Actually, it’s warming back up a bit, just enough to make the roads and sidewalks wet in preparation for a hard freeze. Lots of broken hips incoming. It was actually an incredibly pleasant day yesterday on the Finger Lakes. Visited a winery, a brewery, and a distillery- there’s a theme here. Prime and I are planning a weekend here and I suspect there miiiiight be a few glasses of adult beverages consumed.
Birthdays today include the pioneer of Dear Diary; one of (((those))) people; a guy who was in it for his ten percent; the voice of the Enterprise; the best wide receiver ever until Rice; a very, very white guitarist; America’s favorite MILF; and the guy who made the piece of shit I’m currently typing on.
And before the ice sets in… Links.
If he abolishes it, I’m a fan for life.
I guess they figured out how to play their game.
He’s not wrong. I’m surprised this isn’t more common.
Yes, kids today really are stupid.
“I’m not dead yet.” I think we’re going to have at least one more set of Links with the continuing saga. But not many.
You know who ELSE won a German election?
Snow Mexicans stay home. What a pity.
“…a series of sick acts such as: shooting arrows into the woman’s front door, releasing a large python into the home to eat her daughter, mailing dog feces and dead rats to the woman’s house, scalping her and detonating her home.” You can’t convince me that SugarFree didn’t set up this story.
Marshall Allen is about to turn 101 and he’s still playing. Here he is at the youthful age of 90 with the legacy of the greatest jazz band to ever play together. Old Guy feels young.
Or just went a little too narrowed trying to learn from Uncle Swiss….
Persevere, young Glib! Soon you too will look upon your domain with a resounding “Meh.”
Morning, all.
Pre-algebra in 6th grade, algebra in 7th and geometry in 8th to prep for trig and calculus in high school.
How far we have regressed apparently.
I don’t remember right now — but I think it was Algebra I in 7th, Algebra II and Geometry together in 8th, Trig in 9th, Calc I in 10th, Calc II in 11th and I was a teacher’s aide senior year.
I’m biased on this more than a bit — I find teaching the concepts of Pre-Algebra to be more logical in the first place once you drill basic operations into their heads (I mean really — what’s hard about the concept of a variable or an equation? Drill converting word problems into equations, solve for the variable… that’s 3rd grade stuff….). But I’ve observed my son repeatedly get stuck conceptualizing things in terms of variables sometimes (he’s very weird when it comes to math… when he gets it, he’s good… but then he seems to flush all cache and storage and be stuck on things he knew not 2 weeks later… drives me [more] nuts). So obviously my brain just works differently than other folks when it comes to this stuff…. (and all the artistic people now laugh at me for not seeing 5000 hues between colors or not recognizing a particular note pattern or whatnot….)
Same boat when my kids were growing up. Two of them were solid in math, the other saw math in music. At minimum though, they got pre-trig (really just light concepts)
That was pretty similar to the system at my school, except they didn’t offer calculus – topped out at trigonometry.
The vast majority of Kids These Days will be working with tools that do math more proficiently than they ever will anyway, so it’s arguably not all that important outside of quant-track kids, who are probably in AP classes or private schools anyway.
I had something similar.
And… I was waiting for that.
The third rail of American politics strikes again. I don’t agree that all kids should take this path because frankly a lot of them ARE dumb. But with anguish over “race” inevitably infecting the discussing, no progress will be made on any overall improvement.
Same here. WTF?
The Nazis didnt get everything wrong. We really should have shot those Frankfurt School boys before they set a toe on our soil.
Also, W Wilson. Him too. Oh, and Dewey.
The latest “new math” started introducing algebra in the first grade. Both of my kids hated it, didn’t get it, and much tears ensued. Math is a series of building blocks and when you put the roof on before the foundation is built you get a mess.
The solution? Dad had to order Singapore math and teach kids math the correct way. Because that’s what I’m paying our dedicated educators to do.
Regressed? I see no indication there was ever a point where every student could do algebra at all, much less in 8th grade. IQ differences will prevent it. Are preventing it, of course.
I don’t take algebra until 10th grade.
Damn… I was guessing Anne Frank.
Too easy — which makes up for the two before it that were just so wide open I had no idea who in particular….
Happy birthday Liberace!
Birthdays today include the pioneer of Dear Diary;
Happy birthday Anne Frank! Or is that the next link?
