October 05, 2024
What would Eric Hoffer, The Longshoreman Philosopher, be thinking about now?
Eric Hoffer, an enigmatic man
We did not need a longshoremen's strike to go with Helene
There have been a lot of stories of outrageous behaviour involving government ineptitude and even seeming hostility toward victims during Hurricane Helene and recovery efforts, including even preventing private citizens from helping with relief. And in the middle of this, we had a longshoremen's strike!
Coincidentally, I read a quote from Eric Hoffer, the Longshoreman Philosopher, from a social media friend, and I wondered what Hoffer might be thinking about recent developments both with the longshoremen (he thought a lot about societal change) and about the response to the hurricane.
There have been many ruinous governmental actions in response to Helene, but we may be about at this point now:
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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival *****
Good morning Morons. Welcome to October. Before we get enter the prayer revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over> (Rulz for those of you in Escanaba) 1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2. Be kind, be nice and for heaven's sake, no jumping on the furniture.
3. Running with sharp objects is frowned upon. Seriously. It is.
4. Have a great weekend!
Good morning Morons. Welcome to October. Before we get enter the prayer revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over> (Rulz for those of you in Escanaba) 1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2. Be kind, be nice and for heaven's sake, no jumping on the furniture.
3. Running with sharp objects is frowned upon. Seriously. It is.
4. Have a great weekend!
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Daily Tech News 5 October 2024
Top Story
- Mark Muppetly, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, continues his spiraling descent into psychosis: WordPress.org just belongs to me. (The Verge)
WordPress.org is not non-profit organisation managing the open-source WordPress code."I happily provide WordPress.org services to literally every other host," Mullenweg says. There is "no requirement to give back. WordPress will be open-source forever and ever, and so there will never be any legal requirement to give back." But WordPress does still "request" that companies contribute something. "It's better for WordPress if they give back."
WP Engine's lawyers are reportedly looking at replacing their Porsches with Ferraris.
- 159 Automattic employees (the commercial side of WordPress) have taken the hint and the available severance offer and walked out. (The Register)
They are not going down with the ship.
- Meanwhile Melk Murgatroyd decided to join in a Hacker News thread on the WP Engine suit and... Potentially libel the party suing him. (Hacker News)
This seems unwise.
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October 04, 2024
O*N*T
Tonight's ONT will be written with accuracy and precision.
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The Cafe with No Name
Rio Grande at Big Bend
Live performance of the theme from The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly. There's an ocarina involved. Also, they have a "dead body" hanging from the rafters to put you in a western mood. Does the original just have someone vocalizing the "waah waah waah" parts? I always imagined that was a trumpet with a cover or something. The theme from Fistful of Dollars, played with guitar and revolver. Scenes from the Eternal City, San Francisco. My bad, I'm told the Eternal City is Rome. San Francisco is the Eternal Shitty. I'm sorry, I'm just folksy and I speak passionately. I'm a knucklehead who talks like Joe Biden rides a bike. Please elevate me to the second-highest office in the world. Man admires huge moose and the two share a magical moment of cross-species understanding before the moose gets aggro charges the man. Couple adopts cute pittie rescued from a hoarding/breeding situation. More on "Moo Deng Fever," the most contagious viral sensation to come out of Asia since Anthony Fauci paid the ChiComs to make covid-19. (But note Moo Deng is Thai, not Chinese, so you don't have to hate her.) Clumsy little puppy stalks and takes down the ultimate prey. One might say he pounces and seizes. I think I linked this last month. This golden retriever puppy thinks he can do a Stealth Attack by just walking slowly. Maybe he's using Dr. Lazarus's Mochtar Stealth Haze. Trans-species cat barks like a dog until her master sees her, then she goes back to pretending to be a cat. Cute little street dog puppy asks couple to take her home. Fuzzy buddies playing tag. Cats are ninjas. Not just because they are mysterious and may slash you without warning. But also because they can climb like spiders. Super dog leap. Cute cats. Raised by wolves. It's Friday!
Rio Grande at Big Bend
Live performance of the theme from The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly. There's an ocarina involved. Also, they have a "dead body" hanging from the rafters to put you in a western mood. Does the original just have someone vocalizing the "waah waah waah" parts? I always imagined that was a trumpet with a cover or something. The theme from Fistful of Dollars, played with guitar and revolver. Scenes from the Eternal City, San Francisco. My bad, I'm told the Eternal City is Rome. San Francisco is the Eternal Shitty. I'm sorry, I'm just folksy and I speak passionately. I'm a knucklehead who talks like Joe Biden rides a bike. Please elevate me to the second-highest office in the world. Man admires huge moose and the two share a magical moment of cross-species understanding before the moose gets aggro charges the man. Couple adopts cute pittie rescued from a hoarding/breeding situation. More on "Moo Deng Fever," the most contagious viral sensation to come out of Asia since Anthony Fauci paid the ChiComs to make covid-19. (But note Moo Deng is Thai, not Chinese, so you don't have to hate her.) Clumsy little puppy stalks and takes down the ultimate prey. One might say he pounces and seizes. I think I linked this last month. This golden retriever puppy thinks he can do a Stealth Attack by just walking slowly. Maybe he's using Dr. Lazarus's Mochtar Stealth Haze. Trans-species cat barks like a dog until her master sees her, then she goes back to pretending to be a cat. Cute little street dog puppy asks couple to take her home. Fuzzy buddies playing tag. Cats are ninjas. Not just because they are mysterious and may slash you without warning. But also because they can climb like spiders. Super dog leap. Cute cats. Raised by wolves. It's Friday!
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Black Female Member of Parliament Is Discovered to be an Anti-Minority Racist By Noting that "Not All Cultures Are Equal" and Saying That She Wants the UK to Embrace Western Values, Not the Third-World Values of the Country She Fled
Obviously this black woman is a White Adjacent Racist who should be investigated for her ties to January 6th.
Skinfolk ain't always kinfault, am I right? (Kamala Fake Accent ON) Mmmm-hm, chiiiiiile, you know what I'm sayin'. (Lunatic cackling ensues.)Kemi Badenoch's perfectly legitimate view, that 'not all cultures are equally valid' when it comes to deciding who should be allowed to settle in the UK, has been greeted with outrage from the usual suspects. The UK Tory leadership contender made the point in a piece outlining her approach to immigration for the Sunday Telegraph. She writes that Britain is not simply 'a dormitory for people to come here and make money', and that migrants' cultural backgrounds matter, too. 'We cannot be naïve and assume immigrants will automatically abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at the border', she adds. She expanded on her op-ed during a discussion last weekend, on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. 'Cultures that believe in child marriage, or that women don't have equal rights' are not in line with 'Western principles', she said. None of this should be controversial. Badenoch is right to point out that most politicians only want to talk about the economic impact of immigration -- whether positive or negative -- on growth, productivity and wages. Too many ignore the cultural impact of immigration. And the truth is that certain migrants from certain backgrounds find it easier to integrate into British society and adopt its liberal democratic values than others. Badenoch is also correct to warn of the danger of importing ethnic hostilities to the UK, and disrupting domestic community relations.... Furthermore, immigration can also import political conflicts.... In her Sunday Telegraph piece, Badenoch drew attention to the importation of anti-Israel hatred to the UK. There are plenty of criticisms to make of the Netanyahu-led Israeli government, and there's a strong case to be made for the UK to officially recognise Palestinian statehood. But large parts of the pro-Palestine movement go well beyond such calls for Palestinian self-determination. This includes the frequent chanting of anti-Jewish slogans and the displaying of pro-Hamas symbols. This not only shows a flagrant disregard for the law (it is an offence to glorify terrorism), it also intimidates and endangers Britain's Jewish communities. ... Badenoch has a point. The UK desperately needs a new post-Brexit settlement when it comes to immigration -- one that takes into account both economics and culture.
