GATHER ‘ROUND AND YOU SHALL HEAR…
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT HAS BEEN SOME TIME SINCE ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN, SO IT IS TIME TO RECALL THE LAWS;
- ZARDOZ HAS RAISED YOU FROM BRUTALITY TO SNARK AT THE BRUTALS, WHO PLAGUE THE INTERNET AS IN DAYS OF OLD.
- THE GUN IS GOOD.
- THE PENIS IS EVIL.
WITH THAT DONE, WE CAN NOW TURN TO THE LINKS…GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- AT LAST, SOME CLEANSING OF THE BRUTALS…BUT STILL NOT ENOUGH FOR ZARDOZ! WORK ON IT.
- NO CLEANSING, BUT ZARDOZ IS AMUSED.
- ZARDOZ BELIEVES THE “LEADERS” ARE ENJOYING A VACATION.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Haitians better hide their women and children not only from the gangs but from the soon to be there UN forces. We can charter planes to dump off people around the country skipping the border but in these countries that are deteriorating quickly the State Department is like “Good luck kids!”
Let’s see if we can spread any more old world diseases to the Haitians while we’re at it.
I’d white people had done it* they’re be calling it a genocide or on purpose
*Talking about Nepal unleashing cholera on the island
Blinken says, “Ya mon”.
I love that the conference of concerned Caribbean nations decided on Jamaica.
Oooohhhhh, what if we start intercepting our border jumpers and immediately airlift them to Haiti.
Pretty sure that would discourage more border jumpers.
“US-British forces strike Houthi targets, killing 11, Yemen says”
You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
I didn’t know that the Brits did hyphenated identities.
whaddup doh’
Same shit, different day.
Antony Blinken was pictured leaving the U.S. for Kingston, Jamaica amid fears of collapse in Haiti with growing violence across the island from local gangs threatening to bring down the local government.
You’d think a guy with his kind of pull could at least manage a trip to a nicer part of the Island. What’s wrong, Tony? Goldeneye booked up this time of year?
Why are we thinking about sticking our dick in, again? It’s utterly economically and strategically irrelevant. Its been such a shithole for so long that I don’t even know that being run by a guy named “Barbecue” for his habit of burning people to death is actually worse than what it has now.
If you just hafta, make an announcement that we certainly won’t stop any Americans who feel compelled to go there to try and help out, but we’re also not coming to get them when they get in trouble. I don’t know where this idea came from that its our job to solve every festering humanitarian crisis on the globe, which generally just seems to be an excuse to park more of our military where it doesn’t belong.
+1 Monroe Doctrine.
Let France do it. Haiti used to be their colony.
Alternately, let other Carribean nations do it. Hell, even Cuba.
I read somewhere that…*checks notes*… Kenya is sending over forces to oversee their elections. Nothing fishy there.
And by “supervise,” mean…
Sounds like it will be one heck of an experience for the people there…
FTA:
“Others fired gunshots at the presidential palace where Prime Minister Ariel Henry was notably absent, after traveling recently to Kenya to push for a UN-backed intervention that would have seen police from Kenya come to combat the gangs.
However, that request was shot down, after a Kenyan court ruled that such a deployment would be unconstitutional.”
When Kenya’s legal system is more functional than your own . . . .
Or just leave it alone. When things can’t gone on as they have been they stop. Ultimately they either run out of ammo or people to subjugate (kill). Don’t allow any (more) Haitian refugees in, they’ll bring their old habits with them.
Let the Dominican Republic invade and annex it. The again, they probably don’t want the trouble-Haiti’s a hopeless case.
No chance of that. Why would they want it?
Pretty sure the regime is considering Haiti as the next place for money laundering after Ukraine gets tossed aside.
The Clinton’s have been laundering money there for decades. Look how much their “charity” has helped the people of Haiti.
The Clinton’s already have their hooks in Haiti.
The DR already has an illegal alien problem with people sneaking over the border from Haiti.
I think parking the military everywhere is the reason behind it.
Remember, all the “defense” spending helps our economy grow!
Raytheon and GE gotta eat, brah!
U.S. Dominates Foreign Weapons Market as Russian Exports Plummet
https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-dominates-foreign-weapons-market-as-russian-exports-plummet-94611f2b?st=jk1iaq4q0ji0gfa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I would really like to understand what the strategic need the US is protecting by intervening into Haiti and its disfunction. But don’t call the place a shithole.
I was trying to be nice.
Only CT is a shithole (based on who gets elected in CT)?
When you are going to talk trash about The People’s Republic of Connecticut, address it properly with its full name, please…
And this place will turn into an even bigger shithole the moment I leave.
