Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another fantastic day and the links!
Elon Musk: ‘My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci’
Kari Lake files election challenge in Arizona court
Michelle Obama pressured Twitter to ban Trump: Twitter Files
The ‘Twitter Files’ are the final nail in the media’s credibility
Help is on the way for Hunter Biden as teams of supporters go on the offense
Hunter Biden’s Strategy To Go On The Offensive Further Indicts The Feds
Record 8.7% Social Security cost-of-living increase starts in 2023
Automaker Stellantis to Idle Illinois Plant, Citing Rising Electric Vehicle Production Costs
Wait Times for Specialists, Surgery in Canada Highest in Nearly 30 Years
Men Are Winning Women’s Athletic Competitions Across The Nation
Retired Navy SEAL made famous after coming out as trans announces detransition: ‘Destroyed my life’
‘Die Hard’ Screenwriter Jeb Stuart: It’s ‘Definitely a Christmas Movie’
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Kari Lake files election challenge in Arizona court – denying elections is undemocratic and should be illegal
Unless you’re hot. Hot chicks can get away with almost anything.
Arizona Court: “Dismissed as moot, the election has already been certified.”
And if she had filled before it was certified: ‘no standing because there is no harm yet.’
You can’t sue before an election because no harm has yet incurred. You can’t sue after an election because we can’t overturn an election.
Arizona state law actually includes a section on challenging elections and what grounds are acceptable. So rather than the courts winging it, they have something to defer to that avoids personal responsibility.
“Not my fault your legislature put this law in place”
Arizona law states no challenges can be filed until after the statewide canvass is completed. Then any voter that wants to challenge the election has a five day window to file a challenge. The question is, when did the statewide canvass end? Certification is meaningless.
Also note, this means the counties that were considering not completing their canvass were hurting Kari Lake. The statewide canvass cannot complete until after the counties are done canvassing and certifying. Voters cannot challenge an election until after the statewide canvass is completed.
Elon Musk: ‘My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci’
While I appreciate Elon’s troll game this is not going to lead to anything and should not be news, it is just a rando tweet
I disagree. You have a shit ton of lefties living in a woke bubble. Having a centrist pop that bubble is one of the most important things going on right now.
I think the bubblers will regroup deeper in the bubble
Some will, for sure. I’ve spoken with enough to know that some of them are beyond reaching. But not everyone is that deranged.
Heh. Even my liberal friend who lives in San Francisco marvels at the thickness of the bubble.
Speaking of liberal bubblers, I gotta call my mom today. 79 years old.
Most of the people in the bubble know the bubble is insane, but they fear being cut off and turned into the enemy so much that they would rather defend the bubble even when they know it is dumb as shit and destructive.
It’s bubbles all the way down.
But the media is not reporting the story so nobody really knows much about these “twitter files”
Nobody will be held accountable and life will go on.
Press is doing the same with the vaccines. Doesnt matter how many people drop dead—they come up with stories like this—-https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/12/01/more-deaths-among-vaccinated-americans-not-reason-avoid-vaccines-experts-say/?outputType=amp
One is left to wonder how bad the death rate and disability from the vaccines will have to be in order to shake the media’s faith.
The only thing that would “shake the media’s faith” in the vaccines is a stop-payment on a check for “advertising” from Pfizer.
Or people actually exploding while receiving their 4th booster.
Natural Causes
uhh… 404. 405? Whatever it takes.
It was a Repo Man meme.
Given the media’s current viewership/readership (or rather, lack thereof) and the high levels of distrust, I don’t see how those two statements would be related. Certainly the second, if true, would not be caused by the first, since the population paying attention to the media is small and declining.
Think of the amount of people that would be screaming about these revelations if it was republicans doing the censoring. Less people might be watching the news—but if that were the case it would be all over the tv and more people would actually know what these twitter files are.
Same would be true if the right were pushing these vaxxes and mandates.
That’s the problem: the double standard.
Even the accusation of something bad is enough for these bubble/team blue asshats to demand the person on the other side be executed. But no amount of evidence of criminality will ever make practically any one of them come out to say there was something bad going on. And they can do this because the media helps them downplay or hide the criminality they engage in (team blue is a crime syndicate or cabal of crime syndicates) while projecting the criminality team blue engages in on their political opponents.
The bubble won’t pop.
Centrist? He’s a right-wing Nazi maniac!11!!!1
I don’t know if it will lead to anything, but it is certainly news when the man currently leading social media discourse says something.
So the wait time is now 31 years?
From recent articles — I think they plan on having a MAiD clean it up.
Horrifying.
They should read out the the VA. They know how to clear a wait list.
“We tried, we’re still on hold.”
In other woke sports news, NPR had a piece blaming the WNBA for what’serface’s Russian imprisonment. Because if they just paid their players fairly, she wouldn’t have had to go to that awful place in order to make triple her US salary. How can the WNBA possibly expect their players to live of a measly $200k/year?
I wonder if the players have to pay imputed income on their workout facilities and groupie access.
The star lifestyle costs a lot. There are NBA players who make millions and it is barely enough
Also
Men Are Winning – TERF
-1 Allen Iverson
The WNBA was founded by a cis-white male so of course there is no equity on that plantation.
Women’s leagues shouldn’t even exist. /Hot take
Certainly not if they lose money and are kept afloat by the men’s league.
