Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
President Dementia stumbles through another State of the Union Address
Sarah Huckabee Sanders give Republican rebuttal
Zoom to lay off 1,300 employees, or about 15% of its workforce
Fauci paper suggests feds knew COVID vaccines were doomed from the start: ‘Decidedly suboptimal’
Porn star Ron Jeremy avoids trial for 30 sexual assault charges and is sent to state mental hospital
AMC to Charge More for Good Seats in Movie Theaters
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Are those cats?
Looks like kittens to me, so I’d say probably.
Idk, look kind of rodenty.
Yeah… taxidermy kittens frankly make me a little sad. Poor little kitties deserved a better fate.
Yeah, this one is less “amusing” and more “zOMG”.
I would like to boycott, but I haven’t been to a theater since 2008.
Tiered pricing isn’t likely to lure me back.
Much more likely for me to give them a sole digit in the future. More likely to wait until a movie is out for purchase (and these days, given the lack of quality in scripts — on sale) anyway, but pull this crap and there’s no way I’m paying for your overpriced popcorn, theaters.
That doesn’t really seem like a good business plan to me, but what do I know?
It will still separate a good amount of people from their money.
Like taxes, fewer are paying but they are paying more.
Nope.
I long for the days of needing to actually go to the theater to buy a ticket. This whole online buying of everything is bullshit. It kills spontaneity and forces people to plan weeks ahead. Ditto with restaurants, museum tickets, and virtually everything else these days.
Why are we being essentially forced to plan our lives weeks and months in advance?
I’ll take the kids to see a movie, but any thing I want to see (which isn’t much) I’ll just wait.
I don’t really care about the middle seat, I just like sitting in the back so no one is behind me.
Wild Bill Hickock nods.
Uffda. I just can’t sit still for 2 hours to watch a movie anymore. I’m spoiled that at home I can pause it and walk around and do something else.
Besides the theater people are snobby and get all snippy when you want to help the movie with some witty commentary of your own.
Some of the stuff you see in the movies is not real, ya know.
The right play is to charge less for the shit seats, not charge more for the “good” ones (there are no good seats in a theater imo)
Marcus Theaters, run by what appears to be a real person—Greg Marcus.
To be fair, not more dishonest than most SOTU.
None can match the tempo, the angst and then quiet whisper of nothingness that Ole Joe gave us
I didn’t watch the dumb thing — but apparently he went off script for a bit… and wow… that’s a really stupid thing to say.
Old man yells at cloud. He really is an embarrassment.
^
Yes, let’s build personal animosity with the only other economic superpower-sounds like a plan.
You mean the country we’ve been in a cold war with since 1949?
Oh I agree, they’re far from being our buddies, it’s just that it should be less personal emotionalism and more rational calculation in my view.
I’ve been saying for years, 60 is the cutoff for politicians, no exceptions. If we can have a minimum we can have a maximum.
If a pol can’t steal enough before he/she is 60 then they are just too damned dumb to be telling other people what to do.
I had a buddy who was on a local school board. He said that men shouldn’t be allowed on any legislative body.
His reasoning was that at the school board meeting the night before, some large breasted, Q-approved gal with a low cut top testified to something.
Afterwards my friend confessed he had no idea what she said. That made men unfit for legislative duties according to him.
I’ve seen this in action from some lewd men. Real idiots, would have signed their souls away if the girl winked.
As usual, they project their own fallibilities onto everyone else.
If you ask the right woman they would probably admit to the same with a sufficiently good looking man. It’s a human failing to treat the good looking (or anything else with status) with some amount of deference.
Especially one who’s shoveling millions of dollars at his son.
“4 out of 5 children grow out of gender confusion, majority have mental health issues, says leading child psychiatrist from Finland”
Like I posted before, I’m sure that number is way higher.
I suspect the data is only available for the beforetimes when there wasn’t as large a surge of teacher-pressure to deviate. If not mutilated, an even higher percentage of the currently abused set could recover. Unfortunately, those who get “treated” are in for serious problems.
I’d phrase it as “society is doing its best to inculcate neurotic behavior and foster mental illness”, honestly.
Yeap.
Starts at the top. See the SOTU presentaion
Dementia affirming care.
This.
We don’t affirm schizophrenics or hypochondriacs. Why are we set on affirming gender dysphoria (which in itself is likely not relevant for even the vast majority who claim it)?
Since when is it the healthy thing to do provide emotional support for mental illness?
I don’t see how invasive and destructive elective surgery is the answer to mental health. I’ve thought the same about those kooky stories about placebo surgeries having excellent effects. It’s clearly mental. And yet we are supposed to celebrate. It’s deranged and omnipresent.
Maybe it’s still mostly online. If I never used the internet I could be unaware. I think.
placebo surgeries?
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/08/03/sham-surgery
I think someone could tell whether they have tits or not.
Depends how bad your dysphoria is.
Avoiding to JBP, some of his anorexic patients really couldn’t tell that his legs were thicker than theirs.
Anorexia causing delusions and other co-morbidities because they are starving their brains.
Lifetime of drugs, too.
In the before times, if you wanted to fuck a toaster, you’d realize that you’re a deviant and people would mock you relentlessly and you’d probably grow out of it, and maybe wince in embarrassment when you reminisce on your youth. Now if you want to fuck a toaster, you can find an online community that celebrates and encourages toaster fucking and you’ll likely never grow out of it.
