Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
Supreme Court bans affirmative action in ruling against race-conscious college admissions
Sheriff’s Deputy Who Failed to Act During Parkland Shooting Acquitted on All Charges
IRS whistleblower: Hunter Biden hasn’t paid taxes on 2014 money from Ukrainian oligarch’s firm
Another Hunter Biden WhatsApp Message to a CCP-Linked Business Associate
I’d be concerned too if I used my own son as a bagman for my bribery scheme
Texas abortion ban leads to additional 10,000 births, paper concludes
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
(Re: main page image) “And that was when Piglet had the awful realization that Pooh Bear was indeed an omnivore….”
Morning, Banjos!
At least Poo Bear was not one of these people that want to change things so they can say minors have the right to consent to sex….
Are you sure? Why isn’t Pooh ever wearing pants? Sure he isn’t running around pant-less in front of his “nephews” like Donald Duck, but still…
So you saying Xi pops kids?
Looks like I spoke too soon about the French rioting rather than looting.
https://twitter.com/wallstreetsilv/status/1674678830190002177?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
It’s always about the early
Christmas</strike Eid shopping.Is there a link that doesn’t require a Twatter account?
Indeed. Is this something new where all non-twatters are banned?
Mine started doing that last night.
They must be back to trying hard to make non-members sign up.
Another supposed oops we didn’t mean to turn that on. Again.
Seems like it.
“ Texas abortion ban leads to additional 10,000 births, paper concludes”
AWFLs everywhere are horrified
Those children are better off dead.
Love that flick.
What a waste of a perfectly good white boy..
TWO DOLLARS!
Gee, I’m real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.
(Can you believe the paperboy also played Grover Dill?)
…and young Michael Anthony in the Hot for Teacher video!
“Those children are better off dead.”
That is their literal argument. I wish I was strawmanning or something, but they really say that.
My argument has always been that we need to ban abortion and legalize suicide. If they’re right, the kids can do it themselves.
Well, you’re forcing life onto those poor kids. Did you ask them if they wanted to live?
/actual argument made by Nikki at TOS
created a “synthetic” Texas using monthly live birth
Ah, we modeled it. SCIENCE!
data from every state and the District of Columbia
The most science ever.
AWFLs believe in the models. The models are truth made flesh.
Yeah, I read through that twice. Why would you use a synthetic Texas based on data from other states? Why not just use, you know, Texas?
Good lord man – and risk our conclusion?
Because you need something to compare real Texas with it’s abortion ban to.
That said, you are all correct to be suspicious of models. Seems you could back this up with data about number of abortions performed in the state, percentage of abortions that were previously performed between certain time periods, etc. to help support the conclusion they drew.
It actually seems to show a pretty small effect, given less than 10,000 out of almost 300,000.
10,000 murders prevented during 8-9 months in a single state seems like a lot to me.
I can’t think of any other intervention we could do that would be nearly as cost effective in preventing murders.
Why not compare Texas post-ban to Texas pre-ban? Maybe make some tweaks at the margins to catch any changes in demographics, and in fertility rates due to known variables (mainly the economy)?
I think that would be another valid way to do it. I believe that is essentially what happens through the method they describe, if done correctly. The devil is in the details.
Some backup to their hypothesis, though not definitive, since you could be missing abortions by people travelling out of state, or doing them illegally.
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2023/04/13/new-report-reveals-decline-in-abortions-in-texas
Alternate headline: “Texas abortion ban prevents 10,000 murders, paper concludes.”
This is so blatant that it’d be judicial misconduct to not issue an immediate injunction when the suits pile in.
Also, there need to be a means of punishing lawmakers when they pull this crap that has more teeth.
There are four boxes that can be used to punish lawmakers…
Well, they’ve already locked the ballot box, and the jury box.
And this is what Michigan wanted.
I doubt that.
I’ve come to believe we’ve never had an honest election in the history of this country.
Welcome to the party, PAL!
Why did you try to throw me off the elevator?
Bullshit. People really do vote for Democrats, and until they regret doing so, we will have this and more.
And vote again and again and again and again…
Sure, the handouts and fear tactics work to keep a lot of these people loyal, but the real winner is the demands people be allowed to vote without identifying themselves and the ballot harvesting, which then allow the counters to do whatever they need to, which is wat really carries them over the finish line.
You acknowledge massive amounts of corruption and incompetence rampant in every government institution but believe the one system that gives the corrupt their power and control is somehow untouched? And mock those that question it?
The corruption isn’t corruption like we like to think of it – as the old-style machine. The real systemic corruption is simply lack of accountability.
And yes, I will mock mercilessly anyone who asserts that NO ONE votes Democrat – because that person is suffocating inside a bubble just as much as any proggie.
Go ahead and mock, but that is one nice strawman you made up there. We know there are idiots that vote democrat. That alone is not enough to win elections, however. Ignoring the fact that our election system has serious built in problems (traceability and accountability) and that the democrats fight dirty and hard to make it even less reliable and accountable, kind of makes the point they benefit from that somehow.
That alone is not enough to win elections
I disagree and I present to you as my evidence our entire political class, left and right.
“I disagree and I present to you as my evidence our entire political class, left and right.”
As Stalin pointed out: It doesn’t matter what people vote for, and what matters is who counts the votes. And team blue is the party that fight using prison gang rules for a reason.
Now, now, boys. Let’s not get distracted by the biennual dog and pony show. The country is ruled by the agencies, not by whoever “wins” “elections”. I think that’s been made clear in recent years.
It takes as much idiocy to elect the average Republican as it does to elect the average Democrat.
It takes a little more for the ones on the fringes of both parties.
Machine politics.
People vote for free shit, every time.
The fact that the machine slips in shit like this doesn’t necessarily mean that’s what the people want.
That’s what armed rebellion is for. Or I suppose we can just leave a nasty comment on the concentration camp yelp page which is the modern American way
“Barbed wire snagged my hand made organic exercise pants! One star, will demand a better camp from Dear Leader. Hey, why are we walking up to that trench again?….”
Honestly – if the choice was live in Michigan or die in a trench…
Hence my departure
Another Ohio/Michigan war?
Can we let them take Toledo this time?
Nope, they’ll give you Detroit.
“I’d give it zero stars if I could.”
Yeah, that’s nuts. What do they think this is, Canada?
We saw this crap coming years ago when they decided that kneecapping a guy who’s a “protected minority” was somehow worse than kneecapping some other guy because Hate Crime.
Minority Report, here we come.
And while this will hopefully be overturned by the courts, someone will have to be arrested and mount a legal defense to get it overturned. And as we’ve seen post-Bruen they’ll just turn around an pass the same law with slightly different wording. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Until the Democrats that don’t support this insanity bust the party. Given the examples of California, Illinois and New York, oh and let’s not forget Minnesota, that may be a while.
“ Political advisers have apparently tried to tell the president that keeping his son so close may not be a smart move for his reelection campaign,”
LOL, what re-election campaign? Biden is done.
The one just like his election campaign — they keep him in the basement with the other pickled vegetables and the media runs cover for him / attacks every non-progressive shamelessly.