Central Time *is* a shithole, isn’t it?
Calling Haiti a shithole is an insult to shitholes. Detroit? Now that’s a shithole.
To truly capture the spending multiplier, the US needs to bomb its own cities. Why should other countries get the rebuilding boost?
+1 Milo Minderbinder
*cops in Philly nodding in agreement*
C’mon Ron! Don’t you remember the basic history of the Corps that they taught you in boot camp?
Haiti (and Nicaragua) were two places that the Corps sent young officers and NCO’s to learn about actual combat.
Haitian BBQ or KC BBQ?
The Clinton’s need to get paid and I’m sure the big guy can find a way to stick his dick in for his 10%. Do our “leaders” need any reason beyond graft to do the wrong thing for Americans?
Theme song, yes, but I would’ve expected some serious rock from the big stone head.
Taiwan’s Incoming VP Is on a Low-Profile Visit to Washington
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/taiwans-incoming-vp-is-on-a-low-profile-visit-to-washington-ed59d07b?st=gmxovl3blsr0qas&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The name didn’t read as fully Chinese to me. Hsiao Bi-khim. I don’t know if this is more revisionist romanization or what. However, her bio is a doozy!
Born: 1971 (age 52 years), Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Parents: Hsiao Tsing-fen, Peggy Cooley
Nationality: Taiwanese
Previous offices: Taiwan’s Representative to the United States (2020–2023), MORE
Education: Oberlin College, Columbia University
Party: Democratic Progressive Party
She was also a US citizen until 2002. The Japanese birth angle just adds an even more bizarre angle.
“ Hsiao, who will be sworn in with Lai in late May, plans to discuss the new Taipei government’s agenda with members of the Biden administration, the people said. Hsiao plans to travel to several capitals in Europe, also in a private capacity, after her Washington visit,”
If she’s a government official discussing her government’s agenda with foreign governments, she’s not “in a private capacity”. These people are just fundamentally incapable of not using doublespeak.
I think that just means the host nations don’t have to give her official welcomes. Less hassle and planning for them, and avoids antagonizing the CCP.
If Taipei doesn’t have a recognized government…
She isn’t in that VP slot yet so could be talking without the ability to make commitments yet.
Could be Hakka.
Oberlin? I feel that Taiwan has chosen poorly.
Hopefully they’re broke by now.
I haven’t been up that way in a while.
Could be indigenous Taiwanese.
I havent done this in a long time, but decided to look today, and its a good day.
Baseball birthdays, above 20 career WAR:
Jim Wynn 55.5
Dale Murphy 46.5
Steve Finley 44.2
Darryl Strawberry 42.2
Johnny Callison 38.4
Denny Lyons 35.5
Vern Law 32.3
Raul Mondesi 29.5
Reb Russell 27.7
Rupert Jones 22.6
No HoFers, but a lot of “others receiving votes”.
At the bottom of the list, George McAvoy, who on July 17, 1914 had one pinch hit at-bat. That was his entire MLB career.
Was his nickname “Moonlight”?
Heh, that was my first thought, but thats a different guy:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grahamo01.shtml
“You know in ‘The Exorcist,’ when the girl flies from the bed and hits the ceiling? It’s exactly that scene,” he said. “I was like, what the heck is this?”
https://www.wsj.com/world/everything-hit-the-roof-a-moment-of-horror-unfolds-on-a-boeing-787-528e3b11?st=gctscph3bpavrf2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No idea if this was turbulence, pilot error or mechanical. Should be fun times for BA this AM!
They don’t tell you to keep your seatbelt buckled at all times just to fuck with you…..
It’s really not a huge ask to stayed loosely buckled when you are your seat…
^^^^THIS^^^^
It took a minute but they were able to squeeze this into the article
Never fails.
The main characteristic that something is not real science is that it’s responsible for everything bad and nothing counts as evidence against it.
Sounds like the plane just did what it wanted to do.
Saw an episode of Air Disasters where the biggest Airbus did that a few times because of a computer glitch.
On that one, there were serious injuries from people repeatedly hitting the ceiling and then the floor.
Sounds like a bad alternator.
Probably Bosch made and water cooled. They learned it from BMW!
Shoulda checked the thermostat.
And changed the filter.
Check the lug nuts, wouldn’t want a tire to……
I presume the real reason that TikTok is such a threat to national security is that our Intel community can’t get their hooks into it.
“Monitored for your protection.”
TikTok is CCP spyware. Our intel community is like “Hey, that’s OUR job!”
