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!
Trump’s DC trial date set for March 4—one day before Super Tuesday
National Archives acknowledges 5,400 Biden pseudonym emails
House panel seeks testimony from Ukrainian prosecutor whom Biden got fired
Former Navy Seal Robert O’Neill who killed Osama Bin Laden arrest in Texas
“Joe the Plumber” Who Famously Confronted Obama on His Tax Plan Dies at 49
Tucker Carlson in Negotiations to Interview Putin
More than 1,600 scientists, including two Nobel laureates, declare climate “emergency” a myth
Silicon Valley titans behind mystery $1B land buy near California military base
Nordstrom Closes Shop in San Francisco
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Holy crap… Hunter must have needed an Active Directory server just to keep track.
But no… between that and what for any other citizen would be highly flagged for structuring… Nothing To See Here(tm), right media? Right Dems (but I repeat myself)….
Morning, Banjos… morning, all.
Don’t worry. The special prosecutor will keep investigating until the statute of limitations passes.
Yeah — the special prosecutor that can’t be such according to the statute. And yet nothing is done about that. Congress should be screaming to the hills that this is illegitimate and impeach the AG just for breaking the law there if he doesn’t appoint a real one.
(And give out free ponies while I’m at it…. I know, I know…)
The fix is in and rubbed in our face, yup.
Congress should? You mean Republicans. I will hold my breath….
Well, in an ideal society the governing party would still keep itself in check.
Yes, I’m really reaching, but there it is.
They were all probably only about pizza parties anyway
Guy couldn’t even remember to pick up his repaired laptop.
Hey—you’re talking about the smartest guy the president knows!!
Watch yourself.
Those can both be true, you know.
That is a whole lot of dumb.
He’s not wrong.
I was talking about the White House Staff and agreeing.
Oh, I’m sorry, but are you able to run foreign energy and trade companies, create paintings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and do it all while high as a kite?
Didn’t think so.
Mea culpa I misread that as 5400 pseudonym email addresses… hence my reaction. 😉
I saw there were three pseudonyms he used, at least that they know of so far.
Depositing $9900 checks is definitely a crime, but $20 million laundered through dozens of shell companies, no problem.
Taste the crazy. It’s still here.
https://twitter.com/KatKanada_TM/status/1696215860346765320
I don’t think Skittles is going to go far with that ad campaign… but I guess in 2023, go with the crowd.
Is it just me, or does her mask not seal under the eyes?
Does it matter when wearing a mask that doesn’t block viruses?
Does it matter when COVID has obviously taken up residence in the fear centers of her brain? “Freedom is a right wing hate phrase!” Ah, Canada… proof the Tories really needed to GTFO in the first place.
The wild part is that most photos of her fully show the whites of her eyes. She’s certifiably batshit.
Or a crisis actor; I’d prefer she’s batshit. A paranoid shut in poses less threat to me than an activist charlatan.
Not at all, you’d for from dust on any job, let alone blocking viruses with that joke of a donning.
They do not “seal” anything anywhere. The Sharia Shame Muzzle is only to signal your virtue of submission.
More crazies
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-canadian-activists-demanding-return-mask-mandates-attack-counter-protester
What a crazy cunte.
I’ve noticed an uptick in face diaper wearing in southern NH.
Hoffman, Jobs, and Andreesen? Pedos, golddiggers, and bullshit artists unite!
So…threat to National security confirmed.
My thought exactly. My working assumption is that “Silicon Valley tech titan” = “WEFfer” = “Anti-American crypto-Marxist scumbag”
Not from the DNC’s perspective.
House panel seeks testimony from Ukrainian prosecutor whom Biden got fired
Does he have a US visa? Or in this case is he excused from paying 150$ for it?
I can just imagine there’s a clause to exempt subpoenaed foreign nationals from need to do so… and that there’s a form that must be processed… and that the appropriate department of the Deep State will slow walk it / “lose the paperwork” just to screw with said House panel.
Ah, modern life.
Odds that the State Department will let him in the country?
Have him cross the border the same way all those Central Americans do.
Talk about a day late and a dollar short… imagine if someone had looked into this once the video of The Big Guy bragging about getting the guy fired surfaced. Why, someone might have even called the Ukranians on the phone and asked if they could see if there was anything to it, any external pressure from the former VP or whatnot….
But let’s just send that corrupt government another $20 billion, right Darth Brandon? Because you must be the epitome of a “good politician” as the old saying goes….
Scandal. Free. Administration.
Scandal. Free.
If the Democracts do it, it’s not a scandal.
National Archives acknowledges 5,400 Biden pseudonym emails – there is a weird obsession with emails these days
Florida Gov. DeSantis expands state of emergency as Hurricane Idalia expected to make landfall Wednesday
I am wondering if it is that much worse than this fucking heat we are having here…
Well if you keep fucking the heat you’ll just have more of it.
You ~do~ get more of what you reward…
Yeah, it is worse, and not by just a little bit.
It wasn’t the vid that returned the neighborhood to squalor and rampant criminality.
Silicon Valley titans behind mystery $1B land buy near California military base
Don’t want to seem sexist or nothing but would we call Steve Jobs wife a tech titan?
I believe so, yeah — no one says “titaness” or anything silly like that. Gender neutral term.
Titanette?
Next month will you be able to buy “slutty titan” costumes?
Starfire?
Nice. Very nice.