I just want to know how they intend to get rid of Kamala first. She will be a disaster.
High rise window?
And then blame Putin?
I think they’re going to martyr her (some MAGA-stereotyped glowie) and replace her with Austin.
I’d guessed (wrongly) that it would be just before the previous election, and was wrong on that. Still betting that’s the plan, though.
She might OD at this rate.
I wonder how much narcan they keep around the White House.
Since Hunter moved in to dodge process servers? Probably a lot.
Gentle reminder that narcan is for opioids, not coke/crack/meth.
Would you take the chance the First Bagman wouldn’t dabble? Hell, between Biden’s minders and Kamala’s handlers, there’s probably a truckload of painkillers getting munched every day there.
When coke fiends need sleep, they frequently turn to opioids. I know a couple people who got hooked this way. Turns out habitual drug users don’t always make sound decisions.
Why? She’s just as incompetent as the rest.
And then 82 million mail in ballots roll in after midnight.
You really think there weren’t a whole lot of actual, legit votes? They could never pull off that big of a farce. Sure, hit the margins, push the edge, but there was a real base of real humans that cast real ballots. They are your neighbors.
I really thing that every state that stopped counting votes on election night 2020 – a thing nobody had ever seen before – had completely rigged results. Yes, this is what I believe.
Then don’t assail proggies for holding to fantastical, irrational beliefs. Is that fair?
No
Perhaps I would be willing to write 2020 off as a weird anomaly if we didn’t see blatantly rigged subsequent Governor elections in New Jersey and Arizona.
I suppose some will argue that the PA gubernatorial and senate elections were rigged. Never mind the asshole candidates the Republicans ran.
In NJ, went to bed after ALL the results were reported for the Governor’s election – Jack Ciattarelli won. At 2 am they found 30k extra votes for Murphy. It wasn’t even disguised.
What you saw was perfectly normal that night. Nevermind that all the states the halt occurred in previously went Trump and states such as Wisconsin had tallied votes for the big cities well before the little towns reported and that the opposite occurred in 2020. Securest election ever/s.
Get yourself ready for Gruesome Newsom, because he’s coming.
eeeeewwwwww
CBS News seems to be breaking ranks. Now I wonder why.
Like I said before, when the administration begged Wallace for NATO chief it indicated a shift because you know damn well Sullivan and Nuland wanted him in there. The DOD must have said no and a rift was formed. I think Biden’s usefulness is over.
“negged Wallace”
They were trying to get a date?
Self-appointed elites now furious that they didn’t get their own way.
Self-appointed elites console themselves by rubbing the “proles” faces in it like a gyrating lunatic furry at a Pride Parade seeing a small child.
Self appointed genocidal eugenicist elites furious they don’t get their own way.
Michigan obviously forgets what the hell the First Amendment is all about, wastes everyone’s time and money on future court cases just to attempt to rub some unbeliever (leper! outcast! unclean! Hellfire and damnation, Mhoram.) prole’s face in it. Of course, after Whitmer didn’t take an electoral beating for the shit she pulled, I mentally gave up on Michigan. Baaaaaaaa.
So does anyone think any major colleges will stop using race as a determining factor in admissions?
I think it has about the same odds as Congress defunding the IC, AOC realizing she’s a damned moron or the Pope actually becoming Catholic at this point.
(See also: slim to none)
It would help if the govt didn’t mandate collecting everyone’s “race” on every fucking form.
This.
I am never checking that box again. Come at me, bruh.
I got pinged last week by an HR person saying they were missing “ethnic data” for me. I was asked how I would like to be identified. My initial response of, “Does it matter?” did not get a positive response.
I asked what options there were, I give the HR person credit, they responded with a list “White, Hispanic, Asian, Black/African American, America Indian, Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Two or More Races”
The answer is Noldor.
If you don’t check the box, you be white. Or get the hose. One of the two.
I was looking at my birth certificate, and it’s one of the first things on the form. “Race: white”.
Welcome to the world, little one! You’ve been categorized!
😲
Mine does not have race.
Mine says “We didn’t know they come that big in white”…
“Craniums that large are usually gray.”
My baby name was tripod.
Then they found your missing arm and reattached it
Lemme look at that.
It says here you’re an Orc.
Half-dragon.
Well we had to protect the white women from miscegenation. I really hate that we still operate on the precepts of the eugenicists that were otherwise entirely discredited.
How dare they assign your race at birth!
“I was born a poor black child.”
“Welcome to the world, little one! You’ve been categorized!”
I’ll bet you were assigned a gender also.
RC Dean made the point that AOC got a major piece of legislation passed as a very young congresscritter and that is not to be dismissed. She is in for a long career of do-gooding through oppression.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Hell no.
They were given a mile wide loophole to drive their agenda through.
You just have to write an essay with “as a ______ person” and you’re in.
Think of how easy it would be game that. Just write “as an ethnic person coming from a diverse background”. You didn’t state what ethnicity or what makes your background diverse.
And if an alumnx comes around to interview you, watch them fidget trying to guess your “diversity”.
The easiest way to fool them is to get a perm and tell them it’s your natural hair. I call that move the Dolezal.
Think how many more DEI staffers they’re going to have to hire to read all of them!
They are too invested in racism to give up easily.
They’ll always find a way.
LOL perfect
It only goes away when it’s no longer an advantage to brag about your “diversity”.
An abortion ban in the state of Texas has led to nearly 10,000 additional live births in the state, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimate.
And done. Complete and utter bullshit by political hacks.
Friday Funbags polls the Glibertariat on nipple preference:
a) Puffy
b) Braille
c) Mosquito bites
https://archive.is/ID2c6
I prefer the standard Imperial measurement: puppy dog noses
NYS or NYC tried to pull this shit; I don’t think it went anywhere.
Funny how that works.
Mearsheimer gives an unpleasant forecast for the Ukraine clusterfuck.
https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mearsheimer-warns-darkness-ahead-where-ukraine-war-headed
Isn’t this just what most sane people were saying after the first month of the war? Basically no good outcome, and Russia wins an ugly partial victory?
*raises hand*
Didn’t think it would take this long, though.
It probably wouldn’t have if we hadn’t been pouring money into it.
^^^^THIS
That is what has infuriated me from the beginning, that our money is prolonging the meat grinder.
If I were cynical I’d think it was partly to cover up corruption of the Bidens, Clintons, Bush, Obama, Kerry…
Be cynical. I would not at all be surprised to find out the reason we keep pissing away lives and money is because the crooks are desperate to keep Ukraine to launder their money and that they are being blackmailed by the people that do the money laundering for them in Ukraine.
Yep. American taxpayers gave Ukraine the equivalent of Russia’s entire military budget. I can’t even begin to calculate the value of the intel provided through American surveillance, satellites, etc.
And the Ukrainians on Kiev’s side (and the Donbas side) have fought like hell. It’s interesting that the Russia media/propaganda often portrays the soldiers on the other side with respect and admiration. The Wagner film was a great example. Compare that with puerile shit pumped by Western propaganda.
