It’s coming
The Chargers throttled thew Jets. The Big Ten has served notices to TTUN that they are in trouble. And the college basketball season is underway with #4 MSU losing. Chelsea thumped Spuds in a bizarre match. And that’s pretty much it for sports. Now on to…the links!
When you dance with the devil… What did they expect would happen?
POS
We’re still doing this “first” thing? I wonder if the Senator will invite him to his beach club if he wins.
There goes another one. At some point people will realize these companies are never worth what they’re supposed to be worth. That day has apparently not come yet.
This story didn’t appear at the first three places I get links from. Guess they couldn’t square it with their pro-Hamas marching orders.
Scumbags
Fire and criminally charge every single person involved. This is deprivation of civil rights on a massive scale. And strangely enough it didn’t appear at the first three outlets I link from either.
This goes beyond bullying. But their supporters don’t care even though the bully resigned.
Damn, that’s quite the price drop. It’s almost as if people don’t really want to move there.
LOL. Please do this. It will serve two purposes: make driving easier and piss off the morons who thought they’d control the purse strings of the federal giveaway.
Let’s do some great 80s today. Such a wonderful song. And this one is absolute magic. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“There goes another one. At some point people will realize these companies are never worth what they’re supposed to be worth. That day has apparently not come yet.”
Was it woke or green that did this?
I think it was just an unworkable business model.
The couple of “work hard play hard” bro-culture companies I have had glancing encounters with struck me as being toxic places to work. The story about WeWork laying off 7% of their workforce, and having a tequila and rap party to commemorate the occasion, encapsulates it perfectly.
“This story didn’t appear at the first three places I get links from. Guess they couldn’t square it with their pro-Hamas marching orders.”
There is no news anymore. There is a concerted effort by what we would call the legacy lame stream media to tell the serfs what the people in power want them to believe. Blatant suppression of information and the use of lies has a whole bunch of people believing al sorts of idiocy that favor those in power’s agendas and have nothing to do with the truth or news.
This story was bad for the people peddling the DEI/CRT shit about colonizers and that sort of shit, and worse, creates a problem for those that know eventually they will have an army to cut loose on those they have labeled colonizers (the same way the Nazi’s called the Jews the problem) once they call for their own version of the marxist final solution.
Buyer beware.
Note that as your other post shows, the attempt to control the narrative is not limited to just legacy media but has moved into the social media space as well. The corruptocracy doesn’t fix problems (because it has created them in the first place) but spends all its time controlling what people believe.
The news story was all over my feed this morning, my guess is because there’s a Cleveland suburb that’s named Westlake as well.
He’ll just make increasingly bizarre statements equating his “First” to sex, pregnancy and some neo-Revelations apocalyptic prophecy based on past precedents. Everyone else will ignore him.
I would say that Rhode Island will finally heal but they already got rid of that bit about plantations.
“If” the Dem wins in Rhode Island?
“LOL. Please do this. It will serve two purposes: make driving easier and piss off the morons who thought they’d control the purse strings of the federal giveaway.”
Yes please.
Almost snorted coffee onto my cellphone when I read that article.
It’s snarky, in your face, FYTW responses to federal overreaching like this ‘Save The Planet And Shovel Money At Prog Ready TM’ program that makes me glad I moved to Texas from the authoritarian hellhole of Hawaii.
It certainly makes me look forward to moving from Hawaii back to a free state.
I’m probably just slow… but what devil are we talking about here? North Ireland slowing economy? Decreasing love of formal, fine dining in upcoming generations? (The same trends that make family china, silver, heirlooms, etc. less desired — that could be interesting in 40 or 50 years when a subsequent generation looks to connect with their roots and their parents have ditched everything to live in their micro-apartment and lose their connection to their racist, sexist, transphobe parents and whatnot…)? Just didn’t see it skimming the article….
Fuck. I had originally planned to use that story then decided on a different one. I suppose I forgot to copy the other link.
I’ve fixed it now. What I wrote will probably make a lot more sense.
I wasn’t gonna say anything…
But yes, putting half the third world in hock to China was the entire point. It was the only way they were going to get the empire they want.
Maybe. As I alluded to below — given their lack of power projection capabilities, kind of think they’re in the “If you owe $10 million… the bank has a problem” case.
Ask the Greeks or the Sri Lankans how well that plan has worked for them. I now there is an old historical saying about being wary of Greeks baring gifts, but todays modern equivalent is money from the IMF or the CCP.
I don’t think the baring gifts are what you have to worry about with Greeks. What you have to watch out for is when they “accidently” drop those gifts and you bend over to pick them up.
Do not fall for the soap on a rope Greek tricknology?
It’s funny how that was ubiquitous when China owned a crapload of Treasuries (which, by the way, they’ve been selling off at substantial losses), but its not how the stories about how people who owe China a ton of money are being framed.
This is kinda the problem with the whole “belt and suspenders” plan. At the end of the day, only China is securing the debt, not an independent third party. So, if someone defaults, or finds the terms not met for what they signed up for, they can default and it is now China who has to try to collect. What are they gonna do, bomb the ports and mines and whatever?
Yeah… I definitely see it now. (Off topic… “Fear & Greed Index”?!? What the fuck there, CNN Business? I mean yeah… capitalism is driven by self-interest, and greed can be channeled into that… but “Fear and Greed” being the only drivers of the economy? What a bleak worldview you screwed up puppies have….)
Given China still isn’t really a power projector and their major sorta allies (Russia and Iran) aren’t going to be able or interested to sortie into Africa… I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Africa didn’t default on said loans as they are wont to do. Of course PPP being the definition of an honestly bought politician might then step in. That’d be some impressive spin if we fuck around to enforce China’s Belt & Road….
