January 20, 2024
Saturday Evening Movie Thread 01/20/2024 [TheJamesMadison]
Remember about a decade ago when everyone was all in on this new animated movie from Warner Brothers, a glorified toy commercial titled The LEGO Movie? Remember how it just came out of nowhere, how it was quickly followed up by two films, a spinoff and then a direct sequel, and then it simply...disappeared? Have you ever wondered why?
Well, I don't have a full answer other than the direct sequel, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part underperformed at the box office leading to Warner Brothers relinquishing control of its license to the LEGO brand in movies (which then was sold to Universal), but it is curious how a movie that just blew up so uncontrollably and out of the blue disappeared so quickly. Well, aside from any business concerns, I've come away with some thoughts about the pair of direct films and their thematic focus (if I felt like I had enough room in these things to tackle it as well, I'd also include The LEGO Batman Movie, but CBD has already chastised me for these posts being too long, so I'll leave it at just the two films, making this post merely too long rather than absurdly long).
You see, I'm a father of young boys, and for about three months, the younger of my two boys was obsessed with these films. I've seen them all, paying full attention, at least two times each, and then I've been in the room while they've been on at least a dozen times for each of them. I've been exposed to them quite a bit, and after the repeated viewings I think I have a clear idea about why, creatively, the first seemed to connect so easily with audiences and the second did not.
Everything is Awesome
Remember about a decade ago when everyone was all in on this new animated movie from Warner Brothers, a glorified toy commercial titled The LEGO Movie? Remember how it just came out of nowhere, how it was quickly followed up by two films, a spinoff and then a direct sequel, and then it simply...disappeared? Have you ever wondered why?
Well, I don't have a full answer other than the direct sequel, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part underperformed at the box office leading to Warner Brothers relinquishing control of its license to the LEGO brand in movies (which then was sold to Universal), but it is curious how a movie that just blew up so uncontrollably and out of the blue disappeared so quickly. Well, aside from any business concerns, I've come away with some thoughts about the pair of direct films and their thematic focus (if I felt like I had enough room in these things to tackle it as well, I'd also include The LEGO Batman Movie, but CBD has already chastised me for these posts being too long, so I'll leave it at just the two films, making this post merely too long rather than absurdly long).
You see, I'm a father of young boys, and for about three months, the younger of my two boys was obsessed with these films. I've seen them all, paying full attention, at least two times each, and then I've been in the room while they've been on at least a dozen times for each of them. I've been exposed to them quite a bit, and after the repeated viewings I think I have a clear idea about why, creatively, the first seemed to connect so easily with audiences and the second did not.
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Saturday Hobby, Crafting, DIY and Bodging Thread
Greetings gang. Hope your Saturday is going well. Time once again to head for the basement, garage, shop, studio, crafting room or wherever you can escape for a few hours to get creative, or just create a mess and have fun.
NOTE: This is NOT an open thread to please refrain from politics or anything unrelated to either the content or the subject matter. What's everyone working on, planning, or just dreaming about?Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 04:28 PM | Comments (176) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 20
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 20
It was ten below when I got up this morning. This was the view at the front door.A real variety of photos at the link above. If they make you cold, he also has a link to some interesting information on volcanoes.
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The World Economic Forum is Over
Davos, Switzerland
Well, the World Economic Forum for 2024 ended yesterday. Did you notice? It seemed to me to go out with a whimper instead of a bang this year.
In related news, John Kerry is leaving his post as the USA's Climate Envoy. This last trip to Davos may have been his final chance to tell other people how to save the planet. Never mind. He will be helping to re-elect Biden, who will tell everybody what to do. Kerry's a firecracker when it comes to campaign strategy. Heh.
Here's a great quote, from last year's conference at Davos. You may remember it:
When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we — select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet. I mean, it’s so almost extraterrestrial to think about 'saving the planet'. John F. KerryExtraordinarily weird, actually. Last year, Walter Kirn observed:
What strikes me most about the WEF is how little disagreement there is. The largest matters on earth are at stake (supposedly) yet the conferees don't argue. They don't debate. All points seem smugly settled. It's an ego orgy, a great self-satisfied mutual grope. Walter KirnThis year, Kirn wrote:
These WEF clips are almost poignant, the jet-set salonists in them are so out of touch, so trapped in a failing, dated mutual admiration society. Their creaky vision of a sci-fi superstate dates to the 1970s, perhaps the 50s; it's the wizardly futurism of yore. The gleam is gone.Kirn got some responses:
The technocrats never left, but they've gotten a lot less empirical and a lot more condescending than they used to be. Used to be: look at where we're going together! Today it's: look at the nice cage we're building for you!And:
I don't think it's technocracy. It's some weird form of Star Wars inspired totalitarianism based on influence.
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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival (H/T KT or as we call her Ms. Saturday)
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Good morning Horde, hopefully you are warm and dug out from the recent storms. Before we the thread commences just a few housekeeping matters (Rulz for those of you in Deer Park, WI).
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) It's troll season be nice there are hall monitors for your safety.
3) Running with sharp objects is highly frowned upon.
4) Have a great weekend!
2) It's troll season be nice there are hall monitors for your safety.
3) Running with sharp objects is highly frowned upon.
4) Have a great weekend!
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Daily Tech News 20 January 2024
Top Story
- Palworld, an independent game that can be best described as Pokemon with guns allowed a handful of vtubers a preview the past few days.
Seems to have paid off because they sold a million copies in eight hours and reached half a million concurrent players in the first 24 hours - and it's still in pre-release. (Kotaku)
In case you're wondering, yes, those sheep have Browning M2s.
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January 19, 2024
Guest Meme Master ONT
Tonight my wife wanted to supply all the memes for the ONT, so I said sure. The videos I found, but everything else....Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Gingy.
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Wolf Wake-Up Service Cafe
Valley of the Gods, Utah
by @chielr
A crafty father "lets his kids stay up for New Years," wink. Some Instagram posts: Sorano, Italy. Neat. Not picturesque, but neat. I've got a great idea -- let's take a hot air balloon above the clouds and lower a trampoline beneath it on cables. And then let's jump up and down on the trampoline at 10,000 feet! Who's with me?! Not sure why, but ten dogs, and one pig, take their little carts out. Maybe they're going to the market? Horse-drawn skiing. A prominent promontory. Back to Twitter links: Studious boy.
The Outer Limits, but for dogs.
The Twilight Zone, but for dogs. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but for dogs. Instagram, but for dogs.
Monkey can't believe his good luck.