If you want an appliance to love you, you must go into the closet, my son.
Number Six Disagrees.
That’s a toaster I could get behind.
Gender confusion is by definition a mental health problem, so I guess “majority” is technically correct.
Saw a promo on TV last night for the reality show “I Am Jazz” featuring the tranny kid who has monetized his mental illness so well. Noticed he’d really packed on the pounds, so did a little digging and found out that besides binge eating, he’d had to defer enrollment at Hahvuhd “due to mental health issues.”
What a shocker.
I’m assuming his parents monetized it.
“Porn star Ron Jeremy avoids trial for 30 sexual assault charges and is sent to state mental hospital”
Sad!
Rape or weird porn star sexplay gone wrong and regretted?
Eh, I wouldn’t be surprised of that milieu would make you callous to the act… But at least some allegations are 20 years old which trips my warning alarms right away.
My understanding is most of the complaints are legit.
Not cutting his white hair or beard definitely helps the dementia plea.
We still have mental hospitals? Every time I go into a city, I see people who should be in one.
Maybe he can be roommates with old Joe in the dementia ward.
100%.
“4 out of 5 children grow out of gender confusion”
Not surprising, it seems this has replaced kids changing what profession they want to be when they grow up although profession confusion was much less damaging in the long run. Also, only eighty percent growing out of it seems low but it’s high enough to refrain from allowing body parts to be chopped off willy nilly.
whaddup doh’
Next meetup in the Bearded Hobbit tour is on February 12th, 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM.
It will be at The Lazy Dog in Plano, 8401 Preston Road, Plano TX 75024.
But that’s even further away!
That’s how I feel about Gourmeltz meetups. I need a faster car.
Faster enough so you can fly away?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EvuL5jyCHOw
So I can travel the 1,500 distance to Gourmeltz in a reasonable time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOAlaACuv4
For an embarrassingly long time, I thought Tracy Chapman was a dude.
I don’t blame you.
AMC to Charge More for Good Seats in Movie Theaters – I think all non movie venues have different pricing. Good west end musical tickets in london cost a fuckton compared to the cheap seats.
I’m boycotting the west end musical theaters too.
Really different because you are getting a different vantage point, acoustics, etc. There is really no difference, except for front row seats, in the experience in a modern movie theater*.
*this doesn’t include theaters that provide premium services such as alcohol service, balcony food services, etc.
Will they charge extra for a nondisgusting section or does that even exist?
*Takes notes
$10 sanitation surcharge for clean seats – got it.
Between the spilled fake butter and the dried spooge I want no part of it.
I might pay extra to sit down inside an asshole-repellant field.
Is it possible for you to gain entry to that field?
My assholery can’t be fought.
How much more would I need to pay for an entertaining movie?
“Are you not entertained?”
No, no I am not.
Roman official: Then perhaps you should be the entertainment.
There’s probably more truth in that joke than we know.
“4 out of 5 children grow out of gender confusion, majority have mental health issues, says leading child psychiatrist from Finland”
I guess 100% is technically a majority.
Dammit!
Great minds and all that.
As well, three out of four patients also have serious mental health problems, according to the professor.
I guess she meant mental problems in addition to gender dysphoria.
Yeah, I think with more probing you’d find it was the vast majority even by that measure. Maybe not a full 100%. But the key issue to me is that it isn’t being acknowledged anymore by some that this is really a mental disorder and needs to be treated accordingly by the medical community.
Is it easier to believe that children who believe they were born in the wrong body have a mental issue or a physical issue? I really have to wonder how we will consider this issue in 20 years. But I’m optimistic we are already beyond the peak of the phenomena. What a weird thing to define our times.
I hope you’re right and the enablers, particularly those in the medical and mental health professions whose pronouncements gave this an air of legitimacy, need to pay a considerable professional and social price.
This is all a result of the trans activists successfully latching themselves to the LGB crowd.
I think there is a significant profit motive at work as well. These evil surgeons “yeeting the teats” get paid cash since the surgery is elective, rather than a partial reimbursement from a health insurance policy.
“I think there is a significant profit motive at work as well.”
There is. The manufacturer of lupron funds gender ideology in schools.
I just assumed Medicaid is paying for it. If not now, soon.
I think it varies by state.
I don’t think the problem is that T is included in LGBT. Anyone T is LGB by some definition anyway. The problem is trans activists, and most T aren’t TRA’s, and many TRA’s aren’t trans.
Really? I’ve always been confused why T is included in LGBT. LGB have to do with sexual attraction, while T has to do with personal identity, regardless of sexual attraction.
T is included and even encouraged by the LGB organizations to keep the grift going. Now that they have marriage, healthcare, AIDS preventative drugs, and general social acceptance, the money is at risk of drying up. The T provides a never-ending source of funding and an outlet for activism.
Then they are really good at planning because it’s been LGBT for a very long time.
A large part of was T finding acceptance in gay spaces. Remember, T used to be very rare, and it wasn’t this big issue.
Although if you want to break it down, a MTF having sex with a man is G based on sex (hence the term HTS), and MTF having sex with a woman is L based on gender.
Especially when you start blurring the difference between transgender, transsexual and transvestite.
