Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Another day, another set of links!
Ban on Recording Without Consent Is Unconstitutional, US Court Rules
Biden admin to appeal order limiting contact with social media companies
Americans’ ‘excess’ pandemic savings now depleted, Fed research finds
Bankruptcy Filings on the Rise in First Half of 2023
USDA says it overpaid 10% of food stamp benefits in 2022 as program doubled from 2019
Housing affordability plummets to lowest level since 2007 as prices jump
That’s all I got for today. I’ll let you provide your own songs and move along with my day.
“Ban on Recording Without Consent Is Unconstitutional, US Court Rules”
The crooks that don’t want to be recorded admitting they are crooks are gonna find a way around this.
“Biden admin to appeal order limiting contact with social media companies”
How dare the court torpedo the mandarinate’s workaround to the constitution’s stupid limitation that government not use its power to fuck over the citizenry so they can be even more corrupt and criminal in their endeavors?
“Americans’ ‘excess’ pandemic savings now depleted, Fed research finds”
But there is no inflation!
No one even knew what inflation was until those damn Republican’s brought it up!
“Bankruptcy Filings on the Rise in First Half of 2023”
Only the government can just keep spending more than it takes in without consequences…
OK, there will be consequences, but they will make sure we are the ones that pay it. Not them.
“Housing affordability plummets to lowest level since 2007 as prices jump”
I am more ticked off about the freaking loan rates. It looks like I am going to be better off just paying cash when I retire and move rather than get a mortgage at the current insane rates.
Retire? Lol
Yeah, I went from almost ready to you are gonna need at least another decade of putting away money that seems to only keep losing value in a system that keeps losing value… and I am not counting on SS. That thing is DOA.
Then you won’t have to accept Medicare.
Oh, That’s another thing I am working to make sure never is needed. Or VA coverage of any kind.
Why would you take out a big loan when you retire? That’s when you should be debt-free. Your income is going down, so your monthly nut should be going down, not up.
I was not thinking of a big loan. I was thinking of a smaller loan just to have some tax deductions. Not worth it today anymore, so yea, paying cash.
This shit is likely why we went through the whole Kung Flu scandemic shit…
LOL that’s a No from me, dawg.
You don’t get a vote peasant/serf. Know your place!
“Emergency powers.” LOLOLOL….
The emergency platform would also give the United Nations the power to “Ensure that all participating actors make commitments that can contribute meaningfully to the response and that they are held to account for delivery on those commitments.”
Buzzword bingo is fun but not really. This farce of an organization has not done anything that it was allegedly supposed to. It needs to be dissolved.
The UN is great at sending “peace keepers” to rape the youth of whatever unfortunate place they deployed their forces to. Most of the time they compound this shit by video taping it and serving it up to the child molesting lot around the globe that supports them.
Maybe the southern border infiltrators are undercover peace keepers? Just because we don’t know doesn’t mean it’s not true
In a shocking turn of events nobody could see coming, we’ll have one of those emergencies within a year and it will never go away.
OK, here ya go.
Banana republic…
And you get a judgeship, and you get a judgeship, and you…
This may not go unpunished. Federal judges get rather pissy about the “sanctity” of the position and the respect they’re deserved.
Judges don’t deserve respect. They still need to earn it. After all, most of them are lawyers, that’s a lot of respect defecit to overcome.
Deserve ain’t got nuthin’ to with it.
do with it
That’s why they have to keep inventing new things to charge him with.
My problem with this whole affair is that if they can get away with doing this shit to him, then they will have no remorse, or even doubts, of doing this evil shit to the rest of us…
The are still running a literal gulag for J6 protestors. Haven’t seen any action yet, but they want to put every last non-antifa Charlottesville protestor in a gulag too.
Keeping these people locked up for years without a trail and then forcing them to accept a plea deal where the crooked class gets them to blame their political enemy, is the punishment.
I’ll let you provide your own songs and move along with my day.
Ok. This one’s for you personally. now I have to go out and personally take care of the details. Which will be a pleasure.
Invisible ink?
Waiting for that placeholder to be changed, I’m wondering about the Spicer household. The implication is Sloopy didn’t preread the Lynx of Banjos, which further makes me think there’s at least two computers looking at Glibs at any one time. Which THEN makes me wonder how they’re keeping their brood from popping on here to say “hi!”
The kids don’t want to hang out with their parents’ friends online.
Mojeaux’s does.
Some day, God willing, they’ll get their asses out of bed and do the links for us.
But today I was just wishing my lovely wife a happy birthday.
HAPPY B-DAY BANJOS!
Happy birthday Banjos. 🙂
Is she old enough to be safe from OMWC now?
Happy birthday Banjos!
