The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/2/22

Good morning, kids. It pisses me off no end to have to do this but it's something that I feel I have to get out of the way before moving on to the fight for freedom abroad and here in our own country. Y'know, trivial crap like that.

So, let's play a little game of compare and contrast, shall we?

Donald Trump / Kanye West / Nic Fuentes
vs.
Barack Obama / Jeremiah Wright / Louis Farrakhan

How about this example?

Bernie Madoff vs. Sam Bankman-Fried

Or . . .

Ashli Babbitt / Roseanne Boyland /unarmed, nonviolent J6 dupes
vs.
BLM / Antifa

I think you catch my meaning. Whatever one feels about Donald Trump and his worth as the standard-bearer for 2024 – and I am not necessarily sanguine about supporting him myself for reasons other than this BS – it is painfully obvious that this kind of garbage, along with the shampeachments, indictments, bureaucratic persecutions and all the rest of it are meant to make him absolutely toxic to voters as well as any potential allies and nominees in his next administration. That is if he survives this sliming, or else is induced into stepping on his own dick by taking the bait. Meh. Any time he defends himself it will be spun as such.

Look, you can support Trump or DeSantis or some candidate to be named later. And there are valid reasons to support or reject any of them. But, if you believe Trump's one-off sit down with a mentally unstable West and an uninvited Fuentes makes him a Nazi, while Obama having as his priest and confessor a rabid, unreconstructed Jew-hater all his adult life is a non-story, then you're a Democrat. Or Piers Morgan.

Basta cosi.

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In mentioning both Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland, who are martyrs in every sense of that word, this happened in Iran a few days ago:

A man was killed by security forces in Iran after he honked his car horn to celebrate the country’s World Cup loss to the US, a human rights group said Wednesday — as anti-government protests erupted across the country following the defeat.
Mehran Samak, 27, was allegedly shot in the head at an anti-regime demonstration in Bandar Anzali Tuesday night after he rejoiced in the country’s 1-0 defeat, the Iran Human Rights group said, according to the BBC.
The alleged shooting came as Iranians opposed to the country’s “murderous” political regime took to the streets to celebrate the soccer team’s loss to its longtime political rival in Qatar Tuesday.

Let's keep sending Iran pallets of cash and give them the green light to get nukes because, Israel bad, or something. And Donald Trump's an anti-Semite. Oops. Sorry.

Over in China, where it's equally suicidal to stand up to among the most repressive regimes in the world (Xi's role model Mao Zedong butchered 60 million of his own people, making the other socialist heroes Hitler and Stalin look like amateurs in comparison), the junta in DC has kept silent. Mostly because a large segment of this government on both sides of the aisle (*cough!* McConnell! *cough!*) and most especially the Vegetable-in-Chief himself is owned by them, along with the private sector. And whatever the Chinese could not steal from us in terms of technology was eagerly given to them on a silver platter by our own high-tech industries. The tools of repression are being tested out over there because no doubt in the very near future they will be used right here to put us down and keep us down.

Tim Cook's Apple is in bed with the Red Chinese now in much the same way as IBM was with the Third Reich. And as Daniel Greenfield brilliantly shows, it's been going on for a lot longer than just Cook's tenure.

“Think Different”, Apple’s slogan, actually means collaborating with a Communist dictatorship where thinking differently is a crime. And it also means suppressing free speech in America.
That’s why Apple is threatening free speech on Twitter just as it’s threatening it in Shanghai.
But that is what the company has always been behind the reality distortion field of its ads. “Think Different” has never meant anything other than, “Shut up and do what the visionaries tell you. . . ”
. . . Jobs, the talented marketer who had positioned Apple as the company fighting totalitarianism with its 1984 ad, was aggressively offshoring the company’s labor to Communist China.
What China had to offer was mass production under a ruthlessly totalitarian system that would, when Jobs decided to revamp the iPhone a month before launch, wake up 8,000 workers at midnight for a 12 hour shift.
At an Obama dinner, Jobs bluntly confirmed, “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”
“What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?” Apple’s supply manager asked.
The dorms, where 12 workers live to a tiny room, everyone is monitored and so many have committed suicide that nets were put up to catch the bodies, were the real “Think Different”.
Steve Jobs loved China and the Communist dictatorship loved him back. His famous black turtleneck appeared to echo the Mao suit. There are golden busts of Jobs in China looking like a Communist dictator.When Jobs died, there was hysterical mourning in China. There was no mourning for the deaths of workers at the Foxconn plants where Apple products were made. . .
. . . The company wasn’t just once again collaborating with a Communist dictatorship responsible for the murder of countless millions, but it was screwing its own users, the naive students who had paid premium prices for its slave labor products because they believed in Apple.
They believed, like so many Americans and Europeans, that Apple stood for something.
And Apple does. It stands for tyranny.
That’s why Apple is threatening Twitter’s place in its app store because under Elon Musk the platform has begun to offer the very thing Apple is helping China stamp out: freedom.
It’s a mistake to believe that Apple is just doing what it’s told. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the company as unfortunate as the one by the protesters risking their lives while believing that Apple wouldn’t kick the chair out from under its users and their movement.
Apple isn’t a great American company, it’s a great Chinese company. Its fundamental worldview is Maoist. Its simplicity of control isn’t just about manipulating interfaces, but people. Its ad campaigns, from ‘1984’ to ‘Think Different’, have always been regime propaganda. Jobs, unlike his genuinely talented co-founder, Steve Wozniak, held people in contempt. His vision of technology was essentially Communist: depriving people of control for their own good. . .
. . . Apple’s vision for America isn’t any different than for China. In both countries, Apple helps a leftist elite implement its collectivist vision by offering customers a poisoned chalice of convenience in exchange for data harvesting and control. The company doesn’t empower its customers, it tricks them into giving up control so that they can be better controlled.
That is why it’s coming for Twitter and threatening it over its newfound free speech.
“We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology,” a Big Brother analogue intoned in Apple’s famous 1984 commercial, “secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts.”
Jobs was a fan of Orwell’s book. Unfortunately he viewed it as a manual.

It's not just Apple. It's Google, Microsoft and a whole litany of companies that are working directly with the Chi-Coms to develop these systems. Systems that are on your smart phones, computers and probably every single device you come in contact with that has a microchip in it. Essentially, everything. Full disclosure: I write on a Mac and have used them since the 80s. Even if I could switch over, it would be like changing deck chairs on the Titanic. Ugh.

We already see what our law enforcement and national security agencies are capable of, as well as who and what they consider to be the greatest threats to said national security. That would be us. Object to the outcome of elections? The sexualization of your children? High gas prices? You'll be lucky if all they do is throw the book, or in this case iBook, at you. That or wind up like the guy who cheered the US beating Iran.

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Neuralink is coming, and it won’t be pretty. The device, which offers miracle cures for paralysis, also ushers in a new era of human-to-machine interface that has so far primarily been the dark fantasy of dystopian fiction."
Neuralink Seeks to Transform Human Beings Into Simply Another Data Port in the Internet of Things
Daniel Greenfield: "Suppressing protests in China and censoring Twitter in America."
Apple Crushes Dissent in America and China

CHINA INTERNAL UNREST

"Protests have quickly spread nationwide as the Chinese people express their dissatisfaction with China’s leader Xi Jinping."
China’s "Paper Revolution" Could Be the Beginning of the End for Xi
"What sort of company sides with those who want to silence conservatives in the United States while working with the CCP to thwart freedom protests?"
Apple’s Logo Finally Makes Sense
"As Beijing’s repressive model makes clear, state power remains the greatest threat to freedom."
America, China, and the Spirit of Enterprise
"Let’s call what ails the West today Sinocracy—a tyranny following the Chinese model of business and government partnering to oppress."
Americans Need the Freedom Fighters to Win in China
“Do you think it’s problematic to do business with the Communist Chinese Party when they suppress human rights?” Vaughn asked. Cook did not respond.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Hides Behind Staffers as He’s Grilled For Enabling Communist China’s Human Rights Abuses
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Julie Kelly: "New ground is set with every egregious indictment and conviction with dire consequences for the future of political speech and activity."
Oath Keepers Verdict: A Dangerous Escalation in Criminalizing Dissent
While Derek Chauvin got crucified just for doing his job. . .
Minneapolis Will Pay $600,000 To Protesters For Injuries Sustained In 2020 George Floyd Demonstrations
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“For nearly a month, NBC News has refused to explain what was wrong about Almaguer’s report aside from a vague line that it didn’t meet company standards.” – Fox News (must be off somewhere interviewing Vince Foster - jjs)
Where’s Miguel?’: NBC News Reporter Behind Retracted Paul Pelosi Report Remains Off-Air
"Instead of speaking out against Apple, Republicans have been disturbingly silent, which means they still have no idea what time it is."
A GOP With Backbone Would Support Elon Musk, Punish Apple, and Fight for Free Speech on Twitter
"Abrams, the former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives, lost her gubernatorial rematch against Republican incumbent Brian Kemp by an eight-point margin earlier this month after narrowly succumbing to the nominee four years ago."
"Tank" Abrams Spokesman Denies She Lobbied Biden To Become One of the Nation’s Top Regulators
"The anti-Trump movement really wants Trump to win."
A Pathetic Ron DeSantis Hit Piece
CEO Chris Licht announced impending layoffs in an internal memo on Wednesday. He said the change would be a “gut punch” to the network. (more like a cvnt-punt - jjs)
LOL! CNN Fired Chris Cillizza!
Douglas Murray: "Can anyone think of another example of this happening. Did Bernie Madoff get soft-soap articles about him after his fraud was discovered? Did he have invitations to major public events to put his side of the story after his ponzi scheme collapsed? Not that I remember. But Bankman-Fried has been given all the soft treatment possible. Now why should that be?"
Media Treats Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried [Sham Bank-Fraud] with Kid Gloves Because He Was a Dem Darling
"Trump has not been particularly good in recent years at picking friends and allies but that doesn’t make his dining arrangements as contemptible as Piers Morgan would have us believe."
Diatribes and Dinner Dates
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Following the Golden State’s example, Montgomery County, Md., is planning to pull the plug, or more appropriately, cap the pipe on natural gas in the coming years."
Maryland's Biggest County Moves to Ban Natural Gas
Constructing as well as continuously operating large wind projects off the New England coast will affect right whales’ habitats and cause noise pollution which will “stress” the whales and cause them to die off, according to a letter a NOAA scientist sent to the Interior Department.
Biden’s Wind Power Push Will Threaten An Endangered Whale Species, Gov’t Scientist Says
"Farmers protesting their own government in the Hague."
More War on the Boers
"By depriving communities of wealth, ill-conceived climate-change proposals will lead to worse health outcomes."
“Statistical Murder?”
"And the police aren’t pissing around with them either."
Videos: Climate ‘Protesters’ Thrown Around Like Rag Dolls By Angry French Motorists
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“Today was also a chance for Republicans to stand up for working people and against the DC establishment,” he added. “They missed it. But make no mistake, the people who put on overalls or pick up a shovel or stand on the assembly line every day are worth fighting for. And the Republican Party will have no future without them.”
Hawley Tears Into Biden Admin, Democrats, Establishment GOP After Senate Imposes Labor Deal On Railroad Workers
“I challenge some Republicans to step up, stand with the blue-collar workers of America, stand for the right thing, and vote with – vote with the Democrats on this issue. We also have, you know, some concern on a couple of the Democrats. We hope the Democrats stay with us as well. Look. Our members need paid sick leave.” (meh, they've been voting for Commies for 55 years so it's hard to have sympathy - jjs)
Rail Union Boss Blasts Biden Deal, Says It Fails to Address ‘Quality of Life’
"A new survey of job data shows that there’s been a contraction in hiring among various economic sectors as employers get the message that Joe Biden’s economic crack-up will put a big hurt on the economy into 2025."
New Job Stats Show That This Economy Is Going to Be a Bumpy Ride
"The United States and China are the world’s first and second largest economies, with real output of $23 trillion and $17.7 trillion respectively."
India Will Surpass Japan and Germany as the World’s Third Largest Economy
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“The rank and file air marshals are going to refuse to deploy and risk termination,” Londo said. “You’re almost going to have a mutiny of a federal agency, which is unheard of.” (why, when we have ICE, as well as the freaking National Guard, is Joey Choo Choo doing this? - jjs)
U.S. Air Marshals Planning Rebellion After Biden Orders Them To Southern Border: Report
“The Biden [junta] is hostile to transparency, and when it does publish data, it refuses to respond to media inquiries regarding significant discrepancies like this,” a former ICE official with knowledge of the Alternatives to Detention program told the DCNF, confirming the figure was underreported. “Likely, ICE communication staffers are having a lot of difficulty defending this administration’s chaotic and lawless policies.”
ICE Is Underreporting Illegals It Releases Into The Country Without Tracking Equipment By Over 18,000%
"Among some of the highlights of the latest installment from James O’Keefe and his team: A migrant who was forced to cough up $150 for a forged Social Security card, a minor child who works from 4:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M. in a restaurant to pay off a bond debt, people, including children, who have paid immense amounts of money to traffickers to make it into the United States and, in doing so, incurred debts that can never be paid off."
Project Veritas Drops Part Two in Its Exposé of HHS Corruption
"The predicted inflow adds up to roughly 4.5 million migrants per year or more than one extra southern migrant for every American birth in the United States."
Joe Biden’s 2023 Border Plan: Two Migrants for Every American Birth
"Will Democrats push to reward illegal immigrants with citizenship?"
Wrong Time for an Amnesty
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“Since 1990, rates of gun-related homicide have been highest among Black men aged 20 to 24, the analysis said, with 142 fatalities per 100,000 people in this group in 2021—a 74% increase since 2014.”
Gun Related Homicides of Black Men Climb to Rates Not Seen Since the 1990s
SECOND AMENDMENT
It was caused by “a number of deficiencies within DOJ,” which included “lack of training, expertise, and professional rigor; insufficient documentation, policies, and procedures; and inadequate oversight.”
Independent Report Reveals Negligence That Led To Massive California Gun Owner Information Breach
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"We need to get back to educational basics." (you have to abolish the teacher unions and fire like 90% of the professoriate - jjs)
Our Devastating Education Schemes
"The policy faces another hurdle as the [junta] contests a separate Nov. 10 ruling by a federal judge in Texas deeming the program unlawful. A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to put that decision on hold, and the [junta] has said it plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene."
Supreme Court to Render Verdict on Biden’s Student Loan Boondoggle
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"‘I was in Ukraine in March … at no point was it ever as overwhelming as it was on Election Day in Maricopa,’ Smith said."
Poll Worker Gives an Inside Look at ‘Complete Chaos’ in Maricopa County on Election Day
"Mohave was one of several GOP-led counties in Arizona that asked for more time before certifying results to examine election integrity issues."
Katie Hobbs’ Office Threatened County Board With Arrest, Indictment If They Didn’t Certify Results
"After refusing to certify its general election results due to widespread failures that potentially disenfranchised voters, the board of elections for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, has flip-flopped and voted to certify its election results anyway — after pressure from a lawsuit by known Democrat election meddler Marc Elias."
PA County Cements Suppression of ‘Thousands’ of Voters by Flip-Flopping to Certify Disaster-Plagued Election
"As new revelations come out about disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and how he defrauded investors of millions of dollars only to spend their money on lascivious living and personal pet projects, one glaring fact remains: Bankman-Fried was the second-largest individual donor — with only George Soros topping him — to the Democrat Party during the 2022 midterm election cycle."
Thank Sam Bankman-Fried for Democrats’ 2022 Ground Game
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The Atlanta-based 11th Circuit vacated Judge Cannon’s order appointing special master Dearie and remanded the case to her courtroom to dismiss Trump’s lawsuit. Trump now has the option of appealing the 11th Circuit’s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. However, absent a stay from another appeal, the 11th Circuit’s decision is set to go into effect in seven days. A Trump spokesman called the court’s decision “purely procedural” and said it is “based only on jurisdiction.”
Federal Appeals Court Ends Special Master Review of Records Seized from Mar-a-Lago
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Move seen as shot at incoming Israeli prime minister Netanyahu."
Welcome, Bibi: Blinken To Headline Anti-Israel J Street Conference
But what do you expect when advocates for “gay rights” like Ronna McDaniel run the party?
To Its Eternal Shame, the GOP Hands Victory to the Dems on Gay Marriage
"Twelve Republicans voted to recognize a definition of marriage unknown in human history until the cosmic equivalent of yesterday."
On Marriage, Betrayal
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
“I think we need to have the conversation, instead of me being erased, and other women that were erased that tried to come forward,” Reade added, saying that House Republicans should launch an investigation while they have a majority.
Tara Reade Calls GOP-Majority House To Investigate Alleged Sexual Assault By Joe Biden
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"FTX recently filed for bankruptcy after users discovered that trading firm Alameda Research, a company run by Caroline Ellison — a former love interest of Bankman-Fried, had allegedly been using consumer funds from FTX to make investments."
Top Commodities Regulator Tells Senators He Met With Sam Bankman-Fried 10 Times
"The New Georgia Project then fired their top earning staff citing lack of funds."
Report: "Tank" Abrams’ Group Attempted To Purchase Multi-Million Dollar Real Estate In “Bizarre Deal”
"Nearly 90 percent of his individual campaign contributions came from outside of Georgia."
Meet Wife-Beater Slumlord Warnock’s Paymasters
"GOP leadership broke their own rules by meddling in primaries, accepting donations from hostile parties, and may be embroiling the GOP in an embarrassing scandal with their ties to FTX."
Our Republican Leaders Have Failed Us
POLITICS
As he began his remarks, the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] told the gathering how, as a young senator, Biden was corrected by another senator when he used the phrase "Indian country."
Biden Uses the Phrase 'Indian Country' 9 Times After Telling Tribes He Was Chided for Saying That
“Four more years!” the jokester in the audience shouted. “Oh, I don’t know about that,” Biden responded.
Did Joe Biden Just Hint That He Won't Run for Reelection?
Yeah, we all know about “Uncle Joe,” who says crazy stuff. The question is, was Obama just trying to be folksy and came up with “Uncle Joe” by accident, or was it intentional?
Watch: Did Obama Just Throw Shade at Joe Biden?
The market-idolatrous, culture war-shirking 'dead consensus' Right has been shown to be a loser."
Still Against the "Dead Consensus"
The governor explained that Republicans did not underperform because the party was divided; he said that Republicans nationwide did not use the same model that Republicans in the state of Florida used, which was focusing on exercising leadership, not bending the knee in politically uncomfortable fights, and taking big challenges and focusing on “producing results,” which “ends up attracting more people to want to be on your team and so that was not something that was happening throughout the rest of the country.” (the rigging in the swing states might have been a factor as well, Ron - jjs)
DeSantis Explains Why Republicans Failed To Deliver Red Wave During Midterms
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"One senior diplomatic source told the Washington Free Beacon the gesture undermines U.S. efforts to support Iranian protesters who are rallying in the streets against such draconian religious displays."
U.S. Ambassador Under Fire for Wearing Hijab at Lebanon’s Request
AP News: “China currently has about 400 nuclear warheads, and that number could grow to 1,500 by 2035.” (if the CCP still exists by then - jjs)
Pentagon: China to Quadruple the Number of Nuclear Warheads by 2035
"China stepped up its military activities around Taiwan, including missile launches, after House Speaker [Malig-]Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)’s visit to the democratic island earlier this year in spite of Chinese opposition. While the level of those activities has gone down since then, it is not where it was before her trip, the official said."
Pentagon Official: China Establishing ‘New Normal’ of Increased Military Activity Around Taiwan
"The East and the West are both collaborating in an effort to impose the Great Reset -- but each side’s different interpretation of the Great Reset and their incompatibility eventually will tear them apart."
How the East and West will Part Ways on the Great Reset
"Perhaps they’re most upset that in a remarkable new interview the pope still wouldn’t mention Vladimir Putin by name."
Russkies Whack ‘Race-Baiting’ Pope [Fiction] Francis
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"The unnecessary harm has gone on long enough."
American Forces Needlessly Caught in Turkish Crossfire
"The survey showed that 62 percent of respondents said military leadership was becoming overly politicized, nearly 60 percent said the performance and competence of presidents as commanders-in-chief decreased their confidence in the military, and 55 percent cited the performance and competence of the military’s civilian leadership."
Survey: Less than Half of Americans Have High Confidence in Military — Leadership ‘Politicized’
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Sophia’s data also shows once again the utter unreliability of the modern mainstream press. Routinely it pushes false or weak stories, consistently showing that its reporters and editors are ignorant or naive about almost every story they cover, from science to politics. To trust its conclusions on any controversial story is to put your faith in fortune tellers."
SOFIA finds no phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere
"These images only increase my mourning for a Saturn orbiter. Since the end of Cassini’s mission in 2017, we have essentially been blind to the ringed planet and its many moons. These images, while producing excellent data, also illustrate well what we have lost."
Webb and Keck telescopes track clouds on Titan
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Ironically, celebrating long-haired men in heels and wishing to upend democratic institutions recalls the courts of Charles I and Louis XVI more than any kind of progress that could benefit hardworking Americans."
Toxic Masculinity and ‘The End of History’
"Only if they drastically change their tune."
Can Britain’s LGB Alliance Defeat Gender Ideology?
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: "Florida governor follows Trump playbook in possible White House prelude."
Disney Blinks, DeSantis Snags First Huge Win of 2024 Campaign
"If we do not reject the false morality of political correctness and guilt by association, we will no longer have a country that is recognizably free."
Stop Adopting the Left’s Pseudomorality
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Donald John Trump is a Philosemite."
On Trump, Kanye, Biscuit, Jews, and Dinners
"In other words, we must denigrate and devalue all of our past history simply because past great Americans were not perfect, as these three philosophy students must surely be."
Today’s blacklisted American: Princeton considering blacklisting John Witherspoon, Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence
“It’s time for us to say, ‘I will not be conscripted into America’s culture war.’ We’re going to make good products, we’re going to help people, we’re going to lift each other up,” Brooks said.
Harvard Professor Warns CEOs That 3% of Their Employees Are ‘Activists’ Bullying Coworkers About Politics Instead of Working
"As conservatives pursue family policy, they should strive to resurrect the idea of 'public marriage.'”
The Once and Future Marriage
HITHER & YON
"A new book about World War II scientists sheds light on lesser known heroism."
Lethal Tides