I don’t wish ill on the Chinese people — but I really want the house of cards propping up their evil regime to collapse already. (And I want manufacturing back over here for national interest while I’m wishing… where’s that Sovereign class I wished for yesterday, anyway?)
Sovereign is just slowly conditioning you.
How slowly?
Apparently not so slowly that I can’t mess up a link.
Slightly different Sovereign
*Jumps up and down waiving arms wildly*
I called it 20 years ago! The Chinese are fucked. Wanna know how that works? Ask the English.
That’s a good start. Then disband the IC and salt the earth. They very much have decided only they know how to keep the country safe (and easily enough how to keep themselves quite comfortable) and are more than willing to violate every oath and the spirit of the laws to do it. It is a cultural problem and just firing the top brass won’t deal with it.
And given the number of FBI fostered issues over the years, at this point I think we should take our chances with “intelligence failures”. Disband them, stop giving visas to every country that hates us and training them and secure the border and we’ll deal.
Note that as I have mentioned our problem is that government entities no longer feel obligated to work for the people and solve problems, mostly because the problems are created by them in the first place and serve a purpose that benefits them, but to curate what the people believe. When all your time is spent manipulating perception, you have no time to actually solve problems.
And of course — if the government actually solved a problem they might lose budget / resources. Can’t have that!
It goes beyond regular government bureaucratic miasma and the need to perpetuate the bureaucracy’s existence into forever. They now actually seem to profit from the problems they create for the citizens.
Of course. Why else would they do it?
Of course, the criminal charges should include sedition, and be followed by conviction and execution.
But as we all know, nothing will happen.
Indeed we do.
*opens ammoseek in separate tab*
Now is not the time to be buying. You missed the good days in September.
Frank Church must be spinning in his grave.
Absolutely can’t argue with you there. True Faith always holds a special place of affection for me — but this one is one of my personal favorites by them. Really Technique as a whole is a fantastic album.
CNN angry Uncle Toms want to leave the plantation the dnc holds them on!
If that holds, the Dems are toast.
Over and under on an incident of ” horrible racism”, and obviously before the election, so the left can tell those Uncle Toms to move back where they belong?
FBI looks over their lists of whackos-in-training
I’m sure something can be…. arranged.
I’m skeptical that less than 80% of black voters would vote for Trump, since that implies that about 60% of black male voters support OMB.
Not a representative cross sample, but my wife’s side of the family doesn’t have anyone who seems to be ready to abandon their grand tradition of voting straight ballot Dem.
Things have apparently not gotten bad enough for most people to be forced to rethink their allegiance to the party of destruction yet. I wonder if the awakening we saw in 1979-1980 will come soon or be too late. But it will come, because the standard progressive policies are not only not based in reality but always destructive.
I’m trying to imagine how fucked up things would have to get to make that epiphany happen. Mrs. Prole lost her job a while back, is having a hell of a time dealing with the rejection from potential employers … and reacted badly when I said the people she voted for tanked the economy and that she is voting against her own interests, since she might not get a job until the GOP regains power.
It was fun, albeit hazardous, to counter her oft repeated assertion that women and minorities voting for the GOP were voting against their best interests.
I have had a similar experience with siblings. It is very, very hard to break out of the team bubble, because you would have to both admit the team people were wrong, and more importantly, that you were wrong. The left, because it is a cult, is far better at capturing and keeping the people indoctrinated and compliant, despite reality. People fear leaving the team on the left, because they have been conditioned to think they are the cool kids and leaving means losing that status.
I remember how horrible things were in the late 70s and how the people were pummeled by inflation, horrible government, massive crime, a world gone crazy and the claims of the inevitability of marxist conquer of all, and the realization that the American dream was being ended by the very people elected to protect it. Eventually the people, beaten into a pulp, decided the progressive tripe they had supported had to be rolled back to prevent suicide. Maybe we are not there yet but we are moving there fast despite the trillions of extra spending they are doing to keep people from seeing where we are heading to.
40% of black male Trump voters, not 60%. Math is hard.
Roundabout way of saying black female voters are the hard-core base of the Democratic party, hence Kamala Harris and the latest SCOTUS pick and Newsome’s appointment for the vacant Senate seat in CA.
So her family is the classic beaten wife?
Progressives are all abusers, so…
How can there be that many race traitors in America?
sin,
Leftist racists
The chaos of the last few weeks is the left’s wet dream – way better than the Ukraine silliness they were hanging their hat on for the last year+.
The escalating hate and mayhem just fuels them up.
There are a couple of generations that were simply indoctrinated while interned in the education sector to become agitators and activists. That’s the only knowledge and skillset they have is this shit. So whenever they get to do this they feel their lives have meaning.
“Developing countries owe China at least $1.1 trillion – and the debts are due”
China’s economy – most of it smoke and mirrors to get stupid westerners to start businesses and invest in China where the CCP then could steal their Ip and compete with them more easily, while denying them the ability to repatriate their earnings or investments – is falling apart after they gave us the Kung Flu and pissed everyone off. And China has plans, and now will make all the idiots that took money from them dance to Winnie the Poohs music.
“now will make all the idiots that took money from them dance to Winnie the Poohs music”
How, though, I wonder. All that infrastructure they paid for isn’t movable, so they can’t repossess it. I guess they could stick their military dick into third world countries. Somehow without much actual power projection capability. That’s worked so well in Africa, after all. Engineer some coups with pro-CCP leaders? Like the Soviets did for decades, resulting in all those notable Soviet successes?
Doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results? Are we really sure that is insanity, because it seems to be awfully fucking common.
Or that just says something about humanity’s collective sanity.
Water can cut rock over eons doing the same thing over and over. Utopia is just going to take some time.
The new marxist man will be made. Even if it takes close to 8 billion bodies!
