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Que paso?
I always wondered what it would take for my brothers from another mother to realize team blue was playing them for the fool, and it looks like it was a third term of Obama where he fundamentally worked to change the America he obviously hates….
The cynical side of me says that it is the blatant favoring of illegal immigrants over the working class black populace that’s swinging it.
One would think the overt destruction of the nuclear family in general, and the heretofore strong black family bonds would have done it (thanks again there, LBJ… you asshole), but here we are.
The wrong people are getting more/too much of the free shit theory does make a lot of sense…
Yeah BLM and its attacks on family and every other “tradition” are frankly doing more damage than illegals are at present.
I think I disagree. The overt attacks on what most people consider sacred is a warning too obvious to ignore. I think BLM is doing more damage to their own cause than their ideological enemies.
As for the invaders we are ‘not getting their best’ to put it lightly. They are not family units showing up bringing their family values with them ( many of the cultures, not all but many, showing up here do have strong family values). They are not hard workers looking to make a better life (many of those cultures do have good work ethics).
They mostly seem to be loose ends, criminals, nut jobs and square pegs. That is why not their countries of origin nor those on route are attempting to stop them. They are glad to be rid of them.
Cynical? I think it’s fair to say that. Inflation is a big deal for people with low income, but I really think the camps of immigrants in cities taking away space, resources, and money, is what’s doing it. They take your school or community center and turn it into migrant housing. They money normally spent on you is now going to $10k debit cards for migrants. They are paying for migrants to live in hotels while you can’t afford rent. This is in your face, can’t deny it reality.
They’re voting against their own interests. Something must be done to save them from themselves.
WaPo headline: “Jesse Watters calls black people revolting!”
LOL that was exactly my first thought
Are the usual crooks pushing fake vaccines on the masses, not just for the money making, but because they know an invasion from the third world will bring back the old diseases?
Somehow I remember years ago at TOS saying that a huge influx of immigration coupled with destructive economic policies would have regions of pathogens and parasites long conquered swarming back upon us. I think I used those exact words and used them in response to a story about Obama taking various STDs off of the list of diseases keeping people from entering the country. I accused him of doing it out of spite and evil intent for average Americans This was about the time the injun writer, I dont remember her name, was advocating for 1 biiiion immigrants into the US. The stupidity of that position defies logic and reason. It is the product of short-sighted and self-destructive envy.
Of course I was called a racist.
Shikha Dalmia?
I had assumed she was a young naïf, but no, she was middle-aged.
That’s the one. The one who immigrated here, got hers and then wanted to turn the country into what she fled in the first place. An idiot.
I suspect she is a Brahmin, and really misses being a member of the top caste where she lives. So yes, she likely is trying to recreate that.
*checks flight times and prices to India*
I will buy a ticket for her, first class.
Do you think all the people that laughed at warnings of the slippery slope or doom based on the crazy shit people clearly could see coming from choices/decisions have wised up to the error of their ways? Because to me it seems the reaction wasn’t “Shit, I was really wrong to say this was too crazy to believe, and it is now here, and maybe I need to be more cautious..” as much as they doubled down on accusing the people predicting , and predicting accurately, what the shit they wanted would inflict on us.
I mean, the amount of shit they have told us was nothing but stupid conspiracy theories that are quickly being discovered to be true, is just whiplash inducing….
I know some of those people well. Their brains just dont work. Literally, they cannot grok any kind of logic. Talking to them, showing them facts, pointing out the practical outcomes of what they advocated in the past and extending it to future outcomes is a complete waste of time.
Not sure who made the original quote, but Sowell has pointed out that people that have fallen for lies have such a hard time dealing with any logic & reason that shows they were fooled, that they simple hunker down and refuse to accept the fact they were played.
He must know my mother.
Ron, we are brothers?! I knew it!
legions, not regions fucking spellcheck.
The US DEI regime failed Haiti
DEI = DEATH. The US DEI regime failed Haiti. “Prior to the gang coup, Haiti became subservient to the U.S. government’s endless money spigot. In turn, the U.S. government wielded its considerable influence to export an agenda of diversity, equity, and inclusion that endangered the lives of the Haitian people and provided no tangible improvement to their security and well-being.”
So Haiti was forced to include and promote wypipo?
Don’t be silly.
Wypipo ALWAYS have white privilege, always. Either they have privilege from being the majority in countries where they are the majority, or they benefit from colonialism in places where they aren’t.
“Do you mind if we dance wif yo dates?”
That would be even more idiotic than recruiting women for their police force.
Yeah, I am trying to figure out how that would manifest in a place like Haiti. Since the whole idea makes no sense whatsoever trying to figure it out in practice is an exercise in futility.
Meanwhile, in Philly…
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-shooting-northeast-high-school-septa-crime/
that is some bad shootin. Or really good shootin if the goal was to injure without killing.
If the NRA wanted to do a public service they would teach these urban yoots to shoot straight.
That’s why the NRA was created in NY. NY shooters are still terrible.
I’m suspecting that the bigger concern is being a rival gang member.
The gang and the government are no different
this sort of thing would never happen on glibprogs.com . Sad.
GET BEHIND ME SATAN!
STEVE SMITH ALREADY THERE!
