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 wonderous day and the links!
Top Trump prosecutor Karen Gilbert has checkered past
Comer Plans To Bring In ‘Key Witnesses’ In Biden Family Probe
Joe Rogan Offers Scientist $100,000 To Debate Vaccines With RFK Jr. On His Show
The Media Lied About Trump Not Picking Up the Check in A Miami Cafe
Cumulative Impacts From California Exodus Costs State Nearly $500 Billion
Supreme Court Considering If ‘Americans With Disabilities Act’ Covers Gender Dysphoria
Texas case successful in challenging Biden’s military vaccine mandate
Patients who regret sex-change ops, sue doctors pose legal challenges for health care industry
How is it a “secret society” if there are news articles being written about it?
Instant Pot parent files for bankruptcy protection
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Top Trump prosecutor Karen Gilbert has checkered past”
You mean the people that read Hillary Clintons mind, even after she destroyed evidence and used a server to avoid record retention rules and claimed it was that she didn’t want people to know she was doing yoga, and found that she had no ill intent when she clearly broke the law, but now reads Trump’s mind and despite a flimsy case say he had bad intentions, are all fucking crooks?
NO WAY!
That $100K from Rogan has ballooned to about $1.5M with other characters like Tim Pool kicking in.
Hotez is getting dragged hard on Twitter for not accepting. There’s not enough popcorn in the world to eat while I’m watching this.
The deep state can’t have debates happening when they clearly want to make the case that letting people that disagree with them talk is a crime.
While doing some searching on this yesterday, I discovered Rogan interviewed Hotez about three years ago, praising him as a great doctor.
Be interesting to know what’s transpired there over the last three years.
The establishment came after Rogan for using ivermectin and talking about it. They tried to take his scalp.
Rogan started realizing that the left was run by evil lying people, and that kind of left him no longer feeling the left was more liberal as they claimed?
The editing is a bit much, but gets the point across.
Hotez can’t do this debate because he’s already got a huge hole to get out of.
This guy is really just looking to set the record straight you see…
Amazing. Complete with the fake victim claims.
“Comer Plans To Bring In ‘Key Witnesses’ In Biden Family Probe”
Most Americans already know the crooks are running the country. Some however can’t be bothered because it is their crook in charge. That’s how they get away with differential enforcement and the corrupt being protected while their enemies are prosecuted.
Is anybody here a Freemason?
I admittedly have no clue what they’re about, excepting all the conspiracy theories.
Are they the order that elects their leader based on who was the least likely to scream when donkey punched during some sex act?
No, but anyone who’s been in a fraternity formed in the 19th C. is at least Mason-adjacent ritual-wise.
There are some activities that I grew out of. Wearing robes and participating in secret rituals is one of them.
LOTS of memorization of stanzas and documents to move up in the ranks. And potlucks once a week.
A moose bit my sister once…
(to be fair, she probably liked it…)
(Note: No actual sisters dated a Moose to my knowledge. Any resemblance to moose living or dead is purely coincidental. Offer void where prohibited by law. Consult your doctor if side effects from moose bites occur. The lawyer responsible for this fine print has been sacked.)
I’m a sigma nu. it was a VMU frat founded just after the Civil War. The ritualistic trappings were pretty light, inconsequential. I imagine masons et al are similar. I think ritual is fun.
we never actually made anyone fuck the donkey.
Unreconstructed and myself are also Snakes.
Is this some Harry Potter reference? I admit, I am not well versed about tat stuff, but I do recall people all talking about some snake shit in those movies/books.
sigma nu has a black and gold snake as its emblem. they gave us nice pins when we graduated that look sharp on a blazer lapel.
nice. I think some of the self-governance, self-determination stuff from the frat definitely influenced my personal politics.
So they fucked the donkey voluntarily? That’s sick.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So we did have an active Mason pledge and he would point out the cut-and-paste from his copy of the Monitor. And it shows up in the artwork too.
http://nu.semosigmanu.com/paintings.asp
“A biological woman (meaning an individual who was assigned female at birth) cannot be a Mason,” the opinion reads.
Nope. Sex is determined at conception.
Therefore sex is conceptual…
From what I can see, they just eat waffles and drink coffee at the local diner
That’s what they WANT you to think.
And I guess that mobsters just eat pasta and drink wine at the local restaurant in the back booth.
They’re just glorified men’s clubs nowadays. Started as guilds if I’m not mistaken.
But most of them are pretty strict on the whole Christian thing so tuff luck to that complainer in the article.
Also, there is a women’s auxillary organization, so maybe they could just switch? Surely if they can change gender, they can change memberships.
I believe Eastern Star is the female counterpart to the Masons. OG-1X-OG was one.
The indoctrination courses are DeMolay for boys, Rainbow Girls for, well….girls
Yup.
Do they borrow the donkey for initiation?
“The Media Lied About Trump
Not Picking Up the Check in A Miami Cafe”Shortened it to make it easier to digest.
“The Media Lied” suffices. Mornin’ all.
“The Media Lie”
“Illinois struggles with ballooning cost of healthcare for illegal immigrants, estimate passes $1 billion”
By now we all should understand that claiming to be a sanctuary whatever is easy when you let others foot the bill for it.
“I was for it but didn’t think I would be paying for it.”
I should have bookmarked that video.
I pin some slight hopes on this, but I shouldn’t.
Also slight hopes… every cohort is backsliding on this stuff at least according to one poll.