They stand on the right side of history!
whaddup doh
whats goody
Hey from Eastern Washington
You have Spokane to us.
You forgot today is fortification day in some places.
Here in Ohio, we have abortion (issue 1), recreational marijuana (issue 2), and all sorts of local levies and taxes to vote down. Interestingly enough to me, I realized just the other day that I have seen almost no signs (pro or anti) regarding issue 2. The CBD stores and head shops will have a pro-issue 2 sign up, but that’s about it. I understand that average house not wanting to advertise their position on that (who wants to give the police “probable cause”), but I’d think the anti-issue 2 people would have no problem putting out signs.
I only had two debt-related items on the ballot, both trying to get rid of the constitutional limits on how much debt localities can carry. I voted against the locality bankruptsy initiatives.
No measures on the ballot here, but the Democrats have been advertising heavily for unrestricted abortion and porn in school libraries.
The Issue 1 mailing (from both sides) have been terrible. One that I had to laugh at was a pro-abortion mailing that said passing issue 1 would allow “:common sense abortion” restrictions. I have a feeling that was completely from standard lexicon without thinking through the obvious comparisons it sets up.
You can implement common sense abortion restrictions now.
There’s no need to enshrine baby slaughter in the constitution.
I was thinking more of mirroring “common sense gun control” laws.
Waiting periods, red flag laws, age restrictions, etc…
Well, there are many rights enshrined in the US Constitution that they believe they can restrict as they please.
My biggest beef with Issue 2 is all the regulation it sets up, worst of all (to my mind) the blatant “Affirmative Action” system it sets up to give preferential treatment in regulatory actions. Inclined to vote against it for that alone.
One of the anti-2 hit pieces I read complained that the bill didn’t have ENOUGH regulation in it. As it allows for home cultivation (which was missing in the previous legalization attempt), I feel that will be more than enough of a safety valve if the regulations on the legal recreational dispensaries get too burdensome. It’ll also help provide more options for those with medical cards, as more product will become available. I also look up to Michigan, where the problem up there was that there was too much recreational marijuana produced causing a glut.
SOP these days. I recall such for both marijuana and gambling. I believe Richmond is having a revote on their one allocated casino today.
That is exactly how it passed in NY. The whole thing was framed as “sorry we put all those blacks smoking pot on the street in jail”.
I heard the restriction is being lifted but when it started, you had to be pot convict to get a license. So now we have pot stores attracting their sketchy friends, plus 100x as many illegal pot stores attracting even more sketchy characters. And anyone who objects to this state of affairs is laughed down in sniggering, pun-laden articles when in reality the only motivation for all is this is more $$$ in the trough.
NY looked at CA and said “we can do it worse”!
A local suburb has a chance to elect the first Somali American mayor in the US. (A Somali American was appointed as mayor in Maine, but that doesn’t count).
The suburb she is trying to become mayor of has been known as St. Jewish Park because of its (((population))). It is where Franken, the Cohen brothers and Tom Friedman all came from. I wonder if the troubles in Gaza will screw our Great Somali Hope over in her run for mayorship. I’m sure if it does, racism will be blamed.
Wait… they get the Black charm too? I’m gonna get sick of all the Firsts with that one.
Somali is the new Black.
Was checking out last night’s Timcast and it seems that because they pointed out the evils of the global reset marxist crowd ScrewTube felt compelled to tag them with this idicoy:
“The Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by the World Economic Forum in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was launched in June 2020, with a video featuring the then-Prince of Wales Charles released to mark its launch.”
So a marxist takeover of society is now an “economic recovery initiative”? That is like calling gang rape a fun orgy.
well 9 out of 10 people at a gang rape are enjoying themselves
Correct. In our reset scenario, those people enjoying it would be the Klaus Schwab and his other Davos allies. Unfortunately those not enjoying it would be the remaining 8 billion people.
Fire and criminally charge every single person involved.
Sorry, the DoJ is too busy chasing their great orange whale.
It’s a real mystery why poll after poll shows people having no faith in government institutions.
I don’t feel fifty but the calendar says otherwise. TCITE?
Happy birthday. Shall I get you a walker?
Happy Birthday, sir. Hope you have a good one.
Happy birthday!
How would you know what 50 feels like? Were you ever 50 before?
Salutations on this day, and keep counting.
I know in my head I’m still the same dumbass 18 year old I’ve always been. From what I’ve read, I don’t think I’m alone in that.
♪♫ oh I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now ♪
Wait till you hit 60…
And Happy birthday.
I laughed out loud.
Oh, you kids… I don’t feel 50 either
Have a good one and many more to come!
My father turned 88 last Saturday. We had pizza and a birthday cake. He was heading out to play golf on Sunday.
Good for your Dad, Kinnath. I wasn’t able to go, I was in my deer stand.
It’s not the calendar that’s the enemy it’s the aging process or more generally entropy.
Happy half century.
“Over a half century of quality!”
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday!
HBD 🙂
Happy birthday! I turn 52 on Thanksgiving. Hopefully you’re staying active, that makes all the difference.
Happy birthday old man.
Happy birthday!
Not a bad day by my standards (accuracy over worrying about bonus words).
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Today in youtube recommends Pie US real estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPw_8o2uJDE
Majestic log home located a couple of miles East of Republic. This home has it all. Barn, garden, chicken house, two car garage next to home, RV shop, and mechanic shop. Did I mention creek! Obrien Creek runs strong all year. Bridge rebuilt recently, driveway blacktopped, firepit, covered area on the West and North side of the home!
Plenty of room for the critters on this 21.3 acres. Lots of recreation, hunting, hiking in the area. Room for the family to spread out. Three bedroom septic installed in 2001. Drilled well installed 2019. Numerous rooms for: office, workout room, reloading room, etc. Charming potential bunkhouse West of main home. Needs some finish work.