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Elon Musk is Trying to Provide Aid to Stricken Areas of North Carolina But Biden's Evil Government Is Blocking Him
Elon Musk
@elonmusk Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina. @FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help! "Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We've deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives. The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It's very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough."
GOPA lot of people are wondering if Harris-Biden are deliberately slow-rolling aid to North Carolina because the storm destroyed mostly Republican areas. David Axelrod notes that, in a happy accident, it does turn out that maybe Harris-Biden's deadly delinquency could cause problems turning out the Trump vote. Whoops! Whoopsie!
@GOP Kamala Harris's FEMA allocated over $1 billion in the past 2 years "to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security." Kamala Harris is not for you.
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Hollywood Hubris: Megaflopolis à Deux
Magnum opus more like magnum flopus am i rite There are reasons to appreciate the effort. He says he wanted to make this movie for all viewers, and so he cast cancelled actors like Jon Voight and Shia La Boeuf. Note that Voight was cancelled just for being a Republican and Shia La Boeuf was cancelled for allegedly abusing women. These are equally cancel-worthy sins in Hollywood. But the movie is apparently self-indulgent to the extreme and, as one critic said, feels like a college sophomore took his first philosophy course and decided to write a screenplay. The $120 million (which doesn't even include costs for printing thousands of copies of the film or marketing and advertising) movie made $4 million its opening weekend. As Vincent Carccotti says, that's as good as it gets and it won't ever get that good again.
Speaking of: You know what's really crazy? When you direct a billion-dollar movie but critics and leftwingers (but I repeat myself) and Permanent Residents of Twitterstan say mean things about you like "You're inciting toxic manbabies!" and so you create a sequel not to please fans of your movie but to appease its worst, most toxic critics and then the fans hate it and the leftwing mob you tried to appease also hates it and now you've got a huge bomb on your hands.
Francis Ford Coppola sold his winery and put up $120 million of his own money to fund what he imagined would be his magnum opus.
Magnum opus more like magnum flopus am i rite There are reasons to appreciate the effort. He says he wanted to make this movie for all viewers, and so he cast cancelled actors like Jon Voight and Shia La Boeuf. Note that Voight was cancelled just for being a Republican and Shia La Boeuf was cancelled for allegedly abusing women. These are equally cancel-worthy sins in Hollywood. But the movie is apparently self-indulgent to the extreme and, as one critic said, feels like a college sophomore took his first philosophy course and decided to write a screenplay. The $120 million (which doesn't even include costs for printing thousands of copies of the film or marketing and advertising) movie made $4 million its opening weekend. As Vincent Carccotti says, that's as good as it gets and it won't ever get that good again.
Well, I think we would all like more movies which are based in actual passion and less on squeezing a YA reader IP until the blood turns to pudding. But that passion must be tested by a question that Hollywood simply doesn't bother asking any longer, including in its corporate cashgrab would-be blockbusters: Who is this for? Is there an actual audience for a videogame action movie starring 50 and 70 year old women, for example? They just don't seem to care. Most of Hollywood is making movies not out of passion for the material, or even for crass money-making purposes, but only to satisfy some ideological propaganda goal and to appease 200 mentally-ill intellectually stunted savages on Twitter. Update: A movie review from naturalflake:
In Francis Ford Coppola's allegorical, phantasmagorical fever-dream passion-project Megalopolis, Adam Driver portrays a visionary civic planner who can stop time with his mind and builds towering, surreally fluid cityscapes with the help of a mysterious substance called Megalon. Over the weekend, Ford's self-financed $136 million drama crumbled under the weight of its negative buzz, earning a paltry $4 million over its opening three days of release in 2,000 North American theaters. To put that box-office return in perspective, Megalopolis ranked sixth behind Devara: Part 1, a three-hour Telugu-language action epic playing on about half as many screens. Moreover, such an underperformance fell wildly short of prerelease "tracking" estimates that had Ford's two-hour and 18-minute ensemble opus -- its cast includes Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman, and Aubrey Plaza -- earning between $7 million and $10 million. Or, to put it another way, Megalopolis would have to continue selling tickets at the same rate for another 24 weeks, with no drop-off, to break even (not including its prints and advertising spend: another $30 million to $50 million). Reputationally and financially, Megalopolis's 85-year-old writer-director-producer (and not the film's distributor Lionsgate) has the most to lose. The maverick American auteur behind Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy began conjuring the movie's script back in the early '80s and borrowed $200 million against his Napa Valley winery business to personally bankroll Megalopolis's nine-figure budget when studio backers deemed the project too risky. Its production designer, visual effects supervisor, and supervising art director (in addition to the whole rank-and-file VFX team) quit during filming due to what has been characterized as an epic case of "creative differences" with Coppola. More damaging, background actresses came forward to accuse the octogenarian of repeated attempted nonconsensual on-set kissing during the filming of a Bacchanalian disco scene "to get them in the mood" (Coppola has strenuously denied the allegations). And a disastrous buyers' screening for 300 industry machers at Los Angeles's Universal City Walk IMAX in March left distributors pessimistic about Megalopolis's commercial prospects. According to Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, however, focusing solely on Megalopolis's minuscule ticket sales and D+ CinemaScore may be missing the point. "That the movie even exists in theaters this weekend is kind of a miracle," Dergarabedian says. "I think a bold, swing-for-the-fences movie release should be celebrated."
... In post-pandemic, post-strike Hollywood, "Don't bring me your passion project," a producer behind a string of blockbusters tells me. "When I hear 'passion project,' I'm thinking, No fucking way. Nobody wants it. It's just gonna be some weird vanity thing that makes 25 cents [in] theatrical [release]. And I'm not doing the heavy lift." ... In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published before Megalopolis's megaflopolis, Coppola discussed a contingency plan for a "very useful" tax write-down if the movie flopped. "I'm very old, so it all goes into an estate plan," the director said.
We saw "Megalopolis". It's a very well-shot, occasionally nicely directed complete failure where everyone's, and I mean everyone's dialog sounds like Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz dialogue from "Apocalypse Now". ie. full of little snippets of poetry or plays to sound all 'intellectual" and all the way a mid-wit thinks geniuses speak. Though a few individual scenes might work, it's just a big mess. The funniest thing is that the protagonist is more or less a funhouse version of Trump/Elon Musk and the antagonists funhouse versions of Democrat politicians and antifa/blm. Only Coppola to his horror doe not realize this until the movie is about to end. So he loads up faux-antifa with "Make New Rome Great Again" signs , and gives his Democrat standing some "Trump-speak" itn the last few minutes but the cherry on the top is- A New Globalist/Greentard Pledge of Allegiance to the Planet delivered by a children's chorus and printed IN BIG CAPITAL LETTERS on the screen. *chef's kiss* it really is the perfect end. Hilariously sad. Wait till it streams for "free" to see. Posted by: naturalfakeAh. Yeah, the set up feels like The Fountainhead, which is obviously a right-wing storyline. Good to know that Coppola "fixes" The Fountainhead at the very end and makes it about a green revolution.