“In 2023, those with a college degree at 58% or a postgraduate degree at 53% are the least likely to agree with the gender binary.”
The benefits of higher education.
It’s probably got more to do with in-group signaling than anything else.
I’m surprised it’s that high, given the utter dominance of leftist groupthink there.
Budweiser has been running commercials about how they support The Folded Flag Federation. Quite humorous.
“Supreme Court Considering If ‘Americans With Disabilities Act’ Covers Gender Dysphoria”
it should cover serious treatment for having a mental disorder.
Once again Glibs prove that if brevity is the soul of wit… my wit is an undead soul-sucking vampire.
I did keep it down to 4 paragraphs at least to say much the same thing.
My kid when he was four identified as a Velociraptor. Ran around chasing the cat all the time. How serious would anyone take me if I told them government should not only encourage his belief, but pay for surgery to give him green scales and a large head full of razor sharp teeth in addition to nasty claws so he could feel more like what he identified as?
These days? I’m sure there are plenty of purple haired kindergarten teachers just itchy to screech at you about honoring His Truth.
Of course, they’d also insist to him that he must be a Vegan Velociraptor — shortly before he disemboweled them with his toe claw. Clever boy.
What if someday he hooked up with Lobster Girl ?
My kid said he was going to take over the world some day. So I immediately enrolled him in art school, and taught him how to pound on a podium.
Morning Banjos,
A lot of questions concerning the trans movement, in addition to the mental capacity of parents and the victims. Doctors and lawyers and ordinary peoples’ opinions are certainly going to confusing and confused.
Part of me thinks — if ADHD and other “on the spectrum” mental issues shouldn’t be discriminated against where reasonable, probably.
Another part of me says “Wait.. why the hell can’t you discriminate against ADHD or whatnot if it actually makes a difference in job performance?” (Theoretical… I’m sure there are scenarios).
And most of me says “God I sure as fuck hope not — because holy hell is that going to open things up to ‘You must pay for my genital mutilation!'”
I’d have much less of a problem with covering it if the treatment was actually a treatment — but as mentioned here and elsewhere, the current medical consensus is right up there with “I believe I should have been in a wheelchair all along… cut off my legs!” “Durrrr. ok!” Actual mental health threatment for this would be reasonable, accommodation sure as hell isn’t it. Not for the doctors, not for society.
“Another part of me says “Wait.. why the hell can’t you discriminate against ADHD or whatnot if it actually makes a difference in job performance?” (Theoretical… I’m sure there are scenarios).”
Don’t worry Scro!
The objective appears to be to have everyone with a disability of some sort. Everybody’s a victim. Nobody can be fired. Everybody can sue.
I hate it.
That’s just a manifestation of your Split Personality Transporter Accident Syndrome.
Lies! That other guy is an impostor.
IIRC, there have been incidents of “transabled” individuals getting doctors to blind them.
An urge to claw your own eyes out would seem to be the very definition of severely mentally ill and deserving of institutionalization.
It’s not even that. The case is about whether a former male inmate can sue for not continuing to be placed on the women’s section of prison, supposed treatment was delayed/denied, and was misgendered by staff.
I bet the usual ADA lawsuit parasites are chomping at the bit to sue over not providing gender inclusive bathrooms if it does fall under ADA. I travel a lot and have yet to see anyone using those now required pool devices. Or ADA compliant crosswalks in anywhere other than a downtown core in large cities. Yet millions have been wasted in compliance and the world is worse off and less safer for it.
but what if I do believe I should have unfettered access to pharmaceutical-grade stimulants?
I’ve had 2 subordinates that were aspy that were hired by the company. Nice enough guys, smart, and they wanted to do well – but neither could not deal with customers due to the social IQ issues. It was constant putting out of fires for managers. They also both had a tendency to take forever to complete projects because the attention to detail was taken to an extreme. That’s tough in a line of work where deadlines and hourly time budgets rule the day. In neither case did the situation work in the long term. One was termed, the other left of his own accord, but would have been termed if he stuck around another 6 months.
Supreme Court Considering If ‘Americans With Disabilities Act’
Covers Gender Dysphoriais even constitutional.A man can dream. Fuck Bush Sr.
Heh… that got a chuckle out of me and I can not disagree with you.
Everything is constitutional if you read the commerce clause a sufficient number of times. Or so is my understanding of the US constitution.
You have an excellent understanding of the US Constitution.
You seem to be both a gentleman and a constitutional scholar.
Feds are prosecuting Oathkeepers’ former counsel as well.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-oath-keepers-attorney-ruled-incompetent-to-stand-trial-on-jan-6-charges_5339950.html?utm_source=News&src_src=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2023-06-18-2&src_cmp=breaking-2023-06-18-2&utm_medium=email
So does that get them a mistrial based on their lawyer being cray-cray or is that just for politically favored defendants?
I’m not sure she was representing the individual defendants at the criminal trials. Probably not.
She has crazy eyes, but also a Tejas girl. Helps that her old man is locked up for 18 years.
Likely wood.
Top Trump prosecutor Karen Gilbert has checkered past
Feature > bug
They keep telling me I not only need to take people like this seriously, but I should let them make the decisions for humanity’s future….
Congressional investigators will have “key figures” appear for depositions in an investigation into allegations of influence peddling levied against President Joe Biden and his family, according to a top Republican lawmaker.
*yawn*
“The walls are closing in!”
