We don’t need you, Blue.
This was pretty funny. Probably got better balls and strikes called than they’d have gotten if Angel Hernandez was back there. Not much else going on this side of the pond but there was a lot of soccer played yesterday. Anyway, on to…the links.
I’m sure they’ll figure out a way for these people to keep getting free shit. After all: there’s nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.
Way to be on top of things, guys. Top notch work from the IAEA and everybody else involved.
The crash is coming.
Alarm bells are ringing!!! This is gonna make 2008 feel like a walk in the park. Except in Texas, Arizona, and Florida.
This is interesting. Not sure how the ATL is gonna feel about its bell cow of taxes leaving the farm for greener pastures.
She’s going about this all wrong. She needs to threaten disclosure of all the people on the list if she wants to be free. Of course, that will probably make her spirit free from her body in short order, but it’s really her only chance.
“All aboard!!!”
Discovery is gonna be wild in this case. Sometimes its better to just fade away and go find a new job than to drag yourself through the mud. But she is persisting.
This is what they’re going after her for? Damn, you’d have thought they’d get her on piss-poor job performance and the fact that her city is a hellscape. But I guess they’ll have to settle for her taking her own money under dodgy reasoning. I’m glad the judge denied the race card though. Oh, and this is why government officials shouldn’t have pensions.
“Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!” said the voters. And Beetlejuice disappeared back onto the model of the town.
Nothing more permanent than a temporary government program: Part II. The real racket is oversight, not who works the docks.
Is it a crime prevention tool or a surveillance method that targets black and brown communities? It’s Houston, so it’s most likely both? Oh, and IMO its a shitty program that should be heavily scrutinized. I know there’s no expectation of privacy in public, but this goes well beyond what’s seen or heard with the naked eye. And the courts have generally sided with privacy activists in cases like this.
Here’s a hell of a song. As were most of theirs. Case in point. Man, I could listen to them for hours and hours. And I just might as I trek home from New Orleans today. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
*yawn*
First.
Yikes.
The people who bought their homes to live in are gonna be fine. The people who bought them hoping they’d continue to appreciate at ridiculous rates for whatever reason (just like last time) are in for a tough ride. That’s especially true in cities and states people are fleeing.
Also, many of the people who bought recently for double the price than the house went for 5 years ago. I have a couple to co-workers who paid $500,000 for houses that they could have bought for $250,000 in 2017. Sure, they got a decent interest rate, but when they watch all the houses in the neighborhood go back to selling for under $300,000 and they realize they have massive negative equity, along with massive credit card debt, they will walk away.
I think it is to easy to take on debt in the US. Not in the way there ought to be a law but the lenders should feel more responsible/ less bailoutable
Of course the government forces financial institutions to lend to bad credit risks because of their “red lining” rules.
+ TARP
we spoke about the moral hazard the last time housing ran up then crashed. we learned nothing. kicked the can.
Moral hazard is for other people, I want MY bailout! /every dumbass
Well, the people who might want to relocate for their jobs or other perfectly ordinary reasons are screwed.
Trying to get my parents into a condo near us rather than their house 3 hours away. Going to be fun.
Will firecrackers set off those shotspotters?
Probably. But they’ll also set off the nearest trigger-happy cops.
Reddit anecdotes.
I wonder if anyone has asked the law-abiding residents of those “black and brown communities” for their thoughts on this issue. I didn’t see it in the article.
That might get inconvenient to the narrative.
I think if the bullet goes supersonic then it’s easily distinguishable. for subsonic I imagine it gets fuzzier.
Colt .45 works every time?
God’s own caliber
whaddup doh’
whats goody fam
I ate 52 oysters in about 90 minutes last night.
Next time let me know and you can borrow some Cialis.
Banjos is still sore?
I was flying solo in New Orleans last night. And she’s been feeling poorly the last few days with strep throat. So the answer to your question is yes, but I can’t claim credit.
Count Potato — making the jokes the rest of us are just thinking.
I dont know if you recall a restaurant named “Shuckin Shack’.
Me & Tres Sr. would sit at the raw bar with our beers and as fast as they could throw oysters at us, we’d knock em back.
Good times.
Oyster roast in Fredericksburg Saturday. Free. Donations accepted for two cancer patients.
Acme? My buddy’s name is still up on the wall there – 13 dozen.
That’s not even close to the record.
That’s more than gross.
A baker’s gross?
I’m sure they’ll figure out a way for these people to keep getting free shit.
These people came to rely on the free shit. Taking it away will hurt them. How can you be so cruel?
Yeah, fuck the people that have to pay for it.
We’ll just borrow, then nobody has to pay! /Government
This is the scheme. Send “free” money out for just long enough for people to get used to having it, then threatening the death of millions should they lose that money.
Alarm bells are ringing!!! This is gonna make 2008 feel like a walk in the park. Except in Texas, Arizona, and Florida. </em.
Rates are still low in those states?
Rates are the same there as everywhere else. But the influx of migrants from other states will keep values a lot more stable.
Probably add South Carolina to that list.
I wish I could convince the missus to move down to VA. Sell our place here and we should have the money to build – while living in the cottage already there. Then we’d be on a sub $1000 a month mortgage for retirement.
No, but population is rapidly increasing and housing supply is still relatively low. Which is why this won’t be like 2008. We never got to the point of massive overbuilding like in the leadup to the 2008 crash.
They have already experienced price declines. I am not sure how immune they are going to be to the pain.
Modest declines from the overheated high point. It’s nowhere even close to where they started just a couple of years ago. Prices were still up YOY in January. And housing starts are down already, and were already modest considering how hot the market was. Builders weren’t going to get left holding the bag like they did in 2008.
Wish it would have happened a few months ago, I could pick up a deal here if and when the government ever gets off its ass and makes a decision on my probate.
All aboard?
“Me and my homies like to play this game
Some call it Amtrak others call it the train.”
-2LiveCrew
That should have been today’s musical link.
Not sure how the ATL is gonna feel about its bell cow of taxes leaving the farm for greener pastures.
We need regional taxing authorities to allow cities to tax suburbs.
You let 6 guys run a train on you and suddenly they start looking at you like a sex object.
Look building esprit de corps is not easy
+ unit cohesion
Certainly not much friction after the second guy.
“Following her concession speech, a reporter asked her if she was treated unfairly because of her race and gender, with Lightfoot answering: ‘I’m a black woman in America. Of course.'”
Classy.
She probably believes it.
The 4th estate, always asking the tough questions.