Valley of the Gods, Utah
by @chielr
A crafty father "lets his kids stay up for New Years," wink. Some Instagram posts: Sorano, Italy. Neat. Not picturesque, but neat. I've got a great idea -- let's take a hot air balloon above the clouds and lower a trampoline beneath it on cables. And then let's jump up and down on the trampoline at 10,000 feet! Who's with me?! Not sure why, but ten dogs, and one pig, take their little carts out. Maybe they're going to the market? Horse-drawn skiing. A prominent promontory. Back to Twitter links: Studious boy.
The Outer Limits, but for dogs.
The Twilight Zone, but for dogs. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but for dogs. Instagram, but for dogs.
Monkey can't believe his good luck.
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The Shame of the Libs of TikTok
Maine rushes to become The California of the North, considering a bill that would make the state a "safe haven" for "transgender children" who run away from home to get genderbender procedures their parents do not consent to.
Maine pushes to become 'transgender safe haven' where minors can receive sex-change surgery and can't be returned to their parents - as outraged community leaders try to slow efforts The 'Act to Safeguard Gender Affirming Health Care' would help out of state minors get access to hormone treatments and surgery Opponents have labelled it 'state sanctioned kidnapping' and a 'transgender trafficking' There was a work session scheduled for Wednesday but the meeting was postponed until January 25 By Isabelle Stanley For Dailymail.ComThese people need psychiatric counseling for the stew of psychological comorbidities they suffer, not powerful artificial hormones to further wack them out. Penn State lost a major motion, attempting to get themselves off the hook for a lawsuit about the "university's" virulent anti-white racism. Jonathan Turley:
A Maine judiciary committee is moving to create a 'safe haven' for teens seeking sex changes and protection from their parents but critics have slammed the bill as 'state-sanctioned kidnapping.' The 'Act to Safeguard Gender Affirming Health Care' would enable certain out-of-state teens to access hormone blockers or surgery without their parents' consent regardless of their own state's laws. A work session on the bill, LD 1735, was scheduled for Wednesday, but as public outrage grew and with severe weather, it was postponed until January 25. If passed, LD 1735 would enable certain teens from states that have banned child gender-affirming care- such as Kentucky or Mississippi - to come to Maine, with or without their family, and access treatment. Opponents have labeled the bill 'state-sanctioned kidnapping' and say it would allow unrelated adults to bring a child to Maine for surgery without a parent's knowledge or permission.
In her denial of Penn State's motion in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge Bettlestone explored the record, including how the DEI Director emailed all employees 'calling on white people' to 'feel terrible' about their 'own internalized white supremacy' and to 'hold other white people accountable.'" She also noted that the Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Equity "'led the faculty' in a breathing exercise in which she instructed the 'White and non-Black people of color to hold it just a little longer--to feel the pain.'" ...More details of that lawsuit here. A professor is alleging a hostile work environment, based on the obvious anti-white racism the school has adopted as its creed. Last week, there was some successful pushback against Johns Hopkins "University's" repulsive racism. The Navy's DEI chief announces his commitment to "equality of outcomes," regardless of merit, regardless of effort, regardless of ability to... defend the nation against its enemies.
In the case of Penn State, the school appears set on trying a case that will only increase the costs and negative coverage for the school. It is often the case that administrators lack the courage to challenge DEI programs or material. The alternative of spending potentially millions on litigation and damages can be viewed as rational rather than risking personal backlash for reversing course.
...When you think about equity, you also need to think about equality, because those terms are often used interchangeably. So when you think about equality, which is the end state we want to achieve or the equality of outcomes, think about equity as the route we take to get there. How do we assess those different barriers and access the information to ensure that we all have the equal...um...access to that outcome that we want to achieve...As @mythinformedMKE points out: The Navy is now committed to spreading Communist ideals using taxpayer-funded weaponry. The Washington Post's Philip Bump says you must not do your own research, or you'll wind up being wrong. You must let the Cognitive Elite like Philip Bump -- who was wrong about everything about covid and is still butthurt that he got extremely embarrassed insisting that not only is Joe Biden completely innocent of involvement in Hunter's bribery schemes, but that there is no justification to even explore the question -- tell you what is true and what is false.
Brian StelterBrian Stelter pushed the Jussie Smollett race hoax, all of the covid disinformation, and of course was a leader demanding the suppression of any mention of the Hunter Biden laptop. Don't do your own research -- just obey genius-level holy men like Philip Bump and Lumpy Brian Stelter!
@brianstelter NBC's @BrandyZadrozny: "Disinformation poses an unprecedented threat to democracy in the United States in 2024, according to researchers, technologists and political scientists."
lulz thanks to weft-cut loop.
@MrAndyNgo Woke outerwear clothing brand @REI is shutting down its flagship Portland store following surging theft and public safety issues. The retailer supported BLM during the deadly 2020 BLM-Antifa riots and established a "BIPOC Advisory Council" to advance DEI.
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Darling Nikki: Daily Mail Reports That Nikki Haley Did Committ Adultery, Cheating on Her Army Husband
Sacred Honor requires me to link this post.
Nikki Haley DID cheat on husband Michael - had affairs with her comms consultant and a MARRIED South Carolina lobbyist before she became governor, sworn affidavits and new witnesses claim Nikki Haley, 51, denied claims she cheated on her husband Michael before she became South Carolina governor in 2010 saying she was '100% faithful' Now, multiple GOP insiders tell DailyMail.com that they were intimately aware of Haley's infidelity at the time, saying: 'It was totally out in the open' Communications consultant Will Folks, 49, and lobbyist Larry Marchant, 61, both signed affidavits in 2010 alleging they had a sexual relationship with HaleyWe've heard the name Will Folks before. He's the guy who claimed that Sacred Honor demanded that he publicize his affair with Nikki Haley before an election. But... second look at Will Folks.
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley falsely denied cheating on her husband when she was accused of engaging in two extramarital affairs during her gubernatorial campaign, multiple sources who worked with her claim. New witnesses have come forward telling DailyMail.com that Haley's denials of two alleged 2008 affairs are false, and that the supposed trysts were brazen and widely known among South Carolina politicos. Will Folks, 49, and Larry Marchant, 61, both signed affidavits in 2010 alleging they had a sexual relationship with the then-South Carolina lawmaker, before she went on to become governor. While the contents of the affidavits were described by major news outlets at the time, this is the first time they have been published outside of Folks' own document which he published on his blog. Haley, 51, denied both at the time, saying she was '100% faithful' to the father of her two children and husband of 28 years, Michael Haley -- who was deployed in Afghanistan with the National Guard in 2012. Haley now frequently cites him as a reason for her presidential candidacy.Sacred Honor compelled him to disclose this. Still, there's another man alleging an affair, plus witnesses.