Ha! One of us! One of us!
the best wide receiver ever
until Rice;Happy birthday Don Hutson.
Ted goes older-school on the Old Man. Well played!
It could have been Raymond Berry…
Nah, I give you credit for Biletnikoff – small, slow and yet impossible to cover and hands that even stick-em didn’t explain. Everyone else really had more talent/gifts.
Given his ethnicity, he should take the longstanding suggestion of making it into a convenience store.
America’s favorite MILF
Does Melania Trump count as American for the purposes of this exercise?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta_myupIJm0
No, since half of the country finds her repulsive due to politics.
I think the old Wizard of Id joke is appropriate here.
and the guy who made the piece of shit I’m currently typing on
Happy birthday Camilo Olivetti!
If he goes, may he find peace and make it to heaven. From a temporal perspective — he’s both a product of the College of Cardinals already and has had more than enough time to pick and choose for that body… so honestly I expect more of the same from his successor. Maybe the next one at least won’t let the Chinese appoint their own bishops that subordinate the Church to their state.
I’m pretty sure it’s when, not if, he goes.
In the long term, we’re all dead.
Point.
(narf… zort!)
I’ll buy the popcorn if the next one is not a commie and makes it clear that whatever they’re practicing there in China it ain’t Roman Catholicism.
Happy birthday Aaron?
Happy birthday Stacy’s mom?
Winston’s Mom.
Happy birthday Wang Wei?
You know who ELSE won a German election?
Ludwig Erhard?
Old Man, you’re a chemist – how does that work? 🤔
It was a fluid situation.
Sounds sticky.
Hey, does this rag smell of chloroform?
He was a human slug?
I’d recommend turning it into a convenience store chain like it should have been in the first place, but I’m not going to stereotype Indians…
Dammit GT…
My mouse scroll wheel on the desktop is set to warp speed
😁
I got the email last night at 6 PM.
I got a group text from my boss telling me not to respond until we get guidance from pentagon.
I am a pawn in a power game.
🙂
I will be on the flightline tomorrow, so i dont know when i will respond.
You’re Mongo?
Oh, you said Mongo, not Mungo.
Paying cancellation fees for long-established travel bookings on account of a tax paid by American importers will really stick it to Drumpf
They are so tedious and tiresome. If they want to be upset with someone, they should be upset with their own government, which has been unserious about its relationship with the US for decades.
Now the federal government has announced that they’re eliminating half of interprovincial trade barriers. This has been an issue in the table forever. Trump has accomplished more on this file in a month than all Canadian governments in history combined.
Instead, they will spend their money in countries that embrace freedom – like Cuba!
Many men to miss visits from their girlfriend(s)…
She cooks like my mother, and sucks like a Hoover
They’re not cancelling because they’re mad with Trump, they’re cancelling because their dollar isn’t worth shit, due to their own government royally screwing their economy over the last decade, and coming to the US has become prohibitively expensive.
They’re just using Trump as the excuse.
I’m just irrationally tickled that the local news powerhouse TV station’s site made the Lynx. And relieved that it’s not about Ohio.
That’s because Neph gave me the link.
Good for him! He usually links from the wrong corner of the state.
Patel is already overhauling the FBI, so he doesn’t need or want Musk’s distractions. Those Agents who refuse a transfer out of DC to Alabama or wherever are going to be cut loose.
Most of us here would be happy – I bet that sweet government pay would go a lot further in fly-over country than DC.
The ATF thing will be fun watching. At a minimum, I expect their tactical teams to be raiding the cartels, not a guy who put a stock on a pistol.
Maybe they can run all their guns back into the country
And sell them to us?
it’s a very weird thing that Republicans, who hold all the cards and understand money and such, now waste time tuning things that should simply be tossed in the river
there’s a constitutional way to undo the last century’s nonsense, and sensible men would be about it
As RC Dean wrote yesterday, good luck getting the EGOP in Congress to go along with it.
There’s at most a dozen Republicans spread out between the house and senate that support that agenda. Most are either grifting off the current “intelligence” apparatus, or compromised by it.
Conservatives are gonna conserve…
I do not think Patel wants to disband the FBI. He wants one that isn’t a Praetorian Guard.