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:43 AM

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1 hAPPY FRICKING FRIDAY

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 07:43 AM (BRHaw)

2 Thank you JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 02, 2022 07:43 AM (uLr+K)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 02, 2022 07:43 AM (TYNiq)

4 Toppish of the heap

Posted by: IanDeal at December 02, 2022 07:44 AM (MGjjz)

5 I thought about going to early vote in the runoff but on the way there I just could not bring myself to vote for Walker, Texas Ranger. Come on. He doesn't even live in Georgia.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 07:45 AM (sn5EN)

6 TGIF! Good morning, Horde

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 02, 2022 07:45 AM (xT8gx)

7 Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 02, 2022 07:46 AM (Q4IgG)

8
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 02, 2022 07:47 AM (ENBF0)

9 Lets not forget Biden just agreed to provide a billion dollars of weapons to Iran, via their closest ally, Qatar. This is a monumental change in policy, since the target of these arms will no doubt be SA and Israel.

https://tinyurl.com/mpjvx8af

Posted by: Jon Corzine at December 02, 2022 07:49 AM (qg7i9)

10 Good morning horde
Happy Friday

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 02, 2022 07:49 AM (8L0GZ)

11 Good morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 02, 2022 07:49 AM (vCY3B)

12 I think you catch my meaning. Whatever one feels about Donald Trump and his worth as the standard-bearer for 2024

It will be same as 2016 and 2020, the campaign and the surrounding events would be epic (eg. Summer of Love, Mostly Peaceful Protests, people adhering themselves to inanimate things)

There will be constant glow from all of the hair on fire night after night. Trump will once again score even more votes than anyone has ever received.

But when the ballots are counted there won't be 270 electoral votes.

IT IS ALL THEATER

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 07:49 AM (ceWUn)

13 I've decided to identify as black and Californian. Where do is sign up for a check?

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 07:49 AM (sn5EN)

14 dayum

Angered as she is by “snotty tweets,” Warren would clearly prefer to instill fear than to promote the creation of wealth.

straight up TRUE

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

15 Yikes. Forgot to wish everyone a good day ahead.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 07:50 AM (qg7i9)

16 First Friday of the month, the day every economics pundit overuses the word "Print"

We are expecting the jobs print today and the print is expected to print 250k, but other print speculators expect the print to print a much weaker 200k print, the markets will react to the print in either case by going much higher, because the market is stupid and uncoupled from reality print.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 07:50 AM (+hI+T)

17
*stumbles through door*
*dusts self off*

Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2022 07:50 AM (MoZTd)

18 And here I am posting from an Apple iPhone. Am I complicit I wonder? Sigh…. If I were to boycott every fascist woke company I might have to check out of the modern world. What to do, what to do….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 02, 2022 07:50 AM (xT8gx)

19 Four more years!” the jokester in the audience shouted. “Oh, I don’t know about that,” Biden responded.

I wouldn't pay any attention to this. The idiot doesn't know what he's saying 90% of the time.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 02, 2022 07:51 AM (nxdel)

20 I have an iPhone and am due for an upgrade
Are there any non-commie smart phones out there?

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 02, 2022 07:52 AM (qPZhe)

21 If the Trump is not the nominees and other nominee, including an establishment moderate Republican, will be slimed and set-up and smeared as badly as Trump. The Dem/MSM/Deep State has perfected it and are not about to stop or go back to their pre-Trump method of just merely a barrage of lies when attacking Republicans.

Posted by: Ripley at December 02, 2022 07:52 AM (MxEKc)

22 Closing in... walls... Trump...

Prosecutor at NY trial says Donald Trump "knew exactly what was going on" with executive's tax dodging scheme.

Trump Organization accused of lavishing perks on executives and falsifying records to hide compensation.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 07:52 AM (Vwz3I)

23 Over in China, where it's equally suicidal to stand up to among the most repressive regimes in the world (Xi's role model Mao Zedong butchered 60 million of his own people,

I am old enough to remember when that number exceeded two hundred million. Just shows how effective propaganda is.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 07:52 AM (ceWUn)

24 Ye banned from Twitter.

Meet the new boss.....same as the old boss.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 02, 2022 07:52 AM (6Dtba)

25 12 - Reuben: yes x 1000…. The whole thing is meaningless with a predetermined conclusion. Some brain dead vegetable who will be compliant with TPTB will be “elected”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 02, 2022 07:52 AM (xT8gx)

26 Just watch the fucking fraud with these reparation funds in CA.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (vCY3B)

27 I don't use any Apple products, Amazon, google, FB, twiter, TikTok, etc. Heck, I don't even get texts. It can be done.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (sn5EN)

28 Everything is an Op
Everything is bullsh*t

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (up/3i)

29 He stayed his ground, defying both Disney and biased media outlets.

DeSantis also approved legislation stripping Disney of its "special governing power," dating back to 1967, earlier this year. The move hit Disney where it hurt ... in the taxes.

Crowing like this may be premature, as MSDNC is reporting Florida is about to reverse this punishment on Disney.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (qg7i9)

30 Posted by: Ripley at December 02, 2022 07:52 AM (MxEKc)

The difference is that the GOPe will pile on DeSantis if he is the nominee.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (+hI+T)

31 Lets not forget Biden just agreed to provide a billion dollars of weapons to Iran, via their closest ally, Qatar.

This after the Iranian leadership correctly said Biden has dementia.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (zm+d5)

32 lol, apple never fooled me, not for one minute.

g'mornin' everyone!

thanks, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (j3SBD)

33 We are expecting the jobs print today and the print is expected to print 250k, but other print speculators expect the print to print a much weaker 200k print, the markets will react to the print in either case by going much higher, because the market is stupid and uncoupled from reality print.

All of those print statements bring back terrifying flashbacks to the BASIC programming language in the MS-DOS age.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 07:54 AM (ceWUn)

34 Twitter suspends Kanye over picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 07:54 AM (Vwz3I)

35 Prosecutor at NY trial says Donald Trump "knew exactly what was going on" with executive's tax dodging scheme.

And we know exactly what is going on with your vote fraud scheme. So as you tell us, PROVE IT

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 07:55 AM (+hI+T)

36 Angered as she is by “snotty tweets,” Warren would clearly prefer to instill fear than to promote the creation of wealth.

At least for me, I have to understand things like this as little simple models. The Warrens of the world, and they make up the vast majority of people, aren't as interested as much in improving their own wealth by - say - 5% ... as they are in improving the gap in wealth between them and everyone else by five percent. They'll gladly settle for less - as long as that wealth gap between them and everyone else grows.

To the Warrens of the world, rich is relative. Its no fun to be on a continent where everyone's a millionaire.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 07:55 AM (66r+l)

37 The reparations thing will be like student loan forgiveness. The Dems are good at leading their sheep to an empty trough.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 07:56 AM (sn5EN)

38 34 Twitter suspends Kanye over picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 07:54 AM (Vwz3I)

"Coexist."

/s

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 07:56 AM (x0n13)

39 Some people would call Stauffenberg a hypocrite for driving a Volkswagen on his way to go kill Hitler.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 07:56 AM (GWDtl)

40

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 02, 2022 07:56 AM (vwCZJ)

41 Hawley said in a statement Thursday evening. “Instead, the Senate sided with Joe Biden. Workers were asking for a handful of sick days per year. Biden and the Senate said no. I’d like to know how many of the White House staff, and how many members of Congress and their staff, are still ‘working remotely,’ all while they deny railroad workers more than one day of sick leave a year.

Who da fuck are u with the rights to decide how companies pay workers? We have really really terrible people claiming to be (R)!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (BRHaw)

42 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (1Z8zZ)

43 all I can say is, the drug cocktail or lack thereof Ye is on/has been on isn't working ... or maybe it is

wew lads he is a hot mess

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (w0NJk)

44 The Morning Report

the answer to the question "What fresh hell this day?"

Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (geLO8)

45 China fines former Raptor Jeremy Lin for making "inappropriate remarks" about quarantine facilities for his Chinese team.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

46 I thought today was Saturday.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (45fpk)

47 I want to make you poorer, while also making you a little more dependent on me.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 07:58 AM (+hI+T)

48 I get feeling Kayne meeting was a complete setup like everything else Leftists do

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 02, 2022 07:58 AM (8L0GZ)

49 Morning Horde!!

Posted by: Higher Ed at December 02, 2022 07:58 AM (JReuJ)

50 "I thought today was Saturday.
Posted by: grammie winger"

Got a fight lined up tonight?

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 07:58 AM (sn5EN)

51 "Coexist."
/s
--------
I do like the firearms' version of that though.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 07:58 AM (Vwz3I)

52 Twitter suspends Kanye over picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 07:54 AM (Vwz3I)

"Coexist."

/s
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

"Ye" should just show a picture/video of the Adlerflug German carnival ride.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 07:59 AM (ceWUn)

53 “I think we need to have the conversation, instead of me being erased, and other women that were erased that tried to come forward,” Reade added, saying that House Republicans should launch an investigation while they have a majority.

The new Democrat leader complimented Tara Reade as a "serious person making a serious allegation" during the 2020 primary season, so Republicans should make him live up to that statement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 07:59 AM (qg7i9)

54 48 I get feeling Kayne meeting was a complete setup like everything else Leftists do

omg totally skip

Ye and Trump were being played by the moles Milo and Nick. Nick GLOWS and Milo is just ... naturally subversive. AVOID

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 02, 2022 07:59 AM (w0NJk)

55 Kanye is an attention whore cut from the same cloth as Madonna. End of story. It is all publicity.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 07:59 AM (+hI+T)

56 I wouldn't pay any attention to this. The idiot doesn't know what he's saying 90% of the time.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 02, 2022 07:51 AM (nxdel)

I chalk it up to plain old False Modesty. "Oh, shucks, i don't know", when in reality the Presidency will be taken again by absolutely any means necessary.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 07:59 AM (GWDtl)

57 Got a fight lined up tonight?

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 07:58 AM (sn5EN)

No, but if it's Friday, then it's FishFry.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 02, 2022 07:59 AM (45fpk)

58 44 The Morning Report

the answer to the question "What fresh hell this day?"
Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (geLO

Maybe change the name to "The Daily Fresh Hell."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 08:00 AM (x0n13)

59 Who da fuck are u with the rights to decide how companies pay workers? We have really really terrible people claiming to be (R)!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (BRHaw)

Look across the Pacific, at that great big land mass called China. Look at all those workers huddled in dorms, working twelve hour shifts, for scraps.

That's being done at the behest of American companies. They'd do it here, and save the shipping, if they could.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:00 AM (66r+l)

60 @45

>>China fines former Raptor Jeremy Lin for making "inappropriate remarks" about quarantine facilities for his Chinese team.

Jeremy Lin? That's a blast from the past from the last time The Knicks were relevant at all.

Enjoyed Linisanity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 08:01 AM (up/3i)

61 "No, but if it's Friday, then it's FishFry.
Posted by: grammie winger"

That was the flip side of Elton John's hit single "Saturday Night's Alright".

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:01 AM (sn5EN)

62 Tums peppermint tablets recalled due to possible contamination with fibreglass fragments, aluminum foil.

George Costanza hardest hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 08:01 AM (Vwz3I)

63 The Morning Report

the answer to the question "What fresh hell this day?"
Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 07:57 AM (geLO

A cornucopia, even

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 02, 2022 08:01 AM (4I/2K)

64 Maybe change the name to "The Daily Fresh Hell."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 08:00 AM (x0n13)

I like to think of it as The Daily Doomscroll."

Posted by: grammie winger at December 02, 2022 08:01 AM (45fpk)

65 "The Quotidian Kvetch"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:02 AM (GWDtl)

66 Hawley said in a statement Thursday evening. “Instead, the Senate sided with Joe Biden. Workers were asking for a handful of sick days per year. Biden and the Senate said no. I’d like to know how many of the White House staff, and how many members of Congress and their staff, are still ‘working remotely,’ all while they deny railroad workers more than one day of sick leave a year.

More fucking theater.

Congress will automatically insert the missing sick days provision that labor wants in a ten thousand page omnibus spending bill.

One thing the Left is good at - stealing money for their own team.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 08:02 AM (ceWUn)

67 54 48 I get feeling Kayne meeting was a complete setup like everything else Leftists do

omg totally skip

Ye and Trump were being played by the moles Milo and Nick. Nick GLOWS and Milo is just ... naturally subversive. AVOID
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 02, 2022 07:59 AM (w0NJk)

Then again, Trump is literally best friends with Maggie Haberman. Even after she destroys him in column after column and a book, he still has her on speed dial.

He is his own worst enemy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 08:02 AM (x0n13)

68 @41

>>Who da fuck are u with the rights to decide how companies pay workers?

The whole sick days is a gigantic scam, yes the apparently only get one sick day but they have, depending on seniority, anywhere from 28 to 40 PTO days.

To reaffirm...

Everything is an Op
Everything is bullsh*t

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 08:03 AM (up/3i)

69 "Our Republican Leaders Have Failed Us"

A headline for the ages.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:03 AM (qg7i9)

70 When their success is our failure, then in what possible sense are they "our leaders"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:04 AM (GWDtl)

71 69 "Our Republican Leaders Have Failed Us"

A headline for the ages.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:03 AM (qg7i9)

Who will be our Darth Vader and state that, then add " . . . for the last time!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 08:04 AM (x0n13)

72 Former Buccaneers receiver Antonio Brown wanted by Tampa police on domestic violence charge.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 08:05 AM (Vwz3I)

73 The independent investigation, carried out by a team of independent legal experts, as well as forensic cyber specialists, found that the leak of data was “unacceptable,” but also “unintentional,” according to a press release from the Office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

The investigation revealed that “some confidential personal data of roughly 192,000 individuals who applied for a concealed carry weapons (CCW) permit from approximately 2012-2021 was unintentionally disclosed due to the incident.”

FUCK YOU PEASANTS

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

74 That's being done at the behest of American companies. They'd do it here, and save the shipping, if they could.

The piss-poor work ethic and drug abuse is so rampant in the former US that the smell of soy and feces would overwhelm the task masters and set them free.

Heck, even if you chained these mental retards to their workstations, they would think its a protest against Big Oil and be expecting a gallery of photographers to fawn over them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 08:05 AM (ceWUn)

75 70 When their success is our failure, then in what possible sense are they "our leaders"?

wow Warai-otoko

that is perfect, concise, on point

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 02, 2022 08:05 AM (w0NJk)

76 I have always thought of Apple as a lefty organization, which is why I never purchased any of their products. I did get a free iphone via a job I had - I felt the phone was nothing special, and dropped it as soon as I left. I don't get the fandom.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 02, 2022 08:06 AM (lTGtQ)

77 Then again, Trump is literally best friends with Maggie Haberman. Even after she destroys him in column after column and a book, he still has her on speed dial. He is his own worst enemy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 08:02 AM (x0n13)

Trump is a living, breathing indictment of just how piss poor the Republican Leadership is. Reminds me of the line by Michael J. Fox in The American President;

They don't have a choice! Bob Rumson is the only one doing the talking! People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:06 AM (66r+l)

78 Fuck Apple!

Make Woz Great Again!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 02, 2022 08:06 AM (4I/2K)

79 Antonio Brown is a psychopath.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 02, 2022 08:07 AM (vCY3B)

80 Only one man, Joshua James, was accused of assaulting police in a heated confrontation with officers that afternoon. (He later pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy after the government moved to take away his military benefits--James was nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Bagdad in 2007 at age 19, suffers lifelong injuries, and was awarded a Purple Heart--and threatened the father of three young children with life in prison if convicted.)