Go on…
Stripperella *cough*…. I mean New 52 Starfire…
Not for nothing, but original 1980 Starfire was pretty boobalicious.
Entertain me New Yorker fart-sniffers!
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-trump-mug-shots-art-historical-lineage
1. Shameless and illegal. I dont know why they dont just give OMB the presidency now and save everyone a lot of trouble.
2. The National Archives complained about Trump keeping records yet are just now letting us know about the Biden emails they had all along? Burn it all down.
3. Amazing that prosecutor is still breathing. We will see how long that lasts.
4. Well stocked here and prepared. I have a bad feeling about this hurricane season. I started back a couple months ago when Chicken Little was whining about how warm the gulf water is. All that heat has to go somewhere. Been there before so started stocking up on water, batteries, gas and non-perishable foods.
5. Ouch. Sounds like someone needs rehab.
6. Sorry Joe. By buddy. Save us a good fishing spot.
7. Carlson in league with Russia! Russia! Russia!
I am surprised that they haven’t done more to Carlson than get him fired. They will probably Trump him next since he seems invulnerable to their efforts so far.
8. More than 1600 scientists realize that taking a giant steamer on the credibility of science is in great peril ( no, peanuts, it is not. You killed it already).
I have been screaming about this for over 30 fucking years. I guess that money was just too tempting.
9. They made their money. Why not just spend time fishing with their grandchildren? You cant stir shit without getting it on y ou.
10. Gibbet the DA and start putting shoplifter’s heads on stakes in front of the shuttered buildings. Fixed….easy peasy.
Morning all.
Re: Carlson
Didn’t Antifa show up at his house, smash his front door and threaten his wife and kids?
Of course not. Antifa does not exist.
Looks like that happened in 2018. Even Slate was not pleased with that.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/tucker-carlson-threatened-antifa-wrong-liberals.html
Maybe Slate is at least smart enough to realize journalists of any stripe are touchable?
If we ever have a civil war here, journalists better run for the hills.
Probably pretty safe in the big cities where they all already are.
I suspect the big cities will not be pretty safe for anyone if the balloon goes up here.
They are marxists….how smart. can they be?
They are pretty damn stupid. It would be like the video yesterday of the climate protesters whining “we’re non-violent!” while being cuffed and perp walked.
/that face when you start realizing that non-violence only works when you’re getting punished for it
That was before the Summer of Love.
Look I know we said we didn’t you in the office, but things change.
Farmers Insurance workers blast return-to-office mandate: ‘I sold my house’
On second thought.
Farmers will be parting ways with approximately 11 percent of its employee population – or about 2,400 employees – across all lines of business.
I wondered what was going to happen to those who decided that WFH was going to be permanent and moved in late 2020. Sounds like they should have talked to their bosses first.
Doesn’t matter if they did. “Pray we don’t alter the deal more”
Even if you did, you have to realize that business conditions can and do change… Gotta roll with the punches.
Saddling themselves with unnecessary real estate rather than freeing themselves of it seems like a strange way to adapt to changing business conditions to me but I guess that’s why they don’t pay me the big bucks.
Mayhaps.
I think a lot of people do benefit from being in the office, especially junior staff.
Yah. I’ve been satellite-office so many years that useful collaboration with another person is a distant memory.
Im a bit freayout by why/how Bill Gates has accumulated vast tracts of land in the American west.
Is he trying to Lex Luther himself some beachfront property?
Or, more likely, prevent future agricultural development and human population growth ( both of ether detests)?
I work with a guy who sold his car after he was told that he was remote forever. He was not happy when told he had to start commuting again 3 days a week.
This all seems silly as the Admin prepared for.another Covid lockdown.
I’ll try again. Do you have any articles documenting this lockdown preparation?
Full lockdown rumors are in the ZeroHedge / InfoWars stage now. The $billions for more vaccines is in the regular news.
I’d be less inclined to believe them if the mask nonsense wasn’t restarting already.
To be clear, I’m not saying it won’t happen. I just don’t buy that some liberal arts colleges and a few hospitals in bright blue towns implementing masks = Dark Brandon doing a lockdown. One item of “proof” on Info Wars was FedGov buying masks. So? They do every year.
The time to start loudly pushing back is right now.
Agreed. Throwing around conspiracy theories and stating opinions as fact is not effective pushing back.
Stupid site decided I wasn’t logged in when I pressed “post.”
To answer your questions, attempts at mask mandates already failed, and in California, no less.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/recent-mask-mandates-lifted-amid-pushback
Biden saber rattles about lockdowns and vaccines. If he does it, it’s the end of him and the Democratic party and they know it. Nobody has the stones to write that.
How soon we forget what 2020 looked like.
I don’t know if Farmer’s is one of the companies that has decided they can’t afford to insure Californians, but I’d assume ditching that market reduces the number of employees you need.
Everybody is reducing CA exposure, But you wouldn’t lay off 2,400 people just based on CA.
I don’t know about California, but I do know that they decided to stop insuring historic homes, which left me in the lurch.
Fuck Farmers.
You don’t have to be lonely,
At farmersonly.com
Meh, their right. Still a shitty thing to do.
Absolutely their right. However, make up your mind.
Dragging people back to the office and laying them off is just a shit thing to do.
Agreed. That would really piss me off. People had to sell their homes to come back to an office? Urgh. I don’t think I would. Your home comes first, you can find another job. Probably a better one.