I wonder what pressure the cabal that is protecting their corrupted institutions of unelected and unaccountable scumbag leftism and claims this is what democracy is (instead of voters being able to elect their leader) is bringing to “encourage” this judge from disqualifying a crook clearly running a kangaroo court procedure to help them take down their political enemy.
I don’t understand why he is even talking to the media while his ruling is pending on a trial that is all about appearance of impropriety and ethical issues. Shut up and hole up until you issue your ruling. To me, its no different than when Willis went to the church to sway potential jurors while in a pre-trial phase.
All these legal battles foisted on us by the deep state these days seem to be fought in the arena of opinions rather than actually real world and the rule of law…
The rule of law has been dead for a while now.
i love this story
vancouver left nimbys supported indigenous peoples, expecting a noble savage return to wilderness
the tribes are building 13K homes and adding $15B to their real estate portfolio
now the left nimbys don’t like the indigenous peoples
https://twitter.com/kane/status/1767585990150131958
Wait until the indigenous people set up some casinos to scalp the white man….
Spying cows! Israel trained cattle to spy on Palestinian village, says PA daily
If true — seems like a reasonable enough thing to do (they didn’t ‘train’ the cows per se, they put a spy package in harness around their neck unobtrusively and let the cows be cows. Not like the CIA bird-drone thing at all.
Cows, birds, dogs, cats….critters have been spying for the Jews forever.
These are not civilized or rational people.
((((critters))))
Please help us and object to this outrageous scheme to build a 42-storey tower over a Grade II building in #Birmingham.
It would set a terrible precedent for listed buildings within the city.
https://twitter.com/hbap1924/status/1767489695519261076
as a libertarian (ish) I can say I don;t like the look of that, I seen much uglier it aint that bad, and they should be allowed to build it irrespective of my taste
The building is being preserved by people who do not own it. The regulations should be stricken and the property owner could build something more attractive.
Great views, but of Birmingham.
AL or UK? Nevermind, it doesnt matter, applicable either way.
Storey, so UK.
Anyone surprised that virtue signaling liberal idiots really don’t know what the symbols they use represent? Me, I think many of them know quite well that what they encourage is barbaric evil shit, but they are cool with it.
They are both stupid and evil.
Ruffalo still mourns the pedo killed by Kyle Rittenhouse.
When your world view is that the successful (except for yourself, of course) are oppressors, and others are victims or oppressed, and being an oppressor is the worst of all sins possible, you will very likely, and consistently, think the bad guys are the ones needing defending…
He’s like the Platonic ideal of idiotic evil.
It is literally an image of a bloody hand. Sure it has a little heart on it, but still.
Like with the idiots wearing keffiyahs and chanting “from the river to the sea”, I’m not buying the “I’m too stupid to know what I’m doing” excuse. I mean, I’m willing to believe that, yes, they are stupid, but that doesn’t get them off the hook for supporting the killing of every Jew on the planet (and of course raping and torturing as many as possible).
A red right hand?
And the green debacle continues.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/how-the-worlds-biggest-plane-would-supersize-wind-energy-2f116e9b?st=vj1rizar06t95kc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bonus at the bottom of the article: You need to build a 6,000 foot dirt runway for it onsite.
Hmm… I think wind power may just have a bigger issue than transporting the blades to the turbine sites (that being turbine maintenance and blade disposal — people seem to have less of an idea of what to do with them than Yucca Mountain waste barrels, and there’s a lot more of them all the time….). That plane isn’t going to help with that.
Just chop the blade up and bury it!
Also very green!
I know its concept art but there are some glaring aerodynamic flaws going on there.
Also…Radia might want to rethink this hire “Rachel Kelley, former director of engineering at Boeing”
“I’m really good at helping aerospace companies meet their DIE goals when it comes to their customers and clients!”
I’ve started using “IED” as the acronym.
Appropriate, being on the cusp of the IEDs of March.
*pins on Ordnance Corps insignia and then narrows gaze*
Speaking of things spying on you (and Friend Computer guarding against wrong-think)…
And speaking of shit the PPP admin keeps doing — hadn’t heard of that prong of “kill all small business so only our megacorp friends can run things… but we’re the party of the Little Guy, don’tcha know!”….
PPP?
President Poopy Pants
President Poopy Pants.
I still like “President Puddin’ Cup” myself.
Make it “President Puddin’ Pop” and it works.
You botch a war withdrawal, you supercharge inflation, you disparage your base of voters, you blunder your way through speeches in ways that make George Bush blush, you destroy the American economy, you weaponize American institutions to go after political rivals and confirm we now live in a banana republic, you collect 10% of payments made to family members from hostile foreign governments, but you poop your pants one time in an audience of the pope and you’re forever known as President Poopy Pants. I just doesn’t seem right, does it?
Heh… true enough, I suppose… and yet, there it is.
One of the biggest problems I think the machine has, in addition to basically becoming hyper incompetent because of DEI/CRT shit destroying any working system when merit and capability to do things are replaced with junk, is the fact that it has pivoted in the age of social media away from actually solving problems and fixing things, to just managing perceptions while doing whatever benefitted it, regardless of how terrible that shit was.
So the effort is all focused on covering up the incompetence and the fact they have no intention of fixing shit they have broken, because they are profiting from the broken shit and advancing some agenda that otherwise would be quickly recognized as evil.
Yes. There are so many examples of this. The economy is one -they’re not even trying to improve things. They’re lamenting that the poors don’t understand how good things are.