Did they tell you about the toothless banjo playing neighbors and their proclivities for certain forms of entertainment?
there are no banjos in Washington state.
What you doing in our neck of the woods?
SR 20 in that area is said to be Washington State’s most dangerous stretch of highway. Winter brings lots of snow; nice country, though. I think Glibs would get on well with the people around there.
wait dangerous just snow or murderous biker gangs?
Only place I’ve ever hit a deer was hwy 20…
I swear I’ve seen that in a few movies.
hallmark channel?
Tirana open beach volley 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXSXORwLCmQ
Daily Ray of Sunshine
We all remember those days. First the tractor, then a truck in the hay field and then turn the car around in the driveway.
Hey, we’re 14 and we can drive! But only where Johnny Law doesn’t exist.
I think my dad let the older Altar Boy drive his truck around a field in Wester NoDak when he was 13 or 14. What made it even sweeter for him was when Grandpa flatly told the younger Altar Boy that was tagging along that he was too little to drive yet. (3 year difference). One Altar Boy was extremely puffed up and pleased with himself. The other was vowing revenge and counting the days until he could drive. I don’t think we had even hit the city limits 3 years later when the younger Altar Boy informed us all that he was now as old as his brother and this year he could drive.
When I was a kid and hunting with Dad and his buddies in NoDak one of the highlights was the “privilege” of getting to walk back to the truck and drive it back to where the guys were to pick them up.
I had an uncle who fought in WWII, and he told me at age 10 or 11, he’d have to drive his parents home because they were out playing cards and got drunk. They lived out in the country so no big deal.
He’s so cute.
Why Democrats Should Care About the National Debt
Ever-growing interest payments crowd out progressive programs and undermine confidence in government.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-democrats-should-care-about-debt-policy-taxes-inflation-deficit-debt-labor-economy-e193bea2?st=nketl57r7f8xuwj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
If only someone has warned them in time to stop this.
Republicans must be challenged to accept tax increases.
Democrats jacked up spending 47% in one year and used that as the new baseline. No consideration of tax increases until spending is rolled back.
We have a new meaning to long COVID and the COVID spike.
I innocently forwarded on a video about mandatory blood samples from new horns in New Jersey (ostensibly for testing for diseases) being kept for 20+ years and used in criminal investigations.
Apparently the video creator is a crazy, not qualified (despite being a cat certified lawyer), and I can show other sources including the public defenders office in NJ… I can’t imagine sharing the DHS story. The normies simply won’t believe it.
“new horns” Typo?
New borns…
All my posts have typos, guaranteed.
Plus it’s one word usually. That was my confusion.
I was unaware NJ was doing this. Do you have a handy link before I start my google-fu?
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/01/04/judge-orders-state-to-release-information-about-police-use-of-baby-blood-spots/#:~:text=Four%20New%20Jersey%20police%20departments,an%20abuse%20of%20police%20powers.
Yup, that’s the backup I found about it. Apparently institute for justice is suing them as well.
Bidenomics!
Eh, isn’t that probably all related to Yellow folding?
Looks like consumer spending is waning and that’s causing a natural decrease in shipping fees: https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2023/11/07/what-the-great-trucking-recession-is-warning-us-about-the-economy-n2630855
Given I think we’ve been in actual recession for some time and PPP’s admin has been fudging the numbers, I can’t say that surprises me.
It’s not just the a contraction in trucking that is signaling real bad times: it’s the drastic decline in commercial global shipping….
That is a lot more startling. Wish they had presented data on volumes and not just rates
I’m guessing at least part of that is return to a more normal cost of shipping.
Cardboard box sales have reached lows not seen since the Great Recession – with Packaging Corp. of America, the No. 3 containerboard company in the US, reporting their biggest six-month decline since early 2009.
Landfills everywhere rejoice.
That is all bullshit. I have been assured that Bidenomics has the economy in fantastic shape.
As a humanities person, tired of defending “the humanities” every five seconds. Given the very real risk of climate extinction due to capitalism, what are some defenses of business schools? What possible justification is there in making more businesspeople?
https://twitter.com/AOHSUsometimesY/status/1721160285350756380
‘the very real risk of climate extinction’
Check your priors.
Awfully religious for a humanities person. The apocalypse is upon us!!
It’s people too dumb to realize they need religion in their lives* being hoodwinked by the street corner preacher.
*I’m not saying everyone needs religion, but clearly many people do, such that they seek it out without even realizing.
Yeah, that is a paradox with religion, even if it isn’t true (which all of them obviously cannot be) it fulfills an important need for people.
There’s an easy answer.
They can pay for their own schooling.
Holy multiple non-sequiturs, Batman!
Back to serfdom, 15th century standard of living, and less than 100 million people living on Gaia!
You mean paradise is upon us?
Don’t immanentize the eschaton!
I literally have a progress bar posted in my office.
“Immanentizing the eschaton 23% please wait’
https://images.app.goo.gl/5NWH6SP7fPKP5qUq6
But I’m reality, let’s not. Anyone trying to bring about the end times? Probably the bad guy unless they’re literally God.
This is why I find the obsession with MARX to be so tiresome – this stuff runs a lot deeper.
I’m a little reminded of this.
I think it’s worth knowing about Marx, because he is influential,, but if you mean that if it wasn’t him, it’s be some other ideologue, then I would agree.
Not sure what to make of your link though.
Fewer dimwits spouting off about climate extinction due to capitalism?
A former Metropolitan Police officer has been convicted of sending a grossly offensive racist message.
Michael Chadwell, 62, shared the post with five other retired Met officers in a private Whatsapp group on September 28 last year.