🥳 🎂 🪕🪕 !
All hail Banjo the Clown god!
Happy Banjo Day!
Many banjos for Banjo’s special day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af9wHDrkjfk
Dang it. Start at the 2m mark.
The Biden administration will appeal a recent judicial order that a range of administration officials, including the entire FBI and DOJ, refrain from contacting social media companies to have First Amendment-protected content removed.
Of course. If you can’t censor the opposition then democracy dies.
Bankruptcy Filings on the Rise in First Half of 2023
So you are saying that Bidenomics is working.
I blame greedy Republicans.
The idea that the US middle class is a huge problem for the globalist movement is absolutely correct and precisely why the left is doing its best to destroy it.
To honor our WH….
We do not care what you want, we are going to groom your kids.
We don’t even care enough to properly link.
Here ya go.
Straight-up.
But how does biology explain your child claiming to be genderfuck one day, and two-spirit the next?
You see, attention and affirmation generate neurotransmitters that make the brain feel good. So if the only way one can get these things is through lies, they will do so.
We’re going to find out.
“Honestly, the majority doesn’t always dictate, right?”
But, muh democracy!
Holy fuck these people are stupid.
No, they are fucking evil.
The culture of narcissism perfected.
https://twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1676700464438738945
This is the shit that is promoted and encouraged by the progressive movement. It is all about narrative and image, both being completely false, to get your props..
Housing affordability plummets to lowest level since 2007 as prices jump
I wouldn’t be able to by my house today. Price nearly doubled according to Zillow.
Wait until they pass a law saying you have to pay extra taxes on your home just like they want you to do on investments, even though you have not yet sold and could potentially suffer a loss instead of a windfall…
Cause they need you living in a pod you don’t own to make you happy.
Know what I am saying?
What? Unless there’s a limitation pass to prevent it, that’s how assessed values and property taxes work already.
Yes it is.
Unless you’re in California. The progs sure do hate Prop 13.
We have similar here and the whining continues. Same with income tax rebates and lack of a sales tax. The latter was backdoored and the former was jacked up on the initial rates to matter less. Not that it stops the right thinkers from bemoaning.
Importing millions of people and letting the major cities deteriorate into lawless shitholes might just be driving up demand for houses in safe neighborhoods.
Gee, they wouldn’t import a bunch of people, fail to employ or support them, secretly encourage riots, then use that as an excuse to crack down on political dissent as they collapse the pension systems and enact their authoritarian dreams….
*glances at France*
Is employment and assimilation even part of the mass immigration industry these days? I seriously don’t know.
The left has been celebrating “multiculturalism” (i.e. the opposite of assimilation) my entire life, so I would say No on that score.
As for employment, I think we still want roofers and gardeners and fieldhands but the expectation of work is clearly gone, when we’re handing out free room & board to anyone who shows up and loudly and proudly cheering it on.
The priority until the deep state has a firm hold on power is power. So these people are here to help the deep state get to that point where it no longer fears any competition. Until then these people will get free shit to buy their compliance. Once it is no longer needed they will find themselves in a world of hurt.
No
In fact, the H1B portion of the immigration system which actually support employment is capped at 65,000 annually.
Compare that to the millions being let across the border with no support system or employment lined up
They have a supporter system. Billions of government dollars are laundered through nonprofits to pay the illegals who aren’t technically allowed to work, while waiting on their asylum cour date five or more years out.
I am sure they have plans for those “safe neighborhoods”….
My house is in the same boat. Per Zillow, nearly doubled in price. That’s with a bunch of new development going in nearby as well. And this is in an old CLE suburb, not way out in the exurbs.
I don’t care what Zillow thinks.
I care that the city asserts my house can be taxed.
When I bought my house 25 years ago, I paid $801 a year. It is now over $8K. And all I get is grief from government for that ripoff.
Thankfully, the property tax increases haven’t been matching the Zillow (and other sites) estimates.
YET!
Operative word…
Sure looks like he’s jonesin’ hard.
https://twitter.com/AwakenedOutlaw/status/1676679773790289923
When you are jonesin, you are joesin, man..
And Jill looks like she’s got a little tweak in her too.
She was looking for Koh-moh-loh’s husband to kiss?
Jill gives the game away. She glances at Hunter as he’s exiting stage left, and the look on her face says it all.
Anybody who has tried to fake being straight while high as a kite knows exactly what’s going on.
Could be but he could just be scratching his nose. He does look pretty wired in the rest of the vid though so who knows?
LOL I saw a later clip from what looks like the same event where he’s clearly tweaking and I was hoping for more.
This is more.
Joyless Reid is Joyless.