Read Julie Kelly today. If you still harbor some secret hope America has the ability to redeem the Justice Department and the Courts in Washington DC, you will be cured of that false hope.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:07 AM (qg7i9)

81 The whole sick days is a gigantic scam, yes the apparently only get one sick day but they have, depending on seniority, anywhere from 28 to 40 PTO days.

To reaffirm...

Everything is an Op
Everything is bullsh*t
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 08:03 AM (up/3i)

I knew it was an OP. I have not had sick days when I had a JOB since 1996. Just PTO.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:07 AM (BRHaw)

82 Former Buccaneers receiver Antonio Brown wanted by Tampa police on domestic violence charge.

Ahh, must be contract negotiations time.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 08:07 AM (ceWUn)

83 Thank you, JJ.
Thank you for pointing out several thumbs to the eyes of plain common sense.

America as founded, until my dying breath.

Posted by: democrats, Kidnapping, Raping or Mutilating the Children They Cannot Kill Since 1973 at December 02, 2022 08:07 AM (jV+aN)

84
If Apple had set up production in the USA I might have considered their products. But there was something in Jobs DNA that made him not even a little bit patriotic.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 02, 2022 08:08 AM (enJYY)

85 I don't use any Apple products, Amazon, google, FB, twiter, TikTok, etc. Heck, I don't even get texts. It can be done.

If you have anything electronic (and if you're posting here you clearly do) and it's less than 20 years old, it was likely made in the same slave labor China factories. Game consoles, PCs, laptops, Amazon Kindles, TVs, PC monitors, Android phones, they're all made there.

Also most pharmaceuticals. If you're on any prescriptions or take anything over the counter, they're probably made in China.

People don't realize the extent to which US business sold us out starting in the late 90s.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 08:08 AM (zm+d5)

86 ... it is painfully obvious that this kind of garbage, along with the shampeachments, indictments, bureaucratic persecutions and all the rest of it are meant to make him absolutely toxic to voters as well as any potential allies and nominees in his next administration.

-------

I've been assured by "severely concerned" "conservative" pundits everywhere, including some here, that Kari Lake lost Arizona because she was "too Trumpy" (read: "toxic") -- not because the fraud was ramped up to ELEVENTY!!!!! as in 2020 to ensure that she was figuratively & politically kneecapped ... as was Trump for five years before & during 2020.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:08 AM (K3TEc)

87 something in Jobs DNA that made him not even a little bit patriotic.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 02, 2022 08:08 AM (enJYY)

He's patriotic as hell. Just not for this patria.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:09 AM (GWDtl)

88 The whole sick days is a gigantic scam, yes the apparently only get one sick day but they have, depending on seniority, anywhere from 28 to 40 PTO days.

Not true. Sick Days are very different from regular PTO - the only way you can legitimately predict and get permission from management for a Sick ~~Day~~ Week is when you announce getting your mandated totally safe and effective Vax booster.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 08:09 AM (ceWUn)

89 Re. racist 83-year-old Royal Family aide story I reported yesterday that Rishi Sunak is sticking his nose into now too:

Georgina Dune @DuneGeorgina
Wears traditional dress at an event in a different country from where the dress originates. Gets offended when someone asks where she’s from. 🙄

https://twitter.com/DuneGeorgina/status/
1598255829027016704

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 08:09 AM (Vwz3I)

90 We need to get back to educational basics." (you have to abolish the teacher unions and fire like 90% of the professoriate - jjs)

We dont build big cafeterias, we send EBT cards.

We dont have poor and old people houses, we send SS and disability checks.

Send the $$$$ to the children!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:10 AM (BRHaw)

91 Apple, and to a certain degree their fan base it indeed a cult. It's been like that since the iPod and the first Mac. Not a thing worked on an Apple product unless it was developed, manufactured or blessed by Apple. Not much has changed.

I do wonder how much is devotion to the ChiComs or the amount of money the ChiComs make for Apple when looking at the company's behavior with regards to the protests.

I fully embrace "and" in the final analysis.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 02, 2022 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

92 But there was something in Jobs DNA that made him not even a little bit patriotic.

While that's not wrong, Jobs manufactured Macs and then his NeXT computers in California until California made it too expensive to do so. And Jobs had a policy of not antagonizing Republicans lest someone like DeSantis show up, which is part of why the tech press still calls out Apple for things everyone does.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 08:11 AM (zm+d5)

93 >Maryland's Biggest County Moves to Ban Natural Gas - new construction must be all electric.

this is insane- and hits close to home for me. 1- I was born and raised in Montgomery County MD. 2- I worked 20 years for the Washington Gas Light Company, which serves MD DC and VA with natural gas service. I don't know how this stupid legislation will affect the company in the long run, but I assume it will not be good.

Also: no mention of where all this new electricity supply will come from.
Oh, and this: crematories will be exempt. Chilling when you think it through.

Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 08:11 AM (geLO8)

94 Probably mentioned, but Mitch and Schumer are going to try and manage a lame-duck vote of the JCPA prior to the Republicans taking the House.

The JCPA will allow the tech companies to decide what is best for the people to read and view. What is Real and True and what is "disinformation." Sites like the HQ, I'd imagine.

https://tinyurl.com/2kat5zwk

Spoilers: Ted Cruz supports it.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:11 AM (NG6Iv)

95 @76

>>I have always thought of Apple as a lefty organization,

Apple became a lefty outfit after Jobs died, all Jobs cared about was developing good products and making money for the company hand over fist, which he did.

But the leftism of Apple is not appreciably different than any tech company at this juncture.

Besides, there's no way I'm switching to a PC or an android, no f**king way, no f**ing how.

Windows sucks and android is slow, so screw that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 08:11 AM (up/3i)

96 RR's used to separate sick from vacation days. And they used to get a shit ton of sick days (seniority).

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 02, 2022 08:11 AM (PWvcU)

97 85 Remember, pharmaceuticals, prescription or OTC do not have to show country of origin on the label. Somebody got a new Cadillac out of that deal.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 02, 2022 08:11 AM (lz5hY)

98 " I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
May my meditation be pleasing to him,
as I rejoice in the Lord.
But may sinners vanish from the earth
and the wicked be no more.
Praise the Lord, my soul."

Psalm 104:33-35

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:12 AM (VF4WI)

99 The piss-poor work ethic and drug abuse is so rampant in the former US that the smell of soy and feces would overwhelm the task masters and set them free.

Again, as I asked in the previous thread about a similar topic, when was it any different ? I started in the nineties.

The chemical plant I worked at for a while had a parking lot across the street. Used to be the strip of bars where the guys would go for lunch and get sloshed then come back to work. The tube mill I started at, right of school, also had a parade of folks - including my boss - trotting right out the door while I worked the usual twelve figuring out some problem or another. When I had the balls to ask ? "That's your job. We've put in our time." When I asked for a raise, since I was the only one that could figure this shit out ? "Gotta' put in your time".

I'd like to hear more about this bygone, nose to the grindstone era. And the generation that was it.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:12 AM (66r+l)

100 Psalm 104:33-35
Posted by: Marcus T

Beautiful

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 02, 2022 08:13 AM (Kd4bG)

101 About a third of Luzerne’s precincts were out of ballot paper as early as 9 a.m. and turning away voters for several hours, according to election observers affiliated with the Committee on House Administration, a U.S. congressional committee that helps oversee elections. As a result, thousands of Luzerne County residents were affected and likely did not cast ballots.

They do this in Harris Cty now. The send half the paper needed in solid (R) precincts.

Fuck Hildago

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

102 I've only got a landline.

Get off my lawn, you kids!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

103 What do the Hispanics in CA think about the reparations when they were discriminated against in the same way and get nothing?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 02, 2022 08:13 AM (AXxfu)

104 I dont think Trump is a nazi, I just think he's makes so many of these forced errors that I can't support him anymore. Can we at least agree that someone can be "right" on the issues, but politically stupid?

Also, I really get tired of having to trot out the worst of the Democrat Party in order to justify Trump's behavior over and over again. Yes, the Dem "Squad" is anti-semitic. So therefore, we let Trump give a platform to a Holocaust denier?

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:14 AM (iNIDc)

105 Remember, pharmaceuticals, prescription or OTC do not have to show country of origin on the label. Somebody got a new Cadillac out of that deal.

BMW or Benz. Caddys haven't been prestigious since the 80s.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 08:14 AM (zm+d5)

106 Hark, hark!
The lark!
And Phoebe's
Guns arise.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:14 AM (24fqN)

107 My ultimate test of a conservative concept is to repeat it to my lefty law professor brother, to see his level of disgust and anger. When I mention ID verification for ballots, as Florida requires, he sort of explodes. Kind of a fun way to see which policies should be most important.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:14 AM (dYygG)

108 Extra points if Biden actually said "Injun Country".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Live! from the Dungeon of Discord at December 02, 2022 08:15 AM (Dc2NZ)

109 Anytime I see Calypso Louie mentioned anywhere, he always reminds me of that skit on "In Living Color" for the help line for guilt ridden Y-T's everywhere..1-900-YT-Guilt. Just call and let Minister Louie help you out for $5.95 a minute.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy, the Iranians and The Chinamen!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 02, 2022 08:15 AM (R/m4+)

110 PTO? Personal time off?
Is that what they call vacation from work now?

More coffee...

Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2022 08:16 AM (88xKn)

111 See you later around Quick Hits time.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 08:16 AM (Vwz3I)

112 FJB would have been a War Chief had he stuck around his tribe rather than go to law school.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:16 AM (+hI+T)

113 "If you have anything electronic (and if you're posting here you clearly do) and it's less than 20 years old, it was likely made in the same slave labor China factories."

No doubt. It's impossible to avoid completely unless you go TK. (Ted Kazinsky)

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:16 AM (sn5EN)

114 @88

>>Sick Days are very different from regular PTO

That's not how PTO works in any company I've worked at.

All I have are PTO days, I do not have any other separately delineated days.

If I'm sick, the days I am out are deducted from my PTO days.

If these RR dips bargained for 1 sick day and they can't use their PTO days for sick days, then it's on them for being stupid.

Give up something to get more sick days then.

It's not my problem, don't hold the nation hostage because of your stupidity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 08:16 AM (up/3i)

115 Fuck Hildago

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:13 AM (BRHaw)
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The angry self-promoting covid-queen dwarf? No thanks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:17 AM (dYygG)

116 I'd like to hear more about this bygone, nose to the grindstone era. And the generation that was it.
Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:12 AM (66r+l)

In this case, you were the one expected to grind. They already did their grind. Just because you weren't there to see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. If they hadn't, there wouldn't have been a tube mill for you to work at in the first place. Extending the privileges of seniority to every single person is essentially the flip side of "collectivization of liability". You want the perks of seniority without the seniority having been earned.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:17 AM (GWDtl)

117 The Orwellian-named “Respect for Marriage Act” might as well have been called the Destruction of Marriage Act and Orphan-Creation Program.

Big Govt hates responsible, married people! I hope they treble the Marriage tax!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

118 " I've only got a landline.
Get off my lawn, you kids!!!
Posted by: andycanuck"

Do you have to wind up your phone?

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:17 AM (sn5EN)

119 Happy Friday, one and all. I need more coffee.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 02, 2022 08:17 AM (4olE8)

120 About 15 years ago we had separate sick time vs PTO. One day they decided no more sick time. I had 500 hours of sick time and poof it was gone. Want to know how you get a health care worker to show up sick and work? Thats how.

Posted by: Molly k. at December 02, 2022 08:18 AM (YpY55)

121 When I read JJ's excellent Morning Report, I get the sense of impending epic doom, as in that moment when the waiter asks Mr. Creosote if he'd like an after-dinner mint.

Just one more wafer-thin thing and ka-blooey!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 02, 2022 08:18 AM (4I/2K)

122 And whatever the Chinese could not steal from us in terms of technology was eagerly given to them on a silver platter by our own high-tech industries.

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Just looked, and original Clinton butt-boy and Friend-of-Bill, and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications, Bernie Schartz is still breathing -- and will be 97 years old in 11 days.

It's been traitors all the way down since the both of them ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:18 AM (K3TEc)

123 Everyone is scratching their heads in disbelief that the DemoNcrats and Joey "magic fingers" Bidet would crush the rail unions in such a manner. The more-informed of us are scratching our chins trying to figure out the "Karl Marx follow-the-money decision tree diagram" on just how the DNC will find a way to launder those funds back to the Big Guy & Company. Fuck these people. . . . .all the way. . . . with a red hot poker. . . to their ignominious last breaths.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & DOE luggage-thieving used sodo boys at December 02, 2022 08:18 AM (8m/Xb)

124 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

125 Apple became a lefty outfit after Jobs died, all Jobs cared about was developing good products and making money for the company hand over fist, which he did.

But the leftism of Apple is not appreciably different than any tech company at this juncture.

Besides, there's no way I'm switching to a PC or an android, no f**king way, no f**ing how.

Windows sucks and android is slow, so screw that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
__

I feel the same way, I like Apple products, been with them since the 80's. i think they are worth the premium.

I actually think Apple is pretty "tame" with the politics compared to the other Big Tech companies.

Regardless, find me any American Tech company that doesn't have a liberal bias.

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:19 AM (iNIDc)

126 Extra points if Biden actually said "Injun Country".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Live! from the Dungeon of Discord at December 02, 2022 08:15 AM (Dc2NZ)
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That's a good morning funny right there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:19 AM (dYygG)

127 "I dont think Trump is a nazi, I just think he's makes so many of these forced errors that I can't support him anymore. Can we at least agree that someone can be "right" on the issues, but politically stupid?"

Yes. Everybody makes mistakes. Most people though are not in the public eye as a billionaire ex-president, so we don't see their stupid mistakes.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:19 AM (sn5EN)

128 If you don't tell your daughters that you love them, they will fall for the first guy to says it to them and he won't mean it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:20 AM (+hI+T)

129 ho lee shit child get a stylist

https://tinyurl.com/yaesuc9y

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:20 AM (BRHaw)

130 Our Republican Leaders Have Failed Us
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Link text above could also be subtext to most of JJ's links.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 02, 2022 08:20 AM (fs1hN)

131 Today is National Bartender Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

132 Maryland's Biggest County Moves to Ban Natural Gas - new construction must be all electric.
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If you don't know what the UN's Agenda 21 is - pushed by both Clinton and Bush, and a law drawn up by Pelosi* (failed to pass, but amazingly still put into place) - it's probably time to get to reading.

http://www.agenda21course.com/

2030 is an important date, and it's happening whether you like it or not. It's a big reason for Trump's removal and the establishment of procedures to negate your ability to vote.

* "H.Con.Res.353 - Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should assume a strong leadership role in implementing the decisions made at the Earth Summit by developing a national strategy to implement Agenda 21..."
https://tinyurl.com/2pv4to9c

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:20 AM (NG6Iv)

133 And National Mutt Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

134 Hanging Trump for meeting with Kanye (I'm not fucking calling him Ye) is stupid. Trump has been acquaintance of his for years. Meeting with him is a nothing burger. And the assholes that he brought with him is not shocking. He thinks he's better and brighter and can do whatever he wants.

Trump wanted to help him. Period. He gave Kanye rope, Kanye tied a noose. End of story.

You should be more concerned about the fact that Janet Yellen blames YOU for inflation. YOU'RE SPENDING TOO MUCH MONEY!!!!!

We're being run by complete idiots. But Trump met with Kanye.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

135 116 I'd like to hear more about this bygone, nose to the grindstone era. And the generation that was it.
Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:12 AM (66r+l)

In this case, you were the one expected to grind. They already did their grind. Just because you weren't there to see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. If they hadn't, there wouldn't have been a tube mill for you to work at in the first place. Extending the privileges of seniority to every single person is essentially the flip side of "collectivization of liability". You want the perks of seniority without the seniority having been earned.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:17 AM (GWDtl)

Not many fields still have this model. Lawyers do. It doesn't really sustain itself without some means to control supply.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 02, 2022 08:21 AM (eYoxG)

136 Also Google wants you to know that a black man invented video games.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:22 AM (NG6Iv)

137 It is all an op. 5D chess circle jerk of fuckery. I don't know what is real. In this case, I will vote for trump, as he seems to be the choice to bring chaos. And what this system needs is chaos.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:22 AM (+hI+T)

138 I'd really like to see the PowerPoints that demonstrate how domestic spending creates inflation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:22 AM (GWDtl)

139 "Today is National Bartender Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

*fashions crude bar with pallets and 2X4s*

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:22 AM (sn5EN)

140 Yes. Everybody makes mistakes. Most people though are not in the public eye as a billionaire ex-president, so we don't see their stupid mistakes.
Posted by: fd
__

I disagree, ANY Republican that messes up will be blasted by the media. It's just Trump that constantly steps on these rakes and for whatever reason can't see these landmines.

If DeSantis had Kanye West and some repugnant Holocaust denier at his house as guests, the media would howl also.

Just because there is a double standard with how the media treats Democrats is not a license for us to ignore when candidates do stupid shit.

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:23 AM (iNIDc)

141 If you think about it, the cotton gin is a video game.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:23 AM (+hI+T)

142 132 The Montgomery County board that voted 9-0 to ban future natural gas heating and air will be having a very merry Potomac Electric Power Company Christmas.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 02, 2022 08:23 AM (lz5hY)

143 And National Mutt Day.

*makes dog Scout bartender*

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:23 AM (sn5EN)

144 The Orwellian-named “Respect for Marriage Act” might as well have been called the Destruction of Marriage Act and Orphan-Creation Program.

Big Govt hates responsible, married people! I hope they treble the Marriage tax!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

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Totalitarian regimes have a history of imposing conditions that lead to lots of orphaned children, which (unexpectedly!) leads to the normalization of pedophilia via child sex trafficking & slavery.

One need look to further than our own wide-open & now cartel-controlled southern border and its proud papa PedoJoe.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:23 AM (K3TEc)

145 I'm switching to Samsung AFAIK it's made in S.Korea...NOKIA doesn't work with Verizon...but Hell No
no more Apple ...I'm Thinking Different...

Posted by: qmark at December 02, 2022 08:24 AM (nGOuT)

146 Jobs, the talented marketer who had positioned Apple as the company fighting totalitarianism with its 1984 ad, was aggressively offshoring the company’s labor to Communist China.