It’s both spyware and a weapon. The content selected by the algorithm is intended to erode the US. One more little hammer chipping away at the great enemy.
TikTok is just finishing the job the US government started with the brainwashing and idiocy in the public school system and in the woke college experience…
I’m torn on the TikTok ban/divestment thing. It’s obviously a hostile foreign government’s data harvesting operation, at an absolute minimum, so the 1A issue is not, perhaps, crystal clear. The Chinese government doesn’t have any 1A rights, as far as I’m concerned, so I guess its down to whether you have a 1A right to use a particular platform, which I guess you do.
The divestment angle makes it even muddier; I have much less problem ordering a foreign government to sell out or get out.
I’d rather see their agents in the dock on sedition charges, the datacenters burned to the ground and the executions broadcast on public television.
This started years ago. Tik Tok was banned from government phones, but not civilian. Banning it on civilian phones was brought up even during Trump as a consideration. I am not a master of these things, but it does appear that a narrative suddenly flipped to “stop trying to ban Tik Tok.” Overnight.
I get videos forwarded to me from other people, it is always a silly video. I don’t see any of the oddball politics videos or detect any social programming on the ones I get. I assume Tik Tok has just as much social programming as Facebook, for example. I just avoid such things, rather than trying to ban them.
The linked article explicitly mocks the notion that any government could create such a colossally popular social media site.
The notion that the federal government has the 1A power to lock down a social media site seems like it ought to be slapped down 9-0 by SCOTUS, same as the 9-0 slapdown on taking opposition politicians off ballots based on some randos deciding all on their own that the politician is guilty, no need for due process.
“The linked article explicitly mocks the notion that any government could create such a colossally popular social media site.”
1. The government can’t, but Chinese businesses can, and they are beholden at the barrel of a gun to the CCP. Any thoughts otherwise are wishful thinking on the part of the article writer.
2. Agreed. Nobody should be thinking about banning it, outside of restrictions on government owned property. Maybe it is spyware. If so, fight that battle in the court of public opinion to get people to stop using it. It will fall out of style shortly anyway, given the social media trends. Feetbook is still out there because it is supported by our tax dollars.
There are a lot of conceits about TikTok that need to be slapped down. Pence is quoted on Fox as calling it digital fentanyl.
Not surprising coming from Pence. What a jackass.
And the government has done a good job with that crisis as well.
I’m torn too. But not just for the data harvesting. They are using it to brainwash our kids. The Chinese version pushes math and science. The American version pushes gender identity and convincing kids they have mental disorders. They are using it as a psy op to undermine our society.
But you can also see each of these things as being pushed by the institutions of the respective countries. No need for China to push gender ideology when Washington has them beat to it.
So maybe TikTok is a mirror more than anything.
Tik Tok ban, but only if the Department of Education and college subsidies also go.
TikTok has been dead among kids for a while now. Many have moved on to similar competitors and this is pointless if that’s your goal.
THE PUN IS GOOD.
THE GAZE IS EVIL.
A good chunk (heh) of the homosexual population with dad bods are now on Ozempic.
So going to Key West or Fire Island this summer, you’ll see lots of narrowed gays.
You’re a monster.
*Pins ribbon on Shpip’s chest
My doc suspected a problem with my prostate, so he referred me to a specialist.
This doc was really fat, and always chatted about the weather. In fact he was a meaty urologist.
Jebus, this just keeps getting worse and worse.
Kinda typical for a sausage factory.
I thought that was when things got wurst and wurst.
I always take a gaze as a compliment, actually. 😉
A glaze is a competent condiment?
Yes. I’m sure that a commie hacker group based in Africa is taking orders from Putin.
Everything bad is Putin’s fault, you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyZci7Cmp8
So did Putin cause climate change, or did climate change cause Putin?
Is there a piece of music that reflects something essential about your being?
If you’re Chat GPT, the answer may surprise you.
So that is what CHAT GPT will play while it launches the missiles?
That . . . actually makes some sense.
Gemini answered nearly identical and Bing was like…”here is a poem!”
Had to look up who is Blinken. No indication of why he flew to the wrong island if he wanted to observe what is going on in Haiti, or what part of the Constitution authorizes intervention in a sovereign nation we’re not at war with.
/sarc
I think he didn’t go to Haiti because we don’t allow non-essential State Department Personnel there.
You, sir, win one Intertubes for that snark.
You owe me for one ruined keyboard – on my cell phone.
*flips through special secret constitution*
Ah, here it is, the FYTW clause!
