WHY IS SHE STILLL HERE? The mayor-elect of St. Paul, Minnesota, State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her (D) admitted earlier this year that she and her family are living illegally in the United States. Either this is performative bullshit, or she’s due consequences.
WE HAVE TO PROTECT OUR PHONY BALONEY JOBS: LAPD refuses to release crime map records, says data could lead to ‘public panic.’
RELIGION OF PEACE…AND TOLERANCE: FBI foils alleged terror plot planned for Halloween. The local (Detroit) reporting doesn’t mention this, but other sources say that the suspects scouted LGBTQ+ nightclubs ahead of the planned attack. I mention that not because targeting the QUILTBAG++ makes this worse; all lives matter equally, of course. But as our own beloved Animal observed, “[t]his serves as yet another illustration of the utter stupidity of the “Queers for Palestine” people.”
NOPE, TOTALLY NOT ABOUT THE COMMUNISM: Slate (of course) predictably progsplains how dislike for Mamdani is completely about racism and Islamophobia.
THE THIRD RAIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH: Over at Brownstone, Professor Charlotte Kuperwasser dares to explore the possible link between the ‘Vid vax and cancer. That it is professionally dangerous to even entertain this notion should set off alarms. With every passing day it becomes increasingly obvious that we need COVID truth and reconciliation tribunals.
BYE, FELICIA: Nancy Pelosi will not seek re-election. The voters of her district will doubtlessly elect someone even worse, but at least that person won’t have the seniority of Pelosi.
SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS: Completely gratuitous link to a fun and funny website.
BLUE DOGS MYSTERY EXPLAINED: No, not Democrats, but the actual cerulean canines of Chernobyl. While they were unable to capture any of the blue bowsers, one vet speculates that they were rolling in the remains of a porta potty. Dogs rolling in shit; works for me.
CONSONANCE: I’m in a very Howard Cosell / Spiro Agnew (or more likely his speechwriter) mood today. “Nattering Nabobs of Negativism” keeps running through my head.
Ugh, tag close fail.
You know who else Stromed a government building?
The Parisian Mob?
This guy.
I got a brief look at the inside of his eponymous political machine.
… There’s a reason I am not known for being a good proofreader.
During Thurmondor?
Eeew
Q Anon Shaman?
Lock picking lawyer gets repetitive after a while.
That is the second graph on the spurious correlations link, in case anyone was wondering where that odd comment came from.
As far as odd comments go that doesn’t even move the needle here.
Yes, but unless most, this one has an explanation.
Unlike
Only so many lock designs out there.
Someone should come up with a new one he struggles with.
Watch his April Fools videos.
They hate our High Holy Days.
With every passing day it becomes increasingly obvious that we need COVID truth and reconciliation tribunals.
If anger about the Covid Craziness mattered, Ron DeSantis would be president.
You won’t see those tribunals.
Everyone is convinced of the righteousness of their own positions. Good luck reconciling that.
The Covidiocy saved or created billions of lives.
I know people locally who still get boosted annually or even more frequently.
I know some who not only do that they regard anyone not doing that as dangerously irresponsible. This idea that the mask brigade wants us to forgive and forget is echo chamber fueled wishful thinking. Most of them still believe everything they believed then.
People locally still wear masks everywhere. Our self-appointed betters.
To add to your terrorism stops:
Cedar Point scouted in possible terror plot, reports say
Thanks.
Also, that is really horrifying.
You guys need to relax and learn to love the terrorists.
The entire Minneapolis airport is run by the Somalis. You can’t swing a hijab there without hitting 23 of our new vibrant neighbors.
I always roll my eyes when the TSA goons are hassling people in the security line for having 4oz of some liquid. Like the rando passenger is more dangerous than the Somali guy who had access to planes before trying to go fight for ISIS.
Nothing bad has happened yet, so that means we are all just a bunch of scaredy cats who are afraid of black muslims.
Islam has made war on every neighboring country and every non-Islamic group inside the countries they inhabit since the lying pedophile first spouted his lies in the early 600s. It is idiotic not to be wary around Islam.
Oooh. Cultural enrichment.
But the greatest cultural shock to the class of Republican pundits and politicians who dominate social media conversations came from the night’s biggest news: A democratic socialist was elected mayor of the country’s largest city.
