Still chasing that elusive fourth win
The Raiders reached a new low. The Browns reached a familiar low. The Cowboys reached a new mid. Minnesota beat Buffalo in a hell of a game. The Stillers won in Watt’s emotional return. And on Saturday, everybody that was supposed to win won (except Oregon), which means Texas A&M lost. Which should be the end for Jimbo. But that buyout being so big because they expected better might be what actually saves him for another year. The world now officially readies itself for the World Cup as league matches wrap up until the end of the tournament. A Mercedes finally won a race this season and there’s a bit of infighting at Red Bull coming into the final race of the year. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
What a fucking shitshow. I wonder if these guys are tied to a political party or a nation at war in Europe? The would be peculiar, wouldn’t it? I hope some reporter hops on that potential story.
Colonialism is a one-way street.
“Won’t somebody think of the poor locals?” Switch two words in this lede and you’d be called xenophobic.
“If at first you don’t succeed… create a prison state again.
Nothing says peace and justice like telling an entire race or sex that you’re tired of them. Do these dipshits even realize what they’re doing when they come up with this shit? Replace white with black or men with Jews or any number of other words and you’ve got a problem. But white men are a-ok to hate, I suppose.
Just horrible
What a tragedy. I wonder if they’ll ever figure out what happened. Also, that B-17 was based out of Conroe and we used to see it flying over the lake all the time. Just a sad situation all around.
Too bad they won’t succeed. No seriously, I wish they could escape their serfdom to Chicago.
What kind of crazy shit is this? Truly bizarre.
You can only fail up so far. Sadly, this dipshit failed all the way to the top.
Here’s a solid one. I like it a lot more than Dan does. And here’s another good one. They’re not my favorite band, but they did have a few solid songs. Enjoy.
And enjoy this lovely, cool Monday as we get closer to the holidays.
“The Cowboys reached a new mid.”
Good.
The broadcast mentioned they had never lost a 195-0 record with a 2 TD lead in the second half of games. That’s more than ‘mid’.
You mean less than mid?
Ain’t we using inversion here?
Technically, a Mercedes won two races this season… Russell did win the Sprint race too, after all. 😉
Morning, Sloopy!
“I hope some reporter hops on that potential story.”
I posted a link. The reporters lurking here are lazy.
I report but nobody subscribes to my newsletter.
I’m sure several Feeb agents do.
Why would they need to subscribe when they could just look over the cubicle wall?
Because that’s an office faux pas.
Walls? How can you be productive with a wall separating you from your coworkers and the eyes of management?
That’s no way to talk about Evan!
Well, he posts here, so not lurking 🙂
“What a fucking shitshow. I wonder if these guys are tied to a political party or a nation at war in Europe? The would be peculiar, wouldn’t it? I hope some reporter hops on that potential story.”
Second biggest dnc donor. Nothing will happen to this scumbag.
What a fucking shitshow. I wonder if these guys are tied to a political party or a nation at war in Europe? The would be peculiar, wouldn’t it? I hope some reporter hops on that potential story.
there is a lot of theories around this but one thing is clear, the fuckers were mostly children of the aristocracy, the intellectual elite. Stanford and MIT professors and such. These are, my fine glibs, your betters.
Musk is getting in on the theory part it seems
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591895343570243585
also no offense and all but if I was a billionaire, I would want finer pussy than that
Just dating her for political access?
I hope he had something else going on.
These are the people the mandarinate is fighting furiously to protect through the creation/installation of a hereditary aristocracy. They know their kids are even fucking dumber, shameless, and less intelligent than they are, so they need an aristocracy to protect these fucking retarded evil fucks.
good thing they are all effective altruists
You mean they are great at pretending to be good guys to low information, emotional, morons while being the biggest sort of evil scumbags you could imagine?
I love a good mandarinate. I soak chicken thighs in a mix of soy sauce, rice wine, garlic, ginger, hot peppers, and orange juice.
not mandarin juice?
So not a real mandarinate.
Mandarins are not Jews. Circumcision is not at all the same process by which court eunuchs are made.
Typically, Eunuchs are not Mandarins either.
Well, they all look alike.
Two nazis are eating at a Chinese restaurant in Argentina.
“There are a couple of Jews at that table.”
“I know! Everywhere we go there are Jews.”
“Maybe if we went to China?”
“I don’t know. I’ll ask the waiter.”
So one of the nazis asks the waiter if there are any Chinese Jews. The waiter tells him he’ll go ask the chef. After a while, the waiter comes back from the kitchen, “We have orange juice, and pineapple juice, but no Chinese juice!”
Come on, Man!
There has to be some Chinese dude that told his lady he had some “Chinese juice” for her….
The scene: sitting at work in Dongguan, in a meeting room at the plant with a mix of US-ians and Chinese colleagues. We all know each other very well and have for years. There’s always bowls of fruit on the table. Today it’s little oranges – the kind Americans call “mandarin oranges”.
One of us notices the adjectival curiosity and wonders if the Chinese guys say the “mandarin” part, so he asks “What do y’all call these?” Chinese colleage pauses for a second and says “They’re called oranges. I thought you knew that.”
Nice. I do orange blossom honey instead of the orange juice.
Well, that’s special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWz5NzY3Zck
Needs acid.
I use Rice Wine Vinegar.
Thanks for the tip, I found the last set of cooking directions to be inscrutable.
then again how many banks would have liquidity issues if customers wanted to get money out en mass
Every time a bell rings, a voter gets fucked in the ass.
Not my problem.
How many private jets were at COP27?
https://www.bbc.com/news/63544995
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit’s international lead told BBC News that focusing on world leaders taking private jets to COP27 was “missing the point”.
“The emissions are negligible compared to the impact of decisions and commitments made at these summits,” he said.
“If you want emissions to come down, you want leaders in the room and media, scientists and stakeholders asking the important questions.”
I am not missing the fucking point. They will keep flying while the real commitments will be to cut off my AC in summer. We need some rope and lampposts.
More Kabuki theatre from evil globalist reseters who party like you read about and spew CO2 as if they alone want to create water world, while enacting brutally evil energy policies that will hold back and kill billions of poor people while allowing them to steal trillions of dollars from the productive for themselves.
“If you want emissions to come down, you want leaders in the room and media, scientists and stakeholders… Tarred and feathered.”
I fixed your quote.
Asking the important questions?
Was SIV there?
Rope and lampposts are abundant but more expensive due to inflation.
Banana republic. And the people doing this claim to be the ones trying to save democracy…
“Texas Death Row inmate Henry Lee Lucas who has confessed to 600 murders sits in his cell April 20, 1997 at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas.”