Everyone knows that GOHST GUNZ are sneaking into progressive paradises from Red states and massacring thousands. But did you know that there are GHOST CARZ that are even worse? GHOST CARZ aren’t paying their fair share of tolls!
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/12/hochul-and-adams-to-launch-task-force-cracking-down-on-ghost-cars/
44 cars responsible for $1,000,000 worth of toll avoision. My bet is those cars were probably not worth the $22k average of avoision they were responsible for, which still probably makes it a net win for the avoision crowd. Also, you or a family member can probably buy back at auction for pennies on the dollar and keep the scam running. Fuck the toll authority.
It’s a gun! It’s a car! It’s Superman!
Trump won the Republican nomination, Biden won the Democrat nomination.
Children to stop getting puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, says NHS England
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/12/children-to-stop-getting-puberty-blockers-at-gender-identity-clinics-says-nhs-england
And the rest of the country lost. 300+ million people… and this is the douche vs. turd fest we get over the next several months… that I’d rather have the douche than 4 more years of the turd not withstanding….. Sigh.
I’m usually more rule of law — but I’m surprised similar measures to how the Brits handled CCTV cameras haven’t started coming into play both here and there.
Even if Biden wins, we aren’t getting 4 more years of Biden.
Silver lining?
Silver lining? Kamala?
We have not gotten even a year of Biden so far…
It has all been Obama getting that dream of his of pulling the puppet’s strings from behind the screen…
This is what “Fundamentally changing” something looks like. I don’t know about others, but I have never felt the things I liked, let alone loved, needed to be fundamentally changed. I do/did however feel that way about the things I dislike, and for sure about the things I hate…
It always baffled me how many Americans heard Obama say that shit and then thought the change would be for the better somehow…
Colloidial silver?
Hail TERFania, amirite?
James Harrison is a blood donor whose unusual plasma composition has been used to make a treatment for Rhesus disease.
He made 1173 donations throughout his lifetime, which are estimated to have saved over 2.5 million unborn babies from the condition.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1767538533604929563
He should be collecting fees. It’s not like the doctors and hospitals aren’t making money off of his donations.
here you get some payment for donating blood.
Here you get cookies and juice. If you are lucky.
I remember back in the day Al Bundy would sell blood.
Plasma. You can sell plasma in the US. But blood is donated.
When I started donating blood back in the early 80s, they paid us for it. Having 2 arms made it easy to get a quick $100 and then go to the bar and get wasted after one drink, Ah, the good ole days…
Also you get a day off at work I forgot about that
Immortality?
That’s a lot of Rhesus pieces.
*charitably narrows gaze*
They are after my blood cause it cures cucks of their affliction….
I hope they have a Plan B for when this guy dies.
should have given him lots of women in the hope he produces more like him.
The following article explores the concept of a “Gifted Virus” that selectively targets the top 5% of the population in terms of intelligence, likening the impact to the devastation seen in historical events like the Cambodian genocide. It delves into the nature and measurement of intelligence, its societal value, and the potential catastrophic effects on society’s infrastructure, technological advancement, and overall well-being if such individuals were lost. The piece also highlights the importance of the division of labor in modern societies and the irreplaceable role of highly intelligent individuals in maintaining and advancing civilization.
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/what-if-we-lost-our-smartest-5
If there was such a virus I wonder if some people would be slightly disappointed to be alive. Damn I was sure I was 5% smartest.
Sounds to me like some communists are desperate to find something different to say to promote communism than the usual “The right people were not in charge which is why it went wrong”, “It was not real communism because real communism doesn’t look anything like that”, or “The capitalist Kulaks and Wreckers broke it on purpose” idiotic tropes. It kind of sounds intense to be able to say, yeah communism isn’t a brutal and evil thing, because the people that piled up bodies pretending to be able to create government controlled heaven on earth were really afflicted with a virus that made them be monsters…..
I am not sure what you mean.
The marxists will blame this gifted virus for the failures of marxism.
Functionally isn’t that just DEI?
neah you still have some dumb cishet white males left
While they haven’t been killed off they are stymied from doing most anything from the chaff thrown in their way both above and below as well as the useless weight they are forced to take on.
Hey Pie!
Thanks for the link to the article. Very interesting, and seems to be exploring some of the same ideas I’ve ruminated upon over the last few decades.
Considering this revelation, the fact that my dealer sent me an email telling me the 3G modem in my car no longer works, but they would give me a deal to replace it to a 4G one (I still would have to pay for the hardware, just not the labor), it now makes sense that they really care about this, because right now they are having a hard time tracking my car & movement.
Don’t worry. I could give a shit about their claim upgrading it would allow me to use my phone as a hot spot in the car or some such nonsense. I suspect that is something that might work with some young whipper snapper, not a boomer like me.
Not surprising from Government Motors.
Yeah, mine is 3G too (in my car) and now defunct. I’m not interested in “fixing it”.
This, along with the simpler “They are paid for”, would be one of the many reasons I plan on driving my existing cars for as long as possible. One of them entirely predates all this shit — the other (wife’s) at least has aged out of the cell connection in a similar fashion (and was before most of this shit, so I don’t think it was tracking to this extent even in its prime).
Bonus on some Hondas with 3G modems for connected services.
When they shut off the 3G service the modem goes into “panic” mode and keeps trying to connect it won’t shut off like it’s supposed to when the car is parked.
