Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Classified documents found in Biden’s Delaware garage next to his Corvette
So is this the plan to oust Biden and take down Trump or just to appear fair?
More Questions About the Penn Biden Center and Hunter Biden
New Twitter File dump shows Dem. lawmakers knowingly pushed fake Russia narrative about Nunes report
More Americans identify as Republicans than Democrats
Only half of US women under 45 have children: CDC survey
Criminal charges against Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting could come this month
Minibubbles in US Banking Are Popping With Costs in the Billions
Florida’s DeSantis unveils prescription drug pricing and transparency reform bill
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
BDSM or Vax?
Why not both?
“Vax me baby” is the new hotness.
Tax(idermy)
Vaxidermy!
So you’re wondering if the injecting squirrel is looking to bust a nut?
The world needs more nut busting!
I legit thought you were asking what killed Lisa Marie Presley.
Classified documents found in Biden’s Delaware garage next to his Corvette – this is the republican version of russiagate. booorinbg. who cares / ENB
I am loving how the people that dropped their pants and started stroking their privates in glee when that FBI raid was done and the propagandists told them THIS TIME, they REALLY had the orange monster good, with these secret docs are now suddenly all acting as if there is a difference between the Trump shitshow, or that of Biden. Yes, there is a difference. It seems a a good portion of the Biden docs were Secret Compartmentalized docs – meaning there was only ONE copy, held in a SKIF facility, and that the only way they are now in his garage or elsewhere, were illegally removed from the SKIF – and the Trump docs we were told were critical because of nuke secrets, were all made up shit.
I guess they will now need another racket to go after Trump, or maybe the plan is to handicap grampa child sniffer so he doesn’t have the ability to run again.
I’d argue that Biden’s defense of he didn’t even know he had them or what they were, let alone where he put them is worse. Especially for a guy who vehemently claims to have the utmost appreciation for the significance of handling classified material. But that’s just me…
The entire thing is pretty much bullshit. They *all* take classified shit when they leave office and records that they were supposed to turn over. Hillary mishandled classified material deliberately and the press ran cover and we got the excuse of no reasonable prosecutor. It’s all a big joke, but it’s all they had on Trump.
No way the national archives didn’t know Biden had this shit, either.
SCIF – Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
K – for Komunist.
That’s not even her worst take this week:
Except the Russia shit is all made up…
And she believed every bit of it.
Sure, but should republicans really be upset that a true story was suppressed and influenced an election while a fake story was blasted constantly and influenced an election? Both going against them? Totally just an obsession.
Yeah, the issue here is that whether we have false stories being heralded as true criminality or true stories being suppressed and those bringing the information out being accused of lying and engaging in criminal behavior, these event ALWAYS seem to go in one way: to favor the deeps state & their team blue/team red lackies, and to hurt the people opposing the deep state and that cabal of criminals working to protect it and its agendas.
It’s all by design and orchestrated gaslighting of people to keep them distracted and fighting each other so the crooks can finish looting the Titanic’s valuables before they sail off in the life boats and leave the rest of us to go down with the ship/
Manslaughter. He did point the gun and pull the trigger without verifying for himself the state of the ammunition within.
Could, but won’t.
More Democrats identify as elephants though.
“I’ve been a Republican my whole life, but even I think that we need increased gun control, a better safety net for our most unfortunate, and hate speech laws.”
Hands off my Medicare! Social Security is a sacred trust!
Yeah — part of me still wonders if they just found elderly people who really didn’t understand how things work or if those were plants from the GOPe to discredit the Tea Party movement. It certainly worked, didn’t it?
Indeed. Foot meets can meets road.
Both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street were incoherent – I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore moments. TP opened up some of the ground that Trump would end up covering.
Tea Party was very must the initial wave of conservative “Washington is broken, corrupt and only serving the elites” stemming directly from W’s bailouts of the banks and Obama’s handling of GM and Obamacare. So yeah — of course after the GOPe made sure it neutered any candidates it managed to elect that sentiment kept building until it found an outlet in Trump.
TL;DR — as many, many have said before… Trump is the symptom, not the cause.
Initial wave? Maybe we need a Thursday night viewing of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? If there is one trope in American politics, that suckers both the left and the right, it is of the glorious and pure outsider riding into Washington to set things right!
MR SMITH GO TO WASHINGTON AS OUTSIDER AND BECOME INSIDER.
AND BY BECOME INSIDER, MEAN….
No they’re not plants. They’re completely sincere.
It’s just that they’re convinced of the mix of errors and lies they heard for decades – that the “bought into” SS or Medicare, or already paid for it, or something. I mean, they saw this $ pulled from their paychecks for years, so surely the stories about “just getting back what I paid in” must be true, right?
Which I completely understand – even though they’re wrong.
I don’t have a problem believing they were legit. The government has a massive propaganda machine specifically designed to give gullible people the impression that the money is indirectly theirs, a contractual obligation based on defined and reasonably objective rules. They send out little glossy personalized brochures to people detailing their future income. And a lot of people plan based on that lie.
“I regret to inform you that all your future SS contributions were paid out to the previous generation decades ago.”
“Pray we don’t alter the deal further.”
Well, yeah, and in a just world, all of the people involved in implementing that Ponzi scheme would be spending many years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. But, maybe unsurprisingly, older generations do seem to have a misplaced trust in the system. “Well, they’re not getting arrested or anything . It must be on the up-and-up. Our government wouldn’t cheat us!”
I’m afraid more of it is “Who wants to admit they got robbed? For years. By folks who were conning them. Who wants to admit they were fooled, and believed a pack of lies?”
Well, nobody. Especially when they’re older, and there’s no way to recover any of the money or dignity. It’s far easier to comfort oneself by believing lies than to deal with those truths.
As an beneficiary of the largesse and speaking for a lot of oldtimers that I know, it’s more like:
“I don’t give a shit, I paid in.” And we’re willing to accept all the free stuff to make our own lives more comfortable, disregarding those who are actually paying for it or are going to pay for it in future generations. The future is not a bright one.
Agreed. I am paying in too. So I have no compunction getting what I can back out before it burns down. But yeah, there is a sadness for those that will be fucked over by this in the future.
Oh and I’m not immune to the feeling. I’m POA for Mom. So I see SS come into her account at about the same time I see a bunch of it come out of my paycheck and the subjective part of me is like “well, fine, at least we’re getting it back”, even though I know the truth.
If you or I set up a system to do this we would be sent to jail for running a Ponzi scheme. Only our government can fuck people over like this.
That actually was the Tea Party.
Heh. Now that I think about it, you’re right. Saw a lot of crusty old farts in patriotic minuteman hats screaming about protecting entitlements during those rallies.
That’s populism baby!
No, because the original tea party was a Ron Paul fundraiser.
The fake tea party took the name and ran with it.
More Americans identify as Republicans than Democrats – that is not what the fair elections show.
I suspect more former Democrats are now openly “Socialists” or “Marxists” or “Communists” now. They’ve decided it is time to rip off that mask.
Even in NYS, Democrats are a minority party. R’s are a bigger minority, but still.
Ballots, not votes.
Only half of US women under 45 have children: CDC survey – what is the rush
What if half the women under 45 are also under 18?
hmmm are they? How is woman defined in this contexet? I assumed only over 18 were counted
The survey, published on Tuesday, covers the years 2015 through 2019, and found that in this time frame 52.1 percent of women between the ages of 15-44 had at least one biological child, while between 2011 and 2015, this number was 54.9 percent. – weird counting 15 year olds
15-18 years old you are counting a vast population that has very few kids. It would skew the survey. Which may be the desire of the authors.
Did they include men who claim to be women? That could also skew the results.
Probably includes all the women with penises.
Those ovaries don’t last forever.
“Only half of US women under 45 have children: CDC survey”
This is what happens when you kick Stephan Molecule of twitter. Now he’s back and eggs are $6 a dozen.
Florida’s DeSantis unveils prescription drug pricing and transparency reform bill
A PBM is a third-party administrator of a prescription drug program that is primarily responsible for processing and paying prescription drug claims. – we don’t have such a thing in Romania as far as I know
In risk of public embarassment, I am going to commit this three day weekend to try to produce three items for Glibs:
1: a short story. It is mostly complete, I have to write out a decent ending.
