I’m normally a pretty cheerful person, but today I’m not. Soutine captures my mood. Sorry, I like doing the funny little slice of life, I’m just not feeling funny.
I guess I can celebrate birthdays, including that of the greatest of the Founding Fathers, the shithead who inflicted Teddy Roosevelt on us before getting a deserved retirement; a writer who ended up on the Enterprise; the greatest film comedian, period; a guy who was a monkey wrench in the works; someone with TERF bangs; an actress responsible for the deaths of millions of potential Jews; a guy about whom my mom would say, “I just want to spend hours stroking his mustache”; a chick who couldn’t even make it in Baltimore; and a guy whose diving did not include muff.
Let’s get to Links.
We badly need to stay the fuck out of this.
Team Red is going to manage to lose in 2024 to a senile dodo. Congratulations. At least I’ll win a bunch of bets.
OK, I am famously indifferent about cars. I want this one.
Fine guitarist, excellent songwriter, annoying vocalist. Bye, Tom.
No more Free Willy. Now he costs.
They do love that passive voice, don’t they?
How about $20 trillion? 50? A quadrillion? Why not?
I know I’ve used this song before as Old Guy Music, but today it seems necessary.
the greatest film comedian, period;
Happy birthday, Terry-Thomas!
I might have gone with Harold Lloyd.
I would’ve accepted Buster Keaton.
a chick who couldn’t even make it in Baltimore;
Happy birthday, Nancy Pelosi?
How about $20 trillion? 50? A quadrillion? Why not?
And when everybody who gets the money winds up broke in a few years, what then?
If this happens just invest in grape soda makers and subwoofer manufacturers and you’ll make a mint.
Ah, here it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LroCgg3uc
Not the Board of Education?
Chappelle Show covered this twenty years ago:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZN7IzvCVs
Well shit, that’s the wrong skit.
Supposed to be the news report on the aftermath.
Nummi in perpetuum.
Nummi nummi
The great thing would be for Trump to keel over. Then, all the Democratic attacks on him are transferred to the next Republican and we can get over the nonsense that he is uniquely bad – since the next guy is just as bad.
I’m hoping DeSantis does run and can just beat him straight up in the primaries. That should make it clear to him his time has passed and maybe he can stop spouting off for a bit and enjoy his retirement.
He’s turned into an idiot: Pushing the vax, appearing onstage with Lindsay Graham, etc. He’s lost the ability to read the room and I hope DeSantis cleans his clock.
I’m finding myself being pushed in this direction.
Result: Trump runs third party, peels off 10-120% of the vote, Team Blue wins.
Ross Perot 2.0. I can definitely see that happening. I wonder who the Dem nominee/winner would be?
He’s Lump! He’s Lump!
Hey buddy, stop doing that.
He’s now in my head.
At this point he may not even be running in 2 yrs. Been running mostly silent since Nov – and those Thanksgiving dinner events didn’t win him a lot of points. Seems like he’s just trying to spoil DeSantis who has no reason to declare nearly this early while he works to maximize legislative victories in his state – that are far less likely to be overturned by the courts than what’s going on in CA right now.
10 to 120%… damn these election irregularities are just getting worse and worse! 😉
A third party run isn’t a definite though with a little horsetrading on DeSantis’ part-no third party and he calls off the Justice Dept. A potential third party spoiling versus a definite electoral loss is a deal I’d take any day.
The solution is obvious – a sacrifice play. Gin up something financial that the progs can get a felony conviction on, and leak it to the press. The progs, blinded as ever by their unrelenting class hatred, will fall headlong into this trap. Trump being taken out of play will give the eGOP enough of a semi to go along with the plan. Enraged, the Republican vox populi will turn out in droves, casting their votes for anyone who promises to spit on their dick before the gangbang.
This is such an easy solution that it could maybe actually happen…
Someone thinks there is another solution.
I don’t know, I’m not seeing a benevolent sociopath here yet.
Nikki Haley?
Hahahahaha.
All the above solutions require Trump to acknowledge, or at least consider the possibility, that he may not be the center of the universe after all. Won’t happen.
I predicted a rerun of 1992 here a few weeks ago, and that still seems the most likely scenario.