This creates something like 500ma parasitic draw on the 12V battery and will drain your battery during long periods of nonuse. There is a TSB for it. You have to go into the headliner/dome light and disconnect the modem.
Unforeseeable!
I avoid the government roads to avoid detection.
Err, if your car can get a phone signal, can’t your phone get a phone signal too? Why would you need the car to let you use your phone as a WiFi hotspot?
If you don’t have unlimited data from your phone provider I can see this being of value. I happen to have unlimited data anyway, so having wifi in the car makes no sense other than wanting to be tracked.
Good article somewhat anticipating my next piece. Where do these divisions come from? This is a place where libertarian individualism loses the interest of people, because it doesn’t emphasize the voluntary associations we do make (or did in the past). Instead it fosters the “atomization” of society and that in turn allows power/authority to coagulate in govt (and that at the highest level).
Hell of an article. Thanks for sharing that.
Since when does libertarianism have any issue with voluntary associations?
I guess, yeah, its not “emphasized”, but it sort of is. I mean Galt’s Gulch was all about inidividuals not being atomized.
Yes, but that was Objectivism, not Libertarianism.
Yes, Rand wouldn’t call herself a libertarian and I won’t call myself an objectivist, but there is enough overlap that random joe isn’t going to notice the difference.
In fact, if it did emphasize that – look what we do when we freely choose to – it would stand out against the collectivist mentality (which relies on govt to do everything).
Now, I’m still not sure that would matter, because people are lazy – free shit and someone else paying for it will appeal to more than be responsible and do it yourself.
It has been pointed out many times that individualism goes with increased charitable donations (time, money, and, to stick to an upstream topic, blood)
But no one cares.
Read a few articles at TOS and you’ll find an emphasis on the atomization (do what you want, society shouldn’t judge) and rigid enforcement of the regime norms against any voluntary association that is different.
Also in line with my gripe with libertarianism.
Don’t forget, historically libertarianism was also opposed to the church as well as the state. A fair number of the early classical liberals/“libertarians” pretty much throw both into the same bucket.
So it’s in libertarianism’s DNA to be opposed to some elements of civil society/voluntary association.
there are too many variations of libertarian…
Shut up Bernie.
The church used to function as the state in many, if not most locations.
I am listening to the Revolutions podcast. I am almost done with season 1 on the English Civil War. One of the things they were struggling with is state religion, because they couldnt imagine the concept of not having one.
I touch on that in my upcoming piece – in the Medieval era, the state was an inferior institution to the Church. It’s hard for us to conceive of it, but the state was not always what it is today.
The Anglicans wanted Anglicanism in Scotland as well as England. The Presbyterians wanted Presbyterianism in England as well as Scotland. The Puritans et al. didnt care which religion was the state religion as long as they had freedom to worship and didn’t have to pay mandatory tithes.
And they all hated the Catholics.
Edward Longshanks wanted to rule Scotland long before there was any religious division.
Well, yes, but (a) not in Western Europe for centuries and (b) certainly not when classical liberalism/libertarianism was criticizing church and state in equal measure.
This part was a bit much.
Dave Smith has a long tweet this morning on this topic:
Its a thin vs thick libertarianism difference.
Nice equivocation, and stolen bases, on “god” and “value. It’s a cheap shoddy pseudo-argument.
The final paragraph didn’t need it, or much of the preceding shrieking. It stands alone.
I thought the end of paragraph 3 was the key line: All libertarianism tells us is that I can’t beat a trans person over the head with a club or support the government doing it. It doesn’t tell me that I have to pretend a dude in a dress is a woman.
At least that defines the difference between the thin and thick libertarians.
What. He’s a libertarian speaking to other libertarians. If he’s not speaking to you then fine, but there are plenty of libertarians who only want to be right on theory without considering reality.
The author is immortal or nearly so, having educated 20 generations of military leaders.
Anyone not see where this evil shit ends at? The changes are to create a military the new cabal of feudal lords can use against the unwashed masses in the name of protecting democracy (meaning their institutions and their power).
You think they’ve been living up to that? This is just tidying up.
A link from one of Banjo’s regular sources.
They just blatantly lie, and the media runs with it.
Was having a good discussion at work with a coworker. The stock market is screaming which would normally be good for Biden as the incumbent.
However, I pointed out that CPI including food and energy really has a lot of the working class in areas where that’s a larger part of the household budget are upset. Those are truly the swing voters in those 6 to 8 states that will determine the president.
This article really helps show it. The chart in the middle with the 4 year price change on select goods is really awful.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/grocery-prices-inflation-coffee-milk-903aead6?st=cvrxt9jp2iatfrt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The stock market may be screaming, after all, there are few places you can these days put your money that are not drastically losing value due to the government induced deflationary economy we now live it, but when I use their tools to predict how close and prepared I am for retirement, I went from having 5 years to go right before the Scandemic, to now needing at least 10 more years of work to comfortably meet my retirement goals….
The stock market basically is a place to not lose as much of your wealth as everywhere else isn’t a great endorsement of the economic situation we find ourselves in…
Ugh, I don’t like how most public companies are run.
The alternative is to build your own business, or I guess invest locally.
The “screaming” stock market may be keeping up with inflation. Wages are not.
