Good morning one and all to another tantalizing day!
Inflation cools slightly in July from prior month
US national debt hits record $37 trillion
National Guard Troops Arrive in Washington After Trump Declares Federal Control
Over 100K Americans rush to join Trump’s massive ICE hiring spree nationwide, DHS says
Parents Don’t Have ‘Deeply Rooted’ Right To Trans Their Kids, Appeals Courts Find
Petitioner Asks SCOTUS To Overturn Its Ill-Fated Obergefell Decision
White House begins reviewing Smithsonian exhibits ahead of 250th anniversary
Teamsters Union Donates to Battleground Republicans After Years of Backing Democrats
Mexico Extradites 26 Alleged Cartel Members to US
Texas Democrats to return home after first special session on redistricting ends
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Blue rectangle.
blue diamonds, yellow moons, orange stars, …
I will go to my grave not recognizing “purple horseshoes”.
Has it been replaced by a purple eggplant?
The first two links are very related. Inflation may have cooled a bit, but you assholes printed way to much money.
And everyone still wants a new Fed Chairman who will lower rates.
I need another hit of ZIRP.
I, for once in my life, would like a savings account that had an interest rate that wasn’t anemic.
I’ve mentioned it before but I’m pleased with my recent switch to this:
https://www.fidelity.com/spend-save/fidelity-cash-management-account/overview
Functions just like a regular checking account (plus unlimited ATM rebates, etc.)
Drake, what heroin addict wouldn’t want cheaper smack?
Heroin has been $10 a bag for over 30 years. It’s like Arizona Iced Tea and Costco hot dogs. That’s a pretty good time for only $12.50.
@slum, pair with their credit card and you have a nice one stop shop setup.
@CPA – indeed, just picked up the credit card – should get my $150 bonus shortly.
401k is at Fido, too.
Most everything else is at Schwab, which I generally like but did switch from their checking to the Fido account since Schwab’s refusal to do a reasonable cash sweep is bullshit.
Just think, if Kamala had won, we’d have Inflation Reduction Act Part 2, and that would have completely stopped inflation in its tracks.
“Parents Don’t Have ‘Deeply Rooted’ Right To Trans Their Kids, Appeals Courts Find”
They don’t have any right to trans kids.
What other state interests in children rise above the parents?
The interest in protecting them against other forms of sexual abuse springs to mind. I suppose a purist view of parental ownership of their children would extend to allowing this, but if we are going to have any limitations for the protection of children, this one seems like a no brainer.
Other than not abusing (or grossly neglecting) them, I can’t think of any. The little fuckers do have some right not to be harmed by their parents that the state should protect.
I’m just a little cautious at the assertion of the state between parent and child. Partly this goes back to my point about diminishment of the family.
I do think the petitioners challenge was bullshit, so naturally, the case decision is going to operate on that basis.
I agree with your caution. I am very uncomfortable with any insertion of State power into the family, but I do think there is a strong case, even with full deference to the family, for intervention in cases of serious physical harm.
The problem being it is the camel’s nose, and one sound, valid concern can (and is almost certain to) lead to less sound concerns.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that there would be all but zero transitions if medical insurance didn’t pay for them (and that insurers are told by the govt what they must cover).
“I also have a sneaking suspicion that there would be all but zero transitions if medical insurance didn’t pay for them (and that insurers are told by the govt what they must cover).”
Plenty of adults paid for their own.
JI, a parent has no right to anything illegal to their child. Sexual mutilation, just like any other form of abuse, is illegal, whether to a child or another person.
If the state can intervene to protect the rights of a husband being assaulted by his wife, then the state can intervene to protect the child from being assaulted by his mother. Gray areas, slippery slope? Sure, and that’s for a jury to sort them out and for unqualified immunity be eliminated from Child Services Karens.
“A Christian petitioner has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a case that could potentially overturn its disastrous 2015 ruling on so-called “gay marriage.””
Disastrous?
“That point has been proven true on the issue of transgenderism, which arguably would not have become as mainstream without the majority’s Obergefell decision.”
Well, that’s true because Big Gay moved on to trans stuff.
And tranny activists desperately needed a convenient hook that would allow them to appear “normal”. What better way than pretending to be a subset of “gay”?
When it started, most of the tranny activists were gay. Almost none of them were trans. Now a bunch of them are queer or non-binary or some other bullshit.
That’s what happens when you link your group together with other groups that may not have the same end game. See also the push to normalize pedophiles.
California fire damage has increased since the decision.
California had more wildfires in pre-industrial times.
California has always been associated with flaming during my lifetime. It happens evert time you go poontanging around with show folk fags.
I didn’t like the fact that SCOTUS basically exnihilated a right to marriage for teh gaze, but I could see the plaintiffs’ point in their initial case.
I was more of a “civil unions for all, marriage for the religious” type. Better yet, get the fedgov out of favoring one class over another when it came to rights of inheritance, etc. But none of that would have been good enough for the QUILTBAG lobby, as their goal was to defeat and demoralize the God-botherers.
I was flat out “the government should not be involved in marriage at all” for most of my life. It’s a religious ceremony, and shouldn’t have any standing in a government stature.
This is my stand as well Neph. The state should acknowledge civil unions for any consenting adults (including mutliple wives/husbands for those foolish enough to try it) for probate and other legal purposes, but marriage is a church thing and the state getting mixed up in it is a violation of church/state.
Anyone can petition any court for any remedy. A convict once filed suit against Satan and his staff.
It has the same amount of effect on the world as a drunk screaming obscenities at his TV at 3 am.
2:00 a.m. – I’m asleep by 3:00.
The only disaster was socons having a sad.
I agree with RC that gay marriage granted by the courts, instead of through legislature, was a stolen base. My libertarian position is that marriage is something done within your faith community, or cultural group; the government should only issue civil union certificates to the parties (regardless of whether they are church married).
That’s where I landed too. But you can get into the weeds there too.
What about polyamorous relationships? On the surface that seems OK, but suddenly all kinds of tax, estate and medical care issues get complicated quickly.
The Democrats didn’t want to pass a law because black people.
Then what about all the straight people who got married at city hall? They are no longer married?
Common Tater:
Well, one could argue that they’re just believers of the civic religion.