But multiple GOP insiders told DailyMail.com that they were intimately aware of Haley's infidelity as a South Carolina lawmaker -- including tales of steamy liaisons in the back of her Cadillac SUV, 'canoodling' in her lovers' laps at bars, and nights spent together in a Columbia, South Carolina duplex. Haley has not responded to DailyMail's request for comment as of the time of publication.
... [Will Folks] said he first kissed Haley in a car in early 2007, and that he had regular trysts with her at his apartment in downtown Columbia. He got married in June 2008. 'Representative Haley and I shared our first kiss while sitting in her parked car outside of MacDougal's restaurant and bar in downtown Columbia, S.C.,' Folks wrote in the October 2010 affidavit. 'This kiss took place in early 2007 following an evening with friends at the nearby Liberty Taproom. After this first kiss, Rep. Haley drove us to the parking lot behind the neighborhood center at Emily Douglas Park where we parked for approximately forty-five minutes. 'There we slid back the seats of her Cadillac SUV so that Rep. Haley could climb on top of me.' Folks said that the alleged affair continued through Spring 2007, with trysts at his Columbia apartment, and that 'a few other romantic encounters occurred in her SUV 'including one in the parking lot of the S.C. Policy Council' and 'in her State House office'.
If the wife was alleging it in divorce filings, that gives it an extra level of credence. Doesn't prove it, of course. But at least someone else is corroborating it.
Larry Marchant Jr., 61, a Columbia lobbyist, also wrote a sworn statement that year that he had dinner, drinks and sex with Haley in her hotel room at a Salt Lake City conference in June 2008. ... 'After a night together of dinner and drinks with other participants of the conference, Rep. Haley and I returned to the hotel together. We went back to her room where we had sexual intercourse and I spent the remainder of the evening. I left her room at approximately 6:00 am. 'I came forward publicly on this matter only after being contacted by the press and after hearing Rep. Haley claim that she had been One Hundred Percent faithful to her husband in response to the Folk's allegations when I knew her statements were absolutely false.' Marchant, who was married at the time, divorced in 2013, with his wife citing the alleged Haley affair in court papers.
... But one South Carolina GOP insider told DailyMail.com they knew about Haley's alleged affair with Marchant at the time. 'She was in [Marchant's] office all the time, she'd be there at 11 or midnight, the two of them would be drinking,' the former associate of Haley said. The GOP insider said he had also seen Haley get into the back of her off-white Cadillac SUV with her other alleged beau, Folks. 'I saw them sitting in it a few times with the windows steamed up,' he said. A second prominent South Carolina Republican said he regularly saw the distinctive Cadillac outside Folks's duplex in Columbia, apparently staying overnight. 'I became curious when I saw an SUV parked outside early in the morning and late at night. It had legislative tags, it wasn't hard to figure out whose it was,' he said. He added that Haley was not secretive with her alleged romancing.Is this a big deal? I don't think so. All I see is another strong, empowered Woman of Color feeling a little cooter-sweat while trying to save the world, and maybe, just maybe, stumbling on to some Quality D along the way. In this topsy-turvy world, can we blame a strong empowered woman for wanting some rando to blow his pecker-snot into her muff-hanky? No. No we cannot. Update to the Fani Slammer story:
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Oh Boy: Records Prove That Debased Female John Fani Willis Traveled to Sexotic Sexcursions On Her He-Whore's Dime (and She Was Paying Her He-Whore With Taxpayer Funds)
Taxpayer funds? More like ass-slayer funds, am i rite
I am right. I'm exactly right.Bank records show that special prosecutor Nathan Wade purchased airline tickets in his and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' name for trips to San Francisco and Miami, according to a court motion filed Friday. The filing was made on behalf of Joycelyn Wade in her divorce case with Nathan Wade in Cobb County Superior Court. Credit card statements in the filing appear to bolster allegations of a romantic relationship between Nathan Wade and Willis. The trips took place in 2022 and 2023, after Willis had hired Wade as special prosecutor in the probe of election subversion by Donald Trump and his allies. A spokesman for Willis did not immediately respond to requests for comment.She's booking an appearance in a black church as we speak.
Imma go ahead and say they did. This is hilarious. Hilarious. She cannot remain as the DA on this case, and Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., cannot remain the prosecutor. They have a vested interest in milking this prosecution, as they're profiting from it. Prosecutors are not permitted to have a direct stake in the outcome of a case, or in the case merely continuing. Fani Willis does have such an interest. She is paying her Fuckboy with taxpayer funds, and these funds are even being kicked back to her in the form of sexpensive sexcapades. Who knows -- he's much more attractive than her dumpy ass is, so her entire relationship may demand that she keep paying him to keep him servicing her haggard gnarly snizz. She's gone. Gone. There is no question now. I quoted parts of Fani Willis' motion but I didn't emphasize one of the most startling, partisan claims in it: She claims that the woman whose husband she stole with her dirty sloppy vag is actually conspiring with Donald Trump to humiliate her and derail her great prosecution. Jonathan Turley thinks that this hard-partisan motion sinks Willis, just in itself.
Joycelyn Wade's attorneys attached to the filing records from Nathan Wade's Capital One bank account. It showed that he purchased $817.80 tickets for himself and Willis on April 25, 2023 to fly to San Francisco. Records show subsequent purchases at the DoubleTree hotel in Napa Valley. There were also purchases of $477.21 plane tickets in both their names to Miami on Oct. 5, 2022. Clara Bowman, who is believed to be Wade's mother, accompanied them, records showed. Accompanying purchases from Royal Caribbean Cruises totaled more than $2,600. The day after booking flights to Miami and the Royal Carribean cruise, Wade spent approximately $3,800 with Vacation Express, a company that offers vacation packages and tours, the records show. The tickets do not show whether Wade and Willis stayed in the same room.
In a surprising filing, Fulton County's district attorney Fani Willis has accused the estranged wife of her alleged lover of conspiring to undermine the Trump prosecution by seeking her deposition in the messy divorce case of Nathan Wade. Willis, again, does not deny having an affair with Wade, who she appointed lead prosecutor in the case. Instead, she accuses Joycelyn Wade of an affair that broke up the marriage and suggests that she is coordinating with Trump forces to interfere with the prosecution. Willis is accused of major ethical violations in appointing her alleged lover to the position as she went on lavish vacations with him. She previously denounced those raising obvious ethical concerns as being racist due to the fact that both Willis and Wade are black. She did not, however, deny the intimate relationship or the allegation that Wade paid for her vacation expenses. ... Willis' counsel Cinque Axam then added that Joycelyn Wade "has conspired with interested parties in the criminal election interference case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass and oppress District Attorney Willis." ...Another conflict of interest.