What China had to offer was mass production under a ruthlessly totalitarian system that would, when Jobs decided to revamp the iPhone a month before launch, wake up 8,000 workers at midnight for a 12 hour shift.

At an Obama dinner, Jobs bluntly confirmed, “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”

“What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?” Apple’s supply manager asked.

Jobs was a greedy asshole living off the backs of others while he was off tripping acid. Fuck that guy and fuck Apple.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

147 *one need look NO further than ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:24 AM (K3TEc)

148 We're being run by complete idiots. But Trump met with Kanye.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

....

Hold on. This is only the beginning of the next two years.

Posted by: Ziba at December 02, 2022 08:25 AM (4h9M3)

149 The funny thing about Harris County Texas is it is 50% bigger than Rhode Island by area, and would be the 26th largest state by population, if it were a state, so it's pretty damn important. Having Hidalgo running the place is kind of big deal, and not good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:25 AM (dYygG)

150 The CA reparations thing is really incredible. How happy would you be as a citizen of that state to get a massive bill as punishment paying for something you never, ever had any part in? As you watch 1000s of others reap huge financial gains you're never going to get for yourself.
And I already find it laughable that "descendants of slaves" will likely never be able to prove they are descendants of slaves and that won't matter. Just your word will be good enough. $200k+ for them...and you're on the hook for it. Can't say I'd be too happy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:25 AM (sVtYq)

151 "Just because there is a double standard with how the media treats Democrats is not a license for us to ignore when candidates do stupid shit.
Posted by: Blago"

Who's ignoring it? He makes some terrible decisions and mistakes. So what? That's who he is. Most of the decisions he made with the good of the Nation in mind were fine. I'm going with that unless someone more perfect comes along.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:26 AM (sn5EN)

152 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

*tips coffee mug*

Indeed..spot on Sponge.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 02, 2022 08:26 AM (nxdel)

153 @125

>>I feel the same way, I like Apple products, been with them since the 80's.

I've used pretty much every computing platform that has been developed from 70's to today.

The reason why I've stuck with Apple is because once they design a product it pretty much does not deviate appreciably over the lifespan of the product.

The essential look, feel and operation of Mac OS hasn't changed in 40 years, the essential look feel and operation of IOS hasn't changed much since the iPhone was introduced in 2006, over 16 years ago.

And the upside is that MacOs is really BSD Unix with a pretty Windows Manager.

Which is nice.

Windows has not put out a good operating system in 20 years and every iteration becomes more ridiculous and lame.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 08:26 AM (up/3i)

154 The world needs a great reset. Just not the way the people who want a great reset want it reset.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:26 AM (+hI+T)

155
There are two things Tech barons love above all

- High-minded progressive principles
- Low-cost slave labor

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2022 08:27 AM (MoZTd)

156 {{{{jewells}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

157 Extending the privileges of seniority to every single person is essentially the flip side of "collectivization of liability". You want the perks of seniority without the seniority having been earned.

You are correct. Because I had a skill they did not have. I could literally turn a trick they could not, and they had to have that tick, or their tube mill didn't make parts.

So yeah, fuck their grind. I didn't owe them my skills, just because they spent twenty years doing "something".

I didn't owe them my labor, just because they had a track history of providing a lesser valued labor.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:27 AM (66r+l)

158 I would like to know if PDT could have avoided the whole document kerfluffle if he would have had those record sealed immediately ala Barky's move?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 02, 2022 08:27 AM (vNoUW)

159 MD still gets cold enough in the depths of winter that electric heat pumps cannot adequately keep a dwelling warm without resorting to the resistance heat elements.

Mandated all-electric new housing construction is insanity.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 02, 2022 08:27 AM (4I/2K)

160 Today is National Bartender Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 08:20 AM (NpAcC)
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Finally.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:27 AM (dYygG)

161 "The Montgomery County board that voted 9-0 to ban future natural gas heating and air will be having a very merry Potomac Electric Power Company Christmas.
Posted by: bill in arkansas"

Average lows in January/February are around 24 F with much lower very common. The residents will soon learn the wonders of heat pumps and back-up electric heat at low temps.

Posted by: Ripley at December 02, 2022 08:28 AM (MxEKc)

162 If you think about it, the cotton gin is a video game
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"Alright guys, we can't do the peanut butter thing any more. What else do we have?"

"A water gun."

"Dammit. Let's just say they invented video games."

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:28 AM (NG6Iv)

163 Most recent presidents were actors,
Trump was not.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 02, 2022 08:28 AM (whkPa)

164 Who's ignoring it? He makes some terrible decisions and mistakes. So what? That's who he is. Most of the decisions he made with the good of the Nation in mind were fine. I'm going with that unless someone more perfect comes along.
Posted by: fd
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There's the pesky problem of actually getting elected.

The midterms showed me loud and clear that there are plenty of voters that will still sign up for this shit economy and back Biden and the Democrats.

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:28 AM (iNIDc)

165 150 If that reparations deal does come to fruition I hope some Wonder Bread white kid scams the hell out of them. And then goes public with how he did it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 02, 2022 08:28 AM (lz5hY)

166 I've been into computer since before Apple and have never been a fan. The number one reason is it's a closed single source system. I owned a II, and sold them and Macs. No thanks. At least with a PC you are not locked into a single manufacturer.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (sn5EN)

167 Mornin’, All. Happy Frijole Friday!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (Az2It)

168 You'd have to be out of your mind to fight the Uniparty right now. So, by definition, anyone who makes a credible go at fighting the Uniparty is gonna have to be out of their mind.

Anybody polished and pretty and level headed is gonna be sensible enough to stay the hell away from DC.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (GWDtl)

169 England needs to pay me reparations for the way they treated my ancestors in Massachusetts Colony.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (+hI+T)

170 The world needs a great reset. Just not the way the people who want a great reset want it reset.

--

Lady in Black's Great Reset involves a lot of lampposts, guillotines, gallows and pikes of countless nefarious players the world over.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

171 154 The world needs a great reset. Just not the way the people who want a great reset want it reset.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:26 AM (+hI+T)

*****&******

Are you trying to stir up again the argument about 9mm vs 40 vs 45?? A hotter piece of flying projectile is the reset needed.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & DOE luggage-thieving used sodo boys at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (8m/Xb)

172 So, let's play a little game of compare and contrast, shall we?
+++++
Whataboutism! Whataboutism! Whataboutism!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:30 AM (t0OGg)

173
Are you trying to stir up again the argument about 9mm vs 40 vs 45?? A hotter piece of flying projectile is the reset needed.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & DOE luggage-thieving used sodo boys at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (8m/Xb)

They all make decent size holes. It's the price per round at this point, no? It IS a Biden economy and every dollar counts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

174 "But Trump met with Kanye......."

I watched the first half-hour of yesterday's AJ show with Ye to see for myself what the hubbub is about. I am now also guilty by association.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:30 AM (24fqN)

175 Most recent presidents were actors,
Trump was not.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 02, 2022 08:28 AM (whkPa)

You do ONE episode of Laugh-In....

Posted by: Zombie Richard M. Nixon at December 02, 2022 08:30 AM (GWDtl)

176 Are you trying to stir up again the argument about 9mm vs 40 vs 45?? A hotter piece of flying projectile is the reset needed.

No love for the .357 ? Makes me sad.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:30 AM (66r+l)

177 "Windows has not put out a good operating system in 20 years and every iteration becomes more ridiculous and lame.
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

I will deny that Windows sucks any more than I will deny that Mac OS sucks.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:31 AM (sn5EN)

178
England needs to pay me reparations for the way they treated my ancestors in Massachusetts Colony.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (+hI+T)

Slavery is The Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism. How can we be held responsible when slavery was imposed on us by the English? Will and Kate need to be locked up until the Brits cough up the reparations dough.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2022 08:31 AM (MoZTd)

179 Windows has not put out a good operating system in 20 years and every iteration becomes more ridiculous and lame.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
__

It's worth the Apple tax imo.

Doesn't hurt that I made a small fortune on Apple stock over the years.

I will say though, I'm not a complete fanboy, I get annoyed with them on a number of issues also.

But Windows,Chrome, Android, etc are shit devices with shit OS. For something I use all day, every day for several years, a few hundred extra is no problem.

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:31 AM (iNIDc)

180 Sock it to me.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 02, 2022 08:31 AM (whkPa)

181
I watched the first half-hour of yesterday's AJ show with Ye to see for myself what the hubbub is about. I am now also guilty by association.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:30 AM (24fqN)

Well SO MUCH FOR YOUR political future. You can't be anywhere near power.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

182 161 My ex MiL in MD was sold on a heat pump system when they were the newest and greatest. The following winter she had a Franklin stove installed in the basement rec room. PEPCO should have sent her a thank you card.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 02, 2022 08:32 AM (lz5hY)

183 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 08:32 AM (9uCBG)

184 “One of the things that we need to tell CEOs that they are really not aware of … 3% of your employees are activists instead of working, and they’re blowing up your Slack channel right now demanding that you get involved in a culture war and make political statements,” he remarked. “Don’t do it! The rest of your employees are feeling bullied as well.”

I bet it is 97% in Big Govt agencies!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 08:32 AM (BRHaw)

185 The world needs a great reset. Just not the way the people who want a great reset want it reset.

--

Lady in Black's Great Reset involves a lot of lampposts, guillotines, gallows and pikes of countless nefarious players the world over.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

May we also have public pillories for amusements?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 02, 2022 08:32 AM (4I/2K)

186 Where’s Miguel?’: NBC News Reporter Behind Retracted Paul Pelosi Report Remains Off-Air

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Out: Carmen Sandiego.
In: Miguel Almaguer.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:33 AM (K3TEc)

187 They all make decent size holes. It's the price per round at this point, no? It IS a Biden economy and every dollar counts.

I thought diversity was the word of the day. I don't discriminate. I own a few piles of them all.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:33 AM (66r+l)

188 I have been on both the PC and Mac side. If something says it works on Mac, it works on my Mac. Something "PC compatible" might not work on mine because the memory isn't DDRX6, or the chipset for the keyboard controller is wrong, or because I have NVIDIA graphics, so fuck off.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:33 AM (+hI+T)

189 I will NOT deny that Windows sucks any more than I will deny that Mac OS sucks.

Sorry. Left that out. Anyway, Linux is best for very good reasons.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:33 AM (sn5EN)

190 I grew up in Montgomery Co. MD. I'm not surprised how far left the place has gone. It's Karen and Todd central.

My first "home" I owned, a townhouse in Woodbridge, VA was all electric. This was circa 1987 or so. It was a miserable place to be during the winter. I vowed to never buy an all electric place again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 02, 2022 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

191 Did see a video ( Bad Blue) a Apple store in California maybe, was giving away all the store items, well not volunteering just watching the shelves get cleaned out

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 02, 2022 08:33 AM (8L0GZ)

192 I couldn't be more bored with the Trump Kanye thing. It's textbook hair on fire, amplify to stratospheric proportions playbook tactics. It's textbook double-standard playbook tactics. By all the usual and predictable suspects. And its predictability bores the sh*t out of me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (sVtYq)

193 "You can't be anywhere near power."

This was well known, long before Ye made me a nazi.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (24fqN)

194 I am now also guilty by association.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:30 AM (24fqN)

You must be purged, brother.

There is no room for you under the GOP Big Tent.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (6Dtba)

195 Trump has Jewish Grandchildren. How they hell does the left think he is a Nazi.

Obama's Father was more anti semitic than anyone

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (Cw0fX)

196
Maryland's Biggest County Moves to Ban Natural Gas - new construction must be all electric.

Having now acquired some experience in installing and using an in-line on demand (or on a timer) water heating system, I can say that their is no cheaper way of heating water. Not my dinosaur of a oil heater, not gas, not electric X number of feet away.

But I don't know the long-term value. So it's the latest/greatest shiny thing but in the end will I regret? Too soon to say.

The government doesn't know any better than I do.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (enJYY)

197 the leak of data was “unacceptable,” but also “unintentional,” according to a press release from the Office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta
_____________

So, will those responsible lose their jobs? "Of course not!" replied AG Bonta, "We're proud of how we do thing differently here in the great state of California, they are getting bonuses!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (fs1hN)

198 “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?” Apple’s supply manager asked.
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Pay them $125k per year on a three-month rotating duty schedule and I guarantee you that you'll find Americans to do that work.

What he meant was, "What US plant can do it for pennies a day with pseudo-slaves?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

199 Lady in Black's Great Reset involves a lot of lampposts, guillotines, gallows and pikes of countless nefarious players the world over.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

May we also have public pillories for amusements?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 02, 2022 08:32 AM (4I/2K)

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Make Actual Pissing Contests Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (K3TEc)

200 " If something says it works on Mac, it works on my Mac. "

I get that and it's fine with me if you want to use a Mac. Both platforms have their advantages.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:35 AM (sn5EN)

201 You are correct. Because I had a skill they did not have. I could literally turn a trick they could not, and they had to have that tick, or their tube mill didn't make parts.

So yeah, fuck their grind. I didn't owe them my skills, just because they spent twenty years doing "something".

I didn't owe them my labor, just because they had a track history of providing a lesser valued labor.
Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:27 AM (66r+l)

Then quit and get more elsewhere. That's why systems that have newbies provide the value-add labor are unstable unless the supply is somehow constricted.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 02, 2022 08:35 AM (eYoxG)

202 I'd rather have my Motorola T6x flip phone, TBH.

ALL the OS's suck, but have their good points. I just don't know of an Apple good point. Had the "office of the future" when I was in high school and it was filled with Macintosh's. Some future as I never used a Mac again, ever. And wasn't impressed with them when I did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

203 CA mandated solar on every new house like 5 yrs ago, that will be coming to you too.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 02, 2022 08:35 AM (AXxfu)

204 I don't know, but .308 makes a nice hole in a deer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:35 AM (+hI+T)

205 MD still gets cold enough in the depths of winter that electric heat pumps cannot adequately keep a dwelling warm without resorting to the resistance heat elements.

Yup. I'm in MD and I have a heat pump and an oil burner. As long as it's above freezing I'm not burning Biden-expensive heating oil, which is nice, but it can't be your only heat.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (zm+d5)

206 Ironic thing is that some of the best jobs in Chicago, are at Trump Hotel on the Near North Side.

I always felt that the Trump family should have sold all their blue state biz concerns. Why provide tax revenue to marxist areas?

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (Cw0fX)

207 198 What he meant was, "What US plant can do it for pennies a day with pseudo-slaves?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

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You might have meant quasi-slaves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

208 >You do ONE episode of Laugh-In....

Posted by: Zombie Richard M. Nixon

Biden was in a Parks and Rec episode- it was before his brain turned to creamed corn

Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (geLO8)

209 Where’s Miguel?’: NBC News Reporter Behind Retracted Paul Pelosi Report Remains Off-Air

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Out: Carmen Sandiego.
In: Miguel Almaguer.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:33 AM (K3TEc)

Miguel has been calling me repeatedly this week to extoll and sell the wonders of rooftop solar panels.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (4I/2K)

210 It's not just Apple. It's Google, Microsoft and a whole litany of companies that are working directly with the Chi-Coms to develop these systems.
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Yes, but I disagree that these are Chinese companies. Their outlook is approximately Maoist, but they are not "Chinese Companies" any more than they are "American Companies." They're post-national companies. They are truly stateless "companies of the world" and they operate like their own countries. They are a weird synthetic creation. They are essentially states of their own, albeit without territory or armies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

211 Having now acquired some experience in installing and using an in-line on demand (or on a timer) water heating system, I can say that their is no cheaper way of heating water.

It makes sense, as you're not paying to store all that thermal energy, in a water heater tank and worse yet copper pipe, that by definition must bleed off some of that energy - since no insulator is perfect.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (66r+l)

212
Racism? Shall we point out Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd who served for 51 years as a Democratic representative for West Virginia and was a KKK Kleagle?(recruiter)
Byrd was repeatedly voted Senate Democratic leader too.

When this racist died, who gave the eulogy? Joe Biden did.

Posted by: Speller at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (pSotA)

213
Biden was in a Parks and Rec episode- it was before his brain turned to creamed corn
Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (geLO

Who'd he fingerbang on set?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

214 Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (Cw0fX)

215 Trump has Jewish Grandchildren. How they hell does the left think he is a Nazi.

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That's the thing. They don't really believe it, imo. They're (on both sides) are just trying to destroy him. It never ends.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

216 "Who'd he fingerbang on set?"

I'd go for Aubrey Plaza.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (24fqN)

217 I'd really like to see the PowerPoints that demonstrate how domestic spending creates inflation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" - Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (lTGtQ)

218 I couldn't be more bored with the Trump Kanye thing. It's textbook hair on fire, amplify to stratospheric proportions playbook tactics. It's textbook double-standard playbook tactics. By all the usual and predictable suspects. And its predictability bores the sh*t out of me.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Here's the thing, if this was over Trump say meeting with Kanye a year ago, I would agree it's a bullshit scandal.

But Kanye being one of the most reported scandals of the year for being anti-semitic, and THEN almost immediately giving him and another clown that has publicly denied the Holocaust a meeting and platform, it really should question Trump's judgement. And now Kanye has really gone batshit crazy with that Alex Jones interview where he's saying he "loves Hitler".

Why not have Trump meet with David Duke, right? It's almost like Trump is trying to do the most stupid things possible.

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (iNIDc)

219 Hindsight is Golden.

Posted by: pawn at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (wsHtO)

220 "Trump has Jewish Grandchildren. How they hell does the left think he is a Nazi."

Probably that embassy he opened in Jerusalem.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (sn5EN)

221 The device, which offers miracle cures for paralysis, also ushers in a new era of human-to-machine interface that has so far primarily been the dark fantasy of dystopian fiction.

I saw the movie Upgrade. No thanks.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (4olE8)

222 Trump has Jewish Grandchildren. How they hell does the left think he is a Nazi.

Because the DNC-industrial complex's talking heads are all Jewish, even though probably zero of them have been inside a synagogue in 30 years. So they use the magic deflector shield of anti-semitism against conservatives, while ignoring Muslims and blacks who actually do hate them.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (zm+d5)

223 214 Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders
Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (Cw0fX)

But that's normal for the FBI, no?

Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (88xKn)

224 You might have meant quasi-slaves.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)
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I did, yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (t0OGg)

225 Once again, scogg tries to get everyone roped into his irrelevant, overcaffeinated, self-aggrandizing personal anecdote when i started out agreeing with his fundamental premise (to the extent i could even figure out what the hell it was).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:38 AM (GWDtl)

226 My geothermal system runs the hot loop through my water heater.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:39 AM (+hI+T)

227 “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?” Apple’s supply manager asked.
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Pay them $125k per year on a three-month rotating duty schedule and I guarantee you that you'll find Americans to do that work.