Caring about the difficulty of the job of lawyers and accountants to the point where you limit people’s rights to benefit administrators is a slippery slope to assigned housing/food/breeding partners.
Twenty-something years ago, I used to say that I as totally willing to support gay marriage, would [the person asking me] support poly marriage? Without exception, they would think I was trying to pull a gotcha.
Not Adahn – I’m talking about the actual laws. Not how the professionals deal with laws.
When one of the thrupple dies right now only one is going to have the estate. The other one ain’t get anything in most states.
Not Adahn:
I found the same thing when I would bring up various ways that marriages between more than two people could work. Only a handful (who were generally in the poly community already) agreed, and most were also in the get government out of marriage camp.
The other one that usually got people was asking about treating marriage like a contract, each religion would likely have their own boilerplate contract, but individuals could contract any way they want, including time limits to the marriage.
The actual lawyers here can correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty certain that the ownership of property by multiple people has already been solved.
No way, Not Adahn!
That’s why the eldest son still inherits everything when parents die. No other way to do it.
“The actual lawyers here can correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty certain that the ownership of property by multiple people has already been solved.”
Sure – with contract law. However, there is a tax free transfer upon death in most cases in marriage. It’s a big issue for transferring family businesses to children. So the solution will be to marry your children so that you can pass the estate to them with the tax free transfer.
Until you end all the legal shenanigans with either promoting or discouraging marriage there will be a bunch of statutory as well as common law issues if you decide to marry 10 of your closest friends. What does a hospital do if 2 of your wives want to pull the plug and the other 2 want to keep you on life support? Right now there is case law what happens when a wife (singular) and offspring (plural) with differing viewpoints about pulling the plug.
I’m not against polyamorous relationships – my issue is legal recognition in a vacuum. The solution to the estate issue is to eliminate estate taxes. Anybody have guess how likely that is to happen?
I am with Tonio and Neph on this (which is the common position around here, I ‘spect.)
Sensei, I marriage is a contract at its most basic function. How much the state puts its thumb on the scale is the issue here, and one that could easily be fixed, were it to choose too.
NotAdahn:
Twenty-something years ago, I used to say that I as totally willing to support gay marriage, would [the person asking me] support poly marriage? Without exception, they would think I was trying to pull a gotcha.
I’ve run into the same thing when I say that alimony is an outdated concept and should have to be spelled out in a pre-marriage contract rather than imposed by default. Some commenter on here – don’t remember who – said that they signed a pre-nup specifying that there would be no alimony in the event of a divorce, and the (California) divorce court tossed it out on the grounds that it’s “contrary to public policy”.
People are always careful to avoid saying that it’s “part of the very definition of marriage” right after they said that the government shouldn’t define marriage, but they do communicate in some words or another that a man continuing to financially support the woman after divorce is an inseparable part of the deal.
Yeah, that’s a bit ridiculous.
Don’t blame fags for the mischief that trannies are causing. I know the left has been pretending that the two phenomena are related but don’t fall for it, The Federalist.
It’s the Federalist. They probably do thing gay marriage is an abomination at heart.
Gay marriage is fine. The states should have passed laws (through the legislature and all) to license it.
The reasoning behind the decision that no gay marriage was a violation of equal protection was pretty specious, in my opinion.
But if the courts are are going to decide that way, they should strike laws from the books that are unconstitutional. Not, as many did, rewrite/amend the laws themselves, which is not a judicial function or power.
Courts having positive legislative authority is anathema. Obergefell was yet another example of judicial overreach. Overturning laws banning same sex marriage is arguably a court function, although a federal court doing so nationally runs into constitutional issues because there is nothing in article one that gives Congress the power to regulate marriage. If the Supremes wanted to speak to this issue I think they should have limited themselves to holding that the Full Faith and Credit clause required States to honor marriages performed in other States, then letting the States change their laws as they choose.
Shouldn’t be like other licenses? If you marry in a state that allows it, you should still be married in any other state. Otherwise, you get “your out of state registered car isn’t allowed in California”.
I’m not sure what you are responding to Tater? That is exactly what I meant by honoring marriages under the full faith and credit clause.
Which should’ve been the rationale in Loving v. Virginia – they were legally married in Maryland, but of course wasn’t.
“not sure what you are responding to Tater?”
RC Dean’s comment.
Onergfell was an inheritance tax case.
Death taxes were the issue. Not marriage.
The supremes twisted the cast to get the outcome they wanted.
All ICE law enforcement recruits will be required to go through medical screening, drug screening, and complete a physical fitness test, the agency clarified.
Well, that’ll weed out a good chunk of the applicants.
“Your country is calling on you to serve at ICE and defend the Homeland,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a statement.
Remember when the entities charged with repelling invasions were known as the army and the navy? Seems to be a quaint notion, now.
I see what you did there.
One hopes there’s a cartel screening in there somewhere, too.
The Smithsonian was a disappointment as a history museum.
The “castle building” is cool-looking.
Just in (sweaty-ass) D.C. a couple weeks ago – the castle is indeed cool looking.
The stables for the park police were an unexpected surprise; renovated a couple years ago with, AFAICT, mostly private money – by rich, horsey people I presume.
What, most stables don’t have marble tack rooms?
https://www.lfjennings.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/USParkPolice-1.jpg
Apologies to any geology nerds, but there are way too many rocks in that museum.
I didn’t see any specifics in the article but didn’t they catch shit from Donald recently over some woke BS about how terrible the US is? Of course the left will freak out regardless but FFS it’s like the “national museum” – take the leftist spin somewhere else.
Yes, and the Orange One wasn’t wrong. The ideological bent of far too many exhibits is “man bad for environment, US man bad because slavery and poor treatment of native man, both of whom lived in ideal state of nature before imperialist US corrupted them”.
I’m sorry, but we need more recognition of how special, exceptional and great America is, not yet another land acknowledgment.
“The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military. We cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion,“ Sheinbaum told reporters. “That is ruled out. Absolutely ruled out.”
I’m not really pushing for this or anything, but sorry Presidenta Tu Madre, that’s not up to you. We’d roll you up so fast we’d end up in Honduras arguing about who was supposed to have noticed that we were crossing Guatemala.
