Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
FBI twice searched University of Delaware for classified Biden docs
Treasury will run out of room under the debt limit between July and September
Federal Judge Blocks N.Y. Law Mandating Social Media ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policies
US national debt to rise by $20 trillion over the next 10 years
DOJ won’t charge Matt Gaetz with crimes in sex trafficking probe
Gun Owners of America spokesman says the Biden admin is trying to put gun stores out of business
Chicago’s O’Hare Suffers ‘Dystopian’ Nightmare with Growing Homeless Encampments
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Banjos is starting an exterminator business?
Well, when Terminators retire, they need help settling into polite society.
“US national debt to rise by $20 trillion over the next 10 years”
I give them five.
An R House will slow the process. A D POTUS and HOR are when deficits really get out of control.
Trump managed to preside over some trillion dollar deficits as well.
Deficits were under $1T until Ds took control of the House and pushed through “emergency” spending.
It’s still a sad state fall from grace from the ’90s when Gingrich made Clinton say uncle on spending – albeit a lot of the “budget balancing” was accomplished through accounting gimmickry.
If only we didn’t treat the 90s as a “holiday from history”.
Massie was basically the only person opposing the CAREs act.
The eGOP purged the lGOP.
an optimist I see
A bet I wouldn’t take.
I can’t understand why a sane person would run for a political office, it’s not going to look good on a resume, should that person win.
graft
Because you’re not a sociopath. These people crave power over the lives of others.
This.
It seems that we Glibs share a congenital defect – the absence of desire for power. I’d sure like to say that is a mutation that is beneficial for evolution, but I kinda doubt it’s going to work out that way.
Maybe, I don’t even like telling myself what to do.
They seem to land on their feet just fine, Fourscore.
‘Politician’ looks great on a resume when the job is glorified influence peddling.
Now include unfunded liabilities.
The GAAP debt is much, much worse than the reported one.
Bismarckian Germany waves hello.
oops, make that Wilhemine, not Bismarck.
You have a mortgage, car payment, utilities, groceries, streaming services, bar tab, vacations, etc. You’ve been living beyond your means. You’ve maxed out your credit. You decide to stop paying your mortgage because you don’t have enough income to cover all your spending.
netflix is a basic human necessity
I am fascinated by the idea that not being able to borrow more money is a “default”.
There is enough revenue to pay the debt so any default would be a choice not a requirement.
If the ceiling isn’t raised and the spending continues, there won’t be enough cash to pay all of the bills. Since there is no way the military and the seniors don’t get their checks, the party that will get shorted is the holder of the Treasury Notes.
You decide to stop paying your mortgage because you don’t have enough income to cover all your spending.
So you’re saying the government is going to be homeless?
He forgot the second part of the story where you go to your relatives, crying that if they do not loan you money you’ll be homeless and how cruel and evil they are to allow that to happen.
relatives? more like strangers
“If a gun store makes one mistake, the ATF skips the traditional warnings and goes straight to license revocation. These could be just simple clerical mistakes. Licensing revocations are up anywhere from 300 to 500 percent. This is the most since the early 2000s.”
I’d like a better source, but damn.
“It’s also an attempt by the Biden administration to register gun owners because when a store is closed down, the 4473 forms are sent to the ATF and those gun purchase records are being inputted into a database,” he noted.
“So the ATF has accumulated nearly 1 billion records in a searchable database which can be used to enforce Biden’s recent gun ban,” he concluded. “In other words, this is a registration database that can be used to confiscate firearms.”
Even if somehow* Congress defunded ATF’s record digitization and directed them to destroy all records**, the ATF would ignore and slow roll it until a more favorable Congress came along or just ignore congress entirely with impunity.
*the only reason there isn’t an AWB now is due to the sunset clause. It never would have been repealed even with Rs controlling both houses and the presidency
**the Rs would never do this because “back the blue” and “the lawhhhh!”
Erasing a database is a terribly slow process you see.
It’s even slower when you never intend to do it.
Plus, federal IT standards require database backups. Federal law requires records retention.
Lois Lerner cackles softly off to the side.
Abolish the ATF.
Operation Chokepoint 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Early 2000s, hmm who was in power back then?
Chokepoint was in the tens – the debanking of FFLs, payday lenders, and porn. You’re thinking Fast and Furious – the “set up straw purchases from FFLs and then lose track of the purchased firearms until they show up at crime scenes in Mexico”
I was referring to what the article said – up from early 2000s, meaning it’s clear it doesn’t matter who is in power.
That probably would have been obvious if I tried reading for comprehension…
Thank a teacher!
Obama. Chokepoint was Obama.