“I have to say, I did not go out on July 4 and would not. The idea of going to a mass gathering, a parade, or a big fireworks thing outside seems insane to me, to be blunt, in America because America is awash with guns, and now people don’t just have them. They seem to want to shoot people with them and use them for whatever, you know?”
Please feel free to recede into the abyss and leave us all alone and stop peddling lies about guns in an attempt to manipulate people into becoming serfs.
Heard there was a lively block party in Baltimore.
She’s nailed a huge reason why I avoid rallies, parades etc. It’s probably the product of the political violence going on in Turkey when I was a kid; I see gatherings as potential bombing sites. I can’t relax because part of me is trying to keep an eye on everything and everyone around me.
Large political gatherings set me on edge. To some extent the same has always been true for evangelical and sports type events.
When everybody starts acting in unison and submitting themselves to the group, the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
Have friends who went to the Trump thing in Pickens, SC a few days ago. I had no desire.
All the stuff mentioned above and it was 92 degrees.
Agree with this. Even restaurants get to be too much during peak hours.
Tell me once again how you were an Affirmative Action at Harvard, without saying you were an Affirmative Action at Harvard.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Don’t do that to me, Jimbo, ruined my whole day of curmudgeon ing
Adorable! Thanks, Holiness!
Well, damn
Uffda, that doesn’t cover the New Hatebirds
Sounds like the USPS should toughen up their carriers.
Or raise the cost of stamps..
Minnesoda is 24/7 Wild Hatebird news.
Needs to carry a pocketful of corn as a diversionary tactic, like the UPS guys with doggie treats
That is quite the pen that the Wisconsin governor has. Biden must be totes jelly.
This is really breaking new ground in lawmaking. Just striking out letters/numbers/words you don’t like until you get the law you want? Genius!
The pen truly is mightier than the sword…
The legendary “Penis mightier” headline was from the Madison paper while Gov. Thompson was using this line-item veto authority.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zm7NR4-FFw
Brilliant!
I doubt the governor actually has the authority to edit the lines to that detail.
What if he just sneezed while his pen was above the page?
Yes, he does in Wisconsin. I think it may be limited to appropriations bills, but this was settled ages ago under Tommy Thompson.
Of course, the next legislature/governor can change his 400 year appropriation, as no legislature can bind a successor, since every legislature has the authority to amend existing law.
Might as well let the governer write the laws in that case.
The power was in ‘in the right hands’ when Thompson was in charge, so the pubs thought it was a grand idea. Politicians are for nothing more than ‘current win’.
Music
Governments are people, too.
Ultimate NIMBY-ism
I don’t think there are any good guys in this story. The neighbors who are claiming that burying unembalmed people is an environmental nightmare are the biggest assholes though. They even beat out the usual govt hacks who want to “study” and “regulate” these burials.
“Letting bodies decay like that just ain’t natural!”
The nerve of these protesters.
At least they are not engaging in congress with them corpses…
This isn’t Wisconsin!
Bring back sky burials!
Helicopter tours? Pinochet style?
No. An actual sky burial.
Just dump the loved ones in the woods alongside the CRT TV sets and wash machines, like other folks do. We can’t let the homeless get a leg up on us for proper disposal of our left overs.
That petition alleges that decomposition of unembalmed remains containing chemicals and disease could seep into the ground, impacting water quality in a nearby wetland, natural spring, wells and the Blackhoof River.
All those chemicals you aren’t using could seep out!
You gotta add the formaldehyde or the evils of humanity will stain gaia!
“decomposition of unembalmed remains containing chemicals and disease could seep into the ground, impacting water quality”
Asserted, without a shred of evidence.
The only valid concern I saw was with shallow burials. Probably wouldn’t be a good idea to have a field full of bodies only a couple of feet down. Easily solved by using the traditional six feet, for burials not involving a vault.
“Baton-wielding gangs of teenagers in ski masks are attacking moms and nannies outside schools and robbing them of their cell phones in one of San Francisco’s wealthiest neighborhoods”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12268529/Baton-wielding-gangs-teenagers-ski-masks-attacking-moms-wealthy-San-Fran-area.html
Making everyone wear masks was a bad idea.
*Scooby Doo gang catches thief
*Removes mask
“Gavin Newsome!”
These are the scumbags that voted for the policies that have turned San Fran into a shithole. The consequences of their choices finally is happening to them personally. I can’t see this as anything but “social justice’. Is it wrong that I cheer this on?
Yes. These are real people getting hurt. I don’t cheer it on but I do cheer rubbing their and every lefty’s noses in the dogshit they cheered for.
Batons?
Maybe they’re just misunderstood cheerleaders or band conductors…
Baton-Wielding Gang of Teenagers in Ski Masks was the name of my last punk band.
