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 wonderful day and the links!
Bob Mendenz Insists He’ll Be Exonerated on Federal Indictment
Adam Schiff Earmarked $10 Million for Defense Contractors That Donated to His Campaign
The FBI Has ’50-Percent Rate’ Of Getting Speech Censored From The Internet, Court Filing Says
Biden Admin Moves to Give Federal IDs to Illegals
Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul calls in National Guard amid New York’s worsening migrant crisis
Biden admin about to deport German migrant family after 15 years fighting for asylum?
Photos show Ambassador Yovanovitch met twice with Burisma official after being told firm was corrupt
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Big adenochrome market in Cleveland?
Eho doesn’t want to get the hell out of Cleveland?
Who, of course. I’ve got autocorrect ony phone turned off.
Where’s the Guardian pride?
Morning, Banjos — WFH so no traffic… but I will bitch about the crappy VPN solution we use that drops during the night all the time (I swear IT thinks everyone shuts off their corptops at the end of the day and reboots fresh every morning instead of leaving tasks running, workflow in place) and then won’t reconnect without rebooting the whole stupid system.
So annoying.
(sips his coffee and prepares to skim the links…)
/thinks back to a number of applications that will shit the bed if they’re left in a connected state overnight
Before they took away all the non-Windows VPN solutions from us, I had connected uptimes on my Linux workstation in at least multiple weeks. So bloody frustrating to have to reboot the Windows session every damned day (if it doesn’t reboot on its own for updates when you least expect it, of course).
When the vast majority of call center agents were shifted to work from home, and had to deal with a softphone instead of a physical desk phone, a constant issue was agents leaving the phone running constantly. If the network dropped, or switched connections, or got a new IP address, etc. they could get their phone in a bad state where it was still active on the central server with the old address and calls would get dropped. If they would close the phone application at the end of the shift and start it in the morning, that would have been fine. About 80% of them would just minimize it and say they closed it.
Forcing them to reboot every day was the only way to get compliance.
I’d sincerely say that y’all needed a better VOIP app then. That’s just ridiculous.
Agreed, the VOIP app in question was scheduled to be EOL in spring of 2020. The vendor pushed that back for two years due to the shutdowns, but support was limited to just break/fix items (original EOS was in 2018 from memory). Originally, Windows 10+ was not going to be supported at all. They relented to the pressure, and put out a patch that at least let it limp along in Win10, but officially they never supported Win11, which the customer pushed out anyways. The client was also several revisions behind on both core routing and VOIP systems.
Having been on the other side, the time for testing and validation plus comfort with reliability means it’s always treading towards the end of life side of the cycle. That and vendors wanting to decrease cycle time because a) money and b) dishitterly like minimum [non]viable product.
weeks? I had some linux systems that went years between reboots. There were sometimes security issues doing that, but still.
Weeks for the VPN connection. The Linux box didn’t need a reboot to reconnect — at one point I had one up a year, though these days I’m more proactive about rebooting for kernel or system library patches (hotpatching of those never did come to fruition, unfortunately) when they come in as security updates to try to keep from ticking off IT directly and making them notice my setup and forcing me to only use the stupid corporate laptop.
When I was a young IT nerd, I used to think “over 900 days of uptime? Cool!”, now I just wince and think of all the unpatched security holes.
The classic story is the lost print server that was incased inside a wall for over a decade.
You mean, you have to push the power button twice, in a row, every morning?
No, the laptop is responsive – just the VPN app that spins on “Connecting” even if terminated and restarting. So I have to reboot the laptop to get it to work (then login once because I can’t RDP to the laptop until I log in on it physically first due to some magic with Domain accounts, *then* I can RDP to it and leave the window up on my Linux box where I have actual screen real estate and all…) all that and then restore whatever working state I had when I had to reboot. Nothing show-stopping, but damned frustrating.
Just like last time, it’ll just take one… sophisticated juror who understands the totally normal way that congress gets business done.
You just have to understand that if Meneddez is corrupt then that means Biden is corrupt and that means Trump wins and that is a threat to “our Democracy”. I’m sure they’ll find more than a few receptive to that in whatever Democratic stronghold they hold the proceedings.