-1/2 the USA men’s teams winnings.
And that’s the disgrace. I have repeatedly asked women and lefty man-women complaining about the inequality between mens & womens pro sports pay how often THEY attend women sport events and pay into that pot to help these ladies make more money. Indubitably all you get is silence or the usual “I am not a fan of sports” answer to which I respond: well, there you go. This is NEVER well received by people in that bubble.
Just keep rubbing their noses in it, it’s all you can do.
not even lingerie football?
Some people might finally choose to pay to watch that. Then again, what if it is all Lizzo sized hippos galivanting on a field and ruining it?
Broken record, but we need more of this. Only when they make an absolute mockery of women’s sports and Suburban Susie’s daughters lose soccer scholarships to men can we expect actual reform.
Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health,” former Obama CIA director John Brennan said.
Yup.
Brennan and Fauci both should be part of the warning to the next ten generations (metaphorically, Preet… metaphorically).
Agreed, metaphorically.
Agreed, Preet too.
Mephistopheles praises Dr Faustus.
Right? Complete joke that anyone reports on our listens to Brennan after the past 8 years. He should be persona non grata and if anyone listens to him, it should be to know what not to do.
Witnesses need to hope that the Clinton team hasn’t been taken on as advisors to the the Bidens.
The next administration will use the present one as part of a learning curve. Rocky roads are not just for ice cream any more.
Clearly step 0 is to assassinate the entire intelligence community so they can’t interfere in the elections.
I would hope exposing their lies (the Twitter Files are helping there) and defunding every last one of their agencies and salting the earth on the concept would suffice, but yeah — if an anti-IC candidate makes it in 2024 and has a friendly Congress, that’s definitely Job Zero.
Given the current GOPe desperately trying to flip off their base by ramming through amnesty before the new House can disrupt their plans… I have little to no faith in that happening. Too Many Weasels.
Amnesty for what?
Also, only in our greatest fever dreams will the surveillance state be abolished.
“Dreamers” (DACA) and then their families.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/12/12/here-are-more-details-about-the-atrocious-backdoor-amnesty-deal-on-the-hill-n2616993
And yeah — I know it isn’t at all likely. But after Trump and with all we’ve seen come out, I have to say that if a non-compromised President were to make it to office, it would be pure self-preservation (and given the political leanings, anything outside of the Donkeys and the Stupid-e (GOPe) folks should feel the same) to do anything else. They’ve made it abundantly clear at this point that they believe they are in charge, both foreign and domestic policy and woe betide any foolish elected official who bucks their system.
So if you don’t agree with them, I don’t see where they’re going to have a choice. Their answer, of course — is that no such politician will ever see office again from what I can tell. One way or another.
Back to looking at the otters holding hands or something else to mitigate the black pill. Ugh.
I think you have it 100% correct. There is no intent by the administrative state to allow another Trump (they tried to keep him out in round 1 too, but they have since fortified things).
I strongly believe this is the only reason musk bought Twitter and why he was willing to spend a stupid amount of money on it. Maybe I’m projecting onto him, but I cant imagine he thought he could recoup the 45 billion it cost him. He had to have an ulterior motive for the purchase.
“Back to looking at the otters holding hands”
Good idea.
I disagree a little; I think it is still possible for smart political operations in the administration to control the bureaucracy. Trump entirely lacked that knowledge. It will be useful if Congress is supportive but not absolutely necessary.
Automaker Stellantis to Idle Illinois Plant, Citing Rising Electric Vehicle Production Costs – you people need to start buying more EVs
Still waiting for the flying cars we were promised.
Just believe.
Jeep Cherokees hardest hit. Another indigenous product suffering because of lack of sales. EVs are just 10 years away from dominating the auto market
look point is buy vehicles with as many electronics in them
So the ChiComms can then EMP us and leave us screwed? Not gonna happen.
I was awakened this morning by a tow truck hauling away my neighbor’s Cherokee that obviously refused to start. She took off for work in the Honda her husband usually drives.
CARB says “We’re working on getting the guns to their heads… just give us a little more time…”
Elon makes all the people who I dislike extremely angry and irrational. This is great.
Wait Times for Specialists, Surgery in Canada Highest in Nearly 30 Years – I assume that, just like in England, the evil libertarians are underfunding a healthcare system that otherwise would be the envy of the world
“Why do they get to euthenize their elderly and we have the treat them?”
/Resetters
Healthcare by country.
Both the doctors and patients are sneaking across the border in an attempt to get to Mexico for treatment.
To aid the efforts, Brock planned to start a new group — since launched — named Facts First USA, which Brock described as a “SWAT team” designed to “ensure that the media and public do not accept the false narratives that flows from congressional investigations.”
You can’t make this shit up.
Brock has been making shit up for decades.
That much irony should collapse into a singularity.
I think it’s becoming apparent that what is at stake in the Hunter Biden case is not the future of Joe Biden, but instead the future of the deeply embedded blackmail systems in the federal intelligence agencies.
They’re desperate to keep that out of the spotlight. It came close with Epstein, but it’s harder for them to make the Biden’s go away and Congressional investigations could prove to be a problem.
Yeah, you don’t go all-hands-on-deck just to protect a crackhead wastrel and his non compos mentis father.
