New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin told Bleacher Report is a “far more physical game.”
FIBA officials let a lot more incidental contact slide, and all the players are clearly used to that. They have no issue playing through (or at least trying to play through) contact.”
to be fair fouls are way to easy in the NBA
“One way to draw a technical is by flopping, a rule that the NBA should adopt as soon as possible.
Exaggerating, selling or straight-up faking contact has become customary within the league. You can’t watch a game without seeing it. And NBA stars are so used to getting certain calls that international competitions can throw off their rhythm.”
true flopping is an issue
“Speaking of unnecessary stoppages, FIBA’s use of college jump ball rules (the alternating possession arrow) speeds things up, too.
A more liberal approach to rim protection also helps.
“FIBA basket goaltending rules are better,” Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey told Bleacher Report.
It’s not hard to see why he thinks so. Goaltending can still be called when the ball is in the air and on its way down, but once it hits the rim, it’s live. That means a defender can knock it away from the hoop or an offensive player can help it in, regardless of whether it’s over the cylinder.”
Go.
Fuck.
Yourself.
or almost like a soccer match.
Passing back to the keeper would cause an over and back violation.
well it was about pace not everything that goes on during a football match. But due to the much smaller field the analogy is silly
soccer pace is much slower than even NBA basketball.
Speaking of rule changes, soccer should adopt one from lacrosse.
3 non-keeper players from each side cannot cross the midline. That means you can defend with at most 8 players (7 plus goalie).
I think for soccer, reducing it to two would even be okay. Then you can attack with at most 8 (plus goalie, if you dare), and defend with at most 8 plus goalie.
It would open up the box and prevent parking the bus in front of the goal.
My gripe with soccer is the stupid offsides rules. So what if a player is behind the defender, then gets passed to? Put in a blue line like hockey if you want to keep an offensive player from just parking outside the other team’s goal.
I played striker in HS. Toying with the offside trap is lots of fun. Sometimes you get called, but when you burn it, its you vs the keeper.
Dear god, yes.
2022 HOT SWIMWEAR SHOW｜FULL ver.｜4K｜
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPjbyX1eq50
And now…
That was great!
I had no idea that Rush Limbaugh played banjo.
“Although not exhaustive, the Court’s historical survey finds little evidence that … (the federal ban) — which prohibits those under felony indictment from obtaining a firearm — aligns with this Nation’s historical tradition.”
🙂
Hahaha, oh CNN, bless your heart.
CNN, putting the “special” in “special pleading”.
Not going to read the article, because… well… CNN. But who would the city need to pay fines to if they fail? Is there a state law that penalizes the city, or is it just the city paying itself to show they “care”?
We need more budget to pay the fines to ourselves.
I assume the politicians/public workers who fail are fined this is the only way it makes sense
Life’s a risk. I suspect hydrogen refueling stations not operated by an incompetent government bureaucracy would probably end up with an acceptable safety record over the long run. Which isn’t to offer a defense of hydrogen vehicles or their practicality.
Except hydrogen is uniquely difficult to store and transport. Gasoline is actually pretty tame.
I understand that it presents very unique challenges in distribution compared to gasoline, I’m just saying that if it were a financially viable prospect, the safety risks would probably end up mitigated into practical non-existence over the long-run by private actors. NASA just plainly isn’t very good at much of anything.
You are correct sir.
We’re doing what we’re doing and we’re doing it every day.
Kamala Harris: “We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks, because we know community banks are in the community, and understand the needs and desires of that community as well as the talent and capacity of community.”
Community.
I thought I was repetitive, given my propensity to repeat words repetitively in comments.
/dresses up as a Drow elf
/gets cancelled
That was one of the best episodes. As a former DM, I completely approved.
Is she trying to one up Hemmingway (Ernest)?
Chik-fil-a says huh?
What do you mean by community? Black community? Racist!
Community.
Communitards.
Let us have our war
When national security adviser Jake Sullivan was asked at the Aspen Security Forum in July why Washington was not giving Ukraine the additional advanced weapons it urgently requested, he responded, “The president has said he is not willing to provide long-range missiles because, while it is needful to support and defend Ukraine, another key goal is to ensure that we do not end up … heading down the road towards a third world war.”
It is not clear whether Sullivan was just following Biden’s lead in his apocalyptic rhetoric or whether he initially infected his boss with it. What is clear is that the Biden-Obama-Clinton group of foreign policy specialists has absorbed too well the risks of U.S. military intervention, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they have failed to grasp the risks of nonintervention, as with Rwanda, Bosnia, Syria, Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere.