DeSantis, however, has also misread the room. His re-election came from voters who believed (I am one of them) that he did the best of pretty much any governor in responding to covid. But covid panic is no more–especially in Florida–and DeSantis has now decided his best shot is to ramp up the culture wars. As I’ve said before, the overwhelming majority of people want simply to stay out of the culture wars*, and his making it ever more difficult to do that will cost him votes in Florida, and will cost him a LOT of votes in other states. He could win the nomination straight up, but most non-aligned voters will be way tired of his schtick 18 months from now.
*surprise news flash: Glibertarians are not a representative sample of voters.
I have to admit as much as I don’t like it – there are no sidelines in the culture war. Not that anyone is on our side, but simply ceding the field to those most dedicated to destroying the culture isn’t an option.
DeSantis is fighting, smartly. The insanity to portray him as worse than Trump – which will happen the moment he vanquishes Trump for the nomination – has already been tipped.
Culture war was a winning play in the VA governor’s race.
Thing is, we Glibs won’t be on the winning side no matter the result. That’s the unfortunate part.
It’s a fad. Like lit crit, it will soon settle into some dusty corner of a humanities department and remain there, passionately loved by a select few.
On a more practical note, DeSantis has zero experience trying to work with a legislature that is not already solidly onside. I doubt he has the ability to do that. The other practical problem he has is that he is pushing an anti-DEI agenda, while there are multiple places in FL statutes that not only encourage, but *require* DEI efforts by various state agencies. I’m somewhat surprised that none of those superior-brained reporters at the Times or Post have noticed this yet.
DeSantis is rapidly moving into the camp of “whatever is not required must be banned, and vice-versa”, which in my opinion makes him no better than proggie pols. He will end up as the Bernie Sanders of the right. You heard it here first.
This.
The Dems sure as fuck aren’t going to stay out of the culture wars.
It’s a fad.
No, sadly, it is a religion. Since most people have abandoned the old faith, they simply must have a new one to take its place.
I think its become institutionalized in a way that goes beyond “fad”. In academia, there are whole administrative structures devoted to DEI/CRT – you’re not getting rid of it there by tweaking the curriculum, you’re going to have to fire a bunch of people.
In the real world, if you don’t tow the ESG lion, you can pay a very real financial price.
As ever, the question is “How many true believers, v how many go-along-to-get-along”, but let’s not overlook it only takes a handful of true believers in the right place at the right time to break a society.
You could be right, but I’m sticking with my prediction. If anything, it (CRT-based policies) will settle into the same big cities have have adopted all the other lefty Bad Ideas that have turned them into decaying cesspits, and the rest of the country will move on.
And to RC–DEI/CRT is pretty much outside the curriculum already. If you want to find it institutionalized on campus, you have to go to the student affairs offices. Lots of agencies here in Florida have DEI offices because state law requires them to do so, unless you start moving the goalposts and redefining DEI.
One example:
1004.42 Florida State University College of Medicine.—
This is precisely what most people understand the term DEI to mean: trying to reach out to groups that have previously been underrepresented. If someone says “Nuh uh, DEI means quotas” then that is exactly the kind of goalpost-moving that I am referring to.
The culture wars have been going on my entire life and have only intensified exponentially since 2010. But yea, sure, it’s a “fad.” Parents being concerned that their children are being convinced they’re another gender are a “fad.” Parents tired of a hyperfocus on race over things like like reading and math is a “fad.”
Spartacus is a guy who hangs out with way too many progs and buys into their bullshit. I may be guilty of the opposite, but I live in Florida and I don’t see any tide turning against DeSantis here.
Looks like I struck a nerve. Can you identify specific schools in Florida where this is actually happening as a matter of course, as opposed to “concerns”?
DeSantis will always be popular in Florida, because we got through all the covid bullshit better than most, and he is responsible for that.
Let me repeat my original point: If DeSantis is going to be President, there are 49 *other* states he has to make some headway in, and in my personal opinion this is not the way to do it.
PS–people I work with would have a good laugh at the idea that I have bought into proggie dogmas. I don’t buy into anyone’s side without doing some thinking on my own, and I don’t judge arguments by whoever talks the longest and the loudest, or by who tells the most scary stories. America is a big and varied place, and scary stories are easy to come by.