“The mother of a man who allegedly vanished in 2015 was seen fleeing her home at midnight after allegations that she used her son as a sex slave came to light.
Rudy Farias, now 25, was ‘found’ on June 29 in the doorway of a church, eight years after his mother Janie Santana reported him missing in Houston, Texas.
But the mom has been accused of holding him hostage and sexually abusing him for years, forcing him to ‘play daddy’ and giving him hallucinogenic drugs to keep him under her control.
After news of Rudy’s miraculous return emerged, neighbors claimed Rudy had never been missing at all, and would often be seen around the neighborhood….
The bizarre story took an astonishing turn on Wednesday as Farias and Santana, spoke to detectives at a Houston hotel, with a mediator – local New Black Panther leader and community activist Quanell X.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12270809/Rudy-Farias-mom-spotted-fleeing-home-accused-keeping-son-sex-slave.html
what?
Quanell X is the gift that keeps on giving.
…and accordi9ng to the pic, he’s put on weight since I left Houston.
*goes to dock, grabs pallet jack and retrieves new ion chromatograph*
“You there boy, what’s today?”
“Today sir? Today is Christmas day!”
It’s been a while since I’ve heard anyone mention “Christmas in July”
There are days when I really love my job.
We’ve got Christmas beers back on the shelves, and parties and crawls have been advertised for weeks here.
I got ridiculously happy to get a couple cases of fresh, clean, sample bottles on-site last week.
Hopefully this next week Ill have some shiny, new, proper, squeeze bottles too.
What can you do?
Law enforcement officials confirmed on Wednesday that cocaine was found at the White House over the weekend.
But one official familiar with the investigation cautioned that the source of the drug was unlikely to be determined given that it was discovered in a highly trafficked area of the West Wing.
The small amount of cocaine was found in a cubby area for storing electronics within the West Exec basement entryway into the West Wing, where many people have authorized access, including staff or visitors coming in for West Wing tours.
Asked what the chances were of finding the culprit, the official said that “it’s gonna be very difficult for us to do that because of where it was.”
“Even if there were surveillance cameras, unless you were waving it around, it may not have been caught” by the cameras, added the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity given that it’s an ongoing investigation. “It’s a bit of a thoroughfare. People walk by there all the time.”
It’s not as if it was a Confederate flag lapel pin.
Assuming it was in a plastic bag, there would likely be DNA on the outside of it. Maybe even prints.
Coke fiends aren’t known for their scrupulous sanitation habits.
I refuse to believe security and surveillance is that lax in the fucking White House.
It isn’t. They’re just thumbing their noses at us now.
The funny thing with it is that, unless they have actual footage of somebody else, everyone is already thinking “it’s Hunter.”
Boxed themselves in on this. Retards.
They are counting on most people being retards and not knowing better..
Of course it’s Hunter and he is violating the terms of the deferment of the gun charge.
I’m sure this happens often and it’s easy to just brush under the rug. So to me it’s curious that they put this out in public. Listening to Scott Adams today, he thinks this was an op and it was planted there on purpose. Perhaps the deep state sees that Biden is in worse shape than we think, and they’re trying to sabotage him.
Or it’s a distraction from something else.
SS wanted it known for some reason. Otherwise they would have just tossed it and kept quiet. Maybe.
It’s not as if it was a Confederate flag lapel pin.
MAGA meemaws with tiny American flags are this countries true menace.
Tracking the ever shifting story:
(1) It was found “near” the White House.
(2) Then, it was found in the library in the East Wing (I believe this is what the FD said when they were called in to test i, who have the least incentive to lie). Oops I’d – turns out that’s not really open to the public, even though tours go past it. Way too short a list of potential suspects, not to mention the video surveillance.
(3) Now, it was found in a closet in the West Wing, open to the public, where staff and visitors leave phones and whatnot. That’s an agreeably long list of suspects. Unanswered questions still abound, like – does the staff really leave their phones in a closet open to the public in some way? Security risk, anyone? And am I expected to believe that there’s no video surveillance of the closet area?
Of course, the real unanswered question is – why have we been given three completely contradictory stories about this? Who has been sourcing these tales?
One question which will never be answered is – who left the coke? I am quite confident this is known, but we’ll get the lie that they just couldn’t track them down.
Look man, it’s not like it was a pipe bomb.
Oh wait, we can’t find those guys either…
Good morning, Banjos!
I’m still laughing about the cocaine in the WH and the footage of Hunter clearly doing a bump.
I’ll let you provide your own songs and move along with my day.
How about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A
*reads links*
And y’all wonder why some of us are dark-gray-pilled. Pffft.
There are 57 types of pilled according to the latest scientific studies.
I identify as polka dot pilled, generally morose with spots of cheer.