I think the proper term was “trans*” for about a month back when tumblr was a thing.
‘it’s not a choice so we must accept them’
It’s the same play book, but applied in a situation where it goes against reality itself.
So much for born this way.
You were born a superstar?
On the other hand, if they insist that people are being born the wrong gender, we could always reply – was that as common before as it is now? I suspect they would say “no”, in which case we can accuse them of supporting Alex Jones on gay frogs.
I’ve brought this up, it just means people have had to repress their true selves. There is nothing that can’t be rationalized away.
Based on COVID, that won’t happen. The most likely good outcome is they just quietly go away.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Adorbs. Brings back memories of the youngest Patzer, who had 8 years of dance lessons starting at age 4, and for most of those years was the only boy on that school. Dumbass quit just when it started to get interesting.
Her attempts to hide her embarrassment were overcome by her happiness. Good show, Jimbo. Every parent (hopefully) has had those moments of pride. Like a Little Leaguer rounding third and picking out his/her Dad’s voice.
Any day now the Washington Post will have a big photo on the front page of protestors holding signs saying “Foochy lied- people died!”
The day the narrative changes, the entire past narrative will be memory-holed. They will never acknowledge what they said before – never.
“We have always been at war with East Asia”.
Sigh.
+1 the science was new/evolving/fluid
“Madonna shares raunchy kiss with rapper and songwriter Jozzy as she posts photos from her wild backstage antics at the Grammys”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11726465/Madonna-shares-raunchy-kiss-rapper-songwriter-Jozzy.html
Yuck!
All I know is she needs to sue her plastic surgeon.
That picture going around… it was days before I knew it was her, and only because I read a story about it.
Why can’t we have normal pop stars anymore?
Listen you, you’ll get your portly, middle aged, gender confused, Satan worshipping pop stars and you’ll like ‘em.
That guy’s not even middle-aged; I think he’s like 30.
Like this guy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSx91WBQLpg
Did we ever?
These people make me wish for the days of Debbie Gibson.
Michael Jackson, even if all of the accusations are true, was normal in comparison to the current crop of lunatics.
They make Justin Bieber look well adjusted.
Maybe, just maybe… don’t expect entertainers to be role models?
Used to be somewhat shameful professions, maybe there was a reason behind that.
Not role models, but how about just not batshit crazy. Did the crooners and the ratpack do anything like this?
You mean the groups who had ties to organized crime, accusations of womanizing, and the like?
Not that specifically, but most usually had some shady side to them. At least with the music I like, I don’t think anyone in the world is going to look up to Fat Mike as a role model.
Actually… some vague memories and a little searching, says the answer is YES!
Why Sammy Davis Jr. Joined the Church of Satan — and Why He Left It
Madonna’s video showed Jozzy, who identifies as queer, tongue kissing the superstar as they partied after the ceremony.
Was he queer before kissing Madonna?
“Among the 10 people who will decide whether to pay members of Boston’s black community are two high schoolers and one college student.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11725245/Boston-mayor-unveils-reparations-task-force-members-including-TWO-11th-graders.html
This shit is ridiculous.
“All of it” seems like an easy answer.
Just fork over your wallet and STFU white boy.
What I see is a lot of black people deciding how much whitey should pay them.
I think I’ve got better odds from a back-alley mugging in the ghetto.
How many memorials can you find in MA to the thousands of white men who died in the civil war? They and their families didn’t give enough?
You mean the hundreds of thousands of white men who died during the civil war. That as well as decades of affirmative action are “reparations” enough. Not that people who never owned slaves ever owed anything to people who never were slaves anyway.
How about those enslaved by north Africans (primarily Muslims) in the Mediterranean?
There was a statue in Congress Park commemorating the (union) volunteer regiment raised from this area.
It was torn down and destroyed back when destroying civil war statues was the hip and cool thing to be doing.
The local BLM leader says there’s no proof that his group did it.
Reparations is a grotesque concept, however at this point I’d almost be ok with it if it came with a binding agreement that all other forms of affirmative action, reverse discrimination and claims of “systemic racism” were immediately and forever invalidated. But we all know that’s not what will happen.
On the reservations with casinos around here, the payouts to kids under 18 are put into trust. Why? Because past experience has shown that if you gave it to the parents, they’d spend that too and when the kids turned 18, there would be no money for them. Sure they could then start receiving it directly, but that is 18 years of payments that their parents had simply squandered. (18 years can be more than a couple million for some of the tribes).
Why do I think that reparations payments would end up the same. A family of 4 gets their $2 million in reparations, but when the kids turn 18 there is nothing left for them?
It would be a very interesting real world economics study though. How soon would it before before all the wealth in the country was pretty much back in the same hands?
…before all the wealth in the country was pretty much back in the same hands?
There is no excape from white tricknology!
I wouldn’t. Agreeing to it concedes the point. After that, you’re just haggling over the price.
…and it wouldn’t end at that.
You can’t negotiate with someone who has no intention of following the agreement. They’d think up something else. Also, since there was nothing illegal in their actions at the time, certainly immoral, I don’t really believe in ex post facto laws. Opening Pandora’s box there.
Affirmative action was supposed to be a limited makeup effort. It’s become an entrenched forever policy (unless scotus finally rules against the unconstitutional and racist program).