Hey, Spartacus, you’re right. There were no elementary schools where crazed blue haired harpies were teaching children about gender identity instead of or in replace of reading lessons. That’s why they went batshit crazy when they were banned from doing so. Because it didn’t impact any of them anywhere in the state of Florida. There aren’t teachers on record with various liberal news outlets explaining in excruciating detail how they previously had introduced gender orientation and identity into lesson plans and how they plan to try and get around DeSantis’s ban. Those things don’t exist at all and I’m sure you’ve never read any such news article.
There are no parental groups that have formed in Florida over issues related to gender identity and critical race theory in Florida, and a quick Google search will certainly not pull anything up for anyone so inclined to enact the two seconds of labor necessary for the task.
If this shit doesn’t spread in Florida, it isn’t going to be because it’s just a “fad.” It’s going to be because people took action. Because when you have an entire generation being exposed to these ideas almost everywhere they go online, in the national media, and then in their classrooms those are going to be things that become entrenched ideas.
Glibertarians are not a representative sample of voters
To the extent that the question is who will the GOP run, it’s fair to guess that Glibs skew red and aren’t terribly far from the distribution of Republican primary voters, of whom many number. The years here have been well-watered with Trump rationalizations and apologies; the Biden-era slump in those enthusiasms is consistent with an attitude that was always culture-fueled and unprincipled and only sagging now because their man is out of power and it’s just not fun anymore and finally, at long last, has become a bit embarrassing and uncool..
Glibs won’t be on the winning side no matter the result
I certainly will not rejoice whether the party of big government or the party that lies about how they’re going to end big government wins
“This is precisely what most people understand the term DEI to mean: trying to reach out to groups that have previously been underrepresented.”
Motte and bailey, my friend. That’s the PR version. From what I can tell, depending on the school, it can go way beyond that. Look at how they have their thumb on the admissions scales at some of the Ivies. That’s not “outreach”, that’s blatant racial discrimination. That’s what’s “actually happening” at some leading schools, at least.
This is an accurate read. Sad, but accurate..
If Trump is in prison, he won’t run. But nothing could motivate his base more than a felony conviction, especially if it looks like it’s trumped (pun intended) up.
Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time.
Yeah, but her stupid boss blew up a chopper trying to stop Pearl Harbor. At least she married well after that.
Trump vs. DeSantis: Trump has definitely gotten stupider and more out of touch. If DeSantis does actually run and he has a good campaign he can beat The Donald though. Whether he can beat the biased election system as it stands now might be another matter.
Of course, this means we’ll grandly go sticking our private parts right into that hornet’s nest…
Doesn’t matter what the facts are, Iran will blame Israel and the US. The only question is what will Iran do in response.
She added that “the federal government is also the only entity that has the capacity to pay the debt.”
By definition, the party who prints their own money has the deepest pockets.
Go back to telling us Uncle Remus was a fag.
Show me some living ex slaves and I’d be happy to see them payed out. As for the rest of it, not one red damn cent.
For a much better look at the car than a crappy Tickety-Tock video, go here.
https://www.rezvanimotors.com/
They also make one based on the FJ Cruiser, I think. Sure looks like it, anyway. I saw one in person a few years ago, and it immediately went onto my “If I win the lottery” list.
Katherine Ross, to me, is the reference standard for the 60s-early 70s look.
Didn’t Robocop drive one of those things?
I think they did show up in the newest Robocop flick.
No love for Samantha Eggar?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it posted here before, even though the video went up on YouTube three months ago, but: A movie for Swiss.
Yes. Not on streaming yet. With luck it will be in 2024.
*checks Powerball ticket*
😞
DB- saw your note from yesterday. Only in NOLA/Slidell area till Thurs this week. May or may not be back later in the year.
Charlie Cooke’s Friday podcast did have a good summary on the overall debt ceiling situation that makes a pretty good listen vice all the random political proclamations.
You don’t have to give us money from the taxpayers, just skip the middleman and give us their property.
“To minimize inflation risk, Darity suggested, the payment should be spread out over a period of up to 10 years or the reparations should be provided in the form of assets rather than liquid cash.”
A strong early candidate for the dumbest thing I will read today.
Pace yerself, it’s early.
What could possibly go wrong?
Everyone gets 10,000 shares of Solyndra.
the dumbest thing I will read today
Challenge accepted.