They are protecting the fact that “Fundamentally changing America” was not what the crowd of idiots believed it meant’ but the weaponization of our federal bureaucracy under the Obama tenure. That asshat Boosh junior was a serious fuck you aller, but Obama took that corruptocracy shit to a level that would make Richard Nixon saintly.
Are knowledgeable voters better voters?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470594X211065080
“Empirical work in psychology and political science indicates that politically knowledgeable individuals are often highly partisan and that partisans tend to be biased, dogmatic, and polarized.”
“All of this has an ironic and unfortunate upshot: the people who seem the most capable of political objectivity are the least likely to participate in politics.”
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1601970066219622400
Rand nailed this decades ago.
Nobody that’s sane wants to be around politicians and their cohorts.
Douglas Adams did it better.
You don’t want the wrong lizard in charge.
I find this to be true. I will talk politics with you guys here but I have no desire to really invest myself in the process.
off course who decides what is bias?
“C’mon, Man. You ain’t black (or white) if you don’t vote for me”
Or maybe they just have principles?
I am pretty sure that informed voters, as long as the information is not more of the same lies/propaganda the legacy media spouts, would not be voting team blue’s crime syndicate elements pretending to be politicians. And most also would turn their nose up to the do-nothing, country club assholes in team red.
David Brock, the former conservative turned liberal activist, attended the meeting. He is planning a new group, Facts First USA, that will focus on fighting the House GOP investigations.
The Orwellian opposite talk is everywhere these days.
Sea otters sometimes hold hands while they rest or sleep in the water, apparently so they don’t drift apart.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1601698330698219520
Well that just made my morning.
Yep. Good for the blood pressure.
you people need to start buying more EVs
Whaddaya mean, “you people”?
I mean all y’all need to increase Pie’s bonus. More electronics in cars!
Got it.
Zero electronics Crate Car it is.
I don’t play golf. Therefor, I do not need a glorified golf cart.
^^^THIS^^^
‘Orning ‘ordles… not ‘orrible. Given past Mondays, I’ll take it. And before you troll, Pie… pbbbtt in advance!
Daily Duotrigordle #285
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 05:55.27
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Dumpster-fire.
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Chessle 303 (Expert) 5/6
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https://jackli.gg/chessle
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Pulled that out of my ass.
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Daily Duotrigordle #285
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 03:44.11
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Worlde keeps adding stages – country, neighboring countries, capital, flag , population, and currency.
Blew the flag. 😠
#Worldle #325 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Yay, me too. 15th of September bro.
Daily Quordle 322
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Monday meh.
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Meh.
Ive got a 20 dollar bet that says the Biden admin sought Brittney Griner’s release just so Sam Brinton could get a shot at stealing xer luggage.
Ok… I laughed. 😉
If I could — I’d give you the opera clap gif for that one.
😂
We live in a bizarro world.
🙂
He’s here all week, folks!
Tip your veal, try your waitress?
🙂
Stellantis – I had to look up what the hell that is. Why not just call it Fiat-Chrysler? A merger of the two shittiest car makers in the world.
Wouldn’t hold my breath for that plant to ever be reopened in a union state like Illinois.
Slander. Fiat are the finest automobiles known to man.
Fiat has the finest spokesmodels known to man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGSzSyHqMU
I’m sure you of all people will agree.
In general, their advertising is light years better than American cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoC1QWlLFKI
Better than any Honda in every way.
Catrinel aint as young as she used to be, like all of us really
Yes. Abarth’s are beautiful cars.
I have that car, but I’d prefer to have that spokesmodel.
“Why not just call it Fiat-Chrysler? A merger of the two shittiest car makers in the world.”
I think you answered your own question.
They changed it when they added Citroen, Peugeot, Opel, Vauxhall, etc.
Jeep, Chrysler, and Ram are probably the most reliable in the group.
Shitbox Inc. was their second name choice.
The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the “Twitter files” but it’s much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.
https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602134693008359424
“Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments. At least 5,000 employees had privileged access to production systems.”
“Twitter had no software development lifecycle, and misled both the FTC and its Board about this fact for a decade.”
“Twitter does not have licenses for the machine learning models it uses in its most basic products.”
“Twitter knowingly allowed itself to be infiltrated by, or otherwise a tool of, many governments.”
Holy shit – that’s wild.
Agile!
Sure, lets call total chaos, agile…
Maneuverable is just another word for unstable.
This is the kind of cowboy shit I expect from…well, me. Certainly not an established ‘tech’ giant.
I do not often test, but when I test, I do so in production…. Alexin CT.
“We have disabled your production access for failure to follow deployment procedures. Thank you”
I sent out a ton of those types emails when I set up the CI/CD pipeline for my company back in my DevOps days…
Are you kidding me? No wonder they suck. Do not develop in Production, people!
“Twitter does not have licenses for the machine learning models it uses in its most basic products.”
So what? I still don’t have a legit license for WinZip or Adobe
Amsterdam-based Stellantis insists that it’s looking at repurposing the Illinois facility but didn’t reveal any concrete plans. Cindy Estrada, vice president of UAW, criticized Stellantis for receiving “billions in government incentives” to transition to clean energy while failing to invest that money into “our communities.”
Needz moar kickbacks.