Unlike the serene sang-froid of the liberal/progressive pundit class on election night one year ago.
dominate social media conversations
Certainly in reference to Bluesky, right?
lol OK then.
You know, from the perspective of the Marxists on twitter that Pie is always sharing with us – the world is a terribly conservative place.
It still has wypipo in it, and Uncle Toms.
In a deep blue city? They’re not so much shocked as exasperated I think.
I… wow.
/taps the fuck out
Looks like he better be charismatic because he doesn’t have the unilateral power to make buses free
So is he just that clueless about how things really work? Or is he just a pathological liar?
I eagerly await the NYC dwellers rioting when they don’t get free bus rides.
The progressives are constantly looking for another cult of personality to deep-throat. Obama, to AoC, to Fetterman, to Mandami. The names change, but the dick-sucking stays the same…
I’ll stand by my comment this morning… like most people on the left, he doesn’t know how things work. And the dipshits that voted for him are just as bad. But when they fail to get what they want, they’ll blame those “obstructionists”. It will be fun when the people calling Trump a dictator complain that their mayor doesn’t have unchecked power.
Yer Holiness: Please consider this in the light of hoarders, wreckers, and Kulaks theory. Hizzoner won’t be blamed because his intentions are pure. It is those obstructionist Kulaks on the MTA board who will shoulder the blame. They will be named, shamed, and terrorized until they vote the right way.
Don’t leave Beto and Stacey Abrams off your list of cult of personality figures Progs have deep throated.
“The names change, but the dick-sucking stays the same…”
In my world it’s the opposite. They always call you Sir, but the skill level varies. And there is nothing sadder than getting a lazy, straight chick grade, blowjob from a homo.
Tonio:
Yeah, I agree that something like that will be how things go.
Why not one journalo (or even Cuomo during the debate) asked him how he could make bus rides free when he didn’t have the power to do so is the real problem.
Simple. Buy everyone in the city a bus pass.
Never mind that that also makes the subways “free” but whatever works.
@Tonio
LOL!
So is he just that clueless about how things really work? Or is he just a pathological liar?
¿Porque no los dos?
IMO Hochul, the NY legislature, and the entire bureaucracy in Albany will eagerly comply with the slightest whim of the mayor-elect. Because he’s a man of peace belong to the religion of peace, and woe be those who criticize much less disobey members of the religion of peace.
From ded thred. Think regulation is only indirectly responsible for the decline of HI agriculture. Value of land for redevelopment and cheaper production elsewhere are probably much bigger factors.
Need more tariffs. Bring BigAg back to HI. Needs subsidies? Well, what are we waiting for?
Mills shut down. Plantations were sold off.
Either this is performative bullshit, or she’s due consequences.
It is a noble lie! You can’t hold me to your patriarchal concept of truth – I have my lived experience and MY TRUTH!
The link I posted this morning has an interesting bit in it.
(Emphasis mine)
My guess is that no one will investigate because of the shit show if it is proven true. If you proved her father really did forge paperwork and she and her whole family are actually illegal, what happens next?
Who becomes mayor? Is the GOP really ballsy enough to deport her and her family? The media uproar would be insane.
Eek, sorry I missed that. You get an after-the-fact hat tip. Just the tip, the hat swears.
If you proved her father really did forge paperwork
We could ask his relatives I suppose.
No worries Tonio. I don’t do this for the Jimmy Hat Tips.
Oh, very well.
STEVE SMITH GIVE YOU JUST THE TIP.
My understanding is that forgery in VN was rather common. Money talks.
Nice try Fourscore. No matter how loudly you complain, we all know your marriage certificate is legit.
My guess is the chaste bitches of Chernobyl are the reason for the blue balled dogs there.
Oh, very well played.
Cedar Point scouted in possible terror plot, reports say
Travis Kelce must be stooped.
I can get behind that.
You misspelled stoopid
COVID truth and reconciliation tribunals
Woodchippers optional?
I recently had this conversation:
Proggie: They made the best decisions that they could at the time. No one knew what was going on!
Me: Exactly! If you didn’t have overwhelming proof of how things were happening, you had no right to make such drastic edicts. You were firing people for not taking a shot that you admit was totally untested and no one was sure about.
Proggie:
I’m so tired of the excuse “we didn’t know anything” for why they locked people down.
Now, the worse one is “we had to do something”.