By early yesterday morning —barely 12 hours after Trump’s announcement— National Guard units were already rolling into DC. That doesn’t happen because someone made a couple of phone calls over coffee. It means this was in the can, locked and loaded, long before the press conference.
And yet the media was completely blindsided. Which tells you something else: the operational security on this move was airtight. No leaks, not even a whisper— not even a suspicious calendar entry.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/tectonics-wednesday-august-13-2025?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios
One huge problem is D.C.’s own Mayor, Muriel Bowser, has agreed to cooperate. Trump apparently has her locked down, too.
If Mayor Bowser is okay with it, then what should we make of all this media hysteria?
Is that really her name?
I want, right now, a Super Mario clone, with Trump as Mario.
Where have all the patriotic leakers gone?
On unemployment hopefully
Long time passes.
That doesn’t happen because someone made a couple of phone calls over coffee. It means this was in the can, locked and loaded, long before the press conference.
The military never practices mobilizing on short notice.
Ya the whole “keep your A/B bags ready” was just for funsies.
Yeah, of course it happens.
Especially when it’s POTUS making the phone call.
Harvard and White House Move Toward Potential Landmark Settlement
A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation’s wealthiest school against the Trump administration’s extraordinary crackdown on higher education.
Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/trump-harvard-settlement-negotiations.html
The $500m is over a period of years so it makes for a great headline, but $50m over 10 years is nothing to them. More interesting is they want admissions data and race since they know darn well Harvard is ignoring the SC decision about using race in admissions. Honestly they should take the money and run, but I’m sure most of the faculty there is going to feel like this is complete surrender to OMB.
the nation’s wealthiest school
Without the slightest trace of irony.
Say what you will about the antidiscrimination law, the notion that any organization can just refuse to provide information relevant to whether they are violating any law doesn’t sound very “rule of law/nobody is above the law” to me.
What are the “settling”? Mind you, Harvard and almost every other school is guilty AF for racial discrimination but where is the law stating that have to pay indulgences for it?
Never fear – there will be no admission of wrongdoing. They are just paying.
I don’t like when either side pulls funny business like this. It’s just a fundraising exercise at this point.
“Female cops in England went undercover as joggers, wearing tight-fitting clothes in a bid to elicit catcalls — and then arrested some of the men who hit on them, according to a report.
The Surrey Police Department created a trial task force, which lasted about a month, and led to 18 arrests for offenses like sexual assault, harassment, and theft, The Telegraph reported.
The female officers were sent during rush hour to “hot spots” where open sexual harassment of women is commonplace and pretended to be joggers, the report stated.
“One of our officers was honked at within 10 minutes — then another vehicle slowed down, beeping and making gestures just 30 seconds later — that’s how frequent it is,” Inspector Jon Vale of SPD told the outlet.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/12/world-news/female-british-cops-wore-jogging-outfits-to-elicit-catcalls-and-then-arrested-some-men-who-hit-on-them-report/
Why does this sound like complete bullshit?
I’ll guess they ran through the whitest of white neighborhoods and avoided the Muslims.
I see photos of the women and a photo of a cop but no photos of the perps. Huh. I wonder what that means.
It means nothing Suthen, there is no way those cops provoked Muslim men – no chance at all.
Because they ran a major operation to arrest guys for whistling, but arrested anyone who dared to report the ongoing gang rapes of hundreds, possibly thousands of little girls by the privileged minority?
I think you mean thousands, probably tens of thousands, over years if not decades, Halfflax.
I remember some bunch (not police) doing that here in the US. An attractive woman went around trying to elicit cat calls aaaaaaaaaand….they didnt find what they wanted. All of the cat calls were from minority men. No white guys took the bait. They got it all on video and it seems like it caused a bit of a stir for a week or so.
Yeah, that got memory-holed real fast.
I was wondering the other day if Britain has any male cops at all. The ones I see on TV are 100% female.
Luther was a dude.
I watched Torchwood and wondered if any Brits were heterosexual.
LOL
Euro trash leaders try to talk Trump out of peace before the Alaska summit.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/13/european-leaders-hope-to-sway-trump-on-ukraine-during-virtual-meeting-they-likely-wont
Remember Neville Chamberlain was European!
Chamberlain wasn’t European. He was English.
Let’s give them what they want. Full mobilization of the US in defense of Western Civilization. We invade Britain next week, France the week after, the Poles start west and we meet up in Brussels to hang the EU Parliament to the last pervert. Russia? Why would we worry about Russia, they aren’t the ones murdering the west.
I was ready to invade Agragba but I’m game for this too.
These are the same people who want to hand over Gaza and the West Bank to terrorists.
I think Donald has made a convincing argument in recent weeks that nobody’s taking anything that Western Europe has to say seriously anymore.
“The songwriter of the Village People’s hit song “Y.M.C.A.” spoke out on Monday against the idea that the song is a “gay anthem,” and threatened to sue news outlets in January that continue to describe it as such.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/cancel-culture/ymca-lyricist-says-piece-not-gay-anthem-and-threatens-sue-outlets-who
Good luck with that.
Just good, clean, Christian fun.
[Coach Sandusky has entered the chat]
Coach Sandusky wasn’t into pussy, French or otherwise.
Every person’s mind, body and conscience are exclusively their own property. Parents do not own their children or have a ‘right’ to violate those children’s rights. What they have is an obligation to provide, protect and teach those children until they can do so for themselves.
This ‘transing’ kids business is the greatest evil I have seen firsthand in my lifetime and that is saying a lot.
Prison is the least I would dole out to everyone who has done or facilitated this horror.
They are terminating their bloodline, and I don’t doubt that in a few years some of the ‘transed’ are going to visit their own vengeance on those who did it to them.
Trans have gotten all shooty a few times. So far, they have targeted people who had nothing to do with their misery.
Related to Drake’s comment (I promise).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR_5Ht69xCo
I wonder how many people are already are incapable of understanding that “review.” Which makes me wonder what other pieces of literature/art are out there that I will never be able to understand. And also if this category of “art that requires completely external and potentially ephemeral knowledge to understand” has a name.
In a few years, we may find ourselves in a situation where there are MAPS states and sane states.