Even targeted pirn stars and strippers.
It’s not really a limit if you raise it every time you reach it.
Hey, the ATF story gives me an idea for helping out on the debt limit story!
(not that the Rs in Congress have the balls to even consider it)
Abolish the ATF?
And license the name for use as a chain of big box stores.
Chicago’s O’Hare Suffers ‘Dystopian’ Nightmare with Growing Homeless Encampments – I blame the extreme libertarinism of the leadership of Chicago, with their low tax low spend philosophy. Such a rich city should be able to find some money to help the homeless.
They’re at the airport because there are no roads?
They’re at the airport because it’s better that riding the rails all day and nobody has the balls to kick them out.
well who made you an expert in the life and habits of the Chicago homeless?
Closer to the helicopters.
O’Hare needs to expand. Too small to accommodate all those needing accommodation. Add some showers, eating facilities for those temporarily distressed. It’s what a civilized city-state would do. Even a 100 years ago soup kitchens were available for those financially disadvantaged.
You snark but I am quite certain Chicago already has all of that. Those guys at the airport reject it, most likely because they’re on drugs (or not on drugs that they need).
Does any city really NEED two airports?
/Sanders 2024
whaddup doh’
Looking at land for sale in Montana? Check out the Windcall Ranch for sale at Springhill which is 20± minutes north of Bozeman, MT and features 320± acres of lush pastureland and forest offering incredible views.
Nestled among the lush meadows of the rugged Bridger Mountains, with stately Ross Peak serving as the backdrop, lies the expansive Windcall Ranch. On 320± acres, the Windcall Ranch hosts five residences, recreational outbuildings, a riding arena, endless trails, and open space. A conservation easement protects the Windcall Ranch’s landscape and the local wildlife population who travel across the bordering national forest. As part of the historic farming community of Springhill, Windcall Ranch provides a rare opportunity to own a beautiful piece of the Valley of the Flowers in one of Montana’s most charming locations. The rural, private location of the property lends itself to a slower, relaxed pace and provides easy access to Bozeman via a short 20± minute drive over well-maintained county roads.
I fucking hate this stupid wordpress sometimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62kwfLzng9o
14 million dollars and cows not included. How is the water thing round Bozeman?
You used “lush” twice.
it is such a nice word though
Tempting, but Montana winters are brutal.
I think the point is to have a place in Montana for summer and one in Florida for winter. Plus your other place in Colorado for skiing, if you don’t get enough in Montana. And there is your loft in Manhattan for cultural activities. And one place in Europe off course, Paris, Lake Como, Gstaad… The discerning glib has at least 5 homes.
Just leave your cows to die in the winter, buy new ones in the summer.
20 minutes away from a city is too close.
But according to the youtube the city has great restaurants for it’s size and I assume a wine bar or two. Maybe even a specialty coffee shop.
Montana cities aren’t “real” cities. Oh, Bozeman, you’re right, too close.
20 minutes in Montana is 30 miles
Still too close.
The rural, private location of the property lends itself to a slower
3 or 4 miles of deeply rutted dirt road will do that.
I’ll kick in $10k. The rest of you will have to do the rest. I will, nonetheless, expect at least 50 acres and a mule.
I doubt the trails are actually endless. I mean, I guess if they are all loops, maybe.
If you go straight long enough, you end up where you were.
Not if you can go straight up you don’t.
If you curve around the surface of the Earth, you aren’t going straight.
“The projected exhaustion date is uncertain because the timing and amount of revenue collections and outlays over the intervening months could differ from our projections. In particular, income tax receipts in April could be more or less than we estimate,” the CBO noted.
Fuck you, cut spending.
A federal judge has blocked New York’s new law that prohibits hate speech on social media, ruling the measure violates the Constitution’s protection of free speech.
“Hate speech is not free speech!” – the left
US national debt to rise by $20 trillion over the next 10 years
This is fine.
McDonald’s to launch McPlant nuggets made with Beyond Meat in Germany
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/mcdonalds-mcplant-nuggets-beyond-meat-germany.html
I did not like the old nuggets and I aint trying the new ones. Then again I almost never eat McD and when I do it is a bacon mcmuffin for breakfast, I don’t think I have had anything else in the last 15 years
McD is a restaurant for when you are out of options.
In Europe there is always a kebab place around the corner, so there are options 🙂
Do Romanian McD’s have those “freestyle” machines that ad flavoring to your tuica?
ha ha ha
What Idris Elba gets right about race
Based. I still think casting him as Bond would have been a mistake. Which ultimately wouldn’t have mattered anyway, since they murdered the franchise and will desecrate the corpse on the next outing. With any luck it’ll be the last.