Funny how Winsome Sears doesn’t get any media coverage, but perennial failures like Lightfoot and Abrams get it constantly.
not really black
She’s pretty doggone black.
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Xn_u62nr9Ao-jbXKDj7PGwHaJ3
If she ain’t a Democrat, then she ain’t black, according to the left.
her hurr be fried, dyed, and laid to the side
If you aren’t dumb and/or ugly, AND a Democrat, you ain’t black.
In this case, I would expect the dB threshold of the sensors is probably around the same range as human hearing, in which case I could easily see it being upheld. Thermal scans, for example, have been ruled a search for 4th amendment purposes, and therefore require a warrant, but four-legged probably cause detectors are still a thing despite performing worse than a coin flip in every objective test where the dog’s handler isn’t leading it.
‘, but four-legged probably cause detectors ‘
Just one more reason to hate dogs. *Runs away*
[smacks lack with a stick as he runs]
Don’t blame the dog for the stupid humans.
#IStandWithLack #NoDogs
*ATF nodding sagely*
Iran can make enough material for nuclear device in ‘about 12 days,’ US official says
A Pentagon official said Iran’s ‘breakout’ was down from 12 months in 2018.
So we go to war in about a week.
Ukraine is going so swimmingly that we’re going to replicate that success in Iran.
Some clarification on that.
They found particles enriched to 84%, no stockpiles past 60%.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/28/iaea-iran-report-inspectors-find-some-83-7-enriched-uranium-particles/
So either it’s a byproduct of enrichment that you would have a minor amount of more highly enriched material or they’re squirreling it away somewhere else that nobody knows about. And Burns put out a statement last week that they’re not pursuing a weapon.
This to me sounds like a propaganda buildup to war or yet another distraction from the disaster in Ukraine.
I would guess that if they were really close to developing a nuke then the Israelis would probably blow up their shit. If past performance is any indicator anyway.
They’ve been doing this for 20 years. What a load of shit.
Horton interviewed a guy who was at the Munich security conference. Two normal attendees weren’t invited. Iran and Russia.
No surprises there. After all, Munich is where Z-Bot announced that Ukraine should get nukes again and put the final nail in his own coffin.
Every household in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as food stamps are formally known, will see their monthly benefits shrink by at least $95. Some larger families could experience monthly reductions of $250 or more, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
And things cost way more thanks to Bidenflation. Democrats love poor people, which is why they intend to create more of them.
The averaging is probably doing a lot of work there, though. A lot of the people who qualified under the COVID bonanza were above the normal qualification threshold and will lose all of their benefit, which may be as little as $30, $40, $50 a month. If 3 of those people exist for every recipient who was poor enough to qualify before the COVID bonanza, the averaging is going to make the result look much more severe.
The waived qualification verification because EMERGENCY. Normally qualifications are verified annually but like PPP they wanted helicopter money any way they could get it. Now they complain that people who don’t qualify for the benefits would be harmed by taking them away.
See USA v CSA 1865.
Take that one up with St. Lincoln.
Can’t the NJ commissioner just never show up for a meeting, denying them a quorum?
Lol, good point.
I assume they gotta keep paying however.
I say New York should go to war with New jersey and Vermont can use the opportunity to secede.
If Vermont New Hampshire and Maine would form a country would it be economically viable? Should they also take North part of New York? If such a country would peacefully form in the next 5 years would any glib want to immigrate to it?
Maple syrup and lobsters are not enough to build an economy from. They’ll need to do better than that.
But what if you put the two together?
maple lobster rolls?
sounds gross. I would think a bit of butter would be enough.
don’t they produce some sort of berries? Also there is that one goose farm in Vermont, that should count for something.
Maine is the only major producer of wild blueberries, but they bring in domesticated bees to do it, so it’s one of few example of commercial food horticulture.
No, NH is too dependent on people commuting across the border into MA for work.
I’m aiming for a mid-Atlantic Republic with VA, WV, TN, KY, NC and maybe OH. Something along those lines. Of course, NoVa would have to be ejected from VA.
Not sure how the ATL is gonna feel about its bell cow of taxes leaving the farm for greener pastures.
If history is to be a judge, the only response is a full scale invasion and waging of total war on the suburban
subjectscitizens of Atlanta.“As God is my witness”
I find it amusing they refer to to Buckhead as a suburb when it’s well inside the perimeter. To us OTP rubes, everything ITP is Atlanta.
When was the perimeter built? Dallas is working on its third “perimeter” now. Stuff that was semi-rural 15 years ago is now thoroughly metro-fied.
Per Wikipedia, the intial 4 lanes were completed in 1969.
Arizona got hammered in the Big Dump of ‘08. Not sure how it will fare this time. The only reason we could afford our house in Tucson is prices were still very depressed 5 years later. The people we bought it from probably lost at least $300K on it.
On our modest townhouse, the previous owners took a $50k+ hit when we bought it (2012). They only had it for ~6 years.
I took a $30k hit in 2012, but my house needed about $25k of restoration and upgrades so I didn’t care.
I linked yesterday an article about a paper linking erythritol to heart attack. This twitter thread has doubts.
https://twitter.com/Dr__Guess/status/1630548171666456578
Firstly, a key pillar of this paper is that there is a strong association between circulating erythritol and major adverse cardiovascular events . But erythritol is produced in the body via the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), a process which might be upregulated by oxidative stress. In fact, AFAIK serum erythritol is somewhat recognised as an early, general marker of cardiometabolic dysfunction.
But don’t worry! – the investigators did an actual trial in humans to test their hypothesis that postprandial erythritol concentrations following ingestion increase platelet aggregation in the blood.
This the registration:
⚠️No randomisation.
⚠️6 primary outcomes.
⚠️Registration says n=40, but only n=8 in paper
This is a bunch of association data (a good chance it’s reverse-causation??) repeated a few times, then an “interventional trial”, which doesn’t even attempt to answer the all important hypothesis…….because that trial (it’s n=40 folks, not n=4,000) is “ongoing”.
So now you have both sides. make of it what you will
My first thought when that headline crossed my newsfeed is that fat people are more likely to be eating diet junk food and trendy fad diet weight loss products artificially sweetened with erythritol, and also at much higher risk of having heart attacks and CAD.
Speaking of no expectation of privacy in public…
“Vanessa Bryant settles with LA County for $28,850,000 over misuse of photos from helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe and their daughter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11805637/Vanessa-Bryant-settles-LA-County-misuse-photos-helicopter-crash.html
By held accountable, you mean the taxpayers, right?
