One more day!
Not much going on this side of the pond until tonight with football. I just can’t get into the NBA, although it’s hilarious that the Lakers are as bad as they are. There was a whole boatload of UCL the last two days and 12 teams have punched their ticket to the Round of 16. Spuds were not one of them after a controversial VAR review at the end of their match. I still think they move on next week though. But their group is completely up for grabs. The World Series needs to hurry up and get here. Game 1 is a mere 36 hours away, and I’ll be there with our very own Brett L. And lastly, this: Dude, stop. You sound desperate at this point. Like a jilted lover. Time to move on. Go get SDSU and Fresno State or something. And that’s it for sports.
Johnny Storm now in custody.
Goodness gracious great balls of fire! All I can say is: wow!
I’m shocked! Shocked, I say! Oh wait, I’m not shocked. This dude is a fucking creep. I just don’t know if it’s corruption or overseas pederasty. I guess we’ll find out.
This is a good decision. Now get rid of the law altogether.
Aaaaaaaand he’s right. These assholes need to grab a mirror. About time somebody stood up to them.
I hope she wins.
No good deed goes unpunished. I can’t see how this is anything but a free association and free speech violation. Hopefully she wins.
Burn in hell, you piece of shit. That’s it. That’s my only take.
Way to twist the headline. Because it’s not as if they were brawling amongst themselves. Somebody was there to silence them. And the school let it happen.
I hope he makes it. And I hope the asshole who did this to him rots in a cell.
This song is topical. It’s all a great song. And here’s a weird one. Hope you enjoy them both.
And I hope you enjoy a lovely Thursday, dear friends.
“About a half hour after his original tweet, he became more serious: ‘A beautiful thing about Twitter is how it empowers citizen journalism”
That’s why the NYT, etc. hates him.
I don’t understand that misconception.
It’s a format that deprives the content of context, making it more difficult to get actual information out.
It’s a platform for quips and barbs, not journalism.
You’ve never seen a tweet with a teaser and a link to a long form article?
That only shows how little utility exists in the platform itself.
That makes no sense, insomuch as I’ve never seen a website that did much more than that with their homepage. You have to click through pretty much anywhere to get to the actual article.
In the case of any site with their own content, they actually have the content.
At best, in your example, twitter has pointers to people who have the content.
With all the chaff in between, there’s no reason to stick around twitter digging through the trash for the usable nuggets rather than cultivating sources that actually have the information.
It’s not empowering journalism, it’s an SMS chat room.
In the case of any site with their own content, they actually have the content.
Yeah, I can’t remember the last time I went to a news outlet’s home page and saw a complete article in their homepage. You have to click through the headline and maybe a few sentences to see the long-form piece.
What websites do you get news from who do it the other way?
I don’t get your fixation on whether or not you have a link to click from point A to B. It’s the internet, there’s always a link to click.
If Twitter goes away, all the news is still there.
And the same applies to the NYT, WaPo, DM, etc etc etc.
Did you ever go to Drudge or anywhere else that aggregated articles? HuffPo, RCP, etc. They’re pretty commonplace. And you can follow certain accounts on Twitter that effectively turns your timeline into the sale thing.
The only Aggregator I visit is Glibs.
I find value in Twitter because I “follow” certain accounts that point out articles, thought pieces, and photos that I wouldn’t know existed if I only read MSM or Drudge.
Have you actually USED Twitter at all?
In what way?
I don’t have an account, so I’ve never posted anything. I’ve tried to browse, but it seemed vehemently opposed to letting me find anything. And of late it’s been extra agressive about wanting people to sign in, so I’ve been there less and less.
So the answer is no. It may be useless to you, but it was priceless to me as an author and I find value in it. Just because you don’t doesn’t make it worthless.
Gordilocks mobilized an entire movement practically all by himself on Twitter. He couldn’t have gotten the reach he did without it because the blogs he was interviewed by certainly wouldn’t have that kind of audience.
I have a burner account that allows me to monitor the people who interest me. I use bookmarks instead of ‘following’ people so the algorithms can’t hide bad-thinkers.
My single favorite news source. And it’s childishly easy to avoid the stupid. I truly don’t understand the hate.
@Tundra – Most of the time I’m ambivalent. I only start to hate when people act like it’s important.
I use bookmarks instead of ‘following’ people so the algorithms can’t hide bad-thinkers.
Sounds like you are bypassing the things that make Facebook, Facebook, and emulating a blog by linking directly to content providers that you like to follow. Unfortunately, Facebook and Twitter have displaced a good chunk of the blogosphere from days of yore, replacing a very decentralized and dare I say diverse ecosystem with one that is centralized, controllable and as a consequence, less diverse.
@Moj – Viewing is a form of using. I’m glad you found a utility where there wasn’t an obvious one.
@ tundra again – Your interaction sounds like the way I use youtube, no account just bookmark the creators whose content I think I might want to watch again later, bypassing whatever algorithmic shenanigans the site tries to pull to impede the core function of the site.
Whether you hate it or not, it is important. It is important in the fact that it is so influential, to the good or ill.
In the early days of Twitter, it actually increased the blogosphere’s audience because you could build an audience with people who didn’t know you exist. I remember blogging in the early days of my authorship and I finally went to Twitter, and somebody said OMG MORIAH JOVAN’S ON TWITTER NOW?!?!?!?! and I grew my blog.
That phase, unfortunately, passed. People got to where they were able to get to the kernel of what would have been a blog post in 40 characters (yes, in those days it was 40) and it got traction and people’s attention spans tanked. You could kind of thread (that’s how hashtags happened) and people could follow a thread, but it was always less than a thoughtful blog post because it could be condensed.
That might sound bad, and in some ways it is. But if you’ve ever read mommy and DIY blogs where they’re always struggling for content, you’ll find that 80% of what they post is just filler that could have gone into a tweet. No, I do not want to know about your next-door neighbor’s epic fail with peppermint bark that has no instructive value whatsoever. Give me the fucking recipe and instructions. The amount of fluff is maddening.
I rarely blog anymore, except for here, because I’ve said all I have to say because I don’t do web drama and a good portion of what’s blogged about now (at least in the authorsphere) is just drama. I don’t mind participating vicariously by reading it, but I usually don’t have much of an opinion on it, and if I do, it’s the vastly minority opinion.
Yep. A quick snarky comment followed by a link isn’t a whole helluva lot different than what commonly happens here. Not saying we’re doing journalism but then again I often learn more from Glib links and commentary than I do from the original long form article.
People often post very informative threads on Twitter with plenty of context.
Although that, or length, isn’t necessary to get actual information out.
“The covid vaccines don’t prevent transmission.”
“The New York post recovered a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden.”