He’s halfway there, I guess.
Maybe inside he knows that “anti-racism” is in fact “racism” but hey, a man still needs some chance at getting work.
Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom!
“Essentially, Elba’s argument is that our modern fixation on race, while often presented as ‘progressive’, can limit individual aspiration and create needless divides in society.”
That’s the goal.
There are games beyond the fucking game.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Gaetz’s office confirmed that “the Department of Justice has confirmed to Congressman Gaetz’s attorneys that their investigation has concluded and that he will not be charged with any crimes.”
Meaning they couldn’t fabricate anything.
Or he bent the knee.
Is This the Best Modern House in the World?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEev34rri8E
Not a huge fan of the architecture, seems nice enough I guess, but the location looks nice
“The brutal reality of auditioning for a strip club: Woman reveals humiliating experience of having to take off her clothes in front of one of the dancers – before being told she ‘wasn’t hot enough'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11756849/Mikaela-Testa-reveals-humiliating-reality-auditioning-strip-club.html
Was she expecting a coding test?
She should see the erotic massage auditions…
“Can you drive a stick?”
“But I have a really nice personality”
Having to remove your clothing in front of people you don’t like who will judge you is pretty much the job description.
Today on “news of the obvious”….
I know a place she could apply, but there’s only 3 spots available, so the competition is fierce.
I was expecting this… but that works too.
But claims she’s now making $160,000 per month on OnlyFans. So the whole whining interview thing was just just a publicity stunt to drive more traffic to her OF site. Also, it appears she took the strip club’s advice and upped her tanning game.
“Father killed by ‘violent chicken’: Man died with ‘massive bleeding’ while whispering ‘rooster’ after being attacked by aggressive bird at home in Ireland”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11757591/Father-killed-chicken-Man-massive-bleeding-attacked-Ireland-home.html
Was he dressed up as Col Sanders?
Cue Alice in Chains…
I believe it. Roosters are assholes. When I was a kid my uncle lived on some acreage and got himself a rooster. It got a shovel upside the head more than once.
My hometown’s festival was called “Rooster Days” from when people would gather to sell off the unwanted roosters.
https://www.roosterdays.com/
Was his name Peter Griffin?
Pop culture references are tight
For a REALLY obscure pop culture reference, beware of Patagonian Attack Chickens! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33800554-the-something-girl
How can it be a popular culture reference and be obscure?
::prepares to reply…realizes she’s got nuthin’::
Did someone say Rooster?
Well, someone didn’t properly grab their cock and pullet.
“EXCLUSIVE: Doctors from St Louis transgender clinic told teachers to ‘affirm’ an entire group of fifth graders – despite fears they were being influenced by their friends
The teacher contacted doctors in October 2021 seeking help when a group of fifth graders – girls aged 10 or 11 – claimed they were all transgender…
The doctor then suggested that all of the girls were genuinely transgender, and that it simply took their friend to realize it for them to as well.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11754435/Emails-doctors-St-Louis-transgender-clinic-telling-teachers-affirm-fifth-graders.html
How does this doctor have a license?
Because he’s a doubleplusgood goodthinker!
How are they still breathing?
Well, going to prison for murder might not be the best thing for your kids.
Only if a jury would convict you.
They probably would. “Asshole had it coming” isn’t a legal defense.
He was only giving puberty blockers to kids, it’s not like he prescribed more than 20 hydrocodone or something.
That is Bee-worthy.
Until a more lucrative option comes along.
Kind of like tatoo removal, detransitioning is probably where the big bucks are.
“detransitioning is probably where the big bucks are”
It sure doesn’t seem like it. These clinics generally just ignore detransitioners.
No, the best you can do is to tell them to stop being ridiculous, and shoo them back to class.
claimed they were all transgender
This shit needs to stop now.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Do we have some sort of “Junior Glibs” program?
Do you not have a mine filled with orphans? I thought that was standard issue when you signed up for this site.
Dragging the pluralizing convo over from the dedthread, one of the things I quite enjoy about Lord of the Rings Online is that they have consistent, nonstandard-English pluralization rules. I have no idea if these are Authentic Tolkien Words(tm) or not, but it does give an impression of immersion in an actual world.
-val becomes -veil
-rbeg becomes -rbyg etc.
Welsh and Irish have similar plurals. I think at least one of his languages was inspired by them.
IIRC Sindarin was based on Welsh, Quenya on Icelandic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY7EEBUgg6Y
Tagalog has very simple plurals:
-> mga
Need preview.