+1 Reagan quip about the permanency of a temporary govt program
Zombie Gen Hershey defeated Candidate Ronnie’s promises.
The Republicans never, ever delivered on Reagan’s promises – they just keep recycling them.
Reparations is a grotesque concept
And we stop here. There is no legit reason for current Americans to pay other current Americans for the sins of dead Americans because of a practice that was the rule, not the exception, throughout all of human history, in all cultures, in all places on the planet.
Ass Wednesday is here to remind you that the heart symbol has nothing to do with pumping blood.
https://archive.ph/1imhe
Solid group
“Systemic immunity through intramuscular injection has never worked for respiratory viruses”
NO. SHIT. Kind of what virologists were saying two years ago until they were deplatformed, censored and/or browbeaten into towing the party lion eh?
Look man, nobody knew what immunoglobin A was until last month. THE SCIENCE IS EVOLVING.
This seems like a limited hangout because an incapability of developing immunity is the least of the problems with those damn shots.
What about flu, whooping cough, measles, etc.
Flu vaccine is ineffective by all counts. Whooping cough is bacterial, measles virus is quite stable and doesn’t mutate (or its mutation rate is beyond natural human lifespan)
“Flu vaccine is ineffective by all counts.”
I don’t think that’s true.
“measles virus is quite stable and doesn’t mutate”
Still, it’s spread in the air, mostly by coughing and sneezing.
The flu vaccine is just a big grift.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccine-failures-part-3-influenza-vaccination/
And the more you get it, the less it works.
My group of high school friends, who are all blue now were against the flu vaccine because of how ineffective it was/is. They love the covid vaccines though.
The COVID vaccine was a Rorschach test. Most people saw what they wanted to see.
“..recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60%” That isn’t effective and at best, a guess that it may reduce just the risk of the illness, not prevent.
You missed the point about why measles is different than say, influenza or coronaviruses in terms of vaccines
“intramuscular injection has never worked for respiratory viruses”
You could have just said you didn’t bother to read the paper
“Viruses that replicate in the human respiratory mucosa without infecting systemically, including influenza A, SARS-CoV-2, endemic coronaviruses, RSV, and many other “common cold” viruses…”
And on measles
“More than 50 years ago, the development of successful vaccines against some of the most important respiratory viruses, including measles, mumps, and rubella, led to the hope that vaccines could soon be developed for all other respiratory viruses. However, natural infections with these three vaccine-controlled respiratory viruses, as well as smallpox and varicella zoster virus (VZV), are not representative of infections caused by most respiratory viruses. They differ in at least three critically important ways that are related to their successful control with vaccines (Table 1):
(1) after first replicating mucosally, these systemic respiratory viruses all cause significant viremia that seeds an enormous number of infectious virions throughout the body, putting them in contact with multiple immune compartments and immune competent cell types,
(2) they have relatively long incubation periods that reflect initial mucosal replication and the subsequent systemic spread of infectious virions, which allows time for the induction of the full force of adaptive immunity, and
(3) they elicit long-term or lifetime protective immunity (Table 1).”
So “intramuscular injection has never worked for respiratory viruses” is a false statement.
There is a difference between viruses that spread via respiratory access and those that attack the respiratory system.
To add to OBE’s point, the quoted percentages are always “relative effectiveness” which means, if you understand how that game is played, that any quoted effectiveness below 50.00001% means the people taking the product are worse off than if they had not taken the product. Any percentage below 99% is miniscule effectiveness. Which is why N95 masks are pointless (what do you think the 95 means).
So the “40 to 60%” reduction is an admission that the flu shot is total guesswork – even if they guessed the strain correctly the usefulness of the shot is still not known.
You know what vaccines are for? They’re for sale.
The paper linked includes flu.
“Porn star Ron Jeremy avoids trial for 30 sexual assault charges and is sent to state mental hospital”
You could say he pulled out just in time.
That would be a first for him.
It’s hard, man.
If he had a nickel for every money shot…
NPR, calling ’em like it sees ’em
President Biden delivered a State of the Union address Tuesday night that Democrats will likely be thrilled with.
He struck notes of his traditional unity message, pledging to work with the new Republican House leadership and touting his legislative accomplishments in the past year, but Biden also laid out an Average Joe America vision for 2024 full of poll-tested, middle-of-the-road issues, as well as a healthy dose of left-wing populism.
And he showed a clear contrast between himself and right-wing House Republicans, who couldn’t help themselves, hectoring Biden repeatedly despite newly minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy explicitly instructing them beforehand not to do so.
It’s hard to be both confrontational and paint yourself as reasonable, but for many in the middle and center-left, Biden likely walked that line well.
That ass tastes just like strawberry ice cream!
So now he’s going to work with the people trying to tear down our democracy? The fascists and the Putin-lovers?
Make up your fucking mind.
Now now, they’re only semi-fascist.
Republican house leadership.
You know, the
swamprespectable republicans.Middle of the road and poll tested sends a thrill up my leg. He’s got my vote!
his traditional unity message
Nothing says “unity” like disparaging the half of the population that disagrees with you.
pledging to work with the new Republican House leadership
Lol…sure.
laid out an Average Joe America vision for 202
While seeking to eliminate everything that makes and average Joe an average Joe.
explicitly instructing them beforehand not to do so.