Sadly I think you are right TLAH
“The Female Jealousy Epidemic”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRkpTusLpwM
Best video I’ve seen on the Sydney Sweeney thing. Sydney Watson’s was OK. Blaire White said the jeans look stiff. Adam Corolla was the only one to point out Mustangs aren’t front wheel drive.
But sponsored by an Austrian watch company? Do you know who else was from Austria?
Hedy Lamarr?
That’s Hedley.
Barbara Schett?
I was kind of amazed that progressivism = ass > tits.
Someone who’s more involved with FSP/PORCfest will have to confirm her statement that Libertarian = feet.
Feet? That’s news to me.
I was skeptical — there are far more foot fetishists than Libertarians.
I am more attracted to a nice butt than a nice rack, and I am so anti-progressive that even libertarians annoy me, and feet are meh.
https://stonetoss.com/comic/acquired-tastes/
Franz Ferdinand?
Hmm, I’d have expected Albrecht Gessler from you.
The Terminator?
Win a house in a
raffleskills contestWon’t you be my neighbor?
The average price of a 3-year-old used car rose above the $30,000 mark again earlier this year, and has trended upward since, according to a report by Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds, an online car-shopping guide. It is now back near the record high set during the pandemic in 2022.
Three years old and $30k average. Thanks DC and automakers. Please mandate some more safety equipment and add more infotainment and useless functions!
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/saving-money-on-a-used-car-is-getting-harder-e98f0ece?st=1PNNL2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Thanks, Obama
Cash for ‘clunkers’
CAFE standards.
My wife wants all that infotainment shit so that she can have it and ignore it and just look at her fucking phone instead.
Mine too. Frustrates me to no end.
Same with home appliances – they now all have six control board that are guaranteed to break. Meanwhile she uses one cycle.
The girlfriend will put shows on streaming services we have ads on when we have the exact same shows sitting on Plex or a commercial free service for reasons I can’t comprehend.
Since I have been setting up our home entertainment services…Mrs OBE embraced it and now demands more.
I think I fucked up and did something right
Rookie mistake, OBE. As soon as you do something right, expectations rise.
Happy wife, happy life.
I’m not going back to no apple carplay and/or android auto. I much prefer streaming what I want instead of listening to the Snapjack and Nutpickle Morning show.
Does anyone above 80 IQ enjoy morning shows?
I drove my brother’s 3 year old Subaru Crosstrek this weekend. It was fine except for the automatic lane keeping (I PAID TAXES FOR THE WHOLE ROAD, DAMNIT I’M GOING TO USE THE WHOLE ROAD!), the automatic engine shutoff at stoplights, and the other annoying gadgetry.
Can I have a peppy all wheel drive wagon (preferably with a manual transmission) without all the gadgets? Finding an old WRX that hasn’t been abused by either mother nature or a wanna-be-boy-racer is difficult.
With rental cars I’ve found I can disable most of that crap with a trip through the system menu.
Buddy of mine has a WRX for sale in good shape.
“Whatever weapon system or munition you shoot at another adversary’s capability, it should be cheaper than what you’re shooting down,” Army Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of U.S. land forces in Europe and Africa, recently told a gathering in Germany.
Wow. We’ve found the hen’s tooth in the American military. How is Raytheon supposed to feed it’s employees if we aren’t shooting down drones with missiles that cost 10x the amount of the drone?
https://www.wsj.com/world/armies-tormented-by-drones-innovate-ways-to-spot-jam-and-zap-on-the-cheap-8c02a6e4?st=HePZPR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He better plan on dying while in uniform, there will be no cushy retirement sinecure for him!
au contraire – he just opened up the bottomless budget to develop such new weapons.
“Emergency managers are urging residents of Alaska’s capital, Juneau, to evacuate as glacial flooding from the Mendenhall River threatens to sweep through the city.
Officials have recommended that residents within the 17-foot lake level inundation zone leave the area until the water recedes and an ‘All Clear’ message is sent via the wireless emergency alert system….
A large glacial outburst can release as much as 15 billion gallons of water, the equivalent of nearly 23,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to the University of Alaska Southeast and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14996519/Alaska-Juneau-braces-glacial-flooding-residents-evacuate.html
How many half kegs is that?
How many giraffes can it drown?
Man, we really will use anything to avoid using metric.
What size kegs?
If you’re talking half barrel (a barrel is 31 gallons) kegs, about a billion. If you’re talking about sixth barrel kegs, about 3 billion.
Butts
Journalism 101 says you need to “frame” things for the reader. This the result.
I can’t relate as the community swimming pool isn’t Olympic size.
“Bella Hadid goes braless under a semi-sheer cropped shawl as she launches latest perfume”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14995777/Bella-Hadid-braless-semi-sheer-perfume.html
OK?
Anything to keep in the headlights I suppose
Boomer?
Honestly, kind of offputting.
You’d rather have off-taking, wouldn’t you?
Sorry I wasn’t around last night on my article.
Putrid Meat – Yes, I intentionally abused frequentists statistics for what I believe are fairly well-articulated reasons over the course of the 13 pieces.
Namely, frequentist statistics when applied to “science” results in nonsense because it denies the sole method of validation for hypotheses – predictive power – and instead (logically) always winds up at falsification and deductivism. This is because frequentists don’t believe p(H|D) has any meaning, and instead believe ONLY in p(D|H). That is a fatal error for scientific progress. Hence the replication crisis we have now in science. Frequentist mathematics don’t need replication – it doesn’t even recognize it – hence why it’s so popular with pharmaceutical companies.
Larger assumptions underlie the frequentists philosophy of science and those are really the problem – not the mechanics of “doing” the frequentist math. (1) Neither Life, the Universe, nor… anything worth giving a shit about is a series of infinite “flips”/events averaged out. There is no imaginary urn with balls in it – it’s imaginary; (2) Some math historians argue that frequentist statistics inevitably lead to and can’t be sorted from their eugenicist roots (Fisher, Venn, etc); (3) the prosecutor’s fallacy, defense attorney’s fallacy, and the ARR/diagnostic shitshow medical authoritarianism we now have ALL RELY UPON and originate in frequentist views of population stats; and (4) most importantly, frequentists stats taking over science has led to a complete dead-end in Physics for 100 years, just as Jaynes pointed out (and now others in physics are saying as much, too). See Jaynes’ essay “Physics Under the Clouds” if you’re looking for a deeper explanation.