2: a videogame review.
3: an article whose contents I choose not to reveal at this time. It is within the scope of topics this site has covered before but not one I’ve written on.
It is within the scope of topics this site has covered before but not one I’ve written on. – the Jews?
No.
escorts? whisky?
Judge Nap drinking whiskey with JAP escorts who want rope bondage? Endless questions from an immortal vampire?
‘It is within the scope of topics this site has covered before but not one I’ve written on.’
Rope bondage?
I took my handle from the very first article I was writing for this place. Which I never finished because it was a lot of work and I decided that nobody was interested in it anyway.
A review of Torment: Tides of Numenara. It did have a tie-in, in that your character got their very own orphan that you could sell off, trade, kick out, or use as manual labor.
In the early days of Glibs I did videogame reviews, but haven’t had anything I felt like reviewing in a while.
To be fair — and I know Riven would disagree (probably later this very day), but there hasn’t been much all that exciting in the videogame world in the last few years as far as I’m concerned… so that’s no surprise.
I am looking forward to whatever the mystery review is, though… just hoping it isn’t some annoying MP open world Arena lootbox fest game… because regardless of reviews, I’m never going to be into those. I really wish somebody would take something like World of Warships and give it a good but non-cheating AI for single player and figure out actually good mechanics for subs and carriers (I had to give it up with the sub reworks and “Tier XI SOOOPER! ships”… it was so obviously turning into a “you must constantly try to figure out how to keep a top-tier ship… and we’ll make sure we break the economy enough to get your $$$” game… I just want to cruise around in my USS Georgia and shoot things. Sigh.
I don’t play multiplayer games, so I don’t review them.
In fact, the game review isn’t meant to be a mystery, it’s Gotham Knights.
I definitely look forward to it then. Enjoyed Arkham Asylum, mostly enjoyed Arkham City (I kept getting my ass handed to me in a Robin stealth mission in the DLC, iirc… plus the added emphasis on “do this timing crap perfectly!” isn’t what I played the games for). Own Arkham Origins but never actually played it… so Knights should conceptually be up my alley… Origins just made me more than a little gun shy, but open to a good review. Thanks in advance.
Ubisoft (use our launcher forever!) just recently announced the cancellation of three games, a massive loss, and pushed back Skull and Bones again. I have the feeling the Ubisoft formula of open world + collectables + towers + graphics is no longer getting them the big bucks they expect. I know you’ve got issues with the Firaxis launcher, but honestly, Midnight Suns is the first PC game I’ve wanted to buy at full price in years.
Hell, looking over the “most anticipated games” for this year, the only ones I’m really interested in are Breath of the Wild 2 (Switch), maybe Bloodlines 2 (after seeing if it’s as janky as the original), Starfield (after the reviews come out), and maybe STALKER 2.
I will reserve judgement on Starfield until post release when people can tell me what order of magnitutde the Bethesda bugs are at (Are we talking Elder Scrolls 5, or Fallout 76?)
I’m hoping Space Marine 2 is good, but since the developer of the original went out of business years ago, I have no way to tell. I have little hope for Rogue Trader, since Owlcat Games isn’t that good at balance or making things fun.
I pick a game and only play that game. I’m up to my elbow in Elite Dangerous Odyssey. It is essentially a single payer game that you can share with the rest of the world. I do play with others, but it is my choice. Playing solo is a viable option that allows one to play within the same galaxy as others and affect and be affected by the actions of others.
The variety in the game (which was designed by the same person as the original open world game Elite) is great.
To make money, you can Mine asteroids, trade, bounty hunt, be a pirate, explore the galaxy, kill aliens, rescue and save others, etc
You can create your own player group and take over systems or work within one of the major powers to fight for control of human space.
I could go on, but the game is amazing. It has lots of flaws, there are some annoying grinds, but there is tons to do.
The most amazing part for a space cadet like me is the visual appeal and amazing growth within the community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-2vRhvMRRA
Hence my comment about waiting until after the reviews come out. After they shat upon my beloved Fallout franchise three times, I don’t have a lot of faith in Bethesda. On the upside, it’s a new IP, so they’ve got that going for it.
I also neglected to mention the new Fire Emblem game which is due out in a month or so. That one I’ve got my eyes on as well.
Got a link? I hadn’t heard abut that one.
UCS:
Fire Emblem Engage, due out next week (1/20).
Thank you.
And I should have realized the wrok proxy would block the site.
Silly me.
Well, Amazon’s not blocked, so I can at least look at the product description. I’m torn between “Interesting premise” and “Nostalgia bait cash grab”
‘I took my handle from the very first article I was writing for this place.’
I stole mine from an old Morcheeba tune:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_CZUbi-CM
I always assumed as much.
That’s a good album.
A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.
Thanks, UCS.
Don’t thank me yet, I haven’t delievered.
They aren’t even thinking of charging Biden with the same offense as Trump, so that’s going to be a problem.
And of course the “active investigation” by the special counsel will be used to shield Biden from a congressional investigation.
Yeah, this guy doesn’t make me think the fix is in or anything….
The question is – what “fix”?
The one where Biden did nothing wrong. I doubt it because this story never would seen the light of day. The stuff is the garage in particular – who happened to find them in a house guarded by the Secret Service and why did they go running to the DOJ and press?
Or the fix where Biden is blamed for this, inflation, the Ukraine… and sent on his way in favor of Kamala or Newsome?
That’s the sticking point for me. All the documents were discovered by Biden’s “aides”. Why would they make any of this public? They could easily turn them in. It’s not like the FBI or National Archives would have made a big deal out of this.
Doing this allows them to coordinate with the media to program the usual lemmings. Remember these were found right before the last election, and they are not sharing this until now for a reason. I believe that they played out the impact/risk of not revealing this shit and then it coming out with republicans now running the house and their usual gang of liars out of those committees not being there to block for them, and it was absolutely devastating. Hence the release. now they can control the narrative, have a fake investigation, and hopefully salvage this racket against Trump. And if not, well, they can also use it to get rid of Joe if he doesn’t step aside as more and more of them want him to.
They got a guy who conspired to ruin Trump in 2016 to be part of their conspiracy to force out Biden.
How much was Trump’s admin actually shielded by the Mueller investigation?
Because the rules are enforced exactly the same for Ds and Rs.
Well of course.
You mean like dramatic staged photos of the docs laid out in Bidens garage? Oh…never mind.
My favorite part of that staged photo was the obviously empty file folders with the big scary “Top Secret” labels on them. I mean, if I worked around that stuff, I’d probably snag a few of those folders for souvenirs.
I think they should have done better due diligence, to be Frank. Caveat emptor.
Yeah, it seems that that cabal of crooks suddenly have either stopped or lost the ability to do the economic analysis due diligence of entities they were/are buying. Be it laziness, greed, or some other idiotic motivation, my suspicion is that most of these financial efforts are nothing but overinflated accounting house of cards these days. And because times are bad, a lot of them are ending up imploding (see FTX).
Not a good place to be.
Frank who?
Squirrels getting the clot shot on Friday the 13th? What’s next?
Why the Democrats never say a word about dark money anymore.
It is a dumb thing to have ever believed that democrats had any kind of problem with dark money, or any sort of money in politics, because what they had a problem with was anyone other than them taking advantage of that money.
Team red’s old cadre was/is a bunch of country club idiots that figured they could skim a little off the top here and there. Team blue has ALWAYS been a full blown crime syndicate, willing to tell any and every lie, while engaging in every and any move to gain power, with the end goal of then shutting down the competition permanently while they looted everything of value, including the shit bolted to the floors, ceilings, or walls..
As RC pointed out in the dead-thread yesterday, I have a hard time finding large-scale criminal conspiracies in open places. So sure, the mafia, drug cartels – entities purely working outside the legal system, but anything that involves basically open access and has some (even weak) principles of transparency – not so much. Localized corruption, a la the big city Dem machines is understandable as well, but even they have limits.