Both short, true statements that Twitter banned.
And like it or not, a lot of people get their “news” from Twitter.
It can break news faster. Someone can tweet faster than someone can put up an article.
Someone can tweet faster than someone can put up accurate, truthful information. .
Because the corporate media is so accurate and truthful?
Of course not. I’m not sure I see the value of putting bullshit in circulation faster, though.
But enough about Glibertarians.
Are you claiming NYT gives context and not narrative background?
That rag is still in business?
“Finally, they hammered at Musk’s suggestion of easing tensions between China and Taiwan by giving the Chinese some control over Ukraine,”
?????
That is nonsensical.
I think it might be a typo.
Lakers are as bad as they are – some teams just start slow is all
*crosses his giant foam T-Woofs #1 fingers and hopes for the best*
Game 1 is a mere 36 hours away, and I’ll be there with our very own Brett L – I would not trust Brett L he will try to drink your beer
At $18 a pop, I ain’t letting nobody drink my beer.
I never thought of ballpark beer being a souvenir, but you do you man.
The souvenir cup beers are $24.
The $18 ones are 22 Oz tall boys at least. I guess that’s the price you pay for having a team play for the world championship. So I assume they’re cheaper at Yankee Stadium. I guess somebody can go watch them play in April and report back on that.
Shit… I think they’re $15 (for a decent beer) at Jacob’s field, and about the same at the Muni for regular season games. Hell, one concert venue was $14 for any beer.
But still… fuck the Yankees.
Sigh… thinks wistfully back to all the fun that was had on the levy in the late ’90s, watching the New Orleans Zephyrs play during Nickel Beer Night.
Before my time… but cheap beer has a history here.
That Wikipedia page is deadnaming the Guardians
No good deed goes unpunished. I can’t see how this is anything but a free association and free speech violation. Hopefully she wins. – you can;t go feeding the homeless willy-nilly. What would the FDA or something think.
It’s not the FDA that’s upset, it’s the Non-Profit “Charities” who don’t want to be embarassed for someone doing what they claim to be for with less overhead spending on executive salaries.
But is the food safe, not to much salt and what about fat content
I doubt they’re the ones upset at this. It’s local government agencies who are doing a poor job who get upset when someone shows them up.
I guess it depends on the locality how the graft gets done.
I could see the neighbors being upset – it’s like feeding pigeons, it will just attract more of ’em. *shrug*
I fucking hate people who feed pigeons. hangin’s too good for em
Hanging doesn’t work all that well for pigeons, they can fly.
Alfred, NY has the fattest stray cats I’ve ever seen; you’ve hit upon the reason.
are they friendly? can you pet them?
You can pet anything, at least once.
Pie vs. Alfred strays
College town, man…
Sure he’s old, but he didn’t get that fat.
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.7DK–iMtKydVvPuDyYeh3QHaGj
I just don’t know if it’s corruption or overseas pederasty. I guess we’ll find out.
Ha, good one!
Why not… well, you know the rest.
Menendez has been indicted before, but skated free on a hung jury. Everyone knows he’s corrupt, but he’s a Democrat in NJ and therefore very unlikely to face consequences.
No claim about consequences was made.
Hold on there. Your article only mentioned the corruption charges he beat in court. No mention at all of any underage prostitutes.
But why?
Going to gas-up another bike?
‘Melgen was later convicted of defrauding Medicare patients but had his prison sentence commuted by former President Donald Trump in his final hours in office.’
That’s disappointing.
“UC Davis event hosted by conservative student group canceled after 100-person brawl breaks out”
That article sucks. They mention that some people said some people “wore apparel labeled Proud Boys”, but not who the protestors were.
I’m surprised they didn’t find a way to shoehorn “Proud Boys” into the headline.
I was wondering why the Proud Boys would be smashing barricades against the windows of the place. You’d think they’d be more supportive of a conservative speaker.
They are just so hateful that they can’t control themselves?
For that matter, the story never mentioned who the Proud Boys were battling. I’m guessing it must have been random students who happened to be innocently passing by.
Thinking you have to read all the unread books on your shelves before buying new ones is like thinking a wine connoisseur should drink everything in their cellar before buying any new bottles. Some books just need a bit of shelf-time before they (/you) are ready.
https://twitter.com/Shakespeare_Co/status/1585223305568563205
Books are meant to be read, wine is meant to be drank. I read the book and pass it along, I have one ready.
Anyone interest in “James Madison”
“The Three lives of James Madison”
It’s an great book, reads like today’s politics. I’d be happy to send it to someone else to enjoy
Which one of you is impersonating Bono?
Bono, the lead singer of U2, said that he has realized the redistribution of resources won’t help poor people the way that commerce and entrepreneurial capitalism will help them.
There must be a tax increase being proposed in Ireland.
Thought he had been saying that to some extent or another for a while now.
Yes, he has. But that’s not what people want to hear, so it is underreported and then when he says it again, it sounds like a revelation to some folks.
Props for clearing the scales off of his at least a little bit.
“eyes”
Ugh, some days I feel like I’m the stroke victim.
Look, I thought I ordered a Bonobo monkey costume for Halloween.
I was a bit disappointed when I discovered my dyslexia caused me to accidently click a Bono costume. I just didn’t want it to go to waste.
Now I will have to parade around the neighborhood in a costume that makes me look like a sub-human.
“Some of the people in the brawl wore apparel labeled Proud Boys, according to reports UC Davis received.
The Proud Boys are a right-wing extremist group that is considered primarily violent, misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration, according to the Anti-Defamation League.”
We get an awful lot of slander about the people getting attacked, but strangely little information (none) about who was attacking them. Weird. Must be some sort of coincidence.
The ADL is a bad joke. It’s like they looked at the SPLC and said “Yeah, let’s do that!”
Well, it’s been profitable for those running SPLC, so why not?
“is considered” – That’s some fine journalisming, right there.
Listened to Gavin McInnes yesterday talking about the cancelled talk at Penn State. The usual types showed up and went crazy because somebody was going to say something they disagreed with. Then one of them broke out the bear-spray – all caught on video – and sprayed their own people. The school immediately blamed the Proud Boys and cancelled the event.
That’s double retarded.
Have you seen the clip of the girl spitting on the “big booty Latina” guy? It’s fucking hysterical.
Crazy eyes of evil, that one. *shudder*
Gavin said he tried to talk Alex out of going out into the mob, but Stein is great at working the crowd and keeping his cool. If she had spit on me, my hand probably would have slapped he face before my brain told it not to.
I noted that there were cops right behind them but she wasn’t arrested.
Imagine if that were an anti-abortion protester spitting on someone at a pro-abortion rally. Do you think they’d have escaped arrest? Or escaped being plastered all over the MSM coverage that night?