“Bob Mendenz Insists He’ll Be Exonerated on Federal Indictment”
I am wondering who he pissed off that they finally went after him for doing what he has been doing forever. Cause there is no way this is anything other than the DOJ punishing him for something they turned a blind eye to for years.
Biden Admin Moves to Give Federal IDs to Illegals
The Destruction of the United States Is Intentional. Here’s What Will Happen Next.
“Biden admin about to deport German migrant family after 15 years fighting for asylum?”
While they are letting every loser in the world come here cause they figure they can use them to “fortify” elections, anyone they feel will not be one of their willing serfs needs to be taken out. This family homeschools and wants their freedom (why they left Europe). This makes them, according to the DOJ & FBI, domestic terrorists.
Hopefully nobody notices that when they leave, their flight is for Mexico.
Maybe a small part of their Cloward–Piven strategy.
Get rid of the migrants who actually pay taxes and contribute to society.
“Biden Admin Moves to Give Federal IDs to Illegals”
Makes it easier for them to help “fortify” elections for democrats and the corruptocracy.
That is pretty obvious, and it was probably their plan all along. But are there enough to swing an election? Especially if they settle in states that are already blue?
That’s why the administration wants to force them to remain in Texas.
And then kill the electoral college.
Mendenz — well, I guess when you’re dumb enough to not even use the Biden plan of shell companies (much less the Clinton plan of “Foundations”), you might as well double down.
Schiff — “I’m a good politician! I stay bought and give you solid ROI!”
Re: FBI and censorship — I suppose we should be glad it is only 50%, but they shouldn’t be doing it… and those who did should be locked up (ha! In the “That’ll never happen department” obviously…) That the scummy lawyer is then using it to say “See! No coercion!” when they shouldn’t be censoring anything is just extra scum on the scum pond.
Re: Federal IDs to illegals… at this point “Meh” — they can pretty much get them in every state anyway it seems. No change in the level of scroomed (from a podcast I listen to… we’re “screwed and doomed == scroomed”)
Re: Feds and the German homeschoolers… yeah, love that one. We’ll let everyone else in — but you German homeschoolers who didn’t want to have your kids indoctrinated? No, that’s no political, cultural or religious oppression you were leaving so you don’t get asylum! Assholes. As mentioned yesterday when this was brought up… almost certainly because these folks wouldn’t vote Proggie-Dem.
Re: missing kids. Shit…. honestly, my first thought given how open the border is is that a gang moved in and is trafficing the kids elsewhere, probably for sex. Hope I’m wrong.
More likely runaways. School just started back up, the weather has been warm and dry, and I’ll guess the majority of the missing teens have… less than ideal home lives.
Happily you are wrong. A similar story came up some time back and someone here broke the numbers down. Runaways mostly, many of them repeat runaways with each occurrence being counted as a missing child. True disappearances were mostly custody issues with one parent making off with the kid. A very small percentage, less than 1% if I remember correctly, were abductions by non-family members.
The story is an egregious example of stirring hysteria.
Nici un tigan
Hey, it’s not like the Romani ever steal shit or scam people.
People called Romani, they go the house.
It’s “Romani ite domum”, now write it a hundred times by dawn or I’ll cut yer balls off!
Now write it out a hundred times. If it’s not done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off.
The Romani are traditionally not welcome in communities because when they show up everyone’s pigs and chickens start disappearing. Also, their women bring in a lot of money by entertaining local men. Local wives are not too keen on that.
The tribe originated in India. The Indians got sick of their shit and tossed them out. There is a good reason for that as anyone that has had much contact with them have learned.
* The ‘gypsies’ are known for all kinds of scams – fortune telling etc. but they are not known to use much violence outside of their own. they have learned not to go over that line.
The Irish Travelers, a closely related group, are different. They are known for scams and violence or threats of violence. We had a bunch that would come around here every year. I think they put me on their ‘dont call’ list. After the last time they were here several years ago they haven’t been back.
+1 sealcoat for your driveway
Do ya like dahgs?
^These two^ get it.
Well you see, we did this other guy’s driveway down the street and we ordered too much sealcoat and we’re willing to sell it you at a reduced price this one time so we don’t have to carry it away.