Speaking of: You know what's really crazy? When you direct a billion-dollar movie but critics and leftwingers (but I repeat myself) and Permanent Residents of Twitterstan say mean things about you like "You're inciting toxic manbabies!" and so you create a sequel not to please fans of your movie but to appease its worst, most toxic critics and then the fans hate it and the leftwing mob you tried to appease also hates it and now you've got a huge bomb on your hands.
While originally the new Joker sequel, Joker: Folie a Deux, seemed to be tracking a little bit behind the original, 61% critic scores compared to a 69% score, that has now changed drastically with more reviews pouring in for the sequel. The film's scores have crashed all the way down to a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes one day ahead of its official release on October 4 (Update: now down to 39%). It's rare to see scores fall that much as more reviews come in past the initial batch, but critics are really not enjoying what they're seeing, it seems. The film has been criticized for its story, musical numbers and extremely controversial ending, but mainly that it doesn't feel like it needs to exist at all. ... This low of a score means that it is far, far below that majority of DC offerings over the last decade or so. Here's the bottom ten list in that regard: Aquaman -- 65%Lower than Josstice League. Ouch. Apparently the movie is intended to Teach the CHUDs Who Liked the First Movie a lesson and turn Joker from a sympathetic wretch of an anti-hero into a pitiful loser that not even the CHUDs can like. Apparently the entire movie consists of calling the character a loser, literally -- there are times when other character berate him as a pathetic loser. Many are calling Todd Phillips "spiteful" to the audience that made his movie a billion dollars in 2019 -- the sequel is a blunt insult to the old audience. Always playing to that mythical Modern Audience that never actually shows up. I have no dog in this fight -- I never bothered seeing the first one; I already saw and enjoyed Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, and I don't need to see a mash-up of those movies with a comic-book IP added to make it financially viable. Todd Phillips' one stroke of genius was to see how King of Comedy -- a movie about a disrespected, unemployed, unfunny loser of failed comedian with mental health issues who turns criminal against a TV show host who mocked him in a bid for respect -- could be rewritten as a Joker movie. Where did he get that brilliant idea from? How did he make that connection? He must have been visited by some galaxy-brained muse sent by God, because there's no way anything less than a divine genius could make the King of Comedy-Joker connection. I mean, yeah, sure, it was part of the movie poster, but still.
The Flash - 63%
Wonder Woman 1984 -- 58%
Man of Steel -- 56%
Justice League (Whedon) -- 40%
Joker: Folie A Deux - 39%
Black Adam -- 39%
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom -- 33%
Batman V Superman -- 29%
Suicide Squad -- 26%
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Newsweek Discovers a New Pathology on the Right: Right-Leaning Men Have a "New Obsession," and It's Hot Girls With Nice Bodies and Conventional Good Looks!
L to R: The Left one, the Right one
Conservative men just discovered they like hot women.
This is a major goal of Drumpf's right-wing extremist Project 2025.
I've wanted to link the below video for a while. This is the perfect opportunity to do it. Shoe0nHead, herself a conventionally attractive, maybe Hot, girl, did this video about the leftist harridans' unquenchable thirst to demonize not just normal guys, but every single minor pleasure and trivial preference of normal guys. She calls this "the War on Normal Guys," taking part of the title from one normal guy gamer's lament that everything he likes or prefers is problematic. I think the quote comes from a normal guy being exasperated at the endless bitching that he's "toxic" because he likes the women in video games to look like, well, actual women, and not transgender "women." "We're just normal guys," he sighed.
L to R: The Left one, the Right one
Conservative men just discovered they like hot women.
This is a major goal of Drumpf's right-wing extremist Project 2025.
The left thinks that the right's sexual preferences are political constructs for the reason that the left's (stated) sexual preferences are all political constructs. More projection than the Ziegfield Theater. (Where I saw The Phantom Menace. It wasn't great.)
How Hot Girls Became the Right's New Obsession
Most important movements do begin there.
It all began with Sydney Sweeney's cleavage.
She's not a "so-called conservative hot girl." She's a hot girl, period. Yeah you can quibble that she's not the most strikingly beautiful in her face, but she's cute in the face, and her body is unimpeachable.
In March, the 27-year-old actress hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time, wearing low-cut outfits during the start and close of the show, which featured a number of jokes about her physical appearance, including a sketch where she played a Hooters waitress. SNL cast member Bowen Yang revealed in a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast that the Euphoria star "was practically begging everybody" to make body-related jokes. "She came in and was like, 'Please, everyone, make jokes about my boobs,'" he said. At the time, Sweeney's appearance sparked much discourse and was lauded by a number of right-wing commentators as "the death of woke" (more on that later). The actress had become a so-called conservative hot girl--a pin-up for the modern day right-wing movement as it attempts to expand the appeal of conservatism beyond the confines of its largely older, white, male base.
Sweeney and other conservative hot girls don't necessarily have any tangible involvement with politics (though some have strong political affiliations), but they have been claimed by right-wing public figures as their own, whether they appear to like it or not.No one on the right "claimed" Sydney Sweeney, though we did show sympathy for her when nasty mutant leftists attacked her for posting video of a family birthday party in which one (1) family member wore a hat that said "Make Sixty Great Again" in the style of a Make American Great Again hat. That, to the ravening mob of sexually-demented shut-ins, was too close to a Trump hat to be permitted. She had to be #Cancelled. We didn't "claim" here. We merely defended her against your brutish lunacies.
The conservative hot girl "isn't a particularly new phenomenon," Victoria Cann...You don't say. You don't f&&&in' say.
... an associate professor at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., told Newsweek.Professor of what? Biochemistry? Astrophysics? Medieval history? Guess That Major. A new media game for us to play.
She means that straight, normal, sexually-healthy men view women through straight, normal, sexually-healthy male eyes, and that's a problem. We must view women through the Male Gays' Gaze.
"Women have been positioned through the lens of the masculinist imagery in conservative, populist politics for a very long time."
... Amy Tatum of Bournemouth University told Newsweek that "this focus on 'hot girls' is a way for the right in the U.S. to fight back against perceptions of 'wokeness,' holding up women in a sexualized fashion could be a tactic to reinforce gender stereotypes around women's appearances."LOL. Again, Guess That Major. I'm going to guess "Not Higher-Dimensional Topography."
Conservatives did not "claim" her. We were half-amused, half-scandalized by her oblivious vulgarity.
Following Sweeney's appearance on SNL, right-wing political commentator Richard Hanania shared a clip of the actress on the show in a low-cut dress, with the caption: "Wokeness is dead." An opinion piece in Canada's National Post asked, "Are Sydney Sweeney's breasts double-D harbingers of the death of woke?" The author of that piece, Amy Hamm, wrote that Sweeney knows she's admired and owns "her sex appeal with zero apologies," arguing that "today's diversity, equity, and inclusion" advocates have discouraged admiration of beauty due to its exclusivity, implying that exclusion equates to hate. "We aren't supposed to admire Sweeney's beauty; but we've done it anyways," she added. ...