I didn’t even know Shirley and Ponch had a daughter.
thai tiktok is fucking wild man
https://twitter.com/weezerfan100/status/1601480552980574213
STEVE SMITH SAY NO… HE FUCKING WILD MAN… AND DOMESTICATED MAN. ALL CAMPERS WELCOMED.. AND BY WELCOMED, MEAN….
Awful Fan-Made Movie Posters
https://twitter.com/AWFULfanPOSTERS/status/1597653608392032256
HOME ALONE during THE PURGE
https://twitter.com/AWFULfanPOSTERS/status/1601018000924037120
I prefer when they mess with trailers.
More electronics in cars!
I’ll stick with levers and cables and gauges. You can have touch screens and drive-by-wire.
Bitter angry lives-next-to-the-dog-park-lady pretends that she is a concerned citizens group, sends letter to get city to block installation of water at said dog park.
https://www.saratogatodaynewspaper.com/sections/letters-to-the-editor/item/18107-participatory-budget-vote-no-spa-park-water-fountain-installation-project
SLD: The city should not be funding the dog park in the first place, but since they are also prohibiting us form voluntarily implementing this project *shrugs*
ban dogs.
Do you have a newsletter?
You both are now on my “use as a protein reserve” list.
When public comments are appraised, I wonder if anyone verifies which comments come from actual city residents. My guess is 90% of negative comments came from non-city residents and could be thrown out.
OMG, that astroturf group name decodes to CROSS. Heh.
Did the newspaper blindly accept that there was such a group? Did she setup a lame webpage or even an FB group?
I don’t have a source in the local journalismist community.
The voting is over, but the results have not been reported. Heck, I have no idea if the votes have even been counted.
Echo chambers and filter bubble are largely just a figment of the minds of political pundits
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1602295694374617090
Allow me to doubt this research
Bull.
Shit.
Good-looking people report higher meaning in life.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1601537719427297281
Makes sense, in the way they’re defining things.
Be attractive, don’t be unattractive”?
Long ago, I used to know (not, unfortunately, in the biblical sense) a girl who owned a Fiat 131. That car was a steaming pile of shit, but it had a twin cam motor which sounded so sweet it was amazing. The one thing they could get right, and they want to throw it all away and make cars which sound like electric shavers. Good plan.
The four horsemen of god tier creature design in film
https://twitter.com/ScribblesHorror/status/1602003135739957248
The guy with multiple sets of teeth just looks like any child’s x-ray from the dentist.
For Swiss
https://ibb.co/djPCN9T
Nice… of course you’re going to have to send him a bouquet of hibiscus as an apology.
This guy was known to smite people….
Hey! I see the sun!!!!!!!!!
Are you sure it’s not just a nuclear reaction?
Ackshually…
Oh, oh, we can get grants and subsidies for fusion plants by renaming them “surface level solar”
Or grants for solar plants by naming them “Extended range fusion power collection prototypes”?
There’s already solar grants.
That’s why we’ve also renamed coal to ‘solid state solar storage’
While it may be technically correct that stars run on nuclear fusion, that’s really just a step in converting gravity to light. That’s why 1g fusion sucks.
Doo doo doo doo….
The cost of EV production rose massively during the COVID-19 pandemic. The average cost of raw materials for an EV came in at $8,255 per vehicle in May 2022, an increase of 144 percent from $3,381 in March 2020, according to global consulting firm AlixPartners.
The cost increase has been driven by materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel, which are critical in the manufacture of the rechargeable batteries used in EVs.
——-
Meanwhile, electric vehicles appear to be less reliable than their gas-powered alternatives in the United States.
Just a few bumps on the road to our glorious future.
Those lazy ass kids working the mines in Africa just need to put in more hours.
Romania’s first revenge on Austria’s veto: Bucharest blocks Vienna’s intention to take over the chairmanship of the OSCE, a key institution for security in Europe
https://www.g4media.ro/romanias-first-revenge-on-austrias-veto-bucharest-blocks-viennas-intention-to-take-over-the-chairmanship-of-the-osce-a-key-institution-for-security-in-europe.html
The OSCE is expected to play a major role in the post-conflict situation in Ukraine.
They’ll be setting the borders when western Ukraine is partitioned?
Looks like the Russians are content to just turn the front into a meatgrinder for the Ukrainians who continue to walk directly into it.
https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321
This is from a Western military contractor, Mozart.
And I had to laugh at this:
Strictly humanitarian, but performing combat training for the incoming troops.
YouTube randomly recommended a video to me a few days ago of a British mercenary group that blindly ran into Russians in a heavily wooded forest and then ran away.
It seemed like a great deal of yelling and blind firing among the Brits while they retreated. More like LARPers than I’d expect an experienced team. I’ve never been in the military though, so my perception may not be accurate. And of course the whole thing might have been staged or cut from a movie, etc.
Maybe they didn’t know the color of the boathouse at Crewe?
The Washington Post opinion piece complaining that there are no black players on Argentina’s team has been corrected after the fact, to note that “far less than 1%” of the Argentine population is black.
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1602306800090779649
Racism…. racism everywhere….
Gee, the whitest country in south america doesn’t have any black people on it’s team. I’m shocked.
Should have had more slavery, then they’d be more acceptable today. I guess?
NPR had a piece celebrating that a greater percentage of the Maine legislature is black than in the population, and then went on to lament that there were still too many wypipo.
Wait… there are black people in Maine?