The ’20 election in PA, since it went to Biden, was of particular interest to me. It didn’t happen because of Philadelphia doing what Philadelphia does. The votes that delivered the state to Biden came outside Dem strongholds. For that to be the result of corruption requires too many players too spread out. Corruption works best when it is concentrated and everyone inside accepts it as the norm (as is at least plausible with DC, right). So what explains those results? The Time article, this one above – where money and influence was applied, and laws were bent more than broken. Now bending the law that way isn’t really acceptable to me – but it is different than blatantly breaking it.
GL was chiding me for perhaps uncritically accepting undue Chinese (and therefore CCP by definition) influence at Penn. But really, every donor to every university is expressing some desire for a result from that donation. The CCP isn’t any different except that we don’t see any benign motives with them.
I generally don’t like to see the right ape the tactics/strategies of the left – because I don’t like the left’s fundamental premises, even when their tactics/strategies work. Here is a case of the left aping the right in terms of how to employ dark money. And now that they’re good at it, they aren’t complaining about it. That is consistent with their fundamental premises and utter lack of principles.
‘You found it offensive, we all found it funny’: Firm forced to take down billboard poke fun at ‘the offended’ in new advert
‘Just because someone finds something offensive doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right’
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/you-found-offensive-found-funny-25929620
An artificial grass company forced to take down an ‘inappropriate’ billboard by the advertising watchdog has returned with a new poster poking fun at the ‘offended’.
England is a shithole
More of this shit needs to happen, though. The only thing that gets the woke cadre butthurt the right way is that you humiliate and deligitimize them by shaming their idiocy.
The biggest problem of both billboards is that they violated the KISS rule of advertising: Keep it simple, stupid.
There’s too much going on. Just the line “Get laid by the best” with a logo and a number/url (want to show the lady, fine) would have worked better.
One upside, at least, is that smaller banks can experiment with emerging technologies or new strategies without damaging the broader financial system if something goes wrong, said Sydney Menefee, a partner at accounting firm Crowe who oversaw midsize and community bank supervision at the OCC.
“We need to avoid losses to depositors” and the FDIC’s backstop, she said in an interview. “But the system is set up for the traditional shareholder to take the loss. They get the upside, but they also get the downside.”
Just take your money to a casino.
3: an article whose contents I choose not to reveal at this time. It is within the scope of topics this site has covered before but not one I’ve written on.
Land tax!
If you don’t tack down your land properly, it will drift away. The process involves…
Candy gram tax?
Farts?
“Nearly all U.S. House Democrats voted against a resolution condemning attacks against anti-abortion facilities and churches. The vote came after a report was published showing violence escalated against churches and pro-life groups last year ahead of and after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The House passed the measure 222 to 219 Wednesday mostly along party lines. Three Democrats voted for it: Reps. Vicente Gonzalez of south Texas, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington.
The resolution “condemns recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against pro-life facilities, groups and churches” and “calls upon the Biden Administration to use all appropriate law enforcement authorities to uphold public safety and to protect the rights of pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.””
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/most-house-democrats-oppose-resolution-condemning-attacks-against
Use law enforcement to uphold public safety? Sounds like fascist right-wing extremism.
So the reasonable conclusion is that the Dems are fine with “recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against pro-life facilities, groups and churches”.
Not that we didn’t already know.
To be fair, why bother passing a resolution condemning something? Do I give a shit? No.
It’s also stupid to vote against. That of course assumes that Dems are against politically motivated violence, which apparently they are not despite what Brandon has said on the matter.
This. it’s virtue signaling to a different audience.
‘Orning ‘ordles… The Vengeance of Khan ^W “Meh”….
Daily Duotrigordle #317
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 05:59.28
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 354
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4️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com
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4️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 354
9️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
Terrible.
I’ll see your terrible and raise you.
Daily Quordle 354
9️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 354
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
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7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Lineage.
They aren’t even thinking of charging Biden with the same offense as Trump, so that’s going to be a problem.
He’ll just plead non compos mentis, anyway.
It’s all very convenient for the Dems to have their cake and eat it too.
“U.S. government gets 366 UFO reports in past two years, almost half unexplained”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/us-government-gets-366-ufo-reports-past-two-years-almost-half
I’m not saying it was aliens.
People need to remember what the “U” stands for in “UFO”. It’s “unidentified”, not “alien”.
So… you’re saying it’s aliens?
Aliens
This is the type of research that should have been going on from the beginning, but I’m still going to wait for long term safety data.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/01/12/nasal-spray-prevents-spread-covid-flu/
IN MICE but could have potential
Modern science tells us that practically anything and everything we may ever breathe that isn’t pure air will give us cancer. Yeah, I want to see long term data on what these “filaments” do.
“Only half of US women under 45 have children: CDC survey”
Having dates some of these women that are out of their prime and childless, I can tell you I am pretty sure that the reason why is that no man wanted to take the risk of having to remain in contact with them and their lunacy because of financial obligations towards a child.
Some bullshit poll says something.
I just took a poll and 100% of respondents agreed with you. 34% disagreed.
The ’20 election in PA, since it went to Biden, was of particular interest to me. It didn’t happen because of Philadelphia doing what Philadelphia does. The votes that delivered the state to Biden came outside Dem strongholds.
Courtesy of voters who identify as independents but would rather be boiled in oil than vote for a Republican. Voting for anybody-but-President-Cartoon-Villain was their sacred duty, and they turned out in force.
There are lots of people still suffering from TDS. I guess we all thought they’d just seethe and not vote.
Yeah, having this guy live rent free in their heads sure makes me wonder if there are medical reasons to disqualify them from engaging in the adult world.
Bikini Try-On Featuring Tinye Swim – Swimwear Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuuEjIDWqoI
Most of this chicks do various clothes on youtube. strangely, this one also seems to do knife reviews. Pandering to toxic masculinity if you ask me. Should be banned.
CJRB Pyrite Review and Giveaway Announcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2Zz2XRU-M
Try On Bikini – Verano Eterno – Anabella Galeano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07GDKUdYGcw
thicc ?
AP headline I just saw:
“Biden political future clouded by classified document probe”
Sounds like the Journolist has been notified of Biden’s impending political demise.
what political future can a senile old man have anyway?
Well, yeah, that’s the question they should have been asking three years ago.
The answer then was one-term return to normalcy. Not that it has worked out like that at all.
In a sane world, it would be “Biden political future clouded by Joe’s clouded mind.”
In a just world it would be “Biden defense team requests hearing to claim client is unfit to stand trial due to dementia”
Or “Biden political future clouded by gigantic piles of massively unconstitutional and arguably treasonous actions”.
And so, we get President Harris. Not much of a bargain even for just 2 years.
Things need to get a lot worse before enough of the people are forced to accept this marxist based evil should be abandoned and fought against. I welcome that hag speeding things up.
Brilliance…..
A good Kremlinologist would notice that they just turned on Biden and his days are numbered.
Yup. And god help us all for what comes next.
☝️
“Useful idiot now just idiot.”
The revisionist “MLs” are plaguing the communist movement, we must combat them and strive for socialism, communism and freedom through the practice of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
https://twitter.com/DepressoLunatic/status/1613270235595038720
You’re not a communist if you don’t defend Pol Pot.
https://twitter.com/FingolCommunist/status/1613543001959047174
low status commies. not woke probably
White communists are the fucking worst. Y’all make my blood boil.
https://twitter.com/BlaseLux/status/1613527758117675008
like same
Someone give that guy a show after the network news.
Agreed. We need these people telling us all that what we need to fix things is to set a new body count record in the pursuit of fantasy world.
Music producer, songwriter, Artist, ☭ CPUSA
Nothing screams freedom like the slavery of communism.
Combat all forms of revisionism.
Says the ideology characterized by revisionism.
So much to unpack here.
An honest line item 3 would reveal that a great many adherents of Islam would kill said person for being a tranny, and for advocating a political system other than Sharia.
What are they odds that the studies into Islam are going to be honest though?
Or that commies were happy to use deviancy as an excuse to punish.
Not really, they’re just batshit crazy.
Crazy and idiotic shit attracts the crazy idiots..
Or is it the other way around?
Jeez I think it’s pretty concise.
“Tranny” is wrong-speech now. I hope someone is correcting xer there.