Just get it over with. Declare war on Russia and send in the Marines.
The powers that be are really into war. Blood-soaked monsters.
I think this country needs to give them all the bloodshed they want – just not where they are expecting it.
I was feeding my 3-week-old son the other day and I thought “to most politicians, this little boy is either a prop, a voter, an object of hate, or cannon fodder. To me he is priceless.”
Politicans don’t care who they kill, maim, starve, or impoverish, as long as they get re-elected and get to sit in the power chair.
…sit in the power chair.
It really ought to have a 10k volt connection, tripped by a random number of citizen complaints. Sure – go right ahead and have a seat!
Progressives: “the US should not be the world’s policeman. Until it should.”
Ok, I’m officially tapping out on this guy.
He sucks. Has sucked. Will suck again.
There are plenty of problems with Amash, but that one seems dead on right.
Yeah, of all the problems you could have with the guy – this is a strange one. Nationalist conservatives aren’t going to be very different from neo-cons.
…
OK, I now suspect very much that we’re all working off very different definitions. The entire split between paleocons and neocons was largely that the neocons rejected nationalism and embraced globalism. I’m struggling to conceptualize how on earth nationalism is tied to neoconservatism in anyone’s mind.
I don’t believe I’ve heard one of them yet talk about withdrawing the U.S. military from our many overseas points of presence.
Perhaps, but by the same token, their strongman dictator was also the first president we’ve had in half a century not to get us into any new shooting wars.
And every part of the establishment hated him for that.
Right. I think maybe we’re getting to the issue here. The “natcons” aren’t the establishment GOP by any means. Here’s the speaker list from their latest conference. There’s plenty of people there I hate, but not many I’d describe as fundamentally rejecting private property, for example. Those are the people he’s shitting on with his statement – Ron DeSantis and Peter Thiel, not Mitch McConnell and Les Wexner. I’m not saying that Ron DeSantis and Peter Thiel are necessarily admirable, only that his criticism doesn’t make a lot of sense in that context.
Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t think he is shitting on people like Liz Cheney in this statement, he is finger wagging at an MTG. Also, seems to maybe be a comment on the Martha’s Vineyard event.
His comment is technically correct, but also not really telling us anything.
I don’t think it’s even “technically correct”, unless my understanding of all these terms is wildly outside of the prevailing norm these days, in which case those terms have undergone extensive revisions in meaning very recently. Natcons aren’t against property rights and individualism just because they disagree with globally-managed trade.
I mean, is he wrong?
What exactly are the ‘National Conservatives’ doing right now that is so wonderful? Other than dipping their beaks into the Ukraine trough?
They own libs hurr-durr-hurr?
Perhaps we’re all working off different definitions here. As I understood it, “national conservatism” is basically just bog standard American social and economic conservatism with a chauvinist element that had been discarded by the neocons when they skinsuited the movement in the ’70s. Basically what used to be called “paleoconservatism” before the neocon wing ran them out.
That’s the problem with a lot of these discussions centered around political “science” things. I never get a clear definition of anything, especially since Marxists love to change definitions on the fly.
WTF does a neoliberal believe?
Every time someone says “the national good” my skin crawls; doesn’t matter if it is from the left or the right.
Amash is distinguishing between national conservatives and constitutional conservatives and fiscal conservatives.
So this would be the big spending, tariff-raising, pro-war conservatives.
He did quote tweet Bill Kristol a day before this tweet, so maybe that is what he meant. In which case, sorry I guess.
Just seems odd, like who supports Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney at this point?
The Military-Industrial-Complex?
In other words, a mish-mash of unrelated policies he doesn’t like that he’s decided to ascribe to people he doesn’t like? We still haven’t nailed down a meaning here. What, in your guys’ minds, does “national conservative” mean? I thought it meant conservatives who embrace nationalism. And what you’re describing doesn’t sound very much like that, except for the tariff part. In point of fact, the people who seem to be excited about raising tariffs and closing trade seem much less interested in foreign wars and big spending than their globalist counterparts. I feel like I’m losing my mind a bit here. Help me out fellas.
Ok thanks for continuing this. I laid the point down pretty quickly (I am a squishy asshat).
Sorry to throw another term out, but the “America First” people to me are synonymous with national conservative. They are certainly not globalists and have not explicitly rejected individualism.