[I]t is not a smart move. The level of animus and vexatious language in the filing only magnifies the concern over the Willis-Wade relationship. By attacking the estranged wife of her alleged lover, Willis only increases concerns over the professional separation between Willis and Wade in making decisions in the case. Accusing the estranged wife of your alleged lover of being a political conspirator is about as compelling as accusing people raising ethical concerns of being virulent racists. For example, if Wade were to exceed his authority or act unprofessionally in the case, Willis would be forced to take action against not only an alleged lover but someone she has had to defend as the ideal choice for the position. Their personal relationship would presumably weigh in the balance in any supervisory review or decision.
Likewise, if Willis was taken on vacations by Wade and their relationship is continuing, the termination of his contract could have an economic impact on Willis.Well we have that too. We've got a full house of conflict of interests, King high. This does not mean the case goes away. A non-conflicted attorney will be appointed to oversee the case by the judge. But that attorney may have a different take on whether this nonsense RICO action is nonsense. Further, it will take time for a new team to get up to speed in the case. So, at the very least, this will delay this trial for months. And once it's delayed for months, it will probably have to be delayed until after the election. That in itself doesn't get Trump off. He can't pardon himself from state charges. But he benefits from putting this off as long as possible.
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Alec Baldwin Indicted on Two Counts Including Manslaughter in Rust Shooting
Sports Illustrated to Fire Most or All of Its Staff
Why 2 counts? Oh, yeah. Maybe I have that wrong, maybe it's two counts, one for manslaughter and one for aggravated assault.
Sports Illustrated to Fire Most or All of Its Staff
If he pleads insanity, he skates. Easily.
He's been preparing for the role of "mentally unbalanced rage-case" all his life. A commenter says: >>>Baldwin shot 2 people but one lived if memory serves...Why 2 counts? Oh, yeah. Maybe I have that wrong, maybe it's two counts, one for manslaughter and one for aggravated assault.
Oli London
@OliLondonTV Alec Baldwin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter by a New Mexico grand jury, more than two years after shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his ill-fated western film Rust. Baldwin could face a maximum of 18 months in jail if convicted. Previous charges, filed by New Mexico prosecutors, were dismissed in April last year. Source: Daily Mail
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Biden to Spend $700,000 on "Trans-Inclusive Sex Ed" for 14-Year-Olds, to Tell Girls Who ARe Pretending to Be Boys That They Can Still Get Pregnant, You Know, In Their Masculine Vaginas
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding nearly $700,000 taxpayer dollars to back pregnancy prevention programs for young girls who identify as boys, warning that "heteronormative" sexual education is inadequate. The $698,736 grant, which began in September 2023 and will continue until June 2027, according to government disclosures, will be allocated to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research, a non-profit that seeks to create "an inclusive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys.""Non-profit." Except a bunch of terminally unemployable layabouts have found a way to get paid by the government big salaries for doing literally nothing but nonsense.
I think what they mean is that these girls-pretending-to-be-boys exclude themselves from girls' sex education, because they claim not to be girls, and therefore don't know they can get pregnant if a dude inseminates their very-male v-modules. So we have to create a separate sex ed class for girls pretending to be boys, where they can be told that, being boys with vaginas, they can get pregnant. We couldn't possibly just tell them to go to the girls' sex education class to learn what the health consequences based on their actual sex. No, we have to create a special, separate Girls LARPing as Boys class. And what about the enbies? (Non-binaries.) What about the genderfucks? (People who like making a game of gender and deliberately attempting to provoke confusion from normies... which I think describes all of these mutants, if I'm being honest.) What about the cat people? What of the unicorn fairies? What about the aromantics? The graysexuals? The aces? The trans-masculine femme full-spectrum Gendersprouts? (People who groom their pubic hair to look like broccoli sprouts.) I mean, I made that last one up, But how would anyone know?!
"Youth who are assigned female at birth ... are at risk for negative sexual health outcomes yet are effectively excluded from sexual health programs because gender-diverse youth do not experience the cisgender, heteronormative teen sexual education messaging available to them as salient or applicable," the award description claims.
Gee, why would these "trans-identified assigned-female-at-birth" be "at least as likely as cisgender girls to be pregnant"? Could it be because they're actually girls, and should attend the girls sex ed classes?
"Data suggest that AFAB [assigned female at birth] trans-identified youth may be less likely to use condoms when having sex with people who have penises and are at least as likely as cisgender girls to be pregnant," it goes on to say before adding that the "health inequity must be addressed."
We need a special, separate program to tell these Very Special Snowflakes that they should use condoms, even though they're "boys." Um, gay boys take it in the butt and know they have to use condoms to avoid AIDS. Why do we need to spend millions to tell these Very Special Snowflakes that they, too, can contract AIDS by penetrative sex? They're not just breaking society -- broken pieces can be reassembled and glue together. They are boiling society down into nothing by immersing it in a DEI, woke transgender acid bath. When they get done, this time, there will be no hope of fixing things. And that's the point.
The Center for Innovative Public Health Research aims to provide sex education via a program called "Girl2Girl," which the organization describes as "a text messaging based-sexual health program designed for cisgender sexual minority girls 14-18 years of age." ... The Center for Innovative Public Health Research is slated to receive another $1.4 million taxpayer dollars from HHS to develop a "population-based HIV prevention program for trans girls," specifying that the program will "address the lack of gender inclusive HIV prevention programming." "Messaging will be gender affirming" and will "reduce internalized transphobia," the award description adds.
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The Biden Administration Is Now Embezzling Funds Appropriated for Counter-Terrorism To... Woke Black "Arts" Groups
Unless John Lithgow is commanding a terrorist force to stop people from dancing, then Biden is, once again, violating the law.