In early August, Sweeney posted a series of photos to Instagram, with the caption "I think they call this a thirst trap." The sports commentator Joe Kinsey later shared the images on X with the caption: "It's a bad week to be a militant blue-haired lesbian," in a thread of messages that also included posts about university sororities. Why Sweeney? She's conventionally attractive and popular, and although the actress has never publicly discussed her political leanings, an event for her mother's 60th birthday in 2022 caused a whirlwind of speculation. Pictures from the party circulated online of guests wearing hats that said, "Make Sixty Great Again," in the style of Trump's, "Make America Great Again." Sweeney responded at the time telling people to "stop making assumptions," and wrote on X that, "An innocent celebration for my mom's milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention." ... Sweeney isn't the only young woman getting the conservative hot girl treatment. Haliey Welch, better known as the 'Hawk Tuah' girl, shot to fame in June after she appeared in a TikTok interview in which she offered sex advice. When asked by the interviewer: "What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?" Welch replied: "You gotta give 'em that 'hawk tuah' and spit on that thing." "Hawk tuah" is the sound someone makes while spitting.
... Her "Hawk Tuah" catchphrase has been adopted by conservatives and put on merch that is a similar style to former President Donald Trump's, and is often emblazoned over an American flag. Merch of this style, with the catchphrase "Hawk Tuah '24," printed in red and white on a blue or black backdrop, is also sold by Welch's official merchandise store.This is a joke. As they say, the left not only can't meme, they can't even identify memes.
... Victoria Cann of the University of East Anglia said, "Sydney Sweeney and Haliey Welch have actively distanced themselves from those right-wing politics, but [have] nevertheless become entangled within them because of what they represent, not what they actually think." There are women in the conservative hot girl bracket who actively engage in right-wing politics. That list includes Republican National Committee national spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko and Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. Right-wing and right-leaning media outlets, rather than commentators online, seem to have been behind these women's conservative hot girl labels.Genetics and the grace of God are behind Anna Paulina Luna's "hot girl label." For crying out loud -- these pathetic insecure women are trying to pretend that objective physical beauty is nothing, Nothing!, more than a socially-constructed lie created by The Patriarchy and enforced by MAGA, Inc.
... Luna made headlines back in August after a nearly decade-old video of her wearing a 'MAGA' swimsuit resurfaced. The Daily Mail described her as a "MAGA Bombshell." In response to the video, the Florida lawmaker said on X, "I'm confirming that I have indeed worn swimsuits, and you can tell I am biologically a woman." ... "There is something titillating about seeing a beautiful young woman spouting right-wing slogans," Catherine Rottenberg of Goldsmiths, University of London told Newsweek, and described this as "saying 'F-you' to feminists and other progressives."Guess That Major. Economics, perhaps? Soft-body robotic engineering, maybe?
Well, it's also an assertion that we will not Suck the Female Penis, so I guess there is a small political component to asserting we are heterosexual and Proud. You like Pride, don't you? Are heterosexuals the only people in the world who shouldn't be Proud of what the find sexy?
She added that it's "an attempt to show that they are fighting wokeness."
... Pipko responded, "I don't consider myself someone who spouts anything but pro-American slogans and I'm very proud of that." She described this criticism as being made by people who are "confused or so blinded by their hatred for those who hold differing political views that they forgot what being a feminist actually means."We have a "wide range of faces, ages, and body shapes" -- except for the conventionally-attractive faces and body shapes, which are forbidden because The Male Gaze is Evil and Must Be Thwarted.
"Some people are considered conventionally beautiful. But when you have a pattern (where hot girls are the faces of the movement) -- and when they are using tropes (bikini shots) as a way of sending a particular kind of message -- then that feels extremely regressive," Rottenberg said. She added, "I am all for having lots of smart, articulate, and good-looking women as spokespeople for movements -- but we need a wide range of faces, ages, and body shapes."
Um, no, men appreciate hot girls of all races or creeds. Again, she's claiming that people must consciously alter their actual sexual preferences to comport themselves with the DEI agenda. I see an awful lot of dowdy white lesbians with a lot of other dowdy white lesbians. Maybe it's time for the white lesbians to change their sexual preferences to be more "inclusive." #DoBetter, dowdy white lesbians. #DoBetter.
Conservative hot girls have one thing in common, besides implied or explicit political values, according to Erin Cassese of the University of Delaware. "[These] aren't just 'hot women,' they're white women," she told Newsweek. "It's a narrow and conventional definition of sex appeal, or 'hotness.' It runs counter to cultural change reflecting an expansion of beauty standards to be more inclusive in terms of body size, race, and ethnicity, for example."
That could just be that mouthy AWFLs never leave perfectly normal guys in peace but are constantly hectoring them and bitching at them and writing articles about Yes, All Men Are Terrible and Need to be Changed.
The focus on the conservative hot girl comes at a time when the political gender divide in America is wider than ever.
... Goldsmiths' Catherine Rottenberg said, "Like advertisements that sell objects by objectifying women and their bodies, this seems to be a similar strategy. Attractive women are good for business."This is another New Trend -- that Hot Women get more looks than other people, and that it helps your message, be it commercial, artistic (movies, fashion, photography) or even political to have attractive people involved with it.
... Cassese said that the conservative hot girl is, "A way of appealing to other men on the basis of the male gaze."It's just... so perfect.
... Does the conservative hot girl's rise symbolize a more liberal thinking about sexuality, or is it the installation of women as objects for political gain? "Definitely the latter," Rottenberg said. "There is no liberal thinking about sexuality here." "Patriarchy and populism go hand in hand," Hannah Yelin of Oxford Brookes University in England told Newsweek. "Policing women, their appearance and their bodies is an integral mechanism of the American right." Cann said that the women involved in this movement who "actually readily align themselves with right-wing populism oftentimes represent a profound interest in traditional gender norms and an explicit rejection of feminist politics."Really? You don't say? Conservative women tend to be virtuous, mentally-healthy traditionalists who aren't filled with uncontained hatred for half the human population and reject feminism, aka Marxism for Gurlz? Is this also a Hot New Trend?
Indeed. We prize our traditionalist, kindly, sensible and sometimes hot women over your bedraggled bag-ladies and Brooklyn broke-brained spinsters. Meanwhile, women are also rejecting the left's demands to re-orient their sexual preferences according to political ideology:
Cassese pointed to the fact that the reification of the hot girl is "coinciding with the erosion of women's reproductive rights" and that this, "points to a regressive tendency to prioritize men's sexual gratification over women's agency." The University of Delaware academic added, "The 'hot girl' is the opposite of the 'childless cat lady' being invoked by leaders like JD Vance. These two competing images of womanhood arising in conservative rhetoric are two sides of the same coin, and they say a lot about what conservatives value about women."
Margot ClevelandAnd not just women.
@ProfMJCleveland It's amazing to me that political pundits are only now learning that women actually prefer men in steel-toed boots to the those supposedly redefining masculinity.
As a group, gay people may overwhelmingly hate Donald Trump. But they couldn't help but fall in love with JD Vance on the debate stage Tuesday night. In the words of Gay America, he came out looking snatched.First they took the word "gay" from us, and now they're appropriating "snatch"?
Now, these poll numbers might be made up, but they're making fun of a very real phenomenon: Gay Twitter absolutely lost their minds for Vance last night. Some said he'd make a "hot AF VP" while others said he's "[g]iving the gays everything we want." Some speculated the "pink tie" was sending a signal, wink wink. What that signal is, I can't share here -- but the consensus was overwhelmingly suggestive. As noted conservative activist (and gay man) Andy Ngo noted, "I was not expecting gay X responses to the VP debate to be so XXX."I never knew what "snatched" meant when it was said to me. Now I do. Thank you for the compliments, garrett.