She’s screwing the taxpayers for $28MILLION, what a brave hero.
It should be clear by now that these settlements don’t change how the government or voters act.
Exactly. Let’s punish people who have no control over this behavior.
Because she actually suffered $28MILLION worth of harm.
She was prevented from selling them herself.
LA County just paid Kobe Bryant’s widow $29m for emotional harm.
I’m what way wouldn’t the pictures have been public record anyway?
36 killed, 85 injured in Greece train crash
Choo choos are having a bad couple of weeks here.
I blame the Trump deregulation!
“‘I had a nurse named Pearl Nelson. She’d come in and do things I don’t think you learn in nursing school,’ he said to laughs. ‘She’d whisper in my ear, I couldn’t understand, but she’d whisper and she’d lean down. And actually breathe on me to make sure there was a connection, a human connection.’
Nelson, Biden said, even went home and grabbed a pillow off her bed because the then-U.S. senator found the one assigned to him not very comfortable.
He said to the medical professionals in the crowd, ‘You docs are good, but if there’s any angels in heaven, they’re the nurses, male and female.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11804573/Biden-claims-nurse-whisper-ear-BREATHE-him.html
How long before he starts articulating his candy-striper fantasies?
What about trans and non-binary nurses, you fucking bigot?
Hawt
I never thought this would happen to me…
“If he dies he dies”
https://twitter.com/EDayWorkoutMan/status/1630564123837714434
Spot me.
I see you.
Witness me more like
Nice.
Terrible form, though. Ego lifting never pays.
How’d he even get to (almost) benching 315 with that terrible form and technique? Not locking in before pulling the bar, no arch, no leg drive, arms all wonky, granny shifting, not double clutching like he should. He’s lucky he was able to sort of roll of shame away
A kid at the gym got mad at me because I told him that if he needed a lift off he was at the wrong weight.
I was right. He didn’t get a single rep.
From the sidebar of the Kobe Bryant photos article:
Mormon mom-turned-OnlyFans model lifts the lid on the religion’s most RACY secrets
Mojeaux to the white courtesy phone…
Also, crazy eyes and not that hot. Who the fuck is paying these run of the mill women tens of thousand of dollars a month for porn they could get for free?
Not pretty and pushing 40? After reading dozens and dozens of stories of women making a fortune on OnlyFans, I think OF is pushing these stories and exaggerating how much they make to get more women to join their site.
I saw something yesterday about the top 10% making about $1k a month. That’s a good side hustle, but not close to a full time career. There are definitely a small number making bank, but I’m sure you’re right, it’s got to be a small number.
Q found me yesterday with this. I will run over to that thread and copy/paste the drugs that fell out.
Q said:
Also, her crazy eyes are because of a filter.
Other Mormons. Keep it in the group.
Eh, milfy enough and playing up the former Mormon angle.
I don’t get paying anyone for OF content, so I don’t find her success any more confusing than someone else.
You know you want it.
https://rasmus.com/auctions/ZTja9AuxCGNbY3i0SUXb/a/Ararity-1996-Cadillac-El-Dorado-2D-Coupe-Car-
A 25% BP on a vehicle? Jesus, how greedy can you get?
The premiums on small auctions are going through the roof.
I still keep mine at 10% for everything $2500 and down and 5% on everything above that.
At some point, your sellers go elsewhere because you’re killing the hammer price when the buyers factor that high BP into their bottom line number.
“Needs work”
“25% buyer’s premium”
A single, small grainy photo.
Hard. Pass.
There’s always this.
https://rasmus.com/auctions/S9oyE8n3W9a6TU1Ym2GL/a/Ararity-2000-Harley-Davidson-Motorcycle
“I slept with my cousin after years of sexual tension and now I don’t know what to do – I’m so confused but I need him in my life”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11802897/I-slept-cousin-dont-know-do.html
Move to Mississippi?
Or the Middle East.
They’re already in the UK, should be fine.
Barricaded Siblings Turn to TikTok While Defying Court Order to Return to Father They Say Abused Them
A judge concluded the children were victims of “parental alienation,” which continues to influence family courts despite being rejected by mainstream scientific groups, and authorized police to use “reasonable force” to remove them from their mother.
https://www.propublica.org/article/parental-alienation-utah-livestream-siblings
Where is Janet Reno?
“A judge concluded the children were victims of “parental alienation,” which continues to influence family courts despite being rejected by mainstream scientific groups”
Well if mainstream scientific groups think it’s bull, then I guess we have no choice but to agree. /S
So…..
yall may know how i have said the AF plans to go to war with china in …….23 months?
Now the FBI & DOE are saying Covid was from the Wuhan lab. (I don’t think they have said deliberate release yet)
A conspiracy theorist would say things are moving on schedule.
That thought crossed my mind as well.
Which actually quite surprises me, given Biden is balls deep in Chinese business.
Eeeewwww.
Is Biden even in control anymore?
That question and Pat’s are often on my mind when seeing the news.
Who ever said the president is in control of anything? What did the 4 years before this administration show us?
AF?
You know, the Army Air Corp.
LOL
The Air Force plans to go to war with China?
Some Navy Admiral said it, and nobody corrected him.
Like all our recent wars, no objective or victory conditions named. And it would probably be a simultaneous war with both China and Russia for whatever reason the neo-cons invent.
Everyone wants to relive WWII.
4 star from Aircraft mobility command said it.
3 star is using this as a reason for coming back to work
employee of quarter got an award for work related to a project in prep for it.
bizzare
On the one hand, we are telling China what they cannot sell to Russia – in a bullying not diplomatic way. On the other hand, we are openly talking about a war with them in a year or two.
They must think us insane and wonder why they even talk to us. Not surprising they are becoming closer to Russia. Preventing such an alliance should be our State Department’s highest priority, but they seem to be facilitating it instead.
It seems it’s more about boxing in our domestic political situation so that it’s unavoidable.
As dumb as the EU actually is – the reason for it makes sense: stop relying on the U.S.
I don’t think that’s the reason behind creating a continental suicide pact.
They’re telling us we our elected officials can’t go to Taiwan. That’s no less insane.
every american president, but they’re all cool and they all sport a mullet
https://twitter.com/hamcarless/status/1630765933768724483
Herbert Hoover looks like the Undertaker
is that a bad thing?
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The Guardian
@guardian
The English countryside still feels like a white middle-class club. We can – and will – change this | Dan Guthrie
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1630676945946963968
that’s a threat
We’re one financial crisis away from race wars. That’s gonna be loads of fun. Not.