What he meant was, "What US plant can do it for pennies a day with pseudo-slaves?"

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Exactly. The art of the intentionally deceptive incomplete statement.

“What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms as pseudo-slaves for pennies a day?”

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:39 AM (K3TEc)

228 Trump has Jewish Grandchildren. How they hell does the left think he is a Nazi.

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That's the thing. They don't really believe it, imo. They're (on both sides) are just trying to destroy him. It never ends.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

This. The media will do (and the left, but I digress) everything in their power to destroy Trump and get you to turn on him. He's the greatest thing to happen to this country in decades, pushed for a free and powerful America and that scares the holy hell out of them.

The more we infight and cater to their whim, the more power they take.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Even when we lived on the Central California Coast near Monterey the house had a gas furnace. No A/C, but seldom needed it.

I wonder what will happen when CA shuts off all the gas...

And it's foggy enough year round to make solar a questionable option.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 02, 2022 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)

230 Biden on Parks and Rec - Keep in mind the ongoing joke for him there was that he was the ideal man for the Leslie Knope character.

Posted by: American Hawkman at December 02, 2022 08:40 AM (VfMhS)

231 AmSpectator has interesting piece on Trump's political future. Don't say it's over yet.

Posted by: Ziba at December 02, 2022 08:40 AM (4h9M3)

232 Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders

The FBI are screw ups? This is breaking news! Not.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 08:40 AM (zm+d5)

233 “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms as pseudo-slaves for pennies a day?”
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:39 AM (K3TEc)

"There wasn't a slave trade. America went out in the dead of night and stole people at gunpoint."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

234 " My geothermal system runs the hot loop through my water heater.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

Yes, but is your birdbath frozen?

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:40 AM (sn5EN)

235 228 Trump has probably spent more time in a synagogue in the past ten years than some of the self gassers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (lz5hY)

236 Harvard Professor Warns CEOs That 3% of Their Employees Are ‘Activists’ Bullying Coworkers About Politics Instead of Working
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As a total business average, maybe. But that's irrelevant. At megacorps, especially Big Tech and Hollywood, the number is much greater than 3%. And distribution matters, too. It is endemic in HR departments, which ensures more activist hiring in the future. It's also common on boards of directors and, of course, common among the institutional shareholders that are increasingly activist-run. The problem is a shit-ton bigger than 3% in practice. I don't know how he arrived at "3%" but it sounds low based on my experience and even if it isn't, distribution is probably more important than volume.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (t0OGg)

237 Then quit and get more elsewhere. That's why systems that have newbies provide the value-add labor are unstable unless the supply is somehow constricted.

I did. Stayed about two years before I quit. And I quit everywhere where I was the "go-to guy", because I could turn the trick that they often couldn't figure out or even understand, but didn't get the "go-to pay", because I was "newbie" - and hadn't "put in my time".

Now I'm self employed. Which is a polite way of saying about 1/3 retired at fifty. Better money for less work, and sometimes its really nice to fire the client. The customer isn't always right. They're just the customer.

This is a topic I understand quite well. The idea that some folks - most folks, when they're really in a pinch - chaff at the idea of paying for an answer. They feel they're owed the answer, at a price of their choosing.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (66r+l)

238 228 This. The media will do (and the left, but I digress) everything in their power to destroy Trump and get you to turn on him. He's the greatest thing to happen to this country in decades, pushed for a free and powerful America and that scares the holy hell out of them.

The more we infight and cater to their whim, the more power they take.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

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It's about creating talking points that their true believers will spread as far and wide as they can (with such control of the media, that's very far and very wide) to establish a base narrative that people not plugged into the conversation just begin to accept as fact.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

239 219 Hindsight is Golden.
Posted by: pawn

Amen!

Posted by: Sir Francis Drake at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (Cxf2D)

240 I can't believe Kanye said the he hates all Jewish people and wants them all rounded up and killed.

Ridiculous.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (6Dtba)

241 Solar:

What if the sun doesn't shine? EAT BUGS!!

Wind:

What if the wind doesn't blow? EAT BUGS!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

242 232 Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders

The FBI are screw ups? This is breaking news! Not.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 02, 2022 08:40 AM (zm+d5)

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The only way to fix this is to increase their funding.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

243 191 Did see a video ( Bad Blue) a Apple store in California maybe, was giving away all the store items, well not volunteering just watching the shelves get cleaned out
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I know the powers that be don't want the normals to stop them from stealing, but grabbing their backpacks when they're done should be ok, since you are just stealing from them and stealing is ok according to the new rules.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 02, 2022 08:42 AM (fs1hN)

244 Having now acquired some experience in installing and using an in-line on demand (or on a timer) water heating system, I can say that their is no cheaper way of heating water. Not my dinosaur of a oil heater, not gas, not electric X number of feet away.
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You're forgetting the part where you can have a tank of natural gas on your property. They intend to control your electricity, and they can shut it off at will or prevent it from being transmitted to the off-limits areas (look up the term Wildlands).

And not to keep harping on the Agenda21 link above, but that's going to be how they get you to move to the cities to live in the small apartments and own nothing.

The WEF openly published it in Forbes recently. This is a WEF statement from 2016:
https://tinyurl.com/2nnmcesc

"My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city... Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages."

You know. Places without electricity.

It's real and happening. Your votes didn't matter to put it all in place, and now they're problematic to continue to the next phase.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:42 AM (NG6Iv)

245 =========

It's about creating talking points that their true believers will spread as far and wide as they can (with such control of the media, that's very far and very wide) to establish a base narrative that people not plugged into the conversation just begin to accept as fact.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

And judging by posts and comments here over the past week, it works. Well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

246 >Trump has Jewish Grandchildren. How they hell does the left think he is a Nazi.

well, the word 'Nazi' just rolls off the tongue. Everything you don't like is Nazi. Hey, those Nazis didn't put enough pickles on my burger.

Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 08:42 AM (geLO8)

247 Chris Matthews was the one leftist who had issue with Byrd. Use to call him sheets, until Comcast told him to back off.

Manchin took his seat, and was good buddies with the White Hood

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:42 AM (Cw0fX)

248
The newest heat pumps work in considerably lower temperatures thanks to some new refrigerant - I've seen a number as low as -5 degrees F. But I'm also old enough to remember how certain refrigerants created some environmental nightmare (whether true or imagined) and had to be taken off the market.

So the jury is out on that one, too. Time will tell.

The government jumping in feet first at the latest/greatest then pulling the rug out from everyone? Won't be the first time, or the last.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 02, 2022 08:43 AM (enJYY)

249 People argue that Watson did nothing wrong because his census machines tabulated religious identifiers that had been part of German censuses since Bismarck.

Whatever. The Nazis weren't Bismarck, and the Merit Cross Watson received is a black mark on IBM.

But what Apple and other Monster Tech firms do in China is an order of magnitude worse than anything IBM did. It's hardly even comparable. It's all just Satanic. Our business leaders are a fucking disgrace. They deserve to be raped to death by dogs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2022 08:43 AM (oINRc)

250 245 And judging by posts and comments here over the past week, it works. Well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

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*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:43 AM (LvTSG)

251 Did see a video ( Bad Blue) a Apple store in California maybe, was giving away all the store items, well not volunteering just watching the shelves get cleaned out

Money shot: "Do we try to stop them?"

LMFAO!!!! Reap it, fool.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

252 Good morning dear horde and thank you JJ

Jiang Zemin has been Epsteined

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (EZebt)

253 Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders
Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (Cw0fX)
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It wouldn't surprise me. The outcome for the FBI doesn't change if they did.

If they succeeded, they did a great job and should get more money.
If they failed, they need more money to improve.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

254 Ben Shapiro always has his heeb pump system serviced before the winter season, and makes sure to change all the air gefiltes.

Posted by: Horatio Hornblower Founders off Cape Horn at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (vOiUd)

255 "Now I'm self employed. Which is a polite way of saying about 1/3 retired at fifty. Better money for less work, and sometimes its really nice to fire the client."

I had some guy from corporate talking to me about subcontracting work in the area, and I told him that I was "looking to make the most money I could with the least amount of effort". He and the guy that was with him looked at each other like "WTF?", but I got the gig for about 10 years.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (sn5EN)

256 TGIF!
I won't live in a pod, eat bugs, use a driverless car. . . nor get a freakin' chip implanted. Gah! Gattaca is starting to look like the best case scenario. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (I/doM)

257 In 50 years they'll be burning the bug harvest to make train fuel and saying Big Bug is poisoning the earth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (GWDtl)

258 So they use the magic deflector shield of anti-semitism against conservatives, while ignoring Muslims and blacks who actually do hate them.
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Blacks are thier light infantry. They can stir them up to do stupid at anytime they like. BLM stands for Black Lesbian Mayors. Muslims are the replacements necessary to make blue shitholes marginally functional.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (ssJXH)

259 I'd really like to see the PowerPoints that demonstrate how domestic spending creates inflation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" - Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 02, 2022 08:37 AM (lTGtQ)

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It's an intentional double-whammy, as we're also gonna be crushed at the same time by the war on "fossil" fuels which will restrict the supply of virtually everything long-term -- including food. They're already running government & media (BIRM) PsyOps preparing people for and in anticipation of necessary future demand destruction.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (K3TEc)

260 235. Remember in the early 2000's, when these secular Jewish college kids, use to volunteer as Human shields in Gaza?

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (Cw0fX)

261 210 It's not just Apple. It's Google, Microsoft and a whole litany of companies that are working directly with the Chi-Coms to develop these systems.
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Yes, but I disagree that these are Chinese companies. Their outlook is approximately Maoist, but they are not "Chinese Companies" any more than they are "American Companies." They're post-national companies. They are truly stateless "companies of the world" and they operate like their own countries. They are a weird synthetic creation. They are essentially states of their own, albeit without territory or armies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

******&*****

This!! Correct. The TechRat Corporatist Oligopolists are of the belief that they are above humanity and above any rules. Just try to call up either of the Gurgle Twins on their private Fiji islands, with their own armies and their own navies. . . . .go ahead. . . .and don't forget that the US Air Force fueled up their fleet of 767s for free in Santa Clara country for years.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & DOE luggage-thieving used sodo boys at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (8m/Xb)

262 What he meant was, "What US plant can do it for pennies a day with pseudo-slaves?"
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This. And I love seeing "green" and "cruelty free" products that are made in China.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (NG6Iv)

263 Did see a video ( Bad Blue) a Apple store in California maybe, was giving away all the store items, well not volunteering just watching the shelves get cleaned out
________

I know the powers that be don't want the normals to stop them from stealing, but grabbing their backpacks when they're done should be ok, since you are just stealing from them and stealing is ok according to the new rules.
Posted by: Chuck Marte
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Are you willing to get sued and/or arrested to stop these people? If some white person grabbed one of these people and body slammed them, they'd probably have to spend a million dollars on a defense lawyer.

I hate conceding that fact, but its true. Unless you live in some ultra red area, the law will go after anything that whiffs of standing up to the mob.

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (iNIDc)

264 @179

>>I will say though, I'm not a complete fanboy,

I'm not a fanboy either, I've worked in the post production industry for a long time, apple products were ubiquitous and peoples livelihoods depended on apple products.

And sometimes their product decisions f**ked a lot of people.

Doesn't mean they don't make the best desktop OS or largely bulletproof products just means they can be a**holes like most every tech company.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (up/3i)

265 Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders
Posted by: Jonah

That's what happens when you keep incomps instead of firing them. You try to hide them somewhere and when the SHTF, they blow goats ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (9uCBG)

266 Jeremiah Wright is not a priest.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 02, 2022 08:46 AM (Rbu5d)

267 If you don't know what the UN's Agenda 21 is - pushed by both Clinton and Bush, and a law drawn up by Pelosi* (failed to pass, but amazingly still put into place) - it's probably time to get to reading.

2030 is an important date, and it's happening whether you like it or not. It's a big reason for Trump's removal and the establishment of procedures to negate your ability to vote.

* "H.Con.Res.353 - Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should assume a strong leadership role in implementing the decisions made at the Earth Summit by developing a national strategy to implement Agenda 21..."
https://tinyurl.com/2pv4to9c
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:20 AM (NG6Iv)

you know what's interesting about this? The mining world, surface at least, is going ALL in on zero emissions mining. and 2030 is the target for a LOT of the net zero mines to be completed. never occured to me that might be connected. but i did find it interesting that all of the sudden, the top equipment suppliers and customers all seem to be hitting this at the some time.

and most of those mining companies are based in Australia, fwtw...

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 02, 2022 08:46 AM (Mkvkw)

268 TGIF!
I won't live in a pod, eat bugs, use a driverless car. . . nor get a freakin' chip implanted. Gah! Gattaca is starting to look like the best case scenario. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (I/doM)

I'm tired of working and being in debt. I won't win the lottery, so I'm contemplating joining twatter and IM'ing Musk and offering to be his chip implant guinea pig for a couple million bucks.

A man has to take care of his family by any means necessary, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

269 260 235. Remember in the early 2000's, when these secular Jewish college kids, use to volunteer as Human shields in Gaza?
Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:45 AM (Cw0fX)

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I'm gonna start a "send Gays4Palestine to Palestine" fund. I will take 10% off the top for me, the Big Guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

270 If Prometheus takes the Fire back, maybe that will be the great reset. LOL

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:46 AM (Cw0fX)

271 >>But Bankman-Fried has been given all the soft treatment possible. Now why should that be?"

Notice we're not having any of his victims identified or profiled -- whose billions did he steal, where are the victims?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:47 AM (I/doM)

272 Gattaca is starting to look like the best case scenario. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (I/doM)

*weak grin*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 02, 2022 08:47 AM (Kd4bG)

273 272 Gattaca is starting to look like the best case scenario. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (I/doM)

*weak grin*
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 02, 2022 08:47 AM (Kd4bG)

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So...we all need to practice our swimming?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

274 The facts in the Oath Keepers case do not fit the crime. Forget for a moment whether you like them or not. Personally I am not a fan. But what just happened is a grotesque miscarriage of justice that will have severe reverberations for years to come.

A jury partial to Democrats just convicted people of charges for which there is no legal fact set or materiality. There is no corroboration. In fact, the corrupt judge didn't allow the defense to present any evidence that was exculpatory. That includes government actors who were involved in the so called plot. No court has ever seen fit, especially on such thin clearly political motivation, to allow these types of charges to move forward. Now you have corrupt judges and jurists ignoring very clear, consistent established law and process to convict people purely on their political views.

When faith in the justice system and our institutions is corrupted in this way, it never ends well. The case is an abomination and perhaps one of the biggest corruptions of law and constitution in our history. Where have all the people with the courage and fortitude to say so, clearly?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:48 AM (VF4WI)

275 I've never bought an Apple product but since I'm looking for a good tablet. Is the Mac Air Ipad anything to merit a look?

Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2022 08:48 AM (88xKn)

276 But what Apple and other Monster Tech firms do in China is an order of magnitude worse than anything IBM did. It's hardly even comparable. It's all just Satanic. Our business leaders are a fucking disgrace. They deserve to be raped to death by dogs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2022 08:43 AM (oINRc)
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More to the point, perhaps, is that after Nazi Germany became a formal enemy of the US, IBM and the others quit doing business with them. When the war came, they all retooled and started producing war materials. They didn't actively collaborate with the enemy against American interest and prefer the enemy to their homeland.

There were lots of Nazi sympathizers in American industry, but they knocked it off when the battle lines were drawn. This is in stark contrast to our current crop, who double-down despite battle lines. The assistance from US corporations to the likes of the Nazis and the Soviets is a nasty black mark on their histories and there is blood on their hands, but at least they - unlike the current firms - stopped aiding the enemy and went to work for the US.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:48 AM (t0OGg)

277 "Rockford touts perfect score as LGBTQ-friendly city"

Our gangsta thugs have magnanimously agreed not to shoot, rob, home-invade, or carjack LGBTQs. Everybody else is still fair game. Flock to the shithole, fruits!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:49 AM (24fqN)

278
My geothermal system runs the hot loop through my water heater.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:39 AM

But what is the run length of piping to your showers? I had 60 foot of copper to one side of the house and 70 feet to the master bathroom on the other side. I had to keep my oil fired heater (in the middle of the house) at 160 degrees to get lukewarm water to the showers. Even with every foot of piping insulated.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 02, 2022 08:49 AM (enJYY)

279 TGIF!
I won't live in a pod, eat bugs, use a driverless car. . . nor get a freakin' chip implanted. Gah! Gattaca is starting to look like the best case scenario. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:44 AM (I/doM)

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I'm envisioning future riots here as we become more imprisoned:

"GAT-TA-CA! GAT-TA-CA! GAT-TA-CA!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 08:49 AM (K3TEc)

280 I had some guy from corporate talking to me about subcontracting work in the area, and I told him that I was "looking to make the most money I could with the least amount of effort". He and the guy that was with him looked at each other like "WTF?", but I got the gig for about 10 years.

Nice. Funny, isn't it - when it comes to selling their product - it's all about capitalism. The biggest price for the cheapest cost of manufacture to maximize profit. Makes sense.

But when it comes to labor ? By God, you'd think capitalism didn't exist. Then it's "you gotta' do your time" and "work is it's own reward" bullshit. And some folks buy into it - they get a perverse pride out of "I've never taken a sick day in my life, and you shouldn't either".

I'm like you. I'm selling a product that's measured in hours worked. I want the most for the least. And I'm not making anybody by a single minute of it, its all free will.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:49 AM (66r+l)

281 Trump's greatest weakness the other side of the coin of his greatest strength.

Celebrity status. If Trump was just an ordinary casino hotel developer he never even runs for President.

Because of his own celebrity status he put way to much value on the fame of others.

Its why he did not fire Fauci. Guy was famous since the 80s. Just like Trump.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at December 02, 2022 08:49 AM (PbwT0)

282 ==========

So...we all need to practice our swimming?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/Vm0th4zgubw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

283 Saint of the Day
St. Bibiana, also known as Vibiana or Viviana (d. 361), was born in Rome, the daughter of Christian parents who were martyred in the persecutions of Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate. Her father was severely beaten and sent to live in exile as a slave, but died from his wounds. Her mother was beheaded shortly after. St. Bibiana and her sister, Demetria, were stripped of their possessions and imprisoned in their family home in utter poverty and hunger. They were offered reward if only they would renounce Jesus, but the sisters said they would rather die. Finding that they did not die from lack of food, the Roman governor summoned them. Demetria, after professing the faith, died at his feet. St. Bibiana was given to the guardianship of a pagan woman who tried to force her into prostitution. St. Bibiana refused. For this she was beaten, tied to a pillar, and cruelly scourged. She eventually died from her tortures, and her body was discarded to be eaten by wild dogs. The animals, however, would not touch her. Her body was recovered by a priest and buried, with a chapel built over the tomb for her veneration. St. Bibiana's feast day is December 2nd.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 02, 2022 08:50 AM (qoGsy)

284 Whoever created Microsoft 360 and Teams, should be drawn and quartered. For starters.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:50 AM (VF4WI)

285 The whole Obama attending Jew hating services for 20 years at Wright's church, is the reason I believe Hunter is a rabbithole. The Demon media will always protect and circle the wagons.