Okay, I’ll accept that definition. My question still remains.
If you accept that definition then I would answer your question in the affirmative: yes, he is wrong. For the very simple reason that nationalism as an ideology, and “national conservatism” as a particular expression thereof, does not inherently reject private property or individualism, and is no more inherently authoritarian than internationalism/globalism.
And I would furthermore suggest that imputing internationalist military interventionism to what amounts to paleocons is a non-sequitur. The rift between the paleos and neos was largely centered around military interventionism, and the nationalists spent about 30 years being castigated as “fortress America” isolationists. We’re talking about fellas like Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos. For whatever else you might want to malign them for – and there’s plenty of material there – being military adventurists could not be counted among them.
I’d furthermore suggest that it’s a rather novel criticism coming from a faux-libertarian asshole who supports political prosecutions carried out by unaccountable domestic spy agencies and can’t be fucked to say an ill word against Chinese factories – some of them very similar to the kind that crank out the cheap, disposable tooling that built his family’s fortune and keep his trust fund checks in the mail – employing actual, no-shit slave labor. Perhaps pluck the fabricated FISA warrant out of your own before you go about calling anyone else an authoritarian there, Justin.
For not being interventionists/globalists – they sure have an interest in things outside our borders.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/washington-can-help-armenias-christians/
And I’m quote national-conservative-PRIME there.
He rather explicitly rejects military intervention in that very article:
His arch-nemesis from mainstream conservatism is David French, who recently penned this little number. That’s why I think the criticism is off-base and also rather ridiculous considering who Amash counts among his friends.
How nice for him to draw a distinction with Taiwan. The fact is we have zero national interest in Armenia other than his professed Christian brotherhood.
That French is wrong is about as noteworthy as a stopped clock.
Gosh, there just isn’t a lot of good options on the right side, anymore than on the left.
I get the whole “both sides bad” thing is like a compulsion with libertarians, but I think there’s a meaningful distinction between saying America should withhold support for a regime that’s persecuting Christians and saying America should militarily intervene on behalf of the persecuted Christians. I don’t think the former could reasonably be said to constitute interventionism. If that’s as interventionist as the natcons get then they’d be a marked improvement over the establishment wing of the GOP or any wing of the Democratic Party.
Which isn’t an endorsement of Sohrab Ahmari, merely to suggest that he’s not a warmonger. His ideas on domestic policy are far more troubling, IMO. Although admittedly I’m to a point where I really don’t give a single shit about libertarianism anymore and would reluctantly throw in with a guy like that when the alternative is either a group of psychopaths who are religiously devoted to the idea that white people are inherently defective and that 5 year old children should be able to decide to lop off their dick or tits before they’re legally allowed to sign a contract or get their ears pierced, or navel gazing libertarians who genuinely believe that a public school football coach saying a prayer on the field before a game is an equal expression of authoritarianism.
I only brought in the David French comparison because of their famous feud a few years ago, and because the David French position is widely shared among the “respectable” Republicans and Democrats with whom Amash likes to rub shoulders and against whom he can’t muster a cross word.
I also apologize for needlessly belaboring my point and being argumentative. I know comity is prized here in a way it wasn’t at the bad old site. It’s not personal in any way. I enjoy these types of lively discussions is all.
would reluctantly throw in with
That is the politics of prison gangs. I’d rather blow up the prison than decide which of the gangs to join.
No personal offense taken – just a good discussion. It’s fair to insist on elaborating what makes national conservatism unattractive.
Amash is a weasel. Don’t forget that he was in on RussiaGate to the point of endorsing highly suspect activities on the part of the agencies.
I understand that it presents very unique challenges in distribution compared to gasoline, I’m just saying that if it were a financially viable prospect, the safety risks would probably end up mitigated into practical non-existence over the long-run by private actors. NASA just plainly isn’t very good at much of anything.
I get that, and I’m not trying to stir up a fight.
I think hydrogen gas is a dead end; the benefits do not appear to me to outweigh the costs. I could be proven wrong. It has happened before.
I stumbled across a couple of articles (planted, as I recall, by some startup trolling for venture capital) about using hydrogen in the form of liquid ammonia as fuel for internal combustion engines. I haven’t seen anything about it since.