Well, if some guy down the street hired you, you must be good.
yep. That is it, word for word.
Dont forget the roof sealer one.
Is that who’s coming door to door twice a year? It seems like the same group of young guys and every time they’re selling something different. Lawn care, roofing, pest control. And they’re always mentioning my neighbors by name.
Edgefield, SC
If you are all into refugees we could send a few more million
Now you know there are Romanian convenience stores in LA for when you visit.
So you are saying if I get to visit one place in the US it should be L.A ?
You can do worse than LA. Though I’ve never seen any Romanian stores there.
Legend has it that a Romani stole one of the nails that was supposed to crucify Christ, giving them eternal salvation.
Or at least a pass on theft.
Here is a great overview of the regulatory state by a Silicon Valley VC Bill Gurley.
Start at 6:30 in or so.
https://youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM
This relates well to the discussion of bribery and campaign contributions. It discusses the COVID tests, Telecommunication act, and Dodd Frank.
The first few minutes are worthwhile if you’ve ever been in telecom equipment manufacturing (I have).
The chart he presents is absolutely correct. Startups in that sector died in the late 00’s. It’s all major corporate now and completely consolidated except for some niche areas.
How does she even manage to stand and walk around under the colossal weight of all that sanctimony?
What you will be is a third world shithole, dumbass.
Texas, stop sending so much diversity our way.
https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2023-09-12.jpg
Texans aren’t sending the right kind of diversity.
Less charitable folks than me might think the plan all along was to pump up the low end of the job market with millions of cheap laborers but that would be crazy talk.
Drive down wages at the low end and then complain about income inequality.
A derringer with a belt clip. What could go wrong?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-man-blames-wife-tsa-finds-troubling-discovery-carry-bag-reagan-national
That looks like a NAA 22 mag. I’m always afraid I’ll blow my fingers off with those things.
I don’t know why you would put a clip on it like that.
I don’t know why you would put a clip on it like that.
It does seem crazy, I wouldn’t want to stick that in my waistband.
Keep your fingers away from the muzzle and cylinder gap. Easy enough.
The trouble is that most people forget about the cylinder extending past the frame with no guard behind it. One tends to lay their thumb along the frame to steady it and POW! The recoil drives that cylinder edge back against your thumbnail..the thin wall on the outside splitting y our thumbnail nearly to the bone.
Ouch. Once y ou learn to hold it properly it is a very nifty little high-quality firearm.
I’ve shot my father’s a few times. I’ve been tempted by them, particularly the ones with a laser built in.
Agreed.
Yeah, it’s the combination of the pocket clip and the exposed trigger that makes me nervous.
Pocket clip.
The staged photo shoots are getting sloppy.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1706361174558716040
Hey, here’s how to avoid that – DON’T TRY TO COME THROUGH THE FUCKING RAZOR WIRE!
I thought it was a play tunnel.
+1 AOC crying at a fence around an empty parking lot.
Menendez: “I will be exonerated and will still be the senior senator from New Jersey.”
Some time later:
Convicted, and then reelected as the senior senator.
Maybe they burned up swimming in the river?
Some jokes never get old.
Although in this case, I think I am going for the Sideshow Bob rake scene theory. Overuse it until it gets unfunny, then keep using it until it gets really, really funny again.
Nah. It’s the 20-something kids who die trying to swim across the river at night. There’s even a free boat shuttle across now to try to reduce that.
A free shuttle isnt going to stop the “fire swimming challenge”.
A friend of mine did a triathalon in Louisville where the first stage was “swim across the Ohio to Indiana”. If I had been a triathalete, I would have noped out right then.
Yeah. The fire swimming challenge is dumb, drunk kids thinking it’s not that far. It isn’t necessarily that far (under 300 feet), but a barge isn’t going to be able to stop for your dumb ass in the river at night, even if they see you. There’s also a lack of easy ways to get out of the river once you’re in it (unless you know where the docks are, and can navigate to them at night). About every 10-20 years, there will be a cluster of kids dying doing it, which gets the bars blamed, causing them to be under more scrutiny until they go under. We are now in the third incarnation of the East Bank of the flats in my lifetime.