McCarthy can fuck off.
“It’s hard to be both confrontational and paint yourself as reasonable, ”
Really? Maybe if you get in a heated situation, but not in a speech you have weeks to prepare for.
A Balloon Pops D.C.’s Myth Bubble
Country Club Republican Holman W. Jenkins, Jr at the WSJ is not happy with FedGov. (However, he is usually plugged in and good for info on Team Red.)
They were pushing the UFO stuff pretty hard weren’t they? Most everyone with two brain cells to rub together at least suspected it was some kind of snowjob though, just most thought it was to distract from Covid.
Are you listening , Tucker?
“Four down, 1,396 to go… NYPD cracks down on illegal weed stores: Four unlicensed smoke shops are shut down in sting after officers witnessed them selling cannabis to underage people
Since cannabis legalization in 2021, the state has issued 66 licenses. Only two shops have opened, but the rate of openings is expected to accelerate in the coming months. There are thought to be 1,400 illegal stores in the Big Apple.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11724961/NYPD-cracks-illegal-weed-stores-Four-unlicensed-smoke-shops-shut-sting.html
I agree they shouldn’t be selling to underage. Someone is on the take if cops can’t find 1,396 stores with huge ass neon signs. Still, I think that’s better than states with legal stores that track all of your personal information.
Yeah. That’s bullshit. You don’t keep my personal information when I buy liquor. Fuck off.
How else are they going to deny you medical care and your 2nd amendment rights in the future without that though?
Zelenskyyyyy’s shakedown moves across the pond.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/21312186/zelensky-to-visit-uk-today/
I’ve got an itty-bitty bit of sympathy for him. The West leaned incredibly hard on him to sacrifice his country and people for NATO’s goals.
But he still deserves to get taken out by his own people.
Boris Johnson on the other hand should be gift wrapped and dropped on the Kremlin’s doorstep.
Yeah, that’s sort of my take, as well. I can almost see his reasoning. He worked out a peace deal with the Russians and then is told to scrap it. At that point, I’d probably be demanding they give me every bit of equipment and support I asked for, as well.
I bet Zelensky would trade positions with Chairman Xi.
More blackmail evidence on Biden and way bigger grift margins.
wings for freedom
All the while kidnapping people to be cannon fodder in the front lines of a losing war.
“To watch another woman performing, a woman he has been unfaithful with, while having sex with you on your birthday is raising several red flags.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21298384/boyfriend-cheating-porn-idol/
Deidre is an absolute genius! I don’t know how she recognizes these issues that are so subtle and well-hidden. She’s a modern-day Sherlock!
Shocking…
China Refused U.S. Call After Downing of Suspected Spy Balloon, Pentagon Says
https://twitter.com/jimfannonlives/status/1623030514549510145?s=67&t=Aw9sEdv1gMSPRSWiTSurwA
Would love to hear from wamyn and what they think of this.
Eh, that seems like weak sauce.
MOAR WAR!
Look, it’s Madcow War Mongerer!
Full of shit and a warmonger. Your Left, everyone.
I’m an uninformed and paid propagandist, but LISTEN TO ME ON THIS ISSUE.
Anyone remember the peace loving left?
I’ve become convinced it was always a myth. We just weren’t fighting the people they wanted to.
Well, it took us a while to realize we hate Russia because they are no longer commies.
Stopping the meat grinder of Ukrainian men never gets mentioned.
Well, at least she prefaced that ignorant release of hot air with “I don’t know what I’m talking about on this issue”.
All of a sudden, Canadians learned to embrace war.
It’s a shitshow this Ukraine nonsense.
Klaus is de new fuhrer, seig heil!
Funny thing is that Canadians probably would not even defend their own country with the fervor that they seem to have with supporting Ukraine.
Here’s a rifle and a plane ticket you bitch, now get to it.
Walter Russell Mead on Wilsonianism and the dying world liberal order.
The irony seems to escape him that NATO shouldn’t exist per the Wilsonian vision – the UN was the venue to solve international conflict. Absent NATO, would Russia have been as hostile to Ukraine?
Depends on whether the Ukes were still slaughtering ethnic Russians in their territory.
Ugh with a pic of Kerry. *spits*
Don’t get me started on the climate fraud.
Click for details on how he and his friends are NOT helping Somalia.
You know, for how much we’ve fucked with Somalia, Omar ain’t much payback.
Rachel Maddow: People Pushing Peace Talks in Ukraine Don’t Get It. Russia Needs to Lose
Speaking of people that don’t “get it”. . . Russia will not lose against Ukraine, no matter how many weapons NATO pumps into the country.
This is the first time many of them have heard the contents of the constitution.
Did you see anyone in the chamber? Nothing but C-SPAN theater.
It is likely the first time for McCarthy as well.
The Constitution as written has guaranteed the government we have today.
as written
Not as followed or enforced.
It’s all the same to me, really
-Lysander Spooner
You can write down a perfect plan for govt – but as soon as humans are involved they will fuck it up beyond all recognition.
bake the cake“Lauren Southern”
Oh, ain’t she that Canadian terrorist Nazi?
I believe she identifies as an attack helicopter.
She’s legally a man in Canada? Or did I make that up…
She is, or at least was.
Fortunately she’s not Kevin Bacon.