This. I am moving soon and I’m not terribly troubled if they won’t let me go remote from the office I haven’t visited in two and a half years.
They were Farmers….da dada dada da da.
Sounds to me like new boss is all, “If I have to be in the office, so does everyone else.”
Commercial RE is still fucked.
Big time. Another thing I see in my line of work is management not wanting to upset the production line workers by some admin people being able to WFH. Gotta make it “fair” for everyone!
We did that straight through the pandemic. I was a vocal supporter. When the line workers have to show up, letting the laptoppers, who get paid more and have better working conditions anyway, hang around the house all day is a very bad look and indeed, IMO, not fair.
Coming from you that’s a bit shocking. Life isn’t fair. Isn’t that one of your Iron Laws? Should we also air-condition the entire plant to make it fair?
I worked my way from the floor to a laptop. Everyone else out there is welcome to do the same.
No, life isn’t fair, although it’s not one of the iron laws. Of course, I would hear that it’s not fair that I have to come in when I could work from home as well, so it cuts both ways.
There is value in not pissing off your line workers any more than you have to. A lot of value, in some businesses. Laptoppers are no harder, and often easier, to replace than skilled line workers. To us, the idea that we would all flee to safety while making the people who were actually in very direct contact with the infected come in and grind out their shifts every day was simply unacceptable.
A lot of what we did in the hospital was bullshit and wrong, but not that.
I’ve commented on this before; we all tend to color this WFH argument based on our specific experiences. I am a project estimator in a manufacturing company. Those people on the floor have no idea when I’m in the office unless we bump into each other by chance at the vending machine. Having me in the office “just because” does nobody any good. Someone in HR, sure; they need to be there to support the floor if they have issues.
One thing I am really sick of, is the class envy. I’m salary now, so I can leave a few hours early on occasion or WFH. The “must be nice” comments from hourly production workers bothers me more and more as the years go by. I earned this laptop by working my way off the floor. You can do the same. If you don’t want to, shut the fuck up with your “must be nice” bullshit.
I suspect this was really intended as a layoff from the start.
Internally, we expect the same thing at our company. CEO threw a shit fit about office attendance. Problem is that his expectation of 3 days per week meant half the downsized offices working at 150% capacity 5 days per week. Somehow they compromised on 125% capacity and to not talk about it as much anymore.
Morning Trashy! Long time no see.
I said it before, and I will say it again; if you are WFH, you are nothing more than a temp. Sorry, but thems the facts.
Democracy!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/zelensky-is-willing-hold-elections-as-long-as/
If we pay enough, he’ll hold an election. I wonder how much we’d have to pay for him to let the banned opposition parties participate?
Whoever linked the Doge election process, I think I kind of want the US to adopt that.
https://www.theballotboy.com/electing-the-doge
Recently I did 🙂 maybe others too
It was you. Kudos to your constantly engaging links.
Seconded.
I shared the Doge link with a bunch of folks.
And release Ukrainian journalists from prison? Have anything resembling a free press?
It wouldn’t matter. His hand will be out forever. It will always be more.
I imagine plenty of people in The Ukraine and the USA are pissing their pants at the possibility of another Trump presidency. He could shut this whole scam down.
He would shut it down, actually negotiate, and also ask Europe to start paying their way again in NATO. How horrible.
You know who else wanted Germany to increase defense spending?
Can you imagine the soppy German state now trying to make a modern Panzer? Much less enough to fight a major war? That economy is crippled with socialism and unions. I can’t see them pulling off a hat trick.
Maybe they just need a strong man.
The Panzer would have 3 times as many parts as other tanks, but the fit and finish on the armor panels would be fantastic.
And you’d have to take it back to the dealer in Ingolstadt to change the oil.
I think you’re just describing the reality of WW2 as well… Check out the quality on Sherman’s and t-34s it’s atrocious.
He could in a sense. But even if he were to be elected, I don’t think he could/would in a different sense. His case of “Tom Clancy syndrome” is so strong that he’d wholeheartedly do whatever the uniformed brass (and the heads of the intelligence agencies) told him to do, completely oblivious to the fact that this is what wrecked him last time. I just don’t think he’s capable of getting past that blind spot.
the UK did not hold elections during wartime in ww1 ww2… What Ukraine is doing is in no way different than what basically most countries did
So you’re saying they are a dystopian authoritarian state?
well so is every other one. Maybe Switzerland is slightly better.
The Ukraine is supposedly a republic, not a parliamentary monarchy.
irrelevant when it comes to the canceled elections during war given the scope of the monarchy in the 20th century.
Not how we saw it – even during the Civil War.
you are not in Europe.
We shouldn’t be…
I wish
Well, Biden did say that the Ukraine money is going to help save democracy.
If he wasn’t covering for The Big Guy and the God-knows-what we’ve been doing over there presumably since at least the Obama administration I’d seriously be thinking “$5 million would doubtless pay for one of his security detail to put a bullet in his fucking head already.” Sheer. Fucking. Hubris. indeed.
From last night’s discussion – it’s time to walk it back…
Vatican Walks Back Pope Francis’ Praise for Russian Empire
You know what other undesirable the church got in bed with?
Indulge me!
Irish orphans?
I was alluding to the International Union of Alter Boys, but that works.
What do they alter? Hats, brooches, pterodactyls? 😉
Meh, the Czars weren’t that bad, just look at the alternative.