Greedflation
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1706209793562603669
Greedflation is a stupid concept, in that it requires people to not have been greedy the previous year.
Greed according to the left: A desire to survive in the market
Greed according to me: A desire to gobble up everything in sight at everyone else’s expense until the market is left in ruins.
Hmmmmm….who is gaslighting who?
Those companies need to keep their profits to a minimum to offset the inflation caused by massive amounts of government spending on bullshit. What’s wrong with them?
A solution in search of a problem.
The first foldable PC era is unfolding
LG’s 17-inch foldable OLED arrives October 4 for 4.99 million won (~$3,726).
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/the-first-foldable-pc-era-is-unfolding/
Still can’t make a Global from Earth: Final Conflict yet.
OT: How’s your German?
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/intels-big-chip-making-push-in-germany-hits-bottleneck-683ad851?st=10s56ylsr5zoiec&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Still pissed I didn’t get to go “learn” at the Dresden fab for six weeks.
Daily Quordle 610
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first decent score in a long time
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Not here. >.>
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Photos deleted from the now-defunct Burisma Holdings website show former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch met with Vadim Pozharskyi—the Burisma official who worked closely with Hunter Biden—at two separate events after she had been told the Ukrainian energy company was considered corrupt by the State Department.
I mean, it’s Ukrainetown. You can’t swing a cat without hitting six corrupt companies or government organizations by noon.
Animal lovers appreciate that you didn’t say a dead cat.
But why would swinging a live cat be any better?
In fact, who swings a cat?
Patrick Henry in a dress
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, said on Monday that it’s a “make-or-break” moment for the Republican Party to take a stand against former President Trump ahead of the 2024 election.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Hutchinson told host Rachel Maddow that while she still considers herself a Republican, she doesn’t believe that her former employer is a “Strong Republican.”
“I do not believe that Mr. Trump is a strong Republican. But in this election cycle, in my opinion, it’s a make-or-break moment for the Republican Party,” Hutchinson told Maddow. “Now is the time if these politicians, these men and some women, that are currently in Congress want to make the break and want to take the stand, they have to do it now.”
Hutchinson also said that she doesn’t understand why Republican lawmakers are still willing to support Trump, even with the ongoing controversy and legal challenges that surround him.
“I think it’s extremely disappointing, and it’s not a hard issue to take. We’re talking about a man who at the very essence of his being almost destroyed democracy in one day and he wants to do it again. He wants to run for President to do it again,” Hutchinson added.
What is a Republican, Miss Prissy? What does a Republican believe? What future America does this theoretical Republican intend to build?
Nobody knows. What’s more, nobody cares.
I don’t think Trump is a strong Republican either. He’s a 90’s Democrat.
Then again I have little faith that the Republican party has my interests in mind either.
Burn it down and start over.
Its why I vote LP despite the fact that it operates like the LP.
Me too. Trump was a decent president, but I don’t see that he’s they guy to do what it takes to clear out the swamp. Unfortunately he’s polling way ahead of everyone else. But I’ll be damned if we let another Dem win this time.
But I’ll be damned if we let another Dem win this time.
Spoiler: Another Dem will ‘win’ this time.
The certainly will if you are black pilled.
No one person is going to clear out the swamp, as you put it. To do that will take years of concerted effort, which will only come from the populous having that desire. Trump was a good nod in that direction, and that is what starts the ball rolling, leading to the avalanche, if it is ever to come. And there is going to be pushback from all the people who profit from the swamp, namely Democrats and anyone with connections to it that allow for profit generation. But, like I said, you have to start somewhere, and it might mean taking a lose in some other area you care about.
But it will take that desire from the public to ever get more than a nod.
Including Biden, now.
I think for some soi-disant Republican, that should count for something.
However, she is right, in that Trump is more of a (Bill) Clinton democrat.
All the cool Republicans believe in throwing elections to Democrats now.
Bryan Caplan’s theory is that the left hates markets and the right hates the left.
Eh, you can replace that with “The Right hates collectivism and the left hates the Right” just as easily.
Both sides hate things that the other loves.
I don’t agree with him, but he makes some good points. But I am sure that yours fails, especially the first part. Lots of the right like collectivism.