Oh, I wanna be polka-dot pilled!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdCX4qu7UJU
So, one per Obama state?
Also, one per gender.
At the moment, I’m torn between wanting to be plaid-pilled and paisley-pilled.
Mixing stripes and polka dots, 80’s fashion with ’70s interior decorating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9RTdj93o8
I believe paisley is the female counterpart to the phallic symbol.
We’re getting rid of our “smart” thermostat (a Nest). It’s definitely malfunctioning. We set it at a cool temp, and it keeps running after it reached that temp. Then this morning the heat was on, even though I had it on cool-only mode. Our cousin’s Nest kept cycling his furnace fan on randomly. His friend in HVAC says those things are trouble. We’re going back to the old non-wifi version.
You sure it isn’t bored people working at your utility company just entertaining themselves fucking around with people’s HVAC systems (read your contract)?
We have these at a second home as we wanted the wifi for remote monitoring and being able to set the HVAC before we go there.
https://www.honeywellstore.com/store/products/wi-fi-7-day-programmable-thermostat-honeywell-rth6580wf.htm
You can set them as programmable depending on time or day or simply “dumb” and set one temperature. They’ve been bulletproof for the past 7 years . They don’t try to do anything fancy other than connectivity.
I’ve got a lower end model. No wi-fi, and has weekday/weekend sets with four (if memory serves) bands of time for the day (such as x temperature until 0745, y temperature until 1630, z temperature until 2045, x temperature until 0000). It’s worked quite well, and was a great boon when I was going into the office daily.
It gets much less work now that I’m full WFH.
Yeah, I don’t even bother with the programs since I’m home all the time.
I’ve still got it programmed to cool down at night for better sleeping, but that’s it.
That’s probably what we’ll do. It’s been months since I used my phone to set the temp, and like Tundra I’m home all the time and the thermostat is about 6 feet away from my home office.
Yeah, my AC guy said those Nest thermostats are complete garbage. There’s a pretty recent housing development nearby where they used them in all of the homes, and he said they’re constantly going out there and replacing them.
Who would have thought something could go wrong with an overly complicated device like a “smart” thermostat? We replace ours a couple of years ago with programmable (morning, evening, weekends, that kind of thing), but I’d never get a “smart” one like a Nest. No Wi-Fi, no connectivity, just a design that’s been pretty bulletproof for years if not decades.
My house came with a ‘programmable’ thermostat with no instructions. I eventually got all of the time periods set to the same temperature and haven’t touched it since because of the sheer hassle. On the nice to have list is replacing it with a simple mechanical thermostat.
He wants to criminalize homelessness!
After the former Vice President answered questions from voters he got in line to order some salted caramel ice cream. After he had that in hand, he walked by and KTIV had a chance to ask him a question about homelessness and how the presidency can impact it.
“Because the sad fact is many people, many people that live in homelessness are people that actually struggle with mental illness. And we’re better than that we ought to be a country that provides resources and a place for those people to be able to go,” said Pence.
Pence floated the idea of reopening mental hospitals, many of which he says were closed in the 1970s. According to the American Medical Association, they closed because of a belief that they were cruel, and that new medications may cure mental illness, on top of cost.
Pence said he opened the first new mental hospital in 30 years when he was governor of Indiana.
He’ll round up all the homeless people and lock them up. Put them to work making buggy whips.
They did close a lot of them in the 70s, they were cruel, I don’t know about new medications, the dollar damages they’re causing is probably worse than ever, and we’re probably short a lot of beds today.
Not too much controversial there except maybe to people who unironically use the phrase “urban campers”.
Absolutely open them back up, and at least half of it needs to be dedicated to mandatory drug treatment programs.
Assuming it was in a plastic bag, there would likely be DNA on the outside of it. Maybe even prints.
The DoJ has spent tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars hunting down Capitol sightseers, but they’re shrugging their shoulders and closing the books on this one.
They read the mind of the cocaine fiend and decided no reasonable prosecutor would file charges or something, so this was not criminal.
All of the evidence is headed for the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Blackmail Vault.
Nah, they made sure it was thoroughly handled for testing before anyone tried to collect evidence from it. “Gosh darn it, we just couldn’t check for fingerprints or DNA in case it was a bio weapon!”
Like it wasn’t perfectly obvious it was coke the whole time. It’s been described as a dime bag, which any competent cop would be able to identify at ten paces.
By scent, outside of a vehicle, 10 yards away.
Extrapolating from the Wisconsin story:
being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
notbe infringed.I love the internet.
Hunter has a serious cocaine problem.. He can’t find me in the White House Library. THANKS @FBI !
The size of that coke bag n the profile pic seems accurate too…
Hunter’s Coke Bag has it’s own account?