I think the “military base land buy” guys are remembering the last few BRACs and are positioning themselves to have leverage over the nearby bases whenever another one happens. Military infrastructure (worst victim being irreplaceable shipyards) that became prime real estate grifting. They’re going to surround the bases, get all cozy with the politicians, and make sure they are the ones to snag the property when their bought-and-paid-for congresscritters offload it.
Yep. They have inside info that some new mission is likely to be launched/moved there.
Well ackshually… I really meant that they’re gonna snag this land, do some nominal “development”, largely on the taxpayer dime, and convince their congressional pawns to sell them the base cheap.
“It used to be out in the wilds, but now is surrounded by development.”
“It’s so expensive around there that our servicemembers and employees can’t afford things.”
“It’s polluted so we’ll just give it to Flannery and then it’ll be their problem.” (and then they’ll pay for it with public funds anyway).
I see. Well, flip a coin…it’s probably one of the two scenarios.
Trump’s DC trial date set for March 4—one day before Super Tuesday
“It’s not political.”
Especially after Georgia tried to put it ON THE SAME DAY!
Our “intelligence community” has identified that the greatest threat we face is… you guessed it – us.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1696300627629081084
“The U.S. intelligence community has determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat we face in the homeland.”
Brandon has been saying this for years. It is the same lie that will not die, just like the lie he premised his 2020 campaign on. These people are sick, degenerate totalitarians.
If he incants it enough times maybe he and his handlers will get that race war they want so badly.
Yes, they are crazy, thanks for letting us know grandpa.
One wonders how the IC actually feels about that little declaration.
Doesn’t matter though. If they don’t push back against Biden on it, it will to stick to them forever.
They’ve made their bed now. Let them burn in it.
“One wonders how the IC actually feels about that little declaration.”
I suspect they love it, because they wrote it.
What is a better target to use to investigate everyone than some will-o’-wisp? Forever there and impossible to hunt down so the hunt must go on forever.
Speaking of which, I saw some TV show advertised yesterday claiming that the most extensive search/study EVER for Nessie has only now been done….
Bullshit. 35ish years ago I was in a Limnology class where we were evaluating data from a sonar study of Lock Ness that counted every bit of plant matter and every minnow living in the lake from top to bottom, end to end. No Nessie.
Afterwards I heard “That is because Nessie lives in caves on the bottom of the lake!”
Oh, that explains it.
NESSIE DIE IN 1987. STEVE SMITH HITCHHIKE TO FUNERAL. BY HITCHHIKE, MEAN…
“That is because Nessie lives in caves on the bottom of the lake!”
Right next to Bernie Sander’s fabled balls.
National Archives acknowledges 5,400 Biden pseudonym emails
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Guy sounds like me, I want my plastic grocery bags back.
‘misguided’
That’s pretty charitable.
These people are out there purposefully scaring people just to make a buck.
I know because I work with some, it’s a total scam and needlessly alarmist.
The uncompensated are the misguided.
House panel seeks testimony from Ukrainian prosecutor whom Biden got fired
Because we need to investigate malfeasance that is already patently obvious.
Seen on the internet:
“I thought my vasectomy would keep my wife from getting pregnant but all it did was change the color of the baby.”
Well look here in the WSJ.
No Covid Compliance This Time Around
Fuck you pal. I’m still washing my produce and the other two.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
If the first round was truly a dry run for the next, bigger thing, I think they screwed up. There were a lot of people caught off-guard or were surrounded by true believers or just weren’t sure what to do and followed along to stay under the radar. Those people now see through the bullshit and won’t comply again.
Look at Johnny Sunshine over hear. Yeah, we’re all Washington crossing the Delaware – until we lose our job, can’t get on a plane, have to go on Brandon bucks to provide for our family, lose our house. Most of us will grumble and bend the knee, just like in 2020. Don’t kid yourself.
You should really change your handle.
The last American downer?
We’ll see… I put on the stupid cloth mask for the grocery store (being a private business, it was their request for service) but I held out on the vax mandates last time. And while it didn’t come down to it — that did involve push back against HR and the worry it would cost me my job… so no, I’m not Washington at the Delaware yet — but I’m not JelloMan, Supine in the Extreme either. And this time there’s more in the public space (until Comrade Napoleon changes all the records, I suppose) to push back with.
being a private business, it was their request for service
I was torn on this one. I only went once or twice and wore my plague mask. This time around, if it happens, I don’t think I’ll even do that. Private business acting on their own accord is one thing; but given the mass of regulation and licensure and avenues through which the state controls ‘private’ business, I’m not accepting it’s a private business decision anymore. They’ll have to call the police and have me arrested for trespassing I guess.
Everyone wants to be a hero and slay a dragon….until they meet one.
I ignored them because they got nothing over me. They cant take my job or affect my life in any way. It is kinda like having a dragon-proof suit and an extra long spear.
Let’s not get into a spear measuring contest now….
That depends on who the judge is.
I think it will depend on the part of the country. I see an uptick in face diaper wearing here in southern NH. I suspect in some parts of the country, folks will happily go along with another round of lockdowns.
Some other parts of the country – Florida, parts of PA (massive of their second round of lockdowns), parts of the Midwest – little or no compliance.
I guess it pays to be an asshole like myself. I saw red flags the first time around and stopped pay8ing attention to the ‘mandates’. I won’t this time either.