Damn you, JI. Where do I go to get my IQ points back after reading the first couple paragraphs of that?
“At the same time, these episodes also reveal how Black folks represent American democracy’s beating heart; that heart has helped fuel the imagination and social transformation that has helped uplift not only African Americans, but also women, other people of color, LGBTQ+, immigrants and the disabled.”
I don’t even know where to start here…
I would start with a couple of aspirin.
So print money and hand it out? 14 trillion dollars’ worth? No inflation from that? Get fucked!
It wouldn’t cause a ton of inflation if you required the recipient to move to Liberia in order to receive the cash. I think that’s one thing I’ve misread about all this money printing the past few years. If it’s overseas, it’s impact is less apparent. Until it all comes back when home.
These two randos no one has ever heard of say it’s as simple as putting the printing presses into overdrive.
I mean we would be crazy not to pursue this.
‘Orning ‘ordles — no funny quip.. tried that yesterday and no one cared. So just “Bleah”.
Daily Duotrigordle #333
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 05:37.06
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 370
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DIAF UR
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Almost there…
Daily Quordle 370
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Held the line. Mostly due to good luck.
Daily Quordle 370
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Good start but LL almost took me out
Daily Quordle 370
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all shit today
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Just kidding. IDGAF.
The news has been all about the game today though.
What game? And no… not kidding. Don’t pay attention to sports news.
Eagles vs. 49ers
That must be why the grocery store had more party platters out in the deli section yesterday.. January… playoffs? Or are we all the way to a stupid Superbowl already again?
That will be two weeks from today.
Why on earth do they need two weeks off?!
Gotta squeeze in the Pro Bowl now that they’ve turned it into an even bigger joke than it already was.
Why do you hate flag football, GT?
That would be all well and good if I were playing, ‘patzie, but when I watch football, I want to see muscular men in tight pants tackling each other like gladiators fighting to the death!
Isn’t that why anyone watches football?
That hype can’t be packed into just one week.
GT: Is there anyone, anywhere who is planning on watching the flag football game?
Not as far as I know, Neph. Probably not even the players’ mothers.
Discovery should schedule Puppy Bowl XIX opposite the Pro Bowl. Watching the dogs would be more exciting.
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I mean we would be crazy not to pursue this.
Demand driven consumerism is the ultimate economic model.
“The key thing,” Darity said, “is that ultimately the discretion for the use of the funds must reside with the recipient.”
That’s crazy. They would need education and guidance. The sort they could only get from nonprofit community action organizations and unionized government employees.
Hey – this could be a teachable moment. Why sir, do you mean to say that other people don’t know what is in your best interests?
an actress responsible for the deaths of millions of potential Jews
Best euphemism ever. Millions of potential goyim as well. Or so I am told.
I thought the link was going to be Gal Gadot.
All it would take is 100,000 jewish men to jerk off 100 times in a single year to reach 10m dead.
::e-hugs OMWC:: Sorry you’re feeling down, Old Man. Spring will come, even to up(? mid?)state NY.
TBH, I love winter. It’s one of the things keeping me buoyed.
We badly need to stay the fuck out of this. – oh come on where’s your fighting spirit
OK, I am famously indifferent about cars. I want this one. – i see the usefulness but sure is ugly
No more Free Willy. Now he costs. – I ate whale meat once. i didn’t like it.
Supertramp should re-release that album. Polycrisis my ass.
Slutty Sunday, ATTN: Festus.
https://archive.ph/9DgBw
A dirndl is not a sundress, but I’ll allow it.
Cool car.
https://www.rezvanimotors.com/rezvani-vengeance#vengeance-home-page
“STARTING AT $285,000”
Ummm… no.
You could buy a refurbed Bronco for that kind of scratch.
He could pay for it with the drugs that fell out of his ass.
Just adding context to Old Man’s post.
By duplicating a previous post. Borderline ass drugs, but I prefer at least two duplicate links before going there.
That gets you a Bentley.
I have never seen so many Bentley Flying Spurs as when I was in Naples, FL last year.
NBD, just rolling in my $300,000 ride that I leave at my winter place.
There’s always a nice selection of Bentleys at the big auto auctions. Also on my “lottery list”. I’m partial to the 2 door Continentals, myself.