I've wanted to link the below video for a while. This is the perfect opportunity to do it. Shoe0nHead, herself a conventionally attractive, maybe Hot, girl, did this video about the leftist harridans' unquenchable thirst to demonize not just normal guys, but every single minor pleasure and trivial preference of normal guys. She calls this "the War on Normal Guys," taking part of the title from one normal guy gamer's lament that everything he likes or prefers is problematic. I think the quote comes from a normal guy being exasperated at the endless bitching that he's "toxic" because he likes the women in video games to look like, well, actual women, and not transgender "women." "We're just normal guys," he sighed.
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MSNBC Producer: Our Programming Is Indistinguishable From the Democrat Party; We Are Doing All We Can to Help Kamala Win; Our Audience Screams At Us If We Criticize Democrats, So Network Forbids Doing So
James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII BREAKING: @MSNBC Producer Admits MSNBC Is 'Doing All They Can to Help' the Harris Campaign During an undercover date with an OMG journalist, Basel Hamdan (@BaselYHamdan
), a writer and producer for MSNBC's show "Ayman," (@AymanMSNBC
) was asked what the network has done to assist the Kamala Harris campaign. Hamdan revealed on hidden camera that "what her [Harris's] message of the day is, is their message of the day," as MSNBC actively pushes Harris's narrative to help her win. He admitted that MSNBC is doing "all they can to help," Harris get elected, with the network operating as an extension of the campaign. He went on to say, "MSNBC is indistinguishable from the party," further highlighting their partisan agenda. In discussing the relationships between the MSNBC hosts and Democratic politicians, Hamdan reveals, "The anchor and the politician are just in total agreement about everything." He adds, "If you watch an interview with a Democratic politician, they just finish each other's sentences." Hamdan also didn't shy away from criticizing the network's audience, stating, "They've made their viewers dumber over the years," and explaining that MSNBC is "too cozy with Democratic politicians."
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Joe Biden Calls His Friends in the Mob and Has the Longshoreman Delay -- Not Call Off, Delay -- Their Strike Until After the Election
I want some investigations into this.
What was agreed to? What did Biden promise?62%?!?!
Striking U.S. dockworkers will return to work Friday after reaching a tentative agreement with employers on an improved wage offer. The conditional offer was for a 62% wage increase, FOX Business has learned.
The offer is on the table for the next 90 days. If no deal is reached within that timeframe, the proposed wage hike will be pulled from the table. The International Longshoremen's Association, which represents 45,000 striking U.S. workers, said the union and USMX have reached a "tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend the Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues." ...The ILA is strangling the American economy -- and not just through exorbitant salaries. They are making everything more expensive by demanding fees every time cargo is merely "touched" by longshoreman, forcing freight out of the seas (which are cheap to move goods through) and onto trucks:
Despite mounting pressure, President Biden said over the weekend he would not intervene, saying he doesn't "believe in Taft-Hartley," a reference to 1947 legislation that curtailed unions. The strike raised fears of disruptions in the supply chain. An analysis by JPMorgan estimated the daily cost of a port strike by East and Gulf Coast port workers would cost the U.S. economy between $3.8 billion and $4.5 billion per day as operations slow.
John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad The ILA refusing automation isn't even the craziest demand. The craziest ILA demand is *touch* fees Let me explain... You've heard about our crumbling highways and bridges? And the $1.2 TRILLION infrastructure bill Congress passed to fix them? Well, the primary culprit for that damage? Heavy loads. The rest of the world gets it. They offload containers onto barges or feeder ships to save their roads and reduce fatalities. It's called short sea shipping. Europe: Big ship arrives ➡️ 🏗️ moves container ➡️ terminal ➡️ 🏗️ onto a barge ➡️ barge sails to a smaller port ➡️ 🏗️ onto a truck ➡️ short drive to warehouse. That's 3 crane *touches* US (ILA ports): Big ship arrives ➡️ 🏗️ moves container ➡️ truck 🚛 drives *hundreds of miles.* That's 1 union crane *touch* Why? Because every time the union crane *touches* a container, the union rakes in a massive fee. So it's somehow cheaper to truck containers hundreds of miles and let taxpayers foot the road repair bill than let the union *touch* it two more times for short sea shipping to work. Only in America.
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THE MORNING RANT: Democrats & Media, Who Keep Advising There Will Not Be a Winner Announced on Election Night, Oppose Georgia Ballot Integrity Measure Because It Will Delay Election Results
In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden “won” Georgia by less than 12,000 votes. By midnight on Election Night, Donald Trump seemed to have an insurmountable lead, but the ballot count in Atlanta was suddenly suspended due to a convenient water pipe leak. Absentee ballots were placed in waiting, and chaos ensued. Eventually enough Biden ballots were found, counted, and double-counted to put him barely over the top. Recounts showed discrepancies in multiple counties, including examples found of ballots being tabulated twice. Finally, after more than a month, Georgia’s “Republican” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger validated the results, with an implicit endorsement of all the machinations that were required to overturn Trump’s apparent election night victory.
Since then, pro-Trump Republicans who care about ballot integrity have gained a controlling majority of the Georgia State Election Board. They have implemented a new rule for the 2024 election requiring that before a precinct certifies its election results, the poll workers must conduct a hand count of ballots cast so as to verify that the number of actual paper ballots equals the number of ballots tabulated. To be clear, the poll workers are not tabulating votes, they are simply counting the number of ballots so as to prevent ballots from being scanned and tabulated more than once. Democrats and the media are howling in protest, of course. For Kamala to win Georgia, they know it will take a solid dose of ballot fraud. Comically, however, they are pretending that their concern is that this will delay the reporting of election results. “Republican” Brad Raffensperger, who is in charge of elections, also opposes this new rule. “Democrats sue to block new Georgia election rule requiring hand counting of ballots” [CBS – 9/30/2024]The rule violates Georgia law for numerous reasons," the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Party of Georgia wrote in their complaint [The new rule does not violate Georgia law and is within the statutory authority of the Election Board – Buck], adding that it could introduce "uncertainty" into the effort to tally votes and delay certification of the state's election results.This is especially funny, because the regime media is constantly putting out pieces advising us not to expect a winner on election night. Even more specifically, we are being advised not to believe our lying eyes if Trump has a big lead on election night. What they are hinting at is that election night will reveal how many more Kamala ballots must be tabulated after election night. Here is just one recent example from the NY Times: “Harris or Trump? Once Again, Election Results Could Take Awhile”
For the second straight presidential election, it is becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on election night and that early returns could give a false impression of who will ultimately prevail.But waiting an hour or so to prevent the double-counting of ballots in Georgia is an unacceptable delay to these same people. Just how common is the double counting of ballots in Georgia. It’s hard to know, because ballot fraud that is not caught is never documented. But there were indisputable examples of ballots being scanned more than once in the 2020 election, for which Fulton County election workers were reprimanded. “Fulton County reprimanded for double-scanned ballots in 2020 recount” [Atlanta Journal Constitution - 5/07/2024]
The State Election Board reprimanded Fulton County and ordered an independent election monitor Tuesday, finding that the county likely scanned over 3,000 ballots twice during the recount of the 2020 presidential election.This is where Democrats and the media tend to fall back on the term “not widespread” to refer to any ballot fraud that is uncovered, but if at least 3,000 ballots were scanned multiple times, and Biden won the state by less than 12,000 votes, I am not OK with this level of ballot fraud being tolerated, just because it is “not widespread.” And I assume there was much, much more ballot fraud that was not caught. In fact, there were another 20,713 ballots cast for which there was no paper trail at all. And – big surprise - this was also in Fulton County.