What’s the percentage of white men with “Lee” in their names that are murderers?
They can’t help it, it’s in the jeans
While not a murderer per se, that bitch Sara has been clogging arteries for years with her delicious butter top bread.
Omm nomm nomm.
I used to spend a considerable amount of time making dinner rolls from scratch, especially at Thanksgiving when leftovers could be magically transformed into sammiches on rolls.
Then I discovered Sara Lee rolls. Sister Schubert is even better, but harder to find.
It’s not enough to tear down the statues, we must ban the very name Lee! If it saves just one life, it will be worth it!
I’m sure Kontoor Brands can get some government assistance in renaming their jeans company. “Inclusivity Jeans,” maybe?
Leigh jeans.
Androgjeany?
Go look up the “Wayne” thing as middle names for killers. Seriously.
Lee Wayne Killen?
I went to the NYG game yesterday because the guy who my dad bums season tickets off of had an extra one to bum. It was fun. I have watched zero full games of nfl football this year on TV, but the live experience is still pretty good.
It was a good game.
Given PA voted in a non-functional entity and AZ looks ready to vote in a Governor that literally ran away and hid from her opponent and refused to actually campaign:
+ China cracking down? Who’s going to stop them.
+ Fraud and graft among the Annointed Elite? As long as they’re wetting the beaks (10% for the big guy!), who’s going to stop them.
This past week has been so damned depressing. All the joy of a CA election (where, might I add… almost a week on — all the election summary places I see show our vote counting not even up to 50%?!?! What. The. Hell. you incompetent morons… I’m sure it is because there are “early” ballots still floating out there… not even in rental car trunks, because for most races, they don’t have to care… like “Oh, was I campaigning for Governor? Wait… I’ll just mail out some more COVID funding checks — just keep it an emergency!” Newsome.), but nationwide.
How’s the firebrand in Italy doing? Any sign of actual competence in a politician outside of Florida someone could point to just to remind us that they aren’t all brainless leeches?
the only I action I heard from which the Italian leader was blamed was refusing a 300 migrant sealift and sending them to France. This thoroughly annoyed the French.
They should fly them to Martha’s Vineyard.
They’re already on a ship, one either owned or chartered by a non-profit migrant smuggling ring. For the migrants to be flown anywhere the ship would have to doc so the migrants could be transported to an airport.
How about Tripoli? Oh wait, too many slave markets. Tunis?
Achievement Unlocked
Russian media reports Sergei Naryshkin, Putin’s foreign spy chief, is in Ankara today for secret talks with the US. It doesn’t say who he’s meeting, but CIA director Bill Burns is his usual counterpart
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1592096109090177024
“Russian media reports” …. “secret talks”
Burns is probably more amenable to the Russian position than most, certainly more than that psychopath Blinken or Sullivan.
Too high profile. They need to exchange the information through agents. The US needs someone who’s face is unknown to Russian intelligence – we need a Condorman Reboot!
Interesting, there are a lot of dead white guys in Gettysburg already.
Balaji
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Sam Bankman-Fried stole money from investors to bribe the establishment to pass regulations.
So, no — the right answer is not to pass those regulations. That’s what Sam would have wanted.
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1591863508446347265
and the reply
Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
Replying to
@balajis
Your libertarian cult is responsible for this mess. You should take some responsibility for what you have wrought.
So glibs is FTX the fault of libertarianism ? discuss
The corruptocracy wins no matter what. The idiotic idea that more government regulation is what is needed to make criminals less inclined to pay government for favorable regulation, baffles me. These are practically always the same sort of idiots that wax philosophical about the evils of corporate capitalism (which doesn’t exist) and the greed of man, but think that while everyone in the private sector turns into an evil Gordon Gekko wannabe, the people in the public sector, the once in government, are totally immunized against the evils afflicting those craving power and wealth.
I have never figured out the whole crypto scene, apparently a lot of others hadn’t either. How did this young man accumulate 25 jillion with a non existent product.
“You give me five dollars today you’ll get a bajilion next month”
Fraud? Just a guess, but it’s how Elizabeth Holmes did it.
conmen prey on greed
They sold a token called FTT. You could buy this token to get cheaper rates on their platform.
After awhile, big players started to buy large volumes and its value skyrocketed.
They used this token value as collateral.
When big players saw their balance sheet on November 2nd they realized it was a house of cards buttressed only by this token value.
I suppose he’s basing that argument on the fact that libertarian techno-utopians have been enamored of cryptocurrencies as an alternative to fiat since the Bitcoin whitepaper dropped. Which seems to have absolutely nothing at all to do with a currency exchange overleveraging and imploding on itself. Without the SEC and banking regulators, you’d probably see more risk aversion rather than less since private insurers would refuse to backstop reckless companies and those of even middling intelligence would probably avoid throwing their money onto the banking equivalent of a craps table.
This. We’re watching decades of risk-on tendencies enabled by the Fed colliding with reality.
Now imagine what’s going to happen with the Ponzi run by the Fed comes unglued.
I’m going long on wheelbarrows.
Bitcoin maxis can be a little tiresome, but they can certainly point to FTX and say this is the opposite of what bitcoin is.
Matt Stoller can gargle my balls.
Libertarianism is the climate change of philosophies.
Speaking of which…
U.S. seeks 15 years for Elizabeth Holmes over Theranos fraud
Holmes obviously defrauded the wrong people.
You always stick it to the taxpayers, not the well-connected elite.
“In 2019, Yale student Isis Davis-Marks wrote an op-ed that pledged to monitor and collect dirt on White men on campus in order to undermine them in potential future confirmation hearings later in life.
“I’m watching you, white boy,” the student wrote.”
Eventually, someone who pulls shit like that is going to get lynched. Which is what the anti-racists want.
Deeply sexual and very adept women must allow their husbands to question the will of the gods at least once a month
https://twitter.com/malnote/status/1592052230349209600
euphemisms are getting weird
This sounds like an idiot cobbling together a word salad to pretend she is so much more interesting than she is…
Welcome to the internet
Well, yeah, once a month I do question what God was thinking.
The only possible meaning I can glean from that is “why the fuck did God have to make women turn into psychos every month?”
Plz. Wait till menopause.
It’s not any easier on us, I promise.
Ahem
One of the replies: https://twitter.com/XaviercMiller/status/1591640017105190912
Generally seems to be true. I would agree halfway, though, and say that all people should be okay with themselves and their own company instead of depending on someone else to “complete” them.