“Kanye West is ‘MARRIED!’ Musician ‘ties the knot with Yeezy designer in private ceremony’ two months after Kim divorce – and his new bride is the spitting image of his ex-wife!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11631267/Kanye-West-marries-Yeezy-designer-two-months-Kim-Kardashian-divorce.html
“Who is Kanye West’s new ‘wife’ Bianca Censori? Yeezy designer is Kim Kardashian lookalike and inspiration behind rapper’s song about not having sex before marriage”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11631345/Who-Kanye-Wests-new-wife-Bianca-Censori-Yeezy-designer-Kim-Kardashian-lookalike.html
the new model looks a little less fake in the face, though not in the tits
He married the Harry Potter kid from Slytherin?
Money is wasted on the rich.
Grab that coffee
Of course.
wave to that co-worker
Meh.
Opinion: Macron is dragging France’s retirement age out of the 17th century
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/11/opinions/macron-france-raise-retirement-age-andelman/index.html
” On Tuesday, the French government announced plans to raise the official retirement age from 62 to 64 to qualify for a full pension.
But there are special exemptions dating back to the time of Louis XIV. After performing on the stage for 10 years, actors of the Comédie Française – the classical French theater founded by the great playwright Molière – are entitled to claim a lifetime pension. This dates to the company’s creation in 1680.
Dancers in the Paris Opera can retire with full pension at the age of 42, a custom that dates to 1689, as Louis XIV was anxious to establish an opera and ballet company that would be the envy of Europe. Stagehands at both companies can still take their retirement at 57. Then there are train conductors who can bow out at age 52.
In all, there are at least 42 different pension schemes, most of them cemented into law during the chaotic period at the end of the Second World War. And there is still a cacophony of eight trade union federations – more than in Germany, Italy and Britain combined. Now, Macron is proposing to do away with all the special deals for everyone from subway motormen to tellers in the Banque de France. ”
One the one hand dancing is physically taxing. On the other the female dancers can always start an only fans to get extra cash.
Shouldn’t those Royal Pensions have ended when the head-chopping began?
I’m beginning to think driving a stake through it might not be the worst idea ever
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants led a coordinated attack on “the heart of our democracy” in a desperate attempt to keep Donald Trump in the White House, a federal prosecutor said Thursday at the start of their seditious conspiracy trial.
Jurors heard attorneys’ opening statements for the trial more than two years after members of the far-right extremist group joined a pro-Trump mob in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason McCullough said the Proud Boys knew that Trump’s hopes for a second term in office were quickly fading as Jan. 6 approached. So the group leaders assembled a “fighting force” to stop the transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden, McCullough said. Tarrio saw a Biden presidency as a “threat to the Proud Boys’ existence,” the prosecutor said.
Anything which reminds our overlords that they serve at the sufferance of the people can’t be all bad. They should feel a bit of real terror once in a while.
So maybe, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
led a coordinated attack on
If megaphones and flags nearly brought down the government imagine what you could do with, um, other items.
Interviews conducted with hippies in the summer of 1968 in San Francisco.
https://twitter.com/historydefined/status/1612939989607714821
Narcissistic assholes.
I hate hippies
If you haven’t seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, you’ll love the ending.
Goddam hippies!!
And to think he was trying to pun.
Joe Biden may have Tweeted out a picture of the classified documents “securely” stored in his garage beside his corvette.
He stole my joke.
So is this the plan to oust Biden and take down Trump or just to appear fair?
Yes.
Maybe it’s as simple as a Republican House was going to uncover some shit and this gets control of the news cycle.
Plus “ongoing investigation” keeps it away from the R controlled house. Maybe.
Ah separation of powers is cool again I see!
I’ve read this 5 times and still don’t understand it
https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1613374147266236417
I blame schools myself
The first reply is exactly correct with one caveat, most of the new priests don’t understand the language either, they just pretend to.
Just chant the words of power.
Klaatu Barada Covfefe!!!
It’s a C word… definitely a C word.
^^^THIS^^^
Word salad cultism.
THE HOMONATIONALISTS ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL
But did they make the frogs gay?
Buzzword bingo.
I skimmed it once and yeah I don’t understand it but I did get a good laugh out of it.
Those dastardly Republicans.
“My response to it all is that alleged classified documents showing up allegedly in the possession of Joseph Biden, you know, I mean, there’s so much that needs to be investigated,” he said. “And that’s, that’s what I called for is for everything to be investigated, but I’m suspicious of the timing of it.”
“I’m also aware of the fact that things can be planted on people, places and things can be planted, things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently, that may be what has occurred here,” he claimed. “I’m not ruling that out.”
“But I don’t, I’m open in terms of the investigation needs to be investigated,” he added.
Investigate the investigation for the purpose of investigation.
And the left thinks MTG is stupid and deranged.
In Hank’s defense, he suffered a brain injury when Guam tipped over.
I am surprised he didn’t drown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
Points to the Admiral for not laughing in Hank’s face.
This is such a perfect example of just how stupid real voters are. This man isn’t getting re-elected because the system is corrupt – the assholes in that district keep sending him back.
Yay fucking democracy.
I doubt 10% of the voters in his district even know that happened.
Our much 4th estate just doesn’t seem to want to bring those sorts of things up, even on local levels.
That admiral had great discipline to not get up and just walk out.
Do you have to say allegedly when uh…they said what they were?
Allegedly, he alleged that Joe allegedly planted the alleged documents in the alleged garage and alleged office.
I allegedly forgot, thanks for allegedly reminding me of the allegations.
Like my new Klingon Bird of Prey tattoo?
https://twitter.com/Hadrians_Gate/status/1613305065993015296.
lame
Twitter isn’t working from work (It’s hit and miss) so I’m going to take a wild guess – it’s an image of bare skin.
bingo
The best sort of tattoo on a woman.
Ackshually, that’s a Romulan bird of prey tattoo.
*retapes glasses
You’re being silly, that’s clearly the Pegasus.
Wrong again, the Defiant.
Look again, m8
I ordered a German book, and it infected the interlibrary loan system with umlauts.
https://twitter.com/jonathanbfine/status/1535719441341743105
Employee of the month
What a good dog! Speaking of dogs. With my oldest here, our dog is acting like his lost human finally came home. They bonded years ago and it is special to see that lasting love from your dog to your little boy
That’s so sweet. Fun to witness, I’m sure.
Stupid hysterical Republicans, with their dopey culture war
At this point, I could repeat that no one’s coming to take your gas stove. I could point out a few facts in favor of the poor, maligned electric stovetop. While gas stoves offer more precise temperature control than their electric counterparts, they waste more energy and pose a far bigger danger to the planet and public health — especially children’s health — than we knew even 10 years ago. They leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, even when not in use. A new study estimated that gas stoves are responsible for 1 in 8 cases of childhood asthma; another paper from 2013 found children in homes with gas stoves are 42% more likely to develop asthma. The industry recommends proper ventilation to reduce these risks, but in most households with gas ranges, the hood vent either circulates the pollutants right back into the kitchen or the hood doesn’t exist at all. (And in many cases, reconfiguring houses to fix that would be even more invasive than replacing the stove.)
But, to twist a favorite right-wing phrase, this was never about facts; this was about feelings. Just over 30 years ago, the Clean Energy Act was easily renewed on bipartisan lines. Since then, the environment has become part of the culture wars. It’s telling that this split happened concurrently with the rise in conservative talk media, with its endless appetite for scare stories of government regulators out to get innocent, hardworking Americans.
Now, “gas stoves” can be added to a long list of items that conservatives have declared sacred Americana in the face of proposed, or merely rumored, regulation. Remember Donald Trump’s rants about water pressure in showerheads and low-flow toilets? Remember howls from the right that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wanted to ban hamburgers? Remember GOP fury about more efficient lightbulbs?
The good news is that conservatives are only burning themselves. The cause of the gas stove is hardly populist, when gas is more common in cities, blue states and wealthier households. And more broadly, while decades of fearmongering have helped fill conservative airwaves, there’s no evidence these fusses move any votes. Republicans can cook up whatever outrage du jour they want. Americans won’t be eating it up.
“Nobody’s coming to take away your
gunsstoves. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have common sense stove safety laws.”Republicans freak out at the silliest things. not like us Democrats, with our sciencetism and logicality.