Anyone remember the peace loving left?
Coming of age during 9/11 and seeing the crowds of people sitting cross-legged in front of the Florida capitol building every Friday with signs saying “honk for peace”, then watching them dwindle away once Obama was elected, to my left-leaning acquaintances becoming frothing warmongers who want to nuke Putin for issuing bounties on American troops has been a trip.
Like free speech, their position was situational not principled.
Funny. I sort of went the opposite way. I quietly (or not so quietly) supported the Ir
(to continue)
I supported the Iraq War. And moved steadily in opposition to our global adventurism afterwards. I’d say my position is more sane. I saw the clusterf**k the policy had created and realized it didn’t do any good as a policy. What I can’t understand is the reverse. How do you go from opposing militarism, seeing it prove a disaster in consequence to supporting it? Is it, “Hey the Republicans had their chance to engage in pointless mass murder. Now, it’s out turn!”?
How do you go from bombing poor sheep farmers to antagonizing a nuclear power? This escalated rather rapidly.
OUR TEAM IS IN CHARGE!!!
To some extent, I think the propaganda got better and better. People forget how hard the conservative news media leaned on Iraq.
I distinctly recall arguing with jingoistic asshats over the demonization of the anti-war crowd. Hannity in particular, is a piece of shit who should have been shipped off to a Shia controlled ghetto.
But DC started to figure out what worked and what didn’t. By the time Obama was in office, the new, improved propaganda machine was well oiled and fully functional. Barry dropped the restrictions on domestic propaganda and then Trump happened and the Left completely wigged out.
Well, the GOP are still ass deep in this. Lindsey, Manchin, and all of the war mongers should join Madcow on the front lines in Ukraine.
Don’t ask me.
I was relatively indifferent to Gulf War 1, given my age at the time it seems normal. I was focused on other things.
Gulf War 2 I was mildly opposed to but not vehemently so. That was a mistake on my part.
Ever since then, I’ve become increasingly opposed to any military action and see the machine for what it is, a giant sausage grinder that turns humans into money and power for DC.
GW1 was a coalition to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. We should have withdrawn our forces after victory. GW2 was nation building garbage.
Purple good. Green bad.
Somewhat related…
If my guessing game is accurate, for the useful idiot class this is all about punishing Putin for electing Trump.
For pols, there is some of that, plus they want to keep the money laundering operation going in Ukraine.
Ir…anian Revolutionary Guards?
Haha.
I accidentally posted while typing “Iraq War”. But, in retrospect, given how things turned out there, you’re not all wrong.
Darn it.
When I brought that point up, some lefties said “well Obama is surging troops into Afghanistan, and that’s the ‘just’ war, not that bad one that Bush and Cheney started”.
I suspect that if leftwingers could see the consequences of the wars they would be disgusted. These are people who have a tendency to be concerned with the plight of chickens and farms. They are just able to keep what’s out of sight out of mind, led by the establishment media they consume.
I’ve gained respect for the old (and they are entirely geriatric) folks that have been turning out in front of the courthouse the next county over for the past twenty years. Not as many as there once were, but a couple still show up once a week.
President Dementia stumbles through another State of the Union Address
Brandon fixed everything. Now to deal with those dastardly Republican domestic terrorists.
4 out of 5 children grow out of gender confusion, majority have mental health issues, says leading child psychiatrist from Finland
So you’re saying that they need to be propagandized harder.
I remember when I was a kid, we’d call the girls ‘Tomboys’ for acting like boys. Hard to believe how sexist we were to not realize that they actually needed to take male hormones and cut their boobs off.
I went out with a tomboy in high school for a bit, caught some hell but it was a good experience and she definitely didn’t harbor a desire to be a guy.
I assume she just liked to play sports and fish/hunt and whatnot. Those things do not make a woman a man.
It’s sad seeing them getting funneled in the direction they’re led to now. It’s going to make for some incredibly bitter adults.
We’re going to get the meanest old cat ladies you ever seen. Hopefully they go on a rampage and claw out the eyes of Rachel Madcow before she helps start WW3.
It shouldn’t have to be said, but a woman with masculine traits is still a woman, and a man with feminine traits is still a man.
Fauci paper suggests feds knew COVID vaccines were doomed from the start: ‘Decidedly suboptimal’
mRNA dangers were known before it was imposed on the public. The point is to kill you.
Yesterday wasn’t it? “I expect you to die Mr. Bond”
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Sounds like that Pink Floyd feud has degenerated into “he stuffs his trousers” territory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faV_uLLOPkk
But you don’t care about the border or enforce current immigration law….
Good morning and good luck to everyone except @GOPoversight members who are using today’s hearing to amplify white nationalist conspiracy theories instead of a comprehensive solution to protect our borders and strengthen our immigration system.
I thought protecting our borders was white nationalism?
How about just enforce the goddam laws, assholes?
Hope all of you avoided Biden last night, or at least didn’t overdo it if you made it a drinking game. I spent my time officiating a roller derby scrimmage. Mrs. TOK is back on the track after a two year retirement, and that means TOK is back helping out. It was pretty nice being the only male in a room with 40 or more skaters.
Hah!
That sounds like fun. We didn’t watch a second of that bullshit. Life is too short.
This is an older link, but it’s a good highlight of just how horrifying our drug war can be.