All five officers admitted sending racist messages last month – including about the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle – in the same group.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/06/ex-cop-convicted-of-sending-grossly-offensive-racist-parrot-message-19781137/
private messages… next is mind reading I assume
also this link triggered the hell out of my work computer’s blocking stuff from websites feature
“private messages… next is mind reading I assume”
Next? All the Trump “sedition and insurrection” trials are from people that have read his mind and KNOW that he knew he had lost the 2020 election fair and square, but then tried to lie and overthrow the government to stay in power.
And people that weren’t at the Capitol and hadn’t taken any action to overthrow the govt, but they wanted to in their hearts.
Those people have GUNS! BIG BAD GUNS!
That makes them terrorists and insurrectionists.
The Democrats wish they had this much power.
Republicans would be worse
The largest urban and suburban areas will likely determine whether Democrats can defy political gravity once again this year in Tuesday’s key elections, from Kentucky and Ohio to Virginia and Pennsylvania. If Democrats run well, it will reinforce the message from the 2022 midterms that they can hold a critical swathe of voters who feel the party has not delivered for their interests by portraying Republicans as a threat to their rights and values.
“If you think WE suck…”
That’s a compelling political platform.
Eh, it’s the only reason I vote for Republicans – because the other offering is worse.
This. I want to be one of the 9 or 10 people in my precinct to vote against the commies*. Of course, that means I only get to cast a vote on 2 of 5 races.
*I am not exaggerating.
Translation: Run on abortion again.
That they are. Also porn in schools. I believe I did see one ad telling me Republicans will repeal all gun laws if they gain control of the Senate. It doesn’t need to be said Republicans will put blacks back in chains and make women sex slaves.
Were those supposed to be points against Republicans?
what rights and values are we talking about?
It’s very nice that there are fellow New Order fans here. Right now I’m 150/700 pages into Substance, Peter Hook’s book about New Order. I love it. They seemed pretty straight lace but damn did they party like rock stars.
I had no idea 🫨
Really entertaining. But there is some really bad blood between him and Bernard.
I see there will be no Peter Hook on tour when I see them next weekend. I didn’t know he left that long ago.
He has a band called Peter Hook and the Light, and he tours a lot. He has rights to the songs so they will play full sets of Joy Division and New Order songs.
Thanks TOK. I do remember that he formed another band, but I didn’t realize he plays JD and NO. I thought it was some kind of solo effort he did when not touring with NO.
And that highlights the fact that in all honesty I don’t want a read what is certainly going to be a biased account, I don’t care if it is one of my favorite bands.
So… The Captain adopted Peter and he didn’t follow with a career in Piracy?
,em>In all these ways, Tuesday’s elections may underscore the intractability of the geographic polarization that has reshaped American politics through the 21st century. In 2020, Biden won fully 91 of the nation’s 100 largest counties, while Trump carried over 2,500 of the remaining 3,000. Biden dominated all the hubs of the emerging information economy: According to tabulations by Brookings Metro, a nonpartisan think tank, Biden-won counties generated 71% of the nation’s total economic output, even though he captured only one-sixth of counties overall. Trump romped in the nonmetro places that are home to much of the nation’s manufacturing, energy extraction and agriculture.
The 2022 election showed how difficult it was to dislodge these patterns. Despite the widespread discontent over Biden and the economy, Democrats in the key races maintained (or even enlarged) advantages in populous suburban counties outside Phoenix, Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin. Republicans continued to post strong numbers beyond those metro areas – and in some cases, Democrats suffered diminished margins in heavily minority inner-city neighborhoods where discontent over the economy is widespread. But the Democratic suburban gains allowed them to win seven of the nine governor’s and Senate races in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – the five states that decided the 2020 presidential race by switching from Trump in 2016 to Biden.
Dante Chinni, director of the American Communities Project at Michigan State University, said voters’ geographic separation into blue metros and red non-metros has enormous, possibly irreversible, momentum. That separation now reflects not only political choices, he noted, but also decisions by marketers, who reinforce the diverging demographic patterns by locating retail outlets and restaurants that appeal to the predominant groups in each region. Everyone now understands the underlying cultural differences between a community with a Whole Foods or a Panera Bread, and one with a Cracker Barrel. “A community develops in a certain way and attracts a certain kind of person with certain beliefs and the consumer marketing industry reads that pretty quickly and knows the things to put in those locations to appeal to those people,” Chinni said. “It seems to me everything that’s built into the system is designed to reinforce these differences.”
Just as long as college educated urban and suburban women love abortion, the Democrats are safe.
JFC this has been the case for decades. Why so much chin-stroking piffle over this stuff?
Because the modern Democrats have abandoned all pretense of giving a shit about their former rural constituents. That in itself should be a lesson about what will eventually happen with the black vote. People have that epiphany – you don’t do shit for me and I’m not going to vote for you anymore.
Fuck… the Dems have been actively working against the true interests of blacks for decades and it hasn’t hurt them yet. What is it going to take?! If it takes four years of Biden, will it have been worth it?
One wonders how much Jewish voters might sit out elections or reduce support due to Democratic responses to the Hamas attacks
Why would they do that? The Democratic party is as steadfast in its support of Israel as the GOP. Is it because of a handful of pro-Palestinian Congresswomen? But they have no impact on the US policy toward Israel. Or is there now a perception that the Democrats are less of blood-thirsty IsraelFirsters wishing to turn Gaza into a parking lot as they are supposed to be?
against the true interests of blacks?
As expressed or revealed?
The rural and working class white migration to the Republicans isn’t some overnight thing. It stretches back to Reagan.
I must be in a swing district because I have Cracker Barrel and Panera.
There’s two right next door to each other around the corner from me.
A community develops in a certain way…
And this is why planning staff must combat these natural tendencies, so that people just can’t get what they want, but what we have decided they need.