WORD -> mga WORD
https://www.theautopian.com/is-the-plural-of-prius-prii-priora-or-prioraiiusesodes-comment-of-the-yesterday/
“Biden has implemented a zero tolerance policy,” Pratt said on the Wednesday edition of the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “If a gun store makes one mistake, the ATF skips the traditional warnings and goes straight to license revocation. These could be just simple clerical mistakes. Licensing revocations are up anywhere from 300 to 500 percent. This is the most since the early 2000s.” …
“This is an attack on the gun industry and the Second Amendment,” he stated. “By closing down gun stores, they make it more difficult for people to get guns to defend themselves.“
That’s the point.
Interesting, people on Twitter talk about how Trump rolled back train regulations, and somehow Biden couldn’t put them back. Yet somehow he’s able to do shit like this.
THICC Thursday can’t stop won’t stop.
https://archive.is/NB4Nk
It’s true – the more mass, the harder to stop once in motion.
The Valentine’s gift that keeps giving.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21366783/gift-husband-threesome-neighbour-valentines/
The solicitors will appreciate her gift in a few months, I expect.
Herpes?
“My Threesomes support pack will explain more”
Apparently this sort of situation comes up more than we thought.
Not surprising since the whole country minus Jeremy Clarkson is made up of cucks.
‘Orning ‘ordles wouldn’t make it as a stripper either.
Daily Duotrigordle #351
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https://duotrigordle.com/
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ATTN: Tres.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/us-showbiz/tess-holliday-breaks-internet-parades-29204502
Cross reference: “healthy at any size”, atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes
Breaks the Internet along with a few floor joists.
LOL
It’s a series of tubes
All the shit that Big Tech censors and they couldn’t put a stop to this?
Oh hell yeah. Im selfish since thats my “thing”- “get as big as you can, baby. Worry about the health risks later”
I may have related this story before, but once I was going down on a “larger lady” and she legit tasted sweet. I asked her “so have you ever been screen for diabetes?”
The night ended abruptly.
Whatever happened to Barfman?
This reminds me, I need tires. I’m leaning towards Michelin now for some reason.
Only tires I’ll buy…
Bibendum.
Pretty sad that it takes the Daily fucking Mail to report on this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11754097/What-Biden-WONT-say-Social-Security-Medicare.html
Covering something that’s this inside baseball for American politics must be an indicator for just how many Americans go there for news.
To be fair, Banjo’s Fox Business link mentions it and links to articles (I didn’t read) going deeper in the the SS trust fund insolvencies. So that’s some coverage.
Of course… it is Fox, so it will be automatically ignored by all of those Of The Body and all.
but is it a ponzi scheme?
It pays benefits to a generation to be paid by future generations. That’s just normal government.
‘They’re more than government programs,’ he told an audience in Florida last week. ‘They’re a promise — a promise we made: Work hard and contribute, and when the time has come for you to retire, you’ll be there… we’ll be there for you to help you out.
‘It’s been a sacred trust, the rock-solid guarantee generations of Americans have counted on, and it works.’
Outright prolonged laughter.
Having my income stolen by my elders years before I earned it and stealing from the next generation to prop up mine in the future through insolvent means doesn’t feel particularly sacred nor does it inspires trust.
PayDebt it forward.Interesting U-turn from his historical stance about it being absolutely on the table to make cuts. Politics is disgusting.
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/13/biden-cuts-social-security/
I’m sure they’re totally fine with their friends jacking off to their Mom.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/my-sons-know-onlyfans-job-29162962
Why not get right to it and point out the obvious?
They’re jacking off to their mom.
/phones Oedipus for confirmation
Their actual by blood mother? Thankfully that’s still pretty rare.
“suddenly overnight because I film myself having sex with my husband online, I am now trash”
Well, yeah.
Hot, though. I suspect her son’s friends were whacking it to her even before they found her feed.
+ Stifler’s Mom
+1 Stacy’s mom
In the days before everyone with a webcam was an amateur porn star, it came to light that the mom of one of the younger guys in a gaming clan of which I was an on again-off again member was a camgirl and did some professional porn scenes. He got a little good-natured ribbing for it, but nobody was an overt asshole about it. Apparently school was another story. He ended up coming out as bisexual in his late teens, then caught the trans train back when it was just picking up steam.
She makes millions?
If so, I guess that makes it easier for the sons to overlook.
I wish I will some day understand onlyfans
Prisoner swap? No mention of Iranians held prisoner in the U.S. – just some dollars that the Mullahs want in exchange for Americans who were dumb enough to go back to the homeland.
Still can’t decide if villain or hero.
Elon Musk @elonmusk speaking at the World Government Summit:
“I think we should be a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government… We want to avoid creating civilizational risk by having, frankly, too much cooperation between governments.”