Did you know that there’s a lack of affordable housing in… Beverly Hills?
https://abc7.com/beverly-hills-home-renovations-affordable-housing-lawsuit/14337849/
No such thing as a lack of affordable housing. Everything is affordable to somebody or other.
But it’s unaffordable to *me*!
/stamps foot
Inflation 1/10 above consensus. The Fed is unlikely to lower.
Where’s my cheap money?
This whole thing absolutely sucks. Rate of return on savings is still jack shit, not even close to inflation, but rates for loans/mortgages are still high (relatively). I can’t save money and I can’t afford a loan. I’m living life with my fingers crossed that nothing major breaks soon.
I wondered how they were planning on “banning” TikTok.
“Their bill would ban TikTok from app stores and web-hosting services in the U.S. if the company doesn’t divest from ByteDance.”
The harpy eagle is the largest and most powerful raptor found in the rainforest, and among the largest extant species of eagles in the world.
This is its peculiar aspect.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1767517484045746627
What’s my mother-in-law have to do with any of this?
My ex mother in law RIP was a Medusa.
Looks like an owl. Creepy
This is the whey.
Long a fringe health food for new-age hippies and fad-chasing liberal foodies, raw milk has won over the hearts and minds of GOP legislators and regulators in the last few years. (The Iowa vote broke almost perfectly along party lines with nearly all Republicans in favor and only a handful of Democrats defecting to their side.) And it’s not just in Iowa. Montana, North Dakota, Alaska, Georgia and Wyoming all have passed laws (or changed regulations) since 2020 legalizing the sale of raw milk on farms or in stores.
In the words of Schultz, now an Iowa state senator: “Cycle after cycle, we find new officeholders are just becoming more freedom-oriented and less trusting of government at all levels.”
From his lips to God’s ears.
You may now commence with the cheesy puns. The cream of the crop will get special attention from Swiss. Probably in the form of a cowbutt.
Living on a dairy farm, I grew up on raw milk, you had to shake it before you poured it, so the cream would reintegrate.
As kids, we were all udderly healthy, but we did moo-ve a lot of cow shit around.
We used to go to the neighbors farm with a 2 gal. tupperware container. We’d skim the cream off, but there was always a little left over. As a kid I was so embarrassed when the town kids would visit and our milk had clots of cream still in it.
I’ve been drinking at least a glass of raw milk every day for a few months. Seems to help with heartburn and acid reflux.
Can you get raw kefir?
Eric Carmen died.. 🙁
I guess he’s never gonna fall in love again.
Did you think of that quip all by yourself?
Instead of narrowing his gaze, Swiss is going to blow raspberries at us.
Looks like he finally lost control.
Reminds me of how Laura Branigan passed. She was in her pantry working with some carpenters to put some beams up against the wall — and the carpenters swung it around unexpectedly out of her hands, striking her in the head.
She died because they took her shelf control.
I thought it was Kenny that keeps getting killed?
I read the headline as “Eric Cartman” and thought “WTF is that news?”
I hope there was someone with him.
All by myself….
Russian singularity.
I hope everyone in the court burst out laughing.
Staff at Deadspin just received an email informing them that the company has been sold to a European firm, and none of them will be retained.
Deadspin has been sold, and all staffers were let go, employees were told Monday during a company meeting, which FOS confirmed with one of those workers.
https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1767244020982382750
oh no gif
The only thing that confuses me is the fact that there was someone willing to pay money for it.
Yeah. I suppose they want the name and the site? Even that is tainted. I can only think the staff was fired so the new owners can hire even louder shrieking harpies to cover sports.
AI. They will use AI to generate content.
And it will be an improvement.
This is a desperate move to avoid the massive payout they will need to do for writing that shit article about the kid dressed in native attire and with his face painted in “Chefs colors” but with only the black side shown in their article to make it blackface, being a RACISS honkey!
They should not be allowed to avoid that fucking payout.
If they bought the company itself, rather than just its assets, then the payout is still on the table. Anybody who had their fingers on the hit piece is still also (theoretically) individually liable, regardless.
Even somebody who is “judgment proof” can have future earnings garnished. Being a vindictive sort, I would derive pleasure from stripmining somebody’s paycheck for the rest of their life.
“strip-mining a paycheck” as an analogy for garnishment.
Thats beautiful.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
You make me feel guilty first thing in the morning. Well, maybe not first thing but still…
Even the normies are talking about cutting spending.
No major new domestic programs have been created, but they managed to lock in the “emergency” Covid spending as a new baseline.
And they’re still increasing from that.
$2 trillion deficits and rising….. and that’s their idea of a good idea… I can’t be bothered to go look, but I strongly suspect that’s bigger than the GDP of several countries… Insane.