Heh. A lot of those are rolling aquariums now. I saw some pics of one floating down the street right after Ian.
Our friend’s second-floor condo in Pelican Bay was unscathed but I kept seeing video of one of the garages there with just a river flowing into it.
I’m retrospect, the fact they just rented a car when they were there vs. buying really worked out (they were up here for Ian).
Yeah, most of the second floor and higher units did ok. First floor garages, not so much. I have a co-worker friend who lost both their family cars, one of which was an EV. He said the insurance company didn’t even bother to look at the Volt…as soon as they heard it was submerged in salt water, they just wrote him a check.
People on the beach weren’t so lucky. I have another friend who had a stilt house on Fort Myers Beach, and thought they would be ok. Water still went chest high into what would be a second-floor home.
On the plus side, the roofing company I contracted with is scheduled to start my roof replacement tomorrow, which is earlier than I was expecting.
PS–they are still airlifting boats out of the mangroves, so if you anybody who lost one, there is still a chance.
The beach clubhouses are going to be closed much of the year (though they have a walk-up bar going – they have their priorities straight) and they still recommend not going in the water because there’s still so much debris.
Could have been a lot worse.
Honestly, I like all the features but would want something a bit more discreet.
“LOOK AT MY ARMORED SUV!”
So much easier to hide an upfitted Chev Suburban 2500 in the crowd.
Infamous
“The 2024 election is our one shot to save our country, and we need a leader who is ready to do that on day one,” Trump said to his supporters at the South Carolina State House in Columbia, before suggesting that he was the GOP candidate best suited to win in 2024.
Trump delivered similar speeches at both stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina, mostly focused on the Biden administration’s handling of foreign policy issues such as the war in Ukraine, the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Through weakness and incompetence, Joe Biden has brought us to the brink of world war three,” Trump said in South Carolina, claiming that he could end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine within the first 24 hours of his presidency. He also echoed his infamous 2015 speech — when he first announced his candidacy — in which he called immigrants coming into the country via Mexico “killers,” “murderers,” “rapists” and “terrorists.”
At least he didn’t say “proven” leader.
You had your shot Don – you didn’t do much with it.
Indeed. Let’s not forget that he presided over Phase I of our utterly disastrous COVID response.
DeSantis in a not-loopy world should be able to wipe the floor with Trump on that alone.
I’ll further note, this is more of the bullshit that is the cause of our problems – Glorious Maximum Leader to the rescue. No dumbshits (that’s the voters falling for it), the problem requires a much broader and deeper effort – you just don’t get off so easy in voting in One Top Man to fix it all.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
2.3-meter sword found in 4th-century tomb in Japan
https://arkeonews.net/2-3-meter-sword-found-in-4th-century-tomb-in-japan/
No one needs more than 1.5 meters. also i assume ceremonial because i doubt metal working was good enough in the 4th century for such a sword
The twice-impeached former president repeated many of the same falsehoods and misinformation about the 2020 election that he has since he lost to Mr. Biden in November of 2020.
Why can’t all of these people just disappear up their own assholes?
That’s where they hide the 81 million totally legitimate votes that Brandon got.
Damn your boyfriend is so sensitive, what is he a hot-house orchid?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21194937/porn-role-clear-debt/
He has the audacity to not support you getting railed on camera for money? CWAA.
start with an onlyfans and work you way up to full porn
Look at my $300k Bentley.
Five years later, it’s worth 30. Sign me up.
It’s listed as a company car and a tax write-off, no doubt.
that is how you show you are a high value male.
New US childhood obesity guidelines criticised by families
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64427931
Transitioning seem easoer than losing weight
The American Academy of Paediatrics has recommended intensive therapy for children as young as six and weight loss drugs and surgery for those in their early teens.
WTF is wrong with “experts”?
“Weight loss drugs worked so well for Judy Garland!” 🙄
“An expert is someone assigned to an expert’s job. No other qualifications are necessary.” -Scott Adams (I think…)
Let’s not forget that he presided over Phase I of our utterly disastrous COVID response.
He could have canned Foochy and Birx, and he didn’t.
FAIL.
You want to be a noxious gadfly, chirping from the peanut gallery? Be my guest.
Marxian Dialogues
@MarxianDialogu1
White workers do not benefit from racism.