Land redistribution always ends well.
Imagine going to Zimbabwe and being all “this is too black, we can -and will- change this”
Well, given the history we don’t have to imagine too hard. 😛
Maxwell can’t threaten to name names, BTW. At her trial, the judge sealed all that to “protect the victims”. Even the ones who have gone public and even sued. Now, I for one am struggling with her conviction for sex trafficking when nobody was trafficked to nobody, as far as anyone in court knows.
She’s already incarcerated effectively for life. What’s the court gonna do, hold her in contempt and put a second set of bars around her cell?
I dunno, the guards could fall asleep and the cameras could malfunction and then who knows what might happen?
Funny how these suicides always seem to coincide with camera outages and sleeping guards.
I think there ought to be two simple rules:
1. If you’re a guard and a prisoner “commits suicide” while you’re sleeping, you’re fired. No questions, sorry.
2. If you’re responsible for the camera systems and a prisoner “commits suicide” during a camera outage of any extent/duration, you’re fired. No questions, sorry.
Wasn’t Mosby the one that had the City Schools buy her self-published children’s book in large quantities too? Or was that another hyper-corrupt Maryland official?
You’re thinking of the mayor.
Catherine Pugh
Former Baltimore Mayor Pleads Guilty In Children’s Book Scandal
It wasn’t just using her office to direct purchases of her book. She took the money but didn’t deliver the books.
She was replicating what the national pols do on a smaller scale. Nobody buys the innumerable ghost-written memoirs. It’s just a way to get money back to the pols while making it look legitimate.
In one way it admirable. She didn’t waste resources printing books that would be discarded.
Today in NSFW youtube recommends
POLESQUE PARTY. DARK CABARET | Demonita Valerisss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XeJ3ciIppk
And a more Tres friendly version NSFW though she may be a tad anorexic for Tres…
POLESQUE PARTY. DARK CABARET | Kitty Serenity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_wuODk0qN0
No FUPA unless that corset is holding it in like antique SPANX.
Still would…love me some redhead
The government hates its citizens.
Beatrice, who is a whistleblower with concerns for how the American homeless population is being treated, told Veritas journalists that Chicago has prioritized illegals over citizens. She also alleges that the city’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, may be partially to blame.
“The mayor has not signed the bill for Americans to be permanently placed,” Beatrice said.
“They are prioritizing immigrants over Americans,” she said.
Most of the homeless on the street are there by choice. Does this person think cities haven’t already thrown billions of dollars at the issue in vain attempts to get them off the street?
“Well, I don’t want to see them, it offends my sensibilities, therefore the govt just hasn’t done enough” /typical American dumbshit
There are some people you can help, who want help. That population can be handled and lives redirected. The rest are a waste of money which goes to providing housing and drug money for reprobates that drive property crime up. Some how a dividing line needs to be made so that latter funnels to jail, not hotels.
RJ is right. The most common period of homelessness is one night, with the second two nights. In other words, people see just how shitty it is and do something to get out of the situation; call friends and family, whatever. Those people can be helped pretty easily with a triage system. Set up a couple big circus tents, cots, separate the women and children from the men, and have a police patrol to make people feel safe. The rest are the people who have burned through any bit of support, usually through mental issues and drug problems, and they are best served by prisons and health facilities.
What you don’t need are: free hotels, cash payments, relaxing the laws, and anything else that makes for criminality. And the idea of building apartments (make sure they have a desk to write their new resume’s!) is so fucking stupid as to be unbelievable.
From your lips to Mahonia Hall.
(As if that would do any good)
prisons and health facilities
Fascist! You vill be improved, resistance is futile.
Just let them die as nature, God and their own self-destructiveness intends.
The U.S. already has too many people in jails and prisons. More than any other country.
You wouldn’t know it by looking at the revolving door of violent criminals being let free every day.
It’s almost like we’re not the same as other countries.
Too many? And yet we look at NYC, LA, Seattle…
No, we may have the wrong people in prison, but not too many.
Good morning, Sloop!
Minneapolis has used the ShotSpotter for many years. It’s accomplished nothing.
Alarm bells are ringing!!! This is gonna make 2008 feel like a walk in the park. Except in Texas, Arizona, and Florida.
It’s still jumping here, too. Prices are allegedly dropping, but I haven’t seen it yet.
I love the Clash. This was in the sidebar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IkZVGqER-8
Strummer gives a lesson on dealing with the press.
I don’t understand most homebuyers.
I see the money I sunk into that mortgage as insuring a place to live, rather than some form of investment. Was the shelter worth the money? In my case, yes, since I’ve paid off the loan and only have to deal with the extortion payments. The city now claims the house is worth $27k more than I bought it for. This is bullshit, but they set their extortion rates and I don’t have enough fellows to revolt with me.
When we had our property re-evaluated in 2021, it was evaluated for $120K more than we bought it for.
Did you add another house?
My locality did the opposite, thankfully. And with Florida law, they cannot increase it beyond a ceiling% reach year.
the land appreciated.
There is no land beyond the foundation of the house. It is literally illegal to rebuild if my house were somehow destroyed, because the lot is too small to fit a code-compliant house on with sufficient set-backs from the property lines. Without the house, the lot becomes virtually worthless.
I missed your comment Monday. I was driving solo this past weekend. It was great.
Fantastic! I need to do a school one of these days.
Definitely. It’s such an amazingly fun time out there.
i asked midjourney to make me a funny comic – i’ve been staring at this for a while and i still don’t get it. can anyone help?
https://twitter.com/jack24dd30/status/1630684048514318336
Plagiarizing Gary Larson, classy.
Because Putin is the crazy person here.
Hillary Clinton calls on aides of Putin to stop him:
“They need to stop him. Whether or not this has turned into some physical or mental problems he either had or some way came down with we don’t know but his behavior is dangerous.”
I wish this sanctimonious, warmongering witch would just go away.
I thought he was already on his deathbed or something. That’s what the NY Post keeps telling me at least.
Putin’s approval rating is sitting somewhere between 70 and 80 percent. The rest of the Kremlin is probably more pissed off than he is.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell when Clinton is lying or is just being fantastically stupid.
Putin is also the crazy person I would say
If that is true, then why are we trying to push Russia to the brink and openly talking about regime change?
If we truly thought he was crazy and had his finger on the button, I think we’d be a little more careful about tempting a full-blown WW3 than we have been.
there are stages of crazy. Talk of regime change is actually bad right now.