There is no multiverse – I don’t care how “elegant” or “beautiful” or “cool” the math is; we’ve only got the one Universe to measure. When string theory makes a testable prediction I’ll be interested. Quantum “collapsing” into “superposition” and all of that gibberish is just that. And that all comes out of the indeterminate view of the Universe underlying frequentist stats. Jaynes was right – and self-driving cars, self-landing airplanes, and AI are just a few of the proofs of that.
Your strawman of statistics might actually be based on real idiots misapplying the tools, but Bayesians, when they’re not just doing frequentism are being fundamentally dishonest by pretending to quantify thingsthat are not quantifiable even in principle.
Do you realize that you’re rejecting calculus in your second paragraph? Does learning that make you adjust your conclusions based on new information?
When did you start writing for WaPo?
I’m sorry I hurt your religious beliefs, NA.
Yes, I made it through 4 semesters of calc and I’m pretty sure my second sentence did nothing of the kind.
You suffer from reification – the Universe doesn’t care about our models, NA. They’re just models.
The NHST/Frequentist one just happens to be particularly bad.
Neither Life, the Universe, nor… anything worth giving a shit about is a series of infinite “flips”/events averaged out.
This seems to me to be stealing a base. Admittedly this is an area where I grope for even a trace of understanding, but it seems to my limited understanding like you are assuming your conclusion in this argument. It’s fine to question this. It should be questioned. But you seem to go further and to just assume that it is untrue. It appears untrue on the macro scale. It also appears true in quantum phenomena. Isn’t that the whole argument?
Second paragraph, not sentence.
Your job literally revolves around pretending that reality is made of words. It’s not surprising that you have no idea wtf you’re talking about when applying math to reality.
My job revolves around actually dealing with the reality that exists even when your eyes are closed, you’re asleep, or you don’t believe in it.
Guess what statistical techniques we use? And yet, you can access the internet! How can this be? I mean, how can icky eugenics possibly combine GR with QM (which itself isn’t real!?!) to come up with a device that does what it’s supposed to when it’s supposed to, for as long as it’s supposed to?
Seriously, how do we get away with warranty a part for ten years when it has only existed for a few months? How does a customer manage it’s product supply without having to test each individual component? It must be Bayes!
Some math historians argue that frequentist statistics inevitably lead to and can’t be sorted from their eugenicist roots
As useful as I find Bayesian analysis and am aware of the pitfalls that can obtain with frequentist reasoning – even though it is very very useful in practical application; I just can’t go with this sort of statement. That the human proclivity to do bad things to each other for short or long term gain/lineage advantage can be laid at the feet of a statistical tool is just 0th order thinking. Post-hoc justified, sure. But that’s not different from any other intellectual tool.
As to string theory – agree, I think I actually had a blurb about that falsifiable issue in one of the random thoughts or some-such. And the multiverse, wave function collapse, etc – also agree. I have a draft of the next ‘random thoughts’ that includes the silliness, in MHO, of the many worlds theory of QM.
In all likelihood, I’m fairly positive I end up very close to your thoughts on the scientific endeavor and its modern failings – but to lay that at the feet of ‘frequentist’ statistics is just naive and falling into the very trap of the need for certainty you laid out.
“Lawmakers in Cincinnati are calling for a white man seen on video slapping a black man before a now viral brawl erupted to face prosecution.
The violent melee that unfolded two weekends ago in the downtown area of the Democrat led city has so far led to the arrest of six individuals.
On Monday night, Ohio State Rep Cecil Thomas led a discussion inside the New Prospect Baptist Church and raised concerns that the man had yet to be arrested.
Thomas, who leads the city chapter of the National Action Network, pointed out that all of those who have been arrested are black. He said the black community wanted answers about why others involved have not been prosecuted.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14994745/Cincinnati-street-brawl-white-man-prosecuted.html
OFFS!!
“White America has been watching us act like fools for a long enough time where any sympathy they may have had to our plight is completely gone.”
—Aaron McGruder, 2003
The leftist part of White America has spent 60 years doing everything in its power to destroy every form of personal responsibility or accountability in Black America. From subsidizing irresponsibility to punishing achievement, they have done it all. The alliance between the white liberals and the black race-baiting grifters like Jackson and Sharpton has killed more black people every year than were ever lynched in total, and doomed countless kids to wasted lives.
See also Jesse Jackson on black-on-black violence.
The most people lynched in one year was like 200, and it wasn’t all black people that got lynched.
I said total and meant it. 🙂 There are more murders, suicides, and overdose deaths every single year among black people directly attributable to leftist policies than there were lynchings total. Black crime rates before LBJ were on par with white rates, and in many areas were lower.
It was mutual idiocracy between two men at first that then turned into a planned beat-down.
Fuck off, racist.
“The Trump administration has decided coal is female. Here’s why”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/the-trump-administration-has-decided-coal-is-female-heres-why
STIJLTH
Kohle is a feminine noun in German.
Because it is cold and black like a woman’s heart, but if you agitate it it burns hotter and for a longer time than you would imagine?
That quickly devolved into a Israel rant…wow the media is terrible.
Not clicking a Guardian link but yeah, that is their thing.
And just like a woman to tell us why…am i right?
So Trump Is Joking Libs Totally Hateful?
“Lawyers and advocates also warn of a growing narrative that women are fabricating claims of gender-based violence. In 2024, senator Carolina Losada, with the support of national justice minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona, introduced a bill to increase penalties for false accusations of gender-based violence.
“The credibility of the victims is being challenged by the narratives of the Milei administration. These narratives have unlocked a whole spectrum of hatred and obstacles,” says Deza. “This is simply an indirect threat, to discourage women from reporting crimes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/13/women-face-increased-violence-argentina-javier-milei
Because women never lie?
Quake in fear at the power of MY NARRATIVE!!!
Define “woman”.
It’s impossible to get at what people are talking about anymore.
Totally not intentional, I’m sure.
Mexican Sharpshooter:
Upstate New York is embarrassingly wealthy in terms of natural beauty and agricultural products (including beer).
The people are just awful. Really your only hope for having a pleasant time at your compound would be to import new residents who aren’t paranoid duplicitous assholes.