White workers do not benefit from racism.
White workers do not benefit from racism.
White workers do not benefit from racism.
White workers do not benefit from racism.
White workers do not benefit from racism.
https://twitter.com/MarxianDialogu1/status/1618467034064621568
Schools are literally firing whiteys and replacing them with the correct race, so yes.
Certainly not from the anti-white racism that is currently fashionable.
for Old Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DKobFN4gpI
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Hah, I had forgotten that song.
Absolutely wonderful music today, OMWC. That amazing gift of his was strong right up to the end.
It is. And it turned me into a blubbery mess.
Something about open world games feels fascis
https://twitter.com/Java_jigga/status/1618796519490195456
I know I’m a broken record on this at this point, but it still doesn’t fail to kill me that the USMC let me run an entire barracks, functionally unsupervised, for a year, at age 24-25 with no degree, and I am not allowed to breathe without a training by the DHA at ~40 with a PhD
https://twitter.com/SagerDM/status/1619506947019116545
googling DHA brings up Docosahexaenoic acid and a bunch pf adds for omega 3 supplements
Nah, go fuck yourself, you ignorant, racist cunte.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/01/28/breakfast-club-race-hustler-confiscate-25-of-u-s-economy-redistribute-to-blacks-n1665937
How does one confiscate 25% of an economy?
“Trump says DeSantis running for president would be ‘a great act of disloyalty’”
Not wrong. His time will come.
And Trump’s time has passed.
Maybe. Maybe not.
“I want this one.”
Ugly af. But will it withstand an IED?
“Now he costs.”
But for what porpoise?
““mistakes were made” and he takes full responsibility.”
So there will be no accountability.
+1 Janet Reno (rest in piss)
Lukashenko’s sons are respectively a Soviet Propaganda Poster Guy and a Watermelon Seller in Ankara
https://twitter.com/Italian347/status/1618728627356704774
Optimism
A contingent of military officials is quietly pushing the Pentagon to approve sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to help the country defend itself from Russian missile and drone attacks, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.
Ukraine has kept American-made F-16s on its weapons wish list since the Russian invasion last year. But Washington and Kyiv have viewed artillery, armor and ground-based air defense systems as more urgent needs as Ukraine seeks to protect civilian infrastructure and claw back ground occupied by Russian forces.
As Ukraine prepares to launch a new offensive to retake territory in the spring, the campaign inside the Defense Department for fighter jets is gaining momentum, according to a DoD official and two other people involved in the discussions. Those people, along with others interviewed for this story, asked not to be named in order to discuss internal matters.
Spurred in part by the rapid approval of tanks and Patriot air defense systems — which not long ago were off-limits for export to Ukraine — there is renewed optimism in Kyiv that U.S. jets could be next up.
Let’s give them the capability to strike deep inside Russian territory. We should give them heavy bombers to flatten Moscow.
That’ll show Putin we mean business.
“To help close the racial wealth gap, the U.S. government should pay $14 trillion in reparations to Black Americans, according to William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, authors of “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.””
Now do actual slaves that currently exist in Africa/Asia/MidEast…
I do not tolerate the “muh-slavery” bullshit from these cuntes. You were never a slave. The people you are demanding money from were never slave owners. Your world view and narrative are completely fucked. You can go fuck yourselves and die in a ditch.
https://twitter.com/JakeRudh/status/1619172649787355136
I dont get it
Does this help? (And just in case you don’t recognize those pictured in the tweet. Don’t know if Romania would have been ready for that.)
Married with children was insanely popular in Romania in the 90s
I knew nothing of the band though
Here you go. Classic ’80s (yeah, yeah – technically ’79.)
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Sorry! Look for “Rock Lobster.”
Probably their biggest hit.
I also like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB4G9WBYMFo
First time hearing this one. I am enjoying it.
For sure. Although I really liked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNwC0sp-uA4
late
I prefer their older stuff
I thought the B-52s were a pop/soul/Motown/whatever band like the Temptations.
There may have been such a band with a name along those lines. Paging Ted’S!
LOL!
It’s likely U.S. military training would not start without a presidential decision to supply American fighters. One concern for the Biden administration all along is that sending advanced weapons could be seen by Russia as an escalation, prompting Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons.