/sarc
LOL
They self-own so often it must be hard to choose just one.
Idiots that scream “GOLlllazzzzo!!!” for an own-goal.
Mammary Monday always knew Die Hard is a Christmas movie, it’s just good to hear it confirmed by the original source.
https://archive.ph/eWR7x
Looking out the window at the little birds flitting about the snow-covered landscape and my mind keeps going “How the *bleep* do they survive winter?” and how much of their survival depends on being urban birds.
My simplistic answer would be that birds and winter have been around long before urban centers, so they have it figured out.
Other details Im at a loss for.
Trying to do my part. One day last week the birdies were fighting so fiercely for a spot on the bird feeder’s perch that it looked like Black Friday in Walmart’s electronics department.
Really I just want the birdies to keep voting for me.
whaddup doh’
whats goody
I had no idea Straff was 67
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-gets-arrested-after-calling-police-2000-times-in-9-days-to-harass-and-insult-them.htm
When Jordan Peterson Tries to be Andrew Tate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdjiW3hvOpI
pretty good impression
Die Hard is as much of a Christmas movie as a guy in a dress is a woman
Next you’ll say Gremlins and Trading Places aren’t Christmas movies.
I wouldn’t know, I’ve never seen them.
Independent
The popular progressive US senator Bernie Sanders would consider supporting any Democrat who might mount a challenge against his chamber colleague Kyrsten Sinema after she recently left the party and declared herself an independent like him, arguing that she has “helped sabotage” some of Congress’s most important legislation.
Sanders’s comments on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union added to the chorus of detractors against the Arizona lawmaker who has undermined the agenda of the Joe Biden White House and other progressives, including by voting down raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and reforming the Senate filibuster so that voting rights legislation can pass.
The independent from Vermont who votes in line with Democratic interests told the show host, Dana Bash, that the leftwing party’s members in Arizona were “not all that enthusiastic about somebody who helped sabotage some of the most important legislation that protects the interests of working families and voting rights and so forth”.
And, Sanders added, if Arizona Democrats eventually ran someone to challenge the newly-declared independent, “I will take a hard look at” supporting that candidate, though some are concerned that hopeful could unwittingly give Republicans an opening.
Where do you even begin?
Independent Bernie will fight to the death to defend to DNC’s agenda from Sinema.
Independents stick together. This is known.
The Washington Post opinion piece complaining that there are no black players on Argentina’s team has been corrected after the fact, to note that “far less than 1%” of the Argentine population is black.
Because Nazis!
What did I win?
No excuse. The percentage of blacks in many US premier leagues is well above their percentage in the population. Only racism can explain it being lower.
Die Hard is as much of a Christmas movie as a guy in a dress is a woman
What about Lethal Weapon?
They are both Christmas movies in this house.
But A Charlie Brown Christmas is still the best.
You misspelled How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original animated one, of course.)
That’s 2.
Stoltenberg is trying to create the rhetorical framework for a full-blown WW3.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/world/europe/russia-ukraine-nato-stoltenberg.html
Who dis?
And which “we” is he referring to?
Stoltenberg is the NATO General Secretary.
“We” is going to be all of us, but particularly Europe.
Wake me up when Pooty attacks a NATO country.
How exactly would our freedom (or what’s left of it) and peace be threatened by anything happening in the Ukraine – unless it’s used as an excuse to involve us in a war?
If Putin can pick off Ukraine, he can pick off Portugal. And then he can pick off Delaware! There will be no stopping him!!!
I say let him have Illinois and Maryland. He couldn’t make them any worse.
The same way Russia’s isn’t threatened.
“I know this is really hard for lots of folks, especially [on Capitol Hill], but what’s important to me is … to not be tethered by the partisanship that dominates politics today,” Sinema said in that interview. “I want to remove some of that … poison from our politics. I want to get back to actually just working on the issues, working together to try and solve these challenges.”
Sinema’s departure from the Democrats came after their party had just succeeded in getting every one of their senators re-elected for the first time since 1934 after Raphael Warnock retained his seat in Georgia on 6 December.
Bipartisanship means sticking together and ramming our winner-takes-all wish list down the Republicans’ throats, not bargaining with them. It’s their duty to compromise by giving us everything we want, because we won, and elections have consequences.
“‘Listen, this n**** is not even trying to die on earth. His whole business model is “f*** earth, I’m leaving anyway!””
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11528559/Elon-Musk-met-chorus-boos-brought-stage-Dave-Chappelle-gig.html
LOL
🙄
They’re trying really hard here.
I think Elon can deal with his wounded pride.
San Francisco boos Musk … shocked face.
“Musk fired my brothers girlfriends cousins babysitters non-binary partner! In Alaska! He is evil.”
The reality is probably closer to, “I read in Vox that he is evil.”
What a weird article.
Not sure what Musk expected, it’s San Fran.
“The ‘Twitter Files’ are the final nail in the media’s credibility”
Don’t we wish. As long as democrats can count the mail-in ballots until they win, the media will be propped up like a dead Stegasaurus fossil, only not as cool. They’ll be passing a law, with Turtlehead’s help, to force us all to watch it, like something out of 1984. Not watching it will carry prison sentences for harmful disinformation think.