James Varney:Founded in 2020 in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, the Black Legacy Project describes itself as "a musical celebration of black history to advance racial solidarity, equity and belonging." It brings together artists of all backgrounds "to record present day interpretations of songs central to the Black American experience and compose originals relevant to the pressing calls for change of our time." A similar arts group, Nu Art Education Inc., an offshoot of the NorCal School for the Arts, says it is "following the theory of change that utilizing theater arts" can be "a tool to teach and practice conflict resolution in the classroom." While both outfits share a mission of using the arts to inspire social change, they have something else in common: counterterrorism. Or rather, both have received taxpayer grants through the Department of Homeland Security's "Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention" (TVTP) program. Together, the two groups have received more than $1.4 million since the Biden administration doubled the program's annual budget, to some $20 million per year. Grants to arts cooperatives and educational initiatives strike some as odd for a department charged with protecting the United States -- including its southern border, now viewed by many as virtually open to illegal migrants. Against that backdrop, FBI Director Christopher Wray recently warned Congress of the heightened threat of terror in the U.S. at a time of wars raging on two continents with America involved on the sidelines. On Tuesday, Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee the "threat matrix" is "blinking red lights everywhere." Given such concerns, Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies, a critic of Biden policies, said the DHS grants are misplaced. "It's kind of hard to see how all that is going to help stop terrorism," he told RealClearInvestigations.Well yeah, it is a little hard to see, now that you bring it up.
When Biden lies and says he's increased money to "combat terrorism," and claims Republicans are "pro-terrorist" for objecting to this spending: Remember, Biden considers normal Americans to be terrorists and his "counterrorism" money is just for DEI propaganda.
DHS declined to discuss the TVTP program, or answer questions about how competitive the grant process is or who makes final decisions on where the money will go. The program has its roots in the Obama administration under the concept of "countering violent extremism" and has drawn criticism ever since from both left and right -- albeit for different reasons. During the Trump administration, the leftist Brennan Center for Justice faulted the "anti-Muslim and xenophobic rhetoric and policies" in such programs, which "also target refugees, asylum seekers, and Black Lives Matter activists." The Brennan Center said "the reality is that these programs, which are based on junk science, have proven to be ineffective, discriminatory and divisive." That was then. Now, having doubled the program's budget, the Biden administration is using the money to advance parts of its agenda not directly related to terrorism. Increasingly the DHS grants, like much larger ones at other departments, are part of the administration's "whole of government" effort to promote "diversity, equity and inclusion" and quash what it considers misinformation.<
While proclaiming that that the grants are designed for "local communities across the country to develop targeted violence and terrorism prevention programming in their communities," the Department of Homeland Security also stresses its focus on DEI. "Ensuring equity is a key priority of the TVTP Grant Program and 41 percent of this year's grant recipients are devoted to underserved populations, compared to 25 percent last year," the DHS website says, noting grants have gone to historically black colleges and universities, seven "Minority Serving Institutions (MSI)," a Native American group and another serving the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Predatory Hosebeast Fani Willis: If You Have a Problem With Me Spending $654,000 to Hire My Current Hookup, Mr. Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., Then Your Real Problem Is With a Strong Empowered Black Woman Taking Charge Of Her Own Orgasms
Now, much of what Fani Willis says is accompanied by palpable subtext. In the below article, I have raised this subtext to the level of text, and added it to the New York Times article where I believe appropriate. I trust the New York Times, and the sex-swollen brutish man-slammer Fani Willis, will thank me for these emendations to the report.
You tell 'em, Fani!
You talk that stupid racist talk! The judge overseeing Fani Willis' political witch-trial has ordered a hearing into the allegations against her.The Washington Post has a more detailed report explaining that Judge Scott McAfee has ordered Willis to respond in writing to the allegations by Feb. 2, and he has called a hearing about the accusations and scheduled it for Feb. 15. McAfee is also presiding over the RICO case involving Trump and 18 other co-defendants. Willis is alleged to be in a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, an attorney with little experience in corruption cases whom the DA hired to serve as a special counsel in the Trump case. "Willis has declined to address the accusations directly so far," reports the Washington Post's Amy Gardner and Holly Bailey. "McAfee's order appears to be forcing her to do so in televised court proceedings, a development that could at the least be embarrassing for the district attorney and at worst derail the investigation completely."And just in the nick of time, the New York Times rushes in to report that this is all just a case of white men not treating black women with "respect" or acknowledging them as equals. Whew! I was worried that a single black politico would be accused of wrongdoing and would not claim to be exempt from ordinary critique and examination on account of their race.
Now, much of what Fani Willis says is accompanied by palpable subtext. In the below article, I have raised this subtext to the level of text, and added it to the New York Times article where I believe appropriate. I trust the New York Times, and the sex-swollen brutish man-slammer Fani Willis, will thank me for these emendations to the report.
There's no evidence except that the wife of her Gigolo and co-counsel alleges it in a divorce proceeding. Oh, and no evidence apart from Fani Willis, Rodsmuggler, admitting it in church, stating that just like Martin Luther King, Jr. -- who had his own adultery scandals -- she too had "stumbled." No evidence at all!
Fani T. Willis, the district attorney prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump, is trying to quash a subpoena seeking her testimony in the divorce proceedings of a special prosecutor she hired to manage the case. A court filing last week accused Ms. Willis of having a romantic relationship with the prosecutor, Nathan J. Wade, a two-bit man-slut known on the streets as "Turgid Manblossom," "The Booty Vandal," and "Dixon Butts." The motion containing the accusation was filed by Michael Roman, one of Mr. Trump's 14 co-defendants in the criminal case. The motion argues that the relationship, which it provided no proof of, amounted to a conflict of interest; it seeks to have Mr. Wade, Ms. Willis and her office dismissed from the case.
Now why would a colleague just offer the information that he's not having sex with his wife and considers himself Single, Ready to Mingle, and Thicc in the Dingle? You know who says that kind of thing? A married guy trying to bang his ladyboss. "We're just like roommates... we barely even talk... spit on it first..."
On Thursday, Ms. Willis responded with a filing stating that she "lacks personal knowledge of any matter that is relevant" to the divorce. She did not directly acknowledge the allegation, but said there was no reason for her to testify because both Mr. Wade and his wife had declared their marriage to be "irretrievably broken."
The New York Times wants you to know that there's no evidence -- none-- that Fani Willis is boning Mrs. Wade's husband. But when Fani Willis somehow conjures up the claim that Mrs. Wade was boning another guy, the New York Times absolutely fails to note that there's "no evidence" for this allegation, either. It seems some people's allegations require evidence, and some people are so Politically Useful they can enter facts into evidence without any evidence at all.
"It is well-established that when both parties in a divorce proceeding assert that a marriage is irretrievably broken, which is a legal conclusion signifying that there is no hope for reconciliation, there is no genuine issue of fact that remains to be decided concerning the divorce," Cinque Axam, a lawyer for Ms. Willis, wrote in the filing. "And please stop saying mean things about her Sweet Boo." ...