Neither, just a guy with a big platform who’s sometimes right and sometimes wrong but who has mostly good instincts.
So like a normal person but with a fuckton of money.
Sure except for maybe the good instincts part which, although not rare, seems to not be the norm.
Certainly brighter than average, and probably “on the spectrum,” but relatable in a way that most billionaires aren’t.
I heard about a concept years ago (completely different context) which emphasized movement rather than current position. At the moment, I’m optimistic about Musk because he seems to be, fairly consistently, moving in something of a pro-liberty direction. Plus, he’s disrupting things which, at this point in time, is mostly a good thin.=g.
Still can’t decide if villain or hero. – chaotic neutral I think is the term
Nice basement shooting range in Perth:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/113jr19/this_is_the_result_of_a_country_that_banned/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
The comments from the interviewed police-dude are entertaining
What a bunch of shitbags.
“Someone’s invading the house!”
“Hold on, let me move the couch.”
My PhysEd teachers never looked like this. Apparently fired for her religious beliefs to not lie to parents of children who are playing dress up mash up.
I uh…what?
The best part is a letter, from the district that out right claims her religion is the reason she is being fired (they could have just went with insubordination, but didnt) and they go on to deny that is why they fired her.
I suspect this will be at least a State Supreme Court case.
-refraining from disclosing a student’s gender identity from his/her/their parent(s)/guardians
Whoever wrote and enforces this policy should be in prison.
No, they should be swinging from a tree in front of the district offices pour encourager les autres.
Thank God these assholes are at least somewhat incompetent.
And the district should take a survey of parents who think it’s appropriate for the schools to hide things of this nature from them.
You’d think they would have wised up a little after the first Jack Phillips case. SCOTUS as much as said “Hey, religious discrimination is fine, you just can’t say the quiet part out loud.”
Yeah, anything else approaching that importance wouldn’t fly. Kid’s a drug addict/schizophrenic/truant/general pain in the ass and telling the parents is the first thing they do.
Yup. Imagine if the kid tells his teacher he wants to cut off an arm or a leg, and the teacher is compelled to not tell the parents.
I don’t think so.
Unfortunately they know it doesn’t matter if they look incompetent. Even if they just gave that teachers to sue them into a hole in the ground, the bill won’t be paid by the people setting the policy, it will be paid by the people victimized by the policy. They won’t be fired and even if they’re in elected positions, the average tax payer in their district won’t be paying enough attention to know that their tax money is being taken to pay a settlement for their “public servant’s” bad behavior.
It could not be more explicitly clear that the people running most school district are not just apathetic to the opinions and demands of the people they “serve”, they are outright disdainful of them.
So the school’s position is that children have a right to privacy from their parents, but no right to privacy when it comes to boys seeing girls naked in the locker rooms.
Huh.
“I remember the day vividly, I wept openly and lamented about how we could live in a world where garage door pulls were allowed to victimize humble millionaires driving in circles.”
https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1625691243345739776
Nikki is a solid wood tho. Tulsi, too.
Strawberry cause redheads are my Achilles heel.
*reads name*
All 3 would seem to be way too small for you.
Im up for any challenge. As I told Tres Ver 2.0 “a hard dick has no conscious.”
Stop picking on Ethnic Hillary Clinton
Question: how skilled are nascar drivers actually? and does it translate to road driving at all? though I assume professional race drivers are passionate enough about driving they can drive pretty good on public roads.
There are road race circuits on the Nascar schedule, so it’ s not just turning left all of the time.
Also, keeping those cars on a banked surface at that speed for hundreds of laps without hitting the wall requires some strength and skill.
Very. Many are former go-kart champions and the like. Despite the jokes, NASCAR is apparently very challenging. F1 drivers have attempted to make the transition and find it difficult, like Nigel Mansell. Due to the immense money in driving for NASCAR, it attracts the best in the USA.
Doesn’t make it any less boring though.
Ciobănesc de BUCOVINA ,,URIAȘ,, marca Marius Sigartău | Oi BREZE și câini MUDI de întors oile 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2u3SPCsc60
I know you don’t understand what is being said, but if you look between oh the 30 second and de 6 minute mark, you will see why I am uncomfortable hiking the Romanian mountains.
I don’t know if you posted it, but the weird thing is that I’ve seen that before.
And like OMWC & SP, Ive had a Great Pyrennes*
*she wasn’t really GREAT, more like a well above-average Pyrennes
I posted some videos with Romanian sheep dogs but I do not think I posted this one
I searched the comments and this one does not seem to have been posted before.
What is the dialogue around the 5 minute mark?