I believe we are in violent agreement on the issue overall. As I said, I hadn’t intended to defend hydrogen vehicles as a viable alternative, only to suggest that private actors would probably do a better job of managing the infrastructure for it than NASA. By now, I think hydrogen is pretty well dead anyway. The powers that be have decided the future is quarter million dollar a piece electric cars running on lithium batteries powered by 50 cent a kwh solar electricity.
The energy density of hydrogen makes it too tempting to give up on entirely. There’s still a lot of work going to efficiently create hydrogen from solar.
‘Uniper, expanding state intervention in the industry to prevent an energy shortage resulting from Russia’s war in Ukraine’
Now they’ll get shortages due to gross mismanagement instead, winning.
Ok, I’m officially tapping out on this guy.
Maybe I’m just not aware of the context, but I don’t see what’s especially objectionable about that. Is “national conservatism” code for “Trumpism”?
That’s how I took it. I don’t particularly disagree with him on that point, but given his previous thoughts, the subtext is him self-positioning on the prog-fascist/GOPe side of the cultural rift.
Politics in America is reduced to selectively taking the statements of politicians out of context to either support or pillory them based on their overall position.
Wait, did I say “reduced?” I’m guessing it’s been that way since at least the 1820s.
What I mean is that it’s a farce, and that there’s no such thing as representative democracy in our time.
1820 is too late. The election of 1800, if not earlier.
I am with you, I see no problem with that Amash statement.
Here’s something I just tripped over, in my head. How is it that the people who are all in on DEMOCRACY! can talk about populism as if it’s some sort of horrible scourge of totalitarianism?
Populism = those icky people over there getting their way
Democracy = us getting our way
^^^ THIS
Who are the “national conservatives”?
Chuck Grassley?
Mitt Romney?
Liz Cheney?
Mitch McConnell?
Yeah — that’s my question. (And why my response to the Amash quote is: Citation needed.)
I don’t know offhand of anyone calling themselves a “National Conservative”. I don’t know as a result what any such creature would believe or espouse.
If, as conjectured, it is code for “likes Trump” — then I don’t follow. Where exactly has been the dismissal of individual and/or property rights? Can’t be quibbling over free vs. fair trade. Shouldn’t be stuff like “Don’t groom kids, don’t force CRT down the throats of your employees / kids / government workers” — because I don’t see any of that as going against individual rights.
I’m sure Trump himself has said some stupid crap about eminent domain or whatnot (because a) He’s Trump. His mouth runneth over. and b) He’s a real estate developer — of course he likes the idea of taking ‘unprofitable’ land and making some money off of it). But he’s wrong when he says stupid crap and I don’t think any of it has elevated to a political philosophy or ideology.
Those of y’all agreeing with Amash care to clue us in on just who he’s talking about?
I don’t think any of it has elevated to a political philosophy or ideology.
That’s what the national-conservative ‘movement’ is attempting to do – codify Trumpism; usually grafting on something about “the common good” and/or “we need more religion”. It is a fragment of the overall conservative world that wants to dominate the conservative agenda, and in doing so be quite willing to sacrifice the classical liberal values originally underlying what was to be ‘conserved’.
Perhaps we’re all working off different definitions here. As I understood it, “national conservatism” is basically just bog standard American social and economic conservatism with a chauvinist element that had been discarded by the neocons when they skinsuited the movement in the ’70s. Basically what used to be called “paleoconservatism” before the neocon wing ran them out.
Rockefeller Republicans?
Buchanan was, and is, as big an idiot as Sen. Graham; that and being Republican are all the two really have in common.
I don’t disagree that Pat Buchanan is an asswipe – particularly for being an actual, genuine, no-shit Hitler apologist who unironically argued that Hitler had no interest in war or conquest and would have been satisfied with Poland if not for Western meddling. But if I had to pick one or the other to be in charge of the government, I’d pick Buchanan.
Breaking news: the NY attorney general has just indicted Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation, for financial fraud, money laundering, influence peddling, and being disgusting people. Oh wait……..
I never got and lost a boner so fast.
You suck, creech.
Ditto.
Sorry, I thought everyone here appreciated science fiction and fantasy writing.
Taco Bell to test meatless carne asada steak at several locations next month
My high school Spanish may be a bit rusty, but does “carne asada” still translate into English as “grilled meat”?
Are they trying to say they used meat before, because I don’t buy it.
Somewhat on topic given the Illinois politics in the links (and in general around here):
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1572268037792997376
Gives some level of credibility to the lizard people conspiracy theory.