National Review? Normies?
I’d believe it more if it was USeless Today or something.
$7.3T? Spending was only $4.4T five years ago, a 66% increase, but it’s a revenue problem, derp.
The people are still willing to pay taxes to continue the plunder of the treasury so…why not go big.
I think I’d rather have the illegals. Minnesoda weighs cash aid for families moving for gender-affirming careweighs cash aid for families moving for gender-affirming care
Uffda.
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!
—“Minnesota lawmakers may set aside $1 million to help families moving to the state to seek gender-affirming care.”—
Once they hire a Program Director, an Asst. Program Director, an Administrative Asst., along with a couple of people for liaison with other State agencies, I don’t expect much will be left to distribute.
WRONG! They are just going to give the $1M to an existing NGO and let them spend it.
The people that staged then lied about J6 being an insurrection (and don’t forget their backup plan of accusing some MAGA folks of planting bombs at the DNC – where Koh-Moh-Loh was despite testifying she was at the capitol – which has been swept under the carpet after they told you all the evidence was mysteriously destroyed and they couldn’t fin the perp(s)) are now telling us that they plan to foment a real insurrection and get away with it unless they get their way.
You can’t make this level of stupid-crazy shit up.
They’re still arresting people for the last “insurrection” and now they’re planning on one of their own. Stupid-crazy indeed.
IT’S NOT WRONG WHEN WE DO IT!!11!
‘Red Sonja’ Star Matilda Lutz Slams Source Material For Being Made “With A Very Male-Gazed Orientation”, Says New Film Is “Very Women-Empowered”
https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/03/11/red-sonja-star-matilda-lutz-slams-source-material-for-being-made-with-a-very-male-gazed-orientation-says-new-film-is-very-women-empowered/
if this flops I dont wanna here no whining.
I for sure am not interested in any fucking idiot’s attempt to make some comic book character “women empowering” or whatever and then wanting to charge me to watch the drivel.
I don’t think Red Sonja ever hid that…. so why exactly did you sign on? Letting fans know “We’re only using the name and making what we want instead is a bold strategy there, Cotton… been working so well for other franchises, after all.
“the film will “be an allegory for more existential questions around the survival of the species in the face of climate change.”
*eyeroll*
I want her to put her money where her mouth is – Accept Net Points instead of a paycheck.
How many billions do they have to lose before they figure it out?
It’s other people’s money…
And they can always get a tax break from government to keep doing more of this stupid shit….
As long as it is a flop, no one ever has to get paid back!
+1 Springtime for Hitler
Eh, Xena showed that there’s a market for a hot lesbian Red Sonja.
That was a different time.
All you need to know to know it’s going to be garbage.
Oh my God — he played Squardle… you bastard! (Hat-tip to Not Adahn… I had the same thought, but couldn’t come up with a variation I thought was funny enough).
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 03/12:
*20/20 words
🎯 Perfect accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 03/12:
*26/26 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 282
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 03/12:
*20/20 words (+4 bonus words)
📖 In the top 2% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 03/12:
26/26 words (+9 bonus words)
📖 In the top 6% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 170
Big week for rocket launches and not just the IFT-3 from SpaceX
RocketLab Electron 45
Owl Night Long
Clever…
I want another early night launch from Wallops.
SpaceOne KAIROS maiden flight tonight at 9pm eastern.
what are the odds of success?
RocketLab? High. They have a good track record. IFT-3? I think they will hit 75% of their goals this time especially since they expanded what they are wanting to do during that flight. They have a huge contract dependent on if they can nail the in-flight propellent transfer between two tanks.
It’s up and looks good! Nice launch.
I think Hur may have just handed articles of impeachment to Congress.
No proof beyond a reasonable doubt? You had an audio-recording and Biden saying he didn’t remember that. You don’t put the emphasis on his fucking memory.
One of the most breathtaking pieces of Yugoslav brutalism I’ve ever seen is the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Insane interior.
https://twitter.com/sovietsoleri/status/1767130948100067441
I thought they would have statues of Ceausescu spanking the people while spraying them with his manhood… Not brutal enough!
🤢
Oakland Taco Hells are closing their indoor dining facilities. Speculation is crime. I bet the real reason is that they can’t afford the $20 an hour for the people that need to service the bathrooms.
I’d hate to be so desperate for a paycheck that I’d accept minimum wage to deal with a Taco Bell Restroom.
Reads like a fairly balanced review of the Cybertruck. Reads like a typical Tesla 1.0 release product. The software part needs significant development. No driver assistance available yet and the off road traction control systems are basically absent.