The asshole whose ‘fundamentally change America’ cadre of crooks have been destroying anything and everything now want to bamboozle the people by blaming the brain dead asshole they foisted on us so they can get idiots to vote for 4 more years of their shit…
A. Yep, it is a dance with the devil alright, but the other way about. The Chinese are going to be fucked six ways from Sunday.
B. Rhode Island could elect its first Black representative to Congress
And?
C. At first I read that as WeWok. Never heard of ’em, dont care.
D. Why is it that the retarded fuckknuckles who dream of total world domination while they stroke their Persian cats always stir up hate against the Jews? It didn’t make any sense last time and it makes no sense this time. To distract their victims? I am gonna go with that.
E. They so desperately want their Ministry of Truth. All the reason to talk more and louder about the shit they dont want people to say.
F. Sounds like insurrection to me. Dont we have people doing long stretches of hard time for attempting to prevent official govt. fuckery?
G. I dont know why anyone would not want to move there. It’s right in the name….’Paradise Drive’. Why would people not want to move to Paradise?
H. It aint Louisiana, but I like Tayhas better all of the time. They gotta work on the food thing a bit though, we have much better food.
That reminds me…I am throwing a fish fry for some of my neighbors. I need supplies and to get the orphans to whip up some proper tartar sauce.
A couple of them are Texans and I promised I would teach them how to properly fry fish and shrimp.
JFC this has been the case for decades. Why so much chin-stroking piffle over this stuff?
Freedom of association is bad, mmmkay?
Those 15 minute communities aren’t going to curate themselves!
The sadness of Andrews
A grim new book about racism fails to make its case
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-sadness-of-andrews/
On page 126 of The Psychosis of Whiteness, Kehinde Andrews is explaining his theory that EU expansion took place because Polish and Romanian migrants would be “the perfect tonic to bolster the falling White population.” On page 130, Andrews claimed that “paranoia is the hallmark of the psychosis of Whiteness”. Therapist, counsel thyself.
Andrews’ thesis is that “Whiteness”, a kind of socially constructed racial consciousness, is delusional enough as to approximate mental illness. Oddly enough, Andrews is unsure whether psychosis actually “exist(s) outside the imagination of the diagnoser”.
“Jewish people are a good example of a group that can switch in and out of Whiteness,” he asserts, “Defined as less than human by the Nazis who exterminated six million Jews, they are the settler colonialists-in-chief of Israel.”
It is worth keeping in mind two things: 1. We have always had tiresome racist idiots that read race into their every thought. It seems much worse now…by design.
2. When they use the terms ‘White’ or ‘Whiteness’ they are not referring to race but to Western enlightened culture. That is their enemy.
Our old friend Silent Cal weighed in on this a while back.
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth and their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary.” <—-one of my favorite quotes
Buried in my local news….
https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/colorado-springs-school-shooting-plot-plea-guilty/73-cb16127d-16e7-42f3-b625-36196e3793d8
“A 19-year-old has pleaded guilty to second-degree assault after threatening to “shoot up” multiple Colorado Springs schools, including her former middle school, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Lily Whitworth, whose legal name is William Whitworth, is facing up to 16 years in prison for planning the attacks.”
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“She told investigators she had a layout of the school and was starting a manifesto, the affidavit says.”
The bills are coming due on this mess-with-the-kids’-heads experiment faster than I thought they would.
If you fuck up people that already have a serious mental disorder – or multiple disorders, cause progressivism is also a mental disorder – even harder through CRT/DEI and the alphabet soup of letters insanity, expect that many of them will off themselves and some will choose to do that after they create a body count.
Dumping testosterone into some not only ill prepared for it but with obvious mental issues does not seem like a wise plan (unless your intention is to increase mass shootings so you can disarm your population, of course…)
So if *she* was a faster writer there could be another tragedy.
I mean maybe bullying is to blame.
“The bills are coming due on this mess-with-the-kids’-heads experiment faster than I thought they would.”
Not surprising really. Mental illness has no mercy, does not discriminate nor wait for any man. It hits the ground running.
I would add that this problem is calculated and deliberate. The evil Marxist fucks are getting exactly the results they wanted.
Good enough for who it’s for
First, Vogt confirmed that the General Motors-owned company does have a remote assistance team, in response to a discussion under the header, “GM’s Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve ‘autonomous’ driving.”
The CEO wrote, “Cruise AVs are being remotely assisted (RA) 2-4% of the time on average, in complex urban environments. This is low enough already that there isn’t a huge cost benefit to optimizing much further, especially given how useful it is to have humans review things in certain situations.”
Self driving, more or less.
Pay no mind to the traffic or confusion it creates that 2-4% of the time.
Or who it runs over and traps.
Do I have this right? Remotely assisted? I am going to buy a car that is not autonomous, that some fucktard can remotely control at any given second?
I dunno, I admit the possibility that I may not be 100% correct 100% of the time but in this case I am gonna have to pass.
Cruise is driverless taxi service.
Oh. Well, my excuse is that I dont live in taxi country and have never heard of Cruise so I immediately thought in terms of personal cars.
That’s a funny name for it since it immediately makes me think of Minority Report. You know, where all cars are self-driving and Tom Cruise has his shut down by the state and he’s locked inside of it while it waits for the police to arrive because he’s accused of a future thought-crime? It may be fiction now, but the last few years have shown how giddy our masters are at the prospect of using dystopian fiction as a how-to road map for their future plans.
It’s all brainwashing and propaganda with these people
The video clip doesn’t show the accusation made in the blurb.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
GM said last month that the company has lost roughly $1.9 billion on Cruise in the first nine months of this year, including $732 million in the third quarter alone.