So no libertarians? 🙂
I may be excessively ironic, but I am not duplicitous.
For 30+ years I have been saying the solution to Obergefell-type decisions was separation of state and marriage.
There is no need for the state to license marriage. Yes, that would require a massive rewrite of laws, but so fucking what?
Get rid of the income tax and you are halfway there. The other big issues are mostly solved by people making wills or setting up trusts, which they won’t, but if you die intestate you have only yourselves to blame for the issues that result.
I am on board.
You don’t have to get rid of the income tax – just flatten it and kill all deductions.
I may not have to, but if I somehow had the power to, I’d make your head spin with how fast I do it.
No JI, get rid of it. Kill it with fire. The only thing more evil tax wise than taxing individuals for being productive would be a poll tax. The older I get the more angry I get about people demanding to be paid because I exist.
I’m all for the smaller, less intrusive state, but you’re going to pay for that still, one way or another. JFC, all of the bitching about property taxes, and not “owning” but renting at the sufferance of the state.
I actually think a poll tax, in order to vote, isn’t the worst idea in the world. We should be screening out voters with no stake.
Ban all wealth taxes.
Low flat income tax.
Eliminate sales taxes.
I’m with Juris, a poll tax would clean up the voter base real quickly, even $20 would do it every election.
Dredging up old arguments.
The government must decide (or at least acknowledge) who married to whom. Because you can’t grant spousal privilege in a court of law, if you don’t know who are legally spouses.
And this brings in the 14th, because the government can’t discriminate in acknowledging who is married to whom.
None of this means that Obergefell was a good decision.
The only reason I was in favor was because the state gives preference to marriage when it comes to immigration. If marital status can be untangled from immigration then I agree, the state should exit the marriage business.
If no laws were allowed to reference marriage, just as no laws are allowed to reference your baptismal status (or any other sacrament*), then it solves the immigration problem.
*my denomination, when I have one**, has ordinances, not sacraments, and marriage isn’t one of them. But that is beside the point.
**As Reformed Zoomer often says (he is wrong a lot, but still an interesting youtuber), non-denominational churches are baptist without the label.
““There is no crime emergency in the District of Columbia,” he wrote. “Violent crime in DC reached historic 30-year lows last year, and is down another 26% so far this year. We are considering all of our options and will do what is necessary to protect the rights and safety of District residents.””
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/12/trumps-dc-takeover-is-an-ominous-move/
So if you weigh 450 lbs, and lose 50 lbs, it’s all good?
More like you weighed 450 last year, stopped weighing yourself and every so often leave a meal unfinished (by three bites, which you then use to justify eating 7 snacks that evening) so you decide you probably now weigh 425, which you report to your friends as you having lost 50 lbs, when in fact you now weigh 525 and sleep on a mattress in the former living room because you can’t climb the stairs. They lie about crime stats, always.
Citing Marc Elias is almost as good as a direct quote from Satan.
DOOM!:
Trump justifies his D.C. takeover by citing crime rates, but Cleveland’s are higher. Could we be next?
I don’t think that’s anything to be proud of, guys.
I get the sense that even the left’s base isn’t having this pretense any more. Everybody knows why they aren’t allowed to talk honestly about crime & they’re sick of it.
That’s a perfect example of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
Murder is not at a thirty year low. It was 187 last year. Over the last 20 years the lowest was 88 in 2012. The statistic they cite for the 30 year low is reported violent crime. “Reported” is not reliable, especially when the police are fudging the stats. Murder is harder to fudge, because there is a body to count.
“There has long been speculation, but no hard evidence, that Putin possesses kompromat or career-ending evidence about Trump. Perhaps Putin is holding proof of steps he took to assure Trump’s electoral wins, and is threatening to go public if Trump crosses him. Perhaps Trump really is a Russian asset, as some have speculated. (“Regardless of why, he’s acting exactly like a Russian asset would,” observed Edward Lucas, a nonresident fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, in a Foreign Policy essay published in March.) Or perhaps Trump is neck-deep in Russian money laundering schemes, including the financing of Trump Tower, going back to the 1990s.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/13/ahead-of-the-trump-putin-summit-dont-forget-what-we-owe-ukraine/
Perhaps it’s all bullshit.
Here’s a fun question. In Lefty Looneyland, Putin is Hitler and has the means and ambition of taking all of Europe. Yet his invasion of the Ukraine caught the Biden Admin with it’s pants down. So who got fired, or even lost their general stars for not anticipating the Russian invasion?
The unaccountable shall remain unaccountable; don’t you understand? They aren’t to be held accountable, ever.
The left and neo-con right had all-but guaranteed it was gonna happen. PMB wasn’t kidding when he said moving NATO up to his doorstep was a red line.
So of course nobody was caught with any pants down. They knew this was coming.
“There has long been speculation, but no hard evidence that …”
That’s quite a flexible formulation.
e.g.,
“There has long been speculation, but no hard evidence that Edward Lucas enjoys fellating donkeys.”
I heard there are anonymous sources confirming the speculation.
Salon is asserting without evidence.
Salon does that. It’s kind of their thing.
He hasn’t proven it to be false.
No shit?
But let’s keep speculating. Gotta keep pumping up the hatred.
“There has long been speculation, but no hard evidence, that Putin possesses kompromat or career-ending evidence about Trump.”
I think the recent releases of Russiagate info have pretty much put that to bed. The “kompromat” clearly was cooked up out of whole cloth by Hillary and the Deep State.
This is interesting. I hope it’s real. “Two bit da Vinci”
I have never watched anything by the guy before.
Shredded plastic in a pressure cooker. It breaks down into multiple products, including liquid fuels. Also produces gaseous fuel (butane-ish) which is plumbed back into the burner of the pressure cooker.
Includes requisite pondering about whether burning the distilled fuels is bad for the planet.
The only thing perpetual about perpetual motion machine scams is their reappearance.
“I design methanol plants”
“Oh? Why do your designs always include a fuel oil tank? Cant you just run the plant on the methanol you make?”
I wonder what residues are left more or less permanently bonded to the pressure cooker.
Microwave tires in a vacuum.
https://www.recyclingproductnews.com/article/36840/tirehog-microwave-based-solution-can-effectively-recycle-1200-tires-per-day
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a recent interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that her city has a “rapid response network” to respond to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in the area.