The filing also said that Ms. Wade had acknowledged having an affair with a longtime friend of Mr. Wade's, and that the couple had agreed their marriage was "irretrievably broken" as early as 2017, before Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis had met.
Here it comes. Oh, and the New York Times claims that "matters of race and gender" were already "bubbling to the fore." No they weren't. They were not an issue at all. But Fani Willis is about to play the sex and gender cards, and the Times wants to pretend she's only reluctantly playing them in response to others playing them.
Ms. Merchant said in a text message, "Ms. Willis alleges that her deposition is being sought in an attempt to harass and damage her professional reputation. Why would her truthful testimony risk damaging her reputation? And would she be able to even answer, what with that Monster Schlong nigh-bursting out of her cheek?" ... The events of the past 10 days have added an unexpected dimension to a case in which matters of race and gender have also been bubbling to the fore.
There is no evidence it's romantic. Far as I can tell, it's just two people going on sexcursions on the public's dime.
In a testy recent email exchange between defense lawyers and prosecutors, Ms. Willis wrote that "some people will never be able to respect African Americans. And some people are just jealous that Mr. Wade hits my absolute bottom when we ridin' dirty." The email exchange, portions of which were obtained by The New York Times, unfolded in the days before and after the filing alleging the romantic relationship.
It's almost as if -- I say almost as if -- you can't question a Strong Empowered Black (Leftwing) Woman at all without being smeared as a racist who Just Doesn't Understand the True Love We Share When We're Gouging The Taxpayer.
In a group email thread that includes prosecutors and defense lawyers in the case, the lead lawyer for Mr. Trump in Georgia, Steven H. Sadow, expressed annoyance with prosecutors for ignoring a request he had made. On Jan. 5, he wrote to prosecutors: "For the life of me, I cannot understand why you refuse to respond to the series of emails below." Five days later, Daysha Young, an executive district attorney who, like Ms. Willis, is Black, wrote that she and Ms. Willis "are both aware, especially as an African American woman some find it difficult to treat us respectfully. You know who treats us respectfully? Captain Thunderbang, Attorney-at-Cock." She added, "Over the last month the emails of some of you have been disrespectful and condescending lacking both professionalism and decorum." Ms. Young also said that she did not respond to some emails because they were disrespectful. Mr. Sadow, who is white, responded with an email in which he said that it was "offensive, uncalled for and untrue" to suggest that racism was at play. He also said that Ms. Young's lack of response to some emails from the defense "suggests a degree of haughtiness."
So there you go. She's not denying she hired her gigolo to prosecute Trump, and you're a fucking racist to even ask about it. Update: Someone challenged my D&D knowledge. Below, the Random Harlot Encounters table from the 1st Edition DMG.
Then Ms. Willis weighed in. "In the legal community (and the world at large) some people will never be able to respect African Americans and/or women as their equal and counterpart," she wrote in a note addressed to Mr. Sadow but sent to all of the defense lawyers, most of whom are white men. "That is a burden you do not experience. Further, some are so used to doing it they are not even aware they are doing it while others are intentional in their continued disrespect. I shall answer no more impertinent questions about the man who tickles my cervix." Ms. Willis also made a case for her own fortitude. "Now you know, I cannot be bullied," she wrote. "I can be spanked, by the right man, a man with a domineering grin and the soul of a pirate, but I cannot be bullied." She added: "As you are aware, I have now experienced some of the most powerful people in the country call me everything, but a child of God. I have also experienced the power of a veiney python going nine-deep in my dusty old cobwebby mummyc*nt. But, yet here I and my team stand still pursuing justice."
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MORNING RANT - The Rolling Implosion of Higher Education: Men Adapting Just Fine; Will Women Be Hit Hardest?
With universities having evolved into outrageously expensive left-wing indoctrination camps, and with the perceived value of a sheepskin plummeting, college enrollment is declining, driven by a significant decline in young men attending college.
The men will be fine, in fact most will thrive without acquiring tuition debt and exposure to the hateful racial obsession of college life. I’m actually more concerned about the career prospects for women in a post-university future. First, here is what Pew Research is reporting: “Fewer young men are in college, especially at 4-year schools” [12/18/2023]College enrollment among young Americans has been declining gradually over the past decade. In 2022, the total number of 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college was down by approximately 1.2 million from its peak in 2011. Most of the decline is due to fewer young men pursuing college. About 1 million fewer young men are in college but only 0.2 million fewer young women. As a result, men make up 44% of young college students today, down from 47% in 2011, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data. Today, men represent only 42% of students ages 18 to 24 at four-year schools, down from 47% in 2011.An interesting point is that the potential pool of 18 to 24 year-old college students has not declined, it’s simply that fewer young men are paying for the privilege of being hated on at an indoctrination camp.
The decline in young college enrollment since 2011 is not driven by a drop in the overall number of 18- to 24-year-old high school graduates. That number has modestly increased since 2011. Instead, the falling share of young high school graduates who are enrolling in college is causing the decline. And the drop has been greater among young men than women. Today, only 39% of young men who have completed high school are enrolled in college, down from 47% in 2011. The rate at which young female high school graduates enroll has also fallen, but not by nearly as much (from 52% to 48%).The oft-cited statistics regarding the impact of college degrees on income are an example of conflating correlation with causation. Individuals with initiative, problem solving skills, and leadership ability have historically been pushed into the college track. It’s those characteristics that advanced their careers, not the Business Management class they attended as a hungover 20-year-old college student. In my family there are several men with those characteristics who never attended college, and who have had incredibly successful careers. One is a man who became a real estate developer. His first job out of high school was food prep in a restaurant’s kitchen, but everywhere he worked he exhibited leadership and a great work ethic, propelling him upward. Another family member started working as a small engine mechanic out of high school. He is now the successful owner of a company doing defense contracting. A college degree was not necessary for these hard-working, motivated men, and it might have held them back if it had steered them into a corporate cubicle. There is a man I met who owns an appliance repair business, who had a brilliantly simple and well executed plan to become a successful business owner, without incurring debt, all while receiving a paycheck. Through personal experience with a broken appliance, he learned that there was a lengthy wait to get a service call due to a shortage of appliance repairmen in our city. So, he took a position as an apprentice with a local appliance repair business, then soon became a capable tech who was fully in charge of repair visits for his employer. After less time than it takes to get a college degree, and with experience on a wide variety of appliances, he then hung out his own shingle and signed on with a prominent home warranty company as an authorized provider. The home warranty business sent him all the business he could handle, and soon he was hiring techs and training apprentices. The success of these men is all well and good, but what about women who want careers that don’t require college degrees? While trades are lucrative for men, women are generally not drawn to them, and there don’t seem to be as many high-paying opportunities for women without degrees as there are for men. As I wrote about a few months ago, fields that women are drawn to such as social work and speech pathology not only require a degree, but they effectively require a Masters Degree.