The private Pennsylvania college offered the event as part of a peace and justice, or “P&J,” senior project but has since postponed it after it was shared online.
The event, originally scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 12, told people to “come paint and write about” how they are tired of straight, White men.
The pieces from the event would then be displayed in the school’s dining hall for the campus to view.
Nooses. Lots and lots of nooses.
The nooses are currently on loan to the Obama Presidential Library being built in Chi-raq.
It’s colder than fucking Pluto here still. This has to be the coldest November I’ve experienced since moving here. The desert is supposed to be hot!
Desert by definition is dry, not necessarily hot.
True enough, but *this* desert is supposed to be warmer than this.
+ 1 ackchually
The ackchually comes when I start talking about the lack of clouds allowing for radiative cooling that lets his desert get colder than an overcast new york winter’s night.
We actually had some scattered clouds blow in overnight, but it doesn’t seem to have helped.
But white men are a-ok to hate, I suppose.
Not sure what qualifies as ‘a-ok’ but a bunch of people bitched and the school postponed the event, the article is rather sparse on details so can’t say if they rescheduled it without change or if it’s still up in the air. You’d think the reporter would get a statement from the hosting org instead of just quoting a anonymous faculty member and student.
1) Interviewing actual human beings and placing phone calls is just gauche nowadays. Real journalism happens on Twitter.
B) I don’t think there’s a liberal arts college in America that would return a phone call or interview request from a Fox News reporter even if they actually bothered.
As to B) Sure, but if you call then you can at least put a line in the article about how they didn’t respond, make it look like you actually put in the work.
Please check your inbox for a message from me at this domain.
*insert studio audience “ooooohhhh!!”
Parent A schedules gender affirming surgery for their six-year-old.
Parent B obtains court order stopping the surgery.
The Hyperbole: “I can’t understand why you people are so bent out of shape at the surgeon, literally nothing happened! The system worked the way it was supposed to!”
there is a lot of theories around this but one thing is clear, the fuckers were mostly children of the aristocracy, the intellectual elite. Stanford and MIT professors and such. These are, my fine glibs, your betters.
Only the creme de la creme possess the intellect to fall for something like that.
Modern Talmud (Official)
@ModernTalmud
I used to tell a joke about Lot’s wife. Looking back, it wasn’t a great idea.
https://twitter.com/ModernTalmud/status/1591607576705503233
Lot didn’t have a strong pimp hand…
Salty
My biblical knowledge is very rusty, I didn’t remember which biblical character this was a reference to until your comment. *Thumbs up*
Biblical jokes are a pillar of comedy.
“don’t look back,
you can never look back”
+1 Deadhead sticker on a Caddy
Not quite the top with Mayorkas and Biden above him – and directly responsible for the situation that led to his “retirement”.
Nobody can handle what is going on down there with Biden promising free shit to anyone who manages to make it over.
Jeebus… there is so much better than those two mediocre songs.
Here is a real good one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ThpjZhvZw
Don’t go back to Rockdale
Rockville not Rockdale.
Yes, that is a fine example.
Here is another.
Another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im8SCqUwIZE
👍🏻
I was a friend of a friend of a band that used to tour around the Mid-South with REM. They all talked about what horrible road hogs they were. No showers, slept in the van, etc.
Yeah they always looked pretty grubby.
Easily one of the worst concerts I ever attended.
Their opening act was The Throwing Muses, who suck.
The Throwing Muses first album was great.
I saw them on the “Green” tour and while I dislike that album at least they played some old stuff.
Throwing Muses might have been the opening act now that I think about it.
We saw Veruca Salt open on that tour.
I thought that was Veruk Assault until I saw it written down.
“Now when you say ‘Dylan,’ he thinks you’re talking about Dylan Thomas</em, whoever he was. The man ain't got no culture."
“I’ve been Ayn Randed, nearly branded a Communist ‘cuz I’m left-handed. If that’s the hand they use, well… never mind.”
NA, that’s my favorite S&G song.
I saw them with NRBQ? or some shit.
Longest three hours of my life.
I saw them in 1983(?) opening for the Replacements and the Suburbs.
The only song I had heard was RFE and I thought they were fantastic. Murmur and Reckoning are still favorites.
TV debut. They were so tight.
Sands of time: Christian monastery, possibly pre-dating Islam, found in UAE dunes
Finding on Siniyah Island in emirate of Umm al-Quwain sheds new light on history of Christians in Gulf region, which then — like today — was ‘a melting pot of nations’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sands-of-time-christian-monastery-possibly-pre-dating-islam-found-in-uae-dunes/
First, the odds of the monastary postdating the rise of islam in that region are slim to none.
Second, that second statement is nonsensical. It might be a trading port, being on the sea route from India to the west, but a ‘melting pot of nations’ implies polities coming together and blending rather than a cosmopolitan passage of people looking to make money.
Nah. They managed to survive by just staying very very still.
The way Republicans survive on social media.
‘Orning ‘ordles — or, continuing the crappy trend of the past week. Sigh.
Daily Duotrigordle #257
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 06:53.05
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Would have been pretty good if not for UR.
Also, whatever genius runs quordle.com let their cert expire.
Now the certificate is up to date, but for the wrong domain. Come on guys, you can do it.
It’s not even that difficult.
/person who’s renewed and installed certificates on myriad platforms and even managed a certificate authority.
Wait, maybe I’ve just done it too much…
Mine is automatically handled by the hosting provider now, but years back I had to do it manually, and even I managed to figure it out.
At least all of us can say Hey, we’re not as bad as Manjaro.
Mine are handled by the hosting provider.
Fun Fact – the state hosts its own websites, so I am the hosting provider for my websites.
Le sigh. At least I’ve trained up my direct reports to handle it now.
I HATE that stuff. For me it’s trial-and-error until something works.
/not in my job description
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I dont play this as white. To avoid this is the primary reason I play the Caro-Kann as black. Too much theory.
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So glibs is FTX the fault of libertarianism ? discuss
Only if the bedrock supposition of libertarianism is “There’s a sucker born every minute”.
Spoiler alert: it isn’t.
Correct. That’s marxism’s bedrock.
“Force and Fraud”, yup not the fault of libertarianism.
“No seriously, I wish they could escape their serfdom to Chicago.”
How did those ancient Greek city-states end up?
Not able to leave their brother’s behinds?
Give me ten million dollars today, for an imaginary hamburger on Tuesday.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
5 tail wags, PJ
Fuck Monday and fuck Monday mornings, harder.