Nurse busted for growing some shrooms
Shit like this should completely remove any doubt that our society is still a barbarian dark age nightmare and our benevolent leaders in government are actually demented sociopaths.
Fact check: true.
“Jessica accepted the plea agreement and was sentenced on October 25th to 18 months in prison, all suspended, and placed on 18 months probation, 180 days house arrest (with day for day credit for compliance reducing it to 90 days) and an approved treatment program. ”
Note at the bottom. ^
Can easily have gone the other way.
Merit is hate
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office is warning state agency and public university leaders this week that the use of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — policies that support groups who have been historically underrepresented or discriminated against — is illegal in hiring.
In a memo written Monday and obtained by The Texas Tribune, Abbott’s chief of staff Gardner Pate told agency leaders that using DEI policies violates federal and state employment laws, and hiring cannot be based on factors “other than merit.”
Pate said DEI initiatives illegally discriminate against certain demographic groups — though he did not specify which ones he was talking about.
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Diversity, equity and inclusion is a moniker used for policies developed to provide guidance in workplaces, government offices and college campuses intended to increase representation and foster an environment that emphasizes fair treatment to groups that have historically faced discrimination. DEI policies can include resources for underrepresented groups, which can include people with disabilities, LGBTQ people and veterans. In hiring, it can include setting diversity goals or setting thresholds to ensure that a certain number of diverse candidates are interviewed. At universities, DEI offices are often focused on helping students of color or nontraditional students stay in school and graduate.
The governor’s directive represents the latest effort by Republican leaders fighting back against policies and academic disciplines that Republicans nationwide have deemed “woke.” DEI, along with critical race theory, has become a target of conservatives who argue that white people are being unfairly treated or characterized in schools and workplaces.
Something something two wrongs don’t make a right.
HR is having a laughable internal diversity awards. I’m torn between thinking of it as the dundees or a list of people to avoid. That’s probably a bit unfair as some on the list are decent people being decent.
Or a Stalinist intimidation tactic against execs who are not full throated in their embrace of the current party line.
How about some WWIII, wouldn’t that be nice?
Trump is right, but no more mean tweets, gotta focus on the important stuff.
Trump would be more believable if he shitcanned Graham.
Trump’s greatest weakness has always been surrounding himself with idiots. I think that’s one of the things the led to his downfall. Well, that and rigged elections.
More rigged big tech.
Seymour Hersh is on Substack. Out of the chute with a doozy.
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
Fucking wild.
The Germans must have known this article was coming, given their announcement last week that they were “open” to the idea that somebody other than Russia did it.
Thanks for this, reading now.
It made no sense from the beginning that Russia would blow up their onw pipeline.
As if it was not obvious that we were behind it in the first place, rushing out to say it was the Russians was a dead giveaway. It was so stupid that no ration human could believe it.
Which also helped expose all of the co-conspirators. All pf the “experts” on CNN and NBC explaining how it was Russia got exposed. There never was a “well, actually it could be russia” moment.
Why would they? They could just shut it off whenever they wanted to.
Thank you!
Oh, like the end of NATO kind of nightmare? Funny that…
We can only wish. The Europeans aren’t going to dump us, we’re going to have to dump them.
One big takeaway…
Biden bragging that we could take out the Nordstream II was not planned, and the Intel and defense community was afraid that he had compromised the operation.
Also, they failed to keep congress in the loop as required. More: they intentionally changed descriptions and designations to avoid telling congress.
Just like Syria, hell just like most of government not just fed level, the permanent bureaucracy regards the nominal heads as impediments to their own wishes and ignores or bypasses them without consequence. And everyone is dismissive of the general public as sleeping needing to be given guidance and direction.
And Cruz is an asshole.
Great find, thank you. I grew up not far from that Navy dive training center, incidentally. The description is accurate.
Opposition to Nord Stream 2 flared on the eve of the Biden inauguration in January 2021, when Senate Republicans, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, repeatedly raised the political threat of cheap Russian natural gas during the confirmation hearing of Blinken as Secretary of State.
By some major coincidence, the most vocal NorStream 2 opponents in the Senate are from the states that export natural gas.
Funny, that.
Less funny when Russia starts blowing up our shit.
Then there’s this:
(The Norwegians may have had other interests as well. The destruction of Nord Stream—if the Americans could pull it off—would allow Norway to sell vastly more of its own natural gas to Europe.)
Posobiec drives me crazy sometimes, but he called the shift to NG wars back in 2020.
This seems like kind of a big deal. And if Biden knew about it, and actively hid it from congressional oversight, I’d say that’s pretty impeachable.
According to the source in the article, the Navy divers actually changed the mechanism of the sabotage to be activated upon the direct order of President Biden.
I remember a conversation with my wife when it happened.
Wife: Who do you think did it?
Me: I don’t know. Maybe us.
Wife: They’re saying the Russians did it.
Me: I doubt it.
Wife: What are the Russians saying?
Me: They’re saying “Like we would blow up our own pipeline, that’s just stupid.”
Andrew Eckhous, an Austin-based lawyer for Kaplan Law Firm, which specializes in employment and civil rights litigation, said the governor’s office is “completely mischaracterizing DEI’s role in employment decisions” in an apparent attempt to block initiatives that improve diversity.