For some years now, the media has become a confirmation rather than information service. The media is horrible for saying bad things about Hillary but now it’s good for attacking Trump. Fox News was great until it wasn’t, now it’s great again.
People who regularly read the papers and watch the news do so to have their biases confirmed.
Oh, they’d never try something to prop up the establishment media….
Happy news!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/12/finally-the-gibsons-bakery-family-has-been-paid-by-oberlin-college/
Last time I was there (on my way back from the Honey Harvest) they were out of Apple Fritters. Boo!
Mind you my more used Gibson’s hat is hanging on the corner of my cube with my coat for when I leave later.
“Retired Navy SEAL made famous after coming out as trans announces detransition: ‘Destroyed my life”
Heretic!
Eh, probably just looking for more attention after the last round ran out of steam.
Good news for sailor Glibs!
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/us-navy-splurges-on-pricey-bidet-with-effective-enema-function/
Heh.
Enema function will be particularly useful for the Navy.
This is how you retain and recruit.
Certainly the Biden DoD does seem focused on sodomy and the lash…. maybe they’ll allow rum while they’re at it.
“We are Enema Function and we are here to ______ you!”
Considering the amount of seamen in the Navy, they all probably need something to flush the ass.
Is that a sub surfacing or are you just happy to see me?
Warnock’s victory over Republican challenger Herschel Walker, combined with a Pennsylvania seat flipping to the Democrats, left his party thinking it had a clear one-seat majority in the upper congressional chamber. It had spent the past two years with a 50-50 split in the Senate in which Vice-President Kamala Harris broke ties in the Democrats’ favor.
Sinema, who entered politics as a Green Party member and antiwar activist, has said she doesn’t intend to caucus with Republicans. But she’s been vague about whether she would cooperate with the Democrats in the way that Sanders and fellow independent senator Angus King do.
But muh MANDATE!
Those guys had the steamroller all warmed up and ready to go.
The same Sinema who votes with Biden 93% of the time and has already said she will continue to do so? The only reason she did this is to enjoy continuing her leftie voting practice and at the same time distancing herself from the dem’s insane shit. It will work of course because voters are stupid and will vote for Hitler if they can resurrect him and put a D after his name. You know why? Because the dems are cool! LOL, the dems have not been cool since 1960 you morons. Oh wait, it’s not that, they saw an image of Turtlehead and automatically pulled the lever for dems, that makes more sense.
ONLY 45 YEARS NOW
Now fusion is only 45 years away.
Am I the only one who can envision the luddite lefties lining up at any newly planned fusion sites, with pitchforks in hand? How can you control people if they have almost free limitless energy? They’ll be doing stuff we don’t like! They could even surf hetero pr0n and turn their thermostats up to 68F! They could even grow their own weed indoors, more than 2 plants!
Wrong! Fusion will be popping up in major cities all over the world within the year. NATO is working on it right now.
They’re going to bungle it, and we’re going to have to deal with the Fallout from that initiative.
Maybe, but no one will want to bother with their Tactics.
“NATO is working on it right now.”
So, what you are saying is it will be 60 years now?
I see what you did there.
They’re already artificially restricting supplies of this and that and when we have essentially limitless energy they’ll restrict that too.
Maybe is there is a way that Bildo can buy all the sites and just sit on them?
That is sounding like a Hobbit porn parody or something.
Bildo Saggins in Lord of the Wangs
Isn’t it weird how Bildo and Smeagol both show up as Billionaires in real life? It IS a simulation!
“Net energy gain” is buuuuuulshit. It’s “net” energy only when you disregard the overwhelming amount of energy inputs to the process as being ancillary or somehow irrelevant.
From my favorite stern German Frau Professor
About the specifics of the engineering… “challenges.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUWoywZRt8
“…a hundred million degrees. I’d try to put that in perspective, but there’s really no point. Here’s a meme instead.”
I am going to go ahead and call bullshit on this now. Stupid media spins stupid story, it goes everywhere without fact checking.
“Musk quoted the thesis in response to a tweet from Eliza Bleu that linked to a Roth tweet from 2010 that read, “Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers?” Roth also linked to a Salon article titled “Student-teacher sex: When is it OK?”
In 2020, The Post Millennial reported on Twitter’s child pornography problem and how prolific sharing sexual images of minors had become on the platform.
When Elon Musk bought the social media giant he said it was “Priority #1″ to eliminate child porn on the platform and worked to erase the hashtags users were exploiting to help spread the images. Roth quit soon after.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-disgraced-twitter-exec-yoel-roth-had-secret-dirty-account
Twitter also banned the word “groomer”.
I guess from now on, I’m talking my dog to the Pet ‘Stylist’.
Elon reversed the ban.
What about “learn to code?”
Wild right wing delusions
Luiten, 52, is a national organizer in a campaign to stop Dutch government plans to potentially shut thousands of farms in order to reduce harmful nitrogen emissions by half by 2030 — a plan that critics say will change the country’s huge agriculture industry forever.
Tractors have blocked highways and surrounded government buildings as part of a campaign that has huge public support. The three-year-old Farmer-Citizen Movement, known by its Dutch abbreviation BBB, is now one of the most popular in the country, according to opinion polls.
This grassroots protest movement has been driven largely by ordinary farmers like Luiten and their supporters, but it has another element: the far-right. Radicalized by the opposition to strict Covid measures and spurred on by conspiracy theories about “globalists” dismantling national democracies and importing nonwhite immigrants to majority-white countries, these activists see the farmers as the latest victims of an assault on Western civilization itself.