“When they were doing the random snatching or kidnappings of people off of our streets, when people gathered, they backed away on many occasions,” Bass said. “And so in Los Angeles, we have a rapid response network where everybody is alerted. If you see masked men getting out of unmarked cars, let everybody in the area know.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/karen-bass-says-la-has-rapid-response-network-to-disrupt-ice-arrests
CWAC
But the commie cockroach has no rapid response plan for fires?
Why is that bitch still breathing free air?
That’s the Left’s MO. They never deal with the actual issues at hand and would rather talk about stuff that no one has much control over. It was like our soon to be deposed mayor yammering about the situation in Gaza and someone from the audience yelled out, “Fix the potholes on Coventry first!”
Ed Wuncler:
Fixing the potholes on Coventry would be removing affordable housing for dozens of people!
She is a modern day Dutch family, hiding countless Anne Frank’s from the evil Nazi dictator.
She and her ilk have pulled off the mask and stomped it into paste. Everybody knows now that these people they are “protecting” are just warm bodies intended to pump up Dem numbers, nothing more. They do not “care” about them in the slightest. And they won’t change their ways one bit, not as long as there is one scrap of power to cling on to.
If, as they have bragged, Obama really deported nearly 3 million illegals, what tactics did he use to round them up and ship them out that followed due process and humane treatment that is being demanded of the Trump administration? Why do I doubt his enforcers went door to door, politely knocking, holding suspects in comfortable hotel-like units, and then convening court to do a six day hearing (with appeals) for each and every one, before placing them in first class on 747s bound home?
I listened to the Jimmy Dore show out of curiosity last night (and desire to hear other POVs from the Left while still avoiding Maddow-level stupid). He’s a Lefty and spent a long time railing about the need for Medicare For All, but he did point out that Obama did most of the same stuff Trump does on immigration but the Dems just didn’t give a shit.
“If you see masked men getting out of unmarked cars, let everybody in the area know.”
Unless they’re cartel, in which case, better to keep your mouth shut.
The only thing perpetual about perpetual motion machine scams is their reappearance.
He specifically says it’s not self-sustaining, but they make direct use of one specific product.
I have no involvement other than it showed up and I watched it. If it’s for real, it’s a hell of a lot better than open burning in trash dumps.
If it’s real Big Oil will buy the patents and bury it.
will buy the patents and bury it.
I have four dozen patents. None these are implemented in the field. The fact that something is technically feasible doesn’t make it economically viable.
Big corn is clearly suppressing your vision.
Consequences of living in Iowa.
I confess I watched the first few seconds and thought ‘this again?’ then typed my response. Per your reply I went back and watched more.
No. It’s a scam. There is no way that comes out ahead in any way. The cheapest, most efficient way to deal with waste plastic is to bury it and the cheapest most efficient way to get those products is from a well. Keep in mind what dollars are…a measure of resources used and a measure of products obtained.
Just like glass recycling.
Pitch it.
“A group of Ukrainian ‘refugees’ start a riot, and proudly display a banner for the Nazi-allied group (a symbol banned in Poland) that killed 100 thousand Poles – igniting a wave of indignation that led to action.
“Hundreds of able-bodied, conscription-age Ukrainians, last night at a concert in Warsaw. Proudly displaying a red-and-black nationalist flag, an outrageous insult to most Poles. As ambassador to I was staunchly defending the Ukrainian cause in D.C. Now I am truly enraged.”
Yesterday (12), Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland will expel 63 Ukrainians and Belarusians for the riot at the concert.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/poland-expels-57-ukrainians-displaying-nazi-flag-during/
I had to read that twice.
Back in September 2024, when Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky aggressively refused to discuss the issue,
He aggressively refused to discuss!
That’s some good journalisming.
wut
Any nation not named “USA” can’t possibly make that claim.
Gotta say, it’s weird kind of nationalist that flees the country when it’s invaded.
I can’t believe Eleanor Holmes Norton is still alive. She must be like 900 years old.
Wikipedia says 88.
She gives 88 YOs a bad image. Nursing homes exist for a reason.
The fact that something is technically feasible doesn’t make it economically viable.
They didn’t talk about economics, just the process. Who knows?
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a recent interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that her city has a “rapid response network” to respond to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in the area.
Maybe the fire department should look into something like that.
She’s immune to being burned.
Well, then:
https://apnews.com/article/airman-death-sig-sauer-m18-pause-arrest-b69c5ba0aed2602fb97d1e348370dd36
Huh.
It honestly never crossed my mind that he was shot by someone else.
Following up from earlier this week or late last week (I think the latter):
There is one and only one good solution to gerrymandering — All Reps elected statewide via single transferrable vote. As was pointed out in previous discussion, we have already lost local representation due to 750k+ district populations.
There is no system that will not be gamed.
But the point is to tilt the game towards the results you find most advantageous.
I’m not convinced an at large scheme actually does that. The rules are going to be written by the State legislatures, and historically it’s not team Red that is best at fine tuning procedures to lock out team Blue.
Of course, Arrow proved that decades ago. But some can be gamed more than others. Each state being a single multi-member district with single transferrable vote can still be gamed, but I am not sure I care about that tiny amount of gaming. I would assume the gaming would be via ballot access rules. Which already exist anyway, so wouldn’t be worse than today.
And I would love to see the California results. Every nutjob political concept will manage to cobble together the 2% necessary to win a seat. I a not sure that the LP couldn’t manage to get the votes to win a seat in some midsize states even. Could they get 1 of 8 in Colorado…maybe?
How is the vote transferred? I can see California coming up with a distribution system that ends with every race being won by the Dems? Or are you talking about a parliamentary vote where you vote for the party and they appoint the individual?
There is a lot of theory on that, you can look up how it is done.
The basic idea is like ranked choice voting where when your candidate is a loser you go to next in your list. Only in an STV, if your candidate is a BIG winner, some of his votes goes down to his voters 2nd choices. Its generally done as a fractional vote. Say you need 10% to be elected and your candidate gets 20%. Then 1/2 of your vote stays with your primary candidate and the other half gets transferred to 2nd on the list. If you keep selecting candidates that get elected, your vote gets diluted smaller and smaller as it transfers down the list.