NPR celebrated Father’s Day… by celebrating a trans POC father who gave birth to xer children “Jurnee” and “Azaelia.” Because what could be more stereotypically NPR?
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182377206/ahead-of-fathers-day-were-hearing-voices-of-dads-from-different-backgrounds
A celebration of mental illness, brought to you by your tax dollars.
They want cake.
FADEL: Coleman is transgender, and he educates people on social media about his experience, especially with pregnancy.
COLEMAN: Especially for someone like me who is also Black, also low-income, things of that nature.
Beyond parody. JFC.
The trifecta.
If you were pregnant and gave birth you are female. There is a different holiday for you. It’s called Mother’s Day.
This person has figured out how to game the system.
Twice the days, twice the presents!
Joe Rogan challenged a professor at Baylor College of Medicine Saturday to debate 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he claimed that Kennedy’s stance on vaccines was “misinformation.”
Apparently other people have offered money to charity as well. But the vax pusher won’t do it.
To be fair, “vaccines cause autism” is about as close to being a proved negative as you can get.
Not really. There have been exactly zero clinical trials conducted to evaluate the link between the administration of multiple vaccines and autism. The government and media likes to holdup strawman crazies like Jenny McCarthy and the fabricated Lancet study as a redirection. The reaction to COVID should have woken up everyone to fallacy of following the status quo messaging without questioning.
There is evidence that administering multiple vaccines at once to young children can cause an inflammatory cascade reaction that either directly causes autism (the Hannah Poling case is a striking example that has been repressed) or significantly increases the likelihood. The inflammatory cascade is likely associated with a mitochondrial deficiency that occurs in approximately 2% of the population. This mechanism of action and link was announced by the head of the CDC during an interview on CNN.
Autism is likely a descriptor for several diseases with separate causes that present similarly. Vaccines have nothing to do with a percentage of cases. There is growing evidence and an established MOA that a severe reaction to receiving multiple vaccines administered in a short period of time is associated or directly causing a substantial proportion of cases.
That Lancet fraud is not a strawman, it’s literally the origin of the meme. The mechanism of the causation keeps changing, now we’re at inflammation because all the previous attempts at proving the base idea were debunked. When inflammation is negated, I’m sure there will be another proposed mechanism, rather than a willingness to let go of the idea.
I have no idea if it has anything to do with autism, but the vaccine schedule for kids is three times as big as it was 40 years ago.
That’s simply not true. The PI for the Lancet study was conman who jumped onto the already existing cause. He did not create it.
It’s not clear to me at all the mechanism keeps changing. Rather there are likely several different mechanism since autism is a single descriptor for several diseases that present similarly. As the number of simultaneously administered vaccines increases at younger ages, I would anticipate the number cases from this mechanism increasing proportionally. Genetics plays a role in some cases. Environment plays a role in others.
If you are unfamiliar with autism research, I suggest starting with the Hannah Poling case to get some perspective. Read through the various CDC schedules over the past 40 years to understand the changes. What children have received in the past 20 years is mind blowing compared to what we received as children. Watch the interview with the head of CDC discussing this exact issue and admitting it’s associated with autism before leaving the CDC to join the head of Merck’s vaccine department. Read a few of the dozens of articles out there on the link between mitochondrial deficiencies and autism.
I am not saying vaccines cause autism. I am saying that autism is group of several diseases with different causes. There is evidence showing one of these autism-related diseases may occur as a result of a severe reaction occurring in children with a specific mitochondrial deficiency due to a severe reaction from receiving multiple vaccines simultaneously at too young of an age. There is not strong enough evidence out there for any research to definitively say vaccines cause autism or that vaccines do not cause autism. Just like with Covid, research on this subject has been strongly suppressed. But the data that is out there is suggestive enough to make any rational person want to investigate further. I don’t see how anyone could read the Hannah Poling case and not ask…”Well although this case doesn’t show anything, what’ being described is very disturbing… what happened here?”. And then the exact same scenario is echoed by tens of thousands of parents. I’ve had health care providers relate this scenario to me about their own patients, completely unprompted, during my own research. Yet that entire line of questioning has been shutdown. It’s as far away from the scientific method as one can get.
Rogan screenshotted the tweet Hotez made mocking the amount offered to charity.
There is no point in debate when you are right…
To be fair, just because someone want to debate you does not mean you should do it.
It also doesn’t mean that anyone should give you any credence after you refuse to.
And if you refuse to debate, I don’t think you can call yourself a “scientist” any more.
CON-SENSE-SUS!
Emphesis on the SUS.
Maybe also don’t be the little rat bastard that started it in the first place.
the general argument on this is that debating is a skill and not one necessary for a scientist, so there is no point in debating if you do not have the skill
I do expect scientists to defend their positions.
That’s not how SCIENCE! works.
The scientific process is nothing but a rigorous and highly formalized form of debate.
Now if you were to argue that what passes for debate in today’s schools has nothing to do with science, or reality for that matter, I’d agree with you.
But what RFK and Rogan are proposing is more akin to a conversation. Hotez puts himself out there as a foremost expert on the matter, why is he afraid to sit down with someone who challenges his positions? He should be able to mop the floor with RFK.
I’ll note that this phenomenon is not restricted to Hotez. None of the vax-pushers will engage in any format where they have to answer challenging questions.
“Now if you were to argue that what passes for debate in today’s schools has nothing to do with science, or reality for that matter, I’d agree with you.”
Hear, hear.