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The Morning Report — 10/4/24
And that incompetence and ideology, in the drive for absolute power, also leads to this:
They want us silent, compliant or otherwise out of the way. A prison or a grave. Matters not to the Democrats and Globalists. Any port in a storm. Considering the ILA and Helene, rather a perfect metaphor. Don't think for a moment that this cannot happen here, because from everything I can see, we are well on the way to it:
Have a good weekend. And God be with everyone affected by Helene. And all of you!
“As we have over our 106-year history, the IAFF will continue its work to improve the lives of firefighters and their families,” Kelly continued, contending that the Executive Board determined that “we are better able to advocate for our members and make progress on the issues that matter to them if we, as a union, are standing shoulder-to-shoulder.” “This decision, which we took very seriously, is the best way to preserve and strengthen our unity,” he continued, encouraging members to get out and “make their voices heard in the upcoming election.” . . . This non-endorsement comes as a huge blow to the Harris-Walz ticket; the union endorsed President Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election. . . “American workers were safer and better off when President Trump was in office – rank-and-file workers know it, and that is why they will ignore their union bosses and will vote for the Trump-Vance ticket on November 5,” he added.Meanwhile, as bodies are still being pulled out of the mud and the trees in Appalachia, we once again have ideologically driven incompetence on full display.
It's not just the piddly $750 being handed out by FEMA to residents in North Carolina and other states whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane Helene. (A similar amount was handed out to residents of Lahaina, Hawaii, after their town was destroyed by fire.)Billions of dollars to import millions of foreign peasants, among them thousands of hardened criminals as well as Islamic terrorists, who want to slit our throats even if Israel were not an historic ally who now is on the verge of changing the trajectory of history in the middle East and potentially the West by handicapping if not ending the 45 year reign of terror, brought to us by Jimmy Carter, of the Iranian mullahs. While the DC Junta tells poor white folks who cling to their guns, religion, and Trump to die in a flood. Yeah, before the usual chuckleheads start in with the wasting our money on foreign aid (nudge nudge wink-wink Israel), that is an unrelated issue, of which I do agree (certainly in the funding of kleptocracies and anti-American juntas who hate us and stab us in the back. Israel being an historic pro-US bulwark). But the incompetence and ideology that is to blame for why the government is so inept at dealing with disasters, natural or otherwise is the issue.
It's the lethal incompetence. Just as cops taking orders from state government officials blocked Lahaina residents in cars from escaping the inferno -- the only survivors were those who defied them and drove through the blockades -- FEMA officials from the federal government are doing all they can to block the delivery of aid to people in the hardest hurricane-hit rural areas, where people need food, water, medicine, shelter and everything else and have been completely cut off from civilization. They're actually stopping them, as if they were trespassers and saying just trust the government.
That might work when people have time, but these hurricane victims don't have time. Their need for aid is immediate. One aid worker explains why that may be, and it's a doozy of a story . . . Inefficiency, waste and an absence of leadership all around.
That would be so even if they hadn't blown their budget on illegals, which Sens. Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and the very sharp crowd in hurricane-vulnerable Florida first noticed last May -- I wrote about that here.
But the blown budget raises severe questions about their priorities -- North Carolina's taxpayers paid into that federal program to help people hit by natural disasters, and FEMA chose to pay instead for the housing and feeding of foreign nationals who have no legal right nor legitimate business being in this country. That ought to be a firing offense and it would be if this were the private sector, or most any other administration than the Biden-Harris one, where incompetence is encouraged.
If FEMA can't do the job it's tasked with, and a disaster is unfolding, they've got a moral obligation to invite in any and all who can come in and help. That obligation is so strong it ought to be enshrined into law by Congress.
And that incompetence and ideology, in the drive for absolute power, also leads to this:
Eva Edl is a survivor. The 89-year-old widow grew up in the former Yugoslavia, where she saw the horrors of Communism firsthand. She came to the U.S. because she thought it was a bastion of freedom and liberty, however, she now finds herself facing time in prison for trying to convince women not to kill their unborn babies.
When Edl was six, the Nazis invaded her homeland. Even though her family had German heritage, the Nazis considered her father an “impure Aryan” and sent him to the front lines. As he lay sick in a hospital bed, he sent a message to his family to flee, but they didn’t get the message in time.
“A coup against Yugoslavia's king caused a violent civil war to erupt, emasculating Yugoslavia's defenses even as the powerful Nazi war machine began to drop bombs on them,” Edl’s biography explains. “The nation's communists gradually suppressed the various sects clamoring for power, and displayed such a courageous resistance against the overwhelming Nazi forces that they won the admiration of the Western democracies.”
The Communists targeted the German-heritage Danube-Swabian people like Edl’s family. Her Hungarian grandmother was initially able to hide her grandchildren, but not for long. The Communists forced Edl’s mother and older siblings into labor camps and sent Edl and her grandmother to a concentration camp.
Amid the grim atmosphere of the Communist concentration camp, where death loomed at every turn, Edl came to faith in Jesus. Somehow, she made her way out and fled to Austria and eventually the U.S. seeking freedom.
In the land of the free, Edl discovered a different kind of horror. While taking an English class in the ‘60s, she learned about abortion. This was before Roe v. Wade, yet Edl recoiled at the idea that a mother would kill her child in the womb. She eventually became a pro-life activist. .. . . . “Eva felt the call of God to lay down her life to rescue unborn children, just as others laid down their life to rescue her,” her biography explains. “She became a voice for life and justice and an icon in the rescue movement in the United States, where up to 80,000 Christians were arrested blockading abortion clinic entrances in the 80's and 90's. Eva Edl has been arrested 46 times blockading abortion clinics, trying to save babies from death by abortion.” Last month, Edl was one of seven protesters convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The protesters stood at the entrance to an abortion clinic in Michigan. “A federal jury convicted seven defendants today of federal civil rights offenses arising out of their blockade of a reproductive health care clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 27, 2020,” the Department of Justice announced in August. “The defendants were each convicted of a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offense” (emphasis added). The DoJ also announced that Edl and one other woman had blocked access to another clinic the following year.