But officials point out that the F-16 was first built in the 1980s, and the Air Force is already retiring parts of the fleet. While sending Ukraine the stealthy American F-22s or F-35s would be considered escalatory, sending F-16s would not, they said.
“Let’s face it, a nuclear war isn’t going to happen over F-16s,” the DoD official said.
One European official agreed, saying F-16s “cannot be considered escalatory.”
“It’s simply part of the toolkit of having conventional weapons,” the person said.
We’re fucked. Maybe I’ll buy a Bentley.
“could be seen by Russia as an escalation”
But not the rest of the weapons we’ve donated.
“While sending Ukraine the stealthy American F-22s or F-35s”
Who the fuck in the government is retarded enough to even contemplate this? Never mind the fact that it is illegal to give any other country the F22.
Ukraine has also considered contracting with private companies in the U.S. to begin training pilots, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.
Just buy some video games.
Brush up on your DCS skills.
+1 The Last Starfighter
Russia is the new Kodan Armada.
Armageddon porn
That’s why the World Health Organization keeps a list of viruses and bacteria with pandemic potential. Jill Weatherhead of Baylor College of Medicine says prioritizing diseases is generally based on two factors: their ability to spread and the ability of humans to treat them.
The list helps guide scientists, governments and organizations in investing energy and funds to study the pathogens most likely to cause the greatest devastation to humans. The WHO develops “blueprints” with strategic goals and research priorities for each disease on the list.
Here are the diseases on the current list. A revised list is expected in the coming months: In late 2022, the World Health Organization convened more than 300 scientists to assess and update the list.
Fuck it. I’m rooting for the Big Bad Wolf.
“keeps a list of viruses and bacteria with pandemic potential”
It’s more fun to vary what you release each year.
Our allies are the baddies.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/29/report-uk-army-tracked-monitored-lockdown-critics/
what government isnt the baddie these days?
Disease X
The WHO says it does not rank diseases in any order of potential threat, but it acknowledges the possibility that an as-yet-unknown disease could cause a serious pandemic.
In her work with bat viruses, for example, Raina Plowright of Cornell University says that even in the small proportion of bat species that have been studied, the animals carry thousands of viruses, “and we have no clue how many present risk,” she says. “We don’t have the technology to take a sequence and say with certainty whether it can infect humans or can transmit from human to human. We’re blind, really.”
Not to mention that variants pose threats, she says. “Just the tiniest genetic change can have a profound effect. What if we had [a pathogen] with a 50% fatality rate that transmitted efficiently?”
Bizarrely enough, despite those billions of intractably lethal viruses out there waiting for an opportunity to kill us all, we’re still here.
What does that tell us?
“Plowright”? That’s a porn name if I’ve ever seen one
Prolly would.
Oh, Lauren.
https://twitter.com/CKeirns/status/1619112551798931457
Dan Abrams, whoever the fuck that is, is a god damn tard.
He’s just paid to be one.
John Prine
John Prine
“EXCLUSIVE: Eco-conscious Cate Blanchett’s plans to install 90 solar panels at her £5million Sussex mansion might be scuppered by the presence of great crested newts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11686487/Cate-Blanchetts-plans-install-90-solar-panels-5million-Sussex-mansion-scuppered.html
I hate when that happens.
Good morning, Old Man!
Sorry you aren’t feeling it today.
I liked Television a lot, but agree about the vocals. My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwrCUEMl76U
Trump was the first into the race and he will be the first out of the race. There is almost zero chance of him running third party as he really hates losing and that is a sure way to lose. This is also the reason he will be the first out. Once it becomes apparent to him that he won’t win the nomination he will invent some excuse to bow out. The media has finally figured out that the best way to deal with him is to largely ignore him. And as said above, and said by me multiple times, fuck his shitty ass Vid response, he helped set the stage for lockdowns and most of the other liberty killing measures over those two years. The US is still, to this day, one of the only countries in the world that requires a Vid vax to enter (legally) as a foreigner. At this point I don’t think my wife’s sister will ever get to visit here again.
I can see Trump using another run at the Presidency as a legal maneuver to fend off lawsuits and investigations while collecting donations. Is he smart enough to come up with such a deeply cynical plan on his own? Probably.
Maybe he’s smart enough to hand off the baton, but I’m not betting on it.