And then there’s the trench warfare. Never thought we’d see that again. Slows everything way down. It’s eerily like the World Wars except there’s no praying in a foxhole when a UAV is spotting for the artillery strikes.
No way!
Seriously, g’bless people like that. I couldn’t do any of that.
I just hope we don’t learn later this was that Sam Kinison corpse on the morgue table getting…. Never mind.
When the young Asian lady seated next to me walked in front of me to take her seat, fermented cabbage wafted out of every pore.
Since then she has continued to fart Avery few minutes, adding to the “fragrance”. It would be comical if it weren’t so freaking nauseating.
I don’t think she’s ever been in first class before; she was suspicious of the snack box they handed out, thinking she’d have to pay for it. Same with her mimosa. She didn’t accept the free headphones so she’s just watching Avatar with no sound.
Oh good grief. Another cabbage fart. Saints preserve us.
I’m chuckling because I’ve been on those flights before. Had one situation where the Chinese woman insisted on keeping all twelve of her carryons in the row with her and was ready to fight the flight attendants.
Learn to love that recycled Kim Chi flavor, woman!
Heh heh. Sat next to a nasty smelly farter on a plane once. My sympathies.
I was on one in Finland where the woman would lean to the left and then hit herself with some perfume.
It was like someone took a shit in a Yankee Candle store.
Some people get turned on by that…
To be fair, I’d have expected first class to be a nickel and dime fest because I’d compare it to the hotel industry where the higher class the establishment, the less is included in the base rate. Plus the overall reputation of airlines for charging for everything.
The cabbage, however, is unforgivable.
Delta first class usually enforces their first class rules pretty strictly: no use of 1st class lavatory by the main cabin folk, on paper they recommend dressing appropriately, they don’t let main cabin passengers use first class overhead space.
They might be one of the last American carriers doing so.
But this was an early flight so we have a few upgrades. Whatevs. First world problems.
Ok, Kim Chee over here has decided to take a nap. I thought that might help, but nah, apparently the gas just comes tripping out with zero effort.
I fly with earplugs but it hadn’t occurred to me to fly with nose plugs.
Flying results in depressurization that makes people fart..
I’m gonna say that whenever I let off. Even if it’s on the ground.
Make sure you credit Bernoulli.
BERN…oulllllliiiii……
She is flying Bernoulli Air. Kinda works a couple of levels.
Got anything fragrant to put under your nose?
A thing of purel?
Next time buy Vicks VapoRub. Then put it on your upper lip. The menthol smell is better than the alternatives.
Too bad she couldn’t fly with a butt plug.
I don’t think Hayeksplosives would prefer getting “CHRISTFAGS! BUSHPIGS!” screamed at her the whole flight, personally.
Really location specific joke
Conciousness has no say on fart outcome. I flew to Pittsburgh last year and the half-drunken bear of a man next to me was snoring and farting the entire trip.
She might not even be farting.
There are a few times each year, when my wife and all her buddies stink to high heaven. When the chives and garlic are ready in the spring is particularly bad. In the fall when everyone is making their home made kimchi is another bad time.
Imagine being on a train, bus or subway in Korea. It oozes out of everybody there. Of course they think we stink of meat.
The smell of kimchi sweat and kerosene are the two smells of Korea.
I once flew to Istanbul from Houston. Holy shit the smell of that plane by hour 13 was ungodly
Yeah at least this is 2.5 hours.
13 hours to Turkey…. No thanks!
You should fly from New York to India, Pakistan, or anywhere else in the 3rd world…
I would have thought that the air recycles pretty frequently but I guess not well enough. Never had olfactory problems on a flight myself.
Airplanes have some of the best and most advanced filtration systems. Unfortunately, these systems are limited by the fact they can’t place their intake directly in the path of where the stank can come from. Someone should figure out how to pod up people for flights.
How can one tell the source of a fart in an airplane if there is no sound?
Look for the leaner
Sound cancelation effect on planes comes from the sound of the airplane engines canceling most everything else out. The filtration system tends to limit the reach of a fart. If you smelt it and you were not the one that dealt it, it came from someone close bye.
This thread is killing me, though probably not as much as it’s killing hayeksplosives.
I must confess that I’m usually the farter on planes. I am Farticus! Airline food and low pressure do it to me.
In college I sublet my apartment to some Koreans for the summer. When I returned the place stank of cigarettes and kimchee. It took weeks to air the place out.
NYT headline:
“College admissions could become more subjective”
Is that even possible?
It’s a tough decision once the legacies are all accounted for.
I’ve seen a lot of “REEEE but legacies” in defense of racism.
Almost like the solution to legacies is not to prefer them in admissions. Also at this point there has to be a decent number of ‘POC’ legacies too, no?
Do you have to graduate to be considered a part of a legacy? Don’t the affirmative action students generally fail out at a higher rate?
At this point I am certain that this rigged system counts on the affirmative action students failing out with a hefty debt to boot.
The idea that elite schools are going to get rid of legacies (like they are now claiming) is laughable. Unless they really don’t want any more alumni $$$.
Indeedy. That is why the argument is a red herring.
AA just helped ensured that no whites that were not in the club before could join it.
You don’t really believe the commies will just accept this affront to their lucrative racket lying down, now do you?
The most important credo of the progressive movement is the need to have government pick the winners and the losers, and they do not give that up. After the first socialist movement, marxism, murdered over 120 million and put 3 billion under that evil yoke, while the second socialist movement, fascism, started a war that killed some 70 million and wrecked the world, we still get told we need more socialism, and especially marxism, to make the word fair. These people are evil.
Alex, I gotta point you to this. In particular the first three pieces in the series. Marxism is just another name for relatively common human behavior.
It’s a religion based on the appeal of envy to attract all of life’s losers and get them to bring down the existing system, all so the new feudal lords can replace the old ones, and then fuck over the people even harder.
Not entirely. Some of it is driven by pure human imagination – the imagining of a perfect world. Hubris I suppose.
The promise of a perfect world, instead of the warning that perfection only comes from heaven (meaning a perfect world is not possible) is one of the devil’s greatest and most successful lies. That’s why marxism, and any socialism for that matter, is religious in nature.
Yes, it is possible.
At least until yesterday they gave some lip service to ability. Not any more.
I’m not saying it’s aliens…
An image captured by the Mars rover Perseverance shows a mysterious doughnut-shaped rock on the red planet’s surface.
Launched in July 2020, the Mars Perseverance rover continues to explore the planet’s 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial life, according to NASA. The rover collects samples of rock and broken rock and soil (called regolith) for possible return to Earth by a future Mars mission.
The Mars “doughnut” is one of the latest objects captured about 100 meters (roughly 328 feet) away in the delta of the Jezero Crater by the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager — one of the rover’s cameras helping scientists see what’s on the planet’s surface.
Alien Homer Simpson
Today, on Be Careful What You Wish For
“Let me be very clear, President Biden has the legal authority to cancel student-loan debt,” Massachusetts Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren declared in a webinar held by several advocacy groups.