When I got a 5% raise last year and complained with inflation I had just taken a pay cut, they told me the next year’s raises were going to fix that. When I got 5% this year and asked WTF, I was told last years raises took care of the inflation. Lose-lose… And I did a lot better than most other people working there.
And given DC and world events that same stock market could be “plummeting” tomorrow.
I only consider long term market returns.
Diversify or DEI, erm die…
@UCS re parmesan crisps, if you’re out there:
Costco carries Whisps in pound bags. But Trader Joe’s version (2 oz. for $3) is superior. I have a bellyful right now.
I don’t believe there’s a Costco around here.
I know where some Trader Joe’s are at, but I haven’t been in one in years. (They’re inconveniently located, so I’d have to make a trip specifically to go there)
The kind I had was at my regular grocery for $2.89 (also 2 oz)
Costco would probably ship, even to non-members.
Presented for your amusement.
Waste of the Day: San Antonio Spends $127,000 on Gun Buyback That Includes Toys
it amusing if one does not keep looking at various budget deficits.
I was in a gardening store this weekend, looking at Talavera pottery. There was a display of AK-47 shaped tequila bottles on wooden stands, with coins glued all over them (AK-T Tequila). These were much bigger than a standard bottle, they were about 2 feet long. I make be going back to buy one and send it to Tonio as a present. I would not trade in such a fine thing for money in San Antonio.
Ooooh… I appreciate the thought but you don’t have to. Shipping a two-foot glass bottle would be a PITA.
It’s more of a Top Gear Present. But if you loved such a thing…
Brandon Herrera has multiple videos of him attending these events to buy guns for resale. He typically doesn’t get anything before the cops ask him to leave.
Mind-Blowing Slow Motion Shift Swim Repurpose Full Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyxMDuI3448
first girl is quite flexible and acrobatic.
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I wanted to shout out to Whiz for his wonderful Gold Rush articles.
Also to OBE for the info about the fascinatingly-named Big Bone Lick State Park.
Mrs OBE and myself, in our 40s…snickered. It is a beautiful piece of land and we sat in the quiet, watching bison just lay about.
Thank you! I definitely am enjoying researching and writing them. There are two more to go.
I apologize for not being around last night to comment. Something came up (read: Mrs. Whiz and I were watching a movie and I forgot about it).
Something came up
Now that’s hardly even a euphemism.
Those are great, really enjoy reading them.
I’m enjoying these too, Whiz. I don’t know if you’re a member, but the Weldon Record is part of the newspapers.com library. There are issues from 1893 through 1926; unfortunately it’s just partial coverage…some years have just 1 or 2 issues, others have 40+.
I did sign up for newspapers.com and poked around there a little.
There’s this whole corner of parenting TikTok that is against playing with your kids and it bums me out, man
Alex Kaschuta
@kaschuta
A bit crass in her delivery and lib-coded with the nose piercing – but she’s right.
Enmeshment is not good parenting. I thought we established that with all the legitimate hate “helicopter parenting” and “safetyism” get. There is one sphere where your kids really do need to be by themselves and it’s during imaginative play.
https://twitter.com/kaschuta/status/1767638718129569979
this in this I assume as in many things you need a balance. I would not say never play with kids, but they should mostly play by themselves. I have friends who always played with their kids and then there were frustrated they never got a moment of peace, because the kids always wanted attention and never played by themselves. that is not good. My mom did housework etc and during that I played by myself. My friends could never do anything because the kids always wanted adult attention. Went to a gathering at their house with multiple people with kids, and there was a situation where each child played with an adult instead of kids playing between themselves. Weird.
Same with friends that picked the baby up any time it started crying and the baby always wanted to be picked up so always cried, it made things difficult.
Best part of being a Dad was playing with the kids.
What is wrong with people?
All the time they were awake with no pause?
Almost every day when I got home.
Sadly being a Marine, I was gone a lot.
Well if you were home all the time it would have been different
What you did was occasional play. i assume they had time to play by themselves.
Yes, but the woman starts her post by saying, “I don’t play with my kids.”
My kids played by themselves more than they played with me.
You king shaming playing with yourself?
Also if i know my americaneze culture well enough there is a joke in there about eating your children’s crayons
An army man would know how to use bloquotes
Yea well a real vampire would know how to spell blockquote.
I read it as a call for balance, not a prohibition on playing with your kids. Sure, play with your kids, but let them play on their own.
A bit crass in her delivery and lib-coded with the nose piercing – but she’s right.
But she’s not right, the lady says “I don’t play with my kids.”
Yeah, well, that’s probably going too far.
How is a raven like a writing desk?
Neither saved Poe from alcoholism
As seen on the twits
Unfun fact – it is speculated that the cause of death for Poe was vote fraud.
Perhaps the gravest danger that TikTok poses?
I don’t Tik or Tok or block quote. Most of the people I know are old, rural and conservative but they will vote in November, defend Trump and jump on the government mandates of medical malpractice. I see some pretty nice cars lined up at the food shelf.
It’s a consistent pursuit of a good personal outcome regardless of the inputs.
The Rugged Individual is beholden to other people’s money. It’s going to be tough politically to break that hold until the SHTF and it will. Pols keep on digging.
“Candace Owens says she’ll stake her ‘entire reputation’ on debunked theory that French First Lady Brigitte Macron is a man”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13189443/Candace-Owens-french-lady-brigitte-macron-born-man.html
Maybe it’s a psyop to pave the way for Big Mike?
look if Big Mike whips his cock at the UN China will just give up.