Exactly. At this point, outside the Coof Belivers, everyone knows it was bullshit. Everyone knows that this is coming up just in time for election. Everyone knows that no of it worked.
Everyone knows that the captain lied.
Vasaro Swimwear Fashion Show – New York Swim Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic1D6eAATxQ
You are pretty openly a dishonest cunte.
“Yes, we do see a more coded language. It’s also a language that’s not often that coded. Donald Trump came to office on a pretty openly white nationalist campaign. We see people like Tucker Carlson who are allowed to have a major platform on the most watched cable news television in the country and who openly talked white nationalist talking points. We kind of have this wink and a nod racism. It’s barely concealed. All of us can hear it.”
I love the smell of projection in the morning.
Oh fuck off. Is that coded enough for you, honey?
“The U.S. intelligence community has determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat we face in the homeland.”
Go back to sleep, old man.
Good, then we can pull our military out of 150 countries and stop sending money to Ukraine, right?
WE CAN DO BOTH! HOWCOME YOU NO BELIEVE IN THE GREATNESS OF AMERICA?
/Pence
Couldn’t finish due to choking on the irony. ‘Shock Doctrine’ is every bit as much of a deranged conspiracy as anything she cites here.
https://twitter.com/DavidDPaxton/status/1696093882562265342
I will happily sell back to the federal government any firearms I purchased from the federal government.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) used a Monday post on X to call for a buyback of AR-15s and firearms that Democrats refer to as “assault weapons.”
He also wants a ban in place to keep future AR-15s from being manufactured or sold.
Swalwell posted:
Ban assault weapons. Buy them ALL back. Choose our kids over their killers.
Good morning from sunny southwest missouri! It looks like the fetid swamp is still doing fetid swampy things, and glibs are doing glibs things. All is
rightas expected in the world.Here in the middle of nowhere, all the political drama feels 1000 miles away. Maybe it’s because I have accepted that we’re in a post legitimacy era since 2020. Maybe it’s because I don’t pass 400 people with their opinions on the back of their cars every day.
I did see a couple people with masks on in Springfield the other day, though. 🤣🤣 Lockdowns in T-minus 395 days and counting. 🙄🙄🇺🇸
Hey, trshy! Good to see you!
Good morning. Hope you enjoyed the break.
Hiya Trashy!
Glad to hear Missouri suits you!
I feel your pain. I spent a summer at Fort Leonard Wood and a July at Fort Chafee. Not a pleasant region this time of year.
Lol, coming from Texas this is downright nice. I can go outside when the sun goes down and not sweat. Heck, the high yesterday was 81.
The biggest adjustment was the 2 weeks of storms in early August. We’re not used to rain in summer.
Enjoy the Ozarks! Go get you some Andy’s.
We haven’t gotten over to Andy’s since moving here, but we had one a couple blocks away in TX, so my daughters are very excited to know they’re here too. They ask to get Andy’s every time we go to Sam’s Club.
You’re not officially a resident of the Missouri Ozarks until you’ve eaten at Lambert’s and bought some Osceola cheese.
True.
Yeah, we have them in Atlanta too, I have one 1.5 miles away now. My parents grew up and live out near Bolivar.
We almost bought a place in Bolivar, but it was a bit too big of a house and the 20 acres were too wooded. We liked the area, though. The rail to trail path in that area is a great amenity.
T-180 if you live in a Blue State.
Good seeing you
I propose that every July 6th we liberty lovers should use up our leftover fireworks and bratwursts to celebrate the epic anonymous destruction of the “Georgia Guidestones.”
What a crock. It cost money to erect that mess to begin with. Imagine that board meeting of Bond villains. That was Eat Ze Bugs territory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
It was almost certainly Ted Turner whom I hope suffers mightily and for a very long time as he slowly dies from Lewy Body Dementia.
Captain Planet!
Yeah, I figured it was Turner just due to locale. The “guidestones” didn’t seem like a particularly Georgian thang.
Unless we’re talking the other, more Stalinist, Georgia.
Good morning, peeps!
CDC Mysteriously Stops Accepting COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports Ahead of New Vaccine Push: Report
This is never gonna end, is it?
It will end, just not peacefully.
Once they get us all in a mandatory monthly vaccine schedule you will start hearing cries for weekly jabs. The true believers think if we science hard enough we can live forever. The Gods of the Copybook headings shamble along behind and are making up ground.
I’m just wondering how long until we get the Equilibrium alerts for the next dose.
Those people now see through the bullshit and won’t comply again.
*crosses fingers*
They do, we just don’t yet know which side holds the majority.
*crosses fingers*
Here in the middle of nowhere, all the political drama feels 1000 miles away.
Bueno. Welcome to Flyoverstan.
From the new James Bond book, On His Majesty’s Secret Service
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1696422439578644603
from the category don’t know if real…
I’d bet good money it’s real and that it was subsidized by British intelligence.
Sticking their propaganda messages into the arts and media is a time-honored tradition of theirs.
Richard III was written for the granddaughter of the guy who stole his throne.
That reads like output from ChatGPT.
Matt Welch is ghost writing Bond stories? Nice gig.
the commanding heights of the reputation war
More fuckery afoot!
Anyone who isn’t following the Bad Cat needs to start immediately.
This episode of Jay Leno’s garage popped up yesterday. I watched it because the Ford RS200 is teh awesome.