OMWC – Sorry about sending you a super cheery email when you’re feeling down. That must have been the last thing you wanted to read.
You sent him a link to Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet?
Au contraire!
“Online Amplifiers of Anti-LGBTQ+ Extremism”
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/online-amplifiers-anti-lgbtq-extremism
https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1617991985956261889
“ADL (Anti-Defamation League) – To stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and secure justice and fair treatment to all. #FightingHateForGood”
The first two on their list are run by Jews.
The ADL went the way of the SPLC a while ago.
They exist to enforce the narrative by putting labels on dissidents.
Someone call the waaaaahmbulance.
Meet the First American Journalist to Interview Hitler—and the First Expelled From Nazi Germany
I half-expected it to be a prog who interviewed Trump.
If Trump did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
On Wednesday, Meta justified its decision to restore Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts by claiming that the risk to public safety “has sufficiently receded.”
It’s a statement that will come to haunt Meta executives — and one that ignores the growing body of evidence linking Trump’s invective on social media to real-world political violence.
Earlier this month, a draft report from the House of Representatives’ Jan. 6 select committee was leaked to the press. The 122-page document, “Social Media & the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol,” concludes that the risk former President Trump poses on social media “has not abated.”
Meta at one point agreed. When it first suspended Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, the company said that his posts about the insurrection “contribute to, rather than diminish, the risk of ongoing violence.” In upholding the decision, Facebook’s Oversight Board later added that Trump’s posts — especially those denying the election results — “created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible.”
The company’s decision to de-platform Trump and his allies appears to have had the desired effect. Following the former president’s departure from mainstream social media sites, one comprehensive study found that online discussions about election disinformation declined by 73%.
The select committee’s draft report found that Trump and his supporters used Facebook, among other social media platforms, to closely track “his claims about a stolen election and subsequently his calls to descend on DC to protest the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th, 2021.”
The draft report also condemned Facebook for its “refusal to adequately police the spread of disinformation or violent content on Stop the Steal groups despite their known nexus to militia groups.”
He’s a one man wrecking crew.
Just like that Russian bot.
Hopefully Trump does not take the bait. This was done primarily so his every post could be shown as insurrectionist. There are no good players here. He should stay on his platform and tell them to fuck off.
“If you think the Memphis police officers had to be white in order to exhibit anti-Blackness, you need to take that AP African American Studies course Ron DeSantis just banned.”
https://twitter.com/MondaireJones/status/1619157269975031810
They are doubling down on this.
So they’re saying that I’m not enough of a brainless simp already, so I need to take a class in brainless simping? Sounds like a winning plan!
No; they’re saying black people can’t think for themselves.
Basic fairness would dictate that Trump play by the same rules as the rest of us. The patterns show us that violence doesn’t just ignite overnight; the slow-burning embers of hate and lies that Trump has continued to stoke on Truth Social can incite another insurrection if they reach Meta’s massive mainstream audience.
Yet Meta still has a chance to learn from its many mistakes, though that window is quickly closing. It can start by ending special exemptions for Trump and other prominent politicians who inflame hate, incite violence and spread anti-democratic lies.
Free Press, through our work with the Change the Terms coalition, has mapped a better path forward for Meta and other social media giants. This includes adopting and enforcing model policies to reduce hate and disinformation online and prevent actual violence in the real world.
No Meta user — no matter how powerful — should be allowed to use the company’s services to engage in or facilitate hateful activities. The platform must ensure that toxic hate and disinformation are not present in any language or in any country where the company does business.
Muzzling those who disagree with us is the only sure way of defending freedom of speech.
Also- there can be no such thing as private ownership or freedom of association. All access must be controlled by civil society experts.
And she calls her organization “Free Press”. These people are deranged.
Deranged grifters.
The money shot:
Meta executives bear full responsibility for any real-world harm that follows Wednesday’s reckless decision. They can no longer claim ignorance about the political violence that can result when they allow access to an online megaphone to a dangerous figure like Trump.
Jackpot lawyering, FTW!
He should log on, post an advertisement for other social media platforms, and leave.
I might go along with the reparations thing as long as it is declared that the US is no longer racist, and all affirmative action and race-based laws are then stricken from the books. We all know there’s zero chance of that happening.