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024-tesla-cybertruck-dual-motor-foundation-series-first-test-review/
still ugly
^^
We drove past a cybertruck on the highway yesterday. My wife wasn’t familiar with it and her initial reaction was that she thought it was some kind of kit car somebody had built in their garage. Lol.
Left: 19th c. Japanese depiction of an Englishman
Right: 18th c. Chinese depiction of an Englishman
https://twitter.com/Tom_Rowsell/status/1767153813339664758
They’re not wrong.
I think they got the early test screenings of An American Werewolf in London, personally.
GODZILLA! GODZILLA!
What’s the Chinese equivalent?
The Bai Ze?
“The husband of U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is engaged in an online battle with the founder of the Libs of Tik Tok account after she was appointed to a school library panel in the state of Oklahoma, a political position.
Chasten Buttigieg criticized Libs founder Chaya Raichik for lacking the qualifications necessary for her to sit on the state’s library advisory committee.
Riachik was appointed by Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public institutions, to oversee public school library content despite her having no qualifications in education or library science.
Buttigieg, 34, suggested Raichik, 29, who runs the far-right and anti-LGBT social-media account, was not qualified to hold such a position, quite apart from the fact she does not even live in the state of Oklahoma, but rather Los Angeles, 1,500 miles away.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13185225/Pete-Buttigiegs-husband-goes-war-Libs-TikTok-founder.html
She should leave Los Angeles, and go someplace safe.
“far-right and anti-LGBT social-media account”
Giving broader distribution to what leftists and LGBQWERTY activists actually say is “far-right and anti-LGBT”.
The Daily Mail is right-wing I am told.
‘Speaking of qualifications for a government position, your husband Pete Buttigieg only got the job of Transportation Secretary because he’s gay. Pete is a diversity hire and has no qualifications to be Transportation Secretary. We all know this,’ Raichik suggested.
She suggested a correct statement.
Well, Buttigieg should know what “not qualified to hold such a position” looks like, so . . . .
I was going to say… what qualifications are needed to be on a library advisory committee?
Right-think comrade, right-think.
Well Chasten should know. After all he’s married to the most qualified DOT Secretary EVAH!
And why is LibsOfTikTok anti-LGBT? She’s simply amplifying their own voices!
She is a huge target right now. Look at this: “far-right and anti-LGBT”. All she does is repost things she finds on TikTok, and call attention to woke and trans craziness. Definitely one of the good guys.
She isn’t even as snarky as Babylon Bee.
“US-British forces strike Houthi targets, killing 11, Yemen says”
Let me guess. They were all starving children.
The US is merciful.
Infidel! US is Great Satan, Allah is merciful.
‘Red Sonja’ Star Matilda Lutz Slams Source Material For Being Made “With A Very Male-Gazed Orientation”, Says New Film Is “Very Women-Empowered”
They’re going to put clothes on her? It’ll never sell.
Well, they started with a woman, so they pretty much have to make her gay and lame now, right?
If she really wants to kill the male-gaze, have a trans-woman play the lead.
Here we go again. The target audience for that sort of thing is males. So they’re going to turn away males in an attempt to attract females, who don’t like comic book movies and never will. But they keep trying that losing strategy.
Oh, you don’t understand The Narrative. It isn’t to appeal to a new audience – it is to reform the current one. The sinners need to be brought to their knees.
“Haiti’s leader retires”
to a villa in the south of France?
“With A Very Male-Gazed Orientation”
Hint: We like looking at women, call it the male gaze or whatever. We like the way they are shaped. We like the way they move. We love their faces, eye contact, the way their hair moves. If a woman has been in a room for a while when I walk in I can smell her. It gives me a calming feeling.
Study after study show that men who are often in the company of women have much better mental health, overall. If you dont believe it go visit your local monastery and get a load of those guys.
We dont just like looking at women, we NEED to look at women. Women are the reason we are here on this planet.
The whole ‘women empowering’ drivel is just that – nonsense.
One never gets too old, AFAIK, to look.
Women wear make up to try to improve their appearance so men will admire them, even if it’s quietly
Wake up Minnesoda! Alabama is coming for your reproductive rights! Only the DFL can save you now.
Everyone knows that all it takes to lower health care costs is for the govt to get involved.
“The absolute outrageousness of thinking that a politician or the government would inject themselves in that decision is so far beyond even imagining,”
I mean this is important. Not like when King Walz forced small businesses to shut down during the pandemic. Even jailing the wreckers and kulaks who didn’t obey.
Fucking with a person’s livelihood isn’t nearly as important as making sure that they can get IVF treatments.