I saw video of the cops arresting some of the kids in the mob who clearly, from their signs and other stuff, opposing Stein and McInnis. So they were willing to arrest some. Why they didn’t arrest the girl? No idea.
I expect the University president will do nothing despite press releases from the University talking about “supporting free speech”. The new University president seems to be a rather woke diversity hire (Indian woman who was, I think, at a university in Tennessee). On the other hand, I’m not certain what the Centre County DA will do with the arrests. In the past, he has made some definitely unwoke decisions about prosecutions.
In addition: There were police from all over the county there in addition to the State Police. It’s also possible that police from the more rural areas of the county were more willing to bring the hammer down on students.
Oh, I just remembered something.
I think spitting on someone counts as Simple Assault in PA. Summary Offense, not arrestable. Police issue citations for it.
Assuming the law hasn’t changed since I was living there. In other words, Simple Assault not being arrestable was true more than 25 years ago, and is probably still true.
We don’t know who was attacking whom from that mess of an article, I gather the assumption here is that the protestors started it but it could just as easily have been the counter protestors.
We can assume that the same way we can assume the Jews attacked Germany to kick off WWII. Tortured logic and mangling evidence can lead you to all kinds of stupid thoughts.
There is no evidence in that article to be mangled.
Nope, not a contrarian at all.
Because disagreeing with the narrative or advocating for peace is sowing chaos.
How long before they start committing people to asylums for “psychopathological mechanisms of dissent”?
wait how would he end protests in Iran?
Does it matter? He’s a chaos agent!
I was curious if he said something about it… there is a lot of verbal solidarity with Iran in Europe but that had zero effect.
Current year is the worst episode of Get Smart evar.
Dammit!
Would you believe…?
Worst year so far.
You who else was a KAOS agent?
Hitler?
Don Adams ?
Roger Waters?
Johnny Fever before his days at WKRP?
…Booooger!
Shtarker? Or maybe Dalip?
::scratches head:: How is that different from aggravated assault committed by a mere mortal?
I mean I would think and officer of the law trained and armed by the government and allowed to shoot has a different status than your average mortal and should be held to a higher standard
should be held to a higher standard
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!
ought, not is
It enhances it to a 1st Degree Felony, the second highest classification of felony in Texas.
Babe, but you 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, your exact words, “buy us a baby monitor”
https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1585076512805761024
🙂
Took a few seconds but hey, I’m old. LOL
Awwwwww!
“News of Swifts vinyl totals came on the same day the video of one of her songs was edited to remove a controversial image.
Taylor Swift’s music video for new single Anti-Hero has been edited to remove a controversial scene showing her stepping onto a bathroom scale which reads ‘fat.’
The clip on Apple Music, which premiered on October 21, no longer shows a close-up of the scale, with the 32-year old singer simply seen looking at her clone with a shocked expression as she stands in the bathroom.
The decision to remove the scene comes after fans took to social media to brand the singer ‘fatphobic’ for ‘perpetuating that being overweight is bad.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11358739/Taylor-Swifts-Midnights-album-sell-500-000-vinyl-copies-one-week.html
Being overweight is bad.
HEALTHY AT ANY WEIGHT, FATPHOBIC, BLAERGH YARGLE BARGLE REEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
I retain water OK?
Others slammed the decision to remove the scene, citing Swift’s bravery in addressing body image after she had spoken openly about her own past battle with an eating disorder.
Eating disorders are fatphobic.
Depends on the disorder.
An honest group of doctors has actually laid out a vaccine injury recovery treatment protocol.
I was in the lab indusrty until a couple months ago (wouldn’t get vaxxed). I still think a big growth opportunity for the next few years will be diagnosing vax side-effects and working with doctors on treatments.
We’ve had two employees in the last couple of weeks miss a day of work after getting their “boosters.” I’m curious to see how much time off people take for that when they have to use their regular PTO instead of the “Emergency PTO” my employer has been providing the last couple of years (but doesn’t plan to offer next year.)
“If you or a loved one has died after receiving a covid booster call 1-800-Amb-Chas”
But their immune system is still somewhat intact, which means they needz moar boosters! The only way to fix an immune system is to kills it off completely!
Lmao I’m crying
https://twitter.com/creeptwin/status/1585273863717486593
I mean I am not crying but am amused
There was a whole boatload of UCL the last two days and 12 teams have punched their ticket to the Round of 16. Spuds were not one of them after a controversial VAR review at the end of their match.
Sports are stupid. *stabs soccer ball with a knife*
*stabs soccer ball with a knife*
You are Millwall?
“This is a good decision. Now get rid of the law altogether.”
Well, he’s just lucky, because that cell phone looked like a gun! Would have been a good shoot! He’s probably one of them mareewaner addict libertarians!
Goodness gracious great balls of fire! All I can say is: wow!
That’s what I call a hot pursuit.
“Arizona grandma sues city after she’s arrested for feeding homeless”
Another pot smoking addict hippy libertarian who thinks people can just do whatever they want. We need RULEZ!
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is under federal criminal investigation, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News and confirmed by an adviser to the senator.
*yawn*
Dude has a “D” next to his name.
I thought being under criminal investigation was a prerequisite for holding public office in NJ.
Mostly you have to be a Democrat, so potayto-potahto.
“Elon Musk mocks New York Times”
Musk is not a a super smart liberal, that’s why he doesn’t read the NYT. He’s one of those libertarian pot addicts threatening our democracy.
“Waukesha suspect Darrell Brooks convicted of killing 6 with SUV”
If only they had common sense SUV control in the Yuppersconsin.
Waukesha Forever!!!
UC Davis said it canceled a conservative student-run event Tuesday evening because of a fight outside the venue, including some who might have worn Proud Boys apparel.
The right-wingers are always causing the left-wingers to have to be violent.
Hey, MAYBE wearing apparel that offends the left is violence, while attacking the wearer is just responding to that violence against their sensibilities.
Well, I mean “The Proud Boys are a right-wing extremist group that is considered primarily violent, misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration”
Almost Hitler and all that.
I thought they weren’t supposed to say this part out loud?
Dem Congressman Says Arming Ukraine is About Protecting Woke Values
If by “woke values” they mean massive grift, then sure.
Woke values are basically throwing a tantrum until Mommy Government gives you a pacifier made of money.
So, yes?
“🎵 Oh, Finster, baby! How many times I have told you not to play with the dirty money?”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046739/mediaviewer/rm2988979200/
‘“Moscow right now is a hub of corrupt tyranny, censorship, authoritarian repression, police violence, propaganda, government lies and disinformation, and planning for war crimes …’
It’s like looking in a mirror, eh, Congressman?