GOP House needs concentrate on what matters to the people.
Investigate the stuff, that even the Karen's care about

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:50 AM (Cw0fX)

286 275 I've never bought an Apple product but since I'm looking for a good tablet. Is the Mac Air Ipad anything to merit a look?

I love the new iPad airs and am about to get one before end-of-year (for tax purposes).

you can do pretty much anything you can on a Mac with them except a lot of what I do in Adobe Suite is still not really all there. but enough that I can use it sometimes and for certain things. these are designery things

anyway I've used Macs from LE II days lol. they gave me my career I think. when I've had to work on a PC it just ... the monitors aren't as good, nothing looks right. for what I do that matters.

I also have a PC tho and for example MANY things work better on there so it really depends on what you need. the two platforms are really different still.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (w0NJk)

287 284 Whoever created Microsoft 360 and Teams, should be drawn and quartered. For starters.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:50 AM (VF4WI)

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Joe Mannix had similar thoughts yesterday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

288 Covid camp set on fire in Western China

Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (RSIvJ)

289 266 Jeremiah Wright is not a priest.
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He's not a bullfrog, either.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (ssJXH)

290 Anything > crapple

Posted by: Word to your mother at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (tLEZq)

291 Lady in Black's Great Reset involves a lot of lampposts, guillotines, gallows and pikes of countless nefarious players the world over.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 02, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

cut, jib, newsletter

s'il vous plait?

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (Mkvkw)

292 OK, pet peeve time: I really hate the term “anti-Semitic.” “Semitic” is a linguistic term. The Arabs are also “Semites,” as they also speak a Semitic language. Heck, even those Ethiopians who speak Amharic are “Semites.” “Semitic” is meaningless as a racial/ethnic term, and therefore identifying it exclusively with Jews, as the usage of “anti-Semitic” to mean “anti-Jewish” does, is just nonsense.

Just use “anti-Jewish” instead.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (Az2It)

293 287 284 Whoever created Microsoft 360 and Teams, should be drawn and quartered. For starters.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:50 AM (VF4WI)

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Joe Mannix had similar thoughts yesterday.
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Yes.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 02, 2022 08:52 AM (ssJXH)

294 you know what's interesting about this? The mining world, surface at least, is going ALL in on zero emissions mining. and 2030 is the target for a LOT of the net zero mines to be completed. never occured to me that might be connected...
Posted by: SturmToddler
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It's interesting to see how the meaningless word "sustainable" has been put into play with so many products and discussions, too. It's been normalized. People have no idea what it means, but it's something that equates to a positive thing in their heads.

That word "sustainable" is a big, BIG part of the Agenda 21 / 2030 push. 1992, official link to UN document:
https://tinyurl.com/2ebxlrzb

"The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was created in December 1992 to ensure effective follow-up of UNCED, to monitor and report on implementation of the agreements at the local, national, regional and international levels."

Remember, this was back in 1992. Now that word is everywhere.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:52 AM (NG6Iv)

295 >>So...we all need to practice our swimming?

Just don't save anything for the swim back to shore, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:52 AM (I/doM)

296 "Joe Mannix had similar thoughts yesterday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (LvTSG)"

He is correct. It is the biggest pile of blue screening crap I have ever had the displeasure to use.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:52 AM (VF4WI)

297 "Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders
Posted by: Jonah"

If there had been a noose, or anything resembling a noose, at the crime scene they would have been way more diligent.

Posted by: Ripley at December 02, 2022 08:53 AM (MxEKc)

298 A man has to take care of his family by any means necessary, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

There really isn't that much of a difference between having a chip implanted and carrying a hand held chip that listens in on your conversations, tracks all your communications, tracks your movement, has all of your financial information, logs all your website visits, records your fingerprints and face recognition (for security purposes, of course) and monitors your daily life for your interests/thoughts and spending patterns to feed into AI for potentially troubling algorithmic data.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 02, 2022 08:53 AM (6Dtba)

299 Half of the fired Twitter employees were censoring comments for the Fourth Reich, and the other half were covering up the censorship to avoid prosecution for illegal in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party.

Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2022 08:53 AM (RSIvJ)

300 Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders

Why is the FBI ~~investigating~~ obfuscating a local crime?

It reminds me of those stupid network crime drama shows where the FBI, or some clandestine, special operations federal government cell of superhuman agents investigate routine crimes that we discover in the last segment are all committed by white male masterminds.

I was always interested in the part where the writers had to conjure up some sorry excuse for why the locals couldn't handle the case and it had to be farmed out to the superstars.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 08:53 AM (ceWUn)

301 Raii workers only get one sick day per year. Unreal.
But Biden is going to save Christmas. There's that.

Posted by: Ziba at December 02, 2022 08:53 AM (4h9M3)

302 Catturd
@catturd2

49m
The people who believe men can get pregnant, there's 1,267 genders, and cow farts are going to destroy planet earth ... are having meltdowns because they're worried about misinformation on new Twitter.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

303 And I'm not making anybody by a single minute of it, its all free will.
Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:49 AM (66r+l)

I'm not saying this to be a dick or to be sarcastic, but because i like you: it sounds like you were in the perfect position to start your own shop and eat everyone else's lunch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (GWDtl)

304

FBI Spokane, not Boise, responded initially and SAC Seattle assumed control of the federal assets and pulled in agents from several different sites. 20 plus agents and several forensic specialists. Cross jurisdiction justified by potentially interstate and or conspiracy "potential drug or other inrastate criminal activity."

Posted by: Some Dude at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (p4ybq)

305 281. I believe reason Trump did not fire people, is because of McConnell and Ryan. He did not want garbage like Wray and Powell, but he was told he could not get his choices confirmed.

He fired Comey though

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (Cw0fX)

306 Whoever created Microsoft 360 and Teams, should be drawn and quartered. For starters.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:50 AM (VF4WI)
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O365 is just a cash-grab. Office itself, as in its software suite, is quite good - especially Word, Excel and Outlook. Teams is a memory-wasting chunk of garbage (and so is Slack, for that matter). The icon design in modern Office apps is a crime against productivity, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (t0OGg)

307
"Just use “anti-Jewish” instead."

Ain't gonna happen. Culture percolates up from the masses and the masses have already spoken on that issue.

Posted by: Speller at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (pSotA)

308 I loved Vista and Clippy.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (R/m4+)

309 275 I've never bought an Apple product but since I'm looking for a good tablet. Is the Mac Air Ipad anything to merit a look?
Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2022 08:48 AM (88xKn)

If you dont care about customization or software variety and you're cool with the dumbed-down version of everything I'm sure you'll find it to be shiny and pretty.

Posted by: Word to your mother at December 02, 2022 08:55 AM (tLEZq)

310 304. Shoulda coulda woulda. Name the FBI office, I say incompetent politcal hacks

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:55 AM (Cw0fX)

311 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
2 O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
5 ¶ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

Posted by: Idahonian at December 02, 2022 08:55 AM (rzJez)

312 Are you willing to get sued and/or arrested to stop these people? If some white person grabbed one of these people and body slammed them, they'd probably have to spend a million dollars on a defense lawyer.

I hate conceding that fact, but its true. Unless you live in some ultra red area, the law will go after anything that whiffs of standing up to the mob.

Posted by: Blago
__________

I don't know what I'd do if I witnessed this, I might be enraged enough to overcome your wise counsel. Maybe the war against evil isn't lost yet even in deep blue areas.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 02, 2022 08:56 AM (fs1hN)

313 >>But what Apple and other Monster Tech firms do in China is an order of magnitude worse than anything IBM did. It's hardly even comparable. It's all just Satanic. Our business leaders are a fucking disgrace. They deserve to be raped to death by dogs.

Apple and Nike have plants *inside* prisons holding Uyghurs. There is no plausible deniability -- they are using the slave labor of a people the Chinese government is genociding.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:56 AM (I/doM)

314 "O365 is just a cash-grab. Office itself, as in its software suite, is quite good - especially Word, Excel and Outlook. Teams is a memory-wasting chunk of garbage (and so is Slack, for that matter). The icon design in modern Office apps is a crime against productivity, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (t0OGg)"

I partially agree on Office, only because it's probably best in class. There are a few nuanced things they could do to make it easier for power users. But Outlook and Teams are dogshit. As is the base OS that constantly blue screens to the point techs have no idea WTF is happening.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:56 AM (VF4WI)

315 Son has Air iPad for school. Says it's great. Wouldn't mind having one myself.

Posted by: Ziba at December 02, 2022 08:57 AM (4h9M3)

316 "Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders"

My current theory: A campus incel had a brief encounter with the pair of cuties at a bar or whatever. They rebuffed him. Knowing that the pair resided at The Party House, he snuck in amongst the rando partiers, they hid and lay in wait.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:57 AM (24fqN)

317 Jeremiah Wright is not a priest.
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He's not a bullfrog, either.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 02, 2022 08:51 AM (ssJX

***

He, uhh, was a good friend of, mine...

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at December 02, 2022 08:57 AM (flINI)

318 Here is a great, short (20 minute) crash course video on Agenda 21 and 2030 by a woman named Rosa Koire (eminent domain expert and legal advisor in California who started to see how land was being handled):

https://tinyurl.com/y2a7yjn7

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 08:57 AM (NG6Iv)

319 *considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 02, 2022 08:43 AM (LvTSG)
=================
ISWYDT.

Didn't fool John, even! He is muttering something in agitation, which is how I know.

Posted by: John Fetterman's talking neck tumor at December 02, 2022 08:57 AM (FE2oD)

320 297. so true. If one of the Idaho victims was a tranny, the Senate would be passing another hate crime bill

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 08:58 AM (Cw0fX)

321 "Covid camp set on fire in Western China"

If it saves one life...

Posted by: "Dr." Fauci at December 02, 2022 08:58 AM (uqP/A)

322 Posted by: Idahonian at December 02, 2022 08:55 AM (rzJez)

.....

And the Lord replied, in short, "I'm sending the Babylonians to wipe your entire country out."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 02, 2022 08:58 AM (6Dtba)

323 they -> then

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 08:58 AM (24fqN)

324 Nice. Funny, isn't it - when it comes to selling their product - it's all about capitalism. The biggest price for the cheapest cost of manufacture to maximize profit. Makes sense.

But when it comes to labor ? By God, you'd think capitalism didn't exist. Then it's "you gotta' do your time" and "work is it's own reward" bullshit. And some folks buy into it - they get a perverse pride out of "I've never taken a sick day in my life, and you shouldn't either".

I'm like you. I'm selling a product that's measured in hours worked. I want the most for the least. And I'm not making anybody by a single minute of it, its all free will.
Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 08:49 AM (66r+l)

Companies don't market their products as maximizing their profit margins and being as cheap for them as possible while as expensive to the customer as possible. Likewise employees generally don't represent themselves that way.

"You gotta do your time" is union mentality at any rate, most fields don't work like that. If labor is mobile, rates have to be competitive or a business dies out.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 02, 2022 08:58 AM (eYoxG)

325 I loved Vista and Clippy.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (R/m4+)

BURN THE HERETIC!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

326 How many of you know the SCOTUS has actually agreed to hear and rule, this month, on a lawsuit to have 388 members of congress removed from office for violating their oaths to protect the Constitution, by refusing to investigate allegations raised by 100 other members of that body, of election fraud in the 2020 election, and that the DOJ has abandoned its attempts to have the lawsuit dismissed?

https://tinyurl.com/yzju2h7n

Remember, this is a civil suit, not a criminal one, the plaintiffs win if the preponderance of the evidence is on their side, they don't need to prove any thing beyond a reasonable doubt. They allege only that the 388 failed to even investigate the possibility of fraud - which they most certainly did do.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (CecP5)

327 Can you still get a stand alone copy of Windows 10 or are home computers stuck with 365 now?

Posted by: Jaimo at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (DBrN4)

328 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
16m
CNBC: The labor force participation rate is "moving in the WRONG direction. This is not good."

"A big disappointment."

https://tinyurl.com/ycxne9by

Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

329 >>"Rumour is the FBI field office in Boise, screwed up these Idaho murders

Seriously, name something the FBI *hasn't* screwed up in the last decade or so. Name a success.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (I/doM)

330 I believe reason Trump did not fire people, is because of McConnell and Ryan. He did not want garbage like Wray and Powell, but he was told he could not get his choices confirmed.

He fired Comey though
Posted by: Jonah

__

To me, this is an indictment of Trump, not an excuse. If he can be rolled by McConnell and GOPe, what's the point of Trump?

The real issue was his son-in-law Kushner was the defacto President, Trump was never much interested in actually governing.

Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (iNIDc)

331 The script writers at the BLS have written a blockbuster for Nov.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (+hI+T)

332 Son has Air iPad for school. Says it's great. Wouldn't mind having one myself.
Posted by: Ziba at December 02, 2022 08:57 AM (4h9M3)

Does it have a USB port? Because I find any computing devices without a USB port a useless piece of trash. External SD slot even?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

333 I partially agree on Office, only because it's probably best in class. There are a few nuanced things they could do to make it easier for power users. But Outlook and Teams are dogshit. As is the base OS that constantly blue screens to the point techs have no idea WTF is happening.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:56 AM (VF4WI)
++++
Outside of fairly rare and distinct (and easily-discoverable) driver issues, I haven't had a true Windows crash in years. They're fairly uncommon. Businesses can get hit with lots of them because they tend to run standard hardware and software packages and if one of them causes a crash, it can have far-flung consequences because they have a lot of machines all running the lousy code. The "Windows blue-screens all the time" thing hasn't been true for quite a while. Windows 7 was very good and stable, as was 8.1 and 10 and 11. From a reliability standpoint, they're fine.

From a usability standpoint, it is more of a mixed bag. Windows 11 still has not stopped pissing me off every day I have to use the stupid thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 09:00 AM (t0OGg)

334 I'm not saying this to be a dick or to be sarcastic, but because i like you: it sounds like you were in the perfect position to start your own shop and eat everyone else's lunch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 02, 2022 08:54 AM (GWDtl)

I didn't take it to sound like a dick, and you're not the first person by any means to tell me to do just that. I still get requests, from a few folks whose work I trust - to bill them out. But I never wanted that responsibility. I just wanted to worry about me - and I sure as shit didn't want to try to teach anybody.

I would have done it for my boy, but he's not interested. And I can't say I blame it. I've got by on talent, but the stress sometimes really was not worth it most of the time. It only is now because, being self-employed, I can walk at any moment. And have.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 09:00 AM (66r+l)

335 "There really isn't that much of a difference between having a chip implanted and carrying a hand held chip that listens in on your conversations"

Shit if they knew what I was thinking they would put me under the jail. That's not for me.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 09:00 AM (sn5EN)

336 Saw Gaylord Perry pitch as a kid. You could see the water come off the ball in flight. RIP

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 09:00 AM (Cw0fX)

337 I don't watch hockey. Is this atypical fan behavior?
https://tinyurl.com/253anzpj

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (24fqN)

338 313 Apple and Nike have plants *inside* prisons holding Uyghurs. There is no plausible deniability -- they are using the slave labor of a people the Chinese government is genociding.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:56 AM (I/doM)

Just like Krupp, BMW, Thyssen, IG Farben and on and on and on in the concentration camps of you-know-who.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (x0n13)

339 Clippy gave very concise and needed advice.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (+hI+T)

340 > How many of you know the SCOTUS has actually agreed to hear and rule, this month, on a lawsuit to have 388 members of congress removed from office

I had not. I am also betting the 388 are safe.

Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (geLO8)

341 Does it have a USB port? Because I find any computing devices without a USB port a useless piece of trash. External SD slot even?
Posted by: Sponge
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That's my hang-up, too. I like the OS overall, but I've got to be able to screw it up if I want to.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 09:02 AM (NG6Iv)

342 330. Valid points. Friends think Trump only cared about Judges. Because they were lifetime appointments, that would see his legacy. Which is true

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 09:02 AM (Cw0fX)

343 I hope the ART is not boats and water as I am tired of Capn Neds thoughts on Cabin Boys.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:02 AM (BRHaw)

344 @322
The Chaldeans, my friend.

Posted by: Idahonian at December 02, 2022 09:03 AM (rzJez)

345 It's interesting to see how the meaningless word "sustainable" has been put into play with so many products and discussions, too. It's been normalized. People have no idea what it means, but it's something that equates to a positive thing in their heads.

That word "sustainable" is a big, BIG part of the Agenda 21 / 2030 push. 1992, official link to UN document:
https://tinyurl.com/2ebxlrzb

"The Commission on Sustainable Development

People are so fucking stupid.
Sustainable means nothing more than "we can keep doing something".

Guess what "sustainable grooming" means?

Yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 09:03 AM (9uCBG)

346 I don't watch hockey. Is this atypical fan behavior?
https://tinyurl.com/253anzpj
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (24fqN)

Depends on the city.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

347 I hated Clippy. Einstein wasn’t much better.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 09:03 AM (Az2It)

348 Tim Cook, the Gay man who loves him some commies, is the reason I have a samsung Tablet and Phone

Posted by: Jonah at December 02, 2022 09:04 AM (Cw0fX)

349 Apple and Nike have plants *inside* prisons holding Uyghurs. There is no plausible deniability -- they are using the slave labor of a people the Chinese government is genociding.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 08:56 AM (I/doM)

A couple of links supporting Lizzie's comment. Let's not forget China also uses these same people to supply organs on demand to CCP leaders and medical "tourists".

https://tinyurl.com/5y7bcxra

https://tinyurl.com/muy6ct2h

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:04 AM (tzjtn)

350 I hope the ART is not boats and water as I am tired of Capn Neds thoughts on Cabin Boys.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Not a big fan of The Adventures of Miles Cowperthwaite?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 02, 2022 09:04 AM (qoGsy)

351 Barack Obama / Jeremiah Wright / Louis Farrakhan

What are 2.5 blacks, Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:04 AM (BRHaw)

352 "From a usability standpoint, it is more of a mixed bag. Windows 11 still has not stopped pissing me off every day I have to use the stupid thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 09:00 AM (t0OGg)"

Even after reinstalling I still get blue screens. Weird shit like "unexpected kernel error" and some IRQL or something error. We have some pretty good tech guys and they are like WTF. They now keep chasing drivers and hoping one of them is corrupted. But it. Still. Won't. Stop. Blue. Screening. Garbage.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:04 AM (VF4WI)

353 Not a big fan of The Adventures of Miles Cowperthwaite?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 02, 2022 09:04 AM (qoGsy)

Drool Buckets

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:05 AM (BRHaw)

354 I partially agree on Office, only because it's probably best in class. There are a few nuanced things they could do to make it easier for power users. But Outlook and Teams are dogshit. As is the base OS that constantly blue screens to the point techs have no idea WTF is happening.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 08:56 AM (VF4WI)
++++
If you're getting recurring crashes on a clean installation of the OS with modern Windows, it is almost always going to be flaky hardware, especially if it happens before the corporate image is installed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (t0OGg)

355 Just like Krupp, BMW, Thyssen, IG Farben and on and on and on in the concentration camps of you-know-who.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (x0n13)

***

My FIL did a lot of uncompensated "work" for IG Farben

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (flINI)

356 Windows blue screens nowadays are usually a hardware failure, overheating or bad memory most commonly.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (sn5EN)

357 I don't watch hockey. Is this atypical fan behavior?
https://tinyurl.com/253anzpj
______

Canadians are surprisingly violent, given the situation. World wars, hockey games and suppressing peaceful protests.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (fs1hN)

358
To me, this is an indictment of Trump, not an excuse. If he can be rolled by McConnell and GOPe, what's the point of Trump?