I gotta ask- did Tim Allen suffer some sort of severe head injury? Because he sounds retarded.
He’s what, 70? and also a lot of coke.
I watched it this morning.
(Thanks, Zwak!)
Something seems off with him. He is getting older, though.
Regardless, the car is amazing!
Yeah, he just sounds older. For that matter, Jay does too. Life marches on.
Cool car.
Jay burned his face off too. I am amazed he is talking that well.
Yeah, the car was killer while Allen is fading. It is kinda sad.
He’s not an actor so much as a guy that plays himself in every role. So, it’s just his shtick which is closer to his real personality than not?
Evelyn Waugh is laughing at you
His lethally coherent worldview still turns reality into a farce.
Art is not fair. If they knew what his reputation was now that is the lesson Evelyn Waugh’s contemporaries would surely learn.
His literary generation was pacifistic, left-wing, irreligious, and righteously believed that justice existed to be rendered in this world, not the next. Hardly anyone reads Stephen Spender or Sylvia Townsend Warner any more. They wrote the right things; they believed the right things; they took up the earth’s wretched as their cause.
Evelyn Waugh never did. He did not hope to reform the species. Today his peers are not much more than inter-war curiosities. Read their poetry and prose, then feel the aeons open up between you and them. Waugh remains utterly modern. Such a state of affairs is a joke as icy as any found in his writing. Why the passing decades cannot diminish him ought to trouble our creaking, secular, liberal age.
https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-essay/2023/08/evelyn-waugh-worldview-novelist-literature
Waugh also wrote what is possibly the best WWII novel: Sword Of Honor. Few know it over here, but Waugh was a Royal Marine Commando, served during the evacuation of Crete, and, of all things, had the proofs of his most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited, airdropped to him while holed up in a cave in Yugoslavia with Tito.
Holy spit… when did California go psycho on this? Doesn’t mouthwash put you over? (This is from the online driver’s license renewal legalese you have to agree to, btw):
0.01% is within the margin of error for a breathalyzer.
That sounds similar to the laws here for drivers under 21. Any detectable level of alcohol is an OVI (Operating a Vehicle under the Influence). It’s not until you can legally drink that you have the mighty buffer of a 0.08 BAC.
Isn’t that pretty standard for under 21? Pretty sure NoDak is the same.
If it is… it is still nuts. Margin of error like the Nerfherder cites above, medical conditions (I think oral bacteria and some cases of pre-diabetics?) that produce slight alcohol, f’ing mouthwash (quick, ban it! for the children! reee!) — lots of reasons for a kid to blow a 0.01 and be completely innocent. So it is a stupid standard.
Well, get to work on your own roads, then.
Sincerely,
The Government
Surrender your personally owned vehicle, peasant. The state will convey you on mass transit where they want you to go when they want you be there.
Resistance is futile.
“Not to worry, comrade. You will arrive at the camps on time.”
Virginia is lenient. The under 21 here get 0.02%.
Birthplace of ethnic Germans which have their own Wikipedia page.
https://twitter.com/TeutonicAesthet/status/1692215839431274578
Speaking of the weather… I see the media are rubbing their hands together gleefully at the prospect of a hurricane.
I’ve been re-watching some of Depp v Heard and I’ve come to the conclusion that Camille Vasquez would be perfect for a Modelo commercial
Or a Carls Jr commercial.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
So sweet.
Thanks, Jimbo!
Delicious Tacos
@Delicious_Tacos
I was sixteen and my mom made me get a job. Again. Learn the value of work. She was right, it’s a lesson I retain decades later: the value of work is less than fucking zero, a negative eating away at your soul and your life. So, thanks. I applied at the McDonald’s in Kingston, Mass.
https://twitter.com/Delicious_Tacos/status/1695118075836895453
today in twitter literature you can now write short stories in a tweet
From the amazon page “Bukowski meets Tucker Max during the Instagram era” riight…
That was a great read.
Is it too much to hope that some document or whistleblower comes forward with evidence that LT. COLONEL Vindeman was on the take?
Nothing would make me happier than to see that smug asshole get wrapped around the axle of Ukrainian corruption.
Dried up and blowed away
A New York Times investigation has found that America is depleting its invaluable reserves of groundwater at a dangerous rate.
The practice of overpumping water from vast aquifers is already having consequences nationwide. The majority of U.S. drinking-water systems rely on groundwater, as does farming, one of the nation’s most important industries.
Despite being essential to American life, the health of the country’s aquifers is hard to gauge. The Times spent months collecting data on tens of thousands of wells to conduct one of the most comprehensive examinations of groundwater depletion nationwide.
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“From an objective standpoint, this is a crisis,” said Warigia Bowman, a law professor and water expert at the University of Tulsa. “There will be parts of the U.S. that run out of drinking water.”
The declines threaten the long-term survival of communities that depend on groundwater and lack alternatives.
Once you pump water out of the ground, it’s gone forever.
What a bunch of hysterical dimwits.
If only some parts of the country had access to a process where you could build a facility (call it a “plant”) that would remove and purify seawater into drinkable fresh water. Maybe call it a “salt removal plant” or something.
And if only said parts of the country would allow it to be built instead of shooting it down after 15 years of permits or something.
Of course, said parts of the country would have to stop trying to destroy their energy sector as well….
If only….