Exactly at 5 minutes I don;t fully get the words… overall the guy says I want to show you how big he is tells the dog come on up up… the dialogue is about how big the dog is, and then he says he weighed him and he is 80 kg and 85 cm tall at the shoulder
then he says he had the dog as a puppy, gave him away to a friend and then got him back because the friends thought he was to damaging around the house he apparently destroyed some small trees in the orchard and some stuff in the garden
That dog would give a wolf reason to reconsider.
and 3 of them a brown bear as well
Though I do not think Romanian brown bears are quite as big as Siberian or American ones,
But are there instances of people being attacked by livestock guardian dogs? I figure if you don’t mess with their livestock they won’t mess with you, but then again they are quite intimidating just barking at you. A neighbor has a couple and when I am out walking I am happy they are inside a fence.
i didn’t want to count… but now i do
https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1626056134795882498
I’m in favor of secession, especially when your new state looks like a hand giving the middle finger.
11 eastern Oregon counties have already voted in favor of joining Idaho. Due to this success, Idaho state lawmakers have introduced legislation to begin discussions with the Oregon State Legislature on relocating the Idaho/Oregon state boundary.
A Republican State Senator in Oregon introduced a bill to start talks with Idaho last month.
Mike McCarter, the leader of The Greater Idaho Movement, argues his endeavor will give eastern Oregon voters an actual voice in state affairs should the counties officially join. Unlike the urban liberal areas which dominate Oregon politics, Idaho is a rural, conservative state with traditional values.
I’d rather see them make their own state along with some of the NoCal counties. With blackjack and hookers, of course.
Yup, I’m with you Grumble, was about to post the same thing. Although I’d be cool with the State of Jefferson part of NorCal joining up with Greater Idaho. Would kinda mess up the middle finger thing tho. I’d buy land in that part of California in a heartbeat if it didn’t have the Sacramento dictatorship ruling it. It has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
The State of Jefferson can add another X to their seal and flag when Greater Idaho fucks them over.
I haven’t looked for other states but I believe VA has a constitutional provision that the state cannot be split without the consent* of the state legislature. And then there is the consent of the federal legislature in order for the new state to be in the Union**.
*Of course I am also of the position of saying “fuck you, we’re seceding. Try to stop us.”
**But this is a less desirable position by the day.
WV laughs at VA constitution.
I think the federal Constitution also requires the consent of both states to transfer turf from one to another.
Yeah, that too.
Yeah, unfortunately the California legislature would need to agree to the transfer, which is why it is a massive long shot of ever happening. If it was put to a vote in the areas of the north state it would easily pass. Actually most of the counties up there have already passed non binding statements that support a new state, joining Idaho would be very popular there. Every time I’m up there I see tons of Jefferson flags and stickers on houses and vehicles.
We will never admit we were wrong.
It doesn’t change with time, except when they switched from not recommending them, to recommending them.
“We have always recommended masking, especially for children.”
I am enjoying the new chocolate ration of one ounce.
The scientism is settled.
well it fucking changed with time in 2020
Why don’t people trust us?
11 eastern Oregon counties have already voted in favor of joining Idaho.
What makes them think Idaho wants them?
Well, the Idaho legislature seems to be indicating as much.
Can Idaho trade some lefty enclaves?
The only enclave here is downtown Boise. Within a two mile radius of the capital building it’s paper straws and gender neutral bathrooms. All the burbs and everything beyond is full of gun-toting, state-hating deplorables. Even most of the people I talk to that say they’re democrats are more of the milquetoast 90’s Clintonian sort. If I wasn’t such a general misanthrope, I might actually get along with people.
OMWC didn’t mention that (((they))) completed a larger mind-control antenna around Brooklyn.
Also, apparently the NYT style guide pluralizes “millennium” as “millenniums.” To bring things back around to that.
Was wondering if they actually strung fishing-line all that length, and… yes, they did. Wow. That’s fucking dedication.
I remember seeing the lines as a lad in NYC and only found out what they were for much later.
I find eruvim hilarious, like a lot of Jewish traditions – “hah, we have totally worked around your rules, Adonai!”.
It is not at all surprising that (((they))) are disproportionally represented in the field of law.
Wouldn’t such a loophole be easier to implement in a walled city?
There’s ongoing back and forth in a group of Orthodox (I feel like I almost always see that with the modifier “Ultra-“) Jews in a local suburb. Wires get strung up, city fire department notices them, fire department pulls them down and explain to the neighborhood that they can’t do that, wires get strung back up, repeat.
They continue to say things like this out in the open, but if you call them out and question it you are a “conspiracy theorist.”