If the President has absolute power to rule by decree, what the fuck do we need the Senate for?
Let me be very clear, Elizabeth Warren is an unconstitutional idiot.
Well, ackshually she’s almost certainly a corrupt, pandering liar willing to say whatever she thinks will get her or her pet CFPB Board of Commissars more power and control of the economy.
She is real good at navigating the system to enrich herself and convince angry and envious morons she cares.
The Senate is no concern.
Whatever happened to “Sticks and stones….”
They were banned.
Especially the ones with that twig that sticks up.
Humble applause
“If the Supreme Court follows the law instead of playing politics, they will make clear that the Republican attempt to stop student-loan debt relief is baseless, and that that relief will go forward immediately,” she said.
What specific law that might be is not mentioned.
Who needs “laws” when there are votes to buy.
If the Supreme Court follows the law
That’s not how this works.
What specific law that might be is not mentioned.
How quaint.
“I’ve been in this fight for a long time and part of the reason is because it’s personal,” Warren says, explaining she was the first person in her family to get a college degree because she went to a commuter school that cost $50 a semester.
“I then went to a public law school where I got a great education and I was able to do this because I grew up at a time in America when our country was investing in me and in our future,” Warren adds.
“That opportunity is just not out there today.”
Oh.
It was before her tribe could run casinos, after all.
(Lying witch…)
So… what’s changed since that time?
Government guarantee of student loans.
No, you didn’t.
Right? If she is the return on investment I’d rather not make that investment, thanks.
And eggs were only $.25/dz, gas was $,87/gal
And if universities went ahead and stripped out all of the bullshit administrative and other costs that make an education so outrageously expensive, she’d throw a fit.
My bet is that just like all his other art bought by CCP investors, this shit is worthless after the fact.
Gitmo bound
A man armed with explosive materials and weapons, and wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was arrested Thursday in the Washington neighborhood where former President Barack Obama lives, law enforcement officials said.
Taylor Taranto, 37, was spotted by law enforcement a few blocks from the former president’s home and fled, though he was chased by U.S. Secret Service agents. Taranto has an open warrant on charges related to the insurrection, two law enforcement officials said. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
They said Taranto also had made social media threats against a public figure. He was found with weapons and materials to create an explosive device, though one had not been built, one of the officials said.
No one was injured. It was not clear whether the Obamas were at their home at the time of his arrest.
Metropolitan Police arrested Taranto on charges of being a fugitive from justice. The explosives team swept Taranto’s van and said there were no threats to the public.
Threats against the ruling class are the most serious crime of all.
Then how in the fuck is he a fugitive from justice? Never mind the bullshit of the lawsuit.
“Weapons and materials”…a 2 liter coke and a roll of Mentos. I grow more cynical every day.
the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
The what?
He was found with weapons and materials to create an explosive device
That he got from the FBI. And it is curious that he was found at the scene with the materials to make a device that was not already built.
Maybe this is all wrong, or maybe folks with wild conspiracy theories are wrong.
WTF? Middle of editing and somehow that posted?
Link.
happens to me all the time. fucking wordpress
“Democrats’ voter turnout system”
With the advent of junk mail balloting, this is a euphemism for harvesting and the misc. other kinds of fraud it enables, on par with “gender-affirming care”.
Okay Boomer Magazine. The premise is that the Republicans have a great message and they just need to yell it louder. That isn’t a winning message.
No that wasn’t the premise. It was do the same things Dems are doing for getting ballots into the box.
But the base can’t be bothered to do that stuff for the Mike Pence’s and Mitch McConnells who will be on the ballot.
It’s even more of a mystery that anyone can be motivated to do so for the Pelosis and Schumers.
Now that is a deep question with multiple answers.
The left has true-believers while most of the right doesn’t treat politics as a religion.
They also have limitless Soros money to pay the low-level operatives to do these tasks. The Republicans have neither the money nor the level of dedication to replicate that effort.
The money on the left is hardly limitless. They used to complain bitterly about the advantage the right had on that – until they leveled the playing field.
Good point about politics as religious-substitute, but even that has limits. Personally, I think passion for any partisanship is a mental disorder.
Dude, your own link said it was Tweed/Tammany machine politics. The voters’ motivation has nothing to do with it.
It’s pretty widely accepted by now that the GOP needs beat the Dems at their own vote-gathering game to have any chance. Especially “early voting” and “vote by mail”. I would not say that is a conspiracy theory at all.
Democrats’ voter turnout system
Interestingly this requires few actual voters.
Coming to a EU country near you.
https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-has-fallen-dramatic-footage-shows-social-unrest-spreading-third-night
“We learned it from you, The United States!”
”France Has Fallen’: Dramatic ‘
Hard to deny that is certainly being dramatic.
The thing is, I believe the French are completely capable of machine gunning rioters in the streets, if that’s what it takes.
It will only end in ethnic clensing – one way or another.
Yes. This was always predictable. Either the Muslim invasion completely takes over or a reactionary wave forms and we get Hitler 2.0.
Meanwhile in the UK, your banking future is being revealed.
https://zerohedge.com/political/life-uk-becoming-completely-unlivable-brexiteer-farage-being-systemically-un-banked
I’m surprised the Johns Hopkins model didn’t have a plugin for a few thousand maternal deaths in childbirth which would have been prevented by mandatory universal abortion. Maybe it did.
Swimsuit Try-On Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWOSLmvhFwQ
thicc?
Exhibitionist.
their failure to match Democrats’ voter turnout system – an operation which Campbell explicitly compares to “a 21st century incarnation of the machine politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Democrats also appear to have returned enthusiastically to the smoky backroom candidate selection model.
I am not sure that is a bad thing.
[Bernie Sanders fanbois nod their heads]
Land of empty promises
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s drug hotspots will see more law enforcement on the ground as part of Governor Gavin Newsom’s crackdown on crime and fentanyl that began in May.
He announced that he is doubling the number of CHP officers to 14 to assist San Francisco police patroling the Tenderloin and surrounding neighborhoods.
Jakub Przybyszewski, co-owner of the mid-Market Street bar Fermentation Lab said there’s not one day that goes by where he doesn’t pass by drug activity on his way to work. He said he’s become callous to all of it and he added that enforcement at various levels of government has come in waves over the years.
When it comes to this latest crackdown, he’s still waiting to see any noticeable change.
“I’m happy that they’re doing something. I wish there was more that could be done,” he said. “This area — I’ve been in for 11 years and nothing’s ever really changed.”
Just as long as Gavin gets his face on the nightly news.
“Activity”. “Patrolling”.
What might be done to actually reduce the problem is an exercise for the reader, I suppose.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
This is a block away from the house I grew up in. They should also offer the other L-food.
I’m confused. The article says they are selling a delicious Norwegian specialty, but it looks like they are selling lefse.
What was it dipped in?
Dipped? Do you know nothing about fine Norwegian cuisine?
You slap a lot of butter on, then sprinkle heavily with sugar. Their ain’t no dippin’!
Yeah, I prefer to get my heart attack from lots of heavy drinking and eating fatty foods. Sugar and I are not friends, and I need the butter to butter up my ladies.