“Anti-discrimination laws protect all Americans by ensuring that employers do not make hiring decisions based on race, religion, or gender, while DEI initiatives work in tandem with those laws to encourage companies to solicit applications from a wide range of applicants, which is legal and beneficial,” Eckhous said in an email.
“The only piece of news in this letter is that Governor Abbott is trying to stop diversity initiatives for the apparent benefit of some unnamed demographic that he refuses to disclose,” he added.
Right.
which is legal and *beneficial* – citation needed
Anti-discrimination laws protect all Americans by ensuring that employers do not make hiring decisions based on race, religion, or gender – employers should make decision on whatever criteria they see fit
Freedom of Association is dead and buried.
If you are free to choose, you might choose poorly.
Sometimes reddit is good.
ChatGPT will keep repeating itself over and over and it’s extremely easy to expose the leftist bias of it’s programmers. It’s not an AI or an intelligent anything.
LOL, fantastic.
Split personality AI – great, we can manufacture mental illness. As if the trans craze wasn’t proof of that.
Wonder which one was going in for the cheek and the other thought they were gonna get a little power play action.
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1623141167314489349
Today in youtube house video recommends
THIS IS THE ONE! Exquisitely Designed 6000 SqFt Timber Frame Dream Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqRcdxf-B4
I like this one more than the 29 mil one yesterday. Also the mountains seem to have more trees
So New Hampshire seems more tree-ey than Utah
Yes. Much more precipitation on the east coast than most of the western states so more trees.
Utah is 33% desert.
and 66% Jazz
Imported from New Orleans.
And 1% (ABV) beer
And the mountains are less mountain-y.
I have modest aims. 1/6 of that floorspace is enough for me.
not including the garage and home gym right?
Garage doesn’t count in the house’s square footage, only ‘livable’ space. Which means finished and AC.
Women’s Street Pole Vault 2022 Aosta Roberta Gherca Giulia Valletti Athletics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mDmLbf3av4
‘Aosta Roberta Gherca Giulia Valletti ‘
God bless you.
South Park on point as usual.
Disney removes Simpsons episode in Hong Kong that references Chinese labor camps
How 1.5 Tonnes Of Döner Kebab Is Made Every Day At This Legendary Kebab Shop In Turkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95YT209QZ_0
See, no ground beef.
As it turns out, nature kills other things in nature.
Like web addresses?
He created a whole new error. Impressive.
Link works for me…
I get a “linking not allowed error.”
Installing A Mega Smoke Filtration Unit In My New House! | Kirby Allison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9GIvyjgQVM
So like Creosote Achilles but probably classier and less kinky
He lives in Texas and can’t handle the weather. What a pussy.
You know who else couldn’t stand the weather?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veOPrDAGLqE
Natalie Merchant?
I think he’s right about that. And that is what makes me a misanthrope.
Mongolian farmer discovers hundreds of his sheep have been walking in a circle continuously for 12 Days.
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1622761583351853058
Nina Turner
@ninaturner
Capitalism created the poverty that we now see.
https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1622639696244244490
Pie needs to crack a history book and witness how fabulously wealthy all those peasant were before capitalism.
She’s partly right, if poverty is viewed as a relative difference in affluence, rather than on an absolute scale.
Before you get sick of OpenAI tricks, one fun one.
You & an android are in front of a judge. The judge tells each of you to say one word. They will then kill whoever they think is the AI based on that.
An MIT paper calls this the “minimum Turing test.” What do you say?
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1598516528558637056
tits.
covfefe?
‘help! this judge is crazy’
Twitter used to be the dominant social media within the mentally ill community but tiktok has surpassed us. This is an existential threat for the platform and idk what Elon is going to do to close the schizo gap.
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1622976271348305920
That really is a common profile. Underfed, weak chin, giant glasses. Mental issues.
Also that nose piercing and the sweep hair make him look like mini-Hitler. Not a good look.
“JUST IN – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly plans to bring a white balloon to Biden’s SOTU”
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1623068789058203800
LOL
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
US did nordstream. Highly plausible.
“Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.””
A strong denial like this makes me think it actually did happen.
‘The divers were Navy only, and not members of America’s Special Operations Command, whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the Senate and House leadership’
This seems questionable. Deploying our armed forces without an authorization from Congress would also be illegal..
lol come and stop me bruh
Retired Navy back as contractors?
It ain’t all Joe.
Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff share strange kiss at State of the Union
They are just exchanging long protein strings. Do you know of a simpler way?
New York off-duty cop shot during attempted robbery dies
This was not in the line of duty, but you’d never know it from the the breathless headlines or the huge police investigation.
His BIL who was with him returned fire with the cop’s piece. In the process I’m sure broke at least half a dozen NYC laws. I’m sure he will be brought up on charges the same as anybody else.
I feel terrible for the guy’s family, but the two sets of rules here sets me off.
“It has to end,” he said. “We can’t keep going to hospital emergency rooms and asking for prayers. Yes, we need prayers, but we need more. We need our legislators to sit down now, understand that they were wrong.”
I’m curious, what do they want? I found his full comments and there was no more detail.
Emhoff only kisses his wife while wearing a mask. What does that tell us?
They’re all lizard people?
It tells is they are already spending Brandon’s ill gotten money.