The part left out is – “but without us getting our cut.”
“We gave at the Clinton Foundation office.”
I guess we’re going to war with the the entire world except for Western Europe and Canada now.
Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin has issued a statement saying ongoing military aid to Ukraine is essential because Russia is mean to gay and transgender people.
Ukraine is any different?
Moscow right now is a hub of corrupt tyranny, censorship, authoritarian repression, police violence, propaganda, government lies and disinformation, and planning for war crimes
Same goes for Kiev…and DC…
In supporting Ukraine, we are opposing these fascist views, and supporting the urgent principles of democratic pluralism. Ukraine is not perfect, of course, but its society is organized on the radically different principles of democracy and freedom,” the statement said.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Damn your fast fingers.
I’m glad the serious people are in charge again.
“Moscow right now is a hub of corrupt tyranny, censorship, authoritarian repression, police violence, propaganda, government lies and disinformation, and planning for war crimes …’
And how is that different from Washington DC?
Shhhhh, The Dems are in charge so DC is the lone citadel against evil. Like their movie “Blue Dawn Rasing:.
“Cantu was shot multiple times by former San Antonio police officer James Brennand”
WTF? Are they now making hamburgers that look like guns?
Mark & Don Wahlberg have one, so why not Smith & Wesson.
He bit it into the shape of a gun because he didn’t have a Pop Tart.
‘Why wear white and then rub a red ball on your trousers’
Former football manager Ian Holloway told #BBCBreakfast he loves watching all types of sport, apart from cricket…
https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1585541975608102913
I assume baseball is similar
The ball is white in baseball.
Maybe it would be easier to hit if it was red
Probably. I doubt I could ever have hit a well thrown ball, of any color.
That ball never did anything to me, why would I hit it?
Chessle 257 (Expert) 5/6
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https://jackli.gg/chessle
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Too many valid options for UR and LL. Went into turn 9 having exactly 1 letter of LR and still almost got it.
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DIAF, lower right
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Almost the same but I had 2 letters and only one possible solution so a bit luckier.
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Daily Duotrigordle #239
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 03:13.39
Not too shabby
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OFFS that was ridiculous.
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Yup. Good start shot to hell by UR.
Yeah I didn’t know that morphological construction was fair game.
And there it is on BL too.
I’ve been too immersed in Japanese pop culture. This was the first thing I thought.
BL
Gay.
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Yikes, barely made the line. Missed a 50/50 on UR, but that actually helped me narrow down LR a little bit. Still, LR was nasty.
Cenk is an elite you see.
well he is clearly better than plebs such as yourself
Holy shit, that quote should hound him the next time that shitheel runs for office.
Is ‘Cenk’ Turkish for asshole?
I wonder if these types of discussions were had during the downfall of Detroit as well.
For decades. Same result.
What is amazing is that if you went to Cenk’s family reunion, Cenk wouldn’t even be the first person you punched. His nephew is Hasan Piker.
Cenk is at least a half rung up on an “influencer”.
I do hate Hasan more.
Hasan is an industrious moron, stupid, but very industrious.
Shit, I was agreeing with Cenk up until that second tweet.
How about, “we pay the highest taxes in the country – I’ll start performing the basic municipal services the state is failing to provide when they start refunding that money”
“Can’t someone else do it?” https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E22/767666
Meta shares plunge 23% on downgrades, missed earnings and big spending on metaverse
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/meta-stock-falls-23percent-on-earnings-miss-analyst-downgrades.html
The problem with the ‘Metaverse’ is that everyone doesn’t want to be forced into a virtual Facebook where they have to be social with 10 year olds. The Zuckerborg is doing OK for a grifting Gray Alien. He’s still struggling to get used to the Earth’s gravity and all.
I think you are under estimating the average person.
Hard to say, I don’t talk to any of them.
$META stock decline: explained in 30 seconds.
Lowest stock price in more than 6 years.
Product managers, age 23, spending their day like this.
Is the purpose of this video to attract hot females to apply ? or nerd programmers thinking they have a shot ?
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1585446017985806336
“I’m a useless twat who gets paid bank. You can be a useless twat too!”
This.
Facebook, before it was Meta, moved into the former Sun Microsystems’ campus in Menlo Park, CA.
When I heard that, I said, “Facebook will end up just like Sun.”
I expect I will be correct.
Bought out by Oracle for its intellectual property and gutted?
Java, Solaris, and SPARC are still around.
Oracle killed the deadweight, including in those groups.
Solaris and SPARC are being Phased out.
My entire environment is an Oracle shop, where most ran on SPARC/Solaris starting from before the buyout. I didn’t say they had mismanaged the acquisition, but they did gut the company for it’s choice bits and discard the rest.
I do have some inside knowledge about the acquisition, which admittedly is a bit dated.
Yes, Oracle gutted Sun. Oracle only wanted certain things. The effect of the gutting was to remove deadweight.
Why does it sound like we’re arguing? I think we’re more or less occupying the same position.
I am on Facebook for a hobby group, and secondarily to see what my extended family is up to. Facebook shows me neither of these things.
The issue is that the Zuckerborg has the right idea, but with big government’s tentacles up his arse 24/7, he’s gonna fuck it up, that’s the way this thing goes.
Altar Boy #2 was home last weekend and while we were watching some football some crazy ad for the VR metaverse came on and he snorted and said that was a dumb idea. When I asked followup questions he said his opinion was pretty much the standard for all the kids in his classes.
So maybe that generation is 100% hopeless.
Every time I hear descriptions of this “Metaverse” concept my mind goes “So it’s Second Life all over again?” It will fail for all the same reasons.
But in this iteration you can get accused of sexual assault
I remember futzing around with Second Life one evening, growing bored, and never looking at it again.
It’s going to look odd when Hobbs gets a boost of
votesballots that provides just enough to “win” in the wee hours of the morning after election day.Arizona Governor:
Kari Lake (R) 54% (+11)
Katie Hobbs (D) 43%
election fraud is a myth
Exactly like inflation, GOP just makin this shit up as they go.
Like inflation, it’s transitory, it briefly appears in late October through early November and then goes away before reappearing every 2 years.
If by that, you mean it’s going to look ‘normal’, then yeah. Welcome to the future of elections. We can’t just let you vote for anyone, you might do it wrong. Experts should decide.
I’m hoping that they are at least doing proper preparation and the huge data dump in the wee hours of the morning will be 70% Hobbs to 30% Lake to make it plausible. What made me start doubting the 2020 election was when all the data dumps were 100% Biden and 0% Trump. Then they would say, “well this is from inner Milwaukee and none of those black people would ever vote for Trump, so that is totes reasonable”.