+1 Last Tango in Paris
You forgot the cinnamon to go with the sugar, Your Holiness.
Look at Mr. Fancy Pants!
Lefse is the delicious Norwegian specialty. Of course, you have to compare that to lutefisk and blood sausages and stretch the meaning of delicious.
stretch the meaning of delicious
Suppression of the gag reflex and immunity to nausea?
Awesome.
The only good Norwegian food!
Krumkake has a sad.
Gov. Newsom said that, since the crackdown began, the seven CHP officers, in partnership with National Guard data analysts, have seized significant amounts of fentanyl, firearms and stolen goods.
“We want to build on that early success because we recognize the scale and opportunity and the responsibility to do more to supports cities like San Francisco to address quality-of-life issues. Not just issues related to fentanyl and drug use and abuse but property crime issues as well,” he said at a Thursday press conference.
I wonder if the District Attorney was at that press conference.
from the files of politics ruins everything the onion has become painfully unfunny. which is sad.
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1674511327002337283
That’s it. Twitter wants a sign-in now.
Who wore it better?
https://babylonbee.com/news/awkward-supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-with-affirmative-action-hire-standing-right-there
Vice President Kamala Harris, also an identity hire with no qualifications, weighed in as well, saying: “Affirmative action is affirmative, and that’s good. Without affirmative action, we will have non-affirmative action which is the worst kind of action. And that’s bad. HA HA HAHAHAHAHA!”
Also: Democrats Devastated As Supreme Court Bans Racism
Texas abortion ban leads to additional 10,000 births, paper concludes
That’s a lot of forced births.
Michigan residents could be charged with a felony, face up to five years in prison for using the wrong pronouns
It’s about time for a good, old fashioned revolt.
I think I found a new formula to approximate pi. It is:
n*cos(a/2)
where n is the number of sides for a regular polygon with an even number of sides and a is the measure of one of the interior angles. Here are the results of the formula for a few values of n:
n n*cos(a/2)
4 2.828
6 3
8 3.061
10 3.090
12 3.105
100 3.141
100,000 3.141592653
The result for n = 100,000 correctly gives the first 10 digits of pi.
Derivation
I’m not much of an artist, so here’s a written explanation.
For any regular polygon with an even number of sides with length s, we define a line called the orthogonal which touches the midpoint of two opposite sides and passes through the shape’s center. On the vertex of an interior angle immediately adjacent to the orthogonal, we draw a diagonal line which bisects the angle. Using some trigonometry, it can be shown that the length of the orthogonal is s/cos(a/2).
So the ratio of the shape’s perimeter to the length of the orthogonal is:
(n*s)/(s/cos(a/2)) or n*cos(a/2)
Since a circle can be thought of as a polygon with a very large number of sides, as n increases, the formula converges on the value for the ratio of circumference to diameter.
My formula is simpler than some other methods of approximating pi, including Ramanujan’s famous equation. If the goal is to generate as many digits of pi in as short a time as possible, I’m confident my formula has a computational advantage.
I am pretty sure that is known, but I could be wrong.
It looks like Archimedes may have beat you to it.
Correcting my previous post, I can safely take out the wishy-washy words:
Archimedes beat you to it.
Damn. Great minds think alike. I poked around to see if someone had discovered that formula already. Wiki says A-dawg used 96-gons to prove that:
223/71 < pi < 22/7
If I recall, the method involves inscribing a 96-gon inside another. My method requires a lot less artwork at least.
I have a conjecture about consecutive primes, which is that if you take any 2 consecutive primes and square them, the difference will always be a multiple of 6. I've been trying to link it with the Goldbach conjecture.
And my other big idea involves an equation which when iterated produces truly random numbers. I don't have a proof yet, but I suspect that the equation of any asymmetric oscillation gives random numbers when iterated.
The Arch Mede had less computational power at his fingertips, so drawing the 96-gons was probably easier.
The logistic function produces truly random numbers for certain values of r when iterated:
https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?t=312
3^2 – 2^2 = 9 – 4 = 5
Am I interpreting your conjecture improperly?
Oopsy, should have said for primes > 3.
7^2 – 5^2 = 49 – 25 = 24
11^2 – 7^2 = 121 – 49 = 72
13^2 – 11^2 = 169 – 121 = 48
…
9007^2 – 9001^2 = 108048
All those differences are divisible by 6.
I worked out many, many examples of this for consecutive primes. The big number calculator came in handy for numbers like Belphegor’s prime, which has 30 digits.
https://www.calculator.net/big-number-calculator.html
I found at least 1 number too big for the big number calculator to handle, which is 80 million factorial.
Windows 8 has between 30 and 80 million lines of codes, so 80 million factorial is the lower bound for the number of execution paths if you don’t count loops.
That’s the traditional method of estimating pi.
Fucking passive parents. Undisciplined kids are whining and running rampant. Soy parents are begging kids to behave better. Corporal punishment existed for a reason. Dr Spock was an idiot.
Re: Joe & Hunter: I’ve seen family after family where the fuckup kid gets heaped with love and praise. People are fuckin weird.
The historians 50 to 100 years from now are going to have a field day with everything from the turn of the century up to now.
Yep, I concur. Not sure if the kid is fucked up because of the heaped on love, or the fact the love is heaped on because the parents feel bad the kid is a fuck up.
You get more of what you reward.
It’s because their other choice is admit that they themselves were failures at training their child.
Which they ain’t gonna do.
Act of God
But wasn’t inflation Biden’s fault? Didn’t he cause it by spending stimulus money like a drunken sailor? Olivier Blanchard, Robert M. Solow professor emeritus at MIT and now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, predicted that the 2021 Biden stimulus would cause inflation by overheating the labor market. But in a paper Blanchard co-authored in May with Ben Bernanke, former Federal Reserve chairman, Blanchard conceded that he’d been wrong. The stimulus had not overheated the labor market, Bernanke and Blanchard concluded. Rather, inflation had arisen from supply-chain foul-ups caused by the Covid epidemic, an act of God rendered worse by comic-opera mismanagement under President Donald Trump. (Among other things, the Trump administration altered multiple Centers for Disease Control guidances on Covid to downplay the crisis, according to a staff report from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis issued three months before the GOP regained control of the House.)
If Trump did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Reality is, economics is completely dead at the macro level. Monetary theory was killed by the reduced velocity of money we’ve seen since the beginning of QE. Dead, stone cold dead.
As for fiscal theory – Trump helped kill that with the COVID $2T spike, which of course now is baseline spending.
When the reckoning comes, we’re going to be somewhere between 1980s Mexico and 1920s Germany.
But which currency will wind up replacing the dollar as the “reserve” of the world? It’s not like every other country out there isn’t doing the same damn thing with stupid amounts of spending.
I think someone pointed out that borrowing costs for Spain and Portugal are less than for the USA.
They thought that was crazy, but when I looked into it, the Eurozone as a whole has lower debt to GDP and it is actually on a downward trend for that ratio. Euro could be it.