If I see “debate” on a resume, it goes in the trash (for Engineering / technical positions). I need people who can solve problems, figure out what’s really going on, question their assumptions, take inputs from different and conflicting sources, evaluate trade-offs, etc.
Being a debater drives failure on all of that. They’re basically trained to pile words on top of words and never concede anything. And if pressed, their arguments get increasingly esoteric and goalpost-move-ey to try to twist the discussion into something odd and diversionary.
The problem is that SCIENCE!! is now moving into the realm of religion. You see it invoked here in just that way “I don’t need to prove/defend my point, I am the gate-keeper!” Hotez wears the mark of the new priestly class, a PhD behind his name.
Nah, you don’t have to acquiesce to anyone’s demands, especially not when they control the format/framing/editing etc.
If someone demands I choose a side, I choose the side that doesn’t demand I choose a side.
Then set your terms for participation.
Everyone else can then determine if you’re being reasonable.
Weird, if I have to choose a side it’s not the guy who was wrong about the most recent big thing.
You are insufficiently contrarian then.
That did sting a little.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZ2wMx2CYAAVhOu?format=jpg&name=small
Mark Steyn, bless him, might not be with us for a lot longer. He had a couple of heart attacks around Christmas but I had thought he recovered completely.
But I’m listening to his podcast now and he said “As many of you have deduced I’m not in hreat shape, but I have one last battle in me because the death of free speech will plunge our world into darkness.”
Steyn has taken on anti-speech outfits in Canada, America, and Britain. He has never NEVER settled out of court. But the process is the punishment and his enemies in the deep state are trying to kill him with bureaucracy.
Go buy something from his website. He has put not only his money but his entire being where his mouth is.
https://www.steynonline.com/13564/jumping-the-tracks
LOLZ.
Steyn just referred to Biden as the “dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet.”
Good news: The EU will classify nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source on a par with renewables.
https://twitter.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1670746179368280067
Holy hannah. That is terrific news!!!
They are doing this after Germany decommissioned their plants and had to stand up a nasty coal burning facility? The French must be fucking with them.
The Guns of August 1914 are still remembered in France.
It’s everything to do with France not wanting to be forced to replace reliable nuclear sources with unreliable’green’ options
So the French are…saving Europe?
Strange times.
Grifting is more important than carbon reduction.
The green movement is about a horrible lie to scare idiots into letting the rich fleece the rest of us even harder.
Excellent. Might be a bit late to compensate for the recent loss of carbon based energy generation, though.
That is awesome.
The Media Lied About Trump Not Picking Up the Check in A Miami Cafe
*shocked face*
I discovered that Arnie has a new show on Netflix. Did he do it because he was bored, because he needed the money, because he hadn’t had any young PAs to chase or what?
First episode was… not promising. It was like True Lies: The Series, but instead of a husband/wife thing, it’s father/daughter, in which the daughter will probably be the modern audiences girlboss. To be fair, Arnie isn’t completely incompetent and dependent on her to save him yet, but it’s on Netflix (though made by Skydancer, so maybe there’s hope?)
The parts about him fucking up his family life seemed a little fourth wall breaking. Also, the chick pilot from Top Gun.
I have a great deal of residual youthful affection for his work.
To me he was the American dream: arrive in the US with nothing but ambition, a strong work ethic and a high tolerance for steroids and in one generation become rich, famous, and marry a Kennedy.
Me too.
Yeah, the family drama is a little on the nose.
The show is meh, but like not adahn, I have a residual respect for him.
My suggestion? Watch Conan the barbarian instead, of they still have it up.
Sort of related but not really.
I almost fell out of my chair yesterday when I saw Blazing Fucking Saddles is streaming in Prime.
Illinois struggles with ballooning cost of healthcare for illegal immigrants, estimate passes $1 billion
If only there was some solution to the presence of illegal aliens.
Uh…
Biden makes a bizarre joke to crickets in the audience, then asks, “Alright, where we going?”
Lump looks even more confused than Traitor Joe in that skit.
Hey, a little more respect for “my” senator. Fetterman may appear dumb, and his wife is probably a commie, but he’s better /sarc/ than some accomplished heart surgeon who sought and got Trump’s endorsement.
AKA a RINO NJ resident.
Glad I didn’t have to make that awful choice, but it speaks to how awful Team Red as an organization is in PA.
Fettermen is my senator. He represents ME.
I thought he was from PA, not ME…
Those bizarre clips are coming faster and faster. At this point it will save everyone time if they just tweet out the few times he’s coherent.
Protect your bloodline
https://twitter.com/Theesovereignn/status/1670185685502787584
That stuff looks inaccurate to me… They are not representing the gangbangers well.
First instinctual reaction — “It is always about the blood with you, Pie!” 😉
Second — “Ah, racial purity is cool as long as it is the right race. They just need a snazzier name for it like La Raza and all…”
I was going to go with “Aryan”
Must maintain O- purity!
+ one +
Now imagine that promoting protecting a Caucasian line…
Black racist online teenagers are as dumb as any other. “I’m going to make sure my great-grandchildren don’t marry outside their race!” But they are pretty funny. One black chick was calling us Euromutts “palm colored people”.
What codes?
Democrat accidentally says Trump “should be shot – stopped.”
That’s quite the slip there.
That’s next.
Great visual showing why even getting 90% of the implementation budget might simultaneously sound like a lot and lead to unusable results…
https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1670176024183668737
The response about Utah is funny.