What was Clinton just saying?
They know they’re full of shit and are just trying to torpedo any hopes of negotiations. We’re prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian for the Ukraine, you know that.
“Except in Texas, Arizona, and Florida”
I’m not convinced of that, those are three of the most appreciated locales. People can’t afford what they can’t afford, even if they want to live there. One thing I never realized was that 2008 was the start of a very long slide in prices, it took 3 years to get to the bottom and the overall price reduction read something like 25% over that time.
We knew we overpaid when we bought the house, but the alternative was waiting for higher interest rates and staying in an apartment for several years. Curious if I’ll be vindicated or not.
In Chicago suburbs we bought a house in 2005 for 200k – in 2015 we sold in summer for 150k
Accounting for 17 years of inflation that house still has yet to get back to its 2005 value
According to Zillow’s guess-o-meter it didn’t get back to 200k until Aug 2020
The guess-o-meter topped out at 252k in July 2022 but now is down to 240k
I can’t complain too much about taking the L on the house though
Moving got us out of Illinois and into Iowa where our living expenses are much lower and 20/21 were 98% normal for us.
’20/21 were 98% normal for us.’
That’s with every penny. I just wish I’d realized that 3 years ago.
Theoretically the house we bought here is worth considerably more than we paid, and exceeds the value of our Illinois house
Course we ain’t selling
I honestly thought she would be dead by now, given her obvious health problems six years ago.
Adrenochrome and drinking virgin’s blood during unholy rituals will take the years away.
But it won’t remove bags from under the eyes!
Marine Corps under fire for eliminating elite scout sniper platoons from infantry battalions: ‘Misguided’
USMC Scout Sniper Association calls for ‘Commandant of the Marine Corps to reconsider this ill-advised policy decision’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/marine-corps-under-fire-eliminating-elite-scout-sniper-platoons-infantry-battalions-misguided
Platoon? More like a squad at most. Just going with DMR role seems to take away some flexibility.
“People gathered at the Waco Memorials at ATF Headquarters, D.C., and in Texas today for the solemn anniversary of the events in Waco 30 years ago, where four ATF Special Agents were killed as they attempted to serve warrants.”
https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/1630694673483276289
Nice ratio and comments.
Now that’s chutzpah. Jesus.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqFkKXhWIAA699c?format=jpg&name=large
I wonder if that memorial is going to survive very long.
They can’t even be bothered to put on a dress clothing or even business professional. Nope, it’s battle fatigues.
Not remembering the worst school mass-murder in history?
I’m going to sound like a cunt here, but if I’m being perfectly honest, I have zero sympathy for anyone McVeigh killed in the Murrah Building bombing, including the kids.
So what were those kids guilty of?
Nothing, besides having shitty parents. When it comes to shit like Waco, I’m vindictive enough to hope their parents and families suffered as much trauma and grief as the Weaver family or the families of any of the 2 dozen who got burn to death at the Mt. Carmel Center. I warned you it was going to be cunty.
In old mesopotamian law codes, the penalty for causing another man’s child to die was to have one of your own killed. I have always thought it an inappropriate response, as punishing those not culpable for the crime is just plain wrong, regardless of the crime. (Side Note, not permitting someone to benefit from a crime isn’t the same as punishing them for it).
A response against the ATF, it’s chain of command, the DoJ, the AG, and even the President would have been appropriate, but the occupants of that day care had no way of even understanding the crime that had been committed in Waco.
The idea is not punishing the children; it’s punishing the father by taking his child (possibly heir and heritage) and pride away from him. I doubt it was a tortuous death.
I’m not saying I wish death upon children. I’m cold, but not that cold. But I get Pat’s point and appreciate he had the cojones to say it.
That said, it would have been a better strategy to go after those directly responsible for Waco to make the point. I’m sure McVeigh could have found a few snipers with his mindset.
Shit. Now I’m on a list.
How is being executed not a punishment for the child?
Wasn’t for lack of trying. He gave out flyers at gun shows with Lon Horiuchi’s name and address on them for about a year between Ruby Ridge and Waco hoping someone would decide to go vigilante. Nobody did.
I didn’t say it wasn’t. I said the idea is to punish the father. Maybe I should have put the qualifier “worse.”
Even back then, that sort of flyer did give of “It’s a trap” vibes.
Oh, that, I didn’t know.
Somebody in a recent dedthred said something about the right “rah rah sisboomba” Waco because culty weird shit going down. I don’t remember it that way, but maybe I was just too horrified to see it.
What I more remember, but why, I don’t know, was Elian Gonzalez being taken away from his family. That whole scene was heartbreaking and it did get dusty in my environment.
Hear! Hear!
Stupid acts of terror do not act as any kind of suitable substitute for holding accountable the people that committed the crime. Your take is as full of shit as the slavery reparations crowd, but manages to also be substantially worse.
Wife was a first responder to that one.
She has never gone back….
I have to say, for the children, you are a cunt here.
Believe me, I absolutely get it. It’s a terrible thing to say and a terrible way to think. I wish I was a better person than that, but I’m not.
I understand…..
I really don’t want the US to go into a internal civil war because it would be much much worse
What if that is the most efficient way to prevent future Wacos/Ruby Ridges/Elian Gonzalez kidnappings? And escalations from there.
As the ChatGPT said, they have mothers, too. And don’t think an outright insurgency in the US is going to be played by Marquess of Queensbury rules.
Feeling black pilled this morning:
Despite the nice roasting they are getting in the twittersphere, it’s not enough. It’s justice when Sam Harris get pwned on social media. It’s a farce when that’s all that happens to the people who perpetuated the largest massacre of American citizens since Wounded Knee. The fact that there weren’t people throwing buckets of pigs blood at them at the memorial shows we’re fucked as a country.
OK, TOS and all – the review is good.
And it turns out, footage of children being burned to death served that purpose just as well. The ATF is still here, bigger than ever. Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.
Oh, there was even more media spin to sell all of that. The review makes the point that this was America at the time of Satanic preschool child abuse. We are full of easily manipulated morons – we call them voters.
Paramount had an excellent series on Waco.
Great if you suffer from low blood pressure.
But seriously, it was well done and I highly recommend it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6040674/
“All aboard!!!”
Discovery is gonna be wild in this case. Sometimes its better to just fade away and go find a new job than to drag yourself through the mud. But
-why are women uniquely unable to make their own sexual choices? Just seems ridiculous, face the consequences of your choices like a man.