San Francisco Reconsiders Business Ban That Targets States’ Social Values
Dumbasses.
They should stay the course and continue boycotting over half of the country. Just think of all the open places for the homeless to shit in as more companies leave that hellhole.
So you’re saying the bus is yellow: Kamala Gushes Over Yellow School Bus
So she’s a retarded elementary school principal.
Holy fuck, is that The Bee?
Fetterman for Vice Prez!
You should check out the final days of the Brooks trial on Rekieta’s Rumble. Total shitshow. It reminded me of the pointless circular discussions I used to have with my drunk ex.
If I never hear “subject matter jurisdiction” or “lawful law” again in my life, it will be too soon.
https://rumble.com/c/RekietaLaw
I watched the trial on and off, but I kept getting irritated at the defendant.
Was the ex a lawyer? or just an armchair one?
(Great cruise writeup, btw.)
No, he was a drunk.
Thanks! re: cruise article
Eh, lawyer, drunk… wassa diffurnce, HUH?
I enjoyed it too! Just got settled and had a chance to say so.
Fetterman gets breakfast.
*sensible chuckle*
The German government really wants WWIII, but it turns out that getting ready for war is too expensive.
Germany cancels army armaments projects due to inflation and weak euro
https://detv.us/2022/10/23/germany-cancels-army-armaments-projects-due-to-inflation-and-weak-euro-rt-de/
Shut up,
MegLiz.You shutup! Lizzy is the new leader of the free world!
What was the attack?
Some MAGA R’s don’t “honor the sanctity of the elections”.
Does she?
There is white stuff on the ground.
And I’m not ready.
You wouldn’t make an adequate Scarface.
Nonsense. 22C and sunny.
34 and rainy, we missed the snow. For now.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
* Special one today. Dad would have been 78 today and he was a probation officer who really did try to help his clients. Here is anohter one.
I wish that I’d had a chance to meet your Dad, Jimbo. Too many good people in the world that we can’t meet. I’ll have to accept you, in spite of what Tundra says.
Your Dad will be sitting with you in deer season, as mine sits with me.
I met his dad. Great guy.
Happy birthday to him!
First Time Eating Romanian Food in Queens, NYC – Fried Cheese, Pork “Butt”, Cheese Pie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AspjO1Hg0g
Not the best representation really… Also the salmon thing is nothing traditional.
Today is Simon Lebon’s 64th birthday. SIXTY FOUR. What the fuck.
But still hot AF
https://ibb.co/KLDdDnj
RE: last night. The best spot at the end of the runway is on a plane landing. Pretty freaky view from that end. The bar is okay though, Im just not a plane geek.
From the place I was staying, I had a view to the boat dock in Phillipsburg. Number of boats determined whether or not we went into Pburg that day. Zero or one, sure. Two or three, probably not. Four +, hell no. Stupid cruisers.
Tolerant leftists tolerate!
A pro-life coffee shop owner in Virginia said he was hospitalized for stress after the onslaught of “lies” from “social media bullies” targeting him and his business.
Ajay Brewer, owner of Brewer’s Cafe in Richmond, Virginia, announced in a Facebook post that his family-owned coffee shop would be closing its doors after being targeted for his pro-life beliefs.
In his post, Brewer noted that he, his mother, and his wife quit their jobs seven years ago to move back to his hometown and open up their shop “to give back to the city that made” him.
Brewer also revealed that he was in his “second long stay in a hospital due to stress and stroke-level high blood pressure” due to the attacks on him and his business.
People are the worst.
His first mistake (in the practical sense, not moral sense) was to make his anti-woke political views known in a woke town.
* Nathalie Kofler * Pole Vault * Compilations Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npwuo9pKoZo
*Laughs in Russian*
A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy.
The dismantling of at least one wind turbine at the wind farm close to the German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy giant RWE, has already started. RWE says that lignite, or brown coal, has been mined from the Garzweiler coalfields for over 100 years.
RWE also said at the end of September that three of its lignite-fired coal units that were previously on standby would return to the electricity market on schedule in October.
Funny how reality hits you in the face like that.
The whole push towards intermittant generation sources and denuclearization has dramatically increased the lignite usage in Germany to cover the base load, it’s been going that way for the past few decades.
As coals go, Lignite is not particularly clean-burning. It’s actually the sootiest, dirtiest of the coals, but it’s what Germany has.
They’ll be able to replace the energy from the removed turbines by noon.
Them Shakespeareans are a tough bunch
When Nataki Garrett began to receive death threats early this year, she said her impulse was to retreat.
“When this first happened, I actually tried to isolate myself,” said the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) artistic director in an interview with NPR. “The act of threatening is supposed to make you feel isolated. And it does.”
But isolation isn’t an option when you run one of the country’s oldest and biggest non-profit theater companies.
So, a few months ago, OSF hired a private security detail to ensure Garrett’s safety when out in public in Ashland, Ore. That’s where OSF, which was founded in 1935, is based, and it’s been Garrett’s home since she took the high-profile job in 2019. “I can’t go for a walk unless I let my security detail know and I plan a route,” Garrett said. “It has completely upended my life.”
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Ashland Mayor Julie Akins said she learned about the threats to Garrett during one of her regular meetings with OSF executive director David Schmitz a few weeks before the NPR story came out on Sept. 28. (Schmitz said he believes he first discussed the matter with the mayor at their Aug. 26 meeting.) At first, Akins said she did nothing with the news.
“I just didn’t want to think that something like that could happen, that someone would make a death threat against a bold, brilliant woman who brings so much value to our community,” Akins said. “I was a little slow to react.”
Spurred by the media attention after NPR’s story and after talking with OSF, she read out a statement in a city council meeting on Oct. 4 condemning the attacks and vowing to work towards making Ashland, a city of roughly 21,000 residents, around which 90% are white, a safer and more equitable place.
She said she’s redoubling her efforts to diversify the city’s administration, which is almost entirely white, and is in the process of hiring a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion manager. “It’s not enough to say we don’t support racism,” Akins said. “You have to actually actively fight racism to get the work done.”
Longwinded bleating about something or other. No details about the origin or motivation for these heinous threats.
Racism lives on in the hearts of Oregonians. That’s all you need to know.
The groundlings might throw rotten produce?
OFFS.
Tedious shit that didn’t happen is tedious. But NPR readers will eat that shit up and pat themselves on the back for being brave enough to throw a few DEI hacks some business.
and is a leftist college town.
I was wondering when they would go after the OSF and Angus Bowmer. I guess the plan was just to skinsuit it.
The high school has had Black Lives Matter on their school events signfor over two years now.