Said someone who is, in fact, a politician injecting themselves into that decision.
The government getting involved sure as hell has affected cost… But I am unsure if that was a positive like they desperately try to sell it….
“The absolute outrageousness of thinking that a politician or the government would inject themselves in that decision is so far beyond even imagining,”
I can’t imagine.
Minnesota Democrats are pushing to require health plans to cover the cost of infertility treatments
Every health insurance company has is going to analyze this mandate, hand it over to actuaries to estimate the annual cost, then pass it along to every policy holder next year.
Next year, people will be complaining about the rising cost of health insurance.
And then you can run on bring prices down while blaming greedy insurance companies.
Brilliant!
So, is a setup or something big? I can tell the left is pissing their pants that this might blow up in their face (and I sure hope it does), but considering how easy it is for the cultists to dismiss facts in favor of whatever lies they want to believe, I am unsure if this matters.
Since the left is still claiming there is no evidence of any Biden wrongdoing, in spite of the abundant evidence of Biden wrongdoing, we can be certain it doesn’t matter.
I had this thought the other day. If the Dems were smart, they could win by a landslide in November. Just go along with impeachment, and convict Biden. This a) gets rid of this boat anchor of a candidate, b) paints the Dems as fair and balanced (“We’re not picking on Trump, we’ll even go after out own guy”), and c) gives them someone to blame (“Wow that corrupt Biden was terrible, Newsome will fix all that”).
Purge
At least four senior staffers were among the Republican National Committee employees who were terminated Monday as the Trump campaign brass more formally took the reins of the RNC, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
One of the key staffers to depart was Elliot Echols, the RNC’s political director.
The RNC met in Houston last week to install a pair of new leaders selected by Trump: Chairman Michael Whatley, who previously led the North Carolina Republican Party, and Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair. Former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel agreed to step down last month after Trump formally endorsed Whatley.
Those noble bipartisans, so cruelly pushed aside. Just yesterday they were part of the vast ultra-MAGA wrecking crew Hell bent on destroying democracy. Now, they’re out on their asses after they devoted their lives to making the Republican party what it is today.
Good riddance.
Minnesota Democrats are pushing to require health plans to cover the cost of infertility treatments and to cement access to the services in state law.
Call me crazy, but what if, instead of aborting children, we facilitated their adoption by people unable to have their own?
Crazy, right?
Climate change demands that we not use resources aborting children only to regrow new ones via IVF.
Do you understand how much methane is released in the farts of pregnant women? A huge factor in Climate Change!
IVF doesn’t have any of that.
It does sound crazy. I mean, Planned Parenthood has a huge budget, and IVF takes a lot of resources and money and… oh wait I figured it out.
WooHoo!
My replacement UPS battery arrived.
All is once again right with the
worldcomputer.Morning Zardoz:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-9.40.09%E2%80%AFPM.png
Your link was cleansed.
Pantomime dragon slayer pounces
Joe Biden swiftly seized on Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would cut “entitlements” like social security and Medicare if re-elected, saying: “Not on my watch.”
That was in a presidential tweet. In a campaign speech in New Hampshire on Monday, Biden had elaborated.
“Many of my Republican friends want to put social security and Medicare back on the chopping block again,” he said. “If anyone tries to cut social security or Medicare or raise the retirement age again, I will stop them.
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“I’m never going to allow that to happen. I won’t cut social security. I won’t cut Medicare. Instead of … giving tax breaks to the wealthy, I will protect and strengthen social security and Medicare and make the wealthy begin to pay their fair share.”
Take that, dragon!
Did Trump actually suggest that?
Damn…. nice 90s flashback rant.
Well Stephanopoulos did make his bones by going after women sexually harassed and/or raped by Democrats, so it’s really on-brand for him.
Math
Equal Pay Day is a reminder of the persistent income inequality between men and women.
As it stands, women earn just 84 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the National Women’s Law Center.
“When you look at the cent number, it looks like it’s small,” Jasmine Tucker, the National Women’s Law Center’s vice president of research, said of the shortfall. “I don’t think that does justice to the actual losses.”
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For Black women, the lifetime wage gap adds up to $884,800, and for Latina women, the losses total $1,218,000, the nonprofit advocacy group found.
That also means that Black and Latina would have to work full time, year-round to nearly age 80 or 90 to make what white non-Hispanic men are paid by age 60, Tucker said, “or they forfeit over $1 million in losses.”
They wuz robbed.
🙄
“National Women’s Law Center”
Totes unbiased.
I wonder what their pay scale is for the rank and file who work there. I mean, we know the White House pays women less than men.