I’ve finally figured out this democracy thing. Democracy is when you can count the mail in ballots, no matter how long it takes, until you win.
I hate the GOP. I think I hate them as much as the commies. You know why? Because they are the Stupid Party. No, they’re the dumbass motherfucking stupid party.
I have their ticket to winning. They won’t listen, but until they do, they’ll lose and I won’t even care any more. And it ain’t dump Trump and go with whatever Jub and Tutlehead want. Do that if you want to lose worse. Here it is:
You get a fleet of tour buses. Paint them up with pot leaves and beer logos. Drive them around before elections to campuses and other places where dumbass motherfucking brain dead under 30s hang out. Go to middle class neighborhoods and knock on doors. When the middle age couple answers the door, tell them ‘Hey, tell the adult children deadbeats living in your basement that we got a party bus up here with free beer, weed, and pizza!’. Get them to the polls, and after they are good and high and drunk, take them to the polls to count mail-in ballots. Anyone here got any good party bus designs for these things? The GOP needs to start paying me millions now in down payments. The billions can wait until after they start wining.
“I hate the GOP. I think I hate them as much as the commies. You know why? Because they are the Stupid Party. No, they’re the dumbass motherfucking stupid party.”
Mitch McConnel went out of his way to make sure people he knew would not accept him as the senate lead lost in this election, even though this meant the republican party would not take the senate. let that sink in for a second…
This. The GOP leadership isn’t stupid. They aren’t the dumb party. All this shit flinging at Trump about undermining GOP candidates misses the point that the eGOP doesn’t want GOP candidates winning who don’t support the eGOP.
What we’re watching now the eGOP purging the party of, for a lack of better term, MAGA elements. Not because the positions of these candidates are unelectable… just look at the success of DeSantis who appears MAGA in spirit but with establishment ties…. but because they are not loyal to the eGOP. McConnell, McCarthy, etc. are happy to intentionally let the Dems cheat to purify the party. It’s all to the eGOP’s benefit. And I’m amazed at how many are accepting that these are legitimate electoral losses that indicate the GOP must moderate harder in response! McConnell and co. are in on the whole thing.
Nothing new. They also either purged or coopted the Tea Party.
Precisely.
No need to round up people when you can use untracked mail ballots.
Just wait until you reach the depressing conclusion that nobody is that retarded, and they’re doing it on purpose because they hate their own constituents as much as their opposition does.
“opposition” in that they pretend to be on opposite sides in a Kabuki theater production and there are no other sides.
If you take out Minneapolis and St. Paul from the results of the guv’s race, King Walz loses. +200K votes in his direction from just those two cities.
Mpls: 153K to 18K
St. Paul: 86K to 17K
King Walz won 1,313K to 1,122K.
My city-state idea keeps looking better and better.
It’d be a good idea if the left was capable of leaving people they disagree with the fuck alone. Which they aren’t.
Disagree. The ancient Greek city-states loved a good war. I don’t think it would take too many of them before the left learned how not to fuck with other people with a weapon fetish.
Rocks and cows, Jimbo.
Or maybe send a crew or two of lawyers to where the ballots are being counted but they can’t even be bothered to do that. They’d rather deal with abortion mongers and trans story hour glorifiers than the America First crowd. And that’s just sad. They threw the election on purpose hoping the suburban soccer moms and BBB types will come crawling back next cycle.
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
“Ah don’t hate the English. They’re just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can’t even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We’re ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?”
The world now officially readies itself for the World Cup
Let’s see how the boycott movement works out.
I’m also mildly amused by a few football people who spent two years promoting BLM, now saying sports should be apolitical.
USA make a statement at the World Cup in Qatar by REDESIGNING their crest with rainbow colors to show solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community
Yes, that will totally help when Qatar starts imprisoning homosexual visitors. 🙄
They haven’t already?
It will still be highest rated world cup, everyone moves on.
which means Texas A&M lost. Which should be the end for Jimbo.
What’d I do? I only read the sporz newz because the Queens actually managed to win against a good team and I find out I’m getting banned?
Fisher, not fisherman.
Here’s one pretty big sports story from across the pond:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/63609522
Another from o’er there.
Ugh what a primadonna.
FTX moved its headquarters from Hong Kong to The Bahamas last year, with former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried hailing it as “one of the few places to set up a comprehensive framework for crypto” at the time.
Not to mention Chinese prisons.
What I’ve seen, FTX had a lot of ties to Ukraine and Bidens campaign. My guess is it was a massive money laundering operation. Also, maybe wanted to make a regime-backed digital currency to squeeze the unregulated cryptos out to make way for CBDC.
The facts are still unclear, and the company will share more information as soon as possible, he added.
“In the morning, it was GONE!”
“‘Good to see you!’ Biden FINALLY sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in 5 years and says they have a responsibility to show the US and China can ‘manage our differences’ amid tensions over trade, Russia, and Taiwan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11425153/Biden-FINALLY-sits-Chinese-President-Xi-Jinping-Bali.html
Joe forgot an hour later.
Well I mean he has to say that. It’s not like he’s stupid enough to threaten nuclear engagement with an aspiring nuclear-armed superpower.
I’d be surprised if he actually said that instead of some word salad.
“managed competition”
“I managed good, they played bad”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK3PVrXHhAA
Good one this week. Vandy and Texas A&M are the best bits.
“don’t look back,
you can never look back”
Not the Eagles, man…
Worse, solo Henley.
Yeah, but no Joe Walsh!
Memorialization of helpless victimhood
Bouquets of flowers floated counterclockwise in the waters of the circular memorial pool, passing the engraved names of the 20 first graders and six educators killed a short distance away at Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly 10 years ago.
The long-awaited memorial to the victims officially opened to the public on Sunday, drawing visitors steadily throughout the day. There was no ceremony, in keeping with Newtown’s tradition of marking anniversaries and other remembrances of the shooting with quiet reflection.
“It just takes your breath away,” said Nora Smith, a resident of nearby Monroe who visited the memorial with her husband, Kevin. “It’s something that you hold close to your heart because you feel so bad for these families.”
A path from the small parking lot leads down a hill to the focus of the memorial — a manmade water feature with a sycamore tree sprouting from an island in the middle. The 26 names are engraved in the top of a stone wall supporting the pool. A cobblestone walkway surrounds the feature, its outer ring lined with black-eyed Susan flowers. Other paths lead past a variety of plantings on the grounds.
Shelter in place.