Prior to the death of England’s empire, and consequently the pound sterling, NO ONE would’ve predicted the U.S. dollar as it’s replacement. Just because we can’t predict which currency will assume the role doesn’t mean we can’t eliminate the possibility of it happening.
Money Cowrie!
The Bancor. IOW I have no idea either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor
Don’t forget that it was Trump who spun up the money printing presses.
/brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The presses definitely didn’t slow down when Biden took office.
Note that the Fed also finally started raising rates during Biden’s term as opposed to the super loose policy they were on previously. It is stupid to compare the Biden and Trump presidencies and leave out that fact. Not to mention lockdown-initiated shortages of everything while also doing transfer payments to individuals and businesses…
“Rather, inflation had arisen from supply-chain foul-ups caused by the Covid epidemic,”
Not by Covid, by lockdowns.
” an act of God”
An act of the fed gov and chicoms, lets not pretend this thing was a natural rather than manmade disaster.
” rendered worse by comic-opera mismanagement under President Donald Trump.”
As opposed to the purposefully evil mismanagement by democrats.
AFAIK, its been on a exponential course since GWB.
Because it has value outside of influence peddling.
Hunter Biden has settled his child support case in Arkansas, according to a court filing released Thursday.
The settlement, announced in Arkansas state court, ends a bitter dispute between President Joe Biden’s younger son and Lunden Roberts, the mother of their 4-year-old child, over reducing his child support payments.
The settlement ends the yearslong dispute between the younger Biden and Roberts, which started when Roberts filed a lawsuit in 2019 seeking child support and health care for her child, who she claimed was Biden’s. After a paternity test proved Biden was the child’s father, he agreed in 2020 to pay $20,000 a month in child support.
The $20k/month was a ridiculous order but courts don’t make that up…so there is/was massive amounts of income he must have reported
Wtf is with this bs about not being able to see Tweets without logging in? Fuck you, Elon.
Does Elon somehow owe you something for free?
A lunch perhaps?
First he demands I pay for the Tesla if I want one, and now this?!?!
Aren’t the people paying $8 a month for a blue thingy operating under the expectation that their 140-character emissions of timeless wisdom are available to everyone?
I love Twitter. Lots of Glibs on there and a zillion more interesting people.
No ragrets about signing up.
Yeah it’s not hard to tailor it your wants with only a sprinkling of crazy
Does “more” modify “interesting”?
As soon as I hit reply I caught that. My Glibs are the most interesting. The zillion others less so, but still interesting.
The truth, though, is that Biden has managed the economy very well. Perhaps he will mismanage it in the future. Perhaps he won’t. Perhaps the economy will defy Biden’s attempts to manage it at all. We don’t know what will happen. We can’t know. So we might as well judge Biden on what’s happened thus far. And that story is a happy one. Unemployment is low, GDP is rising, and inflation is falling. What’s not to like?
Hail, Biden! Without him we would be naked cold and hungry.
Not only do they gaslight you, but they will call you the bigot, racist, whatever for pointing out they are a bunch of lying fucks.
The AP this morning says 20 million jobs were lost due to chicomvirus shutdown and aftermath. And we know the AP is never wrong. Has Biden’s admin caused that many jobs to be re- filled since then? I haven’t heard any of his syncophants claiming so. Biden’s economy clearly hasn’t even restored us to pre-pandemic let alone new growth.
Your eyes deceive you. The $17 you pay for a fast food meal is just an illusion.
Or Trump’s fault.
That’s not how it works.
An extremist Supreme Court has once again reversed decades of settled law, rolled back the march toward racial justice, and narrowed educational opportunity for all. I won’t stop fighting for young people with big dreams who deserve an equal chance to pursue their future.
You have never had any reservations about lying.
Pleesy
Dred Scott affirmed decades of settled law. So, you agreed with that, right?
The decision even points out how the school policies they struck down didn’t pass the tests setup by the previous ruling… it isn’t as big a ruling as some are making it out to be.
If anyone thinks this ruling is going to reduce racial discrimination by universities, they’re, well, let’s just say they are being naive.
It will be interesting how they do it going forward.
They have straight out said that replacing race with income lets in too many trailer-trash whites (and 90% of blacks accepted to Harvard are from wealthy families).
They will do it by address. Easy-peasy.
Rich black kids mostly live in the same neighborhoods as rich white kids.
They probably don’t even get enough real ghetto applicants to meet their quotas.
Hm, hadn’t thought of that.
I’m sure they’ve been outreaching TF out there for decades as it is.
But they dont live in the same house, usually*. So the address will be different.
*NoCo is by far the whitest place I have ever lived. So much so it is noticeable how many of the black kids I see have white parents.
Luckily for them, Roberts showed them how:
“I grew up white trash in the ghetto and got constant harassment from my more diverse peers.”
/lead balloon truth
Stop stealing my backstory!
Heh. It wasn’t all that bad after junior high.
Yeah, I think Roberts assigned himself the majority opinion (and probably voted with the majority so he could write the opinion) specifically to make sure he got that gaping loophole in. You can practically cut and paste it into an application form (and they will).
they are being naive
or Native?
Brown vs. Board of Education also reversed decades of settled law.
I have a feeling she’d be just as upset too. A lot of people actually. This ruling had a greater mask drop than the Lil rona Era of identifying who people really are in this country.
When the reckoning comes, we’re going to be somewhere between 1980s Mexico and 1920s Germany.
You’re not giving our domestic Peronists enough credit.
Most of my neighbors took off for the holiday weekend – Chadwick and I pretty much have the place to ourselves!
The AP this morning says 20 million jobs were lost due to chicomvirus shutdown and aftermath. And we know the AP is never wrong. Has Biden’s admin caused that many jobs to be re- filled since then? I haven’t heard any of his syncophants claiming so. Biden’s economy clearly hasn’t even restored us to pre-pandemic let alone new growth.
They have gone all out trumpeting the “unprecedented pace” of the Biden Recovery.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12251389/Alan-Arkin-dead-age-89.html
RIP
Serpentine!
That’s a hell of a catch, that catch 22.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/gorsuch-highlights-the-absurdities-of-racial-classification/
So Gorsuch spent part of his concurrence ripping apart the entire concept of racial classification.
Payblocked but good for him. He’s right.
I think “affirmative action” stopped being about its purported reason several decades ago and is now just another form of “gimme free shit”.
One of the interesting parts was about the Phillipines. Apparently they are considered Asian and not “other Pacific Islander”.
I’m reminded of the push to add a separate pigeonhole for “MENA” because too many of them are selecting “White”.
Is that Middle East/North Africa?
Yeah, the article mentioned that they are considered white by the US classification system.
But a high caste Indian (descended from those who came from the Caucasus) was not.
“Payblocked”
NR just wants to preach to the choir. What is the point of yelling “Stop!” if no one can hear you.
Does Elon somehow owe you something for free?
His new CEO is apparently looking to Google and Facebook for inspiration. (Based on something I read yesterday.)
Paywalls for everyone!