I doubt this will sit well with Cracky.
Batons?
Maybe they’re just misunderstood cheerleaders or band conductors…
Exactly what I was thinking. First, you distract your victims by prancing around in a sparkly onesie, then give ’em a good konk on the noggin with the old flaming baton and take their stuff.
I strongly suspect those were baseball bats, but because they were being wielded by urban youths, the story had to downplay it.
For people with navular interests, there is a purported transcript going around of the communications between the Titan sub and its mothership.
It’s pretty awful; I expect that they were taking on water from the beginning into the aft equipment bay. Eventually salt water got into their batteries. The flooding changed the stress profile on their pressure hull, with a maximum compressive strain perpendicular to the windings of the carbon fiber.
I base this on the fact that from the get-go they were sinking much faster than they had anticipated. They were clearly much heavier than calculated. This should have been a signal for abort. Then their hull damage detection system started alerting to unusual distortions in their hull. At this point they were less than 400 meters above the sea bottom and 3400 meters below the surface. So they try to initiate an emergency surface. They jettison the ballast to start an ascent. They keep descending. They go to an emergency jettison of the frame, a drastic action. Their first few attempts fail and finally they succeed. Having made themselves as light as possible, and trusting upwards at full power, they achieve an ascent that is an anemic 16 cm a minute (ETA on surface 348.73 hours). A contributor to the problem; one of their electric buses has failed, and they’ve had to switch everything over to the alternate.
Then silence.
Stockton was a fucking reckless lunatic. The moment there was an anomaly, they should have aborted. If you’re descending faster than expected, that doesn’t mean you have a tailwind and should enjoy the windfall. It means that you are sinking and are in danger!
Bad decisions were made… Consequences..
Sounds very plausible
Interesting. Sad, but interesting. Thanks!
Cult of victimhood
These are among the 11 mass shootings — defined as acts of gun violence injuring or killing at least four people — that have occurred this month, and 346 mass shootings since the beginning of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Mass shootings have been rising in recent years, as have other kinds of gun violence, making firearms a major public health issue. This year alone, more than 21,000 people have died due to gun violence. Of those deaths, 12,210 were suicides.
But the public health impact of gun violence extends far beyond those who are killed or injured. A far larger number of people are left grieving, traumatized, and at a risk of long-term struggles with a range of mental health issues.
What we must never do is tell people to stop wallowing in their fear and grief and get back to the world of the living. Recovery is impossible. Any brush with tragedy will inescapably result in lifelong debilitating trauma.
We should probably just euthanize anyone touched by gun violence, for their own good.
By all means let’s keep whining about guns and completely ignoring the pathologies behind the people using them in this manner.
Love the sidebar:
“Does the right to bear arms make the United States less free?”
Never change, NPR.
Yes, the current practice of rushing in counselors and the like, and yammering on and on and on about how everyone must be horribly traumatized, does a fine job of compounding whatever harm was done to non-victims.
“Zuckerberg Twists the Knife in Twitter as Millions Flock to Threads
The Meta CEO wasted no time talking up his ambition to eat Elon Musk’s lunch.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/threads-zuckerberg-twists-the-knife-in-twitter-as-millions-flock-to-his-new-app
“Meta Stock Higher As ‘Twitter Killer’ App Threads Sees Huge Signup Surge”
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/meta-stock-jumps-as-twitter-killer-threads-sees-huge-signup-surge
There are a bunch of these articles.
I’d wager there’s not that much of an uptake, just an incentive to boost the ideological ally.
They are telling you people are “flocking there”, hoping you will.. Nobody is really flocking anywhere though.
Yeah, this. I’m sure there’s some signups but a lot of this is astroturfed bullshit aimed at getting people to jump on the bandwagon.
Did they put a button on Facebook to add threads?
2.5 billion people use Facebook each month. 10 million users hitting a link offered up to 2.5 billion people is almost zero.
Never heard of it. 🤷🏻♂️
But godspeed to all those folks who want censorship and safe comfy lefty thoughts. What a unique offering!
Zuckerberg needed more government money to keep his Facebook behemoth from going bankrupt. So he made a Twitter copy. No doubt that was worth another 300 billion from Biden. When do we find out how much the government has buoyed Zuckerberg’s business since 2020?
Check out the data collection policy on the app
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id6446901002
“Any time a community is impacted by large-scale mass violence, the community is changed forever,” says psychologist Robin Gurwitch at Duke University. “The names of those communities are now linked to mass violence, whether it is Sandy Hook, or whether it is Oklahoma City, Columbine. There are so many.”
And ghouls like you prey on them, along with politicians and “activists” and “advocates.