The White House will be able to pay more as soon as Joe Biden eliminates the influence of rich old white men.
There is no single explanation for why progress toward narrowing the pay gap has mostly stalled, according to a separate report by the Pew Research Center. Some contributing factors: Women are still more likely to pursue careers in lower-paying industries, and to take time out of the labor force or reduce the number of hours worked because of caretaking responsibilities — often referred to as the “motherhood penalty.”
Systemic bias has also played a role.
Bank presidents make more than lunch ladies? That’s not fair.
Because there is no benefit for anyone if she stays home.
I hate modern culture.
Watching Resident Alien and one woman decided that she would rather be a strong independent woman than be happy with an old fashioned man.
Taking time out or working less = “penalty”.
A local fisherman made a once-in-a-lifetime catch two weeks ago at Blue Creek on Lake Mitchell in Clanton, Alabama. The enormous Snapping Turtle he caught weighed almost 200 pounds and is likely over 100 years old. The turtle was released unharmed and will no doubt be a legend for years to come.
https://twitter.com/DrClaytonForre1/status/1767369805697355844
:::hums ‘Middle Aged Cranky Snapping Turtles…. Middle Aged Cranky Snapping Turtles!..”
It must have been fairly cold and the snapping turtle was in a torpor. I can’t believe that guy wouldn’t have lost at least a couple fingers if that snapper had been warm enough to be lively.
I would have cut the line. No way I would have gotten within a yard of that dinosaur, much less hauled it into my boat.
They used to be not uncommon. I remember us catching 2 or 3 like that when I was a kid.
Female writer: Sydney Sweeney’s boobs aren’t that big given how fat other American women are.
What would we do without women in journalism?
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1767365619039842803
those are nice boobs but too much time is spent on this topic. Must say something about our world.
“I’m so fat my boobs are bigger than Sydney Sweeney’s” may not be quite the deal closer she thinks it is.
You should write a 38-part article.
Really? That sounds like over achieving which would warrant an A.
Wouldn’t you rather he just slothfully make some comment an second rate site and get a D+?
What would we do without women in journalism?
I often ask myself that very question.
How do you catch a two hundred pound snapping turtle? Drag a rotten ham hock across the bottom with a winch?
I though noodling was how people catch things in the South. Or are turtles dissimilar to catfish ?
One does not noodle for snapping turtles.
Maybe that if because you Americans do not have strong enough cocks,
Hey Mr. Plagiarist, you bucking for that Harvard President job?
Why don’t you properly attribute that quote?
Speaking of movies, I watched Batman Returns the other night, for some reason.
Lame. Not even Michelle Pfeiffer could save it.
Or are turtles dissimilar to catfish ?
Maybe a little.
Oh, Hey, Today’s the start of the AiArt Series – Part 1 drops in the lunchtime slot.
lunchtime was 5 hours ago.
You also change your clocks on the wrong days, so, I don’t trust your timekeeping.
“Biden forgot year of son Beau’s death, Trump’s election — and even what a fax machine is, special counsel transcript reveals”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/biden-forgot-year-of-son-beaus-death-trumps-election-special-counsel-interview-transcript/
The important thing is that he can read a teleprompter without shitting his pants.
It’s not personal
Lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James argued that Donald Trump and his co-defendants should be required to post a bond to cover the $464 million judgment in their civil fraud case in a court filing Monday.
The attorney general’s office argued that the former president might be unable to satisfy the judgment or could attempt to evade penalties in the absence of a full bond.
“Moreover, there is significant risk that absent a full bond or deposit, defendants will attempt to evade enforcement of the judgment or to make enforcement more difficult after an appeal,” Senior Assistant Solicitor Dennis Fan said in the filing.
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Rather than post a bond for the total amount, Trump offered to secure a $100 million bond, arguing he would need to sell properties to pay the full amount. However, Judge Anil Singh declined to issue the stay of the penalties, leaving the larger question of Trump’s delay to a full panel of appellate judges.
He must be bled dry.
In a filing Monday, Attorney General James reiterated that Trump should be treated with the same rules as any other defendant.
“To stay enforcement of a set monetary judgment pending appeal, the Legislature has required defendants to post a bond or deposit funds in the full amount of the judgment. That requirement applies to defendant Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants, just as it applies to any other appellant,” the filing said.
The AG’s filing said that Trump has also failed to prove his claim that he would have to sell buildings to pay off the judgment in the case, adding that Trump’s arguments run contrary to his earlier arguments about his wealth.
She can sue him all over again for duplicitously deflating the value of his assets.