Obviously, it takes a computer to do this properly. Well, it can be done by hand, but can get tedious at a certain point. If you do the elections efficiently (no mail in), you can have the first round results the night of election. But other rounds will probably come later. I mean, if you have all the vote lists entered into a DB that night, you should have the final results the next morning. But releasing round by round results twice a day might be more fun.
The “too large geographically to visit” complaint doesn’t fly when you see Alaska has one rep for the whole state. I really wouldn’t care if my Libertarian congresscritter lived 400 miles across the state as long as he or she replied to my e-mails. Current congressscum lives about 5 miles away, and has local office even closer, but I never see or hear or visit her.
I was surprised a couple weeks back when I was driving, and saw a billboard for my Congresscritter. Not for election or campaigning, but a simple message (paraphrasing) “Have an issue with a government agency? Call my office!”
I was taken aback, and realized I have no memory of seeing anything like that in my 40+ years traveling around.
The solution is the same as that to corruption and other abuses of power:
Make the power not worth the effort to obtain.
Hence my solution. Increase the number of the critters.
Even better, actually enforce the constitution. Specifically Article 1, Section 8.
Republicans bully!
Far from the days of old for a party mocked for sending “strongly worded letters” while Republicans steamrolled them, Democrats are now firing their own flamethrowers.
It’s precisely what the rank and file want to see from a party they’re fed up with and disappointed in, Democrats say.
“There are not that many moments when politics break through to normal people. This is breaking through … because of how ruthless people are seeing Republicans be, and they want to see their Democratic leaders fight just as hard,” said Josh Marcus-Blank, a Democratic consultant who has worked on senatorial and presidential campaigns. “Any [Democratic] voter thinking about 2028 is mad right now, and they really want Democrats to stand up and fight back.”
Those poor Democrats, always letting the big bad Republicans walk all over them. It’s time to stand up and fight back.
Democrat flamethrowers? Is that referring to the Muslim wing of the party’s method for dealing with the alphabet wing?
“Far from the days of old for a party mocked for sending “strongly worded letters” while Republicans steamrolled them”
WTF world are these people living in? That is the exact opposite of reality and it has been for decades.
Have they forgotten Kavanaugh where they falsely accused him of being a rapist, or Mitt Romney’s campaign where they tried to convince the populous that he was the misogynist racist second coming of Hitler. Or if we want to be more current, the whole COVID debacle and Russiagate. These assholes always dial it up and will actively destroy anyone who goes against their orthodoxy.
The opposite of reality is everything they say and they will on occasion tell you so. It’s right there in their handbook.
What is remarkable is how they get away with “I am an inveterate liar, now listen up…”
The dems are the biggest crack-smoking, projecting, whiny assholes this side of the sun. Damn that gets old. The repubs just decided to stop rolling over and grow a spine. And it took them 50 years to do it. I just hope the repubs hold fast. If repubs go back to being progressives in the slow lane we will all be steamrollered for our insolence.
“Last year, China’s leading EV company, BYD—it claims the initials stand for Build Your Dreams—sold 4.3 million vehicles, overtaking reigning EV champion Tesla as the world’s largest EV maker. In Germany, China has over 40 percent of the EV market. In Mexico, it’s 70 percent. In Brazil, it’s an astonishing 89 percent, the vast majority of which are BYD autos.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/china-is-overtaking-america-in-an-electric-car
Are they any good?
“China now has around 130 EV companies, with names like Xiami, NIO, and Li Auto, as well as BYD; if you’ve never heard of them, don’t feel too bad. You’ve never seen one on an American road. Chinese EVs are effectively banned from the U.S.
This gets to the second threat these cars constitute, which goes beyond the economic: Many U.S. officials believe that China’s EVs are a risk to our national security. Like the social media company TikTok and the telecom infrastructure company Huawei, China’s EVs have the means to spy on the West.
Specifically: Their built-in surveillance systems—loaded with cameras and sensors—could allow the cars to capture data that could then be passed on to the Chinese military. (The Free Press wrote about how this technology, called LIDAR, could compromise confidential data in September 2023.)”
Yes. They make vehicles to proper safety standards.
The reason they have all the cameras is the same reason all the western manufacturers do – for all the ADAS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_system
China is completely capable of making top quality goods. Just don’t ask them to pay for all of the IP they use in them and to make them.
Please stop writing BYD. It puts Michael Jackson music into my head.
These percentages amount to what in real numbers?
The electric car thing is going to die.
1 in 5 globally.
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2
Are they any good?
If I recall correctly, the CEO of Ford Motor Company loves his BYD electric car.
Andrew O’Neill, the national advocacy director for the progressive grassroots group Indivisible, referred to some of the Democrats’ remarks and actions as “productive ambition.”
“Democratic leadership amongst Democratic voters — it’s in the toilet right now. The Democratic base is furious with the state of their party,” O’Neill said.
He added that any Democrats hoping to draw attention on the national stage must show the base they know how to take off the gloves.
“If you take the sort of quiet-adult-in-the-room, ‘we’re just going to be responsible’ approach, nobody pays attention to you, and nobody hears your message,” O’Neill said. “So it’s all well and good that you put out a boring press release that says you believe in democracy and fair maps, but if you’re not actually taking the fight to Republicans and drawing that strategic conflict, in the attention economy we currently live with, nobody’s going to hear you.”
Needs more performative outrage. Got it.
and just what will those newly testosterone-drunk Democrats do when they wrest power away from the MAGA-ites? Don’t worry about that. They’ll tell you when you need to know.
They still dont get it. Good.
Heard about Randi Weingarten’s new book on the Tom Woods newsletter:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779831/why-fascists-fear-teachers-by-randi-weingarten/
“Attacks on schools and teachers have long been a hallmark of fascist regimes: Throughout history, as many dictators rose to power they began banning books and controlling curriculum. Fascists fear teachers because teachers foster an educated and empowered population that can see past propaganda and scare tactics. Fascists fear teachers because they teach young people how to think for themselves.”
How do you even write this shit with a straight face?
If you can’t read this, thank a teacher.
Fascists fear teachers because teachers foster an educated and empowered population that can see past propaganda and scare tactics. Fascists fear teachers because they teach young people how to think for themselves.
WHEEEEEE!