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2023/07/06/what-is-a-ghost-gun-philadelphia-mass-shooting-update/70386436007/
Oh noes! A ghost gun!
Boo!
“At a news conference Wednesday afternoon Philadelphia officials announced a lawsuit against several makers of self-made gun kits and gun parts, officials said that both guns found on Carriker after he was taken into custody appeared to be self-manufactured — commonly called ghost guns.”
CWABOA
The court needs to make public officials who engage in frivolous suits personally liable for the costs incurred by both sides in litigation.
Yeah, this whole idea of suing people for selling perfectly legal items is hideous, and I have a hard time believing we allow it.
The democrats have been itching to use this strategy for years, most notably trying to use the tobacco lawsuits as a template for suing gun manufacturers for gun violence. It took a federal law to stop that one.
But it goes back further. Dram shop laws that hold the barkeep liable if a customer drinks and drives became a hot item in the MADD era of the 80s. This was the impetus for suing gun stores for shootings.
The authoritarian left isn’t actually a new thing… the antiwar left of the 60s and 70s gave them a veneer of being “anti-establishment”, particularly when combined with drugs and sex and rock and roll…. but the authoritarian streak has always been there.
“Mayor Jim Kenney said Wednesday that the city has seen a nearly 300% increase in ghost guns recovered during police investigations over the past four years, including 575 recovered in 2022.”
Doubt.
1 to 4?
I thought the same thing, but he says the new number is 575. That is a lot of home manufactured guns. It makes one suspect that draconian anti-gun laws make people find a way around the blockade.
They might be counting guns with the serial numbers filed off as “ghost guns”.
Or finding a box of receiver kits counts as one gun each.
I think the Tater has the likely explanation.
The state will not just accept attempts by the people to stop them from indoctrinating the people’s kids…
“this commonsense budget will deliver,””
Whatsamatter Alex, ain’t you got no common sense?
MIMETIC APOCALYPSE
Kind of reminds me of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Good essay, especially for Girard fans.
Because tourist routinely bring drugs into the WH.
KJP doubles down on blaming the cocaine being found at the White House on tourists: “Where this was discovered is a heavily-traveled area where many White House — Wing Wing, I should be even more specific — West Wing visitors come through this particular area.”
This story was of the first where i saw the benefits of being on Twitter. I watched the story evolve. Several bloggers and Twitter journos had the story that a possible bag of cocaine was found in the white house.
Shortly after that, someone told several MSM media outlets that the “white powder” was found outside the white house. They dutifully published this as fact. These stories were used to “debunk” reporting on the story, and even earned one reporter a community note.
Then it was confirmed as cocaine and it definitely was found in the White House library.
Then someone reported that Hunter Biden had been seen working on his laptop in the library.
Then it was reported that the cocaine was found in the “west wing”… no specific location given.
It was a completely different experience, watching the spin happen in real time.
Now they are reporting that they probably will not be able to identify the source. And that they didn’t check for fingerprints.
“Now they are reporting that they probably will not be able to identify the source. And that they didn’t check for fingerprints.”
What they really mean to say is that they know with 100% certainty who it belongs to but would prefer us dumb serfs shut the fuck up and stop asking for them to share that cause it would again reinforce the fact that the whole system is imploding under the weight of being run by dumb ass crooks.
“Children are sponges and they absorb everything they’re seeing and hearing in their environment,” she says. “And if that includes a caregiver who is very panicked or very anxious about what’s going on, that can greatly impact how the child feels.”
And so, providing social and mental health support to the adults in children’s lives is key to helping communities recover from the trauma of gun violence, she says.
Long-term bereavement support is also key, Kaplow adds.
“We know that for these communities, while the trauma may recede over time, and it usually does, the grief remains. And that is an area that receives very little attention.”
This is where community-based and faith-based organizations can play a big role in healing communities from the potential long-term effects of gun violence, she says.
Government grants are always the solution.
“Children are sponges and they absorb everything they’re seeing and hearing in their environment”
And from that, she reaches the completely wrong conclusion – that we need to keep hammering away about how horrible and traumatic and permanently life-changing it is, while delivering “counseling”.
Which is why they’re grooming them at such young ages.
“Wave that pride flag,
TimmyTammy”This story is almost a Ray of Sunshine. Not only are people (a bit) freer in Iowa, but the lamentations of all the “public health” officials is awesome!
I wonder if any of those guys will realize why no one listens to them anymore?
“These outbreaks have public health implications that we cannot ignore.”
Wanna bet?
Good news.
amid growing skepticism of science.
Not science, so much as government “scientists”.
They keep using that spin.