Value destruction.
eh what is a billion these days
My friend in dutchland has back pain and tried to get a doctor’s appointment and the call center for the insurance simply said no, we don;t do that at this point, take 4 paracetamol per day for 3 weeks and if it does not go away maybe then. Healthcare in this world is fucked up. In Romania the government healthcare is bad but private you can get a consult for a reasonable price if you ask for it.
That’s fucked.
What is fucked is that they have a high tax rate of 83% on high income earners (and 50% is the lowest if I recall), specifically so they could fund their free healthcare shit. Imagine if you pay over 50% of your income to support a healthcare system that you can’t use… At least in the private sector you have choices unless government makes that impossible.
Don’t they have a free euthanasia program like civilized countries?
Based on a paywalled article but some info in the description
Care home deaths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIwwmO7gd6A
We had the same or even worse situation in Swedish care homes where they even refused oxygen to the vulnerable elderlies having problems breathing. . . oxygen was a too complicated and possibly dangerous procedure to be trusted to the care home nurses.
Shelagh McCall KC, representing bereaved relatives
Residents may have been “neglected and left to starve”
Blanket ban on visitors
Phone calls “went unanswered over days and sometimes weeks”
Relatives, treated “with disdain” questions “fobbed off”
Families told relatives were fine “only to get a sudden hurried phone call that they were dying”
Relatives reported, “a significant deterioration of their loved ones’ physical and mental health”
“was nothing to do with Covid 19”
“some suspect that their loved one was suffering from neglect, dehydration and starvation”
Medical records “missing or incomplete” for fatalities
Residents, forced into agreeing to do not resuscitate plans
Evidence would “point to a systemic failure of the model of care”.
Scottish Covid Bereaved
Discharging untested hospital patients into care homes,
“ultimately a death sentence for the elderly”
Socialized medicine. Envy of the world.
I always ask people that tell me healthcare is a right, who will pay for the people that have to provide that care and expect good compensation considering the expenses and qualifications needed to be proficient in that field. And I remind them that nobody should be expected to work for free (that is slavery) and that if you cap the expenses of healthcare you are creating artificial scarcity for sure as providers will shun away from doing things that lose money. I get dumb looks and then told “healthcare is a human right!”…
It’s almost as if they are spoiled children that do not want to hear “no” to their demands for more ice cream when there is none to go around.
Crazy idea, if you suspect your parents are being abused, take them out of the home?
I know it’s not easy to do, especially if they have dementia, but surely some action needs to be taken.
Biden raises possible “tactical pause” in Gaza fighting with Netanyahu
It’s not a “ceasefire” it’s a “tactical pause”. Totes different!
That does describe it more accurately. A tactical pause so Hamas can get their shit together to make defeating them more difficult.
eh what is a billion these days
It’s barely worth bending down to pick it up off the sidewalk.
Do I have this right? Remotely assisted? I am going to buy a car that is not autonomous, that some fucktard can remotely control at any given second?
I dunno, I admit the possibility that I may not be 100% correct 100% of the time but in this case I am gonna have to pass.
That was about their robotaxis, specifically, but it doesn’t look good for that whole “self driving” scam.
Automation takes you into a fucked up situation. So a remote driver is somehow gonna figure that out and fix things.
Conversation I will never forget:
Angry dude in uniform: “You weren’t supposed to do that”
Me: “I had to make split second call. People were in serious danger. That is the call I made.”
Angrier dude: “But you were not supposed to do that. Am I clear?”
Me: “Well Sunshine, I was the only one here. I did not have the benefit of your wisdom at the time. People are now safe, no one was hurt. You can write it up any way you want.”
Me: *Turns and walks away*
I do all of the driving and when I am driving I am the captain of the ship. End of discussion.
Another conversation I will never forget:
Passenger: ” Go there! Turn here! Speed up! Go over there! blah blah blah”
Me: “Look, I am the driver, I will do the driver’s job. You are the passenger, you do the passenger’s job.”
Passenger, walking right into it: “What is the passenger’s job?”
Me: “To sit there and shut up.”
*Mrs. Suthen snickering in back seat* “I could see that coming a mile away. You dont know Suthenboy like I do.”
Mailbox, or baby carriage? Variation in pavement, or trench? House, or fire truck?
AI will magically resolve all the uncertainties a human deals with unconsciously dozens or hundreds or thousands of times a day.
Jewish man in California dies after being hit in the head during dueling Israel-Hamas war protests
A 69-year-old Jewish man died Monday after suffering a head injury at a Thousand Oaks protest centered on the Israel-Hamas war, according to law enforcement.
The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office said an autopsy determined Paul Kessler died as a result of a blunt force head injury and called the manner of death a homicide.
I can’t believe it made it into the LA Times. I figured it would already be fully buried. Think it will make it to MSNBC?
CNN picked it up.
Evidence would “point to a systemic failure of the model of care”.
[insert exclamation of bewilderment]
I don’t think I ever would have imagined modern militaries using pornstars to gain support for their wars.
https://twitter.com/TheRealTypo/status/1721859578525044848
what a ridiculous statement. I would absolutely expect this. Hell in wwII russians were throwing pictures of hot women to german trenches with messages like defect and they will fuck you.
Depends on your definition of “modern,” I guess. From Britain during The Great War: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'll_Make_a_Man_of_You
If I were on my laptop, I’d hunt down a video of Mary Tyler Moore performing this in a very… UNUSUAL musical TV special broadcast in the mid-’70s.
Found it. If morbidly curious, skip ahead to about 4:40 – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVS0Phpplo
I warned you it was unusual.
Temporary
General Motors (GM.N) said Monday it plans to temporarily halt production of its fully autonomous Cruise Origin van just days after the unit said it was pausing all driverless operations.
The move was first reported by Forbes, citing an audio of Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt’s address at an all-hands meeting.