More balanced, but still quite slanted
https://www.mailtribune.com/top-stories/2022/10/25/in-the-face-of-criticism-osfs-nataki-garrett-is-building-a-company-for-the-future/
Yeah, crazy idea that a Shakespeare festival should be about Shakespeare.
I wonder if they have to acknowledge each individual tribe throughout the history of them slaughtering each other. Or is it just the last one standing, before the white man arrived.
What are you talking about? The area has only been occupied by one tribe which always got along peacefully with it’s neighbors until they were corrupted by the evil white man.
Shakespeare, Garrett said, “actually subversively moved against the dominant power structure, even in writing plays that were about the history of that power structure.”
Yeah Richard III really undermined the Elizabethan power structure.
Oops forgot to close tags.
A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy.
Fetch me my smelling salts.
RACISM!!!!!!
Story is about how a small time black podcaster shook down the DFL. She got the local black churches to not allow pols to talk to their congregations unless they advertised on “black media”. Of course she only got a couple grand. Because of the racists like Brother Keith.
Not one mention of the fact that maybe if your demographic votes monolithically, there isn’t any incentive to run ads trying to get their vote.
It’s racist to not throw money at racist media.
That is where we are today. Yay.
She deserves the money just because she is black. Not because she can deliver any special value.
they don’t want to support Black media
The purpose of ad buys isn’t to support the media company, its to communicate with an audience. GOPers don’t buy ads in black outlets because they figure no way the blacks will leave the Dem plantation. Dems don’t buy ads in black outlets because they figure they’ve already got that demographic locked in.
You see this a lot on the left. The purpose of buying a car isn’t to provide union jobs, for example. They simply can’t comprehend that companies exist to sell products and make money; their only purpose should be to support leftism and leftist constituencies.
GOPers don’t buy ads in black outlets because they figure no way the blacks will leave the Dem plantation.
Or that the blacks that read a woke black newspaper are not the ones they need to target.
I think there is, when the monolithicity doesn’t know there’s a choice. Of course, they know there’s another dude on the ballot with an R next to his name but that’s all they know.
I have often wondered why the Rs wouldn’t run factual ads on black radio. “Ask yourself this: why do you keep voting for the same people who do X, Y, and Z awful things to you? This is what they have done: X, Y, and Z” and just keep hammering that. If the black radio station refuses the ad revenue, that’s on them.
Transgender businesswoman buys Miss Universe pageant for $20M
Lol.
But also, that is a very passing transwoman. *vows to never go to Thailand*
Um… once again, a man has to step in and do a woman’s job. Stunning and brave.
“transgender advocate”. I think she still has her factory equipment aka the “stench trench”
Perhaps Im old and could care less (I am), but who really pays attention to such pageants ? How much advertising revenue could a company hope to achieve by owing that?
I had the same thought, minus the words “stench trench.” Gah.
That’s a man baby.
So she chairs the “stench trench wench bench”?
It’s Watergate, all over again!
The campaign headquarters of Arizona’s Democratic candidate for governor and current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was broken into this week, a campaign official and law enforcement told CNN on Wednesday.
Phoenix police responded to a burglary report Tuesday afternoon and “learned that items were taken from the property sometime during the night,” the department said in a statement.
“This is still an active investigation with detectives checking all security cameras in attempts to identify and locate the subject involved,” the statement said. No suspects have been identified in the burglary.
A source within the Hobbs campaign told CNN that CCTV video shows the man they say broke into the campaign headquarters. The Hobbs campaign hasn’t been able to get a full inventory of what was taken, the source added.
Nicole DeMont, who manages Hobbs’ gubernatorial campaign, told CNN in a statement that “Secretary Hobbs and her staff have faced hundreds of death threats and threats of violence over the course of this campaign. Throughout this race, we have been clear that the safety of our staff and of the Secretary is our number one priority.”
Death threats? If you ain’t getting 100 death threats a day, you ain’t nobody.
Phoenix police responded to a burglary report Tuesday afternoon and “learned that items were taken from the property sometime during the night,” the department said in a statement.
Crates full of Hobbs votes?
Wut.
It’s just the mad ramblings of a failed pillow manufacturer.
Psst, David… criminals don’t obey gun bans. But you probably knew that.
Sure, Davey,
Let’s put a gun confiscation bill on the docket three weeks before an election. I’m sure Mark Kelly, Tim Ryan and Rafael Warnock are just chomping at the bit to put their names on that one.
Are we sure this guy isn’t a GOP plant?
If Democrats want to actually show who’s anti crime they should put the assault weapons. . . . . .
They would put a bill into place to provide a refundable tax credit to members of the citizen militia (aka every adult) for the purchase of firearms.
It’s a standard tactic for activists of all stripes, all political persuasions.
Get a recorded vote on a bill. You know who is on your side and who isn’t. You put pressure on those that aren’t. You support candidates challenging those that aren’t.
Self-defense in Europe. (It’s not allowed)
A young man who stabbed and killed an intruder who had attacked him in his home in the middle of the night has been jailed for three-and-a-half years by the Central Criminal Court.
Guilty of haircut crimes too.
Governor Murphy gets a boner.
Funny that was my first thought too. It’s like we live in NJ or something.
lulz
*waves from the good side of the Delaware*
It was a fucking knife, in his house.
And attacked his mother too. “Ah like to look after me ma!”
Totalitarian insanity
Moderate risk of not drinking the koolaid in the reeducation camps, so further brainwashing is warranted.
In other words, he would protect himself again if required.
That’s utterly insane.
Here’s the twat that sentenced him. I hope he gets assaulted in his house, he deserves it.
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIF.WUXEFOYWJDem%2f6zHepW06w
Probably lives in a big gated house in Ballsbridge, the Beverly Hills of Dublin.
I hate to say it, especially about the Irish, but there are ways that this could be the right decision. There are also ways it could be a travesty of justice, too. The article doesn’t really contain any relevant information.
It’s important to remember that your home isn’t a free-fire zone. The housebreaker still has to present a deadly threat.
Breaks into his home and attacks him and possibly his mother. I tend to think that expecting people to carefully calibrate the force they use to defend themselves is unrealistic. The verdict seemed to turn mostly on the fact that the attacker was unarmed, which to my mind doesn’t rule out lethal force in response by any means. I’m not doing an inventory of what someone who breaks into my house and attacks me may or may not have that can be used as a weapon, I can assure you of that.
At least in the US, the legal standard for lethal self-defense is that the defender must reasonably believe that they will suffer death or great bodily harm from the attacker.
“The verdict seemed to turn mostly on the fact that the attacker was unarmed, which to my mind doesn’t rule out lethal force in response by any means.”