As conspiracy-driven Telegram groups, right-wing commentators and some lawmakers would baselessly put it, Dutch farms are being shut down to make space for asylum-seekers. Right-wing populists around the world have offered their support for the farmers’ stand, including former President Donald Trump, France’s Marine Le Pen and Poland’s far-right populist government.
But, in reality, many Dutch farmers are just trying to make a living.
The A1 motorway stretching east from the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, to the remote rural heart of the country is littered with upside-down flags. Supporters stand on highway bridges every night waving the inverted tricolor as a symbol of defiance against an unpopular government and to call for an end to the nitrogen plan. Passing drivers honk in agreement.
Far right propaganda and disinfo plot to undermine the Eurocrats who just want to build a better world.
“Eurocrats who just want to build a better world.”
Without a few billion of you useless eaters.
They’re forcibly purchasing the farms for a dubious reason is all I need to know. Maybe they just like the idea of being one of Europe’s few net food exporters.
“shut thousands of farms in order to reduce harmful nitrogen emissions by half by 2030 — a plan that critics say will change the country’s huge agriculture industry forever.”
We have to export our food growing to the developing world where they have the best environmental practices. Just like offshoring our industrial production to China solved pollution in that industry.
+1 lithium processing monopoly
You really don’t get to call it a ‘conspiracy theory’ if it has a website and press conferences…
There you go believing your lying eyes instead of what we tell you to believe.
*insertvoxsplaininghere*
LOL that’s just crazy talk.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/12/12/the-netherlands-template-for-ecomodernisms-brave-new-world/#more-287698
Small farms are hard to control. Big food factories are easy.
“spurred on by conspiracy theories about “globalists” dismantling national democracies and importing nonwhite immigrants to majority-white countries”
The EU does this openly and proudly. It is a conspiracy, but not a “theory”
Wait, I must have missed something. Nitrogen emissions? As in the gas that makes up 78% of the atmosphere?
When did that become a global crisis?
The ‘Twitter Files’ are the final nail in the media’s credibility
Maybe for you and us, but for the average person? “FAKE NEWS!”
“It’s good for people on Social Security,” Blair said. “It’s not so good for the economy with inflation.”
“Robbing Peter to pay Paul”
In other news, I decided to clear my driveway instead of letting the Sun take care of it. When I got back from the gym, I discovered someone had driven over my lawn and the town plow had ripped up part of my driveway.
I think whomever had driven over my lawn was dodging someone doing something stupid on the road. The road is straight there and it’s the only reason I can think of to explain the tracks I saw.
The town plow must have drifted to the right, getting his plow into my driveway, and then correctly quickly to avoid my mailbox. At least that’s what I think based on those sets of tracks.
Livestock manure reacts with urine to generate large amounts of ammonia — which can cause acidification of soil and water, a big threat to biodiversity, and emit pungent smell — as well as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas.
In 2019, the European Union’s top court and the Dutch Council of State, the country’s top administrative court and legislative advisory body, ruled that the Netherlands had breached E.U. environmental standards by failing to ensure they were met in 162 protected nature areas.
The real fury began earlier this year when the Dutch Department for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality released a map showing which areas had to reduce their emissions and by how much — in some areas, this meant 95% of farming activity must be stopped within a year. The Dutch farming lobby group LTO estimates there are nearly 54,000 agricultural businesses across the country with exports totaling 94.5 billion euros ($99.75 billion) in 2019.
The radical Farmers Defense Force, which experts described as a far-right group, has said it would not accept any buyouts and promised further protests.
Let them eat rice cakes.
Supposedly these kind of limits and the associated penalties are violated on a regular basis all around the E.U. so the hard on for enforcement has to have some ulterior motivation. My money’s on housing and commercial development.
You don’t say!
ban experts.
This is why Dutch Farmers are going to be evicted from their ancestral homes.
“Investors” = WEF. They are going to take to farmland and build a giant city full of immigrants. The Dutch never voted for this but it doesn’t matter.
The radical Farmers Defense Force, which experts described as a far-right group, has said it would not accept any buyouts and promised further protests.
I watched a video of Dutch police opening up fire on these farmers protesting while in tractors last year. Missed actually hitting anyone, but there were bullet holes in the tractors. These protests are about as meaningful as throwing handfuls of sand into the ocean. Will be interesting to see if any of the farmers actually dig in and kinetically respond against the evictions. And if the Farmers Defense Force rallies to those sites with men and supplies.
The “X is really cool” and “actually, X is a SATIRE” people are both simple-minded. Palahniuk didn’t set up his protagonist as a bored, stressed, lonely, tearful fellow frequenting support groups just to feel something to say “toxic masculinity is bad”.\
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1602294071560925184
“Net energy gain” is buuuuuulshit. It’s “net” energy only when you disregard the overwhelming amount of energy inputs to the process as being ancillary or somehow irrelevant.
see, also: zero emission vehicle
BLACKBOUGH SWIM HAUL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATJj4DFKvSE
“Detrans man gets approved for euthanasia after failed sex reassignment surgery. Very heartbreaking. Viewer discretion is advised. Still think medical transition should be available to anybody with minimal gatekeeping?”
https://twitter.com/ShifterofShapes/status/1601735401689219072
Killing gays with extra steps.