This is all a racket and a scam that mainly preys on young women and enriches the universities. In fact, every single person I’ve know that has followed these 6 or 7 year degree plans is female. I am not disputing that these are legitimate academic fields and respectable careers (although the radical left’s takeover of their accrediting agencies has certainly tarnished their image in my eyes) but there is no reason that it takes 6 or more years of schooling to become a social worker. If architects and RNs can practice with a bachelor’s degree or less, so can a speech pathologist.It would be good for some conservative political leaders at the state level to try to bust the alliance between the university cartel and the licensing organizations for these fields. It would also be doing society a favor if women pursuing a career in fields like these didn’t have to be subjected to woke indoctrination to get their licenses. The rejection of the “the college path” by so many young men is good news for the country. They don’t need a degree, and they will thrive and prosper while starving the beast of tuition money. I also hope that as universities continue to lose power and respectability that more career paths open up for women without degrees. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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The Morning Report — 1/19/24
As the press and its political allies dismiss opposition to open borders and its inherent 'replacement theory' as little more than 'white supremacy,' something different is happening out in America's inner cities. Charlamagne Tha G0d (the name he goes by) hosts the nation's top radio program with black audiences, and far from hearing white supremacy talk regarding the border issue, is hearing black voices that have had it up to here with open borders.The cynic in me would think that the only reason blacks are up in arms is that they see a threat to their governmental welfare state gravy train being taken from them and given to the illegals. Yet, even someone like this Charlamagne character is objecting along lines that are much more in line with middle class attitudes, at least from these snippets. From the Democrat-Leftist perspective, they are indeed replacing blacks as their new majority bloc because their polices since LBJ have decimated their ranks via abortion and the effects of family dissolution (imprisonment and an early grave) that is leading to their ultimate extinction. To be brutally honest, the Democrats have committed a slow motion genocide against American blacks. Maybe one day soon, Charlamagne Tha G0d and those of his ilk will connect the dots, but by then it might be too late. Then there's this aspect:"Like, I honestly have never spoken to as many people who are concerned about the migrant issue as I have, you know, over the past year. And, I mean, I've heard everything from, you know, the gang MS13 overrunning neighborhoods . . . what we saw just happened in New York City, where the migrants—they took 2,000 migrants and put them in the school and made the school stay home—made the students stay home and do school via Zoom. And that was a big issue. Like, I mean, people were calling the radio station—that was just this week, you know, really, really, really complaining about that. So I've never seen working-class people who I interact with every day until this past year really, really, really expressed their frustration for the migrants," he continued.And this, regarding the standing narrative that only Republicans oppose illegal immigration and it was for racist reasons. The radio host referred to the "stunt" of border state governors transferring illegal migrants to sanctuary cities as their mayors and governors screamed, which, he noted, was an "effective" tactic:"Clearly it was effective because it made a lot of those Democrats start singing a different tune. And, I mean, the voters see that. The voters see that," Charlamagne said. "So what does that look like to the voter? Just on the surface, just on the surface, it looks like Republicans were right about the issue and Democrats got it wrong. And now a lot of Democrats are starting to sound like the Republicans sounded. So it makes a lot of people say, ‘Well, damn, Republicans were actually right on that issue.’ Just on the surface, just plain on the surface, that's how it looks, you know, to the average voter."The hard reality is that migrants with little education and few skills are most likely to move into neighborhoods of the poorest people, who are black, and bring crime and gangs with them. They also displace black citizens from jobs, by being willing to work for less, making the lot of black people that much harder. The black people see this from the sharp end much more so than the Martha's Vineyard crowd, and as Charlamagne reports, they want something done about it.
The protest was a display of the failures of the Obama/Biden administration’s immigration policies — policies that have opened our doors to virulently antisemitic immigrants from the Islamic world who have no intention of embracing our freedoms, but instead insist that Americans embrace Islam. On the March for Gaza website was a list of endorsing organizations, including the Israel/Palestine Network of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), along with a litany of radical Marxist and Islamic Organizations. In less than an hour, I saw protesters screaming for the annihilation of Israel, other protesters calling for revolution to overthrow the Israeli government for defending their people. Yet in the midst of all that hatred, not once did I hear anyone say “free the hostages, or “overthrow Hamas.” The question that lingered in my mind was, “Why would a mainline Christian denomination actively support Marxist and antisemitic organizations that call for genocide and the destruction of our capitalist society?” The red-green alliance between Western Leftists and Middle Eastern Islamists is alive and well. The next morning, I read that, the night before, White House staff had to be moved after pro-Palestinian rioters damaged anti-scale fencing and hurled objects at the police. This comes just two months after rioters vandalized the White House fence and spraypainted graffiti reading, “Death to Israel” and “Glory to our martyrs” on buildings near the Israeli Embassy. Yet never once has anyone in the administration said a word about “insurrection.”While malignancies such as Dearborn and Minneapolis are evident, myriad smaller towns and burgs all over the US are, if not stopped, going to turn at first into no-go zones that are controlled by Sharia police and then sooner or later capture the nation. More or less without firing a shot. By the way, much of the problem didn't begin with Biden. It began with George W. Bush who, after 9/11/01 opened the floodgates for the mass infection of Muslim immigration. Biden just exacerbated it by erasing our borders so that untold hundreds or even thousands of military age males from Islamic countries have entered. Multiply the Boston Marathon bombing by that number and you've got yourself a situation. But don't worry, sez Democrat Congress-stooge Lou Correa:
Well, think about what’s going on around the world right now. We have two wars. We have fentanyl [on] our doorstep everywhere on Main Street across the country. We have challenges of fentanyl, sad, tragic deaths, parents mourning. And then, of course, we have a worldwide refugee challenge. So, naturally, we want to find out why this is happening. But Alejandro Mayorkas is not the reason. Alejandro’s doing his job. If you think about those two world wars going on in the Middle East and in Europe…what you’re not talking about is the fact that we haven’t had a terrorist attack, thank God, on our soil, the fact that we’ve essentially minimized any attack — cyberattacks on our society. So, Mayorkas is doing a good job."Thanks for that reassurance that we haven't had a terrorist attack – YET. I'm sure this planarian will crawl under a rock never to be seen when a dirty bomb goes off somewhere, or a Queer for "Palestine" goes really really queer in the head and shoots up a synagogue, or blows up a car bomb in Times Square. Meh, he'll be the first in front of the camera's to blame America, Trump and the culture of Islamophobia. Or the Mossad. Speaking of Queer Terrorists, we dodged another bullet. Let's see how long it takes for the FBI to turn this creature into a MAGA white supremacist. I guess we should cut them some slack for refusing to cooperate on yet another laptop, Seth Rich's. But I digress. In a not unrelated incident, in the desperate attempt to shield Mayorkas, Biden and the entire Democrat Party from their treasonous action of destroying our borders (I unequivocally and absolutely mean that word and its ramifications in no uncertain terms), Dan Goldman, scumbag supreme literally berated a woman who's daughter died from a fentanyl overdose for daring to blame Alejandro Mayorkas, essentially equating her to a Republican shill. Blood is boiling now.