I fully expect everywhere east of the Mississippi (and a touch to the west of it, obviously) to have zero sympathy for the West and its mismanagement / refusal to actually build infrastructure over the last 50 years.
👆👆👆
“I fully expect everywhere east of the Mississippi (and a touch to the west of it, obviously) to have zero sympathy for the West and its mismanagement / refusal to actually build infrastructure over the last 50 years.”
^This. The second water war, begun it has.
this is a crisis,” said Warigia Bowman, a law professor and water expert at the University of Tulsa.
Why would I trust a law prof’s assessment of hydrological conditions? Oh wait, she’s a water expert! 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Only the left would worry about running out of something that literally falls from the sky.
And covers about 3/4 of the globe.
Why would a professor in Oklahoma know anything about water? They don’t have any water in Oklahoma. if they were from Wisconsin, Michigan, or Ohio, I’d hear them out.
/looks north
I’m good. Plenty of ground water here.
I remember watching a documentary in the mid 00’s narrated by Matt Damon claiming the Great Plains would be out of ground water by 2015.
Just saying Matt Damon is a tool.
MATT DAMON!!
“Once you pump water out of the ground, it’s gone forever.”
My understanding is that it varies, greatly, by aquifer. Some refresh relatively quickly, others, not very much at all.
Weak state regulations, combined with a lack of federal oversight and no comprehensive national data, has made it possible for farms, cities and companies to draw down aquifers, the Times found.
Climate change is adding to that pressure.
If only we had a global socialist dictatorship to allocate those precious water supplies.
Stillsuit. Everyone needs to wear a stillsuit.
fun fact
karl marx was a correspondent on, and for, america during the civil war
dude was absolutely off the hook here
subthread, it’s great stuff
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1696367522809794744
I bet Tundra – with his love for Minnesoda rockers – is totes going to hit this show in Minnesoda!
Obviously Taylor Swift doesn’t exist.
*hurls*
Who’s making the sandwiches?
Someone sure likes to toss word salad.
“I think all music kind of has roots in misogyny,”
Tell me you have 4 cats without telling me you have 4 cats.
Layne Redmond is spinning in her ecologically-responsible grave.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910443.When_the_Drummers_Were_Women
B.B. King was the black face of white supremacy.
No Masks, Please, We’re Rational
Good essay.
No Masks, Period. We’re Sick of Your Shit.
Winning comment from there:
Very good read. Going to be sending that to a friend who still thinks masks “help a little bit”.
Masks. They filter particles as small as 0.3 microns.
Cootie viruses are 0.01 microns. They are expelled in small aerosolized droplets from your lungs. The masks catch them. Because they are so small the water evaporates fairly quickly leaving a little snot flake with cooties stuck in it. Talking, moving around, coughing, etc. causes the mesh of mask fibers to move around a bit so the snot flakes get ground up smaller and smaller until they work through the mask. As I recall (unless they changed it) it says right on the box ‘We recommend user changes to a fresh mask every 15 minutes.’
No o ne does that. Masks dont work for viruses. They just dont work and we have known that for more than 100 years. We have a large number of studies showing just that and not one single study pre-politicization that they do. To call them OBEY masks is perfectly accurate and says volumes about the motives of the mandates and motives of the PTB.
I caused a bit of a stink in a staff meeting just now. They were talking about a return to mask mandates, and I flatly told everyone that I would not be complying and that I encouraged everyone to join me. “They can’t arrest us all.” “I’m done playing along with this BS”
The VP tried to make light of it all, and everyone else stayed very quiet. I’m hoping I at least emboldened a few people.
But I did find myself thinking of the story of the execution in Survival in Auschwitz where the about-to-be-hanged rebel shouts, “Kameraden, ich bin der Letzte!” and nobody says a word.
Fuck it.
Good on ya. If everyone who is opposed to this shit would just say, out loud, in a meeting or wherever “No, I won’t wear a mask, or get a vaccine, or hang a plexiglass barrier, or social distance, or do anything that is proven failure. Not a little bit. Not negotiable. Period.”
This dies in the cradle.
Good for you, man.
Illegitimate
In America, every natural-born citizen who’s at least 35 years old is free to run for president. But that doesn’t mean everyone who does so should be taken seriously. Vivek Ramaswamy should not.
If Ramaswamy’s unfitness for the office was not clear before last week’s debate, there’s no doubt about it now. Let’s start out with the fact that he’s never run for office before or held any political office at any level — and now he’s running for president. We tried that before, in 2016. How’d that work out?
His rookie status was on full display in Milwaukee. He accused everybody else on stage — a former vice president; three former governors; two current governors; and a U.S. senator — of being “bought and paid for.”
He said the climate change agenda was a “hoax.” He pledged to cut off aid to Ukraine and Israel. He vowed to raise the legal voting age from 18 to 25. And, if elected, no matter what Donald Trump might be convicted of, he promised to pardon him on day one.
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Ramaswamy’s “10 Truths” are pure pap, and have nothing to do with being president. It’s time for the media to stop treating him like a serious candidate, fawning over the big crowds he’s attracting in Iowa. Big crowds turned out at the Iowa State Fair to see a cow made of butter, too. But that doesn’t mean they want it to be president of the United States.
Looks like Rammy’s getting under some people’s skin.
Oh no… someone who thinks they’re in the popular clique at the Deep State Junior High School for Bitchy People doesn’t like him! Surely that will sink him with the GOP primary voters!