Waste more energy? Someone should take a basic course in electronics to know what it takes to heat up an element (basically a resistor) and maintain that heat.
This reporter should head out to flyover country to witness all the propane tanks in rural backyards hooked up to propane stoves in the kitchen.
This. Get 30 miles out of a city and the tanks are ubiquitous. In fancy x-urb neighborhoods they are buried, which looks nice but can be a pain in the ass.
“gas is more common in cities, blue states and wealthier household”
Says the guy who has never set foot in a red state.
No one is coming for you gas stove…except in the states where they’ve already taken steps to do exactly that.
Republicans pounce stories never get old.
That’s just common sense stove control
And then xe writes a bunch of paragraphs making it perfectly obvious that that is exactly what they are going to do.
Never change, MSNBC.
NY state has already tried to come for gas stoves, so saying that is just ignorance.
And Berkley, and I think California as a whole.
NY state has already tried to come for gas stoves, so saying that is just
ignorancea lie.FTFY
“And in many cases, reconfiguring houses to fix that would be even more invasive than replacing the stove.”
Tell me you don’t understand things without telling me.
You can just plug electric stoves into any old wall outlet, it is known.
I could repeat that no one’s coming to take your gas stove
The term “ban” was used, so…
they waste more energy and pose a far bigger danger to the planet and public health
Assumes facts not in evidence.
especially children’s health
“Think of the children” is how you know someone is a dishonest cunte.
Studies that suggest are more relevant than studies that confirm. May cause asthma is deadlier than provable increase in house fires.
This has nothing to to with safety, and everything to do with getting rid of all fossil fuels.
We just have to starve a few eggs to death to get there.
“The industry recommends proper ventilation to reduce these risks, but in most households with gas ranges, the hood vent either circulates the pollutants right back into the kitchen or the hood doesn’t exist at all. (And in many cases, reconfiguring houses to fix that would be even more invasive than replacing the stove.)”
Bullshit.
Retrofitting a kitchen fan to vent outside is not that difficult, unless your stove is on an inside wall and your house is multi-story.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
When did you see my kitchen?
Mine even makes noise when it’s windy outside.
Hey James, go fuck yourself. We’re not trying to gin up political support for one party or another. We’re telling you that we’re willing to shoot assholes like you if you continue to fuck with us.
And we’re really sorry your mom was a low-rent Irish alcoholic whore.
https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.suQfH7i18Tluavz_4BnlGgHaHa
Gah!
And once again, I should’ve scrolled…
Face, punchable – very, very punchable.
He looks like the product of backwoods incest.
In the last few days I have learned that gas stoves cause asthma in poor and minority children. I have also learned that gas stoves are the domain of the rich. There must be more monocle-polishing Glibs with hordes of orphans in their kitchens than I imagined.
Slides industrial door closed……no why do you ask?
Wait unti you see my Sub Zero walk-in orphan cooling unit!
Jfc…
The Girl Guides of Canada has renamed its Brownies branch after current and former members said the name caused them harm and prevented or delayed their decision to join.
Embers — the new branch name for 7- and 8-year-olds announced on Wednesday — signifies “potential that’s just waiting to be unleashed.”
Jill Zelmanovits, the GGC’s chief executive, said both girl and adult members have been open to the name change, which was made with their input beginning in November 2022. Members voted on the two finalists — the other was Comets — and Embers won “overwhelmingly.” …
“This wasn’t just about a name or its origin. This was about the fact that girls experienced racism and felt that they weren’t welcome in Girl Guides,” Zelmanovits said in a news release.
If you hear “Brownies” and think it’s derogatory towards brown people the problem is with you.
The Girl Scouts of the USA also has a Brownies membership level, which is for girls in second and third grades, or about 7 to 9 years old. In a statement to NPR, a GSUSA spokesperson said the organization is “currently evaluating all aspects of our program to ensure alignment” with its pledge to become an anti-racist organization but did not say specifically whether it is considering a similar name change.
Seems to me that means explicitly racist.
The century-old name “Brownies” came from English folklore and refers to fairies that aid, unseen, in household chores.
IOW nothing to do with skin pigment.
Well it’s colonialism so racist…
No shit… English folklore! How much more white supremacist can you get?
The ship has long since passed where anything that could even remotely be related to race, even if it wouldn’t be derogatory in anyway, is considered racist.
Seems to me to be symbolic of a dying fire.
Wait until they find out that charcoal is an Italian and Spanish slur for black people.
The triumph of ‘asymmetrical multiculturalism’
Sometimes it’s better to be the far-group than the out-group
https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-asymmetrical-multiculturalism
‘The eager Anglo-Saxon who goes to a vivid American university to-day [finds] his true friends not among his own race but among the acclimatized German or Austrian, the acclimatized Jew, the acclimatized Scandinavian or Italian. In them he finds the cosmopolitan note. In these youths, foreign-born or the children of foreign-born parents, he is likely to find many of his old inbred morbid problems washed away. These friends are oblivious to the repressions of that tight little society in which he so provincially grew up.’
So wrote the Greenwich Village intellectual Randolph Bourne in a groundbreaking article for The Atlantic magazine in July 1916. Bourne was a core part of the liberal Progressive movement of the 1910s, a group which was to have a far-reaching influence on the western, especially English-speaking world. Most importantly, they were to help influence what is now termed ‘asymmetrical multiculturalism’, the system by which modern democracies manage their increasingly diverse population — a system filled with contradictions and inconsistencies.
Bourne’s desire to see the majority slough off its poisoned heritage while minorities retained theirs blossomed into an ideology that slowly grew in popularity.
While in the 19th century the West’s intellectual leaders had often expressed their moral and intellectual superiority over the lesser races, by the 1920s the intelligentsia were more concerned with superiority over their own people, the less educated and sophisticated lumpen middle Americans they often despised.
Late last year I wrote about the tragedy of Telford, a town in the English midlands where huge numbers of young girls had been sexually abused. Telford, along with Rotherham in South Yorkshire, had become synonymous with this form of sexual abuse, mostly committed by men of Kashmiri origin against girls who were poor, white and English.
Had the races of the perpetrators and victims been reversed, this tragedy would almost certainly be the subject of countless documentaries, plays, films and even official days of commemoration. But it wouldn’t have come to that, because the authorities would have intervened earlier, and more journalists would have been on the case.
You can’t have acclimatized in an era of Climate Change! Besides, assimilation is the devil.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks, Jimbo. I can relate, though I have no great grandchildren. Some day I may tell you a story.
I think I can hear his knees cracking and popping when he picks up the little one.
Ray of sunshine if you don’t read why he hadn’t seen them. Grrr.
Beautiful.
Thanks, Holiness.
Whycome nobody mentioned SF was ex-Prince Harry’s ghostwriter?
Harry has serious Mommy issues. I’m surprised he didn’t look to marry a doppelganger of her.
I’m surprised that made it past the editors, but I’m quite pleased by it.
Now I know what to get if I want to simulate a BJ by Lady Di.
She always seemed kind of cold, but I had no idea she was an actual no shit ice queen.
Well, a lot of reviews of the book call it boring, so the editors were probably like” We need SOMETHING. ANYTHING”
There are lots of people still suffering from TDS. I guess we all thought they’d just seethe and not vote.
De-Trumpification of America is serious business. They will not rest while mega-MAGA collaborators roam free.
Doin’ right ain’t got no end.
My penis was oscillating between extremely sensitive… and borderline traumatized. The last place I wanted to be was Frostnipistan. I’d been trying some home remedies, including one recommended by a friend. She’d urged me to apply Elizabeth Arden cream.
My mum used that on her lips.
I had a friend whose standard recommendation was “Soak it in cider.”
At least that’s what it sounded like he was saying.
I saw a movie where the solution was to fuck an apple pie… Things went wrong when his dad walked in however.
I’m still trying to figure out how your cock gets frostbite. Seems like it would be well down the list of appendages that would happen to.
Not reading any of this crap, but he was a pilot.
Possibly while flying?
Rubbing it on a metal flagpole, like in XXXmas Story?
Woohoo…Tuesday at 7 slot.
Sorry for ruining your Tuesday evening next week.