*this allows me to go back to ignoring twatter links
Regarding the discussion above about “nobody voting Democrat”. My parents are as conservative as it gets, yet they still vote Democrat all the time. I thought it was just habit, brainwashing, and gaslighting (it is to an extent), but I have come to realize many people vote based on one or just a few issues. In their case, they are in their 80’s and their main priority is their social security and Medicare. And the Dems are telling them what they want to hear.
“Supreme Court rules in FAVOR of Christian Colorado graphic designer who refused to set up a page celebrating same-sex marriage”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12251417/Supreme-Court-rules-FAVOR-graphic-designer-refused-make-website-sex-marriage.html
Elections have consequences.
It’s hard to believe that was ever in question.
More REEE incoming https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf
The Court holds that the First Amendment bars Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.
They should have overturned public accommodation laws.
Starting to get the feeling the non-Proggie block is getting a little fed up with crap arguments from the Proggie Trio.
“Harvard women’s hockey team were forced to skate NAKED, leaving them with ‘bleeding nipples’ and ice burns: Ivy League school now vows to overhaul toxic culture one player dubbed ‘mental health Hunger Games’
Katey Stone, 57, stepped down as head coach June 7 after a 29-year tenure that included four national championship appearances, but was eventually dogged by accusations she’d emotionally damaged players.
Multiple outlets have reported on a toxic on and off-ice culture for the program, including allegations that players felt forced to drink and perform ‘sexually-charged role playing’ as part of hazing rituals, according to the Boston Globe.
At practice, players were allegedly forced to do a ‘Naked Skate’ where players were told to dive on the ice in a Superman-pose while completely nude, often leaving skaters with ice burns and bloody nipples, The Athletic reported.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12248475/Harvard-womens-hockey-team-pledges-overhaul-culture-abuse-hazing-allegations.html
Thats not skating.
Young athletic college girls skating naked? I’ll look into that. /Benny Hill
Just another case of toxic masculinity.
Bull dykes have their fetishes too. Why do you hate them?
Hazing is sick. Are they saying no one complained in the 29 years?!
The court agrees with the states that the HEROES Act does not authorize the debt forgiveness plan.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf
Are you just live commenting the SCOTUSBlog feed?
For those who aren’t following.
This and the can’t force someone to provide labor are the bigger wins
Amazing what a difference it makes having jurists who don’t make the law.
The court agrees with the states that the HEROES Act does not authorize the debt forgiveness plan.
*sets out tear collection barrels*
If only we could pipe all of that into Lake Mead. But I guess that would make it to saline.
Dunno about that. Proggy tears are usually as sweet as the nectar from a dew-kissed honeysuckle bloom just as the early morning light hits it.
Somehow, I had no idea this was happening.
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/06/29/ahead-of-new-age-verification-law-pornhub-blocks-access-in-virginia/
The beginning of ID to access the internet. Figured it was coming but didn’t realize it was here.
Won’t somebody think of the children?!
I’ve become increasingly happier with my decision to migrate email and VPN over to a paid account with Proton.
Seconded.
I’m really glad I was feeling flush and signed up for the Visionary plan right before they stopped offering it (I’m now grandfathered in).
more new laws
This is laughable because the auto repair shops are the ones paying the thieves for the inventory and creating business for themselves in the process.
“Innocent until proven guilty” just got fucked in the ass, eh?
STEVE SMITH SAY WHO CUTTIN’ IN ON MY TURF?
“Increases the jury duty allowance from $30 to $50 per day.”
I think I got $7 per day back in 2014 from KY.
I got paid my normal salary.
I did too, but I was self-employed.
If you are hourly, you may not be getting paid at all by work for jury duty time, so the state pays you for your time.
It won’t stop kids from finding porn.
“Dad I can either bring home the school skank or wank to Pr0nhub” *hands over ID to sign up*
Choice A. Get your larnin the natural way with natural women and behold the wonder that is getting your dick wet IRL.
Heh always with the best comment!
Or as I recall the boy who asked for $10 to get a guinea pig and his father hands him $20 and says “find a nice Irish girl instead”.
Ma va far un culo!
The romance writer comes through!
Rather, my kid got into hentai porn way too early and it fucked up his head. I used to be ambivalent about porn, but now…not so much. Its easy availability is fucking kids up.
If the argument is kids will learn how to use a VPN, then what is the downside.
Oh, sure thing. I’ll just go ahead and upload my passport to Pornhub.
At practice, players were allegedly forced to do a ‘Naked Skate’ where players were told to dive on the ice in a Superman-pose while completely nude, often leaving skaters with ice burns and bloody nipples, The Athletic reported.”
Titillating.
Guess none of those girls had ice-cutters.
We need Q to keep abreast of this situation.
That looks nice.
Fauci Buys Exclusive 150 Acre Luxury Retreat On The Potomac – $18.9 million
Amazong what a pile of dead bodies buys.
As the marxists say: Utopia does not come without breaking a few egss.. a.k.a. dead people.
Just another humble public servant.
Sacrificing so much, and getting little to no reward.
$400,000 annual salary the last few years. So you have call it $200,000 to spend on necessities – housing, food, etc. Even if one assumes that he was very frugal, we get a max of $8 million over a 40 year career. Obviously that’s invested, makes interest over time, but to be able to afford $20 million for a house – he must be a brilliant investor.
That people can look at this crap from people in the federal government, whether presidents, senators, or bureaucrats like Fauci and not get to the conclusion that we have a corrupt-acracy stealing money hand over fist… I just don’t get it. I guess we want an aristocracy and are evolved to accept a ruling class. At least up to a certain point.
BTW, I said “I tend to like absolutes” yesterday; that’s not really the correct formulation. More I’m partial to systematic and rigorous solutions to problems. That sounds better.
BTW, the COVID article yesterday was great.
I was in the middle of typing a comment about it, but work interrupted.
Mercy Buckets.
“work interrupted” – damn work, always interfering.
They have a DSM-V classification for that. 😜
(You know I’m messing with you, right?)
In the run up to the 2016 election, many people asked why anyone should vote for Trump. I always answered: SCOTUS.
Trump failed miserably at the role of executive of the country, but we are all much better off than we would have been if Clinton had been putting people on SCOTUS.
If they had not lowballed their fortification of the 2016 election and they had been able to steal it for her, we would by now be making the CCP jealous of how hard the boot was being stomped on the neck of the deplorables,
Are you saying Gary Johnson would have made worse appointments?
There is zero chance that Gary Johnson would ever have been making those appointments. Even he didn’t take his candidacy seriously.
That being said, I did vote for the guy and not for Trump.
My vote has no effect on the election anyway.
The idiots were played again. When will all these studies freaks with massive loan debt get that unless congress passes it, they have to pay back the money they owe for falling for that “Go to college and spend oodles of money getting a useless degree doing what you like” shit.
My guess: a bank will buy all the bad debt, will fail the Feds stress test, Congress or President declares too big to fail and presto done. Just like AA, the grifters will work around it one way or another. The draw to an open treasury is just too luring
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Blossom Puzzle, June 30
Letters: E G H S O T U
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I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but it’s insane.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germanys-ruling-spd-party-ready-talk-wwii-reparations-poland
Germany has absolutely refused to discuss reparations with Poland for decades. Now, when they’re on the edge of fiscal implosion, they decide that they’ll consider it?