Nor mine. But, the attacker being unarmed can make the ‘reasonableness’ of the defenders’ actions that much harder to demonstrate. Especially to a jury full of idiots who get all their ideas about violence from the TV.
My first thought, upon reading the article, were “How many wounds did the dead guy have, and how many were in his back?”
Now that I live in a red state, my home is in fact a free-fire zone to uninvited guests in the middle of the night.
If you truly believe this, you are setting yourself up for a really bad outcome.
The attacker was drunk, angry, older, taller, and heavier, but the kid should have assumed the guy would only have beaten him into a coma and not to death.
/Irish judge
You claim self-defense is not allowed in Europe by linking to a story about an incident in Ireland.
Europe is a big place with lots of countries. There are countries in Europe where self-defense is allowed. It’s not hard to go find which. I know this is reddit, but this post includes links to citations.
In other words, your claim that self-defense is not allowed in Europe is horseshit.
I always assume that eastern europe operates under a shoot, shovel, and shut up model for self defense, northwest europe (and the islands) takes a “How dare you hurt that criminal!” stance, and southern europe will punish you if you don’t pay off a couple officials.
Not sure if accurate.
Also, what Sheldon said.
Mr Justice Paul McDermott said Dean Kerrie (21) was entitled to use force in defence of himself, his family and his home, but the force he used was “grossly” excessive given that the victim, Jack Power, was unarmed.
Sounds like self defense is allowed in Ireland, just not under the circumstances involved.
A young man who stabbed and killed an intruder who had attacked him in his home in the middle of the night has been jailed for three-and-a-half years by the Central Criminal Court.
Mr Justice Paul McDermott said Dean Kerrie (21) was entitled to use force in defence of himself, his family and his home, but the force he used was “grossly” excessive given that the victim, Jack Power, was unarmed.
The intruder may not have deserved to die, but he forfeited his right to live.
“Let’s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit,” DeMont continued. “The threats against Arizonans attempting to exercise their constitutional rights and their attacks on elected officials are the direct result of a concerted campaign of lies and intimidation.”
DeMont said that intimidation “won’t work,” and expressed thanks to the Phoenix Police Department for keeping Hobbs and her team safe.
So brave.
What happened? Did Hobbes go out in public and a voter violently asked her a question?
inciting threats
What does that even mean?
direct result of a concerted campaign of lies and intimidation.
But enough about Democrats.
What happened? Did Hobbes go out in public and a voter violently asked her a question?
Maybe somebody broke through the 150 foot security perimeter in an intimidating manner.
Creech, I responded this morning before I went to the gym on the deadthread. Bet is go! Good luck!
Family attorney Ben Crump — who has taken on some of the nation’s most high-profile police killings of Black people — said the family has been told that the now-fired officer who shot 17-year-old Erik Cantu racially profiled him while searching for a Hispanic suspect.
Oh no. Ben Crump. The family is shooting themselves in the foot.
Whip Inflation Now!
Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 “clean” school buses under a new federal program.
$400,000 apiece? Sounds like a bargain.
Only about 1% of the nation’s 480,000 school buses were electric as of last year,
And for the low low price of a billion dollars, we’ll get that all the way up to 1.5%!
my local sd went in on these with funds secured by a representative.
it’s all so tiresome.
Hokkaido deer are in the local news, probably due to this
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/10/f00b4cba7b8a-2-die-in-vehicle-collision-in-japan-possibly-due-to-deer-on-road.html
Apparently the numbers are out of control. I’ve got a solution involving Miroku products…
Is it Final ?
are Hokkaido deer like Kobe beef, more marbled than the European equivalents?
Wa-ven! Although they roam free rather than getting massages and beer. Or is it sake?
The Biden administration is making the grants available as part of a wider effort to accelerate the transition to zero-emission vehicles and reduce air pollution near schools and communities.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announced the grant awards Wednesday in Seattle. The new, mostly electric school buses will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and better protect children’s health, they said.
As many as 25 million children ride yellow buses each school day, and they will have a healthier future with a cleaner fleet, Harris said.
“We are witnessing around our country and around the world the effects of extreme climate,” she said. “What we’re announcing today is a step forward in our nation’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, to invest in our economy … to invest in building the skills of America’s workforce. All with the goal of not only saving our children, but for them, saving our planet.″
Yellow is a pretty color.
U.S. Officials Had a Secret Oil Deal With the Saudis. Or So They Thought.
And yet Trump asking for investigations from the Ukraine over corruption is problematic and an abuse of power…
I noticed that the powers that be turned the media lose on the Saudis recently. I’m seeing ads for expose’s on the corruption of the Saudi regime on TV.
*Faints*
In recent speeches, Trump has conjured a dark vision, reminiscent of the American carnage speech he gave at his inauguration in 2017: an America going up in flames with the blessings of a cabal of progressive Democrats and their puppet masters. “There is no higher priority than cleaning up our streets, controlling our borders, stopping the drugs from pouring in and quickly restoring law and order in America,” Trump said in a speech this summer. “Despite great outside dangers, our biggest threat in this country remains the sick, sinister and evil people from within.”
The specifics of Trump 47’s policies—to the extent that Trump bothers with policies—are a matter of speculation. But some broader actions seem certain, according to current and former Trump insiders interviewed by Newsweek: avoiding his first-term approach of appointing people who might protect him from his worst instincts and instead packing the administration with loyalists; trying to get a firmer grip on the military with an eye to consolidating power; drastically shrinking the civil service and throwing a steady diet of red-meat culture-war goodies at his base.
I’m not seeing the problem.
These policies would open the door even wider than it already is to the disenfranchisement of voters, including Blacks, LGBTQ people and Native Americans. The FBI, Internal Revenue Service and the military could be harnessed to harass or imprison his political enemies. Foreign policy would be turned on its head, as Trump resumes his antagonism toward allies in Europe and renews his friendship with Vladimir Putin. And basic democratic norms, such as the constitutional prohibition of a third presidential term, could give way.
In other words, it would be classic Trump—but more so, and with fewer obstacles standing in his way. “If you thought it was insane during his first term, you haven’t seen anything yet,” says Reed Galen, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, a Republican-run political action committee that opposes Trump and Trumpism.
Unlike Joe, the uniter in chief.
These people truly live in an alternate universe.
Hey, it’s now difficult for middle class families to even afford food, their life savings are pretty much gone and we have an insane government who are sending all of our money they have not already wasted, to the most corrupt country in Europe so we can apparently try to start a nuclear war. But hey, no more mean tweets!
For those still trying to duck covid, the isolation is worse than ever
Does anyone want to guess the demographics of these people?
Hispanic miners?
Insufferable?
People who at least pretend to read the NYTs?