If you play your cards right,robc, I may just bless your article with a First.
How much is it worth to ya?
Those dastardly Republicans.
“Just as we’re this close to getting [Trump], somehow these documents appear.” – Joy Behar
The View suggests Republicans PLANTED the confidential documents in Biden’s garage and think tank!
“Does it feel like the Republicans are behind it?” – Sunny Hostin
This really isn’t difficult. Your own Team is trying to get rid of Biden while maintaining the facade of equality under the law.
Just when I can’t think less of this idiot’s mental faculties, she goes and tells me to hold her beer…
I mean…there were suggestions that the fbi planted on Trump too…both sides devolved on this issue
The difference there was that the FBI knew about the Trump docs and then raided his home AFTER coming to an agreement w/ the Trump lawyers that said all was well if the files were secured. In this case there have been no raids. More importantly, the FBI leadership helped rig an election to put this asshole in the WH, so I am pretty sure they have far easier ways of taking him down (and especially without compromising their current desperate Hail Mary to finally get Trump to not be allowed to run) if they needed to (Hunter laptop comes to mind).
Even better, Trump’s search warrant was predicated on violation of the Espionage Act. That’s obscene in and of itself.
Yes it is. Very much so and the only pathway they had as you’ve pointed out in regards to the EOs
Hence why the FBI most likely leaked to press about nuclear secrets! Helps deflect any real questions on why they are applying the Espionage Act.
Wasn’t it Einstein that said genius has its limits but stupid is boundless?
This feel like one of those sayings that is attributed to many people
Funny how quickly voicing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories became perfectly acceptable again.
Embers — the new branch name for 7- and 8-year-olds announced on Wednesday — signifies “potential that’s just waiting to be unleashed.”
I hope nobody tells them what wood smoke does to children’s developing lungs. Asthma, cancer, you name it.
“What Does And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor!”
Trying to walk a windows guy through basic unix commands is painful.
The only one he got without trouble was ‘cd’.
https://knifenews.com/new-pa-law-repeals-longstanding-switchblade-ban/
Huh. Apparently you can now EDC an automatic knife in PA.
*themoreyouknow.gif*
That’s gonna cost me some $$.
All I ever see are flippers. Any true push button automatics?
I have two.
https://www.bladehq.com/cat–Automatic-Knives–40
https://www.smkw.com/knives/automatic-knives?blade_type=3553
I edc my Benchmade Stimulus
https://www.benchmade.com/3551.html
Do they make quality automatics?
As they aren’t legal everywhere there is less of a market. My expectation is many automatics are mostly novelty crap, but I’d expect a few make some quality blades and charge accordingly.
https://www.smkw.com/protech-godson-smkw-lava-flow-fat-carbon
This looks pretty hot.
Yes some people make quality knives. See the blade hq link above.
I have the Pro-Tech Brend 1 and Brend 3 knives. I got my wife the small Brend 2 knifes.
They are excellent knives with a very smooth action.
bwahahahaha
Great song choice. Second album I ever bought.
Combination Ray of Sunshine and Idiots in Cars.
He stopped and reversed in the middle of the road
So was he actually doing 36 in the 15 zone? The speed gun guy needs to stand AFTER the sign and take the speed. The reversing in the road was bullshit, though.
Made up word is made up
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is banning the term “Latinx” from state documents, according to an executive order she announced Tuesday.
“Ethnically insensitive and pejorative language has no place in official government documents or government employee titles,” she said.
Several adjectives and nouns in Spanish end in “o” and “a” to signify feminine and masculine. Latinx is a term coined by academics and activists that replaces “Latino” and “Latina” to include those who identify as non-binary.
Good golly, insisting on proper language is racist as all get-out.
And last I checked, language is not imposed by “academics and activists” in a free country.
Thanks for the clarification, NPR.
1. t’s already been established that precious few actual Hispanics employ those terms.
2. I would bet my life that the people who first coined the terms were white academics
3. It takes a massive amount of arrogance regardless of their race to think that they can reverse the culture of a people and its linguistic tradition. I guess it doesn’t differ too much from their usual word games, though most of those target whites and not a supposedly oppressed minority.
Yeah, Latinx is a term invented by privileged white people (those academics and activists) and is an excellent example of cultural imperialism.
I will never pronounce it any other way than La-tinks.
Or go full redneck stereotype and pronounce la-tex?
There is no Hispanics culture. That’s a liberal academic construct and a dumb one that really pisses off people that are native Spanish speaking from Central & South America or the Caribbean..
There are Argentinians, Chileans. Peruvians, Bolivians, Uruguayans, Venezuelans, Colombians, Paraguayans, Ecuadorians, Costa Ricans, Guatemalans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Panamanians, and Cubans. Brazilians, The people of Surinam or either of the Guyanas, and the Spaniards all not consider themselves part of that made up Latin umbrella.
I dismiss anyone pretending there is a Hispanic or Latin culture as someone that got that bullshit from brainwashing.
The same logic applies to Middle Eastern, South East Asian, African, and European nations. But the world we live in is a bunch of marxists trying to stick us into buckets they can pit against each other for gain.
What about my Anglo-Saxon, Norse, most likely Pict culture!
Fuck the Picts, they lost to us Irish of all people.
As long as you are not talking about the Nose Picts…
I will say, having dated in south Florida, there are definitely similarities. Lots of family events in the Cuban, Columbian, Argentinian, Puerto-Rican and Costa-Rican communities. I can’t personally speak to the rest, but I dated women from those countries and within 2 dates I was having dinner with the entire extended family at a huge weekend barbecue. It is definitely a latin-hispanic thing.
And Columbian women…. just damn. Shakira is kinda typical in flamboyance and hotness, and somewhat below average in raw beauty, in my experience.
“Several adjectives and nouns in Spanish end in “o” and “a” to signify feminine and masculine.”
Several?!
“Latinx is a term coined by academics and activists that replaces “Latino” and “Latina” to include those who identify as non-binary.”
Academics and activists who don’t understand Spanish. “Latino” already includes “no binario”, which is also masculine.
Obey the Language Mandate, pleb.
Oh they understand Spanish quite well. Spanish is a language that clearly is gendered into 2 genders. That’s a huge problem for the marixsts cultists trying to destroy biology.
Are they going for Spanish because they feel those cultures are more open to their Marxist ideals? Why not Arabic or French
I think it’s more “hey, there’s a whole bunch of spanish speakers really close by” than anything else.
Probably just because it’s a common language here. It wouldn’t surprise me if leftists were pulling the same shit with French in Quebec.
I am back from my Euroland trip! I have a couple of articles circulating in the brain housing group.
Now I just need to switch my body back 12 times zones.
I think Dems are cynical and insane enough to install Her Shrillness or even Her Wookieness after they depose Brandon.
Necessary?
Fathers Have Been Older Than Mothers For 250,000 Years, Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/fathers-have-been-older-than-mothers-for-250000-years-study-finds
The ladies are wired to want security. Basic instincts. Young men, unless they are born into royalty, traditionally lacked the ability to offer that security because they lacked resources.
And it takes time to develop sweet skills.
“Scientists discover shocking revelation that women prefer to procreate with men with the experience and security to successfully raise the children to adulthood while men prefer to procreate with women who have the longest range of fertility. Evolutionary biologists remain dumbfounded.”
Well, if you can’t define what a woman is, this shit would completely baffle you because it is common sense…
I’m not sure how, but I know OPPRESSION is important!
You can take out prefer. It may not be a preference. Its just that the kids most likely to survive and provide this evidence are those that meet those conditions.
My interpretation: The older you are, the more mutations your kid has, therefore, the more likely to be a superhero.
My wife (12 years younger) and I were discussing this the other day. Our age difference would be considered the norm throughout most of human history. It wasn’t until we applied the Prussian age grade educational system that marrying within a year or two of you own age became the cultural norm. The age gap makes sense in many ways. She gets the financial security, I get access to reproductive viability much later into life. Neither of us has to struggle through a decade of being dirt poor (until our elites make us so anyway) like my parents did.