OK, next time do something is you jump off a very high place onto a very hard surface.
JI:
Yup. That is a very common retort.
I usually counter that they could have left everything open and simply sent me a check for a couple billion dollars. That would have been something, while being just as effective and cheaper that what we did do.
I’m so tired of the excuse “we didn’t know anything”
And it’s a lie. You don’t get to claim you didn’t know anything if you voluntarily put your fingers in your ears and screamed la-la-la and ostracized and condemned anyone who did open their mouth.
For the shots, bio-distribution was known. Background infection rates (seroprevalence studies and Diamon Princess) known to indicate very low infection fatality rates. Published work on cytotoxicity of the spike protein. Part of the corona-virus (quickly mutating) family strongly recommending against vaccinating into a pandemic with a non-sterilizing (known) vaccine. And why in the world would we take anti-body production as a proxy for vaccine efficacy?
Masks – decades of work indicating no effectiveness of N95s – let along pieces of t-shirt – against transmission of respiratory viruses. And a touch of common sense.
Distancing/quarantine – Absolutely no evidence of efficacy. Why 6 feet? Makes no sense for an aerosol. Lock down completely absent from the entire history of ‘public health’ recommendations for airborne respiratory viruses.
Natural infection immunity – So well established to be superior to vaccination induced immunity that it was never previously a question. And why would a vaccination targeting only a specific (cytotoxic) protein be superior to immunity induced by exposure to the full virus?
No, if the experts “didn’t know”, they were incompetent or malevolent. If you, as a lay-person, didn’t know or at least have questions, you placed entirely too much trust in experts.
This is my abbreviated opinion of how it went down.
At first it seemed like any other corona virus, hence no panic. Then Fauci and his buddies discovered where it came from, and had an “oh shit” moment when they realized it was one of theirs, and might be something strong enough to kill off humanity. That was the start of lockdowns. Not long after, it turned out to be not as fatal as they thought. But why not take this opportunity to enact all those pandemic plans they had been working on for years and years? That got out of control, then things got politicized as they always do, and the rest is just opportunists.
They had to shut down the trails and the parks! There were no other options!
I can forgive some of the decisions early on, meaning the first couple weeks, but beyond that I don’t have much sympathy for the argument.
had an “oh shit” moment when they realized it was one of theirs, and might be something strong enough to kill off humanity.
Perhaps partially true. But I think the “oh shit” moment was more like, “we’ve been funding this behind the tax payers back, likely in violation of the law, how can we obfuscate our role in this and get people distracted over there to stop looking at us?”
I can forgive some of the decisions early on
You are more generous of spirit than I.
No. They might have not known anything about Covid but they knew what they were doing locking the world down.
At this point the only conclusion I can draw is that the whole thing was an op intended to cause the massive chaos and disruption we got. It failed at allowing the global elites to seize the 100% control they were going after but it came closer than any of them probably dreamed possible.
I don’t think the whole thing was an op, but I do think that a lot of people seized the opportunity to create a whole lot of dissatisfaction because it was an election year.
lol Nick.
My old mutt (half goldie/half black lab) was the same way. The stinkier the water he could find, the better. Then when you tried to hose him off with clean water in the back yard he’d roll around like you were killing him.
“I stink so pretty!!!”
Now when you throw a carp up on the river bank, there is usually a Hmong kid waiting to run off home with it.
When Mrs. Holiness was pregnant, she wanted me to catch a carp because Koreans think eating raw carp while pregnant will lead to the kid being born strong with big eyes. I refused. I was pretty sure my kid would be born with whiskers and no chin.
My weimeraner loved swimming, diving for rocks, retrieving sticks in the water. When she got tired nothing beat a good roll in fresh cow shit and try to get in the car. I’d have to wade out in the water, scrub her down and manually put her in the car, otherwise…
She loved to lay on the floor as she and the kids were reading the newspaper. She hated the classified but couldn’t turn the page with her paws.
Rolling in stinky fish AND a long walk!? Winning!
MS gets it! And don’t forget the bath. Retrievers love water, and chessies are cold-impervious.
With every passing day it becomes increasingly obvious that we need COVID truth and reconciliation tribunals.
Only if it includes necklacing.
I’ll bring the tires, you bring the kerosene…
This is not shaping up to be very green-friendly is it?