NEW – World Government Summit Panel Discusses the ‘Shock’ Needed for the World Order Transformation
“To me the big question is how are we going to go through this transformation…it cannot be gradual, it has to be driven by a certain shock that will happen”
League of Nations and United Nations are American ideas, so the real theory of any world govt is one that is dominated by the U.S. Not us per se, but our govt.
“a certain shock that will happen”
They’re not even pretending any more, are they?
The Ultimate Guide to The Tribes of The Far-Left (Part 2)
https://www.1828.org.uk/2023/02/16/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-tribes-of-the-far-left-part-2/
Patriotic Socialists try to combine left-wing economics with a Trumpian, nationalist populism. Some of them even call themselves “MAGA Communists”, after the Trump slogan “Make America Great Again”.
To be honest, I have never quite managed to work out whether Patriotic Socialism is a real thing, or an elaborate prank. My working hypothesis is that it started out as the latter, and that at some point, some of its protagonists started to actually believe it.
Socialists love “The Working Class” in the abstract, but they often consider actual working-class people a bit “cringe”. Working-class people can be quite small-c conservative, “unwoke”, and patriotic, and these are, of course, horrendously uncool, low-status opinions, which make fashion-conscious socialists cringe with embarrassment.
PatSocs differ sharply from other socialist groups in that they openly embrace the most low-status views on cultural issues.
“Libertarian” Socialists
(subcategories: Luxemburgists, Anarcho-Communists)
“Libertarian” Socialists represent a variant of the real-socialism-has-never-been-tried fallacy. They accept that historically, socialism has always gone hand in hand with authoritarianism, and unlike other far-left tribes (especially Tankies), they are not trying to defend that.
“Libertarian” Socialists admire short-lived socialist regimes, which were overthrown before they could fully enact their programme (e.g. Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular in Chile, Revolutionary Catalonia, the Paris Commune), as well as failed socialist leaders who never came to power at all (e.g. the Polish-German communist Rosa Luxemburg). They believe that those were the “true” Marxists, who would have made socialism work if only they had been given a proper chance.
Hipster Marxists
Hipster Marxists are people who use political opinions, first and foremost, for image purposes. They adopt whichever opinions are currently most in vogue. If you know such a person’s opinion on one subject, you know their opinions on every subject, because nowadays, fashionable opinions come as a package deal. They may not have been a Marxist ten years ago, when that was not yet as trendy as it is today.
I kind of want to post those links to Freddie de Boer’s substack.
Innocence Project of Texas
@innocencetexas
BREAKING: IPTX client Melvin Quinney has been exonerated. Melvin & his children were swept up in the Satanic Panic of the 80’s & 90’s. In 1991, Melvin was convicted & sentenced to twenty years in prison for a crime that never happened.
https://twitter.com/innocencetexas/status/1625980307139592192
It only gets worse
President Biden plans to move quickly to replace David Malpass as president of the World Bank Group, seizing on his departure to transform the bank into an institution dedicated to fighting climate change, White House advisers say.
Why it matters: Malpass’ surprise decision to leave his term early gives the Biden’s administration something it wanted even before the president was inaugurated: A chance for Biden to pick a new World Bank leader.
Team Biden wants a candidate who is committed to expanding the bank’s lending facilities to finance more renewable energy projects in the developing world.
Climate needs to be one of its central missions, advisers say.
Maybe he’ll appoint Al Gore or Bill Gates.
The rot and corruption continue apace.
Good morning, Banjos!
Excellent song selection. The news was getting me down and that was a perfect antidote. Thanks!
Whispers about Malpass’ plans have been quietly circulating in Washington for a few weeks, giving team Biden time to consider potential replacements.
News of his announcement flew across Washington, leading to speculation on who Biden would reward with the plum — and powerful — position.
As with his approach to his Cabinet, Biden is interested in diversity, according to advisers.
Jungle Fever Joe will be searching his rolodex for a black lesbian socialist eco-Putitan globalist.
Diversity!
Nature vs nurture
Flaco, the owl that escaped the Central Park Zoo in New York City nearly two weeks ago, is still on the loose. But zoo officials now say a big concern has been alleviated: Flaco is hunting for himself.
The zoo had been worried that the Eurasian eagle owl wouldn’t be able to find its own food because he’s used to captivity.
The owl escaped on Feb. 2 after someone cut the stainless steel mesh on his exhibit. The zoo called it “a deliberate criminal act which jeopardizes the safety of the bird” and said it’s under investigation by the New York Police Department. No suspects have yet been identified.
Zoo officials have been watching the bird closely since his escape, as he spends his days in Central Park.