They want us silent, compliant or otherwise out of the way. A prison or a grave. Matters not to the Democrats and Globalists. Any port in a storm. Considering the ILA and Helene, rather a perfect metaphor. Don't think for a moment that this cannot happen here, because from everything I can see, we are well on the way to it:
A former militant group leader whose organization was affiliated with the Weathermen terrorists and monitored by the FBI now leads a small but influential group of White House policymakers championed by Vice President Kamala Harris. The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council was created in the first week of the Biden-Harris administration as part of the White House’s effort to, according to an executive order, "increase the federal government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice." The group is composed of individuals appointed by the president who, the White House states, "have knowledge about or experience in environmental justice, climate change, disaster preparedness, or racial inequity, among other areas of expertise." Leading those individuals is a man named Richard Moore, who co-chairs the council. His brief biography provided by the Environmental Protection Agency describes him as a "widely respected national leader in the area of environmental justice" who "has served on numerous government and nongovernmental committees and panels." . . . Moore’s earliest political activities, records show, appear to begin in the 1960s. Moore cofounded a militant group modeled after the Black Panthers in Albuquerque called the Black Berets, archives hosted at the University of New Mexico show. The Black Berets’ 12-point program included opposing capitalism and the "Amerikkkan Military" while supporting "armed self-defense and armed struggle" as "the only means to liberation." Although the Black Berets’ membership was largely Hispanic, the group affiliated with several far-left groups at the time, including the Weathermen and the Venceremos Brigade, translated to English as "We Shall Triumph." Moore, along with other members of the Black Berets, soon formally joined the Venceremos Brigade. An offshoot of the far-left Students for a Democratic Society, the brigade was founded for the purpose of American leftists to aid the new communist government in Cuba. Moore eventually served on the brigade’s national committee.And this is just one thug, in a government that is chock full of them. Along with the usual go-along to get-along idlers and hacks in every department and agency, up to and including the most sensitive and crucial to our personal and national security. Depending of course on who gets to define those terms. When the meaning of words, and indeed who gets to use what words for what purpose is controlled by the Left, it's a short walk to being arrested for inciting terrorism just for disagreeing with the powers that be. What Shitcan Chutkan and Jack Smith are doing right now against Trump all by itself is a huge flashing warning sign that the first Amendment is on life support, if not dead as it is. Lastly, your support in hitting the tip jar is greatly appreciated.
Have a good weekend. And God be with everyone affected by Helene. And all of you!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Eva Edl is a survivor. The 89-year-old widow grew up in the former Yugoslavia, where she saw the horrors of Communism firsthand. She came to the U.S. because she thought it was a bastion of freedom and liberty, however, she now finds herself facing time in prison for trying to convince women not to kill their unborn babies. . . “A federal jury convicted seven defendants today of federal civil rights offenses arising out of their blockade of a reproductive health care clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 27, 2020,” the Department of Justice announced in August. “The defendants were each convicted of a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offense” (emphasis added). The DoJ also announced that Edl and one other woman had blocked access to another clinic the following year.
She Survived Nazism and Communism, but Eva Edl Could Die in Prison for Pro-Life Protests
- Douglas Murray: Look around the media and you see the same problem everywhere. Much of the media will tell you that they regard their job as being to decide what is true and what is false. But the problem is that most of them aren’t any good at the task they set themselves. In Britain the national broadcaster — the BBC — recently set up a special department called “BBC Verify” which is meant to “fact-check” content across the media. But they can’t even get the BBC’s own facts right. On issue after issue — foreign and domestic — “BBC Verify” has overseen verifiably untrue stories. I understand the panic in these media institutions.
‘Fact check’ has become just another word for censorship
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Daily Tech News 4 October 2024
Top Story
- A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking California's new law against "AI deepfakes" noting that the law is overbroad and subjective. (Tech Crunch)
The judge is, as the kids would say, based.While a well-founded fear of a digitally manipulated media landscape may be justified, this fear does not give legislators unbridled license to bulldoze over the longstanding tradition of critique, parody, and satire protected by the First Amendment. YouTube videos, Facebook posts, and X tweets are the newspaper advertisements and political cartoons of today, and the First Amendment protects an individual's right to speak regardless of the new medium these critiques may take.
Indeed.
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California's interest and the hardship the State faces are minimal when measured against the gravity of First Amendment values at stake and the ongoing constitutional violations that Plaintiff and other similarly situated content creators experience while having their speech chilled.
- Amelia Watson Hyte Y40 Limited Edition PC Case Status: Acquired
Sitting in the front hall right now.
- Calliope Mori Hyte Y40 Limited Edition PC Case Status: Order confirmed
Hyte confirmed that the order was processed before things fell apart, and they've fixed it. I've now received the confirmation email and the order is showing in my account on their site.
I'm not sure that I want to go through all that again for the Dokibird case. It ended up costing me an extra $200 to air freight a PC case to the other side of the world, and a regular Hyte Y40 only costs $130.
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October 03, 2024
Everyone Loves The ONT
Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, cross-eyed mosquitoes and bow legged ants. I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Admission is free, so pay at the door, pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys arose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came to kill those two dead boys. If you do not believe this lie is true, ask the blind man – he saw it too.Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM | Comments (459) | Trackbacks (Suck)
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Our Liberal Media Betters: Make-Up Artist Alleges That Leftwing Country Music Has-Been Garth Brooks R*ped Her
Garth brooks redefined masculinity when he double-down on selling Dylan Mulvaney Beer in his bar.
Now he's redefining masculinity more aggressively, Douglas-Emhoff-style.A makeup artist sued Garth Brooks on Thursday, alleging that the country star raped her in a hotel room, and subjected to her to unwanted sexual conduct on other occasions, including sending her lewd text messages and groping her breasts. The woman, identified as Jane Roe in the lawsuit, also accused Brooks of exposing himself to her on multiple occasions. She alleges that the trauma from the rape was so severe that she contemplated suicide. "Brooks is desperate to prevent his millions of fans from learning about the horrific things he has said and done to a junior female employee who did nothing to deserve such treatment," the lawsuit states. According to the complaint, Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit last month against the woman in federal court in Mississippi. The plaintiff in that suit alleges that the woman threatened to ruin his reputation by filing a sexual abuse lawsuit unless he gave her a multimillion dollar payout.By the way, that's not blackmail. The law of blackmail specifically excludes threats made regarding legal action. I think the law probably specifies that the legal action must be bona-fide. But people literally threaten to sue each other unless redress is made every single day and if this were blackmail the prisons would be overflowing.
So, I imagine these texts exist. That doesn't mean her other allegations are true, but assuming there are inappropriate texts like this from Brooks, that scotches his "she's making it all up, she's a fantasist and extortionist" defense. Again: If they exist. If they don't, she's lying. Speaking of another woman-abuser, Kamala Harris's trophy husband Doug "the 'Hoff" Emhoff, I saw someone comment that she didn't know if the woman-punching allegations are true (I think they probably are, there are multiple witnesses), but she does know that Kamala Harris did not ask for evidence when attempting to lynch Brett Kavanaugh. That's the Harris Standard of guilt, and her Beard Husband is guilty.
The federal suit was filed anonymously, describing the plaintiff only as a "celebrity and public figure who resides in Tennessee." The plaintiff, John Doe, states claims of attempted extortion, defamation and infliction of emotional distress. ... The woman is represented by Douglas Wigdor, who has filed numerous #MeToo lawsuits against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful figures. "We applaud our client's courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks," Wigdor and his co-counsels, Jeanne Christensen and Hayley Baker, said in a statement. "The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood and in the rap and rock and roll industries but also in the world of country music. We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client through the filing of a preemptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation." ... The suit alleges that she was at Brooks' home, when he emerged from the shower naked with an erection. She alleges that Brooks forced her to touch his penis, and urged her to perform oral sex. She refused, but continued to work for him.
In May 2019, she alleges that Brooks traveled to Los Angeles for a Grammy tribute, and booked a hotel where they would both stay. She alleges that Brooks violently raped her in the hotel room. Afterward, she alleges that Brooks would often discuss sexual fantasies in front of her, would send her lascivious text messages, and would stare at her breasts. She alleges that he would pressure her to open her shirt, so that he could grope her breasts and then masturbate.