Pope Jimbo:
I’ll supply some copper sulfate if you think it’ll help.
The progressives are constantly looking for another cult of personality to deep-throat. Obama, to AoC, to Fetterman, to Mandami. The names change, but the dick-sucking stays the same…
Not just the progressives.
No, really, it is just the progressives.
Meh, I hate both sides equivalencies, but after a few dozen times I was called a prog or a traitor for supporting Massie, opposing tariff fever, or siding with Elon over spending cuts, I am going to call BS on the cult of personality being exclusively prog. There’s a solid Trump worshipping core in MAGA.
Jarflax:
I’d like to subscribe to your “pox on both your houses” newsletter.
Way too many Trumpies out there. For fuck’s sake, there are way too many people who would canonize Ron Paul for my taste. When I first started listening to Dave Smith, it was scary how devoted he is to RP. I don’t have anything really horrible to say about RP, but there are too many of his supporters who scare me a bit.
There are basically three cadres of Trump supporters. One of those cadres tends to support tariffs and oppose government spending cuts, for reasons that make logical sense even if I, personally, disagree with them.
That’s not a sign of a cult of personality, it’s a policy disagreement.
If you don’t like Democrats you must automatically like Trump.
Today Trump was bragging about reducing the costs of weight loss drugs. I’m naive enough to believe eliminating SNAP would do more for weight loss and it would save tax dollars as well. A Twofer.
The problem with my newsletter is that I bounce back and forth between three personae these days.
1. I’m just going to enjoy my life as best I can and try to tune all the noise out and focus on the amazingly luxurious life we have available to us.
2. Cranky libertarian who is sick of all politicians and knows team Red won’t actually fix anything, and that team Blue will actually break everything as fast as they can, so I guess I should grudgingly support Red.
3. well… three should not be discussed too openly in case Preet ever comes back to power, but if persona three ever got the infinity stones a lot of expensive real estate would become very very cheap.
As one of (((1/2))) l fully support Trump knowing that I am eligible for a space lazer.
Speaking of QUILTBAG++
Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on sex designations on passports
None of this is real.
Oh brother 🙄
I still say, remove it entirely. There is no real reason for it to be there, and removing it will quickly reveal what this is really all about.
I was expecting Thailand…
Much as it pains me some jury nullification I support.
Jury acquits D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Good. That seemed excessive to me.
It was. They could have charged him with something reasonable and got a conviction.
Probably not in DC.
You know who hardest hit
Today, there’s no pandemic. The economy is officially strong. Unemployment hovers around 4 percent, and GDP growth remains steady at roughly 2 to 3 percent. By conventional measures, the recovery is complete. Yet more than 455,000 women — including more than 300,000 Black women — have left the workforce since January.
They didn’t leave because they wanted to. They were pushed out by policy choices, corporate inflexibility and a political climate that makes balancing caregiving and paid work nearly impossible.
This isn’t a market failure; it’s a man-made crisis.
Return-to-office mandates have rolled back the flexibility that once made it possible for many women to work and care for their families simultaneously. Public-sector layoffs, especially in education and health services, are hitting women hardest.
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The U.S. knows how to address this. Paid family and medical leave, affordable child care, pay equity and flexible work policies are proven to keep women in the labor force and strengthen the economy.
We can’t say we don’t know how to fix this. The pandemic was proof of concept. When we invest in care, make flexibility standard and value women’s labor, the economy flourishes.
Hire the handicapped.
“invest”
“political climate”
Tapped out.
“The pandemic was proof of concept.”
Can I tap out twice?
It says something about the world we inhabit that I initially read “the pandemic was proof of concept” and thought it was quoted from some right wing conspiratorial article claiming it was the Chinese or ZPG folks testing their method for getting to Club of Rome desired population size.
I made it to “work and care for their families simultaneously”.
It’s so unfair!
There is a reason that so many companies are forcing workers to return to the office. Mostly because workers in the office get more done.
Everyone knows this. You will hear a lot of squealing that it isn’t true, but in our hearts we all know that people working from home fuck off more than people in the office. There are exceptions for sure.
I’m not saying that all remote work needs to be stopped either. It can work for some jobs for some people. But be honest.
My guess is that most of these women found out that they liked being with their kids more than the office job. They also discovered that financially it was almost a wash. The money the made working was mostly eaten up by costs of commuting, wardrobe, hiring a maid service etc. I guess for Feminism to triumph, though, those traitors need to be forced back into those jobs.