Even funnier is that if you trimmed 8 inches off each side of the court, everything would be fine.
whaddup doh’
whats goody
the general argument on this is that debating is a skill and not one necessary for a scientist, so there is no point in debating if you do not have the skill
He’s skillful enough at pulling numbers out of his ass. Let him come on and tell us how he came up with them.
https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1669030822215655436
LOLOOOL
Mutha fucka.
During the COVID lockdowns, i stopped taking all of my medications except my anti-seizure drugs.
Got much better all across the board. Pharma can suck it.
As Creosote Achilles says “to think I used to argue that a business has an incentive to not kill their customers”.
Doesn’t apply when the federal government forces every human in the country to be a customer.
The idea isn’t to kill, but like a drug dealer, keep your marks on the hook dependent to keep the cash flowing.
The way the ultra-conservative right are dominating discourse in this country, even as the public’s attitudes increasingly become more liberal, should be a warning to progressives that we are losing this fight and need to change course
https://twitter.com/elliemaeohagan/status/1670709169362464769
But I thought it is Islamophobic to criticize that particular “ultra-conservative right”
So the argument is that because the right keeps winning arguments they left needs to double down on censorship?
That’s how you authoritarian hardcore…
LOL what color is the sky in that person’s world.
ultra-conservative right
Aka “average conservative/libertarian/non-leftist.
public’s attitudes increasingly become more liberal…we are losing this fight
Then public attitudes are not becoming more liberal.
They would be winning that fight if public attitudes were becoming more liberal.
i might have to call in a heart attack or something today.
Could really use a day off.
https://www.idahotribune.org/news/un-happy-fathers-day-pervert-killed-in-kellogg-idaho-after-police-and-school-admins-took-no-action
TL;DR version: high school kid with history of rapey behavior jerks off in front of neighbor kids. Cops do nothing and the second time it happens the neighbor dad goes over and kills everyone in the house.
This is one of those incidents where liberals and conservatives instinctively fall on different sides of it (judging by the replies). I don’t have much sympathy for the parents whose child had a history of behaving this way. They should have stopped it somehow. The perv’s brother, well…
The problem is that the people that make the laws empathize with the fucking pervert (they are highly likely to be perverts themselves) and desperately want to make sure nobody dares to take the law into their own hand cause it could be them in the crosshairs.
Wagons were circled
Mark Cuban—Shark Tank star, billionaire entrepreneur, and owner of both the Dallas Mavericks and Cost Plus Drugs—waded into a chaotic Twitter brawl about vaccines on Sunday involving some big names—including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.
It centered around Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan challenging a medical expert—Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine—to enter a debate about vaccines on his show. That came in response to Hotez sharing a Vice article from Friday entitled “Spotify Has Stopped Even Sort of Trying to Stem Joe Rogan’s Vaccine Misinformation.”
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Twitter owner Musk then tweeted, “He’s afraid of a public debate, because he knows he’s wrong.”
Hotez replied, “Seriously Elon? This is monstrous. 200,000 Americans needlessly perished (including 40,000 Texans, our neighbors) because they were victims of antivaccine disinformation during our awful Covid delta/BA.1 waves in 2021-22. Please don’t do this…”
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman unexpectedly joined in, tweeting, “I will add $150,000 to @joerogan’s wager so now $250,000 can go to charity and the public can hear an open debate on an important topic.”
Tom Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic, tweeted about the invitation: “No medical professional should ever agree to do this. Never. It elevates the conspiracy guy, demeans the medical professional, and will only convince the kooks out there that RFK is right because a real doctor took the time to debate him.”
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At this point, Cuban, whose Cost Plus Drugs aims to lower the cost of generic drugs, weighed in:
“Way to talk in generalities Joe. Not saying there aren’t a lot of f***ed up things about pharma. That’s why we created Cost Plus Drugs. But to ignore that the same industry has saved who knows how many lives is bullshit and you know it. It’s also disrespectful to all the doctors, researchers and medical professionals that dedicate their lives to saving lives, like Dr Hotez and the 800k plus doctors in the country that believe vaccines save lives.”
Nice appeals to authority, Fortune. Why don’t ou ask Hotez to back that 200k number up, just in the interest of science? And why would anybody think Cuban knows any more about medicine than Rogan?
Well just like Science in general the industry is not a monolith. The scientism fuckers are the ones who are pushing the it is. You should be able to separate things that work from those that don’t, not a take it all or leave it all proposition
Because as an owner of Cost Plus Drugs, he probably has no horse in this race.
Big pharma is good, which is why I have created Cost Plus Drugs to fight back against big pharma.
“Two different people independently faked data for two different studies in a paper about dishonesty.”
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1670219390850322432
If it is what people call soft sciences, you know the quackery that has shit to do with anything logical or scientific, my assumption is that odds are 99.9999% that it is just bullshit. Especially when it has a political/ideological bent favoring the left.
Squirrel With A Gun, the next big gaming franchise or just a shitty indie game with a fun premise? Discuss.
Dammit, now we know what Skynet has been up to with the Server Squirrels!
(ba-ba-bum-bum-BUM-BUM)
Dammit, CPRM… now I have that earworm of a theme song going through my head! ;P
It does look cute though — reminds me of Untitled Goose Game in that it looks like you’ll have collection / object missions at a glance. My son probably would enjoy it to no end, I’ll have to keep it in mind. Like the use of recoil physics to get the squirrel where it wants to go.