I really don’t care whether it’s true or not. It just strikes me as a really stupid hill on which to die.
Yeah, I don’t get it at all.
You know, if this was thrown at women who hadn’t had children, it would almost sorta make some kind of sense. But when the woman in question has children she gave birth to, you start to sound like the cuckoo’s who say men can have babies.
Just like the Michelle Obama is trans people (eg. “there aren’t any pictures of her pregnant”), or any of the transvestigation people, she’s arguing that those aren’t her biological children.
Which carries a big FUCKING burden of proof – that none of these dumbshits can deliver on.
Our army has a navy and an air force. Our navy has an army and an air force. Our navy’s army has an air force bigger than all but, what, three countries’ actual air forces?
https://twitter.com/TheClarksTale/status/1767794340095762599
that’s a lot of air forces.
Don’t the Marines have planes?
You mean the navy’s army’s air force?
My brain first assumed that was the navys army but it is a separate branch.
Both fixed wing and rotary wings. But every Marine pilot is a rifleman first… or at least that is what they tell you…
I believe that would be the Navy’s Army’s Air Force.
Pretty sure the Navy has ground forces that aren’t Marines.
They are under the department of the Navy. The US Air Force is the biggest air force in the world. The US Navy is the second biggest air force in the world.
“‘Nuclear weapons exist in order to use them’ warns Putin as he declares ‘we are ready’ to go head-to-head with America if US troops are deployed in Ukraine”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13191053/putin-nuclear-weapons-warning-america-troops-ukraine.html
Well, that’s comforting.
I thought they existed as deterrent
It depends on the context – Does your opponent have them? If no, they’re for using. If yes, they’re for deterring.
“PICTURED: 15-year-old Kaylee who’s been left with severe brain damage after having her head repeatedly bashed off concrete during Missouri high school beating by 15-year-old female bully”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13191775/PICTURED-Missouri-girl-15-left-critically-ill-having-head-bashed-concrete-vicious-beating-family-says-shes-suffered-severe-brain-damage.html
yikes!
She was an oppressor, so she deserved it…
You mean hating on whitey has consequences?
I think bullying is less predominant in Europe.
Isn’t bashing someone’s skull on concrete just part of their cultural heritage (or whatever was said about that other black teenager who pulled a knife on someone)?
Great school: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/hazelwood-east-high-school-profile
Reading Proficiency: 21%
“Minority enrollment is 98% of the student body (majority Black), which is higher than the Missouri state average of 31% (majority Black)”.
The majority is black but blacks are a minority. Did I read that correctly or do I lack proficiency in language skills and need remedial special ed.? Maybe both?
I don’t know what they mean by “majority Black” either. I don’t think you’re the one who needs remedial ed, though.
It’s like how women are a minority even though there are more women than men.
Doesn’t matter, you would graduate anyway.
c1890 ~ 2018
Millers Point (The Rocks)
Looking down Lower Fort St from the junction with Argyle Pl, Millers Point. From a time when tall ships graced the backdrop before Luna Park & the Harbour Bridge.
One from the archive but no real change today
https://twitter.com/sydthenandnow/status/1767529173340594318
This border thing is really bothering me. My gut is telling me this is a huge, really bad thing, but my little mind just can’t comprehend how big it is. This morning I thought of another way to look at it. We know for a fact there is fentanyl coming over the border, and women and children who are part of sex trafficking. Nobody is talking about that. Biden can brag about how he defied the SC to “forgive” billions in student loans, and brag about how he got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired, but when it comes to saving tens of thousands of people from dying or getting sold into sex slavery, his hands are tied and there’s nothing he can do because Republicans. He’s willing to let women and children get raped just so his party can get extra votes. What a completely evil POS.
“This border thing is really bothering me. My gut is telling me this is a huge, really bad thing,”
My take is that the hidden agenda is a real, real bad one, and we have no clue how bad what they are doing is.
Yes, I get that the big fear from governments these days, especially the ones pushing for heavy immigration, comes from the fact the existing population is not reproducing at a high enough rate and they need to mitigate the problems facing places like China and Japan where the population is or has aged so far that the whole system is on the verge of a social contract collapse, but I can clearly see there is a different agenda here at work. The US bureaucracy, what they call their democracy and they are claiming to be “protecting” with tis criminality that passes for legal stuff, has decided it can’t count on the American people to retain & grow it’s power, especially in regards to being able to keep going forward with this globalist agenda that benefits them but not the blue collar American middle class, and is actively trying to replace them. All to buy votes to keep their grip on power.
Our leadership now sees so much of the population as an existential threat over and above real threats like China’s ambitions, the idiotic NATO stance on the Ukraine war pushing Russia to go nuclear, or the fact our economy is doomed and will implode because of years of abuse and bad decision. That won’t end well.
Completely evil defines the past and current left. They have always been this way.
Sex trafficking? We’re bringing in women because they’ll do what American women won’t? Every time I hear sex trafficking, it ends up having nothing but plain old prostitution.
Guys I accidentally fell and shawarma fell in my mouth with extra tahini and a slice of an apple and around 3 litres of water. Shall I carry on fasting or has Allah fed me?
https://twitter.com/cardansnemesis/status/1767324470090375612
You should fast through the next sixty days and nights with neither food nor water.