Josephine Dunn lost her daughter Ashley to fentanyl at the age of 26 and testified before Congress at a hearing titled “Voices for the Victims: The Heartbreaking Reality of the Mayorkas Border Crisis.” Goldman told her that she was being “used” and was not qualified to be a witness before going back and forth about the border. “I want to apologize in some ways to you that you are here, really to share your story, but being used as a fact witness for an impeachment investigation,” Goldman told Dunn and another mother who lost her daughter to border-related issues. “And obviously given what your experience has been, you don’t have the background to understand what a high crime and misdemeanor is and how it relates to this. So I hope that you’re handling that okay.” “You would agree, would you not, that it would help to stop the fentanyl trade and fentanyl trafficking from coming into this country if we had more law enforcement officers at the border and more resources and technology to stop the fentanyl from coming in?” he asked Dunn. “Do you agree with that?” “I disagree with that, because border patrol is now being used to make sandwiches and to screen people and let them into our country, so I disagree with you,” Dunn responded. “I would like the border patrol to be able to do the job that they were hired to do. Every border patrol officer that I have spoken to has told me that their hands are tied by this administration and mister Mayorkas. I’ve been to the border, sir, have you?” Goldman did not answer the question. “Excuse me, I’m asking the questions,” he retorted.There really isn't a flaming sack of horse manure large, putrid and scorching enough to shove down this bastard's throat. Crime, terrorism, the waste of hundreds of billons of dollars, societal dissolution and every other problem down the line intersects, at least in some way, with the fact the we have no borders and no immigration control. And that has been completely intentional as I have stated over and over again. We see it, and now so many others see it across perhaps the broadest spectrum of the political, ethnic and socio-economic landscape of the nation. A nation disappearing by the day. As I stated at the top, this above all else is going to destroy the Democrats come November, election rigging or not. Oh, they will be trying to steal it yet again for sure. But this time around, it will have to be so massive and in your face a cheat that everyone will see it. And those who voted, or whose ballots went to Biden one way or another four years ago, are going to be pissed because this time around, it's their election, either in voting Trump or staying home in protest of Biden, that will have been stolen. The only thing they have left to run on is abortion. And I don't think even this go-round, it's going to trump - heh - the disaster of the open border and Bidenomics. After that, all they can hope for is to trump Trump. Prepare for what's left of your head after Goldman to explode:
[Eric the "Red"] Holder said, “Even with this Supreme Court, with this ultra conservative super majority, there’s not a basis for finding in favor of the assertions he is making. You know, the court’s legitimacy is at stake here in a way that I think really goes to the way in which it will be viewed, that body will be viewed by the American people.” “To rule for the Trump camp, to say there’s any basis to those five assertions that he has made really puts at risk how the court will be viewed by the American public. There is again no constitutional basis for it, no historical precedent for it. That is not the way in which our nation has been formed or for which the American Revolution was actually conducted. I think that anybody who lines up in support of that really puts at risk our democracy and really puts at risk the notion that we are one person, one vote, that the people decide things, that no one is above the law. puts at risk the whole notion of the rule of law.”I cannot predict what will happen if Donald Trump is indeed railroaded at least off the ballots and at most imprisoned in the Garland Archipelago. As bad as things are, ordinary, decent real Americans still do not face enough of an existential threat in their daily lives to actually revolt, peacefully or otherwise. At least not yet. If SCOTUS actually does the right thing and throw these insane charges out, for sure the BLM/Antifa cadres – now "fortified" with hundreds or thousands of military age Muslim males! – are going to react, either at the behest of or independently from Holder's buddies in Kalorama and elsewhere. See you tomorrow on the hobby thread. Have a good weekend. PS: My latest essay is now over at Taki Mag. Have a read and comment.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Richard Fernandez: "Has the New World Order already come and gone?"
The Year the Future Disappeared
- "All-American consumerism by a completely peaceful and law-abiding citizen somehow threatens the people running my own country into the ground."
I Bought a Bible, Slingshot, and Sports Gear. So I’m Probably on a Domestic Terrorist" Watchlist
- Margot Cleveland: "Wednesday’s arguments were all about whether the Supreme Court should do away with the unworkable Chevron deference." (She seems to read the tea leaves as 6-3 to overturn, please God - jjs)
7 Takeaways From Arguments in the SCOTUS Case That Could Slay the Administrative State
- "The FBI needs to be abolished, and Trump needs to make that a Day 1 campaign pledge. All of it — gone into the dustbin of history. There is no reason for it to exist. All of its law enforcement activities — to the extent it still engages in legitimate law enforcement activities — could easily be picked up by individual states with much less bureaucratic nonsense and unconstitutional abuse of power." (Amen - jjs)
FBI Defies Legal Ruling, Refuses to Hand Over Seth Rich Laptop
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Daily Tech News 19 January 2023
Top Story
- I'll be working on the comment system this weekend. I don't expect any major interruptions, but if there are any hiccups, that will be the cause.
- Mark Zuckerberg has made it is goal to develop AGI - artificial general intelligence - with Meta now joining OpenAI and Google in the race. (The Verge)
What a shame then that none of those companies are actually working on AGI.
They're all putting a lot of effort into LLMs, but going from that to making actual working artificial intelligence is like trying to build houses by practicing caber tossing. With an enormous amount of effort you might eventually produce something vaguely house shaped that somebody could live in, but it's so obviously stupid that nobody would ever try.
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