A Fed carrying a Hi-Power in this day and age?
[Cuban] then laid into Musk as well, contending that Rogan and Musk’s Twitter “are the mainstream online media and your platforms have become everything supposedly wrong with MSM [mainstream media].”
He added, “You are driven by self interest. Just like the MSM always has been accused of. And you both have earned that right. You busted your asses to be great at what you do and earned all you have accomplished. But don’t lie to yourselves and all of us and tell us you are different. You aren’t.”
It wouldn’t be a story about Mark Cuban without a big helping of nonsensical jibber jabber.
Cuban is bought & paid for by the CCP.
Also he sucks as Mavericks owner, dumb trades, dumb signings.
The Material Basis for Cozy Horror
fucking wordpress
https://tasker.land/2023/06/13/the-material-basis-for-cozy-horror/
long read but fairly interesting (some lefty bias but not much) over scifi, fantasy, horror, paranormal romance, young adult fiction / publishing
Also the take of “Starship troopers = nazi” is as stupid as always
Any system of accountability or that is meritocratic, is Nazi these days
Rush’s 2112 was deemed fascist back in the 70’s for being mean to authoritarians, plus the songs like Anthem and Something for Nothing, and credits to Ayn Rand in the liner notes got them labeled by some publications.
I didn’t know this was a thing.
it has been for decades
Why? I’ve never read any navel-gazing sci-fi analysis. Is it just what Alex mentioned above?
militarist = fascist ; voting is conditional = fascist; not leftis-= fascist; stuff i don’t like = fascist; etc
It’s based on the Verhoeven movie.
not in the context I linked .
“The blueprint for this type of writing was first laid down by Robert Heinlein whose Starship Troopers can best be summarised ‘But what if the Nazis had been cool about Filipinos?’”
e deeply stupid statement overall
My contention is, nobody who read that book without being aware of the movie would have made the Nazi connection. Only if you’ve seen/heard about the movie would you get that from the reading, since there is no Nazi symbology/philosophy in it.
There was no movie when I read the book and, as you say, there was nothing in it that made me think of Nazis.
I’m sure Tunnel In The Sky is about the Hitler Youth to the author of the article.
Cool link, bro!
it is not my fault wordpress is stupid
You should be able to separate things that work from those that don’t, not a take it all or leave it all proposition
Yeas, and if you claim something works, that claim should be subject to verification. And just because it has some chance for success on some sliver of the population, that doesn’t justify forcing it onto everyone.
*not saying that is your position, Pie
Sure. I was just reminded of the most idiotic thing I heard from high priest Degrasse Tyson how you cannot “cherry pick science”, if you take antibiotics you should also take the covid vax or something.
That quote is, as typical for NDT, insufferable.
That’s pretty close to his take, almost verbatim.
“Parents have been left furious after schools in New York were told to keep their children’s gender identities secret from their families under new guidance.
The New York State Education Department released 42 pages of new guidance last week which told schools to ‘keep information’ about a child’s gender identity ‘from families if they deem it necessary’.
The report also calls for schools to end the practice of separating boys and girls during physical education as it ‘marginalizes’ transgender and ‘gender expansive’ students and marks them as ‘others’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12210313/Fury-New-York-schools-told-childrens-gender-identities-secret-families.html
Gender expansive?
A new euphemism for “fat.”
If telling parents is dangerous, how much more dangerous is it for schools to withhold information that will ultimately come out anyway?
When I was a kid the general knowledge was that any adult that told you they had some fun activity they wanted to do but you had to promise not to tell other adults was a fucking pervert and needed to be reported. Today this is the de facto position of the left. I am 100% certain the assumption they want to hide it because they know what they are doing is wrong, bears out.
They are actively trying to break down all norms and rules in society because those are “conservative” and therefore bad. So they know what they’re doing.
Further evidence that T has completely taken over the alphabet. Sex-separated PE was never an issue before the trans hysteria ramped up.
And this is exactly the kind of thing that could, and should, provoke the backlash we saw in the poll I mentioned above.
PE is fatphobic
Sad thing, it isn’t the T’s pushing it.
Keeping secrets about children from the parents should result in corporal punishment for the teachers and admin involved.
They’ve already been doing this in regards to birth control and so forth. Not really surprising, but a nice reminder to never ever return to NY.
I am extremely disturbed to share with you all an extended exchange in which Noah Fucking Smith is the sane person by a wide margin.
“enabled a genocide” WHAT
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1670582309471547392
I find it hilarious how college educated dumb ass people, especially these liberal women (and that includes the soy-boys), always come around to marxist tropes to blame failures caused by their policies.
What a community note
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1669975671043420162
Yeah, this is one heck of a self own by these idiots. Their champion is a guy that raped a 14 year old, killed the 14 year old, then raped the corpse a few more times for good measures. I guess they want it to be that when you think tranny you should think child corpse rapist.
That note was different a few days ago. I remember it made specific mention of the raping of the child’s corpse.
I still maintain that Community Notes will somehow be hijacked to become worse than Politifact within the next 2 years.
“Supreme Court Considering If ‘Americans With Disabilities Act’ Covers Gender Dysphoria”
It does not. Next question.
“Healthcare providers may think twice about giving young people puberty blockers or other drug or surgeries, amid growing litigation by former patients who desisted from gender confusion.”