It’s going to destroy the SPD when the AfD is polling at 20% plus. Is Scholz trying to destroy his own party because it’s out of control?
Add to that the ECB has basically announced a CBDC is coming in October and it’s looking like the fiscal trainwreck is upon us. Everybody is getting desperate. So much so that the EU is attempting to remove member state vetos and go full dictatorship.
Hold onto your shorts, people. This ride is going to be bumpy.
They literally gave Prussia to Poland (not by choice). That makes it a deeply unpopular subject in Germany.
“Our offer is thus: Poland returns our land, and we forgive remaining damages”
That’s an understatement. The political volatility across the West is rocketing. This is going to completely upend the balance in Germany. France is in full civil disarray. England is unbanking major politicians and about to go into full economic collapse.
And in the US, Biden is not long for the office but nobody wants Harris. How in the hell that’s going to play out is anybody’s guess.
I’d be happy to see the US neocons finally get ousted from power, but I’m afraid they’ll plunge us into something worse in order to save themselves.
Check this chart out.
https://twitter.com/ZmajDespotVuk/status/1674741793076785156
AfD is rolling.
First line from AP report as seen on Yahoo.com
“WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.”
At least in the middle of the article they stated
The decision is a win for religious rights and one in a series of cases in recent years in which the justices have sided with religious plaintiffs.
This is why TMITE. Even when they eventually make the correct statement, they came out of the gate with something inherently untrue. This makes it appear that gays have a right to compel another person to speak and act against that persons’ interests.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-rules-designer-doesnt-140446544.html
Actually, she said she would be happy to work with anyone regardless of sexual orientation, as long as she wasn’t required to violate her beliefs.
Welp. Another white woman saves the day. https://twitter.com/L4dy70v3/status/1674800397519667203/photo/1
She added a login screen to Twitter?
Erica Marsh
@ericareport
Today’s Supreme Court decision is a direct attack on Black people. No Black person will be able to succeed in a merit-based system which is exactly why affirmative-action based programs were needed. Today’s decision is a TRAVESTY!!!
So she said the quiet part all these white cuntes that want to feel like they are the only reason those po black folk stand a chance believes? It is comical, if not downright infuriating, how these racists see that their belief blacks are inferior and need people like them to have a chance, is as not a good thing.
No Black person will be able to succeed in a merit-based system
Sounds racist.
Yep. She got ratio’d. Hard.
It’s a little bit too on the nose.
I think it’s parody.
I’m leaning toward not.
She’s a blue check with this in her bio:
Proud Democrat: Former Field Organizer to elect President Biden. Volunteer for the Obama Foundation. (She/Her) 💙
Media & NewsWashington D.C. Joined September 2022
And here’s her “apology” for the merit comment. I think she’s an actual, brain-dead leftist.
Plausible. Won’t get the traction her original tweet did, though. She did tweet about if anybody knew any defamation lawyers.
I don’t know anymore. I was fooled when this came up yesterday but if it IS parody it’s one of the most convincing I’ve ever seen.
Parody accounts are mostly expected to put “parody” in their bio and their monikers always hint toward parody, so… I don’t think parody.
She said the quiet part out loud because she doesn’t know any better than not to.
The white woman’s burden.
I would bet not a real account, but damn, it is so difficult to tell.
Real idiots exist.
And another one from this non-parody account that I half believe is, in fact, parody. https://twitter.com/ericareport/status/1674789459064422402
Erica Marsh
@ericareport
Another day, another TERRIBLE ruling by the ULTRA MAGA Supreme Court majority.
This sucks, I have around $17k in student loans and really needed the $10k in forgiveness. I have not paid my student loans since 2020 and it is going to really hurt me financially when I have to restart making payments in August. I’m calling on President Biden to re-issue an Executive Order pausing student loan repayment!
Disappointed that the rich can get millions forgiven from the PPP program but millions of struggling student debt holders get shafted due to the ULTRA MAGA Supreme Court majority.
Aww… I had $54k in student loans. I paid them off in about ten years.
I had $5,500.
I had $15,000, paid about $5,000, defaulted. After getting my shit together about 10 years later and without asking I got a notice that it’d been reduced to like $2,000. I was like, sure OK and paid it all off the next day.
In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.”
“rights” not same as power to coerce others”
What is best in life?
To crush your enemies before you and make them design your websites and bake your cakes. To hear their lamentations to the regulators.
OFFS!!
Yikes!
Some memes definitely go harder than others.
LOL. That’s my kind of humor right there.
“It gets two half thumbs up from me!”
-fireworks aficionado
Ahahahaha I liked the one that said ‘someone this weekend has no idea it is their last weekend with 10 fingers’
HAHAHA.
So true:
Stick ladyfinger firecrackers in your nose (ideally, lit end out) and blow them OUT of your nose or you’re a sissy chicken!
Eh, looks just like everything else I’ve seen on Twitter today.
France has gun laws last I checked, but somehow AK-47s are floating around. How in the hell did that happen?
https://twitter.com/JudgyEmoji/status/1674659010165846016
Who had Pogrom on their 2023 bingo card?
Another day, another reason to tell Bobby to fuck off.
For the Twitter challenged:
Still better than the war on drugs.
If I have to choose between warmongering psychopaths and a touchy-feely 70’s Democrat, I know which way I’m going.
That said, I don’t think RFK is getting anywhere near the White House unless there’s a full-on revolt within the DOD.
Healing camps? You might want to run this idea through the marketing department, Bobby.
Gesundheit macht frei?
It’s to help them concentrate on their problems.
They’ll be able to concentrate on their recovery.
Food, Emotional, Metaphysical, Athletic healing camps?
FEMA camps?
Choice A. Get your larnin the natural way with natural women and behold the wonder that is getting your dick wet IRL.
Are you crazy? Once a boy finds out how much fun he can have with it, he’ll never get his cock cut off (or allow himself to be chemically castrated). You’re going to wreck the whole program.
I am not signing up for twitter. I am not logging into twitter. Thanks for all the links.
I will try to remember and quote the tweet if I link it.
I almost always quote if it’s text.
#metoo
Since we’re Twittering.
https://twitter.com/TFL1728/status/1674780011860197377
Q: Why isn’t China worried about global warming?
A: Because they already have a communist government.
That sounds 100% accurate.
I am not signing up for twitter. I am not logging into twitter. Thanks for all the links.
#METoo
I’m just surprised it has taken this long for them to close the gate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/comments/14mly3d/this_beaut_showed_up_on_my_local_fb_market/
Not bad.
Not bad.
A Saturn(?) ute.
As President, I’m going to build healing camps across this country, places where recovering addicts can grow and eat organic food, heal spiritually, physically, and emotionally, and find themselves again.
Like the one in A Scanner Darkly?
I’m thinking it sounds an awful lot like the ones in Cambodia.