The real issue was his son-in-law Kushner was the defacto President, Trump was never much interested in actually governing.
Posted by: Blago at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM (iNIDc)

The legislature is the legislature, the president is the president. Trump doesn't have magic powers, neither does DeSantis. If the Senate refuses to seat your appointments, what can you do?

Kushner is some kind of administrative and diplomatic genius? Interesting take....

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (eYoxG)

359 I was going to make a comment, but I seem to have misplaced the remote control for my Neuralnk™

"Open the pod bay door, Muldoon!"

"Daisy, Daisy..."

Posted by: Muldoon at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (ykeLU)

360 343 I hope the ART is not boats and water as I am tired of Capn Neds thoughts on Cabin Boys.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:02 AM (BRHaw)
*****
It will probably be boobs... because the 'ettes must suffer.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

361 Videos: Climate ‘Protesters’ Thrown Around Like Rag Dolls By Angry French Motorists

Inspired by Marcus D. Lafayette.

Posted by: JT at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (T4tVD)

362 I had no issues with Windows 7. A blue screen every few years, usually only if I installed some hook freeware app I wanted temporarily.

Windows 8 was dogshit.

Windows 10 has yet to do me wrong. Home PC or work laptop has had MAYBE 2 blue screens for unknown reasons.

IMHO, they ended XP right when they got it right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

363 I laughed out loud at the Air Marshal "rebellion" story. Just like the ham and eggers at the FBI protesting, or labor unions reacting to decades of Democrat lies. or the blacks realizing abortion was directed at them, or the...whatever.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 02, 2022 09:07 AM (AaLDK)

364 When Microsoft got rid of Skype and rolled out Teams, I thought MS had a meeting where they decided to take everything people hated about Skype and roll into one product. Thus, Teams.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 02, 2022 09:07 AM (pXkXl)

365 Just like Krupp, BMW, Thyssen, IG Farben and on and on and on in the concentration camps of you-know-who.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (x0n13)

and IBM

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:07 AM (BRHaw)

366 My birdbath is STILL frozen (if you're keeping score at home)

Posted by: JT at December 02, 2022 09:07 AM (T4tVD)

367 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 02, 2022 09:07 AM (T4tVD)

368 "You gotta do your time" is union mentality at any rate, most fields don't work like that. If labor is mobile, rates have to be competitive or a business dies out.

Why do you think the Chamber of Commerce exists, at the local level ? I can assure you, in my field, it existed so that the owners at every firm could collude - to effectively fix talent prices at a mutually acceptable level. Its not as effective now - but it was amazingly well done back in the 90s through the early 2000s.

To the point that they would even embargo certain folks. Kind of like a franchise tag in the NFL. Raiding the best guys at another firm was simply not done.

"You gotta' do your time" was not a Union thing. It was a generational thing. Bitch about the Millennials all you want, I don't like 'em either. But they got that idea right. I think Gen-X was the first bunch to get the ball rolling on job hopping.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 09:08 AM (66r+l)

369 "I hope the ART is not boats and water"

At least make it something we can poke fun at without blaspheming.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:08 AM (24fqN)

370 Nice. Funny, isn't it - when it comes to selling their product - it's all about capitalism. The biggest price for the cheapest cost of manufacture to maximize profit. Makes sense.

Profits are what the market allows you to receive. You can't sell bubble gum for $50 and expect a profit of $49.97 because no one will buy your product.

The other problem is in scale of manufacturing. There is something to be said for a semi-educated public of a billion plus people. For example, just the need for mechanical engineers at a manufacturing plant in China exceeds the entire graduating class of STEM students in the former US.

The FUSA has embarked on a multi-generational plot to guarantee that the domestic population is unable to take care of itself in any way, shape or form and must rely on foreign labor and intellect.

The sad fact is, even if Apple wanted to make their product in the FUSA, there is no way to get the labor, materials or consistent energy to produce even a small fraction of it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 09:09 AM (ceWUn)

371 366 My birdbath is STILL frozen (if you're keeping score at home)
Posted by: JT at December 02, 2022 09:07 AM (T4tVD)

ya got a beagle and a bird playing hockey yet?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:09 AM (BRHaw)

372 "I hope the ART is not boats and water"

At least make it something we can poke fun at without blaspheming.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:08 AM (24fqN)

I think it should be Titty Fly Fryday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

373 I'm using my 3 yr old $49 Dell Chromebook, but it's time to replace it. I'll probably splurge and get a $100 Chromebook for Christmas.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 02, 2022 09:10 AM (AXxfu)

374 366 You don’t have a blowtorch?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 09:10 AM (Az2It)

375 Re: Trump 2024

Mr. Trump is an imperfect man. So am I. So are you. Trump has suffered unprecedented persecution for me and his country. So has his family. Yet he stands uncowed. He has survived shit that would have most GOP candidates begging leftards to enjoy the warmth of their rectums. Yet he stands front and center for America. He will get my vote.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 02, 2022 09:10 AM (/+dWw)

376 The issue of people intervening in these flash crimes is that no one knows what their legal liability is if they act against the criminals.

If someone from law enforcement came out and said that they wouldn't prosecute people for stopping these crimes, I think a lot of people would act differently.

Posted by: pawn at December 02, 2022 09:10 AM (wsHtO)

377 Just like Krupp, BMW, Thyssen, IG Farben and on and on and on in the concentration camps of you-know-who.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:01 AM (x0n13)

China is expanding prison factories to other groups. Seems it is increasingly likely that "workers" will be locked in and live in the factories. As we outsourced, we went back to slavery, with the idea " it's legal there, so it's ok". Pretty amusing given the hereditary guilt foisted upon white America.

Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:10 AM (Zzbjj)

378 The legislature is the legislature, the president is the president. Trump doesn't have magic powers, neither does DeSantis. If the Senate refuses to seat your appointments, what can you do?

💦 You can put Super DeSantis in there! He'll get 'er done unlike no other!! Because, by God, they love him!!!💦

💦 = dripping sarcasm

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 09:11 AM (9uCBG)

379 Yet he stands front and center for America. He will get my vote.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 02, 2022 09:10 AM (/+dWw)

BUT KANYE BROUGHT SOME PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

380 368
Why do you think the Chamber of Commerce exists, at the local level ? I can assure you, in my field, it existed so that the owners at every firm could collude - to effectively fix talent prices at a mutually acceptable level. Its not as effective now - but it was amazingly well done back in the 90s through the early 2000s.

"You gotta' do your time" was not a Union thing. It was a generational thing. Bitch about the Millennials all you want, I don't like 'em either. But they got that idea right. I think Gen-X was the first bunch to get the ball rolling on job hopping.
Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 09:08 AM (66r+l)

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

I'd say a lot of breakdown in "loyalty" is from corporate pensions moving away from defined benefit plans. There's little reason to be personally invested in an employer these days. The balance of interests just shifted

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 02, 2022 09:11 AM (eYoxG)

381 "Windows 10 has yet to do me wrong."

Same here. Most of my PCs run Linux Mint, but for running my Win-only apps, Win 10 has worked fine for years. My only objection to Win 10 is the cost.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:11 AM (24fqN)

382 >>I was going to make a comment, but I seem to have misplaced the remote control for my Neuralnk™

"Open the pod bay door, Muldoon!"

"Daisy, Daisy..."
- - - -
Heh. If only our future tech minders were more like GERTY* than HAL or AMEE.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 09:11 AM (I/doM)

383 "My birdbath is STILL frozen (if you're keeping score at home)
Posted by: JT"

See if you can get Cat Ass to put you on his geothermal loop.

Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (sn5EN)

384 My Microsoft install has an annoying little ad in the lower right hand corner for their "news" feed. Sometimes is tells me the weather, sometimes a stock quote it has decided I might be interested in.

This morning it says "Aqui 69". Microsoft is zeroing in on my Spanish language interests.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (tzjtn)

385 💦 You can put Super DeSantis in there! He'll get 'er done unlike no other!! Because, by God, they love him!!!💦

💦 = dripping sarcasm
Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 09:11 AM (9uCBG)

But the book deal was totes honest.

Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (Zzbjj)

386 Obama staffer Austin Goolsbee named head of Chicago Fed, will serve until 2034.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (I/doM)

387 DU is all motivated, thinking THIS time that mean 'ole Trump is going to jail!

Special Master dismissed. Game on Trump, get ready for your trial. Trump will be indicted in the secret document investigation in the next month or two. The prosecutors are now free to move forward. Judge Cannon can no longer delay things for Trump. This is not a complicated case. Trump defied a Grand Jury Subpoena, moved, hid evidence and he has no defense.

TFG will either appeal to a full panel of the 11th Circuit, or try to get a stay from SCOTUS pending a full appeal. The request for a stay will go to Clarence Thomas, but I doubt that even he would grant it.

They do not care about helping Trump personally The right wing on the court will help right wing causes like helping corporations and supporting Christofascism, but so far they have ruled against Trump in his personal cases (tax returns, subpoena, the election, etc)

I'm torn...part of me thinks this is lefty failure theater, but Dems and GOPe want Trump destroyed for various reasons, a DC jury could convict anyone, and just bringing charges and dragging through the courts will hurt Trump.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

388 The issue of people intervening in these flash crimes is that no one knows what their legal liability is if they act against the criminals.

Cap 'em and disappear. Leave no trace.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 09:13 AM (9uCBG)

389
@RNCResearch
16m
CNBC: The labor force participation rate is "moving in the WRONG direction. This is not good."

"A big disappointment."

Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM

If there is one 'key metric' to tell you the health of the USA economy it is that one. After nearly twenty years of continuous decline it actually moved up during Trumps term in office - until China flu that is. Uncle Sugar needs to remove the sugar bowl from the table and force some people to get a job - or the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 02, 2022 09:13 AM (enJYY)

390 The FUSA has embarked on a multi-generational plot to guarantee that the domestic population is unable to take care of itself in any way, shape or form and must rely on foreign labor and intellect.
---------------

And it's neat to see that both sides of the uniparty have been working for the same anti-American (meaning citizens and well-being) goals for so long.

Illegals enter the country to work for low-wages and take jobs and industries from citizens - think roofing, drywall, etc. - and simultaneously ship manufacturing across borders to accomplish same task with low-wage workers elsewhere.

Both parties, same goals.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 02, 2022 09:13 AM (NG6Iv)

391 My Microsoft install has an annoying little ad in the lower right hand corner for their "news" feed. Sometimes is tells me the weather, sometimes a stock quote it has decided I might be interested in.

This morning it says "Aqui 69". Microsoft is zeroing in on my Spanish language interests.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (tzjtn)

Oh, I disable all that shit first and foremost. If I can uninstall, it's gone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

392 "The issue of people intervening in these flash crimes is that no one knows what their legal liability is if they act against the criminals."

Shout the enword at them as they thieve. They'll react in rage, forget the mission, drop the merch. Next: ?

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:14 AM (24fqN)

393 As the toilets and kiosks are intended to be used for the next 20 years, they need to be not only timeless in their design but detailed, fabricated and maintained to withstand decades of public use.

It last 3 fucking day

3

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:14 AM (BRHaw)

394
This morning it says "Aqui 69". Microsoft is zeroing in on my Spanish language interests.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (tzjtn)

Your computer tells you to grab your woman and get after it? Nice......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

395 The "do your time" philosophy was workable in the past when the American workforce was average. Our other advantages like natural resources superiority, not having to scrounge for basic food and shelter everyday like 95% of the rest of the world, and others suffice. Degrade the workforce through poor education and social unrest through equity theory and handicap our country's other advantages and, viola!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 02, 2022 09:14 AM (AaLDK)

396 "If you're getting recurring crashes on a clean installation of the OS with modern Windows, it is almost always going to be flaky hardware, especially if it happens before the corporate image is installed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 02, 2022 09:06 AM (t0OGg)"

My theory is it's the Chyna made piece of garbage X1. But that's just me.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:15 AM (VF4WI)

397 Obama staffer Austin Goolsbee named head of Chicago Fed, will serve until 2034.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (I/doM)
================
If you have to choose an Obama guy for an important job, he's not the worst guy in the world. As far as Democrats go he isn't insane.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:15 AM (tzjtn)

398 After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities, officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters on Tuesday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

399 Even after reinstalling I still get blue screens. Weird shit like "unexpected kernel error" and some IRQL or something error. We have some pretty good tech guys and they are like WTF. They now keep chasing drivers and hoping one of them is corrupted. But it. Still. Won't. Stop. Blue. Screening. Garbage.

Its your hardware. I put thousands of hours each year on software development and systems engineering. I put both a Dell XPS and the new Mac MBP Max through a lot of work building and running all kinds of things - and neither of them give me any trouble.

Life is too short to spend $2k on a flakey computer when $3-4k will get you something that always works.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 09:15 AM (ceWUn)

400 The issue of people intervening in these flash crimes is that no one knows what their legal liability is if they act against the criminals.

Cap 'em and disappear. Leave no trace.
Posted by: rickb223

There are many, many remote hollers and ravines that no one ever visits in the mountains of KY and TN. (Other places too!)

Posted by: Tonypete at December 02, 2022 09:15 AM (qoGsy)

401 I think we can all agree the lesson from Microsoft is, never trust a man with moobs to make your software.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:16 AM (VF4WI)

402 Another big difference between Kanye and Farrakhan/Wright is that one is a certified loon and the others are "men of God". The ministers are coated in the veneer of thoughtful integrity one used to associate with pastors, priests, and rabbis, while Kanye, at best, is a celeb. It's like putting the Pope against Vic Damone.

Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:16 AM (Zzbjj)

403 After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities, officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters on Tuesday.

Which is exactly why Congress has given them tens of billions more than the junta requested. The DoD is reliably in on the grift and helps, via the fig-leaf of pseudo-patriotism to ensure no horrible audits impede the flow to the ever expanding MIC.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 09:17 AM (ceWUn)

404 @RNCResearch
16m
CNBC: The labor force participation rate is "moving in the WRONG direction. This is not good."

"A big disappointment."
Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2022 08:59 AM
==============
It turns out Uncle Sugar paying people not to work has real-world impacts. Shocka.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:17 AM (tzjtn)

405 "Life is too short to spend $2k on a flakey computer when $3-4k will get you something that always works.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 02, 2022 09:15 AM (ceWUn)"

You are thinking what I am thinking. Pretty soon people are going to see a flash in the sky. That's going to me me throwing this X1 back to Chyna.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:18 AM (VF4WI)

406 Weird shit like "unexpected kernel error"

I dont remember having corn yesterday!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:18 AM (BRHaw)

407 'Domo arigato for your co-operation'.
- Dr. Neurolink

Posted by: Eromero at December 02, 2022 09:18 AM (z3WCn)

408 Breaking911@Breaking911
OBAMA: "We all know some folks in our lives who — we don’t wish them ill will. They say crazy stuff & we’re all like, ‘Well, you know, Uncle Joe, you know what happened to him.’ They're part of the family but you don't give them serious responsibilities."

-
Well, he's wrong about that not wishing them ill part.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 02, 2022 09:18 AM (FVME7)

409 >>The issue of people intervening in these flash crimes is that no one knows what their legal liability is if they act against the criminals.

I worry about the next iteration of this trend, say, when they decide to also mug everyone in the store, or they move on from shops to other venues for their flash-mob robberies. Felling like Gotham in the Batman movies. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 09:18 AM (I/doM)

410 Breaking911@Breaking911
OBAMA: "We all know some folks in our lives who — we don’t wish them ill will. They say crazy stuff & we’re all like, ‘Well, you know, Uncle Joe, you know what happened to him.’ They're part of the family but you don't give them serious responsibilities."

Just shows you what an unmitigated dick Owebama is.

Fuck that guy too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

411 Speaking of unsolved crimes, the most interesting case to me is that of D. B. Cooper.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (Az2It)

412
There are many, many remote hollers and ravines that no one ever visits in the mountains of KY and TN. (Other places too!)

* bango music plays softly in background *

Posted by: Ned Beatty at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (enJYY)

413 The issue of people intervening in these flash crimes is that no one knows what their legal liability is if they act against the criminals.

Cap 'em and disappear. Leave no trace.
Posted by: rickb223

THe criminal who assaulted the Asian woman had no idea he was on camera. There are a lot of cameras these days ad one cannot always wear a ski mask and gloves.

Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (Zzbjj)

414 "never trust a man with moobs to make your software."

The original Obamacare site rollout was written by guys with fedoras and ornate waxed mustaches. Remember when that was the nerd look for about ten minutes?

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (24fqN)

415 There are many, many remote hollers and ravines that no one ever visits in the mountains of KY and TN. (Other places too!)
Posted by: Tonypete

Too many people need to be taken to the train station.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (9uCBG)

416 414 "never trust a man with moobs to make your software."

The original Obamacare site rollout was written by guys with fedoras and ornate waxed mustaches. Remember when that was the nerd look for about ten minutes?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (24fqN)

Or the Charlie Finley-era Oakland A's . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:20 AM (x0n13)

417 I worry about the next iteration of this trend, say, when they decide to also mug everyone in the store, or they move on from shops to other venues for their flash-mob robberies. Felling like Gotham in the Batman movies. . .

As long as they're robbing Target or Kroger, they've got nothing to worry about from me. When they start moving toward me, we have a problem. All legalities out the window at that point. Let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 09:20 AM (66r+l)

418 No one has ever made a Christmas Godzilla movie. This might offer Hollywood a creative challenge.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 02, 2022 09:20 AM (xSnmX)

419 412
There are many, many remote hollers and ravines that no one ever visits in the mountains of KY and TN. (Other places too!)