If you were meant to live, you would survive.
The more I think about this the more irritating it gets. Tell me you’re a marketing drone who never played D&D. All D&D characters have always been autistic. NO EXCEPTIONS.
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1767678407041564830
I’m interested in her “Fire-person experiences.”
Looks like the fix is in. This whole thing should have been dismissed based on what we know now…
How’s it going? – recreating a racist society edition.
Back when Obama had his beer summit and a White Hispanic murdered a 12 year old black kid who could have been Obama’s son over skittles and a racist cop murdered a gentle giant with his hands up saying “don’t shoot”, we observed that they seemed to be worried that a post-racial society was a threat to democrat power. And the solution was to create racists.
A nation of Jussie Smollete types.
So, how is it going?
Well, a decade or more of ever increasing propaganda on this front, and we are starting to see some real movement. During the heyday of BLM, I reported that we saw zero traction with the black community where my kids compete in athletics.
Now, a couple of years later…. I finally see some evidence of movement.
The supression of crime stories that don’t fit the narrative has been the move that did the trick. Promoting fake hate crimes while suppressing actual hate crimes has driven people to post them to alternate media. So we get Louder with Crowder covering the Nashville shooter manifesto.
And this has led some people to start posting random crimes by black people and accompanying it with racist language. I noted a remarkable increase on X over the last couple of weeks. So much so that I suspected that it might actually be leftist activists posting as fake racists to get the ball rolling.
In either event… it is the first sign that a prolonged environment of fake racism and overt racial provocations from the government and the media is finally gaining traction.
Congratulations, democrats… you may finally get your wish and undo the legacy of MLK. Well played. I am sure we will all enjoy living in the world you are creating.
They need us divided, scared, and fighting each other… Without that we would be too difficult to control.
Precisely. Fear makes you stupid. Anger, even more so.
The black people I know are much, much more conservative than the average republican voter. Yet they dare not vote republican… because racist.
The democrats obviously know this.
Social media is a direct threat to this paradigm as well. Historically they could marginalize the rare conservative black voice. But with social media, hundreds of black voices are emerging as conservative firebrands. This is a threat… yet another reason to control social media.
The easiest and most effective mechanism to persuade people – dumb, smart, informed, or ill informed – to make terrible choices for everyone, including themselves, is fear…
It is the mind killer….
Backlash is inevitable. It will only get worse.
We’re falling behind
“Europe is NOW a global standard-setter in AI,” Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for internal market, wrote on X.
President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, described the act as trail-blazing, saying it would enable innovation, while safeguarding fundamental rights.
“Artificial intelligence is already very much part of our daily lives. Now, it will be part of our legislation too,” she wrote in a social media post.
Dragos Tudorache, a lawmaker who oversaw EU negotiations of the agreement, hailed the agreement, but noted that the biggest hurdle remains implementation.
I blame our dysfunctional Congress.
The EU is using its AI to find people that spread “Misinformation” (read things they don’t want you to know, or “Hate speech” (more of the same as the misinformation shit). That Ai will be woke and stupid. I wouldn’t be surprised at some point it decides the problem is people period and rids the planet of the virus…
More liberal tears that someone actually wants to fight the criminality of the deep state and especially the DNC crime syndicate….
Salty.
Coming soon to the roads by you. It doesn’t matter that you won’t be using them, you can bet that others will be.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/first-partial-driving-automation-safeguard-ratings-show-industry-has-work-to-do
https://www.iihs.org/ratings/partial-automation-safeguards
I oppose partial automation. Although drawing that line when we already have things like auto braking and lane adjustments and etc. So my opposition is probably futile, as I can’t even define it. I feel like Potter Stewart.
But I favor fully autonomous vehicles.
The history of automobiles is one of incremental automation. Replacing the hand crank with a starter motor, replacing the clutch with an automatic transmission, introducing anti-lock brakes, cruise control, and so on.
I feel safer with human drivers staring at their smartphones.
Good morning, fellow Glibs!!
I had a lovely evening but a long one. Pretty tired, possibly hungover.
On the plus side, when I visited my “friend” in his hotel room, the bedside book he had was Thomas Sowell’s “Conquests and Cultures”.
This is a guy who considered himself a liberal back in 2016. He is now a very well read libertarian. Now that’s just dead sexy.
Nice work there Hayeksplosives…
Good morning!
Who was the maker of those hard-keyboard cell phones you mentioned some time back?
Conservative skullduggery must be stopped
A litigation tactic that has helped fuel a series of conservative victories in cases ranging from abortion to immigration to gun rights suffered a setback Tuesday after the federal judiciary’s policymaking body said it will require federal courts to take steps to combat so-called judge-shopping.
The move is aimed at reining in a growing practice of lawyers and interest groups — and even states — trying to guarantee that the lawsuits they file wind up in front of a judge they expect to be friendly to their arguments.
Liberal critics have howled with outrage in recent years as cases seeking to knock a key abortion drug off the market, to challenge Biden administration immigration policies and to nullify gun-safety regulations have all been filed in federal judicial divisions where conservatives knew the case was certain or highly likely to be assigned to particular staunchly conservative judges.
Now, judges themselves have moved to crack down on that tactic by adopting a new policy that mandates that all federal suits aimed at invalidating a national policy or statute or a state law or executive order be randomly assigned among judges throughout the judicial district where the case is filed.