“University of Virginia linebacker is among three people shot dead by gunman who opened fire on campus before going on the run: Police warn locals to shelter in place as they hunt for shooter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11424841/Armed-dangerous-suspect-large-shooting-University-Virginia-campus.html
This is the last we’ll hear of it.
Well, that’s not the type of shooting that can be used to promote the proper narrative.
Nonsense. Clearly it is the new black face of white-supremacy.
All 3 who died were football players who were on the University of Virginia football team. The alleged shooter was on the team in the past but is not on the team anymore.
“Jenna Ortega flashes her backside in sheer black dress at The Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Latino Cinema & Television in Los Angeles”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11424919/Jenna-Ortega-flashes-backside-black-dress-Critics-Choice-Associations-Celebration.html
Important her thoughts are in the right place.
I expected more from the Daily Mail.
Not thicc enough?
Today in best of Idiots in Cars I give you not one, but two idiots!
There’s a lot of angry people out there.
In my own neighborhood I’ve noticed a sharp uptick in anti-social behavior or just plain insanity.
I get it.
It’s a combination of the self centered world of so many people in public spaces i.e. screw you I’m doing what I want combined with somebody who finally loses it and overreacts.
It’s not going to take us to a good place. Problem is that we focus on the overreaction and not as much the self centered behavior.
I fully believe in the “both parties are assholes” theory.
Tell me about it.
Just one example of something I bitch about all the time…. The constant roaring engines and exploding muffler noises has. not. stopped. for years now. I hear it is much worse in some neighborhoods, like all-night drag races and shit.
See, also, yesterday’s discussion of community norms re house parties, etc.
That’s why having Greek neighborhoods is convenient in college towns.
When I lived in Norman, there was an issue wherein there is a local ordinance prohibiting X number of unrelated females living together (anti-whorehouse law) that obviously would also ban sorority houses. There were many attempts to get the ordinance repealed without success. The ordinance was also never enforced against sorority houses. Anarcho-tyranny.
Who was getting paid off by the sororities, and in what manner?
I imagine the majority of the local government either were sorority girls or married them.
I wonder if any of us here MLW pledged. Probably not.
Paid-off, or Laid-off?
“anti-whorehouse law that obviously would also ban sorority houses”
So it worked as intended?
Date a Theta, fuck a Zeta.
I blame the covid lockdowns. Society is not something you can turn off and turn back on again and expect it to work the same.
As annoying as the Civic is, the camera driver is the bigger asshole.
Agreed. Do not attempt to pass an obviously incompetent driver who is half way through a maneuver. Or even a competent one. He went right into the blind spot and paid for it.
That said, yesterday a Honda pulled along side and just swerved over into my lane (I think a lane change) and only the positive power of acceleration kept me from being hit. Using the horn didn’t even make the Honda change course. Stoned? Stupid?
The way he’s flinging the camera around isn’t exactly a best practice either.
Agreed.
Both are somewhat at fault, but the guy filming it shouldn’t have been alongside where he could get hit by what was clearly an inattentive driver.
It also looks like the camera driver swings the wheel toward the Civic when the Civic comes back into the lane.
My father taught me a few overriding laws of the road.
If you can see but the other can’t, yield.
Give bad drives plenty of space.
Right of way is little consolation if you are dead.
Visitors get their first view of the memorial in the small parking lot, which overlooks the site. Near the beginning of a path that leads down the hill, a plaque welcomes visitors and includes a quote by former President Barack Obama from when he spoke at a vigil in Newtown two days after the shooting.
“Here in Newtown, I come to offer the love and prayers of a nation,” the Obama quote reads. “I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts.
“I can only hope it helps for you to know that you’re not alone in your grief; that our world, too, has been torn apart; that all across this land of ours, we have wept with you,” the plaque reads.
The view from this pile of bodies is terrific. Vote for me.
If the GOP would just run Liz Cheney and Jeb Bush for every office, the dems would let them win. So why can’t they just do that? Don’t they want to win? They can even keep talking about putting evul marijuana addicts in jail and not shut the fuck up about abortion and still win. And best of all, they get to war monger all over the rock. How about a good invasion of Madagascar or something? I hear there are some Jihadists hanging out there among the Boabab trees and they’re probably on the pot. We can send them all to Gitmo after we bomb that place back into the stone age! Oh wait, it’s already in the stone age. Well, we can kill some fucked up trees and pot heads!
But I’ll bet the editorialists and columnists of TMITE already have draft articles about how “__________(fill in the name) Republican candidate is the second coming of Hitler.” I bet if the GOP nominated Michelle Obama for an office suddenly she would no longer be one of the “most admired women in the world.”
It’s already started on how they have the proven winning formula for the GOP. It’s of course run candidates who will agree with us on everything. Can you even imagine the bullshit that is going to go down over the next 2 years if they keep the House too? Holy fuck, we are so fucked.
Trump was a Democrat until he ran for President.
A 90s Dem is now a far-right extremist/fascist/Nazi/etc.
The Black Face of Hitler.
There is a reason they are referred to as the uniparty.
Today in best of Idiots in Cars I give you not one, but two idiots!
Looks like the exit lane is backing up. It doesn’t even look like the guy in the Honda brake-checked him. Was he asleep, or was he going to pass on the shoulder? Trying on of those PIT moves, or whatever they call it?
I took one of my kids to see some of her favorite metal bands last night. I heard the place had a really high tech sound system, but I was not prepared to witness this kind of wizardry. These were LOUD bands, but you could still hear the instruments and the singers. And though it was loud enough to feel the bass, my years didn’t ring and afterward, I could have a conversation at a normal level. It was very strange.
What bands were playing?
Europe’s mental health crisis in data: Which country uses the most antidepressants?
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/11/12/europes-mental-health-crisis-in-data-which-country-uses-the-most-antidepressants
Europe doesn’t have a mental health crisis! Everyone there is happy and they are naturally high on rainbow colored unicorn vapers!
I was going to guess Hungary since they have one of the highest suicide rates, but maybe they can’t afford the prescription.
So, I been on a Civ 6 marathon all weekend since I’ve given up on reading the news. There are only so many pills a person can take in a day. The Anthology bundle is on sale so I’ve been seriously considering it, but I don’t want to deal with the global warming non-sense. Although I guess that has been unpopular enough that there is now a mod to turn it completely off. Anyway, I got pissed because every time I play the True Start map continent thing as Teddy, the dude in the Congo starts out with so much science that it’s hard to overcome even on the easiest settings. I mean I worked hard to get to 12 science and this Congo fucker has 120 science already. WTF? It’s barely even possible to get 120 science in mid game. What in the fuck gave them the this idea? You ever been to the Congo? I haven’t, but I cannot imagine you finding a whole lot of science there. Lots of cool plants probably, but science? WTF? It’s like giving modern day Greece this huge economic advantage
Well… what setting are you on?
You’re aware the higher the setting the more the computer cheats with unfair bonuses.
It’s not possible to make an ai that’s any good at civilization so it has to.
I typically just leave in on Prince, that’s the default. But even on Settler, the Congo dude gets an unfair amount of starting Science. It’s almost like they’re making some sort of statement, just not sure what it is.
Wakanda is based inside the borders of Congo and they lended them some tech, obviously.
Well, shit, I forgot about that.
I resumed my Crusader Kings House of Wessex rampage. It’s the 1120s. The Empire of Britannia controls the British Isles, Northern France, the Netherlands, Schleswig-Holstein, a third of Spain, and most of Morocco.
1, 2, or 3?
3. I want to import to EU and continue. I wonder if I can get all the way to HOI with England owning the world?
They really should set it up so you can go all the way to Stellaris.
Nazi space program
I gave up on Civ games when I realized I suck at them. I don’t know what they were balanced for, but it was clearly not my playstyle…
*watches AI tanks roll over my Iron age settlements*
As annoying as the Civic is, the camera driver is the bigger asshole.
Annoying how? Because he’s not right on the ass of the guy ahead of him?
Driving indecisively, not using signal.
I think the lack of lane discipline is what the Honda is doing wrong.
Yes. And also appearing to not keep a consistent speed. Although tough to tell from the video.
Obama saying the quiet part out loud.
The AZ results trickling in are pretty hard to believe, unless you believe in fraud,
The AZ numbers would definitely be unique in history because they essentially mean that nearly all the registered independents on election day went Democrat. That would be defy the best results for independents in the history of the democratic party.
Keep counting until the Democrat wins.
^^
“The formula is simple: The economic power is totally different from the local people,” one Mexico City resident said.
American supremacy.
China tightens restrictions as rise in virus cases reported
I’m raspy with a sore throat and mild cough today. Luckily I don’t live in China.
One begins to wonder if it would have been far more productive, 50 years ago, for David Nolan to have conceived of a Libertarian Caucus within the Republican Party instead of a third party? And is it much too late to try?
I think that caucus would immediately be coopted by the party leadership and would end up being bog standard repubs in a short period of time. See the tea party movement of the last decade for a good example of what I mean.
Perhaps. But the libertarian ideas may have innocculated the GOP from more grievous policies. What has the LP achieved? Several early libertarians went on to somewhat helpful careers in the Republican Party: Bill Steele, CAL GOP chairman; Dana Rohrabacher, U.S. Congressman; Gail Norton, U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Maybe if they had 10,000 card carrying libertarian activists behind them, they could have won more victories?
The Socialists never won as Socialists, they coopted the Democrat party. Libertarians should have done the same with the Republican party.
You can’t get 10 libertarians in a room together without 11 opinions and a fist fight.
Herding cats should be an Olympic sport.
11? what sort of echo chamber are you running?
Like nobody here has ever held 2 competing opinions over the same topic.
I was implying that 11 was too few.
🥴
Oops.
Too bad the desire to not control you does not burn as brightly as the desire to control you.
^^^ THIS
Libertarians will never win anything. They have nothing to offer voters (no free gifts from the government).
The libertarian message is that you are on your own. Find some like-minded, kindred spirits if you want, but government is not here for you.
Yet Ron and Rand Paul won every election by a landslide.
In terms of raw population numbers I’d say there are likely more that could be classified as libertarian than progressive. They punch far above their weight in political and social power.
Yeah I mean I don’t see any liberty caucus members winning the presidency, but let’s not underestimate their political power in some areas.
This. Standing around and saying “so-and-so is yukky” has gained zero liberty.
Fifty year years ago you had Rockefeller Republicans and Nixonian big gov. Reaganism was an insurgency and even that isn’t exactly liberty focused. I can see why that wasn’t seen as welcome ground.
I mean yes.
The real reason the libertarian movement is toast is that the Republican party is now more pro liberty than at any time in the last 8 decades.
Look at who is killing it for them right now.
Are DeSantis and Youngkin really all that anti liberty anyway? Their stance on abortion and gay rights seems pretty damned reasonable to me and they are decidedly anti neocon.
I see upside here where others see downside.
It’s not exactly an either or.
You push from both sides. There’s a need for both.
But white men are a-ok to hate, I suppose.
Kill the white devil.
That was a fun Grand Prix and sprint race in São Paulo this weekend. The team radios In the final lap did not make LeClerc or Verstappen look good at all. I’m not usually a fan of team orders to switch positions at the end of races, but in both cases the teams were correct. Sainz should definitely not have switched and LeClerc looked like a whiny little bitch for repeatedly begging, and Verstappen definitely should have as he had absolutely nothing to lose and Checo has been a good teammate to him, definitely helping him get one of those two driver championships. The Dutchman looked like a giant dick. It took Merc all year, but they finally figured out the car. Hope we can see a true three way fight next year, and that we also see some more improvement from Haas. It was too bad about Ric taking out KMag there at the beginning of the race. São Paulo, Silverstone and Spa are really the highlights of the racing calendar. I’d love to see them ditch Miami and build another proper track in the US. Some of the street circuits are very good (Baku being the standout), but three or four of them per year is enough. Let’s see how Vegas goes next year.
Vegas will suck balls except for the spectacle.
Agreed on the team stuff. Max especially looks like a douche. Leclerc was whiny, but given where he’s at in the points he was just really really wanting a few more.
I also have no doubt it will be a spectacle, I’ll wait and see if it delivers a good race. Hopefully they can use Miami of an example of what not to do with a street circuit. If Sainz was not about to get a podium, I’d say LeClerc was right for asking, but the team would’ve likely ordered it anyway.
I wonder if they’ll ever figure out what happened.
This airshow bombed.
We need as “cash for clunkers” program to get obsolete airframes out of the sky and replace them with modern, efficient ones with automated collision avoidance!
My supervisor shouldn’t have hassled me about my timecards, now I’ve realized I’ve been working too many hours and not getting the comp time I’m entitled to.
time… cards?
/exempt employee
I am overtime exempt, but if I go below minimum hours I have to charge leave.
So I’m the worst of both worlds between hourly and salaried.
Love those civil service perks!
Go get that money!
This is fine.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/14/farage-vindicated-eu-will-set-up-first-rapid-deployment-military-force-by-2025-claims-report/
Absolutely guaranteed to be used against their own populace.
I want to see their diversity policies.
I think the lack of lane discipline is what the Honda is doing wrong.
? I don’t even see what you’re referring to. Maybe Honda is looking in the mirror trying to figure out what the idiot behind him is doing.
It looks to me as if he sped up to get some space from the guy right on his ass. That didn’t work, so he slowed back down to get clearance from the guy ahead of him.
How fucking hard is it in those conditions not to hit the car in front of you? Was he pushed into the back of the Honda by Idiot Number Three, behind him? Don’t want to be behind him, pull out and pass. If you’re in line for the exit, suck it up and stay in line.
Posted without comment:
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1591955898112643072?s=46&t=rleXBIV2dNOP5OKHdeAWPg
I am of two minds on the subject. We show more humanity to animals who are released from their misery than we do humans. However, where is the murder/suicide line?
It’s the same guy from a few weeks ago. Is he still alive?
Pfizer, Moderna to track any longterm effects of rare heart problems linked to Covid vaccines
Like putting Jeffrey Epstein in charge of tracking child sex abuse.
Nooo!
*falls to knees, screams at the sky*
Post-Pfizer/Moderna normal heart activity is rare so a small group to study?
I was being dramatic because he beat my link by 4 minutes.
What about the common heart problems linked to the vax? Anybody tracking those?
I feel sorry for the Chinese that have to suffer through continued lockdowns, but on the bright side their continued use of this idiotic tactic is a good thing to demonstrate exactly how shitty this liberty killing policy is. It’s also going to hobble their economy and hopefully speed up some decoupling of western economies with theirs.
What, you’re going to believe your lying eyes (now there’s an Eagles allusion) and not the BS we tell you? /your leadership
NBC News: Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks underway
They just can’t help themselves. Nevermind that even tylenol and aspirin have universally accepted adverse health risks associated with use. Completely verboten though to even hint that an untried, unevaluated, novel MRNA pharmaceutical might have some risks.
The feds have access to billing data, which is a very complete and detailed dataset of treatments, diagnoses, etc. There is no need for a trial, just dig into the data you have.
Like the FDA did before it (1) said the vax was more dangerous for males under 40 than they ‘Vid and then (2) approved the vax for males under 40.
Suicide:
Do you believe in self-ownership, or not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn2z19QnEfQ
Hmmmm.
Does this mean you should be prosecuted for attempting suicide in a cruel way, such as setting yourself on fire?
If you lynch yourself, is that a hate crime?
Of course not. Only white people can be guilty of hate crimes, but a white person can never be the victim of one.
What if you’re biracial, and your white half lynches your black half?
Then you’re only half-dead, and we can prosecute.
But is it a hate crime? That was the question.
There’s no such thing as a hate crime.
Suicide is legal, you know. It’s attempting and failing that’s illegal.
Someone else is in charge of punishing the dead.
Also, the real debate is more about whether or not people or organizations should be allowed to help you do it.
That.
See Fatty’s response which came faster than mine and more succinct than I would have. I do believe in self-ownership, which means that if you want to commit suicide, do it yourself. As for people who CAN’T do it themselves or they left it too long until they couldn’t, well, that’s where my 2 minds comes in.
If my loved one said, fill up the morphine and give me the button, okay I can do that. If they said, AND press the button TOO, I don’t know if I could do that.
Another, more closely held religious belief is that a suffering loved one is a test also for those around him. Then I think, would God have punished Abraham if he’d just said, No, I’m not gonna kill my kid? So there’s my woowoo beliefs coming in to play.
Also, my church doesn’t judge suicide. We don’t know what mental state those people were and therefore it is not ours to say.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1591846426514173952
This.
Isn’t he in prison for pissing off the DoJ?
This is why Dems and the GOPe care about a corrupt, eastern European shithole.
This is why the uniparty creates shitholes.
The Dems have correctly realized that governorships do not really matter. The Federal Government is so omnipresent that who owns the states is of less consequence (“But DeSantis!” me all you want) than who is in the Senate. Thus, you see the disparities between Lombardo and Laxalt in Nevada and Kemp and Walker in Georgia. The Dems know which races to target and how to win them (whether on the up-and-up or via cheating)
It’s seems they are targeting the ones that will provide an optics victory. (I.e. Lake, Boebert, Laxalt, Walker…)
Except they do. A great deal.
Losing Arizona will be huge because they control the election sites again for the presidential race again.
Winning Nevada might be a nice boon for Republicans and hopefully Georgia can keep working on their elections.
With the senate decided, GA means less, so I think Walker handily wins runoff.
Really?
I don’t know. He’s not all that popular and doesn’t have the benefit of the more popular Kemp running this time.
But that would be nice for Republicans anyway. Incumbents are tougher to oust later on.
The Ds need insurance against Manchin and Sinema.
This. If they lose AZ, the Republican legislature and governor put in Florida style election fixes. That leads to directly to similar election results as Florida.
Speaking of the “vaccine”:
I saw a commercial specifically (in a very heavyhanded way) targetted at pregnant women, yesterday. It was the first time I had seen it.
Safe. Proven. Effective.
Proven and effective at causing miscarriages I presume.
Is Ronna McDaniel in hiding?
VDH spot on as usual.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/13/tragically-trump/
What’s best for roasting brussels sprouts? Olive oil? Duck fat? What?
Whatever you like / have. Would nut oil work?
Baby seal oil.
Whale blubber.
Don’t nut oils have low smoke points? Not that I have any.
Yeah, that was my concern. Would be tasty though.
Not peanut oil.
Duck fat is always a good idea.
I’ve heard that horse fat makes better fries, but never tasted them to know.
You should ask Horselover Fat.
Olive oil and salt/pepper/garlic.
I use olive oil.
Venezuelan heavy crude.
You don’t want something light and sweet?
Avocado oil, and add cut up slices of bacon to render down.
I use whatever I have. Usually olive oil..
The most important part is to hit them with balsamic vinegar before serving.
I’m tossing them with lemon juice. Not only does it taste good, it lets me prep them beforehand.
All joking aside, bacon grease. And mixing the two is one of the great combinations in food.
Yup… I always cook some bacon strips first, use the fat to fry the sprouts and then crumble the bacon on top to finish.
I use either light olive oil or avocado oil usually. The important thing is use very little of it. Just a super light coating on a flat metal roasting sheet works best.
And really hot. At least 475.
Perfect. I’m 60/40 on Regular Car Reviews, but this time he has nailed it.