The backlash seems to be coming along nicely. Excellent. ::drums fingertips together::
Hope all you Glib dads had a great Father’s Day. My day was spend setting up the new gym. 5 days in, we have everything bolted to the floor that needs boltin’, the flooring is mostly done, and all the equipment is in the building. Mostly lots of cleaning and rearranging now, plus many of the weights are rusty and they need some TLC.
So it was a mental illness, then a totally natural thing, and now its a disability?
Ev is about to go a clinic where I am going to talk to a clinician. We’re going to talk. I’m going to focus on being honest, listening and learning. No decision to be made today. Possibly in-patient time. Out-patient or a mix is also possible.
I am not going to go full on with the quasi-suicidal thoughts. I don’t really have them. It’s more of an inside joke about how I’d do it to not make a mess. I’ve had that thought for a long time. I’ve never hurt myself (on purpose) or used a drug w a needle. My drug/alcohol use is excessive.
This will be difficult. I had a VERY rare cry session, in private on purpose, about all the shit that’s wrong with me and what can and will go further wrong with me. Well. I’m on my feet for now, even though I resigned from the paper a week ago. The stress amplified my epilepsy symptoms. Living in my own apartment was great and dangerous. I think I need eyes on me.
Many things. Depression is the worst. Hrm. The symptoms worsening coincides pretty well with a large increase in oxycarbazepine. Suspiciously.
Well. Wish me luck glibs. Big step needs to happen. Gonna be a rough day and road.
Hope everyone lands in the right spot for y’all and yours.
ev
I wish you all the luck Evan.
best of luck
-BAI chatbot
Take care, Evan.
Best wishes
Good luck!
Good luck Evan. My middle kid checked herself in for a few days one time. It was the best way to get her meds right. When she got out she did a lot better. But recently she’s decided to stop all her meds, and that’s not going well for her. It’s hard to ask for help, but we all need to sometimes.
Aha, aha, ahahaha. “Green jobs require higher skills. Expanding and investing in these jobs will help raise productivity.” Productivity is value of output divided by labour hours to produce it. More workers for same value of ‘leccie reduces productivity. That’s definitional.
https://twitter.com/worstall/status/1670716062717837312
More useless overpaid people that add zero value?
Eight days without reading a story about Trump or Biden.
Daily Quordle 511
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 19
Letters: E G L S P R U
My score: 315 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 511
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Daily Quordle 511
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Daily Quordle 511
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 19
Letters: E G L S P R U
My score: 372 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌺 🌹 🏵 🌻 🌷 💮 🌸 🌼 💐 🌺 🌹
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Since then the program has been expanded twice and now covers those aged 42 and older. Some Democrats are pushing to expand that to everyone older than 19 but there’s a problem. The estimated cost of the program has expanded much more quickly than anyone expected.
You get what you voted for.
The estimated cost of the program has expanded much more quickly than anyone expected.
The people who expected it and should be vindicated now were accused of disinformation when they pointed out the cost increase, weren’t they?
The debunker’s delusion
Fact-checking and anti-disinformation have fallen victim to the disease they sought to eradicate
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-debunkers-delusion/
Such was the case in the latest missive from the BBC’s answer to Taylor Lorenz. Marianna Spring. Her programme, “Marianna in Conspiracyland”, focuses on the growth of what she calls the “conspiracy movement” in the town of Totnes, a countercultural market town beloved of hippies, and the popularisation of the conspiracy newspaper “The Light” in the community. It’s a fascinating story, and could have made a compelling and powerful BBC documentary.
Unfortunately, Marianna did not so much gild the lily, as commission a golden facsimile of the lily
Fail
An unusually candid North Korea has said the botched launch of a military satellite last month was the “gravest failure” but it vowed it would soon succeed in its quest, state media reported on Monday.
North Korea’s ruling party made the assessment of its May 31 launch at a three-day meeting that ended on Sunday, ordering workers and researchers to analyse the mission that ended with the rocket and its spy satellite pay load plunging into the sea, and to prepare for another launch soon.
Something tells me accountability is real, in North Korea.
I wonder what happened to the person who recommended the wrong kind of gasket in the “Challenger” disaster? I’m betting he (or she) got promoted several times and is living off a nice, fat government pension today.
Officials “who irresponsibly conducted preparations” for the failed launch were “bitterly criticised” at the meeting, the KCNA state news agency reported.
This ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?
Billionaires now hold so much of the world’s wealth, their apologists argue, there’s no choice but to rely on them for philanthropy. But we can’t take our eyes off the ball: We need to tax the ultrarich out of existence.
https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1670582918111182850
Envy, the marxist’s favorite deadly sin..
If we’re going to dredge up hackneyed already tried ideas, let’s start with kill a commie for mommy.
… and then rely on politicians and bureaucrats for philanthropy.
Pass.
What are some good movies for July 4th?
the same movies that are good on any other day?
Traditional, cynical, or cheesy?
Traditional, I guess.
So, I asked BAI chatbot…
LOL @ #4. Perfect.
#5 sounds depressing as hell.
Oliver Stone and Tom Cruise!
The musical “1776” is another Independence Day classic.
April Morning
Well I didn’t think this was true until now
In June 2022, the Defense Department released a fact sheet outlining its involvement in a program to reduce “legacy threats from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons” in states that formerly made up the Soviet Union. It notes the U.S. provided support to 46 “peaceful Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and disease diagnostic sites” that worked to promote human and animal health.
