It will be a full day today. Besides football, dinner with WebDom and 10b0t, a rapidly growing fetus, and six large and energetic dogs. There’s fresh snow on the ground. Annoyingly, both NPR ladies have family Thanksgiving obligations, so it will be a quiet night for me. A bottle of wine or three will ease the pain, though.
With all this going on, there’s not much time for birthdays, but I should acknowledge the leading candidate for the Team Blue presidential nomination; a guy who couldn’t quite qualify for the Marx Brothers; the only non-Nazi in her family; a sadly neglected woodwind player; a notorious jungle explorer; a major eater of hot rice; a true and unabashed whore; a fine actor who has been in both some of the worst and best movies ever; the auteur of the greatest political movies and TV shows ever made; and an object lesson in how taking oneself seriously destroys comedy.
I know that conventionally we do turkey rather than hot dogs today, but nonetheless, I offer you Links.
The vicious and public post-mortems continue.
If The Mustache hates him, he must be good.
The Ghost of Christmas Present has a sick sense of humor.
It’s a tough choice as to who is dumber, the DC government or the DC residents.
Wherein I learn that we’re supposed to capitalize Deaf and that they are too stupid to absorb organic chemistry without special finger wagging. Money quote from the promo for this article: “Deaf students and sign language interpreters in chemistry courses have traditionally signed the individual letters signifying a specific chemical reaction, but this practice – known as fingerspelling – is onerous, time-consuming and often conveys only meaningless acronyms or names of white men.”
It’s an American holiday and there’s nothing more American than the Captain. He did punk before there was punk, and did it with amazing musicianship. This is complex, difficult, and rewarding music. Live version of a classic from Trout Mask Replica, one of the greatest records ever made.
So, is finger spelling going out with a bang?
Only if there’s some chemistry there first. Organically.
Finger bang!
Deaf, of course, rhymes with “reef”.
LOL that’s fucking rich coming from the cheerleaders of an administration that has welcomed – and lost track of – thousands of unaccompanied minors coming across the southern border.
The Guardian can go fuck itself, I’m not reading that trash this morning.
Oh, and speaking of post mortem:
Zero responsibility, zero accountability has been the watchword for this group at least since 2021 (Afghanistan screams to mind….). Why would they stop now?
since 2021
That was just this particular manifestation of the lack of responsibility and accountability, which have far deeper roots.
Al Sharpton counts as a “celebrity” now? That’s a bar that continues to sink lower and lower as well.
As of 3 p.m., the capital city had received 18 centimeters of snow, marking the biggest snowfall in November since modern weather observations began in 1907, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA).
Unexpected snowfall on the anniversary of the Battle of the “Frozen Chosin,” and on the same peninsula. Proof positive that God has a sense of humor, but it’s mostly slapstick and irony.
SIX large and energetic dogs??? 😳
IIRC, you have one, so…all the rest are WebDom’s & l0b0t’s?? 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕
It doesn’t sound sustainable.
The funny thing is that 10b0t was a dog-hater. When the first one came around, he melted, then was an active participant in taking in the rest. They adore him back- when he’s around, they absolutely ignore everyone else.
It’s adorable.
Perfect.
That’s what happens when you run a farm upstate.
lol My mom and stepfather had five of some breed I can’t recall – aggressively friendly and slobbery – on their upstate compound. No farm, just a double-wide.
Yes, they have five, plus mine. All the dogs are related as well; the original parents (a German Shepherd and a sheepdog/poodle mix) had three litters, and there’s been some cross-breeding among them (a particularly rural Mendelian experiment). Most of them look like miniature Irish wolfhounds- by “miniature,” I mean between 50-90 pounds.
“I am a nonbinary person in a long-term, open relationship with a trans woman. We have a satisfying sex life that we fit around both being on libido-limiting medication, and I feel we are compatible sexually.”
At this point, I started laughing and closed the tab.
I don’t want to judge people (much), but they make it awfully hard when they put this shit on public display.
Makes you long for the old days when the attention seeking whores were just having the audacity of wearing a scarlet ribbon to the local tavern or something. Ah, modern progress…. when you can instantly display your mental issues and narcissistic desires to the entire planet!
But you missed out on “vagina-havers”.