*checks box of fucks to give, finds it empty*
I am an empty vessel unable to infer any information from context or previous knowledge and experience, or at least I play one on a blog.
Therefore: There is no information in that article or your excerpt that allows me do infer any conclusions with any degree of certainty. They could equally well be MAGA DeSantis supporters on their way to a Proud Boys meeting while sending money to Kari Lake, or college indoctrinated woke radical leftists supporters of medical fascism. Or Bonobo Chimps or amoebas for that matter. How could I possibly know?
I’ll help, they’re Swamp Creatures
https://fgsglobal.com/people/jeremy-pelofsky
https://twitter.com/chgrimaldi
“DeSantis supporters”
I have learned from TOS, those are the worst of all.
Neurotic?
The Neurotic-American community appears to be a fast-growing demographic.
When reality finally kicks in, when mum says she can no longer pay my internet and phone bill and starts threatening to evict me from the basement, there is going to be an mass public event of apocalyptic mental breakdown unlike anything seen before in history.
Sadly, these aren’t the cretinous grad-student basement-dweller crowd. These people are wealthy, successful, and high-status.
I skipped down to the comments after a bit.
JFC.
Wow, their picture is exactly the picture that I had in my mind of them before scrolling down to it.
Interesting that after all this time there still hasn’t been a RCT study that I am aware of that lends strong evidence of the protective effects of mask wearing in regards to the Vid. You’d think the Luv Science!! types might have picked up on that by now.
If I were paranoid, I’d say there is a growing effort to resurrect covid. I get news alerts from Radio NZ. Used to get daily covid numbers but they disappeared months ago. Just this week they’ve starting pushing out numbers again.
Influenza usually starts in Asia and migrates here.
What impact does the reversed seasons have influenza in the NZ? When is peak flu season?
To those of you with doom’n’gloom rainy weather in the fall *koffDEGkoff*, please send your weather my way. It is fall. We have a drought. I WANT MY DAMN AUTUMN RAINS!!!
When in doubt, lie
It’s an event that will serve as a real-time demonstration of a cold political reality. Despite shepherding one of the fastest economic recoveries in modern history, and securing four major cornerstone legislative wins tied to his economic agenda, economic discontent, particularly over high inflation, is still imperiling Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
“We can talk about what we’ve done, all these huge legislative wins, ‘til we’re blue in the face,” one Democratic campaign official said. “If people can’t feel it, it doesn’t matter at this point.”
The President has focused on drawing a contrast between the two parties for weeks, but his sharpened message comes as Democrats grow increasingly concerned about the possibility the narrow universe of undecided voters could break sharply against their party in the closing days of the campaign.
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At the heart of the political message is something that has appeared prominently in Biden’s own remarks in recent days.
“Everybody wants to make it a referendum, but it’s a choice,” Biden said in a speech earlier this week, detailing his view that Republican congressional majorities “are going to crash the economy.”
Biden, who has mostly avoided large campaign rallies in favor of official events meant to promote his agenda, has sharpened his attacks recently on Republicans for threatening to undo the steps he says have lowered costs for Americans.
“There are two very different ways of looking at our country. One is, as I’ve said before, the view from Park Avenue, which says help the wealthy and maybe that’ll trickle down to everyone in the country. The other is from Scranton or Claymont or thousands of cities across the country like the place I grew up,” he said at the White House on Wednesday, referencing towns in which he lived as a child in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Do you want to go back to the grotesque Hellscape of impoverishment which was 2018? Or do you want to let Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren help to bring forth a golden age of utopian fascism? Choose wisely, America.
Which is weird, since we are in a stagflationary recession.
As near as I can tell, the agenda is to destroy the energy economy and loot the treasury.
Odd, that the voters aren’t on board.
“one of the fastest economic recoveries in modern history”
From completely hopeless to almost completely hopeless? Even that is a lie.
“If people can’t feel it, it doesn’t matter at this point.”
Think about that for a minute, buddy. Why can’t people feel it?
We failed to keep the Fentanyl from flowing across the border?
Biden, who has mostly avoided large campaign rallies in favor of official events meant to promote his agenda
Fascinating framing.
His appeal has become more selective.
“The band’s popularity isn’t waning. It’s just that their appeal is becoming more… selective.”
I am in back to back meetings running into the lunch hour.
I will watching the comments on the lunch post sporadically.
In other words, it would be classic Trump—but more so, and with fewer obstacles standing in his way. “If you thought it was insane during his first term, you haven’t seen anything yet,” says Reed Galen, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, a Republican-run political action committee that opposes Trump and Trumpism.
And if you didn’t think it was particularly insane…
You’re a NAZI!
Somehow I slept through all of that and woke up to the worst economy I have ever seen with a government in charge hell bent on getting us into a nuclear war. I must be a Nazi I guess, no other explanation is possible.
These measures seem like common sense to Pelofsky and Grimaldi.
Crazy people believe crazy things.
How revelatory.
Leaking tire fixed free fer nuthin’at Discount Tire, where I’d bought the set <50,000 miles ago! Right rear tire had picked up a "hitchhiker" – bolt head or some sort of hardware. Warranty for the win!
Yay! http://www.pbh2.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/seinfeld-gifs-tires-rotating.gif
Husband likes to have our tire and alignment issues done at Firestone because of the warranties and also, my Guy™ doesn’t do alignments and also, my Guy™ isn’t open on the weekends.
Discount Tire got the biz back when because they were closest to my office when I got the flat tire, limped the rest of the way to work, and then had AAA tow me. 🙂
Proximity is a bonus!
It’s going to be fun to watch the GOP take back both houses and then watch Turtlehead, McCarthy, Manchin, and gang ‘reach across the aisle and let the healing begin’. At this point, I am not sure who I hate the most, the insane dems or the spineless blob GOP.
Hate them all. Works for me.
How did the skeleton try to build muscle?
Dead lifts.
Dude, are you going to tell that one when you are handing out rainbow Fentanyl to the kiddies?
Sadly, these aren’t the cretinous grad-student basement-dweller crowd. These people are wealthy, successful, and high-status.
Only the newest and best Apple laptops for them!
White House officials said Wednesday that Biden’s message in Syracuse would offer a sharp rebuke of Republicans’ plans, including the potential of sending the country into default by refusing to raise the debt ceiling.
Risk of default? You should be more worried about the spike in interest payments on government borrowing. The debt ceiling will become largely irrelevant.
It’s irrelevant in that it has never actually been a ceiling.
It’s also irrelevant because a default is not the problem. It’s when a large number of creditors decide (finally come to the realization) that most of the debt is never going to be re-paid.
Japan to cut household electricity bills by 20% to fight inflation
Nothing fights inflation like government spending a slug of cash and borrowing to do it.