Sad thing about Britain is that I cannot be sure this is not a joke
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1630865840521330690
Player got expelled for cheating at the Romanian Chess Championship.
The article didnt say it was Pie, but it didnt say it wasnt either.
Hypnotizing the opponant is bad form.
He wasn’t hypnotized. He was just lightheaded after mysteriously losing a lot of blood.
Dude left an unlocked phone in the bathroom with his current game position on it running in a stockfish engine.
Who doesnt have a pin on their phone?
He denied it was his phone but it was logged into his email account.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Wonderful.
The kids are allright.
That old guy looks very familiar. Thanks for nothing, Jimbo, but thanks to the kids for doing what they did, voluntarily.
Gun Glibs; S&W has rebates going on right now.
https://www.swrebates.com/SW/#/home
But that requires having the money up-front 🙁
I’ve always been cautious about firearm rebates and never used them. Didn’t want to be on yet another list. Although, I guess what difference does it make at this point.
Welp, the Patrick Kane era in Chicago is over. It was fun while it lasted. At least this GM has accumulated 9 first round picks for the next 4 years, where the last guy had 12 in 12 years. We’ll see how it goes. At least it will be fun to watch Kane and Panarin together again.
Complete Control is one of their best. The lyrics, and the story behind it, are awesome.
You guys had some great years. My Wild are still fucked from the Parise/Suter insanity.
Although they’ve gone on a mini-tear lately.
I have no idea what this sport is so I assume hockey
Yes hockey. It’s the other sport they play in Europe besides kick ball.
He’s from my home town, we were all thrilled when he was getting drafted.
Don’t think he ever played for us, which is probably for the best, given his career and the Sabre’s trajectory.
Is it just me, or does that Tennessee cop look like Sam Bankman-Fried’s girlfriend? (Too lazy to look up her name)
1. South Africa has collapsed, here’s why:
Part 1: Intro
Part 2: The wasteland
Part 3: Societal collapse
Part 4: Final outcome
Part 5: Doing good
https://twitter.com/k9_reaper/status/1630436052723720193
“South Africa is a beautiful country and home to many unique languages and cultures, such as the Afrikaner (or Boer). We have a base load of around 70 million people, access to both sea and land trade and are considered a great tourist destination. We live in a truly beautiful country. A place like no other. Our winters are short, and summers long.. our country is huge too. I love this land, as did my forefathers who built it. But here is what they’re not telling you.”
Those are the first two tweets in the thread. What is funny is that while reading them I immediately thought oh this will be called racist. And lo and behold one of the first replies to the thread
“I like how the only “beautiful language and culture” you mentioned is that of the ousted apartheid regime….”
Despite their failings, the previous regime at least kept the country going better than the looters in the ANC. The ANC was handed a halfway functional country and fucked it up in a generation.
I say give it a few more years
Yeah, you ain’t seen nothin yet.
So they’re going to escalate from vast lawlessness, random murders and raids on white farms, no electricity, gutted industry and near 1005 curruption to… what? Tribal genocides? Probably.
The carnage will make Rwanda look like the Amish areas of Hershey Pennsylvania in comparison. The wheels are still half way on right now at least, when they come off completely it’ll get much uglier.
“home to many unique languages and cultures”
I suspect that is one of their major problems? Challenges?
So, yes, my bingo card for SA definitely has intertribal conflict and ethnic cleaning/genocide on it.
So a month or so ago, I started seeing stories about local meat packing plants being cleaned after hours by kids. The details were always sketchy. How old were the kids? How many? Were any actually hurt?
Given the lack of details, I figured it was more of a situation where some rural farm boys who were 17 had gotten some spending money working late at night. Some regulator had stumbled on it and was reaming the company that employed them.
Now after reading this story about all those Biden Babies being exploited I wonder if the reason the intrepid journalo didn’t provide more info was because the meat packing cleaners were all children from Guatemala.
Uffda. If half of that story about all the migrant kids that Biden let in being put into slave labor situations is true, fucking shit is going to hit the fan.
I’m shocked it’s getting any coverage at all.
And what does the shit hitting the fan look like? Because unless some of these fuckers go to prison, this just becomes the Republicans’ fault.
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
Surf & Turf by Alex
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1630606625282170880
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Roast Lamb by Simon
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1630233447695253506
What is that tarry poop blob on the lamb medallions? Mint jelly?
Some sort of sauce o idea what exactly… Seems dark for mint
That’s what I thought, too.
We don’t have mint sauce in Romania… I mean some may do it but it is not a thing
Tarry Poop Blob is my last failed band.
Steak is overcooked, which is to say, it’s cooked at all.
And needs a side of ketchup.
I am not Patrick Mahomes.
Sunday Slalad by Jenny
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1629862224712941575
https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/status/1630757137113825280
This shit is so tiring.
No. I almost got an STD just clicking that.
I was gonna go with nasty.
“thin privilege”
Someone doesn’t own a mirror.
What the Fuck: This Guy Is Listening to the Mountain Goats While Lifting
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/what-the-fuck-this-guy-is-listening-to-the-mountain-goats-while-lifting/
Lol. And I thought I should feel bad for listening to Belle and Sebastian at the gym. Their latest album is pretty good indie pop.
Also catch me squatting to Big Thief lately.
I dunno, I just dont have to have RAGE music blasting to get me moving heavy things, sometimes its nice to be chill
Any type of math rock is perfect gym music, IMO.
LOL.
Predation
And all debt is not created equal. Students who take out loans to get, say, business degrees from top universities find themselves in a very different position from students who attend predatory for-profit institutions and wind up with degrees that aren’t worth all that much – if they end up with degrees at all. A great many students who take out student loans don’t graduate, leaving them in the worst of all positions: In debt, but with no degree to show for it.
I love how these geniuses can make a distinction between students swindled by the dreaded “for profit” trade schools and those bamboozled into attending prestigious noble universities in order to come away with a degree which has no hope of paying itself off.
I was thinking if the people who give student loans would pay a penalty for giving bad loans, would there not be more incentive to only give loans for things that pay? But like mortgages above, I think that is crazy talk on my part.
The government is now the primary giver of loans. They took over the market during Obama’s years when private student lending was restricted because credit was tight. Get the government out of lending. Let the colleges lend money. Then there will be an incentive to assess risk.
Yep, that’s the bit they always leave out when they talk about “predatory” student loans. If not for government guarantees and the inability to get rid of them in bankruptcy, only a fraction of these loans would be made in the first place, and almost entirely to people getting useful degrees who have a very high likelihood of graduating. And they would have FAR higher interest rates.