This. As someone who has spent the past 5-10 years doing a horrifying amount of remote work support…most of the claims of increased productivity from remote workers are bullshit.
The answer, as usual, is somewhere in between.
But thinking that workers will magically work harder when no one is watching is going against a lot of historical data.
It irritates me when people start arguing that remote work is better than in office work. Especially since the most staunch advocates of remote work are usually the laziest workers I know.
^This. I know there’s a strong core of remote work fans here, but I fully believe that if even the most rabid of them honestly examines their own work day they know that a part of the remote work appeal is precisely the ability to goof off when they feel like it. Good remote workers probably do get all their actual tasks finished, but the more administrative stuff tends to get slacked on.
Hell, I’m so damned lazy I’m thinking of hiring a helper to help me waste time.
I worked from home for 12 years. Twice a year I’d go into the office for a week, and marvel at how anything ever got done given the near constant interruptions. Even fucking around at home I got more done than being in the office.
I want to stay WFH. I don’t want a multistate commute.
a part of the remote work appeal is precisely the ability to goof off when they feel like it
I’ve worked from home for 15 years now and that’s not even a little true in my case.
But it’s not for everyone nor every industry.
“Paid family and medical leave, affordable child care, pay equity and flexible work policies ”
I’m surprised some companies haven’t jumped on this and started monopolizing the business. I’m guessing the tariffs have been so successful they don’t need any more incentives to flourish.
Where my brain keeps breaking is the people who say we need government subsidized day care, child care, parental leave, etc.
People no longer have even the briefest thought of considering that we’re broke. We’re out of money, we need to kill all the subsidies out there, not add to them.
It’s too abstract. They hear all sorts of doomsayers all the time, and yet they don’t experience doom. Prices go up, but since that happens downstream from the spending, and they don’t see the spending except the little bit that ‘benefits’ them, it doesn’t really feel like it’s the result of the spending, and there are pundits telling them to blame corporate greed. Rich Uncle Sugar can surely spare a few bucks for the thing I want, after all he gives it to all those big companies, foreigners, and dirty welfare recipients (a category that includes everyone else getting stuff, but never you getting stuff).
We only need the courage to tax the rich … not all rich … just the icky rich.
Duh. You just take the money from the rich people because they don’t need it.
At least they admitted it wasn’t a market failure.
The wife of one of my coworkers recently was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer despite getting her annual mammograms, most recently only a few months ago. The doctors are mystified. Not sure if they are mystified because they should have seen it earlier, or mystified because it grew so quickly. I didn’t want to pry too much. While I’m skeptical of the idea that the vaccine causes turbocancer, this case makes me wonder.
The mammograms failed?
The docs are groping for answers?
* Seriously, sorry to hear about your wife’s buddy. Cancer sucks big time.
According to my coworker, the quote from the doctor was “How did we miss this?” That could be interpreted as “It’s obvious from her earlier mammograms that there’s a problem and the radiologist missed it” or “How did it grow so fast that it wasn’t visible on the mammogram even a few months ago?” I’m not sure which interpretation is right.
While I’m skeptical of the idea that the vaccine causes turbocancer
Did you read Tonio’s link? Not a passive/aggressive ‘accusation’, just a curiosity about what your skepticism is based on, or more correctly, how deep is your skepticism? There are very plausible mechanisms for the vaccination leading to increased cancer and at least decent observational/correlation studies indicating that this is something to look at and some more clinical work, e.g. vaccine spike present in tumors in several case studies (doesn’t indicate causation of course). So while I might cast myself as ‘skeptical’ of the casual link, I’d be using skeptical as possible but as of yet unproven. But to me mind just as likely (if not more so) than not.
There’s video of a talk by Kevin McKernan on DNA contamination that touches on oncogenic risks from a recent conference. I don’t think it’s available outside of Malone’s substack (linked), at least I haven’t found it or other talks from that conference elsewhere.
I did read it. One reason I’ve been skeptical is that I just don’t see a mechanism for it. That article is the first time I’ve seen some of the ideas put forward.
“studies indicating that this is something to look at and some more clinical work,”
This is the point that gets me. My wife is completely convinced that the covid (& some other) vaccines are causing turbocancers. Me, not as much. BUT, there has been a rise in cancers and the establishment’s response is “shut up.”
At the very least, wouldn’t it be worth a study to see if there is an increase or it’s just an artifact? And, if it’s for real, an examination of possible mechanisms? But no, it’s head-in-the-sand time again.
There have been a lot of things worth studying that have been shouted down: HCQ, Ivermectin, turbo-cancers. I’m not sold on any of them, but the vehemence with which they are attacked makes me suspicious.
To you and Putrid – I wonder if this is the reason I suddenly saw this in the WSJ.
Operation Warp Speed Aimed at Covid and Hit Cancer
See, it’s not all bad!!!!!!
The cancers correlated with vaccines are largely colon, pancreatic, breast, lymphomas. That maybe has to do with bio-distribution. Here’s some discussion. Not very much detail added (and don’t tell Ozzy sp? about the p-values!), but one can find links to the original work there.
I’m very glad to see that this sort of question is now become possible; the work has been done for many years, but largely ignored or actively suppressed and still largely is. Hopefully, we can get a real answer and it will turn out to be wrong.
I can’t believe it took more than thirty minutes to kick that assault with a deadly sandwich case out.
In some different places they’d get a conviction.
Today Trump signed an EO making Ozempic and related drugs coved by Medicaid/Medicare. Didn’t the Dems want this? Yet another thing they were for until Trump said something.
While I hate those drugs, I am now convinced they are the only hope for my eldest (and countless like her). She has absolutely no interest in taking care of her health. But she could be convinced to get a shot once a month, and now her Medicaid covers it. Too bad she ran off with that guy she met on the Internet.
Look at Mr. Big Gym hating on the Ozempic!
Guilty as charged.
My work health plan is going to start covering it next year for obesity. From memory, you needed to have a BMI of 32+ and enter a counseling program (that is free, and already available to us) for weight loss.
Personally, I’m slightly worried about long term side effects that may start cropping up, so I’ll avoid it.
Is there a warning as to the side affects?
The side effects do worry me. But my SIL had been handling my kid’s health care, and she convinced me that those side effects are worth the risk for someone who has absolutely no control over her eating. Last check my kid weighed 350, and now that she’s out on her own I don’t even want to think about how much candy and fast food she’s eating every day.
There are already short term side effects; loss of lean mass (which is not good for long term health outcomes), intestinal damage. It seem they are a short term possible aid in learning how to manage food intake, both quantity and quality. Expecting them to be a long term solution is a fools errand.
I think Ben Bikman has some of the best takes on it: method of action, risks and optimal use. This is also a good one (lots of repeat information) on the later topic.
I’d be more worried about how much it would make my rates go up.
Look at Mr. Big Gym hating on the Ozempic!
He’s the one who wants to be with you.
Won’t anyone think of the Indians?
Proggie article about THE U of M not getting that sweet full tuition from Indian international students anymore.
I can top that. There’s some apartments being foreclosed on downtown. There were stories that the foreclosures were due to Trump causing foreign students to not enroll in CSU.
Later stories showed that there had been growing vacancies in the building, costly renovations, and a floating loan that had an interest rate jump up recently. But it was Trump what done it!
Dot, or feather?
Either way, I won’t think of them.
What a coincidence.
I’m feeling kind of inconsonance myself this afternoon.
I was just feeling incontinent.
*strolls by with an insouciant sneer
It’s a shitty feeling.
Try feeling invowels instead.
What should be plainly obvious
Plainly stated, the creation of “minority opportunity districts” under the Voting Rights Act directly corresponds to the creation of Democratic-leaning districts. This practice violates the Equal Protection Clause by presuming uniform political behavior within racial groups, while simultaneously evading scrutiny by invoking the Voting Rights Act as a shield.
Legislatures and commissions thus manipulate racial data not to protect minority representation, but to secure predictable partisan outcomes. Traditional redistricting criteria — such as compactness, respect for communities of interest, and geographic coherence — are systematically subordinated to racial considerations.
Just because race influences political outcomes doesn’t mean that all people of one skin color should be grouped into a geographical region by the political strategists in charge of redistricting. Reducing people to racial voting blocs isn’t progress, it’s regression dressed up in moral language. When politicians treat my skin color as a political forecast, they deny the very individuality the civil rights movement fought to affirm.