Well maybe grandma saying you were looking a little chubby helped you not be chubby as an adult. Dance on your grandma’s grave to further your ‘career’
https://www.scarymommy.com/entertainment/jenna-bush-hager-body-shamed-by-grandmother-barbara-bush-as-teen
Obesity is not a good thing. Getting chubby in your old age however is not as bad as starting off as a kid. The health impact there is telling.
And judging by the pics, it worked.
Accidental Theology, 2023 version.
Wednesday nights I have a group of about 80 elementary school kids that I lead. This week I had a kid in my small group who is relatively new and seemed a little disconnected.
So I plop down next to him and engage with him as one of the moms runs through the story of Jesus getting left behind at the temple when he was a kid.
The kid seems a bit uncomfortable, and after some chatting he tells me that he doesn’t know any of the Bible stuff because he hasn’t really been to church before. (We do a lot of interactivity with questions and rewards).
Suddenly it hit me. This story is exactly like home alone!
So I ask if he has seen home alone. He loves that movie. So we laugh about how Jesus and the priests is different from Kevin and the criminals.
“Jesus didn’t hit anyone in the face with a paint can”
We agreed that both the McAllisters and Joseph and Mary exhibited pretty terrible parenting. He didn’t think Jesus would do the blow torch thing either.
We played along with the trivia game at the end and he was quite proud to get all but 1 right. Next time he will consider getting on stage for the trivia game.
So.. a pretty good night. Kid is now fully connected and feels like part of the group…. and I have a new angle to study. Louis Giglio has the Gospel According to Krispy Kreme and I am going to find the Gospel According to Kevin McAllister in there somewhere.
Also…. who leaves town on foot and forgets their 12 year old kid? That seems like a really tough task.
Sweet story. All it takes is one moment.
who leaves town on foot and forgets their 12 year old kid?
The movie needed to happen.
But won’t it be hard for them to find their kid??
Now THAT’S a ray of sunshine.
Good on ya, cyto!
They thought he was hanging out with his tween cousins or whatever. They weren’t helicopter parents. So good on them.
Our pastor was talking about this recently, his take was Joseph thinking “Oh no, I lost the son of God!”
LOL. He was probably more afraid of his wife than God!
Lol…”hey babe…you know that miraculous baby you had? I uh…I’ll be back in a few days”
Probably?
Take your wife and add on a mission from God delivered by actual, in-person angels.
Oof.
Maybe they thought “He’s Jesus. He’s got this.”
They likely traveled in a large caravan, and 12 year olds of 2000 years ago were more mature than 12 year olds of today, working jobs and getting married at a young age. Probably just assumed he was chatting up chicks or running around with the other lads.
This. And Joseph and Mary had a bunch of other younger kids to deal with at the same time.
Ya well you’d think the whole angel telling you he is the Son of God might make you want to keep a wee bit closer eye on him.
“Meh. The Big Guy will keep on him. He’ll be fine.”
Dammit.
Or they were thinking: He has the ultimate supernatural security detail. What, me worry?
You are only hearing the Child Protective Services’ version of this event. Let’s hear from Joseph and Mary.
*Orson Welles slow clap*
I contend that for a while now, but especially in today’s age, most college degrees are not even close in value to what the colleges demand the students pay for them. There is no commodity that I see people paying premium dollars for and not only just getting low value from it, but going out of their way to avoid maximizing their value, because their priorities is to cruise through the credentialling process. But luckily some people are wising up. The bloated indoctrination monopoly can’t implode fast enough for me.
It seems lots of luxury goods fall into the category of paying premium dollars, getting low value, and going out of way to avoid maximizing the value. I’ve heard numerous stories of Main Line (PA) folks taking luxury clothing in to thrift shops, etc. that still have price tags on them. Maybe bought to brag about to the other ladies who lunch, but ending up having little value and unworn.
So you’ve met my sister.
It’s the best scam going.
If you fail, you have to pay it all back even in bankruptcy. If you succeed, they market you as a reason for college debt
The lender takes no risk.
who leaves town on foot and forgets their 12 year old kid?
“Gee, it’s quiet. Toooo quiet. Hey, where’s whats-is-face?”
They could do one of those household replay commercials for it.
MISS GRAND CHIANGMAI 2023 Swimsuit Competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9nGHQsUamM
weird sounding language Thai kinds grates the ear
Like to love them long time…
Except if they are lady boys. You can have those…
RC Dean – I wanted to make sure I understood your post on the last dead thread, on nursing homes.
Were you saying that the people put in nursing homes were done so with no good/real alternatives? Is the argument that it was a positive? I do not want to misconstrue. You know more on the subject than I do, but I have a hard time fathoming that one.
At the time, hospitals were not overflowing, but they were turning away elective procedures. New York specifically had an 1,800 bed hospital ship at their disposal. For some reason they declined to use it for covid and only shipped over a few patients.
In their defense, the pressure at the time was immense, the threat was somewhat uncertain… so decisions were difficult.
But…
They also got tunnel vision almost immediately. They locked in on solutions almost instantly and then never revisited. “2 weeks to slow the spread” was all about the hospitals, and it was entirely an acknowledgement that the horse was out of the barn and that covid was going to run through the community.
So they had it all…. but they got tunnel vision and locked in on “stop the spread” and lock down. That was objectively stupid. They were already headed toward the Swedish model… protect hospital capacity plus firewall the elderly and vulnerable would have done it. It would have shortened the crisis to just a month or two… and then herd immunity might have had a shot at protecting the elderly.
One day, when politics can be ignored, someone is going to get a PhD studying the complex psychology of all of those bad decisions.
I personally have zero doubt that “screw up the economy dp that it hurts Trump in the election” played a role in some of the discussion and some of the decision-making.
In fact, that was pretty much the entirety of the Cuomosexual phenomenon. He initially praised Trump for his help and got trashed for it. So he switched to attacking Trump and became a national hero in the press.
That undoubtedly colored coverage of the nursing home fiasco and of other New York responses, driving a narrative that whatever he did was great and whatever Ron DiSantis did was evil. So nobody could get a second chance to think rationally.
My favorite was the closing beaches thing. A beach has a natural wind due to the temperature difference between the water and the land. Plus UV. Plus plenty of room to spread out. Pretty much an ideal spot to avoid spreading airborne viruses.
Meanwhile, big cities were forced to run public transit because of practical reasons. Pretty much a perfect place to transmit the virus.
The whole thing was soooooo stupid.
Plus… New York had almost 16,000 fatalities in the initial bump. And then they reported almost zero from that point forward. Nobody questioned those numbers. And nobody looked at infection rates for herd immunity effects. They just claimed it proved Cuomo was a genius. So weird.
It hurt my heart because these are my people. Science is supposed to be above that nonsense.
Then Fauci told me they examined the genome and it proved that there was absolutely no way it came from the lab.. and I believed him. So I feel extra dumb for that one. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, well, we just aren’t going to get fooled again.
Cyto, depending on where and when, hospitals were overflowing. Cancelling elective procedures is one way to try to manage the overflow, but it means yes, the hospitals are at or beyond capacity. “Elective” doesn’t mean “optional” in the hospital world, it means “scheduled in advance”. Hospitals don’t close elective procedures unless they absolutely have to in order to be able to admit ED patients and direct transfers from other hospitals.
NYC is an outlier, because they were pretty much unique in actually having a new overflow facility on standby, which they refused to use. In that scenario, discharged COVID patients should go to the overflow facility, not nursing homes. Just about everywhere else, there was no new overflow facility (although some places tried to get them set up, but that takes time and staff, and so it either couldn’t be done at all, or couldn’t be done before the crisis had passed).
Hospitals want to run at 85% capacity, at a minimum. More surplus capacity than that and you are losing money and will eventually close. So there just isn’t much surplus capacity on the hospital side. I suspect nursing homes are the same. Even if you build (and subsidize) more physical capacity, where is the staff going to come from when you only need them once in a generation for a pandemic?
Yeah, I was specifically talking about New York because of their central role in the narrative and national approach and because they are on the short list who chose to mandate nursing homes taking in covid patients, which is precisely the exact opposite of a rational strategy for “preventing covid deaths”.
As we moved forward it became clear that this was going to be bigger than everyone thought. Initial choices didn’t have “what if we spend 8 trillion dollars” as an option. That constrained thinking because initially they tried a zero(ish) dollar solution of locking everything down briefly.