Bryan’s “test” is that if you put a representative sample of the left and the right from throughout history in a room, what would the vast majority agree on. From the left, he says it is anti-market. From the right, they would agree the left is bad. They aren’t necessarily pro-market (although a lot are), they aren’t anti-collective (although a lot are), they are anti-left.
One of the counter-arguments is that the “original” french left were pro-market, but Bryan’s counter to the counter is that they were anti-king, and as soon as they got rid of the monarchy, they turned anti-market. They were never pro-market, it was just that the merchant etc class were anti-king, so they supported them for a short while.
they were anti-king, and as soon as they got rid of the monarchy, they turned anti-market.
I think many of the positions we see people/groups take have their root in this sort of oppositional posture. Specifically, I’m not sure the ACLU has ever been truly in favor of free speech based on a principle. Rather, free speech had a role to play in the disruption of the existing culture (or NAZI marches were disruptive of the culture/status quo) and that was in their interest. It still can be disruptive, but now they control the culture/status quo so it’s no longer useful and is in fact a danger to the ‘revolution’. So there was never a commitment to free speech in the founders/first amendment sense or the “Petersonian” popularization of it as the equivalent of thought – you can’t have free thought without free speech, but only as a means of attacking those that were in opposition to their desire for a cultural revolution.
Sure, and just as much of the left loves markets. Trying to use French peasants as a test case is, well, stupid, as they were so much the left as they were just poor.
The reality is that the two sides just hate each other, and giving one side an out is stupid and a bad read on the state of play.
To me, the left is fundamentally destructive of existing institutions and culture. And always has been.
The right is just those people who aren’t in favor of, what’s the term? Oh, yeah, “fundamental transformation” of society. What they actually want varies from revanchist retrograde goals to reformist incrementalism.
A better set of terms would be Progressive and Reactionary; those who want change and those who hate change.
The left is obsessed with creating heaven on earth regardless of how obvious it is that can’t happen because you can’t control the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, human nature, but especially economics, which all are requirements of utopia. because they believe their cause is just, they easily convince themselves that any and all actions are justified to reach that end goal. And sooner than later freedom for the individual, or even the collective, gets in the way of that goal, and needs to be squashed. That’s the fundamental paradox facing their political movement.
The right these days just feels like it is the left driving at a speed limit, unfortunately. Especially in the case of those that make policy.
I think the problem is prosperity. When people have to worry about food, shelter, and security, there is no time for idiocy. Prosperity makes weak people focus on what you would call first world problems (a.k.a. meaningless bullshit).
The right is just as hyper-collectivist as the left. Whether it’s the military, religion, “love it or leave it!” making English the official language, etc.
And the left is just as hyper market driven as the right, witness Google, Facebook, Amazon.
The reality is it is a sliding scale, and what one person feels is worthy of collectivization vs. market forces is totally different than another persons idea of what is right.
So much projection, so few words. Amazing.
The TDS lunatics are never going to quit whining even if they realize their dream of putting deplorables in mass graves.
Tell me who Cassidy Hutchinson supports among Republicans–so that I wouldn’t vote for them accidentally.
Biden Admin Moves to Give Federal IDs to Illegals
Bar code tattoos on the forearms or just ear tags?
The red ones mean they’re fertile, right?
Not for nothin’, but if I had to live in Ohio, I’d run away, too!
Notice how much lower the numbers are just south of Ohio.
Speaking of “in a dress”…
The other night I stumbled across a news segment (don’t ask me what network) about farmers’ right to repair. It was mostly the same old boilerplate, but then the reporter interviews some Colorado legislator who co-sponsored a piece of legislation. This person, as it turns out, happens to be a female impersonator; long hair, dress, deep voice, the works. That news guy deserves some sort of special recognition. He sat there stonefaced and conducted the interview as if it was the most normal thing in the world. I could never do that. I was laughing my ass off all the way through.
Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani, attorney Robert Costello for “hacking” laptop data
It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.
Somebody needs to send out a new memo. There are still people insisting that the laptop is fake.
It’s real, but Giuliani “manipulated” the data.
Now bold would’ve been including the FBI in the lawsuit.
SAG is all in on strikes!