The document also says the facilities are owned and operated by Ukraine, with the U.S. acting as a partner that provides equipment and other support. It says both nations have agreed to not develop nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
“These facilities operate just like other state or local public health and research laboratories around the world,” the fact sheet says.
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Just regular bats in the local Ukrainian health clinic- just like your local county health clinic. Nothing to see here folks. 😛
Maybe we can write to putin and suggest he bomb those sites specifically
One man’s shantytown…
Russell City was bulldozed, the land was sold off to developers in 1967 and residents had to relocate. Decades later, the city of Hayward issued an apology for the destruction, and Knowles is part of an effort to study whether the land was seized improperly, and to make recommendations to local authorities about what they can do to atone for it.
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“Everybody was warm, loving, kind, sharing, like a family, like a village,” said Johnson’s mother, Jessie Mae Johnson, 82, who first visited the neighborhood from Oklahoma when she was 14. At the time, Russell City had no running water or sewage but was filled with homes, businesses, churches, a school and a lively music scene, which is still commemorated with the Hayward Russell City Blues Festival.
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Today, where Russell City once stood are now 200 acres of nondescript industrial warehouses. What is now loading docks for 18-wheelers was once a garden with farm animals tended by Johnson’s grandmother. A pet shop supply store sits where Knowles believes her grandfather’s auto body shop sat.
Oral histories of the community have been passed on through families and annual reunion picnics, hosted for the past four decades by former residents and their families, many of whom now live in various parts of Alameda County.
“I was always told to get my family’s land back,” Johnson said as she sits and reflects in her brother’s home perched on a hill in Oakland that overlooks the sprawling city about 20 miles away from Hayward. However, the lack of documentation to prove whether the county government acted illegally or improperly compensated residents has been a major hurdle for Russell City’s Black descendants looking for restitution.
Long NBC tearjerker about urban removal project in California. Just like urban removal projects all over the country.
What’s the solution? Don’t ask me. Learn from the past, I guess. Incessantly picking at festering wounds probably isn’t the path to long term harmony.
Picking at festering wounds is the whole point.
But Delaware still had slaves?
NJ did. The “Emancipation Proclamation” didn’t apply to Union held territory at the time of it’s signing.
Heh…
Knowles said she knows there is a long way to go before any reparative recommendations can be made to ensure that the process remains inclusive of everyone who called Russell City home.
Johnson is seeking justice through multiple avenues beyond the Russell City Reparative Justice Project. She is working with Where Is My Land, an advocacy group launched by activist Kavon Ward, who is credited for successfully pressing government agencies to return to the Bruce family its family land that sits on a pricey stretch of oceanfront property in Manhattan Beach.
She and her brother Michael also brought the story of Russell City to the California Reparations Task Force as it forms recommendations to address slavery’s lingering harms against African Americans, including mass incarceration, health disparities and the devaluation of Black businesses. The task force is submitting recommendations to the state Legislature on July 1.
If A, then alphabet.
Jackpot!
https://twitter.com/GayRepublicSwag/status/1670454921789943808
Teaching tolerance and acceptance.
We need to tax the ultrarich out of existence.
It’s a timeless classic.
Boy is this fucked up:
5 young women killed by reckless driver in Minneapolis
And, once again:
Son of a former Dem pol.
My math might be off but I’d swear that 2020 + 8 is greater than 2023.
Yep. Story after story of scumbags who should have been in prison killing people. My city isn’t looking too good right now.
You didn’t carry the social justice integer.
While the SFSU researchers’ report has not yet been made public, the steering committee has contracted Ceres Policy Research, a racial justice consulting group, to help create policy recommendations for Hayward. Kerby Lynch, the Ceres Policy Research project manager, said that the descendants are deliberating how they want the information to be shared with the public. She sees reparative recommendations moving from race-based to “event-based.”
“Ceres Policy Research, a racial justice consulting group”
They misspelled “criminal enterprise”.
““There were no doctors at the clinic, and the clinic’s manager, who decided which treatments the girls would receive, was a former Wendy’s manager with no prior medical experience. According to Shrier, when the employee took the girls’ medical histories, she noted that “a lot of them have serious emotional issues, a lot of them had a history of abuse.”
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1670606192983543808
To be fair, most of the people involved couldn’t manage a Wendy’s.
They should all be prosecuted into oblivion, but they won’t be.
“Trump turned your kids trans by weakening Clean Water Act rules
Back in 2002, we had a study showing atrazine “demasculinizes” frogs, disrupting their endocrine system and altering their sexual maturation and functioning.
Evidence grew stronger over time and this was seen as a lib point calling for stronger regulation.
In the Obama years, liberal publications like Mother Jones argued that atrazine was turning male frogs into females and that this was evidence of likely harms to humans — conservatives denounced this as paranoid.
Tyrone Hayes, the other of the sexual dysfunction in frogs study, was the subject of intense criticism from the makers and commercial users of atrazine and was covered in the New Yorker in 2014 as a hero scientist standing up to big business.”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1670769926284492801
Back in 2002, we had a study showing atrazine “demasculinizes” frogs, disrupting their endocrine system and altering their sexual maturation and functioning.
It turned the fricken frogs gay and your fricken kids trans. IOW, AJ was right.
Is this the first attempt to politically orphan the trans movement and blame it on conservatives?
I did not have “Matt Yglesias echos with Alex Jones” on my bingo card, but here we are.
My biology might be off but I’d swear that frogs are not humans.