* bango music plays softly in background *
Posted by: Ned Beatty at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (enJYY)

The bango is a combination banjo and bongo . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:21 AM (x0n13)

420 Neuralink Seeks to Transform Human Beings Into Simply Another Data Port in the Internet of Things

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Cyberpunk 2022.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 02, 2022 09:21 AM (FVME7)

421 >>OBAMA: "We all know some folks in our lives who — we don’t wish them ill will. They say crazy stuff & we’re all like, ‘Well, you know, Uncle Joe, you know what happened to him.’ They're part of the family but you don't give them serious responsibilities."

Is this a recent statement or pulled from years ago?
Obama is not just awful, but so pedestrian. He has his boilerplate ideas and critiques that he repeats year after year after year. Lemme guess, Barack, that Uncle Joe clings to his gunz and bible, amirite?!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2022 09:21 AM (I/doM)

422 "414 "never trust a man with moobs to make your software."

The original Obamacare site rollout was written by guys with fedoras and ornate waxed mustaches. Remember when that was the nerd look for about ten minutes?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (24fqN)

Or the Charlie Finley-era Oakland A's . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:20 AM (x0n13)"

Porn mustaches in the 80's era SOF.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (VF4WI)

423 18 And here I am posting from an Apple iPhone. Am I complicit I wonder? Sigh…. If I were to boycott every fascist woke company I might have to check out of the modern world. What to do, what to do….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 02, 2022 07:50 AM (xT8gx)

Build a cabin in the woods and live the rugged mountain survivalist life.

The true ideal of an adult male.

Posted by: XTC at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (UnA8+)

424 Bango music?

Is that before he joined up with Bingo, Bongo, and Irving?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (Az2It)

425 I don't have to get a NeuraLink implanted into my brain. It is just that it is much more convenient way to get boimetric authorization to start my car than inserting that cold rectal probe every morning. I mean, who wants that?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (+hI+T)

426 Biggest problem I've seen with MS Windows as of late is laptops with docking stations. If you use 2+ monitors (with a dock that is supposed to support it), I've seen on several laptops that the monitors just go dark. No longer recognized by the OS. Using (handy shortcut - resets video drivers) to reset the video drives doesn't bring them back to life. Have to unplug dock, power it and laptop completely off and restart.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (N39Ws)

427 Or the Charlie Finley-era Oakland A's . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:20 AM (x0n13)
================
It's Hammer time!

Posted by: MC David DePape at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (tzjtn)

428 "But, if you believe Trump's one-off sit down with a mentally unstable West and an uninvited Fuentes makes him a Nazi, while Obama having as his priest and confessor a rabid, unreconstructed Jew-hater all his adult life is a non-story, then you're a Democrat"

Exactly. And if DeSantis actually sides with the People rather than donors expect more of the same non-stop hit jobs. I am not ripping him as I think he's great, but he will have to make these choices and I think the 'party' and donors are the shitheads here for siding with the "1.4 billion market." rather than AMERICA.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (klw0w)

429 422 Porn mustaches in the 80's era SOF.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (VF4WI)

I had one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (x0n13)

430 My Microsoft install has an annoying little ad in the lower right hand corner for their "news" feed. Sometimes is tells me the weather, sometimes a stock quote it has decided I might be interested in.

This morning it says "Aqui 69". Microsoft is zeroing in on my Spanish language interests.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:12 AM (tzjtn)

Go into Taskbar Settings and switch News And Interests to OFF

Posted by: Gref at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (AMIL/)

431 423
The true ideal of an adult male.
Posted by: XTC at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (UnA8+)

True statement right there.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 02, 2022 09:23 AM (N39Ws)

432 With NeuraLink, facebook can block your posts as you think of them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 09:23 AM (+hI+T)

433 Porn mustaches in the 80's era SOF.
Posted by: Marcus T

I had one.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Still do.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 02, 2022 09:23 AM (qoGsy)

434 424 Bango music?

Is that before he joined up with Bingo, Bongo, and Irving?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (Az2It)

"Pfft."

- - Oingo Boingo

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:23 AM (x0n13)

435 As long as they're robbing Target or Kroger, they've got nothing to worry about from me. When they start moving toward me, we have a problem. All legalities out the window at that point. Let the chips fall where they may.
Posted by: Jaguar at December 02, 2022 09:20 AM (66r+l)

Being a 65 yo, 5'2" woman, I would probably not intervene beyond a 911 call unless this was family or a close friend. If it was a CRT, Trans supporting former friend, I'd wait awhile before 911 and claim shock. I am convinced they'd do the same for me and say "she had it coming".

Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:24 AM (Zzbjj)

436 I don't have to get a NeuraLink implanted into my brain. It is just that it is much more convenient way to get boimetric authorization to start my car than inserting that cold rectal probe every morning. I mean, who wants that?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (+hI+T)
===================
You are allowed a car? Wow. Braggy Doctor thing.

Posted by: Klaus Schwab's Secretary at December 02, 2022 09:24 AM (tzjtn)

437 401 I think we can all agree the lesson from Microsoft is, never trust a man with moobs to make your software.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:16 AM

I think that's, uh, a gross overgeneralization. Anyway, I'm, uh, going to the vending machines for a snack...you guys want anything? Oh, and, uh, the system's going to be compiling for a few minutes, so some of the minor systems may go offline briefly...takes up a lot of memory, compiling....

Posted by: Dennis Nedry at December 02, 2022 09:24 AM (JCZqz)

438 >The original Obamacare site rollout was written by guys with fedoras and ornate waxed mustaches. Remember when that was the nerd look for about ten minutes?

yes- if you're wearing a fedora in your avatar, it means you're really good at internetting

Posted by: DB at December 02, 2022 09:25 AM (geLO8)

439 "422 Porn mustaches in the 80's era SOF.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (VF4WI)

I had one.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (x0n13)"

Me too. Until it morphed into the full Pashtun tribal beard.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:25 AM (VF4WI)

440 A GOP With Backbone Would Support Elon Musk, Punish Apple, and Fight for Free Speech on Twitter

-
And if a pig had wings . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 02, 2022 09:25 AM (FVME7)

441 Good Morning.

As someone probably said upthread, go old school like my dad did. It is my motto these days.

Touch base later....family crap to deal with.

Have a good one.

Posted by: halito at December 02, 2022 09:25 AM (0czpO)

442 Being a 65 yo, 5'2" woman, I would probably not intervene beyond a 911 call unless this was family or a close friend. If it was a CRT, Trans supporting former friend, I'd wait awhile before 911 and claim shock. I am convinced they'd do the same for me and say "she had it coming".
Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:24 AM (Zzbjj)
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Carry a gun. That victim might not be "someone else".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:25 AM (tzjtn)

443 Biggest problem I've seen with MS Windows as of late is laptops with docking stations. If you use 2+ monitors (with a dock that is supposed to support it), I've seen on several laptops that the monitors just go dark. No longer recognized by the OS. Using (handy shortcut - resets video drivers) to reset the video drives doesn't bring them back to life. Have to unplug dock, power it and laptop completely off and restart.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

I run three monitors at work. So far, no issues.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2022 09:26 AM (9uCBG)

444 On my dual monitor Mac set up, Tim Cook will randomly decide to disable one of my screens. And no amount of resetting or restring will fix it until he personally decides to give it back. It is a real bummer when he is in board meetings all day and forgets to turn it back on.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 09:26 AM (+hI+T)

445 412
There are many, many remote hollers and ravines that no one ever visits in the mountains of KY and TN. (Other places too!)

* bango music plays softly in background *
Posted by: Ned Beatty at December 02, 2022 09:19 AM (enJYY)

Also known as the "Train Station".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 02, 2022 09:26 AM (N39Ws)

446 "Porn mustaches in the 80's era SOF.
Posted by: Marcus T

I had one.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Still do.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 02, 2022 09:23 AM (qoGsy)"

Holy shit. Is that you Ron Jeremy?😃

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:26 AM (VF4WI)

447 Electricity usage in the UK at this time of year is given by Homewood as 840 GWh, which would be 35 GWh for each hour of the day. The capacity of the solar generation facilities in the UK is given as 14 GW. That would mean, if the solar facilities produced at full capacity for the 24 hours, they would have produced some 336 GWh, or a full 40% of the UK’s usage for the day.

On 11/29, at around noon, the solar panels reached their peak of generation for the day at 1.33 GW — less than 4% of average usage. For the whole day, production from the solar panels was all of 5.46 GWh, or 0.65% of usage. The times of peak electricity demand are the early morning and evening.

At those times the UK’s solar panels produced absolutely nothing.

ZERO 0.00

NADA

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 02, 2022 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

448 424 Bango music?

Is that before he joined up with Bingo, Bongo, and Irving?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (Az2It)

LOL, The Mosquitos!

Posted by: Oedipus at December 02, 2022 09:27 AM (ur6ZI)

449 Posted by: Danimal28 at December 02, 2022 09:22 AM (klw0w)

I am very anxious about his new alliances and the money he's receiving. I doubt they are no strings gifts, and I doubt the Foxies and Griffin have suddenly become conservatives, or stealth-maga. Can he take the money and say, "fuck you" is the real question here. It might start with that in mind, but money seems to be heroin for the political soul

Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:27 AM (Zzbjj)

450 "Carry a gun. That victim might not be "someone else"."

Shoot a black attacker, your life is over. New rules.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:27 AM (24fqN)

451 In before the art...

No sunrise this morning, just a gradual brightening of the overcast. Nice thing is, that overcast apparently kept the warmth and it was almost 50° on our walk. No deer seen today.

Just scrolled past the report - looked huge. Might take all weekend to get through.

Have a day, friends & neighbors.

*off to get a 2nd cup of coffee before getting lost in the news*

Posted by: mindful webworker - still waking up at December 02, 2022 09:27 AM (jPu3+)

452 Ronna McDaniel RTd a tweet by a GA Lt Gov candidate who proudly voiced his support for Herschel. WTF? She has no control over her party when the sitting R Lt Gov ran to CNN and actively campaigned against herschel.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 02, 2022 09:28 AM (+hI+T)

453 I AM the Hedgehog

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at December 02, 2022 09:28 AM (flINI)

454 (why, when we have ICE, as well as the freaking National Guard, is Joey Choo Choo doing this? - jjs)

U.S. Air Marshals Planning Rebellion After Biden Orders Them To Southern Border: Report

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There's a shortage of babysitters to look after the UnAccompanied Minors until the Junta can fly them to their ultimate sex trafficking handlers and destinations.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 02, 2022 09:28 AM (K3TEc)

455
Art is up. See you tomorrow on the hobby thread.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 02, 2022 09:28 AM (x0n13)

456 Anybody else see that meteor/fireball at ZDT this morning?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 02, 2022 09:29 AM (VF4WI)

457 Nood. Noble art.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 02, 2022 09:29 AM (N39Ws)

458 450 "Carry a gun. That victim might not be "someone else"."

Shoot a black attacker, your life is over. New rules.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at December 02, 2022 09:27 AM

I now realize how lucky I was to have missed the black dude that kicked me in the head.

Posted by: Kyle Rittenhouse at December 02, 2022 09:31 AM (JCZqz)

459 Carry a gun. That victim might not be "someone else".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 09:25 AM (tzjtn)

Right. In NJ, a state where if someone breaks into your home, you have a duty to flee and not hurt the poor baby.
I do very little shopping these days. During the past two years, I have largely switched to order online, pick up in the parking lot. I will not be at the mall, walking home at night, or at the train station.

Posted by: CN at December 02, 2022 09:31 AM (Zzbjj)

460 Re: Air Marshalls

"why, when we have ICE, as well as the freaking National Guard, is Joey Choo Choo doing this?"

I can only think of one reason. So terrorism can return.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 02, 2022 09:31 AM (YJwUM)

461 I started working at Oracle, and later LSI Logic and Siebel Systems, way back in the mid 1990's, and the Silicon Valley software engineer culture then was very pain-in the-ass libertarian. A little irritating, but I could deal. It still is very libertarian, actually. What changed tech politics was when engineers became second class citizens to the rapid growth of HR and media-facing public relations culture, which happened at the intersection of the Obama years and the huge corporate growth of tech companies post-Google. It's basically an impossible industry to work in now, even more so when the east coast banks and brokerage house tech culture followed right along with the west coast insanity.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at December 02, 2022 09:34 AM (516e+)

462 Trump's one-off sit down with a mentally unstable West and an uninvited Fuentes

Thanks for explicitly denouncing this, JJ.
This is another big nothingburger, blown out of proportion b.s. - just like they've done since "OMG he said posse!"

As usual, though, it's outing the enemy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - still waking up at December 02, 2022 09:34 AM (jPu3+)

463 descendants of slaves" will likely never be able to prove they are descendants of slaves and that won't matter. Just your word will be good enough. $200k+

My great grandma Gertrude changed her name from Lakisha when she married my great grandpa, she was the descendant of a slave, so gimme my 200k, now.

Posted by: azjaeger at December 02, 2022 09:36 AM (3/XaG)

464 "Our Republican Leaders Have Failed Us"

A headline for the ages.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2022 08:03 AM (qg7i9)

You could literally run this everyday, and twice on Sunday.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 02, 2022 09:38 AM (yQpMk)

465 Name a success.

The FBI has successfully protected the identity of the person who planted the RNC and DNC bombs on Jan 5th. So there is a success you can't deny, you success denier.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 02, 2022 09:44 AM (CecP5)

466 The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Remember that Trump's father was arrested in the 1930s for failing to disperse at a KKK rally

Posted by: Paul at December 02, 2022 09:45 AM (CYGCH)

467 I've only got a landline.

Get off my lawn, you kids!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 02, 2022 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

Verizon got rid of copper (POTS) in my area years ago. Either go fiber (FIOS) for VOIP or lose your service.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at December 02, 2022 09:46 AM (Zvtjl)

468 "But, if you believe Trump's one-off sit down with a mentally unstable West and an uninvited Fuentes makes him a Nazi..."

And Milo.

I defended Milo in a comment here not too long ago. That he was Cancelled (TM) about grooming comments, but the biggest issue is that he was the victim, not the perpetrator, when discussing it.

Then there was a later article where Milo took glee in the damage he did. Intentionally.

Trump got punked.

Those who complain that the bad part of Trump's presidency was because of bad picks that constantly screwed him over once in place (see: Fauci), maybe that's true. But we also need to look at it at another angle: why do the people he has worked with and tried to help out, go out of their way to screw him over?

There's something in the water. Rather than being truly helpful to one another, especially on a day like Thanksgiving, there's only malice in their hearts to their host.

May Milo catch monkeypox from that Big Black Bumbreaker he kept fantasizing about.

Posted by: Another Anon at December 02, 2022 09:51 AM (sy/OZ)

469 "not calling him Ye..."

How about Conya?

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 02, 2022 09:58 AM (MkuC5)

470 The Lieutenant Governor of GA - a 'republican' went on CNN to tell people not to vote for the populist Walker.

The republican national CORPORATION has spoken. If you think Trump 'lost' any election... The STATE REPUBLICAN corporations purposely lost them in the swing states.

Do NOT support any party, donate directly to candidates. Fvck Bitch and all the other establishment assholes like Kemp, etc.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 02, 2022 10:02 AM (klw0w)

471 American misanthrope in sock her land:

Run kick run kick run kick
Opposition steals ball
Run kick run kick run kick
Lather rinse repete
Decidedly Lucky chip shot from 10 feet (3 m) from prostrate "goalie.".

Headline:

Stunning upset blow out 1 - 0 in World Shtupp honk fest.

NOTE:
There is NO one point score in American Football.

AND SO
YOU think I should be interested WHY exactly?

Posted by: Ray Mota at December 02, 2022 10:03 AM (sw3xv)

472 Besides, there's no way I'm switching to a PC or an android, no f**king way, no f**ing how.

Windows sucks and android is slow, so screw that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Really? had a Devoted Appleton Unreal designer washing my feet yesterday for the HP PC running Win 11 with a 7900x, a GTX 3090 and 64 gb ram I put on his desk.

Oddly enough, it seems to blow through 3d rendering jobs in Unreal 5 like a nuclear tornado.

I know, right? Hoodathunk.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 02, 2022 10:05 AM (MkuC5)

473 27 I don't use any Apple products, Amazon, google, FB, twiter, TikTok, etc. Heck, I don't even get texts. It can be done.
Posted by: fd at December 02, 2022 07:53 AM (sn5EN)

I didn't switch my service when Sprint tried to make me do it. I now have a $1000.00 brick (1 year old CAT phone) that constantly tells me I need to turn on Giggle play services, gets text messages and has internet connection about 70% of the time. No phone but I don't want to talk to anybody anyway.

It's perfect. And Sprint has left the light on for me. There sure is a lot of their towers still left. I get better connections now as I am the only one on their network.

Posted by: Reforger at December 02, 2022 10:06 AM (4khqJ)

474 From inject (20 to 1 return on Gates investment in vaccines) to eject: (useless eaters from living)

"Bill Gates recently stated in an interview that it’s 'time we look at euthanasia of our elderly population, rather than “wasting” money on healthcare for them.' "

Posted by: Ju at December 02, 2022 10:18 AM (aTmM/)

475 I sometimes lament the passing of the "Seal of Solomon" and "Svastika" into the hallmark icons of evil people. Other times I just ignore the stukpid. This does in cold hard reality happen to most "symbols" in their journey through "civilizations."

Posted by: Ray Mota at December 02, 2022 10:33 AM (sw3xv)

476 "Neuralink is coming, and it won’t be pretty"

Yep. One good fart from the sun (Carrington event) or an EMP, equals toasted people. What a great idea!

I don't think a tin foil hat could cover this.

Posted by: boynsea at December 02, 2022 10:47 AM (sshap)

477 "we also need to look at it from another angle: why do people he has worked with and tried to help, go out of their way to screw him over?"

Lem'me think....'Bribes and Threats' for the win...

Posted by: Ju at December 02, 2022 10:57 AM (aTmM/)

478 Independent Report Reveals Negligence That Led To Massive California Gun Owner Information Breach

It's not negligence if it's done on purpose.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 02, 2022 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

479 i would vote for trump just to stick a giant middle finger in their eye. the same way they voted for biden

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Posted by: Melissa Harris at December 03, 2022 02:15 AM (OSH3U)

481 Dudes, particularly Ace and JJ. Not only have you convinced me that Trump is not it in 2024, you’ve convinced me to go full NeverTrump in 2024.

That means Liz Cheney and Larry Hogan or Bust. Because they bring the stability and rationality the GOP needs.

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