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-vote-authorize-video-game-strike-1235735114/
I still have a hard time believing that Nanny Fine is in charge of that gaggle. Did she have any real success after that show either?
Imagine negotiating against that voice for 10 hours a day for weeks on end.
The agreement should be “We will no longer employ any members of SAG in any future project.”
That should be the only offer they get from anyone.
Children going missing in Cleveland? Has anyone checked the sewers?
I don’t know why Bane would be operating in that shithole.
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to the rest of you lovely freaks.
Thanks for the PPL, Banjos. Absolutely love that song and the memories of a simpler and more fun time.
Wife’s new hip has been installed and she’s in recovery!
Yay! Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Hip Hip Hurray!
That pun has been done before.
Good news!
Mine gets hers done next Monday.
Excellent!
A bionic woman of your own, you lucky bastard.
I hope rehab goes smoothly and quickly.
Are three hips really necessary? You Americans…
Hoping for a relatively easy recovery.
Nothing about that sounds fun, but I’m sure you will both be much happier once she is finished with it.
Good luck to you both.
Nice!
OK, how about a white pill:
My daughter sent me a short essay to proofread last night. The subject was Schumpeter and his thoughts on creative destruction and why so many economists get things wrong. I just about fell over that not only was Schumpeter assigned, but my daughter actually understood why creative destruction is such a beautiful and critical process.
We were texting later and she made the comment that communism is always doomed because it is by nature a static system. It was a proud moment.
submit it as a glib post. To teach her IP means nothing.
Nice
That’s some damn fine parenting.
Great! My youngest is taking econ classes now, I wonder what they’re teaching her. When we did our college visit I was encouraged that the business department was a couple of guys that looked like you and I and were really into running businesses.
Verify that is the case…
Remember that Ocasio Cortez is an econ major supposedly.
Unless they now teach people to grift instead of producing a service or product that can make you money, you can bet what they did is indoctrinate her into believing this social justice marxist shit.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/243335186099353759/
That is so cool!
Romania plans to buy 32 planes for $6.5 billion under F-35 deal – ministry
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romania-plans-start-purchase-plan-f-35-fighter-planes-this-year-report-2023-09-26/
15 to fly, 15 for spare parts, and 2 because they get lost now and then.
How can you tell when things aren’t going to plan?
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1706659291636040081
Poland is one of the few countries left in Europe that haven’t lost their fucking minds.
After Soviet occupation the people that lived through that know the existential threat posed by collectivism. Unfortunately for Germany, the people that lived under marxism there learned to love that shit and basically carried that on after their reunification.
Apparently East Germans are the ones fighting all of the collectivization, while West Germans are all in.
I thought Merkel was from East Germany.
Apparently, she was almost the only Easterner in the German establishment. Also, she was born in Hamburg after WWII.
Most of Germany’s “far-right” activity is in the former East–“far-right” meaning stuff like opposing open borders.
It gets even better.
Not sure what the fuck is going on between Canada and India, but it’s wild.
Good, at least we’ve got some countries that aren’t lockstep on this censorship push.
The CCP owns Trudeau. The CCP is in a low level conflict with India and sees India as a serious threat to their plans to expand the middle kingdom across the globe. They are using Trudeau to fuck with India, and the idiot doesn’t get it.
Let’s see if the CCP has the Biden regime jump into the fray.
I disagree. Davos/WEF owns Trudeau.
As well as Freeland and a ton of other shitheads in parliament.
Who do you think owns Davos/WEF?
Here is a hint… Chicomms.
I don’t think the CCP owns Davos at all. If anything, Davos has been trying to use and manipulate China, but the CCP has figured it out. The CCP doesn’t want to submit to their rule (aka their financial system).
Davos is old European money, banks, and the aristocracies combined with a smattering of new money like Gates and other globalists. They’re the worst fucking people in the world. The ones who gave us two world wars and just about every heinous political idea to ever exist.
It’s the old colonial order trying to reassert itself and institute neo-feudalism where we’re all serfs under the enlightened elite.
Seems to me that the CCP is just really good at taking advantage of greedy idiots in the west. They’re playing the climate change game to win. Smile and nod about the restrictions that western countries impose on themselves, then keep building coal plants.