Suddenly I feel compelled to vote for Ramaswamy.
We tried that before, in 2016. How’d that work out?
Best president of my lifetime actually.
accused everybody else on stage — a former vice president; three former governors; two current governors; and a U.S. senator — of being “bought and paid for.”
They are career politicians. Of course they are bought off.
Big crowds turned out at the Iowa State Fair to see a cow made of butter, too. But that doesn’t mean they want it to be president of the United States.
Dunno, I would take a butter cow before more Biden, the bribe cow.
The mystery buyers of nearly $1 billion of undeveloped land abutting a California military base were revealed to be Silicon Valley heavyweights — and not a network of Chinese spies as some lawmakers feared.
Why am I not surprised?
A Nordstrom employee at the San Francisco location partially attributed the closure to the rampant crime in the area, according to ABC7 News. Property crime, which includes shoplifting, rose by 57% in downtown San Francisco between 2019 and 2022, according to USA Today.
You got what you voted for.
Just stand in the middle of a parking lot and pay no attention. Older person who I assume can’t hear well either.
Mind you that doesn’t absolve you when you back into the clueless individual.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/164g76y/ocgotta_look_behind_you_when_backing_out/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Public schools are the devil.
I’m a little surprised this happened in the Springs. These people are unhinged.
The school’s director said via email that the patch was “disruptive to the classroom environment.”
Seems like the school director is disruptive to the classroom environment.
which the school claims has “origins with slavery.”
Ironic considering it is literally the opposite.
Well that Revolutionary War guy was from South Carolina and we all know they had slaves. So that patch is totes pro-slavery!
Props to Mom in that video for knowing her rights. Of course it only made the statist madder and dug in more.
Look district policy is we put the (((kids))) on the train. I’m just following district policy.
“Conservatives are on a mission to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision” From the AP.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981
Some of what the author is proposing sounds great, gutting the unelected Gov departments. But the article implies that there would be be a gutting of the public servants followed by replacing them with conservatives.
So do what Obama and Ciinton did? Replace with different cronies?
“First ever ‘alien’ objects found on Earth? Harvard physicist Avi Loeb says hundreds of tiny fragments he found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ARE from outside our solar system”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12456979/First-alien-object-recovered-Earth-Harvard-Avi-Loeb-says-hundreds-tiny-fragments-bottom-Pacific-Ocean-outside-solar-system.html
“Alien life was found on Mars 50 years ago – but NASA accidentally KILLED it, scientist claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12454519/Alien-life-Mars-50-years-ago-NASA-accidentally-KILLED-scientist-claims.html
I’m not saying it was aliens.
I immediately thought of National Lampoon’s vacation.
“DOG KILLERS!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPdgUMYFXY
Our garden has never produced so many tomatoes. Yesterday Mrs. TOK canned 20 quarts plus 7 pints of Bloody Mary mix and we still have a ton more in the garden.
I would make pizzas and freeze them. I would pull all the tomato plants on Halloween. One year there were 120 tomatoes.
The school’s director said via email that the patch was “disruptive to the classroom environment.”
Maybe f you put snek on a rainbow background.
“Don’t fuck with snek!”
That’s what you get for not being a heavily tattooed dope smoking lesbian of color
Rare new video has emerged showing detained American Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russia for more than four years, inside his prison camp.
The video, released by Russian state-controlled news agency Russia Today (RT), shows Whelan wearing a Russian prison uniform in different parts of the prison, with shots of him using a sewing machine and eating in a cafeteria.
At one point in the video, he tells a reporter from the Kremlin-backed media outlet, “You understand when I say that I can’t do an interview, which means I can’t answer any questions.”
Whelan – who has US, Irish, British and Canadian citizenship – was detained at a Moscow hotel in December 2018 by Russian authorities who alleged he was involved in an intelligence operation.
The former United States Marine was sentenced to 16 years in prison on an espionage charge he vehemently denies. “I was arrested for a crime that never occurred,” he told CNN during an exclusive interview last year. “I don’t understand why I’m still sitting here.”
I’m certain the State Department is doing their utmost to spring him.
From that AP story about “dismantling” the government:
The unprecedented effort is being orchestrated with dozens of right-flank organizations, many new to Washington, and represents a changed approach from conservatives, who traditionally have sought to limit the federal government by cutting federal taxes and slashing federal spending.
Oh, please.
“It frightens me,” said Mary Guy, a professor of public administration at the University of Colorado Denver, who warns the idea would bring a return to a political spoils system.
Experts argue Schedule F would create chaos in the civil service, which was overhauled during President Jimmy Carter’s administration in an attempt to ensure a professional workforce and end political bias dating from 19th century patronage.
As it now stands, just 4,000 members of the federal workforce are considered political appointees who typically change with each administration. But Schedule F could put tens of thousands of career professional jobs at risk.
“We have a democracy that is at risk of suicide. Schedule F is just one more bullet in the gun,” Guy said.
If elected officials are empowered to fire unelected bureaucrats, democracy will die!
“We have a democracy that is at risk of suicide. Schedule F is just one more bullet in the gun,” Guy said , casually stepping over the body of Uncle Sam laying in a pool of his own blood.
What really cemented the permanent government workforce was giving them their own pension plan. Put ‘em on SocSec with a 401(k) option, and those jobs get a lot less sticky and fungible with the private workforce.