Vogt, according to Forbes, told staff during the meeting that the company has produced hundreds of Origin vehicles already, and that it is “more than enough for the near-term when we are ready to ramp things back up.”
A GM spokesperson told Reuters “we are finishing production on a small number of pre-commercial vehicles and after that, plan to temporarily pause production.”
“We believe autonomous vehicles will transform the way people move around the world, and the Origin is an important part of the AV journey,” the spokesperson added.
We’re almost there, honest; just a few minor bugs to work out.
oh huh ok. this actually helps a lot
https://twitter.com/lisatomic5/status/1721748822785954237
today in maps
I have some type of cold. Having to take a 1/2 day to vitamin up. The snark is weak today.
Get well soon!
Paging Rube Goldberg…
One of the biggest reasons people cite when saying they won’t buy an electric vehicle is “range anxiety”: the fear of running out of juice on the road with nowhere to recharge. Stellantis’ Ram brand may have an answer for that, especially for people who need a truck to haul or tow things. It’s called the Ramcharger, a pickup that can travel 145 miles on electricity, with a 3.6-liter V6 gas-powered engine linked to a generator that can recharge the battery while the truck is moving.
Why not put a windmill in the bed?
Or- this might sound crazy, but what about using the gasoline motor to turn the wheels?
So we’re doing the Chevy Volt again? Because it lit the world on fire with it’s sales?
I do see the appeal of this approach on paper, but in practice, putting both the battery and a full blown car engine makes the base price so expensive that all cost savings go right out the window.
+ 1 Diesel Electric Train.
Parallel versus series electric. Pros and cons that I don’t expect your typical J-school journalist to understand.
This is the correct way to do a hybrid vehicle. One electric drive train and one generator that is independent of the drive train.
Current hybrids with dual drive trains are the Rube Goldberg contraptions.
So, I’m packed and ready to hit the road for Chicago (Northbrook specifically). Going to visit the son and grandson!
Wife is making a sammich for me.
“Wife is making a sammich for me.”
That’s a good wife..
For there or for the road?
Stellantis, which has been slow to introduce fully electric vehicles in the U.S., is so confident in the new powertrain’s appeal that it plans to offer it in other vehicles. While the company won’t officially comment, a new tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers says Stellantis plans to use the same power system in the Jeep Wrangler small SUV in 2028, and the Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer large SUVs in 2025.
The Ramcharger, due in showrooms toward the end of next year, uses 663 horsepower to go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 4.4 seconds, the company says. And when the battery is fully charged and the generator’s 27-gallon gas tank is full, it can go up to 690 miles The truck also can tow a trailer weighing up to 14,000 pounds, more than the current Ram pickup with a V8 engine.
How much does the truck weigh, with all that extraneous eco-wizardy hung on it?
Probably more than a duck.
Although Kuniskis wouldn’t release projections, he said more than 20% of Ram sales will have to be powered at least partly by electricity in order to meet upcoming U.S. government fuel economy and emissions requirements. Earlier this year, Stellantis unveiled a fully electric Ram pickup called the REV.
Defund the EPA.
SCOTUS needs to slap down congress delegating powers to unelected bureaucracies. There is nothing in the constitution that authorizes this.
Congress responds by telling you “Fuck the constitution, we don’t want to make these decisions and have voters hold them against us”…
“BREAKING: YouTube REMOVES Steven Crowder’s reporting on trans Nashville school shooter manifesto, claiming violation of ‘violent criminal organizations policy’”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-youtube-removes-steven-crowders-reporting-on-trans-nashville-school-shooter-manifesto-claiming-violation-of-violent-criminal-organizations-policy
OFFS!!
“Crowder discovered earlier on Monday that Facebook was also not allowing the content to appear on their site. Crowder works with Rumble, a free speech-oriented streaming platform, where apparently Crowder will drop more information regarding Hale’s disturbed, murderous writings on Tuesday.”
Good stuff. I need to use rumble more, seems work just fine for what I like.
They are absolutely desperate to prevent people from getting this information because it destroys the white supremacy and encouraging of mental illness asshatery shit they have been spouting/promoting/supporting.
The dead are just collateral damage for the desired narrative. These people are scum.
This is a shocking development. Completely surprising.
Not shocking but Goddamn shameful just the same.
They are immoral. They have no shame.
This is the correct way to do a hybrid vehicle. One electric drive train and one generator that is independent of the drive train.
That may be true, but why use a piston engine plucked right off the assembly line? Go all the way and use a small turbine to run the generator.
If we are going to have coal powered cars why not just put steam engines in them? Or better yet, hamster powered cars with a little wheel in there….
*jots down stock tip – buy stock in Purina*
We’ve made it past the first decision point and are headed down the correct path.
Next we have to look at the cost/benefit analysis of using various engine types and whether to use something that is already on the assembly line or replace it with something better.
Assuming schedule crunch, using something right off the line is the lowest risk solution (not the best, just lowest risk).
The Recharger is part of a revamped lineup of Ram pickups that will reach showrooms starting early next year with an internal combustion engine version. The new trucks have upgraded interiors, suspensions and bodies, with a new RAM badge mounted higher on the grille.
The Ram 1500 pickup will come with an optional new twin-turbo 3-liter straight-line six-cylinder engine with up to 540 horsepower. The new engine is more powerful than the Hemi V8 that it replaces, Stellantis said.
Interesting.
What the hell is that smell? Whew…
*fans hand under nose*
Clown World..
When you get accused of white supremacy by the usual suspect, their beef with you is an expectation/standard of competency and merit, it seems.
*does the two hands weighing gesture*
Race…culture. Race…culture. Hmm it seems one has weight, the other does not.
We’ve made it past the first decision point and are headed down the correct path.
We all know the real object s to eliminate all petrochemical fuels. Consequently, this is not and can never be the “correct” path.