Two competing groups of feudal lords, Davos vs. the CCP.
“They’re the worst fucking people in the world.”
I’d say they’re on the short list, but they share it with some others. Notably, the ChiComs, who still like a little genocide and ethnic cleansing to keep the hinterlands quiet.
*Castreau
I find it very telling that in our society today people no longer invest time in correcting or fixing problems, but in hiding them from the serfs. Case in point.
If you wonder why things are falling apart, it is because the machine, after Obama’s people fundamentally changed it, no longer even tries to do any work other than spending all their available time in figuring out ways to hide their ineptitude and corrupt ways from people.
I get this feeling too. Think about it, the Dem’s election strategy has nothing to do with Biden’s record, and everything to do with indictments, censorship, and election fortification. The simple solution to beating Trump would be to just do a good job and make the choice obvious. But the Dems aren’t even trying.
They care far too much about making “fundamental changes” in the way things are done, all of which are priorities of progressive politics, but are, when looked at in the light of day, failures among the population. Things like the Green New Deal, or Hate Speech need to be snuck in, and right now that is the job of the PMC, who buy into this wholeheartedly.
Our democracy is in jeopardy if we can’t censor the right from telling people we are a bunch of evil, corrupt, and inept fucks!
Flailing
The UAW has said it won’t support Trump, and UAW President Shawn Fain slammed Trump in a statement after the trip was announced. But Trump has some sway among unionized workers in battleground states like Michigan, in part because some unionized workers are politically conservative, and in part because of his criticism of free trade. When Trump’s trip was announced, some Democrats fretted that it would allow him to disingenuously claim a pro-worker mantle. “Trump scooped us. Now if we announce we’re going, it looks like we’re just going because of Trump,” one Democratic strategist told Politico this month before Biden announced his trip. Indeed, we don’t know whether Biden would have acted differently had Trump not taken this step.
Another factor seems to be the UAW’s success at whipping up attention for itself as independent and bold. In addition to the work stoppages, the union pushed back against the Biden administration’s initial attempt to send high-level officials to Detroit to help workers and the companies come to an agreement, as it has done in other recent high-profile labor disputes. That trip was awkwardly canceled. Then, on Friday, Fain announced that the union would welcome Biden to join workers on the picket line. Hours later, the White House announced Biden’s trip.
The democrats really need to bring the plague back, so they can hide Joe in the secret bunker command post.
“some Democrats fretted that it would allow him to disingenuously claim a pro-worker mantle. ”
The biggest Trump supporters I know are blue-collar union guys. The UAW might not endorse him, but the members will. A huge factor in Clinton losing was she ignored the rust belt, and even called them deplorables when they turned to Trump, and they are still in complete denial about that.
As someone on the ground here in UAW territory, I can support that. It’s not uncommon here for a house (or truck) to have a UAW flag, a Trump flag, an NRA flag, and a Let’s Go Brandon flag.
In my youth, the democratic party catered to three groups: blue collar workers; the elderly; and the civil rights movement.
Starting with Obama, the democratic party chucked the blue collar workers into the ditch and replaced them with grievance mongers of many, many stripes.
The current democratic party is driven exclusively by using woke politics to loot the treasury. No one gives a shit about blue collar workers or the elderly.
This is not going to end well.
Judging from my parents, the Dems still have a good grip on the elderly. They just use AARP and legacy media to push the idea that the Repubs are going to take away Social Security and Medicare, and that still works. Elderly people aren’t about to change after voting for the same party for 60 years.
Judging from my parents, the Dems still have a good grip on the elderly
Coasting on past victories. They can’t do that forever.
A disappointingly large number of oldsters believe what they see on the teevee.
Next month, I hit the age bracket for full Social Security payments. So, I am officially elderly (while still paying respects to 4score).
The dem pipeline has always been unionized blue collar workers turning into retirees. That pipeline has been greatly diminished (outside of government workers, union membership is in freefall).
So, the oldsters before me are totally bought into dem policies.
But, youngsters after me have never believed that social security and medicare would exist for them.
I suspect that the current gender-bending, woke policies of the administration is starting to piss off even the die hard union retirees (who have always tended toward social conservatism).