I cannot believe that they do not see the harm Fauci, in particular, caused. He lied and said that you don’t need a mask to prevent a run on masks and save them for Healthcare workers. Then he lied and said that a cloth mask would be great at stopping covid… no need to buy N95 masks. Then he said wear 2. Then we see studies that say cloth doesn’t do anything
…
And that is just on one simple topic. The impact of it cannot be overstated though, because average folks may not understand the science of epidemiology… but they can follow when your story keeps changing, and every time you say that you are the science and nobody can question the science.
For me the real breaking point was the claims that they studied the genetic code and determined that covid 19 could not possibly have come from the lab.
I initially said that this settled the argument. The genes don’t lie.
Then it turned out that the genes don’t lie, but scientists administering big studies do.
That is the smoking gun that should have everyone calling for heads on pikes.
The vaccine and mask stuff has an element of “we are trying to save lives” that allows for some leeway (despite my belief that breaking the people’s trust by trying to manipulate them is more dangerous). But the only reason to lie about the origin was to cover their own asses. We should not be giving them a pass on that.
I recall seeing a story in early 2020, before even the initial 15 day lockdown announcement, that the virus had a fistful of things that were non natural, including some features that were very similar to, if not identical to, the HIV virus.
The mask thing was particularly mind-boggling because there have been literally decades of studies that all, without exception, reached the same conclusion – masking doesn’t do shit to stop a respiratory virus.
The public health cat ladies and crooks have thoroughly discredited themselves with a chunk of the population. The said thing is, that chunk isn’t a lot bigger.
They could have easily kept their credibility intact by just saying, “Based on what we know now, this is what we recommend.” That’s how science works Things change based on new discoveries. But they couldn’t just be honest. As you said, every pronouncement was “the science” and we need to vigorously censor anyone who disagrees. And then they changed their mind and then that’s “the science”. It’s a textbook case of how to get people not to believe you.
And that they didn’t check for fingerprints.
Fingerprints were inadvertently smudged in the rush to determine whether the powder was a weapon of mass destruction.
PANIC!
The United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), approved plans by Japan to release water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
The plan would see Japan release 1.3 million tons of treated wastewater — the equivalent of 500 Olympic swimming pools — which has been filtered through the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) from the destroyed Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean following the catastrophic earthquake that rocked Japan and caused a partial meltdown of the plant.
The water, which was used to cool nuclear reactors following the deadly Tohoku earthquake and ensuing tsunami-hit Fukushima on March 11, 2011, is currently being stored in about 1,000 tanks on the site and the majority of the water was used to cool molten fuel, the remainder coming from rainwater and groundwater that entered the reactor units.
It is set to be released by Japan in a controlled and gradual manner over the next 30 to 40 years.
Do you want Godzilla? Because this is how you get Godzilla.
Fucking right I do!
Damn straight. I was promised giant, irritable, atomic laser-beam shooting reptiles.
Well, here you go then!
A glimpse into the lunatic asylum
https://democraticunderground.com/100218068197
Wow. Those people truly believe it’s warm rain on their leg.
When I see things like that, I think paid operative, not lunatic. Probably talking to other paid operatives.
You are far too optimistic, RJ. Useful idiots are idiots. No need to pay them to spout idiocy.
From the comments
In my estimation, the student loan debt crisis has been solved by Biden. Not with forgiveness, but with changing PAYE to 5% of adjusted gross income from the 10% it used to be, and changing the adjustment from 1.5 times the poverty income to 2.25 times the poverty rate. A family of 2 making $100K a year went from a $625 payment, to a $250 a month payment. And he’s changed the rules around interest, it doesn’t accrue when you’re in this program (which everyone is defaulted into). There is forgiveness after 20 years of payments no matter what balance remains. There are people who will hae no payments under this plan. It makes payments affordable for everyone. Sure, will still be like a car payment for people, and that’s a bummer, but I can’t think of a scenario where payments aren’t reasonable no matter what anyone owes.
Somebody please get this back in front of SCOTUS kthxbai
The whole thing is a gigantic Fuck You to the rest of us chumps.
😂🤣
Why is the White House lit up like that Leni Riefenstahl speech he gave in Philly last year?
The messaging is clear.
Happy Birthday, Banjos, thanks for your early morning efforts providing space space for miscreants to post and lurkers to read. It is appreciated!
Seconded. Happy birthday, Banjos!
The Tucker Carleson interview with Elon musk produced a tidbit that I was not aware of.
It turns out, government agencies have been reading Twitter DMs. “They are not encripted”, says Musk. But they will be.
Twitter is working on encrypted direct messages.
They discussed the fact that journalists use DMs to talk to sources. And leaders and government officials communicate that way.
Yet another reason “the establishment” is so anxious to keep you in one of their controlled platforms.
Has Dee Dee Myers got an alibi?
You want him, you got him