+ 1 NYU Cinema Studies degree.
But if I become the next big Hollywood director I will make millions.
If you drop out of one of the for profit schools generally you’re left owing much less money at least.
Never change, CNN.
A predatory, for-profit institution like Harvard? Yale?
Those hedge funds with a university attached? Yes, those predatory institutions.
What’s important is that you update your “socials” regardless of what you are doing.
Did you know the lighting is best when you are moving at 29 mph
Why did I read this to the tune of YMCA?
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1630227612529246209
That ShotSpotter article is a bunch of whining about how the money could better be used in stupider ways.
It’s just the prequel to spending both on ShotSpotter and whatever other grift is being pushed.
Defeatist nonsense
The presidents of China and Belarus joined Wednesday in urging a cease-fire and negotiations to bring about a political settlement to the Ukraine conflict.
The joint call came in a meeting in Beijing between Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
That amounted to an endorsement of a Chinese 12-point peace proposal issued Friday that calls for the territorial integrity of all countries to be respected. The proposal does not say what would happen to the regions Russia has occupied since the invasion or give details on how the peace process should proceed, and has failed to gain much support.
“The core of China’s stance is to call for peace and encourage talks … and for the legitimate security concerns of all countries to be respected,” Xi was quoted as saying by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
In a clear reference to the U.S. and its allies, he added, “Relevant countries should stop politicizing and using the world economy as their tool, and take measures that truly advance a cease-fire and stop to war and resolve the crisis peacefully.”
At this point, I don’t see how a negotiated settlement doesn’t require regime change. In Ukraine.
Peace and negotiations – what a bunch of crazy talk.
Well, you get more of what you reward. Regime change in Ukraine and seizure of the Donbas were certainly Russia’s victory conditions. I’m struggling with rewarding Russia for invading Ukraine.
And I don’t want to hear about how Russia was provoked. Ukraine was never any kind of threat to Mother Russia. And wouldn’t be even if it joined NATO. Nobody is fucking invading Russia.
Yes, Ukraine is corrupt. As is Russia. Yes, Ukraine suppresses dissent. As does Russia. I don’t think you can make any kind of moral case that Russia is the better country in some way. So saying “Ukraine is bad, mmkay” doesn’t get me to “Russia should carve off some more chunks of Ukraine”.
Just for one minute, put yourself in the position of a Russian. What exactly does NATO mean to you, now?
I’m not saying they aren’t paranoid. I’m saying that catering to their paranoia is unlikely to pay off in the long run.
NATO troops never crossed Russian boundaries, or even Warsaw Pact boundaries. If Russia wants to preserve its territorial integrity, making themselves an active and proven threat to invade their neighbors is not really a good way to do that. Escalation and pre-emptive war are a thing. You would think WWII would have taught them that much, at least.
What did WWII teach us? Did we return to our roots afterwards? Nope, we got NSC-68.
NATO is an anti-Russian alliance. It was anti-Soviet/Eastern Bloc, but when all of that went away, NATO did not. I’d be pretty fucking paranoid about that, particularly as it keeps encroaching.
Our senior leadership openly discusses their objective of regime-changing, partitioning, and globalizing Russia.
Russia views the Ukraine joining NATO as a threat to their existence – because we’ve said it is! NATO ceased to be a defensive alliance 30 years ago.
https://niccolo.substack.com/p/delusion
And Russia has said it wants to recreate the Soviet empire. And has taken affirmative steps toward doing so.
If we’re looking for provocations, Russia’s adventurism in Ukraine (and elsewhere) gives a pretty good reason for Ukraine to want to join NATO.
It’s all tit-for-tat escalation, is my point. And very difficult to stop. Opportunities were missed after the USSR collapsed, no question at all. There are idiots, and worse, on all sides. Do we think giving Ukraine (or the Donbas and Crimea) to the Russians is going to stop their expansionism? I see little prospect of driving the Russians back to their borders, which is what makes a peace deal that doesn’t reward them for their aggression hard for me to swallow, but here we are.
So, war then?
Russia has no capability to recreate the SU. That’s just fucking lunacy.
And our adventurism across the globe got us to the verge of war with two nuke powers. I don’t fear Russia even a fraction as much as I fear my own government.
Have they said it? Citations?
Putin is careful with his language. He talks about protecting Slavic people and particularly ethnic Russians. Have not heard any imperial empire talk.
They seemed pretty content making money selling fuel to the Euros.
People want Ukraine genocided so they can get some weird victory over the US foreign policy establishment.
What if a majority of the people in those regions want to be part of Russia and had a referendum asking them that question? Not that bogus referendum that they ran a few months ago, but an actual referendum with international observers. Not sure if that would be possible at this point, but if the people want to be part of Russia, maybe they should be. That said, if support for Russia were so strong in those regions, I’d think they’d be having an easier time of it, rather than being bogged down in their invasion. And maybe Ukraine should say sure, let’s have the referendum, as long as there are referenda in Chechnya, Dagestan, and all the various regions in Russia to see if they want to remain in Russia.
They did when the USSR broke up. It went “Not Russia, thanks”.
Even in Crimea.
True, though the referendum was pretty close in Crimea. I’m not at all certain Russia would win in the regions they want to claim.
We can send Stacey Abrams. Just saying.
I’m struggling with rewarding Russia for invading Ukraine.
You’re losing me here. Why should rewarding or punishing Russia even be a consideration on the table? America shouldn’t be the world’s police. It’s not our job to dole out rewards or punishment to other countries.
I’d also add that America, looking back at the past 60 years or so, is the very last country to have any moral standing about unprovoked aggression and invasions.
Beer and wine sales in Canada fall to all-time low
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64792928
Well, they’ve got the drug store and legal marijuana now.
Joy, you dishonest cunte.
Reid started off her show by wailing that “if Florida Governor Ron DeSantis becomes President of the United States, which he is clearly aiming for, America will become the land of total government control over women’s bodies, black history, gender identity, how you can teach, learn, read, think, even talk!”
“It would essentially be a more functionally authoritarian version of Trump, a more action, less personality type of President who’s basically offering two options. Pre-civil rights America, or total control of society,” Reid huffed.
Wtf does that even mean? And you are projecting so hard that you should “Casio” tattooed to you forehead.
“[H]is new book titled, and I’m not making this up, “the courage to be free” has a firsthand account from the blue-collar boy with a dream to take down Disney and librarians,”
PWND, obvs.