Everything followed that.
At some point assumptions needed to be revisited.
A guy like Elon Musk had a better shot at it because of his philosophy of not getting married to any past choices. He pushes clean sheet thinking all the time.
So replace Fauci with one of the Great Barrington Declaration guys and imagine how different things would have looked. Instead, our stare organized propaganda machine went into action to suppress any new ideas from coming to the forefront. So instead of optimal solutions, we got the best that the handful of people who were in the room at the time could come up with. Amd then it got locked in.
During the two big waves, hospitals were at their functional capacity for months on end. People were piling into the EDs with COVID. The only way to admit the ones who were really sick was to move out the ones who were ready to discharge. Some of those could only be discharged to nursing homes because of their condition, which fell in that middle ground between “needs hospitalization” and “just needs chicken soup”. No, there was no real alternative for those patients. Now, special facilities could have been set up as temporary COVID-only recovery centers/nursing homes, but even then the main limiting factor on health system capacity wasn’t rooms, it was staff, so who would staff them?
So the choice was, move the ones who don’t need hospitalization any more out of the hospital, or deny admission to people who did need hospitalization.
On the nursing home side, they had real staffing problems if they took in COVID patients (staff would quit) and they had non-COVID residents who would be exposed if active infections were admitted. You can mash the balloon down in one place, and it just pops up in another. The health system was at stretch capacity. So what do you do? There was no solution that was good for everybody, something had to give.
Of course, not admitting somebody from the ED to a hospital who needs it is a violation of federal law, probably your license, and is an invitation to lawsuits. From the hospital side, the right answer was “discharge to nursing homes at the first possible opportunity to free up space for the new patients piling up in the ED”. From the nursing home side, the right answer was “No COVID patients, period”. Unfortunately, you can’t run both right answers at once when the system is at capacity.
Which is where an outside party who is able to see the big picture needs to step in.
In New York, the state said “take covid patients into the nursing home or else”
That was objectively the worst answer.
Given someone of vision and leadership, making quarantine facilities would have been the way to go. Only a few thousand beds were needed (like 2-5k for New York). This could have been accomplished in a number of ways, including hotels. It also could have relieved more pressure on hospitals than just nursing home patients, handling non-critical covid patients.
But nobody could go in that direction for whatever reason.
New York wouldn’t even use the US navy Hospital ship.
I see this in business all the time. Constrained thinking is extremely common. “I didn’t know that was an option” is one of the most common failure modes.
Who would staff those 2 – 5K beds? Physical facilities are the easy part. Staff is the real limiting factor. When the governors tried to help with the staffing shortages, they either activated the National Guard (pulling staff out of wherever they were already working) or they bid up the price of traveling staff. You just can’t create thousands of qualified health care providers in a few weeks or months.
Now, COVID tended to hit different places at different times. Theoretically, you could move staff to the hot spots from the not-hot spots. The staff was willing to do that took travelers contracts, thus exacerbating the shortage in their “home” facilities. And there are only so many who are willing to travel, especially to work in COVID units.
Yeah, that was a huge problem. So was the lack of knowledge of what the duration was. There was plenty of time to mobilize and train new staff for the low end duties.. nursing assistants. So with perfect knowledge of the time and money that were going to be wasted, that constraint goes away.
Dumping the lock downs and paying double to retain staff would have been cheap compared to the trillions we ended up spending.
Some of it was obvious and foreseeable. Some was not.
My ire is aimed at those who should have known better and at the propaganda machine that stopped those who actually did know better from challenging the powers that be.
Even if the nursing homes had zero COVID patients being sent, they would have had similar rates. The order is a red herring except to those who think there was a viable protect just the vulnerable option. The real issue is care facilities had poor infection control and staff management policies and would not have been able to stop infections from staff cycling in and out (which is just as likely as the origin for what happened).
There was 100% a protect the vulnerable option. Fatality rates in NY as compared to elsewhere during the first wave prove that conclusively.
My dad was in an assisted living facility in Charlotte during that time. They tested staff daily, kept patients in rooms and delivered meals… and they blocked infections. Once the extreme lock downs ended, the big problem was with a handful of residents from New York. They kept sneaking family in through the back door and getting infected. Then the whole facility had to go back on lockdown.
But they never had spread inside the facility. They only had a few cases in total.
Building a firewall around the old folks homes 100% would have been more effective.
We saw low hospital acquired infection rates in covid facilities for staff… proving that experienced and trained staff can indeed practice extremely effective infection control procedures if properly motivated.
There is a lot of truth to the old “hindsight is 20/20” trope… but in this one case, it isn’t hindsight. Plenty of people predicted exactly what would happen at the time. They even fought the decision.
They also had and continue to have staffing problems. So they got the full experience.
Why did no one tell me the
kiddie diddling genocidal cultWEF Davos meeting was next week? I signed up to be on call for our press team.Fuck my life.
Oh fun!
Call Me – Blondie (IMY2 Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_jJMkanHvg
Wow. My daughter and I were just watching “worst cover songs of all time” on YouTube.
Shockingly, it did not include “love your way/freebird” by WillToPower. How could you leave the worst cover of all time off of a list of worst cover songs of all time.
Anyway, that is a great version of Call Me. Just doing it the exact same way, but she is up to the task. Definitely captures the Debbie Harry vibe.
Breaking911
@Breaking911
KJP: “We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced.”
Edward Snowden
@Snowden
Man, I should have thought of that one.
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1613695611022487553
These people really think their team blue bubble followers are fucking dumb as shit. So far it is proving out to be true.
They know it.
ENB at Reason transcribed the talking points.
https://twitter.com/MrFaloon/status/1613699968031756289
So they flat out admit that they broke the law by mishandling classified docs.
Make check payable to Black Lives Matter
The Justice Department accused Los Angeles-based City National Bank on Thursday of discrimination by refusing to underwrite mortgages in predominately Black and Latino communities, requiring the bank to pay more than $31 million in the largest redlining settlement in department history.
City National is the latest bank in the past several years to be found systematically avoiding lending to racial and ethnic minorities, a practice that the Biden administration has set up its own task force to combat.
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The Biden task force includes the Justice Department as well as bank regulators like the Comptroller of the Currency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is focused not only on explicit forms of redlining but also cases where computer algorithms may cause banks to discriminate against Black and Latino borrowers.
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The settlement with City National is the largest settlement with the Justice Department. A settlement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development with Associated Bank in 2015 involved the bank making a commitment to make $200 million in increased lending in minority-majority neighborhoods, along with a $10 million subsidy fund similar to the one agreed to by City National.
It doesn’t matter what you did, or what your intent was, if our computer algorithm spits you out in our hunt for redliners.
What ever happened to “if you don’t want to enter a moneymaking segment of the market, that’s your loss”?
cat.
https://twitter.com/inkblotistan/status/1613519819348779008
Heh. That looks and acts like my cat. Well done cat. You read the room.
Terrible Maps
@TerribleMaps
US states but the first letter is missing
https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1612884024912973849
Can’t unsee this
https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1612514515421126658
Assachusetts in the hizzy!
Ew York also works.
*glances at Alabama*
Ncest
*lol!*
*high five*
Ha!
Ncest
hahahaha
As part of the settlement, City National will create a $29.5 million loan subsidy fund for loans to Black and Latino borrowers, and spend $1.75 million on advertising, community outreach and financial education programs to reach minority borrowers.
In a statement, City National said it disagreed with the Justice Department’s allegations, but that it will “nonetheless support the DOJ in its efforts to ensure equal access to credit for all consumers, regardless of race.”
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Clarke announced the settlement Thursday morning at a historic Black Baptist church in South Los Angeles that was an important force in the civil rights movement and has been the venue for speeches by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and others.
Government as minstrel show.
Bonus… it was racist to loan money to people who couldn’t afford to pay it back too…
Yeah, I’d like to see the average credit score of these neighborhoods they “discriminated” against.
Why did no one tell me
All those people in the background yelling, “Not IT!” should have tipped you off that something was amiss.
cat.
Perfect.
“Who, meeee?”
Bonus… it was racist to loan money to people who couldn’t afford to pay it back too…
Predatory lending!