“Still think medical transition should be available to anybody with minimal gatekeeping?””
With the exception of children and mentally incompetent? Yes.
You just have to live with your shitty mistakes. Now, should society (including professional societies) approve of and support the butchers doing this? I don’t think so.
Maybe the toning down of the aggressive encouragement by all the Smart People would help, too. Perhaps a little more, “Hey confused person, maybe you’re just gay. I know that isn’t as hip and revolutionary as transitioning, but oh well.”
We goan get that stove and that fridge!
Seriously, just a couple of decades ago, could anyone have imagined the feds going after your stove and fridge? These people are out of control insane. The Biden admin will be hiring 80,000 new federal workers to come to your house looking for rogue appliances. If they’re lucky maybe they will have a big day and find more than 2 tomato plants that look like weed.
The ozone hole has been shrinking for decades already. That’s a red herring.
Well you can’t have an ammonia refrigerator because that could be used to cook meth.
“The proposed rule will be open for public comment for 45 days as the EPA continues to draft policies …”
AS someone thats spent over 20 years working with Federal/State/Local “EPA” agencies? Thats just lip-service. They never respond.
Why do you hate saving up to $8 billion from 2025 through 2050?
Guess who has a monocle and will be working the World Speed Shooting Championships?
I wonder if Lena Miculek smells nice.
Snidely Whiplash?
Do you want to get ventilated by a race gun, because this is how you get ventilated by a race gun.
If she’s competing in RFR, I’ll have to get very close in order for the timer to pick up the shots.
Ask Brandon?
Uncle Pennybags?
Ha! It’s a trick! He doesn’t have any eyewear!
“That awkward moment when you can’t tell whether your neighbor has a really loud infant or is just watching really loud porn.
8:47 PM · Nov 5, 2012”
https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/265631453424001024
wut?
There’s no context, so how can we know what that comment is referring to?
“It has nothing to do with him being gay or Jewish, and everything to do with him being a disgusting groomer. I know it’s been hard on you since Elon took over and people are allowed to call out child predators again. It’s clear you take that very personally, AC 🥺
And someone’s minority status does not make them immune from criticism. These woke tactics no longer work.
Signed, a gay Jew.”
https://twitter.com/thegaywhostrayd/status/1602066986036785152
“Twitter 2.0 discovered that previous Twitter was simply removing child sexual abuse material Tweets in many cases.
The entire account was allowed to stay up after they removed the individual tweet.
Read that 7 more times.”
https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1601595700110032896
More consequences of Australia’s unregulated gun culture: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/multiple-officers-involved-in-shooting-west-of-brisbane-20221212-p5c5rv.html
“Australia’s unregulated gun culture”
Wut?
insert “/sarc” as required.
Not just Canadia. A diagnostic test I scheduled last week didn’t have an opening until the end of March. Almost a 4 month wait time.
That’s socialized healthcare in a nutshell; your choice is to prize scarcity or to delay access because of scarcity.
There is no solution that allow you to overcome that basic economic law, but fucking socialists continue to gaslight idiots that have been convinced that the private sector is run by wolves in sheep clothing that are completely subverted by the dark side of human nature and would lie, cheat, and steal in the name of profits, while everyone in government suddenly and magically becomes immune from these base human fallacies because, well, because whatever.
See also “free” higher education in western Europe, Australia, etc.,
There’s no one in the office, I have a 90 minute gap until my next meeting, and a meeting that is scheduled to start when my day is supposed to end.
Should I relocate home?
Oh, and my supervisor is out today.
Screw it, I’m going to get lunch and work the rest of the day from home.
That is the proper executive response.
Concur.
Da fuk?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/12/julian-assange-biden-press-freedom-legacy
Opening line to the article:
“The Biden administration has been saying all the right things lately about respecting a free and vigorous press, after four years of relentless media-bashing and legal assaults under Donald Trump.”
In recent weeks, Denver has had a spate of folks from Venezuela showing up. The news has had bunches of stories about why they’re coming, how you can help, etc. Here’s one, with an interesting quote by an American Friends Service Committee spokesperson:
https://kdvr.com/news/local/denver-organization-assisting-with-migrant-influx-says-theres-a-reason/
““I am confident the folks that are coming here are not being coordinated by a governor or a large organization. No one is chartering a bus. Our nonprofit partners are holding off right now at the border from coordinating with us to send us folks because they realize this is new for the city of Denver,“ Piper said.”
I would think this falls under the federal crime of people smuggling.
I would like to know what the gender distribution of that crowd showing up is. I ask because Venezuela is well known to have a lot of very attractive women. And since they have been starved by their government for over a decade 9all the pest have been eaten already0 there are not gonna be any heavyset ladies showing up in that crowd. Some enterprising entity in Denver might be importing some special labor force. Know what I am saying?
The only interview I’ve seen was a husband, wife, five kids. I assume interviewing comely young Venezuelans fails to advance some narrative. Or there aren’t any.
Tres hit hardest.
“It’s just a coincidence that all these kakistocracies greatly benefit from having fewer mouths to feed and from the flow of free dollars coming in.”
I wonder if Lena Miculek smells nice.
A dab of Hoppes Number 9 behind each ear?