Having an R next to your name doesn’t mean you are onboard with gutting Leviathan, so no the people who want to shrink government do not hold all the cards; they are in a coalition with people who want a version of the status quo, and that coalition barely controls the government. But, sure, let’s stick to the libertarian tradition of objecting to any trace of improvement because it is insufficiently pure. That has worked well.
I do not think Patel wants to disband the FBI
Hopefully the domestic intel part is dissolved in acid.
Accountability is fascist.
And patriarchal and white supremacist – I guess fascist is supposed to be the superset of that, despite being an Eye-talian invention (which every fucking idiot ignores).
Keep it running like the old SNL Franco bit.
I referenced that yesterday. “His condition has stabilized.”
“I guess they figured out how to play their game.”
If they were really playing Hamas’ game, the deal would be “For every dead hostage we get back, you get 100 dead terrorists back.”
“We’ll page you when we have them ready for pickup.”
Bazinga!
And so it begins. The first of many I hope
“Three politicians in a small municipality near Philadelphia were indicted this week on charges they tried to fraudulently win the mayoral race in 2021 by producing about three dozen false mail-in ballots.”
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/3-politicians-accused-faking-mail-203709935.html
It’s a target rich environment.
You know who ELSE won a German election?
According to my high school German teacher, not Hitler. She was very keen to point out that the Austrian corporal never won more than 30% in any popular vote.
Which is as much as any of the ruling parties get today.
Yeah, I was going to dive into the pedantic deep end and decided against doing so.
I love how the article points out that Germany is just the unfortunate victim of Russian and American policy.
Plucky Merkel fought back valiantly but alas, could not stop her country from swirling down the toilet. Merz partnering with the laughably unpopular establishment left should turn things around! 🙄
Zuppa Inglese: the definitive Italian dessert recipe by chef Jacopo Malpeli – Osteria del Viandante*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjo-uUhCLGQ
I find it weird they started to also dub these besides just subtitles I blame Americans.
2025 could be year for the history books as Trump shreds global norms
Well, yes, OF COURSE.
There would be nothing but obedient serfs in Europe if it wasn’t for Trump!
I’m OK with “shredding” the current “global norms”.
They suck.
we had our probably coldest night of the year at -16C. -15 tonight and then it starts warming.
It just hit 0°C here.
I think I’ll open a window.
Fake news. You are slowly cooking to death and you don’t know it.
-Environmental Activists
Something tells me the german elections will not solve much… still no clear majority.
So the Boer and the Indian are at odds? Hmm…
Or Patel is planning on firing a whole bunch of them anyway so it was precoordinated…
Patel didn’t go about this the right way. He should have gone to Musk/DOGE and said “Hey, I’m planning to do X here, and I think your request will get in the way. Will you give my department a pass or at least a deferral on this?”. You don’t countermand a request from a colleague the way he did. You work it out with the colleague, and then tell your people what to do.
This.
Joyous tidings!
Apparently her shit finally wore thin on the people that run MSNBC.
Strawberry PopTart. Another show I won’t watch.
Yeah…that strawberry pop tart has been bad. Really bad. I think I should take her to her room for a while to….discipline her.
What do you call that when you find a person to be a horrible person yet want to bang her senseless?
“Hate-fuck”?
For some reason I thought she was on The View.
But yeah, when MSNBC is sick of your shit….
MSNBC isn’t sick of shit, it’s just that the ratings got piss poor and they can’t count on Biden to funnel some money in the back door to keep it afloat.
Slutty Sunday will humiliate your manhood for a price.
https://archive.is/f5Zzb
#9 was half-assed and #16 was clearly English
#7 is going to get skin cancer, but until then…
In case we all thought the government has come to a screeching halt. My wife is working for an outside party that will be doing work for TRICARE.
It is proceeding with no hold ups. Naturally part of this shit show is a background check of a crazy amount of pages. The “good news” is we no longer have to unfreeze our credit in this post Equifax world. Which wouldn’t have happened as we would have told the contractor thanks but no thanks.
But FedGov is the first entity I aware of that at one point wanted a “hard hit” to your credit file for a background check. Fuck off!
Yeah, that’s absolutely ridiculous.
Then again, some private sector employers actually require to provide passwords to your non-work social media accounts as a condition of employment. Even though I don’t have any social media accounts, I’d immediately tell any employer making the demand to go piss up a rope.
I think I’d be inclined to respond “do you expect me to compromise my password to your systems as well”?
I read that too, but I don’t recall it actually naming companies so I was a bit suspicious about who and how widespread.
At the current job I believe there were guidelines shared about what can and cannot be said on LinkedIn, which I ignored, since I’m not on LinkedIn.
Social media guidelines aren’t uncommon in my industry. My social media is monitored by a third party for regulatory reasons.
In my case it is only LinkedIn.
But at no point was I asked for a password or would I have given it.
Define “social media”.
Then fuck off anyway.
1. If you googled my real name, you’d get a 19th-Century Martha Stewart and a Galveston, Texas, council woman. MAYBE my website would pop up somewhere down the list or on page 2, but even then, that’s my last name cutified. If you googled me with my maiden name, there’d be a series of articles on being fat and losing weight on low carb.
2. I don’t let actual employers know what my pen name is, and I do all my social mediaing with my pen name.
3. I do have LinkedIn under my real name, but I’ve found it to be utterly worthless and it’s been fallow for years.
We have social media guidelines, but it’s pretty much a reminder not to air the firm’s dirty laundry and to be very careful if you do to indicate that the opinions are your own.
Got it on guess #2 again today.
https://www.sbnation.com/2025/2/23/24370551/sb-nation-mlb-daily-trivia-in-5-february-23
Random great find on substack.
Holly needs an editor – I don’t have time for that wall.
And again missing the point:
I don’t recall DOGE claiming 10MM checks were going out to fraudulent SocSec recipients. What I took was more like “SocSec systems are such garbage they still have millions of people that have no business being there.” Which in turn creates a risk (and you can bet a reality) of fraud at some unacceptable level.
Supposedly (and I don’t know first hand because I don’t Twitter) Musk did indeed claim this and then doubled down on it. That is cited in the article.
Interesting to see the near immediate defense of Musk as though he can’t make a mistake, or having made one correct it.
In that article, I see Musk saying “maybe” vampires are collecting SocSec, and there “might be” fraud. His claim was that there are a lot of SocSec entries with the death field set to false which are certainly wrong. The chart he posted wasn’t “these people are getting checks”, it was “these people are still alive according to SocSec”.
Now, other people jumped to the conclusion that all of them were cashing checks.
As to whether it’s verifiable who has been getting checks, that depends on whether DOGE had access to payment information, which the courts have been interfering with.
There is a database that shows all those old people still alive. Trump, however, explicitly said he doesn’t know if that means that they are receiving checks and they will look into it. I don’t know if Musk said they are receiving checks. Lots of people have jumped to confusion and assumed they are getting checks, and maybe Musk knew that people would make that assumption. Like how the 51 spies said the Hunter laptop story had the hallmarks of Russian interference knowing that the usual suspects would say that it was Russian interference.
Musk was half-assed in what he said, no doubt a little drunk on his celebrity status.
Why are we arguing about something that is objectively verifiable? That is silly. Either the records are there or they are not. Either people are receiving checks or they are not. Let’s see it.
Because Musk argued for effect.
He knew damn well that chart was wrong, but decided to use the maximum way it could be argued.
OTH, nobody gets worked up when the press says somebody facing 10 counts of 10 years each is facing 100 years in prison when we know they will be consolidated.
Or when Canada is going to spend $1bn on border security. Pay no mind that is $300 Canadian dollars over three years. So it ain’t going to happen and it isn’t in USD.
That’s the way news is created and TikToks are created for low information voters and NYT readers.
Why are we arguing about something that is objectively verifiable?
The exact point of the article, and that everyone is susceptible to taking shortcuts that buttress their own biases.
Mikaela Shiffrin has rewritten the record books once again with her 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th win in Sestriere’s slalom!
https://x.com/eurosport/status/1893636006017990983
and here I thought Americans suck at skiing.
We make skiing awesome.
https://www.skijoringutah.com/
Why is this video not available in my location?
Donald Trump was recruited by KGB with codename ‘Krasnov’, claims ex-Soviet spy
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-recruited-kgb-codename-180759277.html
RUSHUH! RUSHUH! RUSHUH!
So I was just handed a grant proposal to write. Curiously, the RFP was worded in such a way that the actual research was not specified, but it was clear whom the research would support. It was explained to me, “Oh, this was originally a DEI proposal, but they scrambled that up a bit to hide what it is. So now it’s a proposal to ‘boost American engineering capabilities.’ Just go with it.”
I’m telling DOGE.
there should be a grant abut providing New York wines to Romanians.
I thought they were going to dismiss you, something change?
I was dismissed (with pay) from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Then immediately and gleefully scooped up by the College of Engineering, who were delighted to have me back.
I missed that. That’s awesome!
Who would think getting talent to snow Alfred might be a touch difficult…
If you write it as “boost American engineering capabilities” = “hire only White techbro poon hounds” then I guarantee a promotion.
Tyrannical garden gnome v2.0 sez: “This gravy train can’t end! The ancient ones demand more souls!”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/zelensky-refuses-sign-surrender-deal-34731208
LOL never change, The Daily Star.
“Topless feminist dresses like Hitler to protest against the hard-right AfD party as polls open in high-stakes German elections
The half-naked activist of the women’s rights group FEMEN protested against the AfD in front of the German embassy in Kyiv, this morning.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14426491/Polls-open-election-Germany-AfD-gains.html
So the Germans who don’t want a war with Eastern Europe are Nazis?
I only saw a picture of one protester, not excited.
Activist or attention seeking exhibitionist?
Embrace the power of “and”.
There is a difference?
What rhywun asked. You repeat yourself.
I know the words ‘right’ and ‘left’ have different meanings in Europe but…even the Germans think the National SOCIALIST party was right wing?
I am confused.
It wasn’t communism, soft or hard, so it must’ve been far-right.
Well I’m convinced. I’m not voting for AfD.
Do you dress the kid that way as part of his anti-government indoctrination?
So now it’s a proposal to ‘boost American engineering capabilities.’
Unbreakable lab glass sippy cups for diversity engineers?
Even better. It’s no laughing matter when a glass dildo snaps off in someone’s ass.
Oh, wait, it IS a laughing matter. Not for the snapee, but for everyone else.
Two armed cops aren’t “defenseless”. But that said, I’ve no sympathy for the asshole that shot them. Hope he rots.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/two-virginia-beach-police-officers-shot-dead-defenseless-during-late-night-traffic-stop
The “cop speak” needs to stop.
It’s a civilian-involved shooting.
And yes, I know cops are civilians too.
Defenseless = 2 on 1 with more on the way, guns, tasers and nightsticks. Completely defenseless. As for the asshole that shot them, he ran off and capped himself and saved the taxpayers some money.
“Americans were told a ‘multi-racial boom’ would radically change the nation. Experts say it was a ‘lefty’ plot
People who were classified as being two or more races jumped from 2.9 percent to 10.2 percent of the population from 2010 to 2020…
Anyone who marked themselves as black or as white on the 2020 form, but then wrote that they were of Latin American origin was reclassified by a computer algorithm as ‘multiracial,’ he says.
The same went for people who self-identified as white only, but then wrote that their origins were from an African country.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14360669/Americans-told-multi-racial-boom-radically-change-nation-Experts-say-lefty-plot.html
How about ignoring race entirely?
Only if we actually go back to the reason why race was put on the forms in the first place. That should be the reason we stop asking.
LOL and people believed that?
Does nobody here watch TV commercials? I’d thought it would have dropped 3x that amount.
Campbell’s strange actions have probably ensured that no NFL team will want him again, but if he has invested his $40 million wisely, he’s right that he never has to work another day of his life.
That’s a big if, but let’s hope so.
The money they pay is to take care of their broken-down 40yo bodies.
Yep, most of these guys are like lottery winners. 40 million today, bankruptcy tomorrow.
The Independent.
Ha! Churchill groveled at FDR’s feet for American scraps of support before Pearl Harbor.
I recently saw a video of Churchill doing a meet and greet with the troops. The soldiers offered handshakes and Churchill missed half of them on the first try as he stumbled around clearly so drunk he could hardly walk.
Doesnt mean a thing, I just thought it was funny.
Ha! Link?
Sorry Toxteth it was a couple of weeks ago and I have no memory of where I saw it
Friday news drop.
Delta releases information about crew aboard flight that crashed, flipped in Toronto
PIC was experienced. Doesn’t say who flew the landing, however. I’m not willing to call this one a DEI disaster.
I am. They bragged about being an “unmanned airline”. I don’t care if Maverick or Sully couldn’t have landed the plane properly, the airline chose to put DEI at the center and not customer safety, they can enjoy the scrutiny and speculation that goes along with it.
Deserved scrutiny, hell yes! Cause, tbd.
I think the captain was the one talking on the radio, which usually means he’s the pilot monitoring. Of course he’s responsible for everything as the pilot in command, but it sure seems like the SIC was doing the flying on this one. Hopefully they release the cockpit voice recorder tapes…
Yup. And everybody has to learn and gain experience.
And thanks to our culture we now have to ask was the person learning qualified to be there.
And if we hadn’t celebrated unmanned flying I wouldn’t give a shit about the sex of who flew the thing. Hence my comment about the scrutiny being deserved here.
Because if you are going to make a product for the elderly why worry about QC?
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/recall-recalls-recalling-shakes-kill-dead-died-recalled-listeria-contamination-supplements-supplement-hospital-long-term-care-shake-nutrition-health-medical-medicine-chocolate-vanilla-strawberry-illness-ill-sick-sickness
To the person who created that link: Are you broken?
Keyword/SEO optimization.
Yup. I’ve never seen it so blatant. Plus you don’t need to put it in the link, there is a better/less annoying way.
“‘Condoms for kiddies’: Maryland bill allowing contraceptives to be sold in elementary schools passed by legislature
The legislation passed in the House by a vote of 89-41 and will now move to the state Senate for consideration.
House Bill 380, sponsored by Democrat Delegate Nicole Williams, would allow contraceptives to be sold in vending machines in nursery schools, preschools, elementary schools, and high schools, according to the Baltimore Sun. The bill also eliminates the current misdemeanor criminal penalty, which carries a $1,000 fine. However, it does not mandate schools to sell contraceptives, leaving the decision to individual school systems.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/condoms-for-kiddies-maryland-bill-allowing-contraceptives-to-be-sold-in-elementary-schools-passed-by-legislature
They have nothing better to do?
Better wrap that rascal!
Well, clearly the kids aren’t doing algebra.
Apparently they’re doing each other.
Available in the teacher’s lounge for some of the more rapey teachers.
They just cant leave the kids alone, can they. I am glad mine is grown.
Same old song and dance
If only that were true. In fact, Trump, Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and other administration officials have gone well beyond the long-standing disputes about burden-sharing, the need for a more sensible division of labor within the alliance, or the long-overdue reassessment about how to handle the war in Ukraine and relations with Russia. Their aim is to fundamentally transform relations with long-standing U.S. allies, rewrite the global rulebook, and, if possible, remake Europe along MAGA lines. That agenda is openly hostile to the existing European order.
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Third, and most important, Trump, Elon Musk, Vance, and the rest of the MAGA team are openly backing illiberal forces in Europe. In effect, they are trying to impose a far-reaching regime change throughout Europe, albeit without using military force. The signs are unmistakable: Hungary’s Viktor Orban is a welcome guest at Mar-a-Lago. Vance met withAlice Weidel, co-chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, while he was in Munich, but not with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and his declaration that the main challenge to Europe was “the threat from within” was an unveiled attack on the continent’s political order. (It was beyond ironic for Vance to criticize Europeans for anti-democratic behavior, given his refusal to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election or to condemn the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. But I digress.) Not to be outdone, Musk has been spewing his own false and hateful accusations at various European leaders, defending far-right criminals like Tommy Robinson, and interviewing Weidel and expressing his own support for her party.
Despite a few differences on certain issues, the MAGA movement and most far-right parties in Europe generally opposealmost all forms of immigration; are skeptical to hostile toward the European Union; see elites, media, and higher education as the enemy; want to reimpose traditional religious values and gender norms; and believe citizenship should be defined by shared ethnicity or ancestry and not by shared civic values or one’s birthplace. Like their fascist predecessors, they are comfortable with and adept at using the norms and institutions of democracy to subvert democratic rule and strengthen executive power. Sound familiar?
Why would anybody question the greatness of Euroglobalist liberalism? It’s crazy.
Also, “asking nicely” has worked great in the past to get Europe to step up, right?
When will you people go back to deferring to us – your betters?
LOL growing numbers of European residents are getting “openly hostile to the existing European order”.
defending far-right criminals like Tommy Robinson,
And what was his crime? Badspeak.
Rachman’s assessment that the United States is now an adversary of Europe is only partly correct, therefore, because Trump and his minions support European far-right nationalist movements that share their basic worldview. They are hostile to a vision of Europe as a model of democratic governance, social welfare, openness, the rule of law, political, social, and religious tolerance, and transnational cooperation. One might even say that they would like America and Europe to have similar values; the problem is that the values they have in mind are incompatible with genuine democracy.
Oh, please.
People who use vague terms intended to hit your subconscious buttons should be horsewhipped. ‘Freedom’, ‘love’, ‘democracy’, blah blah blah. ‘Freedom isn’t free’, ‘hate speech isn’t free speech’ .
Jackboots, every one of them.
Where “genuine democracy” is what we tell the voters it is.
JFC what an asshole.
I looked up Anne Frank to see if I could figure out if she was a real person or just a Jesus-like character. Yup. She’s real according to the internet.
So then I looked up Rigoberta Menchu. Yup. Her story is totally real. She is the real thing.
I swear to god people are morons. Not long ago my son was speculating about life, the universe and everything and I told him “Almost everything I was taught 50 years ago has turned out to be wrong. Probably nearly everything we think we know now is probably wrong.”
Speaking of “what was known” that was wrong…
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5305268/nbc-settles-lawsuit-ice-doctor-msnbc-maddow-georgia-detainee
Menchu’s story is truthy
All narratives are.
Anne addressed her diary to “Dear Kitty”. Apologies for my minor pedantry, not meant at you, Suthen.
Kennedy’s impact immediately felt!
This drug was always a money grab plus the Reavers.
Mindblowing
President Donald Trump is moving with light speed and brute force to break the existing order and reshape America at home and abroad. He likes the ring of calling himself king.
No one can absorb it all. By the time you try to process one big thing — he covets Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal and Gaza; he turns away from historic alliancesand Ukraine; fires many thousands of federal workers, then brings some right back; raises doubts whether he will obey laws he doesn’t like; orders an about-face in the missions of department after department; declares there are only two genders, which federal documents will henceforth call sexes; announces heavy tariffs, suspends them, then imposes some — three more big things have happened.
Trump’s core supporters are thrilled with what they see. Those who don’t like him watch in horror. The nation is far from any consensus on what makes America great and what may make it sink.
What’s undeniable is that Trump has ushered in the sharpest change of direction for the country at least since Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Great Depression. But the long-term implications of Trump’s national reset, and by extension his own legacy, cannot yet be determined.
He has definitely upset the apple cart. It’s just not fair.
I love how “fulfill your side of the contract” equals “turning away from historic alliances”.
“It’s just not fair.”
This person is 12 years old, right?
“The last month has been entirely distinctive in American history,” said Cal Jillson, a constitutional and presidential scholar at Southern Methodist University. “We have never had an American president who moved this decisively in the face of the law and the Constitution. We are in a dangerous place.”
Jillson and other historians say such tumult in the machinery of government has only come in reaction to dire emergencies: states leaving the union before the Civil War, FDR’s New Deal thrust in the depths of the Great Depression, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society burst of programs when taking office after John Kennedy’s assassination.
Change is scary.
Light, author of several dozen books on the workings of government, said times like these can yield positive results. “Every once in a while you have to scrub down the operation.”
But this chaos, he said, is both intentional and corrosive, exposing the country to the inadequacy of a hollowed-out civil service when the next crisis comes, whether it’s a pandemic, a hurricane, a war or a massive IT attack.
“That’s Trump’s basic MO — keep people jumping,” he said. Trump “really doesn’t know anything except breaking things.”
Trump has done nothing but leave a path of destruction and misery in his wake everywhere he has been.
We have a problem with the left’s absurd and. endless bitching about anything Trump says or does. They are crying wolf. Trump, like any human, will not get everything right. We need to be able to criticize him legitimately but the lunacy of the left is making Trump supporters reflexively defend him no matter what he does. This is not good.
I am still shaking my head over “It’s not fair.”
Did he really say that?
‘Did he really say that?’
No, Brookies forgot to switch off the italics, that last sentence was his summation of the article.