It was a really roundabout way of saying “I don’t want to suck my girlfriend’s dick.”
True, but is that really uncommon?
It was. Which lead me to ask why don’t they just say they are gay and be happy about it?
Then you missed the part where it couldn’t perform fellatio on it’s girlfriend. That’s where I tapped out.
That’s where I thought it was heading, but I was having a hard time following.
Because everybody knows they’re just shuffling the money around to other departments. Nothing will be cut.
Or “We’ve captured all the state and local education infrastructure anyway, so our union salaries remain secure.” Granted, that may be my own lenses of seeing how Sacramento gleefully grovels and scrapes to their union and the SEIU whenever and however they can.
Yup, same in New York. The teachers unions run this state.
Bingo. As shitty as the DOE is, education is still mostly a state issue, and the teacher’s unions have got their tentacles wrapped around the bureaucracy in every state.
This isn’t as true as it used to be. Corey DeAngelis, among others, has done good work getting school choice passed into law in numerous states.
This isn’t as true as it used to be. Corey DeAngelis, among others, has done good work getting school choice passed into law in numerous states.
The Teachers’ Unions and their allies are working to take over those programs or have them built from the ground to allow control.
In NH, Democrats are constantly introducing bills to modify the state’s school choice program in a way that benefits the teachers’ unions. An example of these attempts is a bill requiring parents who want to use the program have their kid in a government school for some number of years before using the program.
In PA, Shapiro came out in support of school choice. I suspect he sees the way the wind is blowing and figures he can steer the program to benefit the teachers’ unions.
Morning all.
On the chem signing….names of white men? I dont get it.
White men like Curie…. maaan!
(I do pity the chem student that has to sign out Lawrencium or something… but then again, I don’t think there’s a lot of organic chem using the transuranics…. Don’t remember much anyway, and I’d be really really surprised if I find out there is. OMWC will now happily dump 5 papers about the topic on me probably…)
“I hate white men so much because they are racist, misogynistic and fascist to the point where I think they should killed and never spoken of again.”
These people live in a world without mirrors. That is going to make organic chemistry a bit hard for them to grasp…one way or other.
Did Austin secede from Texas while I wasn’t paying attention? Anyway, nice attempt at an excuse for being unwilling to do what apparently every other Rogan guest – including Trump and Vance – has done.
Hot Ones declined to have her on. 😂😂
I liked their take of “We’re not sticking our dick into politics” (anymore than their guests already do).
One of the real estate agents I was working with when I was conducting my property search last year told me “The nice thing about Austin is that you can drive an hour in any direction and you’re right back in Texas.”
“The nice thing about Austin is that you can drive an hour in any direction and you’re right back in Texas.”
I heard that when I was considering moving to the Austin area.
That has to be a lie. Rogan’s studio is in Austin.
Continuing an annual tradition I began several years ago, I will once again be subjecting you all to Pat’s prattlings of thankfulness in recognition of today’s holiday.
My disposition being what it is, “practicing gratitude” doesn’t always come naturally, but I’ve come around to believing there’s something to the Pollyannaish cliches about the benefits.
So with that, I would be remiss if I didn’t express my gratitude to the Glib Foundation and its overlords for providing this digital containment system for myself and others like me. Modern social media being what it is, and blogs and online fora being a dying medium, it’s fantastic to be able to come here and fraternize with the sort of iconoclasts, shit disturbers, ne’er-do-wells and assorted other deplorables that would be found unsuitable for admission elsewhere, and to be able to broach subjects both silly and serious that are outside the Overton window of the walled gardens of centralized, sanitized-for-your-protection social media.
2023 being a year of upheaval and resettlement for me, I’m very thankful to have had a relatively boring 2024. Although the chaos of the prior year was a beneficial motivation to action, sometimes you just can’t beat Good Ol’ Boredom. Just the other day, I was sitting in my chair in my living room, which was completely unfurnished when I moved here, listening to some music on my entertainment system, admiring some recently-hung wall art, drinking a glass of damn decent Bourbon, and had a flash of realization that those little superfluities aren’t trivial. I rarely take them for granted anymore, and I’m glad for that bit of perspective that only lean times can really provide.
Apropos of the political season, I’m thankful that my country of residence was able to conduct a national election largely devoid of the violence and chicanery that I expected and predicted.
Despite the best efforts of the military industrial complex and its political surrogates, I’m thankful that my country of residence has thus far evaded a conventional or nuclear engagement with another global superpower. I’m thankful that it seems cooler heads may prevail, and that we may for the first time in my living memories have an opportunity to pursue a less interventionist foreign policy.
In spite of inflation, I’m thankful that I will have the opportunity later this evening to indulge in a feast rather exorbitant for just one person. Despite my various jobs not necessarily being the most lucrative endeavors, I am thankful that I have more than sufficient resources to overindulge in such festivities. When I completed my move across country last year, I arrived with a couple hundred bucks in the bank and a $1,800 balance on my credit card. If I quite all my jobs tomorrow, I could pay my bills for well over a year. I’m eternally grateful for that security and stability. As terrible as it is that there are at least billion people on this planet unable to secure even basic sustenance, even in our own wealthy first world countries there are those who will not be afforded such luxuries this year. There but for the grace of god…
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, Pat — and to the rest of y’all. Very impressive on the fiscal front… not one of my strengths, I’m sorry to say.
*slaps Pat on the ass*
“Solid post, good work. Now hit the showers.”
[Pat trundles to the showers content that it was Sean’s palm on his ass and not his thumb(s)]
Amen.
+1
The fiscal front changes are good.
Happy Thanksgiving!
What amuses me about the whole “Should have gone on this podcast!” type recriminations is that it ignore the elephant (if you’ll forgive the cross-party metaphor there) in the room… the more the public saw of Harris, the more they were reminded why they despise her for the most part. So frankly, they probably should have stuck with the Biden Basement Tactics they started with — and just ignore/brush off the “Why aren’t you talking to the press?”, knowing that their lackeys could be trusted to downplay it.
She could have spent the days happily sloshed, the aides hopefully could have dodged screaming fits, the money could still be spread and funneled through cronies for graft… the public would only get the message suitably filtered through all the talking heads… wins all around.
OT: I will note in annoyance that yes… the voting in my CA district has continued until the JackAss pulled ahead. Funny how that works. Sigh.
Yeah, it seems like she took a hit every time she slurred through another TV appearance.
But really they lost because their fortification efforts failed. Of course they can’t admit that yet but it’ll come out eventually.
“If the swing states could take a month to count votes like CA, Harris would have won.”
/Dems, cluelessly
Be safe out on the roads today Glibs.
Happy birthday Michael Keaton?
Happy birthday Will Ferrell?
Happy birthday Winston’s mom?
Re Will Ferrell, man is that the truth.
Ferrell has become painfully unfunny
“But enough about the Democrats that we vote 90+% for.”
Besides football, dinner with WebDom and 10b0t, a rapidly growing fetus,
I didn’t know you’re pregnant. When’s the due date?
You couldn’t just rick-roll us with this morning’s music?
Wait, are you saying he didn’t?
I thought…
I’m never quite sure if the Old Man’s admiration of Captain Beefheart is ironic or not, but I have to admit, TMR is a treasure.
Listening to the Captain sing gave me hope that I too could be vocalist in a rock band.
the auteur of the greatest political movies and TV shows ever made; – he did not author Yes Minister though
How’s anti-democracy going in your country, Pie?
Well the election was contested but not by the guy (PSD) that lost by 2000 votes from 9.4 mil, by some other candidate who got 1% of the vote. Although who put him up to it we don;t know. The constitutional court is mulling a recount of the votes. Maybe the PSD candidate did not want to contest himself, but told these other stooge to do it.
In the meantime the internet is blowing up analyzing all the stupid shit the guy who came in first said. Which is pointless, because it is highly unlikely he believes even 10-% of what he is saying, that is just demagoguery(is that a word? An is the English language capable is it capable of demagoguery? a question) for morons. I doubt he seriously believes there are nanochips in Pepsi.
The issue is no one knows what he believes because he only talks nonsense (to paraphrase Tim Dillon he talks in gypsy curses). But the student youtes are on fire, which is fucking counterproductive because if he is as dangerous as they think the best thing would be not to Streisand Effect his ass, because his supporters will think he must be on to something because others oppose him.
My understanding is that Romania’s equivalent of the Deep State took a case to the Constitutional Court to get the first round of the election annulled because, well, reasons.
And we have to ban TikTok because the icky candidate used it to get around the mainstream media and its censorship of badthink.
And yes, “demagoguery” is a word.
Everyone knows the nanochips are really in Mecca Cola, put there by the JOOOOOZ!
a sadly neglected woodwind player
Happy birthday John de Lancie!
Ugh white men are the worst.
Both White and Men should have been capitalized.
With all that sign language going on, it might have caused a Deaf Jam!
Yo, that was fresh!
Fisherman in the Caspian Sea spots two cruise missles flying overhead.
https://x.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1861752456897548320
Happy Thanksgiving Glibs!
Happy Thanksgiving, Jarflax!
Hmmm…only 53 days left in Biden’s term. Guess I’d better not go too crazy with the Christmas shopping this year. 😉
You never know, there is that proposal that Biden resign so that Kamala can play President for a few weeks because reasons.
Ah, yes! The “Make-a-Wish” presidency! 😄
What, do you really think that president Couch Upholstery will let that bitch take her place?
“You never know, there is that proposal that Biden resign so that Kamala can play President for a few weeks because reasons.”
Participation Trophy.
And, Happy Thanksgiving to all you Glibs out there.
That’s exactly why I haven’t put up Christmas decorations in 20 years. Better safe than sorry.
No, I think Doc Jillie would board up the doors and windows of the White House by hand, and hook up Galvanic batteries to Joe to keep Kamala out at this point lol, but I was trying to give GT a bit of hope.
That was meant as a reply to Zwak above lol.
You just need more practice commenting in the new WordPress format. Come around more often!
I intend to.
Post mortars seem to be mostly the same thing that lost the election – not connected to reality.
Putin’s gas hike. The gas hike was deliberate and caused by shutting down exploration and drilling.
Grocery prices. Directly and deliberately caused by gas hikes, environmental regulations and inflation of the currency.
Border crisis – Directly and deliberately caused by rolling out the red carpet, not enforcing the law and deliberately seeding the worst kinds of invaders into middle America.
Foreign policy disasters were deliberate and calculated. Under Trump 1.0 we had peace breaking out everywhere. Under Biden 1.0 the world caught fire and the horrors of war were front page every day and getting worse, and still are.
Their anti-American agenda was in overdrive and out in the open for all to see. That is why they lost. It is not complicated, nuanced or hard to figure out. Everything they are saying now should be ignored just like everything they have said in the past.
I forgot the men on women’s sports thing. Well, the tranny agenda all around. Even tacit approval of pedophilia. Nothing could be more anti-intuitive, misogynistic or offensive to any but the most lunatic and they are all in on it, doubling down even.
One could go on all day with their moral, intellectual and actual crimes.
Why, oh why, did they lose? It’s a mystery. Maybe it was the great right wing conspiracy.
The insanity of the hard left is the thing I am most thankful for today. It’s kind of amazing that they played the incremental game for a century long ride through the institutions of the West, then with the finish line in sight let the mask drop. Almost seems Providential.
When she was first coronated as the candidate, her earlier ideas like taxing unrealized capital gains got floated out. People recoiled in horror, so her campaign never released another policy position again – just went with “joy” instead.
“Post mortars”
If only.
That’s what I was thinking.
It’s snowing down here in the valley.
Sleety looking rain in my valley but I bet it’s snowing in the surrounding hills.
Snowing now 🙂
But not sticking 🙁
There’s a euphemism I haven’t heard before.
Not so much Mamala as America’s drunken aunt, seems like she might be fun to hang with though if you showed up with a bottle of red wine and caught her in a good mood.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge good mood? Or, “I cans drive, give me the keysh” good mood?
Likely depends on whether it’s aunt by blood (latter) or aunt by marriage (former).
I’d say that’s gotta hurt, but we’re talking about smacking solid brick in terms of the cited mewling idiots.
The main thing I recall about them is they had a shitload of cartoons and not a single one I ever saw was funny. Give me Bloom County, hell even Doonesbury, any day.
They sort of look like the Playboy cartoons with none of the humor.
The pig should say, “My wife is a slut.”
“It’s a Ziggy!”
The delusions of those writers… my god it’s unreal.
Even after Satan already had four years at the wheel and none of the imagined horrors came to pass.
Well, done, internet. Well done.
https://x.com/TheRicanMemes/status/1861567367005823426
That is good…she’s one swig away from the “I love you man” and getting a bit too handsy.
Wait until she tries to kiss Suzy Kolber.
I love that it is Hennessy, and not Macallan.
Misty and shitty in Massachusetts. Got here yesterday to learn I now have 2 siblings going through divorce. Yea – drama.
You’re sure you’re in Massachusetts and not Alabama?
In Alabama he would instantly know it was two siblings going through divorce.
Ha
Rain supposed to be done here around noon, so I can get the smoker rolling and the ribs on today.
The UK gave out 1.1 million visas in the year to September. This insanity has been driven by short-termism, shifting costs into the future through pensions and welfare in exchange for a short term sugar rush – and to avoid fixing things the government broke.
🧵
Of that 1.1 million visas, just 241,000 were to work applicants.
Some 211,000 visas went to their dependants – around 130k for the 51k health and social care visas, a ratio of more than two dependants for each worker.
…
So to summarise: rather than building a system that takes in the best and brightest, selectively, we’re bringing in huge numbers to avoid addressing failed systems.
https://x.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1862070949845033354
So basically high immigration does not work that well with welfare states and government health systems and all that jazz.
They just revamped their tax system to make generational farming impossible. Eventually all the open space will be used to house migrants.
Yep re the farmers, it’s mind-boggling how they’re being betrayed in service to moochers and mega corporations like Blackrock who’ll be only too happy to hoover up all of those farms at the tax sales. Starmer is an absolute sack of garbage.
Clarkson’s Farm a year after he died.
https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1862092955739132413
Their tax money goes towards the migrant housing and they’ll be repaid with losing their jobs to that bunch and rampant crime. What a deal!
Very sad. The UK is committing suicide and I see no stopping it. I guess they have no rope.
The Dutch farmers managed to turn the tables on the hostile pols, hopefully the British farmers manage to do the same.
We do about the same here in the states, but our population is 5x that of the UK with 37x the land area.
Milton Friedman was right (again)
Let us consider: Dogs can smell if a person has cancer. Dogs can smell and judge a person’s mood or intent within seconds of being in the same room with them.
There are two occasions when my dogs really, really need to go outside – 1. That time within a minute of my reclining when I am settled in and getting relaxed or drifting off to sleep and 2. That time within 30 seconds when my focus on a subject I am reading or problem I am working on gets set and I am lost in it.
Also, given that when I get up to go to the kitchen my dogs know when I am going for my own snack purposes or theirs. Even when I try to behave exactly the same they can tell the difference.
Is it their acute sense of smell or are they really psychic? I am leaning to the latter.
They have been bred over thousands of years to be attuned to the humans they are near. It is a unique and very cool example of evolution.
Yes it is. Also very annoying.
from what I remember from studies on drug dogs they have a fifty fifty chance of being right, as TOK says they are attuned to their handlers, when the handlers knew where the drugs were the dogs found them like 90% of the time when the handlers didn’t know where the drugs were it was a coin flip.
Meaning that as far as I’m concerned the smell thing with dogs is mostly BS
Drug dogs are trained to please their handler. Bird dogs don’t give you near the number of false alerts.
So we are agreed. They are psychic.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you all gather around after your meal to hear someone dressed as Squanto tell the story of the pilgrims.
And yes, “demagoguery” is a word.
I was trying to make a joke/reference to an probably obscure Fry and Laurie sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfH51TlJyDY
that was meant as a reply
THICC Thanksgiving has got the breasts and thighs covered.
https://archive.is/UsEct
https://archive.is/ODS0i
Why would we want them covered?
Reflections on lager (Part 1)
On the misperception that being a beer snob means shunning lager, and how that misperception arose
A couple of years ago, I was at a conference venue with an in-house bar, where a colleague offered to get a round of drinks. “What beers do they have on tap?”, I asked. “They have a very nice lager, which I can recommend”, he said. “Although – you’re a beer snob, so you probably don’t drink lager. Or do you make exceptions? Is there any lager you would consider acceptable?”
I was horrified by that comment. Why on earth would being a beer snob mean that you must be anti-lager? Why would drinking a lager constitute “an exception”?
First things first. Yes, I am a beer snob. No, I don’t have a negative opinion of lager, and never had one. Sure, there are plenty of bad lagers, which a beer snob would rightfully sneer at. But then, lager, as a beer type, has a global market share of around 90%, or in other words, adjusted for consumption volume, nine out of every ten beers in the world are lagers. So yes, obviously, a lot of those are bound to be bad. That does not mean that there is anything wrong with lager per se: it is simply the law of large numbers in action.
Lager is a beer for all seasons. You would probably not want a flat cask ale in a 30°C heatwave, and I can see why not everyone wants a citrussy summer IPA on a cold winter’s day (although I’m personally not averse). But a lager always works. This year, I’ve enjoyed lagers in the Icelandic snow (Kaldi and Kaldi Lite by Bruggsmidjan; Viking Gylltur by Viking Brewery), as well as in the sweltering heat of Paraguay (La Chuchi by Sacramento Brewing, Pilsen by Cervejeria Eisenbahn, Lager by Sajonia Brewing, Hoppy Lager by Birrini). Lager works perfectly well on its own, but it can also accompany just about any type of food. Lager is a broad spectrum with lots of variation, and that is true even if we disregard beers like Dunkel and Rauchbier, which are technically lagers, but which not everyone would consider so.
Among the classics, Staropramen, Budweiser Budvar (draught, not bottled!), Paulaner Münchner Hell and Löwenbräu Original still do the job as well as ever.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/151722618?r=9yhba
So what is the Official Glibertarian beer snob position on Lager? And do Dunkel and Rauchbier count as such?
Last night I was having a nice Czech dark lager. So, sure, it is good.
I am not your beer supervisor.
Draught>Bottled>>>>>Canned
Clean lines draft is better than modern cans, which are better than modern brown bottles, which are better than green and clear bottles, which are better than anything run over dirty draft lines.
Stone used to make a Who You Callin’ Wussie lager that was excellent.
It was like a real European one.
You’d have to ask a beer snob.
Dunkels are lagers, rauchbiers can be lagers or they can be ales. Lagering is a process choice, and you can lager a beer made with ale yeast or skip lagering with a beer made with a lager yeast.
sorry mister beer nerd.
On doctor assisted suicide, the craziest thing of all is that anyone in Britain could have lived through Covid and still consider giving doctors and the judiciary *more* power
https://x.com/moveincircles/status/1862127351577952439
They’ve lived through more than half a century of NHS and that didn’t sour their opinion on socialized medicine. They are, to borrow a phrase from God, a stiff-necked people.
Yes. When I heard the cries of saving the NHS during Covid, I knew they worshipped a false god.
citrussy summer IPA=overhopped swill
but better than Paulaner Münchner Hell
Most microbrews nowadays seem to be overhopped trash. My pet theory is that they hop the shit out of their beer to cover up the fact that their beer sucks and they suck at making it.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I like IPAs. I like hops, and I like ’em hazy.
And yet, you don’t live on the East Coast.
Bodhizapha for the win.
https://georgetownbeer.com/beer/full-time-beer
Good beer of any style is good.
💯
“I am a nonbinary person in a long-term, open relationship with a trans woman”
I sure hope someone’s keeping score on what variety of genitals are attached to whom.
“I can’t perform fellatio”
Shouldn’t that be “male penile cunnilingus” or something more in keeping with meaningless lefty jargon?
“I am in the process of accessing therapy for this and other adverse experiences”
Does the advice “stop being a baby and get over it” help you at all?
Shouldn’t it be Penilingus?
Yeesh, I can’t help but picture two Ken dolls rubbing their blank groins together in my minds eye. Maybe it’d be better if some people just didn’t have sex and they could join a monastery or something.
We won’t kink shame you.
Dude likes going down on “vagina havers”, but thinks sucking his girlfriend’s dick is gross. And everyone in his world thinks he is the one that needs therapy. What a world.
A new microplastic study shows one key mechanism linking microplastic exposure to male infertility. Microplastics disrupt key processes in the testes linked to the production of sperm, including mitochondrial function. This results in sperm that can’t move properly and alters the structure of the sperm head (acrosome), making it harder for them to fuse with a female egg.
https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1862100484246438168
What is the agenda for the anti-plastics people?
So should I be for or against cheaper energy and fewer criminals?
More Oil for Fewer Migrants: Trump Is Urged to Make Deal With Venezuela
Is this another one of those “briar patch” stories?
In the same vein as those 4B stories.
“Oh please obese, blue haired, mentally ill harridan; don’t refuse sex!”
“Oh please Mr. Maduro, don’t force us to send back these culturally diverse prison gangbangers in exchange for cheap energy!”
How’s that working out?
Maybe Washington should mind its own fucking business instead of encouraging Maduro to export his gang problems to the U.S. Or is that just the price of getting cheaper asphalt?
The commies have fucked their oilfields to death. Their production is greatly reduced from pre-chavez days.
No matter what Maduro offers I assure you 100% it ends with ‘Give us money’. Fuck no.
On repatriating the invaders…shove them out the same way they came in. Also, investigate and prosecute those NGO’s that facilitated the invasion.
This isn’t just about getting a few gang members in Toledo. This is about unfucking what has been done to us and making sure it never happens again. The people who did this need to be punished severely.
Agreed
Happy thanksgiving to all you Glibs. Let’s be thañkful we can gobble-gobble today knowing we’ll be free from four years of cackling.
https://x.com/mattfenn/status/1862148193951133925?t=qLaQ7JlxI-8dBBqNrSL9FA&s=19
The squirrels enjoying Thanksgiving at the lake.
Which one is Peanut?
Too soon!
Interesting. When is a “farm” a sand mine?
The Sand Wars Dividing Cranberry Growers and Their Neighbors
This is one of those cases where I struggle with property owners’ rights and those of the neighbors. There is a difference between buying a property next to a farm versus a mine.
Bucolic – my idiotic claim to everything around me that I don’t actually own.
I don’t care whom you bought next to, if they were there before you, it is absolutely none of your business what they do, with all of the consequences.
“It bothers me”
“I dont want to see that”
“I dont like it”
No one gives a fuck what you like Cupcake. This is Massachusetts, right?
The aint known as Massholes for nothing.
From last night’s zoom. It is a real book. “Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Trim.”
https://a.co/d/j2SqBsk
Does it hold up to The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard?
Yeah, I checked that out, and he needs to show more and tell less.
Hitler reacts to the new Jaguar ad
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKt3R2W8qzY
spiked-online had a take on that.
Nice.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
“I am a nonbinary person”
Because you shouldn’t tell someone your sex when asking for sex advice?
Trying to research a Black Friday deal on a chair at Sam’s Club and all the search engines churn out are links to the Sam’s deal and Wayfair that endlessly repeat: Used to be you’d get 100K results on just about any search you did and now you get a half dozen ads that repeat. Just pathetic.
Startpage for Google results without ads; Google’s index sucks so much now that you have to use quotation marks to set off key words or phrases to get any relevant results, though.
Like Obama, leftists in general turn everything they touch to shit. Every time. It is amazing really.
A little thanksgiving tradition
Happy Thanksgiving Glibs.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow reprobates and broken toys. I give thanks every day for each and every one of you!
Yes, yes, everyone enjoy their day of gluttony and sloth!
In other words, copy the standard Republican talking points!
Gotta admit, Republicans do talk about those things, until they are actually in power to do something about them.
Ain’t that the truth. When the Tea Party came along to actually try to do something, the repubs sank their own ship rather than cut government. We shall see what happens this next four years.
*passes popcorn to Juris
“wacko birds”
True, but they still pretend they believe in these things.
OTH, most Team Blue actively desire the opposite of things like lower taxes and regulations and reduced spending. Those things are undesired.
Yeah, for example this guy is being promoted as some sort of sane Democrat.
Yet he supports every far-left position under the sun.
But with less antisemitism. Win?
New Republicans talk about those things until they need to get reelected.
Libertarians hardest hit.
articulate an agenda that prioritizes a less burdensome government
HANDS OFF MY UTERUS!
most Team Blue actively desire the opposite of things like lower taxes and regulations and reduced spending. Those things are undesired.
Money is the metric. Success is is determined purely by department budget and headcount.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I went to the gym this morning. Moderately busy. I was going to work in the yard after breakfast except it has been raining here since before I woke up. I guess I’ll drink Irish coffee instead.
Practical politics
Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, bringing together the Facebook founder and the former president who was once banned from that social network.
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During the 2024 campaign, Zuckerberg did not endorse a candidate for president.
Zuckerberg has since taken a more positive stance toward Trump. Earlier this year, he praised Trump’s response to his first assassination attempt, calling it “badass.” Zuckerberg also complained that senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic.
Will Zuckerberg’s fans turn on him?
I have a number of FB acquaintances who are indignantly announcing their imminent departures for other social media! That’ll teach Zuck!!!
Z Pain.
Why is censor in square quotes? Ahhh…NPR. Carry on.
Yes, happy Thanksgiving to you all! We’re celebrating quietly here, no turkey, nothing special at all. It’s in the 40’s and raining down here in Delco, PA, not a fun day to be out, but I’ve a roof over my head, heat, power, a wonderful wife, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg for what I’m thankful about.
And thanks for all the interesting conversations and info I’ve read on this site, thanks for allowing me to join!
Waitaminnit- NYT headline:
“How to keep politics from ruining your holiday”
The Times is suddenly concerned about politics poisoning then joviality of the holiday atmosphere? What could have inspired this?
Wait – so Kammie could make it to Austin, but not Houston, to do Rogan? That’s, like, a 40 minute flight, non?
That was absolutely not the reason. She demanded a 1 hour show with pre-discussed questions, which Rogan would not agree to. It was not merely a “scheduling issue.”
Why would his studio be in Houston and his club in Austin?
It’s not. His studio is in Austin.
I should have realized it was Business Insider and therefore filled with inaccuracies.
Moar cannon fodder
Ukraine should consider lowering the age of military service for its soldiers to 18 from 25, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, putting pressure on Kyiv to bolster its fighting forces in the country’s war with Russia.
Speaking to reporters, the official said Ukraine was not mobilizing or training enough new soldiers to replace those lost on the battlefield.
“The need right now is manpower,” he said. “The Russians are in fact making progress, steady progress, in the east, and they are beginning to push back Ukrainian lines in Kursk … Mobilization and more manpower could make a significant difference at this time as we look at the battlefield today.”
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A source in Zelenskiy’s office said the country did not have what it needed to equip the troops it was mobilizing now.
“Right now, with our current mobilization efforts, we don’t have enough equipment, for example armored vehicles, to support all the troops we are calling up,” the source said. “We cannot compensate for our partners’ delays in decision-making and supply chains with the lives of our soldiers and of the youngest of our guys.”
U.S. officials recognize getting younger troops is politically fraught for Zelenskiy’s government and Ukraine has discussed the option of offering incentives for younger people to sign up in a non-mandatory recruitment drive, another official said.
No price too high.
I’m also going to note that all the fighters i have seen are men.
“Mass arrests at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as anti-Israel protesters block path in front of Ronald McDonald”
https://nypost.com/2024/11/28/us-news/mass-arrests-at-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-as-anti-israel-protesters-block-path/
McDonald doesn’t sound Jewish.
They seem intent on pissing off everyone. Sort of like the global warming nuts.
JI: On your republican talking points observation
It cost us $400 per gallon to ship gasoline to Afghanistan to wage that war. That’s just the gasoline. The war went on for 20 years. The people pushing and running it got head-spinning rich. The country got nothing. Many citizens did get artificial limbs and flag draped coffins…so there is that.
We are now in the process of laundering nearly a trillion dollars through Ukraine, another war that will not be won and for which we will get the same results as Afghanistan.
Our infrastructure is crumbly. We have, despite producing more wealth than the entirety of human history, slums, ghettos and homeless overrunning our cities.
We are so choked with regulations and armies of regulators that we cannot do or accomplish anything. It takes years and exponentially more money than it should to construct a small two land bridge over a small creek in the middle of nowhere.
Considering just a few key observations it becomes obvious that our FedGov is a criminal cabal laundering taxpayer money into their own pockets. Anyone that looks like they might threaten that has slander, banana republic monkey law fare waged against them and ultimately they may trip and fall on a bullet.
It is easy to hate the leftists as they clearly are the main drivers of this abomination but I would add that the Republicans are as much a part of it as the Democrats are. No matter how much you hate both parties it is NOT. ENOUGH.