This idea is a seriously dangerous thing. Anyone think the enforcement of this ridiculous shit won’t only happen to the enemies of the state while team blue and the state will get away with whatever the fuck they want to do?
Talk about violating free speech.
“Save Our Bullies!” Hundreds of XL Bully owners mount fierce protest in London against plan to ban their dogs. Hundreds of protesters turned out in Trafalgar Square, London, today to demonstrate against plans to ban their dogs, the American XL Bully breed
https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1705612476698558517
breed better dogs America.
Fuck that. We’re a nation of mutts.
But.. they’ve killed five people in the last decade! FIVE!
That “muzzle Rishi” sign has got to be racist somehow.
I have no clue what an American XL Bully dog is. I’m pretty sure it’s not an American breed, though.
Romania plans to buy 32 planes for $6.5 billion under F-35 deal – ministry
Get the ones with the manual transmission.
Where Have All the Lanternflies Gone?
https://brownstone.org/articles/where-have-all-the-lanternflies-gone/
Ohio.
Long time passing?
From my link above:
When Trump’s trip was announced, some Democrats fretted that it would allow him to disingenuously claim a pro-worker mantle.
I have been thinking about Trump’s “brand”. What sets him apart from the faceless bumbling drones in the establishment? Maybe it’s an appeal to individualism. What if Trump’s perceived appeal isn’t so much “pro-worker-ism” as “pro-individual-ism”? Everybody else is locked into the established Washington top down government knows best mindset. To call back to Tundra, the very last thing your garden variety Washington pol wants to see is their carefully curated narrative supplanted by Schumpeterian chaos.
Trump’s appeal is almost purely reactionary.
See my comment above about Caplan’s theory of left and right.
I tend to disagree with it, but it totally explains Trump’s appeal.
“Reactionary” has become an epithet, but it’s entirely relative to what it’s reacting to, wouldn’t you say? Only someone who believes anything you can slap a “progressive” label on is therefor good would think that anything opposed to it is therefor bad.
Certainly. I don’t care for Trump at all.
Given a choice between him and those I consider pure evil, I’ll support him a heartbeat.
My support for Trump is that I hope at a minimum he wrecks the elite agenda imposed on us hard enough that when the bill comes due to the serfs (us) the elite in the life rafts, with all the loot that was not bolted down loaded in those boats, waving at us as the ship sinks, find out their life rafts are sinking also.
Michael Moore nailed it . . . . “biggest ‘Fuck you’ ever recorded in human history.”
Learn how to clap your thighs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y5YotgIuyI
Michael Moore nailed it . . . . “biggest ‘Fuck you’ ever recorded in human history.”
As I have said 500 times, Trump was the giant flaming bag of dog shit America left on Washington establishmentarianism’s front porch.
Not so random observation: the media, Biden and the DNC all seem to think an official endorsement from the UAW head office will induce all those individual UAW workers to march off to the polling booth in formation and vote for Joe. That’s not how it works anymore (if it ever did).
That’s not how it works anymore (if it ever did).
It ended with the Reagan democrats.
And yet these same people elected Fain.
They’ll vote Biden in large numbers, probably 70-30.
It used too. They would drive buses full of union members down to the polls, with cheat sheets of union approved candidates.
Back in the day when the union bought loyalty by providing services and benefits to the members.
Union leadership was always about enriching themselves, but at least they threw the workers a bone often enough that the members were willing to look the other way. I don’t think that’s happening anymore.
Trump had the opportunity to throw Foochy and Birx and Hotez and the rest of doomsday cultists overboard, and to refuse to allow (projection alert!) “science” to be manipulated for political advantage. He doesn’t deserve to be given another term.
But- goddammit, I want to be entertained.
Your choice is Trump or Biden/Harris having a shot at putting SJWs on SCOTUS for 4 more years.
Yep, he sucks but not as much as that undynamic duo.
¿Que?
Aieeee! It burns!
But it’s five ARs safer! After all, everybody knows that 308 is smaller than 556!
I always have a big gun in my swim trunks.
IYKWIMAITTYD.
Wouldn’t wanna be floatin’ the Guadalupe, drinking a cold one, and *not* be able to take pot shots and random shit on the bank, now would you?