This is a completely new and purely conservative legal tactic.
+1 Letitia James
Heh. It will hurt the left more than the right.
I assure you the left intends for it to apply only to conservative initiated suits.
The change means that challenges to state or federal government policies or laws filed in any of the nation’s 94 federal judicial districts will be subject to random assignment among all judges accepting civil cases in those districts, rather than being retained in the particular geographic division where they are filed and assigned only to the judge or judges in that division.
Speaking with reporters by videoconference after a Judicial Conference meeting in Washington, Sutton called the new policy “an elegant solution” to a problem he said was fueled by an increasing number of nationwide injunctions — orders in which a single federal judge blocks a policy across the country.
Challenging the Total State is verboten.
Or maybe the problem is allowing a single federal judge with limited jurisdiction to impose a nationwide injunction in the first place? I can see arguments on both sides, but I think I have noted a pattern that leftists tend to get nationwide injunctions, and everybody else gets narrowly tailored injunctions, often limited to the parties.
I need a moment to calm down.
I’ve got an “I’m not going to change how we’ve always done it” person obstructing our efforts to get off of an expensive, niche, vendor-specific piece of software to our standardized solution. She repeatedly refuses to even look at the training or documentation on the standardized solution and turn around and go “Well, I don’t know any of the terminology” when we try to work through translating the way it’s currently done to the standard solution. When asked for tests to be run instead of the basic jobs, she sends esoteric pupeteer the pupeteering tasks that are “the way [old system] does it” rather than just giving us something basic to build from. Pretty much all of the “jobs” from her test are not jobs but automation logic that would be replaced by the standard solution rather than called by it.
Follow the money…
This type of person is always motivated by some kind of personal gain…
No. Not money.
She’s too low on the totem pole.
It’s a case of role ossification. “I want to ride out to my retirement without having to do anything but what I’ve been doing”
That’s almost as bad…
It’s worse.
Also consider that the system may have been around longer than the employee, who really has no idea of how to answer your questions other than to deflect. Role ignorance is common. You may have to go talk to the vendor directly.
“I’m not going to change how we’ve always done it”
I hear some of these things in my workplace and what baffles me is the notion that there is a choice. I had to do many different thinks in my work, I don’t want to change the tools I am using was never an option.
The thought is that if they dig in their heels long enough, the initiative for change will fade away.
Sometimes they’re even right.
Can’t you just implement the new one, shelve her system, and call it a day? Learn it or get out?
We’re trying to change the scheduler for the Mainframe jobs. As head of the group that manages the schedules, she is the gatekeeper to knowing the existing schedules. We’re still trying to push forward. If we could go around her, we would in a heartbeat.
In 2021, Chief Justice John Roberts urged action to counter an effort to steer many of the country’s patent cases before a specific judge in Texas. Last year, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) proposed legislation that would require challenges to national policies or federal laws be filed in Washington, D.C.
That seems fair. Seriously, who could object to that?
What Roberts is doing may well be an incremental step toward what Hirono wants.
Sit in solidarity
Black college athletes should rethink any decision to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, the NAACP advised in an extraordinary letter issued in response to efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis to weaken diversity, equity and inclusion efforts statewide.
The letter, authored by the NAACP’s top two officials and addressed to Charlie Baker, the head of the NCAA, comes on the heels of last week’s announcement by the University of Florida that it would eliminate the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion staff in order to come into compliance with an anti-DEI law signed last year by DeSantis.
Another article about this idiocy. Athletes, who live and die by proven performance, might not be the best audience for the diversity-hire advocacy crowd.
Yeah, sports is the enemy of equity.
Why just athletes?
Work-related annoyance of the week: Our 401(k) contributions from our 3/1 payroll still aren’t showing up on the plan’s website, and I can get answers from neither our payroll processor nor the investment firm. My guess is that the payroll processor sent the information but not the money. 😒
I had a similar problem with my HSA last year. Apparently I was the only person in the company that paid attention to their HSA. Once it got fixed (it took about a month), HSA funds started coming in about 1 day previous to before the problem started. So that was nice.
“The number of Americans aged 18 to 27 identifying as non-straight has more than doubled in 7 years, new polling reveals Wednesday.
A survey of 12,000 Americans by Gallup revealed that 22.3% of Generation Z now say they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, or “other,” compared to 10% in 2017.
And 28.5% of Gen Z females say they are not straight, with 20.7% saying they are bisexual.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/number-of-gen-z-who-say-they-are-not-straight-doubles-to-22/
No one could have seen this coming.
“Gay until graduation” has been a thing for a long time. This is just stretching it out a few more years, really.
Diversity, equity and inclusion programs at educational institutions typically aim to help create and maintain a student body and faculty that is diverse in many senses of the word, often with a goal of reflecting the school’s home community or state. (For example, before the legislation was passed last year, the DEI division at Florida International University said it was committed to “building an academic community whose members represent and embrace diverse cultures, background and life experiences that reflect the multicultural nature of South Florida and our global society.”)
Ideological diversity not included.
I think you can reflect either the local society or global society, but not both.
And you can bet that white people will be under-represented relative to society.
Superficial diversity of appearance.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/crime-and-punishment-not-in-that-order-canada-hate-speech-f618e339?st=3v167bkht36ombf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink