Finals preview?
The Aussie Open draw is out. I thought Joker was banned from the country. So I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that. We got football playoffs this weekend!!! I guess that’s pretty much it. Moving on…
I guess this headline could be accurate. Of course, they could always hold him accountable and then everybody else too. Unless this person doesn’t believe everyone should be treated the same. Which is what I gathered from the piece.
While Trump’s retention of hundreds of documents and attempts to thwart their transfer to the National Archives as required by law appears more serious at this stage
Nevermind. This analyst isn’t serious.
Suddenly
Wow, talk about “suddenly.” Or are we still not supposed to talk about “suddenly?”
Let the riots begin! Or has the black community tired of this grifter? We will have to wait and see.
Read the room, dumbass. Unfortunately for them, almost everybody on Team Blue came out touting this before they gauged the public reaction. And now they’re quickly walking it back.
When you’re right, you’re right. I think these dumbasses are overplaying their hand and are about to see the pendulum swing the other way. Let’s see if I’m right.
Good for them. This should be resisted by every single person who respects the constitution and the Supreme Court’s decisions on the matter.
Another idiot
And then there were three. I can’t wait to see this primary bloodbath. It’s gonna be fantastic.
Bring on the jobs! I hope it’s gonna be staffed by people who are already here though. We’ve imported enough California crazies.
Man, that guitar…just amazing. And if that wasn’t enough, here’s another great one. Enjoy them both. RIP to a master.
Now go out there and have a great Thursday, dear friends.
“Or has the black community tired of this grifter? We will have to wait and see.”
Was it ever the black community?
Not as a monolith. Like any demographic supercateogry, the imputed members were actually part of myriad smaller communities with no connection to the larger census category.
It looked like BLM was mostly white people.
I could have been more specific and said “the paid actors and bused in protesters who are prone to burn shit down on command,” I suppose. But that’s just wishful thinking. They’re showing up either way.
Let me amend that: I hope the rooftop Koreans show up as well as the usual suspects.
Still thinking of that video of the regular black protestors trying to stop Antifa goons from breaking shit and causing trouble.
Put the First in the coconut…
… and weep as you find yourself not only second, but with no topical input which means you wouldn’t really have counted even if you weren’t potato-blocked?
You aren’t going to save the world bitching about politics. But Firsting? That’s the stuff of change. Every First prepares the way for The First.
“This should be resisted by every single person who respects the constitution and the Supreme Court’s decisions on the matter.”
I’m thinking that’s a small minority in Illinois, unfortunately.
It might be a majority outside of the Chicagoland area though. Which is a pretty large area.
But land doesn’t deserve a vote. Only people, and only the right-thinking people.
That’s Democracy!
It’s the food makers versus the food eaters.
I know who I’m siding with.
“The governor’s office confirmed Wednesday that the proposal — which Hochul couched in language about helping “residents struggling with high electric bills” — applied to residential, commercial and mixed-use buildings, with no exceptions.”
Because increasing demand for electricity will lower its price?
She really is an amazing combination of idiocy and psychopathy.
They’ll make up for it on volume!
The price will be lowered by subsidies to Approved Groups ™. The California model, after all.
Brownouts for all!
Geez… are we going to get every slimeball in CA going for Feinstein’s seat? What’s next, that creep state senator Weiner?
This primary will be so fun to watch. It’s gonna be an absolute bloodbath.
It would be even more enjoyable if that was literal and not figurative.
Maybe it is like one of those stings that the cops run? Where they send out letters to crooks telling them they won a prize and when they show up, they are arrested.
Maybe the plan is to get all these slimeballs on stage somewhere for a debate and then gas them all?
I had assumed that she was going to drop dead, or they’d admit that she’s completely incompetent due to Alzheimer’s. Then Newsome would replace her with himself unless he’s running for President.
Read the room, dumbass. Unfortunately for them, almost everybody on Team Blue came out touting this before they gauged the public reaction. And now they’re quickly walking it back.
“hot water heaters” – to paraphrase George Carlin, why do you need to heat already hot water?
Because otherwise, it becomes cold water.
Because your French maid boiling the water for your bath should be a hottie…
+1 Skinemax Friday Midnight Movie
French maids are all good for you imperialist Americans robbing the world of resources, I can barely afford Lithuanian maids.
*sad trombone*
I’m not seeing the problem here.
Such torture!
Well, you stupid fucks voted for her.
No, I did not.
well you should vote harder next time
No stupid folks of any type here. So clearly not referring to Glibs.
It’s like you haven’t read my posts at all…
/kicks pebble, hurts toe
*walks by pointing and laughing, then trips over a bike rack and facials into the sidewalk*
A big reason I’m black pilled right now is Hochul and Whitmer getting the stamp of approval. Makes utterly no sense to me after their actions over the past couple of years.
Gavin too, of course — but that was more obvious when he bribed the voters to get out of the recall.
Ok, SDF, step away from your computer. Go outside of your house, talk to a few of your neighbors. Go down to the nearest bar, preferably during daytime, talk to the denizens there.
The world is full of people that aren’t anything like this group. And yes, they do actually vote for people – left, right and center – that none of us would ever vote for (even if they were running against Stalin). They really do.
Hey, I’m just heartened by my neighbors across the street everytime I step outside. They installed a flagpole shortly after they bought the place… and there’s a Let’s Go Brandon flag right under the Stars and Stripes. My little corner of the Central Valley is getting more blue all the time thanks to Modesto (and I suspect folks getting sick of the crap and moving out), but I know there’s still some sanity.
But having a governor who literally tried to prevent you from growing food in a garden for two years re-elected is bloody depressing.
Your Own Personal Ray of Sunshine
Heh… thanks, your Holiness. They needed a little more of her expression at the end to really clinch it, but it was cute.
I have a boatload of Republican voters around me – doesn’t mean they are smart voters.
Me too. At least they won’t try to kill me for disobedience.
I think the fact that the world is full of people who actually vote for the likes of Hochul and Whitmer is why he is black pilled.
It makes perfect sense when you realize the urban proletariat want to be ruled as long as the rulers are Top Men.
The Machine is real and devastatingly successful – to the point that 99% of voters are just voting for a single letter.
^^^ THIS
Case in point…
Attorney General Dave Yost to receive pension funds atop annual salary
He’s from the party of “responsible” and “small” government, and wants to “cut spending”.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Well, okay, hate the player too.
County exec convicted of corruption receives pension while in prison
I can hate both.
But if people didn’t vote for the democrat, a republican might win!
There are all sorts of things Republicans could theoretically do. They must be stopped at all cost.
They’re going to push grandma off a cliff to save on cat food costs!
I hear that a Republican appearing on the ballot is a threat to democracy.
Well, they are gong to put black people in chains, women in binders, and dogs on car roofs.
*insert Mr T image*
“women in binders”
That’s the Democrats now.
France’s government outlines plans to raise retirement age despite years of pushback
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/france-macron-to-push-for-pension-reform-again-despite-potential-strikes.html
“France’s legal retirement age is currently 62 — lower than many developed markets, including much of Europe and the U.S. The public sector also has “special regimes,” or sector-specific deals that allow workers to retire before they’re 62.
In late 2019, Macron’s government proposed a single, points-based system, which enabled a person to retire once they had gained a certain number of points. The idea was a harmonization of the rules across sectors.
But the plan was met with uproar. Public sector workers — arguably the ones with the most to lose from potential reforms — protested for several days in some of the country’s biggest strikes in decades.”
Ah yes why would the kings men want to renounce their privileged and be like the plebs. Apparently the only European country with a unified pension system and no special pensions is Sweden. Romania has among the most.
Pensions are like other government programs. Promise benefits to the current generation to be paid by future generations.
yes but in the current generation some are pigs some are other livestock
I saw a random accusation… anyone know the details.
Apparently Biden was working at a university during his down time after being veep. He collected a 7 figure paycheck. A paycheck funded by that think tank. The one with the classified documents. And the one funded by the Vhinese government.
So
Biden’s salary was quite literally coming from the CCP.
Is that right? How can that be right and nobody in the press reported it during the campaign? How is that not a big story?
I am sure it can’t be right where would the world come to
People like Anderson Cooper and Chuck Todd still mention people from foreign countries staying in a Trump hotel as proof of corruption and foreign influence.
What is going on? Our president was taking bribes from Ukrainian oil companies and Chinese companies and nobody cares… and now we find out his million dollar salary was being paid by the Chinese government? This can’t be real, can it? Tell me we don’t live in this world.
I mean, I did watch as the nation gushed over Mario Cuomo as the hero of Covid 19, even as he ordered covid patients into nursing homes, killing thousands. So a nation of Cuomosexuals could believe literally anything…
I just….
I just can’t believe that this is reality, I suppose.
Believe it.
Your Own Personal Ray of Sunshine
I can’t get over the carpet. That shit needs replaced.
he ordered covid patients into nursing homes, killing thousands
The J6 of COVID narratives.
We live in this world.
Dammit
The (D) party affiliation. And yeah, that’s what I read too. “Visiting professor” at Penn, Penn think tank office, Chinese “grants” in a very large amount.
And I’d be willing to bet DC as a whole is awash with such money… deeper swill than the Potomac could carry away.
Am I crazy?
Didn’t I live through a world where colluding with a foreign government was the worst thing possible…. and even taking a meeting with someone from Russia was proof that you were treasonous? Even if you didn’t take the meeting yourself, but someone in the campaign took the meeting…. that was all the proof you need.
But million dollar checks are fine?
Am I crazy? – who isn’t round here
Fair point
Yup… but only because that was for Disapproved Groups ™.
I mean, I thought things were nuts when the impeachment started over OMB maybe threatening to cut off aid in the phone call, but there’s Nothing To See HERE! when Biden is on f’ing video bragging about doing it to get his son’s connected cronies off the hook.
So at this moment, we’re probably screwed, look after you and yours best you can and accept that the supposed gatekeepers are corrupt lying assholes.
This is me black pilled. 😛
You mean this press coverage?
Which just happened to come from anonymous donations from China.
You’ll also remember how much the left hated dark money, until they got better at it than the right. You never hear the left complaining about it these days.
“We need to get the money out of politics by overturning Citizens United”
Oh. That clears it up.
The multimillion dollar cost of the Biden center was entirely covered by 1,100 dollars in donations.
I also like how they keep emphasizing that the documents were found in a locked closet.
Locked.
Definitely locked, that closet.
Locked doors are impenetrable. Just ask the aliens from the movie Signs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5KzBJ42r4
I’ve seen them complain about dark money, but only in relation to the right. Their dark money is grants, NGO donations, and non-profit donations, which is completely different from that filthy dark money that the right receives from CORPORATE FUNDED grants, NGO donations, and non-profits.
That’s some pretty fucking thin soup.
Good enough to launder some money.
That must be it. Penn received no other donations during that time.
Perhaps Penn just shouldn’t accept “anonymous” Chinese donations? Fungibility and all that.
The donations aren’t anonymous. Penn knows exactly who they are. The question is, why do they feel that the identities are something they need to hide? HInt: The answer is exactly what you think it is.
Supplanting is real.
If the CCP says – this money is contingent on Pudding Cup getting his position, office, etc – and Penn takes it…
And that’s what happened? That smoking gun is missing from the article.
What legitimate reason would the CCP have for donating money to an American State University?
The CCP donates a shit ton of money to academia throughout the Western world. There have been a number of scandals related to it.
Anything coming out of academia on the subject of China is highly suspect to me.
Nor has this been shown to be CCP or even CCP linked money.
It isn’t the Biden Office of the Confucius Institute at Penn.
As with Hunter’s “enterprises” – why else would foreign governments pour so much money, so close to Joe Biden? Just coincidentally, of course.
“We Bidens are just lucky that way.”
Obama’s campaign taught them that they could tap into vast sums of money from outside the US.
Nah, that’s the paper that did the bogus Hunter Biden laptop story.
+1 Emoluments Clause
“She added that the talk would lead to the deaths of trans people.”
Of course she did.
Yeah, that line jumped out at me too. Every criticism of these idiots is always “You’re killing me / them / us!” One can only hope that it is becoming as threadbare as “Racist!”.
Of course, what’s really sad is I think a lot of these useful idiots actually believe that. Well, if the global downturn really kicks in and some sizable fat starts being cut, I expect the tolerance for this crap will go out the window… and that’s my optimistic side speaking. 😛
Words are literally violence now, so if you say the wrong things enough it will definitely kill people.
“Even his presentation is a killing word(s)!”
Isn’t the number one cause of violent death amongst the trans community other members of the trans community?
I doubt that.
Really? I thought at the very least violent crimes amongst that community was perpetrated by fellow members in the form of domestic violence. Seems reasonable to assume that most murders happen in group. I have a very difficult time believing that roving bands of tranny haters are out and about murdering trans people. It would make national headlines all day, every day.
Trannies have not traditionally lived clean, wholesome lifestyles. I’d imagine there is a very high number, relatively speaking, engaged in sex work and who are heavily using drugs. It’s almost as if they aren’t the most stable of individuals or something. That’s why they are more at risk. It isn’t roving gangs of tranny murderers.
Well, first off, “the trans community ” fwiw isn’t geographical. There aren’t trans neighborhoods.
Most domestic violence isn’t fatal, and most trans people do not have trans partners.
I’m not saying there are roving bands of trans haters are out and about murdering trans people. Last I checked, only counting murders as violent deaths (otherwise it would be car accidents), the number one cause is drug dealing, followed by armed robbery.
I would expect, based on approximately zero data, that suicide is the number one cause of death amongst the transers, so that might technically be correct.
That still wouldn’t be “other members of the trans community”.
Well now I’m trying to find some raw data on the subject but so far DDG’s search engine is bringing nothing up expect salacious TRANS PEOPLE ARE BEING KILLED EVERYWHERE articles.
Or themselves.
Suicide?
I think you’re trying to say the murder of trans people is almost always linked to sex work, if I am remembering correctly (maybe).
“Ana de Armas buys $7M home in rural Vermont”
https://pagesix.com/2023/01/11/ana-de-armas-buys-7-million-home-in-vermont/
She should pose naked drenched in maple syrup to celebrate. Like that Ohio Players album.
maybe she want to start a duck and goose farm.
A mansion with 30 acres in rural Vermont? Maybe she’s doing a Garbo impersonation “I want to be alone”.
It says she is dating the VP of Tinder.
I wonder how they met?
An old Chinese matchmaker negotiated it with their parents.
/aiming for the unexpected.
I gotta say, if I was a single executive at Tinder, I would absolutely put something in the code that made sure my profile came up for every highly desirable and wealthy celebrity.
Church.
Who?
She has 32 acting credits. Most notably in No Time to Die, Knives Out, and Blonde.
She’s probably also making bank modeling. It’s a nice life if you win the genetic lottery.
Holographic love interest of a Replicant.
You forgot “totally naked”.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My kids got a puppy for Xmas one year but it was early by a few days. I let them chose the one they wanted from 4-5, they picked the runt, because it was so little. The dog (a Weimeraner ) grew up to be huge. That’s the last and only dog I ever had as an adult.
That’s so sweet I am now diabetic.
Thanks, Holiness!
No.
Claire Celsi
@SenClaireCelsi
Public money is for public schools.
Boomer Libertarian Norm
@Timberati
Great. Now do everything else:
Food stamps may be spent at only government stores.
Medi-Care can only be provided at government run hospitals.
Section 8 housing must be built and operated by government bureaucrats.
Pell Grants may only be used to go to state schools.
https://twitter.com/Timberati/status/1613360267202793475
I mean don’t give them ideas
Oh hell… we’re going to have a shortage of paper towels as all the statists have to clean up now from the mass simultaneous orgasms they just had.
“Hunter Biden walked up to the mother of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) at the White House state dinner honoring French President Emmanuel Macron last month, telling the 82-year-old she looked “beautiful,” according to a report.
President Biden’s son was among the first of the guests to arrive at the lavish function, and among the few other early arrivals were McCarthy and his mother Roberta, according to a New York Times report on Wednesday. Despite the California Republican’s vows to investigate Hunter and his father, the first son and his wife approached McCarthy and his mother, and the two men shook hands, according to the news outlet.
“Mrs. McCarthy, you look beautiful,” Hunter Biden told Roberta McCarthy, a person who was present told the New York Times.”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/12/what-hunter-biden-told-kevin-mccarthys-mom-at-white-house-state-dinner/
I agree with Barnes on this. McCarthy only cares about one thing and that’s being in charge. He’s completely for sale.
I don’t think you get that job if you aren’t.
Did she pepper-spray him?
No? Talk about your missed opportunities…
I like the classics – stick him with a hat pin while yelling “FRESH!”
“George Santos!11!! SCANDAL! WiDeNiNg RiFtS!!”
This Is CNN.
George Santos lies are completely ridiculous (and funny). None of them are particularly dangerous to Americans, although he did just get in to congress.
Yeah he really does seem to be championship-level liar. I say keep him around and see what he does. It’s not like he can do that much damage in two years. Better that opening up the possibility of electing a fucking Democrat.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/01/12/we-now-know-what-caused-the-faa-outage-n2618204 — so, they mistakenly hired Little Bobby Tables, you think?
‘Orning ‘Ordles — back to “Meh!”, back to reality…
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Brain not working this morning.
Parents slam ‘draconian’ school rules that ban all physical contact between pupils
Hylands School in Chelmsford will no longer allow pupils to hug or hold hands in an attempt to prevent romantic relationships from forming – which the school says they “do not allow”.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/parents-slam-draconian-school-rules-that-ban-all-physical-contact-between-pupils-085636088.html
Well, probably better than free condoms in the restrooms….
Just say it is because of COVID and the parents will cheer.
“Life ^W A teenager… um…. finds a way.”
will no longer allow pupils to hug
That is eye opening.
Careful — Swiss might decide to lash out at you for that one.
Don’t be cilia, Swiss loves this banter.
A narrowed gaze will cataract this.
None of that! It might lead to Dancing!
The rest of their policies should be put under a magnifying lens.
What if students identify as a gender thar likes kissing in the hallway?
*narrows gaze*
Being the UK, they will probably start expelling female students seen walking down the hall with a male that is not a family member.
Of course, being the UK, the female can just tell them she identifies as male and all will be well again.
Despite all of the wonderful suggestions for use of the ground lamb, I’ve cooked it in a pan with rendered down salami chunks, dosed with some seasoning, then separated it from the pool of grease and added red sauce.
dosed with some seasoning – homeopathic doses one assumes
I’m not cooking for you, I’m cooking for me, it was parsley, oregano, and a berbere spice mix.
Thumbs up!
OK, who was it that said he would render it inedible? One of you did.
It had gotten too old to be used in lamb-forward applications. It was either cook it now and bury it in a sauce or throw it away.
Today, in for the children:
“Republicans pass their first abortion bill requiring doctors to provide medical care for babies who survive attempted abortions – with 210 Democrats voting against”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11624915/Republicans-push-anti-abortion-measures-new-majority.html
“Anger as sixth-graders are photographed practicing pole dancing at STRIP CLUB after field trip to Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Pizza restaurant was full so pupils were moved next door to club”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11626291/School-district-fire-photos-surface-sixth-graders-practicing-pole-dancing.html
It takes a village to be a sociopath.
I blame the patriarchy
Republicans pass their first abortion bill requiring doctors to provide medical care for babies who survive attempted abortions
Dr Northam has a sad.
Then idiots in Congress need to not fuck around passing abortion laws. Leave it to the states.
What a pack of morons.
I’m past the black-pill point.
The only thing past that is outright Nihilism. You weren’t the one I’d guess would come out as a Nihilist first.
The rug is what probably pushed him over the edge. When you see a rug that really brings a room together, it changes you.
If that means not having delusions about human beings and their behavior, so be it.
They’re paid to create political strife. Just like the idiots with the gas stove nonsense.
There are factions that are heavily invested in bringing the US low. And the only way to do that is for the US to destroy itself.
I guess I would need to click on the article to learn more, but what is the argument for not requiring care to a baby who survives an abortion?
Old Man,
Next DIE training, suggest that ageism is an ignored and disregarded system of oppression. Demand that they respect your years of lived experience.
A public hearing in Debrecen was disturbed by the booing and yelling of the residents of the Eastern Hungarian city. Representatives of the Chinese CATL battery manufacturer and the mayor of Debrecen attended the event to present a 7.4bn EUR investment to the locals. According to index.hu, the new CATL plant would be inaugurated in 2025. László Papp, the city’s mayor (Fidesz-KDNP), said the development would not threaten the locals but create a large number of new workplaces. However, many disagree that the investment will be beneficial for Hungary’s second-biggest city. A big crowd started to boo at the public hearing the moment a CATL representative began his speech
https://dailynewshungary.com/video-scandal-in-debrecen-chinese-investors-booed/
nimby everywhere
“CATL” … heh.
Mooooo.
President Joe Biden’s embarrassment over classified documents found in his former offices is spiraling into a major political crisis that threatens to undermine the case for Donald Trump to be charged for his own hoarding of secret material.
Trump could declassify at will. Brandon could not.
Remember that both are exempt from ‘mishandling’ of classified material under the NSA of ’47 (per the Bush & Obama EOs).
Hence the tortured application of the Espionage Act and trying to frame the stories that Trump had nuclear secrets or such.
Nephilium, kinnath, & robc (along with all the other glib brewers): have you guys ever made a batch of ancient Mesopotamian beer?
I hear that takes ages.
Just do what Enkidu…
Ur, maybe you’re right.
“Gimmie a mug o’ ale!”
Get drunk off your tits and run around causing trouble? Don’t mind if I do!
Brewing Mesopotamian Beer – 4,000 Years Old
Fun mix of history and food with very little current politics. Which is good because I doubt Max and I share much in common there. Max got laid off by Disney during the plague and started a YouTube channel. So roughly 3 years and 1.5m subs.
Thanks Sensei, I’d seen it. I was asking more out of curiosity than anything else, since even had I wanted to, I don’t have the room.
I can’t stand Max’s voice. It’s too irritating to listen to for me to finish any of his videos.
I haven’t. I’ve had a couple of the Dogfish Head Ancient Ales which went from gods awful to interesting (but pricey).
No, I have not
kinnath – thanks.
Neph – it sounds as if the ancients had similar choices as moderns. Cheap & crappy to Good but pricey.
With one big exception, there wasn’t distribution, so whatever style was made in your area is what you drank. Some… are just strange.
I have reproduce recipes from the late middle ages. But I have never done ancient recipes.
No.
Hunter Brown, 21, was leaving his dormitory for class on Monday when he suffered the unnamed emergency. Academy first responders were called and attempted life-saving measures but they were unsuccessful.
I suppose their is a reason that we are deviating from the term “cardiac event”.
Minnesoda is going to pay double what a new building would cost to renovate a govt office building from the 1930’s. Nothing left to cut.
Yes, but then they couldn’t funnel as much money to their preferred cronies now could they? Priorities, people! Priorities!
That’s oddly specific.
It was describing a building that they just built in Minneapolis for about the same price.
The state did? Or a private developer? Because I’m sure a state ran building project would blow way more.
“It’s unclear what role the physical struggle with the officers and the use of the Taser played in his unfortunate death,” Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“We can’t decide if a taser should be considered a deadly weapon or not.”
In the hands of a perp, it’s a dangerous weapon. In the hands of a pig, it’s non lethal and if you do die after being tased, chalk it up to COVID
Hochul’s plan would ban gas stoves, hot water heaters and oil furnaces in both new home and commercial construction by the end of the decade.
These lizard person cuntes hate you and wnat you dead.
Book value… legit LOL. Do you want to know the book value of my coin collection? My Franklin Mint collectibles?
FTX Says It Has Located More Than $5 Billion in Cash, Liquid Assets
Just how big are their couch cushions, anyway?
That is a ten
I believe they have a Mint In Box complete House of Representatives set they can pawn off to someone in the DC area…
“I, among many others, believe that HB 5471 is a clear violation of the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution,” said Kankakee County Sheriff Mike Downey. “Therefore, as the custodian of the jail and chief law enforcement official for Kankakee County, that neither myself nor my office will be checking to ensure lawful gun owners register their weapons with the state, nor will we be arresting or housing law abiding individuals that have been charged solely with non-compliance of this Act.”
Sounds like some sheriff-surrection.
lawful gun owners register their weapons with the state, nor will we be arresting or housing law abiding individuals that have been charged solely
But we’ll keep that arrow in our quiver to deal with icky people who deserve to be in jail.
Those are rural counties – if they jailed someone for this, they would be ex-officeholders the very next vote.
I’m sure the state would be willing to transfer some of Cook County’s finest to fill in.
Sanctuary county ftw.
Harry Potter books stripped of J.K. Rowling’s name are then resold by ‘bookbinder artist’
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/harry-potter-books-stripped-jk-rowling-name-resold-bookbinder-artist
The world is saved
She still gets paid for when the bookrebinder bought them.
Unless they are bookstore returns. Don’t they usually tear off the cover and return thar, and discard the rest?
In which case she’s committing theft and should be prosecuted.
I think of it like this:
If you bought Microsoft Office, made a version with all mention of Microsoft removed, then resold it – you would get a knock on the door. No different here.
Look up the principal of first sale. A physical object, containing copyrighted material, once lawfully sold may be resold, even if modified. Unless she is claiming to be the creator of the copyrighted material within, rebinding and reselling a lawfully purchased book is still perfectly legal. A lot of corporate copyright holders would rather it not be, but it is.
In a digital realm where you’re creating additional copies instead of transferring ownership of your limited number of lawful copies, things are different.
*principle
*bleep*in hell, man, my brain ran faster than my typing.
Um… this strikes me as an excellent way to be sued into oblivion. Might as well sign up for an article highlighting how you’re removing Nintendo’s logo from Super Mario or something…
Seems he’s only doing it to second-hand books as a contract service. He might be in the clear, but it would amuse me to no end to see him get smacked hard.
Also that’s a potential lawsuit. Which I hope succeeds.
Sunk costs you dum-dums. If JK Rowling upsets you that much, do not buy or watch any Harry Potter in the future.
In response to talk about how to play tonight’s movie. Besides streaming, you can download it, then either put it on a USB stick and stick that stick in your TV, or play it with VLC or some other player on you computer and connect it to your TV with an HDMI cable.
VLC also supports rendering over WiFi.
In my experience, VLC will render anything on any device. You can play a windows media format wrapped QuickTime video stored on a pocket full of twigs and lint on that thing.
Not a ‘classic’ but maybe my favorite Jeff Beck song. He just lets it rip. On my cardio workout mix.
https://youtu.be/6BhBMlQgvSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9bnaqqfq8
Rick Beato on Beck 3 months ago.
Also, Tal was 23 when she started playing bass for Beck. Amazing.
You scared, bro?
Adam Schiff is not happy…
“The greatest terrorist threat to our country comes from violent right wing militia groups and their sympathizers, and Republicans in Congress just don’t care.”
If only saying it would make it so.
Seems to me that if they were such a threat, Schiff wouldn’t be plaguing us anymore.
As it is, they’re a complete disappointment.
How do I sign up for one of these groups? Is there a national number I can dial in to the FBI or do I have to search for a Fed locally?
He has like 47 intelligence agencies willing to support his assertion.
“I think there’s only a couple of guys up there, and this asshole is one of them”
https://clip.cafe/silverado-1985/i-think-theres-just-a-couple-o-guys-up-there-and-asshole-one-of-them/
Qyick note:
We are a couple of weeks into a world where we have documented proof of a huge scheme within the federal government to control the speech of Americans….
And apparently we are done with that.
Astonishing. 1984 actually happening. And nobody cares even a little bit.
If you’re waiting for the federal government to hold itself accountable, that’s not going to happen.
What is happening though is a sizable segment of the populace is becomingly increasingly red-pilled and doesn’t believe a single word coming out of DC. The long-term effects of that are not going away. We’re witnessing the beginning of the end of the DC Empire.
Dude, I want some of what you’re taking.
I didn’t say it was coming soon.
It’s coming real soon, in geologic time.
We just witnessed the FedGov shut down the country for 2 years while the leaders ate at the French Laundry and took private jets for vacations they told others to avoid – and those leaders were re-elected in spades.
O say does that Star Spangled Banner yet waive, o’r the land of the free and the home of the brave? Nope.
And nobody cares even a little bit.
I care.
We’re witnessing the beginning of the end of the DC Empire.
I hope so. Civil disobedience and disobedience by state and local governments will be key.
Back to the John Glubb thing of empires lasting 10 generations before collapsing into a heap of decadence and corruption before something just pushes the rotten husk over.
Corporate journalists are enemies of the people.
Team America – World Police #1,001.
Asia, Europe Look to Collective Action to Restrain China
Naval hardware is a rather broad term and I don’t feel it’s an accurate description of the relative capabilities of US and Chinese naval capabilities. But sure…WSJ journal will print it because it further bolsters the argument for more defense spending.
Plus the hawks here love to compare quantity of ships and class of ship.
But everything I’ve read about China suggests they don’t have nearly the quality of both hardware and sailors.
OTH, we are doing our best to destroy the quality of both our hardware and sailors.
We’re already to the point where our sailors can’t steer to avoid slow moving, big honking cargo ships.
Those DEI mandates don’t fulfill themselves.
Training on pronouns and microaggressions take precedence over training on navigation!
Okay. Do they know what the “I” in BRICS stands for? I think that China will eventually calm down with neighborhood bullying and concentrate on destroying the petro-dollar.
The question is whether China does have 30,000 tons of gold as has been speculated for quite a while now. If they do, then they could destroy the petrodollar in one fell swoop, they’re just choosing not to.
I’m assuming that they could do it, but that it is a MAD scenario for them. The economic fallout from that would be brutal for everyone. It’s far easier just to buy Western politicians than it is to destroy them.
They’ve infiltrated academia. I’m assuming the media.. They probably have spies throughout our government – far more than we do in theirs They own politicians. Christ, they had a spy sleeping with a member of the foreign intelligence committee and it wasn’t even a blip in DC. Guy wasn’t even asked to step down.
Not to get too far into the weeds, but the naval situation re: US and PRC is far, far worse than you might imagine.
Basically, analogize to the mid-’30s. US/Japan positions are now PRC/US.
The situation is not recoverable. Submarines are the one spot that MIGHT not be too far gone.
I’d love to hear that argument. Something that doesn’t rely on our fundamental strategy being flawed which may well be true, but which isn’t an issue of funding or resources or inferior tech.
I’ve heard it to at military sites – don’t have time to search. Drones and hypersonic missiles make a mess of carrier groups. Nuclear attack subs are the only threat the Russians and Chinese can’t effectively deal with when operating close to their territory.
That is a fundamental issue of strategy. A strategy that won’t change no matter how much money is thrown at the problem because this shit isn’t about winning wars or national defense. It’s about keeping the gravy train rolling. You could, I suppose, argue that the US Navy has a more offensive approach to naval warfare that is highly vulnerable to the defense systems constructed by other countries.
It’s not an issue of China having superior tech, perhaps with the exception of the hypersonic missiles (which were stolen from the Russians, anyway, if I’m not mistaken). It’ snot an issue of resources. And the only solution the corrupt shits in DC will ever come up with is to shovel more money down the bottomless pit.
You aren’t developing missile defense systems that will keep those ships safe from hypersonic missiles with any real reliability. It’s a pipe dream, but a lucrative one for the defense industry.
And the WSJ wanted to paint this as a defensive issue for the US and its allies in the Pacific. The Chinese have pathetic force projection capabilities. The benefit to the US’s current arsenal is that we can project force the world over.
I’d be more concerned if we were planning an invasion of mainland China. We could still probably defend Taiwan, and China doesn’t have the power to actually threaten Japan or Australia.
I agree and it wouldn’t worry me a bit if we weren’t on verge of trying to project force into Eastern Europe and Russia’s wheelhouse.
Fast response: read the cdrsalamander blog, every day…. It’s everything – leadership, culture, decision-making, infrastructure, capabilities – EVERYTHING.
Or maybe it is because you were banging a Chinese spy, and all of you are corrupt, dishonest cuntes.
#BREAKING Rep. @ByronDonalds admits on @thereidout that @SpeakerMcCarthy is kicking me, @RepAdamSchiff, and @Ilhan off our committees purely out of vengeance.
I would accept tit for tat, a species of vengeance, as a legitimate reason. Given that the Dems stripped troublesome Repubs of committee seats, that’s how the game is played now. Unilateral disarmament never won a fight.
Every time the donks break traditions they are warned they have created a new norm that can be used against them. They always insist they were forced to by extreme circumstances that don’t apply now.
The battle cry of every child, “But it’s different when I do it!”
Swallwell should shut up and hope he doesn’t end up in front of a firing squad.
Asses ahoy on THICC Thursday!
https://archive.ph/nIvxt
I’m perfectly capable of finding young women to ogle on the internet without assistance, thank you.
You know, for a guy who calls himself a hippie and who apparently likes to get high, you are pretty uptight.
Well, he is into being triggered.
You should see me sober.
Quite the hot take from the Penguin.
Rep. Jerry Nadler: The problem with this bill is not that it makes anything , its not that it provides any new protection for infants. The problem with this bill is it endangers some infants in saying that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital. Where depending on the circumstances that may be the right thing to do for the health and survival of that infant. Or it may not. That is the problem with this bill. It directs and mandates a certain medical care which may not be appropriate which may endanger the life of the infant.
Attempting to provide lifesaving medical care to a baby endangers the life of the baby. Got it.
I wish someone would ask him for an example of that.
Ok, so he’s an idiot, but the Feds need to get out of this mandating business. (I know, laughs all around)
Concur.
Very few, if any, of these babies aren’t viable and so they won’t survive no matter what. Performing cardiac resuscitation and intubation on a preemie who isn’t going to make it regardless is cruel to all involved. Very few hospitals have either the equipment or the expertise to do so, and even if you think you do, if you are off by even a week in your estimate of the fetal age, you will be wrong. This is based on my conversations with actual OBs in a hospital with an actual NICU that is perhaps one half step below the most advanced NICUs in the country.
This also gets into who decides, the parents or the state. Once the baby is born, the parents presumptively have the right to consent to care, which includes withholding consent to care. This kind of law strips the parents of the right to give, or withhold, care, and transfers it to the state. If you don’t like vax mandates for children, you shouldn’t like these laws. It also strips medical providers of their right to agree, or not, to providing care.
These are bad laws.
Very few if any of these babies are viable. Kinda changes the whole thing.
If the parents or mother already attempted to abort the baby illegally, should they really have the right to consent to whether it receives care? They have, as far as I’m concerned, lost parental rights at that stage.
If the aborted fetus/baby isn’t viable, then it dies. Are you arguing that it’s just wasted resources? Because I don’t get what that has to do with attempting to save the child’s life.
And realistically, how many instances are there of babies being taken to hospitals/providers and being denied emergency care? How much choice is there in the first place? This is entirely about the issue of abortion to most of the people arguing against it, and their argument, which they won’t ever clearly state outright, is that if the mother said that thing should die, it should die.
Love my governor’s DUAL flag pins the photo to this article. Those virtues don’t signal all by themselves.
Why Does New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Hate Charter Schools?
Ummmm… aren’t there other ways of solving this?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20983803/husband-drinking-alcohol-last-longer-in-bed-habit/
Are you suggesting a paper bag for her head?
I’m assuming his looks are the real reason he gets zonked before sex. The premature shit is just a cover story.
How eggsquisite…not.
Eggs are the new Bitcoin.
I know the RTX 4090 Ti runs hot — but I don’t think using server racks to fry your breakfast is the answer…
No yolk!
It’s gotten ruinous. In the past 18 months, wholesale eggs here in Western NY have gone from $0.04 each to $0.50 apiece! We’re scrambling to come up with a solution as breakfast sammiches will no longer be profitable. WebDom and I have acquired a couple of coops and are going to try our hand at keeping hens.
For personal use, or to try to supply the cafe?
Farm to table is very fashionable.
I was wondering about the scale, because you’ll need more chickens to keep the restaurant in eggs than just your own table.
The real irony is they could charge more for the home-grown eggs due to the fashionability.
Damn. That wholesale price is higher than my retail price here.
For now. You’ll catch up quickly as that wholesale price pushes through to retail. Might consider a substitute. Like grifter meat.
That is the problem with this bill. It directs and mandates a certain medical care which may not be appropriate which may endanger the life of the infant.
Noe do plague shots for children.
For UCS. 🙂
Thankfully, I haven’t had signs of any rodent activity in a long time. Closing up that potential entry point on the outside seems to have been the key. They’re not getting in so I managed to kill off those trapped in the house.
You have to make sure you kill the King Rat or they will come back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZWvwaUE1E
I thought that was going to be this.
aren’t there other ways of solving this?
Have some more guys standing by to take over?
Nightmare fuel.
The real nightmare is that they don’t taste very good.
Can you eat it?
If I recall correctly, it has a strong ammonia odor and flavor.
Yes. Although rare and expensive.
Japan does love it some crab.
https://appetiteforjapan.com/2015/08/22/kani-doraku/
If this is what passes for late night comedy it is no wonder Gutfield is kicking your ass.
To be fair to late night comedy, JF was never funny on any format.
I have never understood how he became “famous”. Like you, I have never seen him do anything funny.
It is. Late night went from Letterman and Leno to that shit. At least you could watch Letterman or Leno. All I can think is that TV is subsidized by the government just like Twitter was. Because there is no way that vapid shit makes money.
Look at who the biggest advertisers are. Especially for those of us who live in what is (until recently) a swing state.
What happened to Letterman that he went from wisecracking smiley guy to grouch with the Santa beard?
Twenty years?
No longer being able to rail staff on the office couch will do that to a guy without looks or a massive car collection?
His ratings are like a quarter of Gutfeld’s – it’s hilarious. To the point where NBC is freaking out.
Oh and Colbert should sue him for stealing that shitty schtick.
It’s sad when a guy (and his 5-10 writers) are such hacks they not only cannot write their own material, but resort to swiping unfunny bits from somewhat better hacks. Colbert was at least funny in Strangers with Candy all those years ago.
Yeah, The Colbert Report was amusing for a while but that was before he turned into a CNN reporter.
Now if he tagged out as “This is CNN” that would be funny.
Having watched Gutfeld a few times, it’s “tallest midget” territory.
I hate when this stuff gets linked and it’s the official network Youtube channel hosting. Just link to someone who said fuck the copyright strike.
They’ll take those views and say we should do more of this nonsense.
Fallon sucks at his job in every which way. He tried to be apolitical as far as late night TV hosts go, got lambasted for it especially after his Trump interview, and well…now he’s unfunny and playing a progressive hack.
What is happening though is a sizable segment of the populace is becomingly increasingly red-pilled and doesn’t believe a single word coming out of DC. The long-term effects of that are not going away. We’re witnessing the beginning of the end of the DC Empire.
I wish I could believe that.
Yeah, red-pilled doesn’t really mean just vote Republican.
Do you honestly think that people who have been red-pilled over COVID, vaccines, pedos, the Twitter Files, Ukraine, the FBI, Trump, the CIA, etc… are ever going to trust the feds again?
The only question is whether they have enough of an economic interest in truly fighting back. And the conditions for that just aren’t here yet, but they’re coming. The math is inevitable.
Gell-Mann Amnesia is real. I think everyone knows that the mainstream media is lying and/or stupidly wrong about some things. They just haven’t accepted it about everything.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you
I still think it’s fishy that Biden’s own staff reported those documents both times. They could very easily keep that thing under the rug. But we’ll see what happens.
According to everyone on Twitter, Tesla is supposed to be losing tons of money and heading toward bankruptcy. Maybe people on Twitter are wrong sometimes.
Why do you think Elon is diversifying?
Let’s recap. The first batch of docs were found by lawyers that apparently were moving in to the offices that the former VP used. They discovered those in Nov – just before the election; and when did we hear about them? In the meantime, apparently hoping to run damage control but failing because the news broke – the second set is ‘discovered’.
November wasn’t just the election, it was when high profile swat raids on golf courses were being conducted.
Funny, I thought that happened way back in August.
“I’ve cooked with electric in outdoor markets — like Urbanspace — and it sucked. It takes forever, and people don’t like the results. You can’t char — it doesn’t work the same way.”
*sketches out plan for laser grill*
So I guess we’re going back to cooking with clean, carbon-neutral logs.
In the grand scheme, everything is carbon nuetral…that whole neither created nor destroyed factor…
Untrue. You will lose Carbon as the C14 decays.
Okay sorry…after 5500 years or so then we can discuss
Do you honestly think that people who have been red-pilled over COVID, vaccines, pedos, the Twitter Files, Ukraine, the FBI, Trump, the CIA, etc… are ever going to trust the feds again?
It pains me to say this, but not only are they not prepared to rise up and fight back, they’re not even “red-pilled” to any meaningful degree. The government schools and the vast propaganda apparatus have worked too well.
Their economic well-being is still dependent on the system. When that system fails, and it will, all of the old grievances will come roaring back.
People tend to forget stuff when they’re still eating and getting their daily distractions/entertainment. Take the eating part away and everything changes.
Economic collapse is the only scenario where I see anything ever being done. And I’m highly skeptical we’ll get anything better as a result of a modern revolution.
Right now, you could barely convince a plurality of Republicans to reform the FBI let alone disband it.
According to everyone on Twitter, Tesla is supposed to be losing tons of money and heading toward bankruptcy. Maybe people on Twitter are wrong sometimes.
Tesla’s stock price never made a goddam bit of sense (to me). That doesn’t mean it isn’t a viable business. They got out to an early lead, but unfortunately the competition is catching up. It happens.
They are making a popular product, but their competition is getting a big injection of government funds.
the competition is catching up
Helped by a govt thumb on the subsidy scale.
I don’t buy Elon’s sudden transformation into whatever people want to describe him as. This is a guy who was completely in on things like the covid narrative like a year ago. He’s definitely no free speech absolutist. He’s already proven that.
I don’t think pissing off the progs was the best long term strategy for the wellbeing of Tesla. Your market is predominately going to be upper middle class and above progs. They worshipped him a few short years ago and now they despise him second to only Trump. Maybe you could wedge Mitch McConnell in there. He’s top 3 for sure. I don’t think he’s going to offset the loss of prog love from anything he’ll get from the right.
Conservatives just aint that into electric cars, no matter how nice they are.
I wouldn’t say it is conservatives. People who can use electric cars is a very narrow use case. You would need to live in a crowded city which also somehow has parking available, and does not have weather extremes. Also you need an excellent electric grid.
However, if you’re going to buy an electric, Tesla is the best one.
Those are ideal scenarios, but you also just described someone who is like 90% likely to be a D voter and who now hates Elon. It was something they could brush off when he was just vaguely anti-union and kind of grumbling about California’s bullshit. Now the virtue signaling of not buying a Tesla and driving an inferior competitor is greater than that of owning one. And that was a significant part of Tesla’s brand.
It is a nice car, from everything I’ve been told. Never been in one. But he’s reduced the people willing to buy one of his vehicles by a considerable amount.
Add to that the factor of the Dems turning on him and supporting competitors with the subsidies. Tesla can produce the better product all they want, it doesn’t mean they are going to win the market.
It’s nice for an electric car. It’s not exactly an S-class Merc.
The more affordable Teslas save on things like… buttons.
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/12/26/douche-for-a-day-a-tesla-3-from-hertz/
Ahh, no. At least not on my Model 3 unless Hertz has some special programming.
The Model 3 is less luxurious than a similarly priced C class, 3 series or A4. The model S is more luxurious than the entry level Germans, but nowhere near an S class , 7 Series or A8.
I can believe the rental-version has some extra annoyances.
I still want actual buttons and not a touch screen for anything I’d use with regularity. TBF, Tesla is hardly alone in this terrible trend.
I hate all the touch screen crap too.
But sadly, that is the way many manufacturers are going both ICE and EV. It’s what kids crave and it’s cheaper too.
Win – Win.
Only us old people care about buttons and keeping our eyes on the road.
The autopilot takes care of everything. Feel free to play videos games with the touch screen.
Okay boomer. The car has lane assist for a reason! What if I miss that totally repayable, passable, Tik-Tok and risk being the last to know! You can’t even
Kinnath has the right idea. I meant replayable and pauseable
Stolen from elsewhere: “Tesla is software platform and distributed energy company.”
People tend to forget stuff when they’re still eating and getting their daily distractions/entertainment. Take the eating part away and everything changes.
I get it. I have used that same argument with regard to the “coming civil war”. People still have far too much too lose. Will that always be the case? No. But I don’t plan on sticking around to see how it plays out.
In the here and now, I see no evidence of a broadly distributed anti-government resentment, much less active insurrectionism or sabotage. A little vague exasperation, maybe.
I think it’s more cynicism than anything. “Those idiots in Washington”, that sort of thing. People will grumble but it’s not bad enough for people to do anything about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnGaf0p9x1U
A lot of people think those idiots in Washington, but line up to still vote for their incumbent representatives in every election as has been noted on here in the past. There is a complete disconnect between what people say they believe and what they are willing to do. And even then, you are still red pilling people who are fundamentally anti-liberty in a lot of respects.
I think most of the conservatives who seem to be turning on big government will happily love them some big government the next time some asshole with a R next to his name gets in (it will almost certainly not be any firebrand). It’ll be some milquetoast neocon like Romney given a chance at the wheel who will ramp up drug war and probably get us into a bunch of foreign entanglements, do nothing about the things conservatives right now say they care about and they’ll cheer it on because it’s their team in charge again.
Civil means have yet to sufficiently break down. Doesn’t mean they won’t, but there is a lot of stretch there because the chaos that comes with civil war is a big inducement to solve things peacefully.
broadly distributed anti-government resentmen
The feds say you are a terrorist/insurrectionist simply for being skeptical of their authoritah.
https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1613303797039730690
Mr. Rogers is so cancelled.
I don’t know. I think you could easily turn that into right think until he says the part about boys only being to be daddy’s and girls being mommy’s. That’s definite wrong think with no potential spin.
If anything, the first part could be turned an argument for letting two years old transition.
This is why I continue to enjoy the NYP.
Fired Goldman Sachs workers shell-shocked after ‘David’s Demolition Day’
Heh they aren’t joking.
Part of the uniform!
A grand for a puffy jacket?
“One stoic employee, clad in a button-down and fleece jacket…”
A glib?
I’ve met a few libertarians on Wall St. We had some secret signs.
But nobody was ever open about it, unlike the progressives.
Honey Harvest just got real
I look forward to screaming matches at the HH between the SCIENCE and anti-bee-vaxers.
What a lickspittle for Big Ag! Only wants to steal 3% from farmers. Not even 10%! The Church expects 10% and here this guy thinks that govt is only a third as important?
I just ordered 4 packages of bees from Mann Lake, same price as last year. The price hasn’t changed much (a little ’cause of inflation) for several years. This year it’s Italian bees arriving fresh from the almond orchards of CA, Vespa prices may surge.
U of MN has the new Bee School so maybe a cram course in pollen gathering wouldn’t hurt these CA transplants
I’m just imagining trying to hold down the drone to stick in the tiny needle…
How dare you only partially solve a problem!
How Dare you impartially solve a problem!
That too! What he said!
For TOK – and other hockey players (& fans). This is the current lead story at BBC Sports: https://www.bbc.com/sport/64047085
Just the sort of thing that hockey fans want the NHL to spend their time on.
Meh, I don’t have a problem with people forming whatever team they want. I still like how we do it in sled hockey. Except for the Paralympic teams, all teams are completely co-ed and it works just fine. Except that people who do things just to get attention don’t have much of an opportunity to do that.
It’s amazing to me how detached from the average sports fan the people running these leagues are. Well, not really amazed. Just kind of vaguely appalled at how little they actually know the people consuming their products that they think shit like this appeals to the average hockey fan.
I was more intrigued by this part of the story:
“The shooting, at Club Q, was a reminder for Maclay and his team-mates as to why they take the precautions they do – precautions few other teams would even consider.
“We basically don’t announce where we are doing anything publicly,” Maclay tells BBC Sport.
“We can’t release the specific ice rink until the last minute. All this violence is planned in advance, so we have to adapt.””
Is there such a level of threat to trans players?
Well, they are repeating the line that the Club Q shooting was about homophobia and they probably almost definitely believe right wing terrorists are the biggest threat in the country so I’m going to say that they believe the threat is real.
They become beholden to very vocal minorities and preference cascades within their unique bubbles.
test
Today’s big pharma horse race.
Biden administration will select first 10 drugs for Medicare price negotiations by September
Don’t get me started on CMS and market distortion. Interesting and completely unsurprising – not the large number of both “treatments” instead of cures and what they are for, diabetes.
Note the large…
Yeah, I really do laugh at people who complain about free market medicine.
I really get pissy at people [on Reddit] bitching about how high U.S. drug prices are and how the rest of the world is SO MUCH BETTER! because their governments cap the prices they have to pay.
Yeah, bitch, that’s because the U.S. citizenry is subsidizing your drugs.
Not just drugs; Canada can spend provide a lot of subsidized products/functions because their defense is outsourced.
An absurd amount of new drugs are developed in the US compared to the rest of the world. So it is definitely another way we subsidize the European welfare state.
The government should be able to negotiate prices for what they will pay if we are going to accept that they should be offering any form of government funded healthcare. What I’m not clear about is how much exactly will be “negotiated” and not just a form of price control. Like, whatever company makes Eliquis isn’t going to tell the government and all Medicare recipients to fuck off quietly. There is simply always the threat of force for non-compliance with government.
So I imagine what we’ll get is the pharmaceutical industry negotiating against itself. The guy on the other side of the table forming the government’s position will be a former exec for the big companies and that will keep things…cordial.
If I recall, the legislation authorizing Medicare price “negotiations” includes language stating “either give us the drugs at the price we want or pay a penaltax”.
How the fuck does it take seven months to identify ten drugs for negotiations? Yeah, I know you just can’t grab the ten drugs that cost the Medicare system the most, but seven months? Even identifying your friends (contributors) and enemies (registered Republicans) in the pharma industry shouldn’t take that long.
It has to be approved by people and sits on their desk for ages while people pester them to sign off. From the seven month time frame, I’m guessing three people had to sign off on it.
Do you expect the bureaucracy to do something, anything, quickly and efficiently?
Yes, if you believe their rhetoric that seniors and kids are dying every day because they can’t buy the drugs that save their lives. So a seventh month delay to just identify the drugs and not even begin negotiations (which will take forever) tells me that the rhetoric is pretty much crap or a cynical device.
New Zealand has a national agency – Pharmac – which subsidizes and, to a large extent, controls drug prices in the country. So, it gets a lot of props from central planners everywhere for how it has kept drug prices down. Of course, it won’t surprise those here to know there are some problems with this. This article outlines some of those: https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/reports/pharmac-the-right-prescription/
It is not really a complete hit piece.
Couple of excerpts:
“Under Pharmac’s watch, the annual per capita number of filled prescriptions in New Zealand has risen markedly as unit medicine prices have fallen. Overall, pharmaceutical subsidy spending has not risen relative to GDP…”
“Another concern is that a fixed subsidy budget and a focus on low price might be at the expense of user choice and adoption of innovative new medicines. Pharmac’s ability to fund new medicines each year depends considerably on its ability to achieve lower prices each year for some existing medicines.
The most serious weakness with current arrangements is that no one really knows whether they are improving health outcomes, let alone the overall wellbeing of Kiwis. The health gain relative to not having the medicine is assessed, but the degree to which it would be consumed if not subsidised is not known.
The report rebuts the view that to fail to subsidise a medicine is to deprive New Zealanders of its benefits. It finds no undue non-price barriers to New Zealanders’ access to registered medicines. Why subsidise what medical professionals might advise people to buy anyway?”
“…The subsidies disempower consumers. Consumers are no longer the piper calling the tune. Government provision displaces more flexible private arrangements. Prescriptions are biased towards the subsidised medicines that may not otherwise be the best option for individuals. To keep spending from blowing out, governments must limit access.”
Thomas Sowell: there are no solutions, only trade offs.
The only thing the people implementing the scheme care about is buying votes.
While Trump’s retention of hundreds of documents and attempts to thwart their transfer to the National Archives as required by law appears more serious at this stage, Biden’s deepening troubles are offering a huge opening to the new pro-Trump House majority. The GOP is already moving to unleash an investigative machine designed to prove their long-held belief that Democrats have weaponized the federal government and intelligence agencies against conservatives – and to create the appearance of equivalence between Trump’s behavior as president and the actions of Biden and his circle.
The only crime is getting caught. We must do everything possible to maintain the pretense of differentiation between the parties.
“Self-Proclaimed “Transcanine” Woman Banned From OnlyFans After Claiming She Has Sex With Dogs”
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/self-proclaimed-transcanine-woman-banned-from-onlyfans-after-claiming-sex-dogs
“Sick ‘transcanine’ woman fired from job and banned from OnlyFans over sex act with dog
KnottyFairy, who caused outrage on Twitter, was sacked and banned from OnlyFans following comments she had made about being ‘transcanine’ and engaging in sexual relations with dogs”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/sick-transcanine-woman-fired-job-28928729
“I wont go to jail .Im a white women in America.I’ll claim sex abuse as a kid and get off.Why you think Im non bothered. Do I seem fearful of jail?I come from a good family and have a degree and was in a sorority.I have a better chance of getting hit by a car.If I was blk tho. RIP ”
https://twitter.com/AKnottyPrincess/status/1611985595890278400
Can’t tell if crazy person, or just troll.
It’s a complete troll job and people are stupid to get worked up by it regardless of whoever it is that she or it or he is trolling.
Red rocket or knot, that woman enjoys the dog house
I read that as “Transconnie” and I wondered what sort of sick pervert would want to identify as being from Wisconsin.
Get lobotomized so you can reflexively shout “Go Pack Go”. Worst is when you drag your kid to some roadhouse where they see drunken adults parading around in Green and Gold jerseys slugging down paint thinner.
I made a mistake. I did reasons morning roundup.
ENB is going full tard.
NOW she is against investigations. They are harmful.
In a screed that can only charitably be described as full on disinformation, I choose to offer this quote:
“Republicans have long insisted that not only did Hunter use his father’s name to secure foreign business deals for himself but that Joe Biden was in on the game. There is evidence for the former, and not for the latter.”
I chose that because nobody has insisted that Hunter traded on dad’s name. Well, nobody except DNC shills in the media. They insisted that he funneled bribes to dad.
And we all know the mountain of evidence that supports “the latter”. You know, the stuff in that laptop, for instance.
There must be an exclusive important cocktail party coming up this weekend.
NYT is running cover. Looks like the memo has gone out. Paywalled NYT:
Hunter Biden’s Tangled Tale Comes Front and Center
Troubling in a way where we at the MSM can control the damage.
It’s hoping your brand falls on the side that gets lined up last against the wall.
It’s called being unaccountable to the majority of your readers because you are funded by a few wealthy individuals who use your outlet to gain some minor amount of influence with the right people.
As long as the people funding it feel as if the right message is reaching the right people, nothing will change at Reason. It’s actually kind of comical when they come around every year asking for small donations from average readers. They aren’t funded by some guy in Texas giving them a few hundred dollars. Or a lot of said guys.
I regret every donation I made to that place.
Tell me about it. I made a pretty big one in 2012, and as a result, still receive a subscription. Ah, well, that’s one mistake I haven’t and will never make again.
As well, it’s useful reading for the poop room, where it belongs.
Cyto, please stop hurting yourself. I think I can speak for everyone and say that your contributions are appreciated.
Reading her stuff is about as productive as punching yourself in the taint.
You know how the woke have racism and anti-racism.
I went full anti-propaganda today. I mean, absolute nutcase.
Someone posted an article pulling the new spin about the classified documents from a bunch of national writers. Clearly a talking points memo had gone out.
And ENB wrote the same thing.
Absolutely shilling for the DNC propaganda machine with outright lies. Word for word.
So I went all in. I called on her to report on her sources and her reasoning for copying what they tell her to say.
I do not expect to be welcome over there any more. I left “I disagree with your bias” way in the rear view mirror. I called her out as a corrupt government shill.
That’s pathetic. Emails on the laptop specifically say “10% for the big guy.” Hunter’s business associate, who was involved in the deal, says the big guy was Joe. He’s handed over hundreds of documents he says corroborates what he’s been saying, and is willing to testify. I’d call that “evidence.”
Look, the parties and financial opportunities are much better with the right democrats and Republicans in power.
Not yet – evidence needs to be provided by a forensic accounting deep dig into Brandon’s and Hunter’s financial records. That 10% didn’t just disappear. Of course, it could be in crisp $100 bills locked in the garage with his Corvette.
Those are Classified $100 bills!
So thats why the media can’t report on them! They don’t have the clearance
I learned my lesson on how meaningless it is to have smoking gun evidence of corruption when the Hillary emails were released. There was no evidence of impropriety despite the classified material being found, and despite the emails where her staff clearly talked about doing favors for Clinton Foundation donors. There was no corruption to be seen and no reasonable prosecutor and definitely no reason to investigate the Foundation itself.
It’s also just a coincidence that all that foreign money dried up after her failed 2016 run.
We are in full blown banana republic territory where no amount of evidence will ever be enough to go after the people at the top of the food chain unless the deep state, for lack of better term, wants them gone. Trump? Fair game. Biden? Unless they really want to force him not to run in 2024, they won’t do a thing. And whatever they were to do, it wouldn’t be anything that reinforces the narrative of the bitter clinger Republicans.
Corruption won’t be what takes a Biden down. But they may force him out over some classified material being found in his home. They can say your time is over, just step aside quietly. It reinforces everything they want to do, to include going after Trump. They can say see – we were fair. We investigated Biden. See how wrong you all were about the political bias in the intelligence community and at the DOJ and everywhere else in the bureaucracy.
Yeah, I really do laugh at people who complain about free market medicine.
What was that announcement, recently, about “the most expensive drug ever”? For hemophilia, maybe?
Would a truly “free market” pharama industry spend their time and money developing incredibly expensive drugs aimed at infinitesimal segments of the population?
If research is cheap enough maybe. Also some people may finance research as charity
I.e. The March of Dimes (when they were in their original form).
“”We found”
This study was paid for and performed by 2 employees of a organization that partners with companies to remove gas lines from buildings
There was no possible way this study was ever going say that gas is fine. They had their conclusion done before they started
The goal of this study (and of the ensuing political kerfuffle) is money
The goal is to get the gov’t to agree that gas is dangerous so that the gov’t will pay billions of dollars to remove gas lines from houses and apartment buildings in the name of safety
This study isn’t a real study
It is a grant proposal to the federal government, asking them to give money to these companies b/c they can’t make enough money in the free market b/c they can’t convince people that their product is valuable or cost effective”
https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1613204154125516801
This one really infuriates me. I know it’s not a new tactic, but the speed with which it proliferated is alarming. We are so easily railroaded with this crap.
I beg to differ. With two folks having done it, that study is twice as reliable as having only one person, say a 9 year old, do a study that proves Americans toss 500 million plastic straws a day into the mouths of hungry endangered sea turtles.
I shoulda thrown this hunk of F1
red meatvegan tofu out earlier. Michael Andretti has ostensibly teamed up with Cadillac to make another run at owning an F1 team.What say ye?
Based on the little I’ve read, it looks like he might get reluctant approval. There seems to be some legit concerns about how he’s doing things as well as what looks like some parochial BS. It also seems like his move is getting caught up in the more general pissing match between F1 and FIA.
Some stuff here: https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/64210632
Question-
Is this sudden anti-natgas appliance push “justified” by exposure to unvented indoor combustion, or global warming?
It is justified by whateber is expedient i would assume
No
Whatever we says it is for opening up a new front against the people.
I see it as a new front to funnel money to connected cronies. They fund some flimsy research, the party of science lectures us on how it has always been known and that anyone who isn’t all in on the new narrative is an ignorant science-denier, and besides it’s good for the planet in some vague way that none of them can explain. A building with a million things powered by electricity is somehow carbon neutral…
Thank God Pennsylvania now has a U.S. Senator who believes in fracking! He and Manchin will work to make sure the Dems don’t have a majority when Biden Admin tries to outlaw the practice.
It is magical how the IC completely buttoned up their leaks considering those classified documents were found just before a mid-term. Curious and curiouser
Oh a new set of documents in his garage or is that part of the second batch they are reporting about?
What about the absolute lack of leaking of the fact that Hunter Biden was already under investigation by the FBI for his shady dealings in the Ukraine during Trump’s first impeachment trial?
Like in electronics, it’s FM.
Standards have slipped. In my day it was PFM. I guess nowadays you have to scrub the “Pure” from your FM.
I knew I was missing a letter…dammit
Lol.
How irresponsible…that is all they have to say to him. Not that it matters. The media has been showing in the open the multi-tier justice system for a while and people shrug
He’s going to get a chance to talk on it very soon, god willing.
You are the president. Who the fuck is stopping you?
Trump, as someone said yesterday, deliberately took some material and at least knew where it was. Biden is claiming that he just didn’t really know where it was, but he obviously takes this stuff more seriously than Trump. He didn’t need to be told to have a lock on his doors!
Hey Mr. Tough guy! Let’s see you get jolted a few times by that electric nut collar that your handlers install before they let you go out in public and see how eager you are to just start answering questions.
C’mon man! Cut poor Joe some slack.
It was in a safe in a house with both private security and Secret Service details guarding it.
Holy shit – that’s real!
In a state with firearms storage laws, tossing your shotgun into a garage (not locked in a case or safe) next to your Corvette would be a crime.
some parochial BS
Toto Wolf allegedly has a hardon for Michael (and not in a good way) I have no idea why, aside from filthy American.
Haven’t been around here in a while. Did y’all hear that ‘unhinged!’ rethuglicans want to impeach the president? That is unhinged!, who has ever heard of anything like that before, wanting to impeach a president, it is unheard of in modern times!
“Biden’s document scandal eats away at efforts to hold Republicans accountable”
Oh God yes! Republicans must be held accountable! Us, well, we are doing these things for all of the right reasons, it’s different.
Heaven forbid the news just come out and say “wow our whole government and those that occupy it are all bad..they are not there for you, they are there for themselves” a man can dream
“Let the riots begin!”
Hey, my cousin dindunuthin! It was my other cousin what did it! Wypipo!
Don’t kid yourself, we’re still doomed
But while the storms have delivered chaos, they have also helped to make a dent in drought conditions. The state’s snow water equivalent — or the amount of water contained in the snow — was 226% of normal on Wednesday, marking a high for the date not seen in at least two decades.
The last time snowpack neared such a high on Jan. 11 was in 2005, when it was 206% of normal, according to state data.
Even more promising, the Sierra snowpack on Wednesday measured 102% of its April 1 average, referring to the end-of-season date when snowpack in California is usually at its deepest. This is the first time that’s happened on Jan. 11 in at least 20 years.
“102% of average with another week of stormy weather coming up is absolutely fantastic,” Schwartz said. “And assuming we don’t see complete and absolute dryness like we did last year, it’s shaping up to be a winter that, at the very least, will prevent us from going into further drought, if not help pull us out of the drought.”
But Schwartz and other experts were cautious about celebrating too soon. The measurements are not static and could change depending on how the rest of the wet season develops. Last season, for example, a soggy December gave way to a bone-dry January, February and March.
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“It’s just really important to remember that we are in a continued drought emergency,” said DWR spokesman Ryan Endean. “We’re kind of dealing with this extreme flood during an extreme drought, and so we’re, of course, encouraging Californians to continue to conserve water and make conservation a way of life.”
Just do as you’re told.
Well, of you never built reservoirs to capture that water, the assessment is correct. It all flows back out to the sea.
“Read the room, dumbass.”
She read it and said ‘no worries for me, I’m not giving up my Viking gas range, rules is for peasants’. They’re just lucky I’m nicer than the last King and won’t send them to die locked up in a nursing home, yet, unless they keep complaining.
Nobody regards her as ‘nicer’ than Andy, they’re both regarded as awful people.
In NYC, awful makes you sort of normal.
Heaven forbid the news just come out and say “wow our whole government and those that occupy it are all bad..they are not there for you, they are there for themselves” a man can dream
It would be a start if they would say, “The rules which have been made (largely in an ongoing effort to score political points) are so complex and convoluted, nobody can follow them.”
But that ain’t gonna happen.
“Doocy: “Classified materials next to your corvette? What were you thinking?”
Wow, this guy things that Biden thinks? Cute.
But powerful, potentially dangerous weather is often the way California gets out of drought, said John Abatzoglou, a professor of climatology at UC Merced.
“Historically, drought recovery in California has come with atmospheric rivers,” he said. “That is sort of a recipe for drought recovery — it is a great elixir for drought, in terms of dealing with surface water woes, but the downside is too much of a good thing at once.”
It’s almost as if the weather is… what’s the word? Cyclical.
And it is too bad we won’t/can’t build dams and reservoirs to hold the water against the next drought.