Its not Casio….”yo you project so hard, yo head say PANASONIC”
“America will become the land of total government control over . . . black history, gender identity, how you can teach, learn, read, think, even talk!”
Totally unlike what is going on now.
My new favorite youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_4FTu8lYic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehnGZDdXeo
Another Ray of Sunshine
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11803315/Missouri-daughter-25-shares-emotional-TikTok-video-dad-finding-shes-kidney-donor.html
Wow.
I missed commenting on my own article last night. Oops.
Nobody guessed my favorite song and it won’t be in the next article because I’m saving it for the end of the series.
*hangs head* In my defense, I was working. New Gig has a lot more work available than Old Gig.
More money though I hope?
Its The Reflex isnt it?
^^^^^
Absofuckinglutely not
I’ll say that probably only Tundra has heard of it. It’s a pretty deep track.
I was listening to a bunch of stuff last night. I’ll keep thinking.
Thanks again for doing the deep dives. It’s been a fun trip back in time.
Yeah, you wouldn’t have heard of it, it’s pretty rare.
Challenge accepted.
By the numbers
President Biden is nominating Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su, who previously headed California’s labor department, to be the next secretary of labor, the White House said on Tuesday.
If confirmed, Su will become the first Asian American to join Biden’s cabinet at the rank of secretary.
——-
Altogether, there are three Asian Americans currently in Biden’s cabinet. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Arati Prabhakar, who leads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, though, are not secretaries. Kamala Harris, the first Asian American to serve as vice president, is also a cabinet member.
There are no quotas. These are quite simply the absolute best people for those jobs.
+ wise latina
What, Kamala is Asian now? I suspect most Indians would take strong exception to being called “Asian”.
Democrats control the Senate, which will need to confirm Su for the role, and she has the backing of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus as well as the Congressional Black Caucus.
But her confirmation could still be contentious. California Republicans, including Rep. Young Kim, who is Korean American, wrote Biden earlier this month opposing her possible nomination, citing her role in crafting a state law known as AB5 that classifies some gig workers as employees. Critics say AB5 severely limits businesses’ ability to hire freelancers.
The only acceptable job is as a unionized employee of a large corporation. That’s what middle class means.
I always love that particular rhetoric.
It’s not what the actual results of the bill are, it’s just something “critics say”.
unionized employee of a
large corporationgovernment agencyRobots. The answer is robots.
Japan’s birth rate plunges to new record low; politician blames citizens’ lack of ‘romantic ability’
The Ponzi scheme is under severe pressure.
They need to audit their pensioners. Not individual in-depth review of finances, but just verify that they are still alive.
I find Japanese girls generally to be attractive so give me citizenship and I’ll gladly do my part.
You’re a foreigner, they don’t want you.
I’m married or I would contribute what I could the next time I passed through.
It’s gonna be hard to keep those negative real yields going with a declining population.
Well having to pixelate themselves during sex would put a damper on things.
At least Korea has the reunification option.
In any prosperous country, children are a liability, not an asset. You can fuck right off with all other social aspects – that is the core of the problem.
Maybe offer massive tax breaks or even subsidies if they aren’t already.
Cant wait for Angela Jong Un to be the PM of unified Korea.
They had better start allowing in central and south American migrants before the US scoops them all up.
“South Korea is on track to disappear in less than a century.”
A repeat link but well-worth the read.
Reid started off her show by wailing that “if Florida Governor Ron DeSantis becomes President of the United States, which he is clearly aiming for, America will become the land of total government control over women’s bodies, black history, gender identity, how you can teach, learn, read, think, even talk!”
And, of course, Joy has no objection to total government control over any of these things, just the manner in which that control is exercised.
“The Government breached a non-prosecution agreement that immunized Ms. Maxwell for these offenses. That agreement was entered into by the Government and Epstein in 2007, and, by its terms, unambiguously barred this prosecution, in the first instance,” he wrote.
You fucked up, you trusted us.
They colluded in using their authority to systematically disarm her resistance and entrap her in degrading and abusive sexual relationships — even sharing tips on the best ways “to manipulate and exploit her.”
“Maegan wasn’t looked at as a rookie cop to be trained and promoted. She was looked at like a piece of meat to be sexualized and exploited,” said Clark.
She has no agency? Horseshit.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1630678834558251009
I’m thinking this is parody.
Also, racist for not picking EW&F for September.
Too young to know/appreciate EW&F.
They started the same time as Steely Dan. Maurice White started writing songs in the late 60’s just like Becker & Fagen did, then their bands, which both relied a a large revolving group of outside people, released their first albums in ’71 and ’72. Then both White and Becker died 45 years later.
The money was never going to be enough.
Clearly the only answer now is to join on the side of Russia and partition the Ukraine.
NOPE.
Hey! Look at that! Ii found my personal red line.
You can’t have them, cuntes.
You’re not the only one. There will be a blood bath across this country if they try conscripting. I’ve started becoming more concerned this in the playbook if DC goes to war with China.
Kill my kid(s), or leave us with nothing but bugs to eat = red lines.
Fuck Ukraine. I didn’t have a dog in this fight, but it’s becoming rapidly apparent that Kiev, along with DC, is America’s enemy.
It’s taken a bit out of context, but still nope.
Sort of, he’s saying if Ukraine falls then we have to go over and save Nato.
So, we need to preemptively leave NATO.
As long as he’s leading from the front, he can have access to all of my children.
/has no children that he’s aware of
This seems like solid advice.
I can’t believe it came from a government account.
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/biden-says-upcoming-budget-proposal-204434647.html
President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that his March 9 budget proposal to the U.S. Congress will include some higher taxes, including on billionaires, but will not violate his pledge not to raise rates on Americans making less than $400,000 a year.
“On March the 9th, I’m going to lay down in detail every single thing, every tax that’s out there that I’m proposing, and no one … making less than $400,000 is going to pay a penny more in taxes,” Biden told an audience in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
“I want to make it clear. I’m gonna raise some taxes,” the Democratic president added, before suggesting that “billionaires” would be called upon to pay more.
Fuck you, cut spending.
If you keep telling a lie, people will believe it.
worked for Bagdad Bob
Kyle Dunnigan: It’s good to be the President’s son
I don’t think there is any reason to pretend Zelenskyyyy! is a rational actor.
No, he’s a comedian.
Please don’t make me feel any sympathy for Alec Baldwin…
Alec Baldwin sued by three ‘Rust’ crew members over fatal shooting PTSD
No, he’s a comedian.
I’m not laughing. Not even on the inside.