Watchers “have seen a rapid improvement in his flight skills and ability to confidently maneuver around the park,” the zoo said on Sunday.
The zoo said officials are no longer concerned about his ability to hunt and eat.
As if an owl isn’t a hard wired aerial executioner. He just needs a mate, now.
I love a happy ending.
Here’s some video of the owl eluding the authorities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM
The great conexit from public life
Maybe I should retrain as an equality, diversity and inclusion officer
https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-great-conexit-from-public-life
Most people are not that interested in politics, and the apolitical tend to be closer to conservatives than liberals, because conservatism is our factory setting. Conservatives tend to care less about politics (except for a small core of often highly-educated ideologues), which is why they’re far less likely to go on protests, to get their children involved in politics, or to feel that politics brings ‘meaning’ to their lives.
Progressives, in contrast, are ‘believers’, held together by a set of ideas about the world, and a desire to change it; those ideas are coherent in themselves, even if I think they are false and illogical — and that educated, intelligent people can believe some obviously untrue things.
A group of passionate believers who comprise 5% of the population will succeed in winning many concessions, but a group of passionate believers who comprise 15 or 20% will get their way on almost everything, unless there is a strong and organised pushback.
Once those believers become dominant within an institution, conservatives will start to feel uncomfortable and leave, or avoid joining. So although economics plays some role in the changing nature of academia, political-cultural pressure is surely a major factor.
Academics tend to lean Left because the personality traits most associated with liberalism — novelty-seeking and openness — also direct people towards certain fields. On top of this, academics are relatively poor members of the elite, high in prestige but lower in income, and so naturally favour more redistribution, or want a society that prizes money less and intellectualism more.
The dude is correct, I’ve been saying some similar things for a while. Progressives are small in numbers, even here in SF maybe only 25% could be considered such, and yet they completely rule. In the US as a whole that number is obviously a lot smaller, maybe 10% or so. It’s going to take some serious time and effort to rid ourselves of their truly toxic spread through the culture.
Getting the owl back into captivity isn’t just good for his safety. It’s also good for the ecosystem of Central Park.
“I’d hate to have” a large, non-native owl “occupying space in Central Park where native owl species might conceivably, eventually be able to establish themselves,” Weidensaul says.
Anti-immigrant racist claptrap. What a bigot.
Would it not help the city rodent problem?
This cool – expanding round table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbo7ycpkeI&t=2s
From the sidebar, there’s more than one way to do this, even.
And only about $50k
Crowds of retirees in China have again taken to the streets to protest against cuts to their medical benefits.
They gathered on Wednesday for a second time in Wuhan, where Covid was first detected, and also in the north-eastern city of Dalian.
The second round of protests in seven days puts pressure on President Xi Jinping’s administration just weeks before the annual National People’s Congress, which will usher in a new leadership team.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64658729
I am hooked on her videos
Horrific unimagineable treachery
A police officer frequently provided Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio with internal information about law enforcement operations in the weeks before other members of his far-right extremist group stormed the U.S. Capitol, according to messages shown Wednesday at the trial of Tarrio and four associates.
A federal prosecutor showed jurors a string of messages that Metropolitan Police Lt. Shane Lamond and Tarrio privately exchanged in the run-up to a mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Lamond, an intelligence officer for the city’s police department, was responsible for monitoring groups like the Proud Boys when they came to Washington for protests.
Less than three weeks before the Jan. 6 riot, Lamond warned Tarrio that the FBI and U.S. Secret Service were “all spun up” over talk on an Infowars internet show that the Proud Boys planned to dress up as supporters of President Joe Biden on the Democrat’s inauguration day.
Justice Department prosecutor Conor Mulroe asked a government witness, FBI Special Agent Peter Dubrowski, how common it is for law enforcement to disclose internal information in that fashion.
“I’ve never heard of it,” Dubrowski said.
OH
MY
GOD!
Bullshit. Police interact all the time with demonstrator groups like that.
Yikes!
I didn’t do it.
That’s exactly what an arsonist would say.
A racist says racist things.
Georgia State Sen. Emanuel Jones (D) calls U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” while opposing a bill to place a statue of Thomas at the capitol:
“Y’all just don’t get it. And I don’t expect people of non-color to get the sensitivity that we feel.”
I guess I’m just a chalk demon.
You see, a pimp’s love is very different from that of a square.
Bleach Demon is the preferred nomenclature.
Holy crap, how is it Thursday already? Muses R.J., two minutes before the thread dies. Also how do I somehow have the uncanny knack of posting minutes before close? It’s a habit now.
#metoo I get up and moving around 9a so it’s 10 before I get on here.
I am always late because I have shit to do in the morning before I can waste time here.