Unfortunately, it seems to work. I think we all know what would happen if black people were popularly believed to vote Republican.
Re Ozempic, willpower, weight loss, etc etc etc
I’m fat. Don’t like the body positivity movement because I don’t want to look at fat people, either. We are not pretty, and I like looking at pretty things.
I ALSO don’t want to excuse anybody for not at least TRYING to lose weight the old fashioned way, which they will only do if they have something driving them.
I ALSO don’t want to start blaming it all on factors outside of the fat person’s control, because that might be a part of it, but rarely the whole of it.
I ALSO don’t want to pay for this shit for other people.
HOWEVER.
That food pyramid was the worst thing to ever happen to public health, and it all came about via fraud. Fat bad. Sugar good. And suddenly we’ve got a nation of rolly-pollies who don’t know how to cook and no idea what they were taught was wrong headed for diabetes.
Now, one can say, “Oh, hey, people before 1967 could control themselves.”
Bullshit. That’s what Mommy’s Little Helper was for, not to mention the occasional finger down the throat. June Cleaver wasn’t keeping house, cooking three meals a day, baking cakes, and dressing in pearls to do so without the chemical assistance to keep her figure trim.
Throw in legit factors like genetics, other health factors (hormones, pregnancy, menopause, PCOS), abuse/trauma responses, addiction, and things start getting messy. Yes, they’re real. No, I’m not going to handwave it away like it doesn’t matter.
I have lost all my excess weight 3 times by dieting and exercising. I have gained it all back three times and am once again pushing my peak weight. It requires a lifestyle change as total as any Christian rebirth to lose really serious obesity and keep it off. I am also doctor and drug phobic so I have not touched Ozempic because I just don’t trust it not to turn out that it causes something awful down the road. But all of that said, I’d never criticize anyone else for using it, because the whole, “just show some will power” thing assumes everyone faces the same temptations, and they just don’t.
“Oh, hey, people before 1967 could control themselves.”
Food was more expensive relative to income. People were more physically active. Lots of people smoked.
Air conditioning is another factor.
Oh, yes, I forgot about the smoking. Also, coffee.
Agreed, but JC, wasnt real
I just love the smell of wElL aCkShUaLlY in the afternoon links. 🙄
If we could just stop rich people and corporations from stealing so much money from the government we’d have plenty for stuff like free universal health care and free universal child care and free universal food care and free universal education care.
If we could just stop progs from breathing so much air we could live in libert… wait, all of a sudden the Theocratic Party, the Farmer’s Blood and Soil Party, and The Wall Street Plutocracy Party are the problem, damned human nature.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/XGoZW8eAKs
Nuke it from orbit.
Nooooooope.
Look at all these Tonio comments! Nice to see you around!
Croesus wept
Tesla announced Thursday that shareholders had voted to approve the biggest pay package in corporate history for CEO Elon Musk, in a deal worth up to $1 trillion over 10 years if the company meets a list of benchmarks such as selling 1 million humanoid robots.
Over 75% of shareholders voted in favor of the pay package, said Brandon Ehrhart, the company’s general counsel, as Tesla shareholders gathered in person and virtually for their annual meeting.
They’re going to have to use one of those giant posterboard checks to fit all the zeroes.
Imagine how many free bus rides that can buy.
None, but tons of money to the connected GovSec union bosses.
The proposal resulted in some opposition, including from Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, which noted that Musk’s new shares would dilute existing shares.
“While we appreciate the significant value created under Mr. Musk’s visionary role, we are concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk- consistent with our views on executive compensation,” the fund’s manager, Norges Bank Investment Management, said in a statement.
I guess we can expect them to sell off their shares now.
Cool lady! Mazda bought her car.
Goodbye RX-7: Saying farewell to a dear friend
Japan has programs and support to let seniors give up their driver’s license while still living independently.
My company’s 401K plan is managed by Empower, which today sent out the following Thanksgiving-related email:
Um, how much fast-food are you going to get for that $31.68?
I picked up one of those 3-pound Butterball pressed turkey breast things for $11.99 this year, and that will be enough for three dinners for Dad and me. Granted, that has no bones unlike the whole bird. But the idea that you’re saving by switching to fast food? Really?
It’s marketing crap that all financial services companies put out.
Don’t pay it too much mind.