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Liz Cheney Will Campaign With Kamala Harris In "The Symbolic Birthplace of the Republican Party" in Wisconsin
From redridinghood: Super-duper True Conservative Liz Cheney is campaigning with Kamala Harris in Wisconsin.
I've never heard this was the "symbolic birthplace of the Republican Party" but the Democrat-Media Party says it is and it is a crime to question The Party.Mona SalamaTrump-supporting account Johnny MAGA (duh) says this is another Fake Event filled with Industry Plants.
@ByMonaSalama The Princess of Iraq War, former Rep. Liz Cheney will be campaign with Kamala Harris today in Ripon, Wisconsin -- the birthplace of the Republican Party Both Liz & Kamala agree on anything politically, except for their common TDS hatred for former President Trump According to a senior Harris' campaign official, Harris is planning to play into the "symbolism" of the Republican Party by "recognizing" its history & founding principles and making her pledge to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law if elected and place the good governance above ideology. Harris will also at the event praise Cheney for her cross endorsement
Johnny magaThanks to andycanuck for that.
@_johnnymaga Wow. Kamala's big "republicans for Harris" event tonight in Ripon, Wisconsin -- the birthplace of the GOP -- is INVITE ONLY. Buses are going to bring people in from out of town to fill the seats. Fakest campaign in American history.
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Politico: Tim Walz Sometimes Has a Tendency to "Misspeak"
Well, your staff can write your reports for you, Kamala, but they can't read them for you. If you want to get schnockered by 2:30 pm every single day and spend the rest of the day in a drunken daze, it's really your alcoholism that is Failing to Position You For Success. She's a DEI hire. Always has been. It's always on the White Man to do her homework for her and rig things so that she gets Social Promotion after Social Promotion up the career ladder.
Politico just femsplained to us yesterday that Tim Walz's panicky Coward's Eyes were just a sign of "passion" and "emotional intensity" that will make women hot and bothered, but that JD Vance's beard demonstrates toxic masculinity that will make women disgusted.
They're now here to explain that Walz's long, long list of documented lies are just some excusable "misspeaking" from an man who's "just so honest" that he frequently lets that honesty cause him to accidentally tell a lot of lies that are helpful to him.Tim Walz has a tendency to misspeak. It may haunt the campaign.Strange. That's not the word you use when Republicans misspeak.
Key members of Harris' circle weren't aware of some of Walz's inaccurate statements until they became public, despite the vetting process. Tim Walz has a problem misspeaking.
Of course Kamala Harris didn't know-- she doesn't know anything. How many times have we read articles, planted by Kamala Harris's embarrassed and abused staffers, stating that Kamala Harris doesn't bother to do the most basic homework and read their digests of the current cycle's news and the Administration's policies, and then she rips them for leaving her "unprepared"? That's where Kamala Harris's favorite excuse originated -- she would respond to these articles by having another of her aides leak to the press that sometimes her staff "Fails to Position Kamala for Success." Her loyal aides also leaked it that Joe Biden and the White House staff were also "Failing to Position Kamala for Success."
Since being tapped as Kamala Harris' running mate, the folksy, plain-speaking Minnesota governor has had to explain a growing number of inaccurate statements -- and at times embellishments -- about his past. They range from comments about his military service to his visit to Hong Kong more than three decades ago to clarifying that his family didn't specifically use in vitro fertilization. It's unclear whether Walz's verbal errors will undercut his credibility with voters. But the need to continually clean up those claims could politically hurt Walz and Harris, who are locked in a tight race with Donald Trump and JD Vance. And in some cases, key members of Harris' circle weren't aware of some of the inaccurate statements until they became public despite the vetting process, according to four people familiar with the conversations who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter.
Well, your staff can write your reports for you, Kamala, but they can't read them for you. If you want to get schnockered by 2:30 pm every single day and spend the rest of the day in a drunken daze, it's really your alcoholism that is Failing to Position You For Success. She's a DEI hire. Always has been. It's always on the White Man to do her homework for her and rig things so that she gets Social Promotion after Social Promotion up the career ladder.
... The most recent example came Tuesday, when a CBS debate moderator pressed Walz over his claim that he had been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, when Hong Kong was still under British rule (Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997). Walz over the years had said publicly he had been in Hong Kong during the crackdown in Beijing, including 10 years ago in Congress. But on Tuesday during the debate, he awkwardly responded that "all I said on this was, is, I got there that summer," and "I'm a knucklehead at times" before conceding he "misspoke." On Wednesday, Walz sought to clean up his debate comments during a campaign stop in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where polling shows Harris and Trump virtually tied. "Yeah, look, I have my dates wrong," Walz told reporters in Harrisburg. "I was in Hong Kong in China in 1989. ... I speak like everybody else speaks. I need to be clearer." Candidates running for higher office have long embellished their records or personal histories. President Joe Biden had long been known to overstate even minor details of his personal life, like his academic achievements. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in 2010 had to explain why he misstated his military record when he claimed he served in Vietnam when he in fact served in the Marine Corps Reserves during the Vietnam War -- but stateside. Former Rep. George Santos is well known for lying about a number of things, including that his mother was killed in the 9/11 attacks Walz's misstatements could contradict the image that the campaign has painted of him as an upstanding, everyday Midwest guy. "He's just honest," Bob Frisby, 70, who lives in Rochester, Minnesota, recalled of Walz in an interview shortly after Harris tapped the governor as her running mate.What an incredible claim Politico has inserted in an article about Walz's problem being that he's just not honest.
"Lying" is "just speaking passionately" -- when a Marxist does it.
One of the earliest claims that came under scrutiny during the presidential campaign centered on Walz's military record. Walz has repeatedly and inaccurately described himself as a "retired command sergeant major" including in radio ads from his very first congressional bid. But he never finished the final coursework to retire at such a rank. The Harris campaign quietly changed its website description, after questions from reporters, to say Walz once served at the command sergeant major rank. In 2018 while campaigning for governor, he stated that he didn't want "those weapons of war, that I carried in war" accessible to everyday Americans during a discussion about why he was reversing his position from his congressional days to support an assault weapons ban, giving the incorrect impression that he served in combat. Harris' campaign later said he "misspoke." He also drew criticism for using his family's struggles with fertility during the campaign as a way to highlight his stance on reproductive rights, a key issue during the campaign. He even attacked Vance over it, saying, "if it was up to him, I wouldn't have a family because of IVF." The Harris campaign had to clarify that Walz and his wife, Gwen, didn't specifically use in vitro fertilization, but another similar treatment that Republicans haven't talked about banning. Walz himself raised some of these issues with Harris and her team during the vice presidential vetting process, according to two people familiar with the conversations. Harris' circle, for example, knew of Walz's 1995 DUI arrest when he was a school teacher in Nebraska, despite Walz's past campaign and official staff trying to downplay and in some cases outright mislead reporters about the circumstances of the arrest. Harris' vetting team called some of Walz's former House colleagues and other allies to check out that episode, his drinking habits and temperament since then, according to two other people familiar with the calls at the time. "As the governor has said, he sometimes misspeaks. He speaks like a normal person and speaks passionately about issues he cares deeply about including democracy and stopping gun violence in our school," a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign said, adding Trump and Vance "repeatedly lie and mislead about their plan to ban abortion nationwide" and other topics.
BDW
@BryanDeanWright What a regime headline.
Chris Stigall
@ChrisStigall I think the word you're looking for is "lie." Walz has a tendency to lie.
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