2022 Nissan Altima AWD: Regular Car Reviews
Costel sounds like a Romanian name to me
Rough
https://twitter.com/Rothmus/status/1591913391106449408
True.
I’m becoming convinced that FTX is a false flag to provide justification for regulating the industry and eventually mandate the digital Dollar. That’s the crown jewel for tyrants; forget controlling health care, the digital Dollar means they can control EVERYTHING. Make it the only medium of exchange and they can just block the “wrong” purchases or block the “wrong” people entirely.
https://archive.ph/6qvK6
Mammary Monday.
regulating the industry – that went so well for banking
Financial regulations always aim to fix the last financial crisis. They never protect us from the next financial crisis.
It’s interesting that it’s FTX, though. You would think such a sweet money-laundering op would be too good to shut down.
Also one of the ways they were laundering our money sent to the Ukraine.
Trump’s fault
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland said Sunday that former President Donald Trump has cost the GOP the last three elections and it’s past time to reassess what’s important to the party.
“It’s basically the third election in a row that Donald Trump has cost us the race, and it’s like, three strikes, you’re out,” Hogan said during an appearance on “State of the Union” with CNN’s Dana Bash.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media during an election night event at Mar-a-Lago on November 8, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida.
Some past and current Republican members of Congress blame Trump for party’s losses, say time to move on in 2024
“This should have been a huge red wave. It should have been one of the biggest red waves we’ve ever had,” added Hogan, who was ineligible to run for a third term in Maryland this year. Despite President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings, the governor said his party “still didn’t perform.”
“I think commonsense conservatives that focused on talking about issues people cared about, like the economy and crime and education, they did win,” Hogan said. “But people who tried to relitigate the 2020 election and focused on conspiracy theories … they were all almost universally rejected.
Muh loyal opposition.
“Republican” governor of Maryland…
commonsense conservatives
Also known as fake conservatives.
“Get rid of Trump and we’ll dial back the fraud machine from time to time to let you occasionally have ‘power’.”
This “We’re down by 10,000 votes but OH LOOK 7 days later we found 27,000 and ALL OF THEM are for our candidate!” Schtick is getting tiresome.
Good morning, Sloop!
What kind of crazy shit is this?
Another MKUltra success story.
Still, people disappear all the time. From a few years ago:
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/leave-no-trace/
REM’s first few albums were excellent. After that they climbed up into their own assholes (Stipe, anyway) and got boring as hell.
In Finland, all new PhD holders are given a traditional PhD Sword & Top Hat during a Conferment Ceremony. The sword & hat symbolise the freedom of research and the fight for what is good, right and true.
https://twitter.com/BudgetDude/status/1592031653807157248
yes a lifetime of regurgitating whatever mainstream opinion you are told to. Freedom
All I got was a lousy piece of paper.
If you’re going to give them a sword… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrlro3YJ15o
This, from an interview with Sam Bankman-Fried (whose crypto exchange has just imploded) is very funny. That loser Tolstoy. Think of the time he could have saved.
https://twitter.com/tds153/status/1591827455316221953
He should have read Dostoevsky.
I’m trying to be sympathetic, but it isn’t easy.
Laid-off tech workers describe what it’s like to hunt for a job now
Shit, I’d love three months paid leave followed by severance. It’d give me plenty of time to relocate and line up a job to start after the end of the payout period.
dunno bout there but in Europe it is a bad time to open a small bakery, with the energy prices. Also there are too many already.
Remember how to code?
Yeah, didn’t hear any of that BS when I was laid off due to O-shitheads policies.
BREAKING: Paul Krugman Is An Asshole
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1591784458004631552
When we didn’t know it was air born?
Anyone with a brain knew it was air born, and acted just like any other repertory virus.
If we just remove numbers I don’t like, and ignore other important factors that might undermine my point, we get the exact results I wanted. – A Nobel Prize Winner
5 Interesting Bikini Fashion Facts with Miami F/W | Fashion Herald Top Fashion Magazine India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8qQTjH9wM
Look for the (Soviet) Union label
“OBVIOUSLY, THE ELECTION on Tuesday night went a hell of a lot better than we had anticipated.”
This was Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) scientific assessment of the 2022 midterms. He watched returns at home in Vermont — “I try to keep out of D.C. except when necessary,” he offers — and stayed up until four in the morning waiting for results. The night had been full of bright spots for the 81-year-old Democratic socialist, but the most promising had been John Fetterman’s decisive win in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. “There’s no candidate who ran who was more strongly identified with the working class of Pennsylvania than John Fetterman,” Sanders says. “He really hit a nerve that I hope we can all learn from.”
Fetterman’s candidacy had a Rorschach test quality to it, one that led most corners of the Democrats’ big tent to claim his win as their own. To Sanders, Fetterman’s victory validated the Vermont senator’s conviction that Democrats can win if they embrace a working-class oriented economic message. Sanders had set out on the campaign trail last month out of concerns that his party wasn’t doing enough to lift that message up.
Looking out for the little guy.
The mentally deficient deserve representation.
“There’s no candidate who ran who was more strongly identified with the working class of Pennsylvania than John Fetterman,”
Yeah, he was sooo working class.
He didn’t identify with the working class, he identified as working class – less convincingly than that weirdo shop teacher in Canada with the huge fake boobs identified as female.
Sanders joined Rolling Stone to discuss election outcomes, the state of the party, and what he hopes Democrats will focus on as they retain control of the Senate.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Your chief concern heading into the midterm elections was that Democrats weren’t doing enough to talk about the economy — about the dangers Republicans posed to economic well-being and the agenda that Democrats should champion going forward. Do you feel like the party came around to stronger economic messaging in the final days of the campaign?
It’s hard to deny that in the last few weeks, from the president on down, more and more discussion about the economy, more and more discussion about Republican efforts to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And I’ll tell you, I think that had a very strong impact.
That’s some high quality journalisming.
So tell me, Senator, in light of the existential threat to America posed by the Republican Party, do you think it’s fair to say they should be removed from office and banned from any position of public trust?
Commies have been notoriously good at economics…
Republican efforts to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
If only.
We’re not going to get anywhere promoting freedom in a country where the goddam President runs around badmouthing businesses for accruing income to the owners instead of “operating for the benefit of consumers”.
“Profits are evil” and “Central planning is the best way to run an economy” are not and never will be libertarian-adjacent messages.
Businesses should not make a profit but I have no problem being paid more than cost when I sell my labor or property. /derp
It’s actually pretty easy to tell when a business is not operating for the benefit of consumers. They quit buying whatever the business is selling. QEMFD