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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
The country's birth rate was 6.77 per thousand, below the death rate of 7.37 per thousand. For comparison, in the United States in 2020 the birth rate was 10.7 per thousand and the death rate was 10 per thousand, according to data from the World Bank. China, the world's second-largest economy, has an aging population and has been struggling with low birth rates for several years now. The last time the population fell was in 1961, during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, according to CNN.
By the way, does anyone believe that Chinese death rate figure? I sure don't.
The upshot of this is that the number of people in the working population (20-64) compared to the number of people in the retired (65 and older) population is going to fall precipitously. In the next 30 years that ratio will fall from more than five to just 2.1 workers per retiree. This goes a long way toward explaining China's aggressiveness in expanding pretty much everywhere. They need a base of younger workers to support their rapidly aging population, and they have chosen to expand outside their borders instead of the even more insane plan by our elites to invite those workers into our country. But China's demographic crisis is worse than ours, and on par with Europe's, which is beyond the point of no return. But how are they going to support their aging population within their borders? They need people to staff hospitals and garbage trucks and farms and power plants and all of the necessities of life, but they simply will not have the people. They will have to import labor, or as the CCP calls them: slaves. The importation of foreign labor is not a new thing...just look at some of the richer Arab world, Europe, and of course the United States. But the amount of labor inputs needed to support an aged Chinese population will dwarf even the numbers pouring across our southern border. How will China deal with tens of millions of foreigners in their midst? They are famously xenophobic, and openly contemptuous of foreigners, even highly educated professionals. The idea of a sea of uneducated laborers flooding the cities of China makes for an interesting time... I said STOP LAUGHING!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:00 AM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:01 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JT at January 17, 2023 11:02 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2023 11:02 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 17, 2023 11:02 AM (PiwSw)
China's Collapse Is Far Worse Than You Think - China Is Finished
https://youtu.be/28uKYss7iHg
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:02 AM (qoGsy)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2023 11:02 AM (zR7zg)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2023 11:03 AM (J6v1Q)
Mark Steyn was writing about this problem a couple of decades ago...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2023 11:04 AM (zR7zg)
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They sort of have to. There has been debate within the CCP about this topic. There is a desire to bring in hordes of migrant labor from outside the country to feed into their factory system because they could offer lower wages if they do it that way. They also have no qualms over holding those migrants as indentured servants or even outright slaves in big camps so they don't influence the wider culture or politics.
A major reason they don't is language. Chinese is *hard* and migrants struggle to communicate. There are others, but the language barrier is a very real problem when it comes to importing loads of people to shove into industrial slavery.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:04 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2023 11:05 AM (eYoxG)
Even now, that death rate is what, 50 times higher than anyone else ever saw- and that was counting everything as covid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:05 AM (zZu0s)
In the next 30 years that ratio will fall from more than five to just 2.1 workers per retiree.
According to the trustee annual report from the Social Security Administration the system works here with 2.2 workers for every retiree. Until it doesn't sometime in the next 10 to 15 years.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2023 11:06 AM (enJYY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (zZu0s)
They're basically done as a world power within 10 years. Not just the population collapse that is massively top-heavy with elderly but their remaining labor force is less skilled than the younger, growing Mexican labor force.
So they're losing their manufacturing too. Not even the slave labor will keep them.
Which makes our elite selling out-- and for so cheap!-- to China even more disgusting: They sold out to a totalitarianism loser dead-end nation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (IC8YN)
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (ssJXH)
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Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (jmjZ+)
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They won't. Probably. They'll outsource as much as they can to Central Asia and SE Asia (if they can, but SE Asia is trying to get rich themselves), but that takes money. Lots of it. It will also take violence (colonialism always does), but that is never in short supply.
The problem with the expense of it all is that the Chinese will not be as rich. They got rich thanks to a combination of Western perfidy (Clinton and Bush 43 in particular) and what they call the "demographic dividend" - the massive swell of working-age labor that occurred after the Cultural Revolution. We had one of these ourselves, albeit smaller (the Baby Boom). Africa is in the early stages of one, and India will have the biggest "demographic dividend" in history. It takes more than just working-age people to get rich, but it is damned near impossible to get rich (or stay rich) without working-age people.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (J6v1Q)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:08 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2023 11:05 AM (eYoxG)
Yeah, commies are always murder for not just people in general, but birthrates. Lack of hope and other psychological factors would be my guess.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:08 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (IC8YN)
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Graft is a helluva drug...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2023 11:08 AM (zR7zg)
If you had kept immigrants out, and encouraged/forced people to save money there would be no problem.
But we spent the 30 years since the end of the cold war pissing money away for nothing. And now we are PAYING people to come here and NOT WORK.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:09 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Chinese shuck and jive at January 17, 2023 11:09 AM (s2na+)
Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2023 11:09 AM (AGhs5)
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This has always been about our elite selling us out to the lowest bidder (China). Now they will blame us for their taxing policies that lead to low native fertility. Duh. Moar Central Government is always the answer!!!
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:09 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (t0OGg)
It takes a village.
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2023 11:09 AM (AwYPR)
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They won't. Probably. They'll outsource as much as they can to Central Asia and SE Asia (if they can, but SE Asia is trying to get rich themselves), but that takes money. Lots of it. It will also take violence (colonialism always does), but that is never in short supply.
Add in a possible mass die off within 3 to 5 years thanks to the clot shot and ...
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 17, 2023 11:10 AM (Dm8Ly)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2023 11:04 AM (zR7zg)
This would almost make one laugh uproariously at the foolishness of the Malthusians concerned about overpopulation and dwindling resources if any of us believed that they were actually concerned about those things as opposed to just being evil.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 17, 2023 11:10 AM (uvymP)
I'm sure China will follow the same standard for foreign laborers set by the UAE and Qatar.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 17, 2023 11:11 AM (ruYJi)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:11 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2023 11:11 AM (AW0uW)
Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2023 11:09 AM (AGhs5)
Uh, I think so, Brain! *NARF*
Posted by: Pinky at January 17, 2023 11:11 AM (s2na+)
Posted by: Hop Sing at January 17, 2023 11:11 AM (D2IuA)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 17, 2023 11:11 AM (cZ58d)
He sees CHN as having seen all this years ago and Xi is going neo-Mao in response. Withdrawing from foreign markets.
Currency issues have broken foreign trade for everyone.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:11 AM (1ais2)
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Time to invest in a chain of Chinese-Mexican restaurants??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (IC8YN)
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They're stupid. The demographic problems China is facing now were obvious by 1990. The one-child policy was an absolute disaster, as it short-circuited the tail end of the "demographic dividend" before birth rates started falling naturally anyway, which always happens following industrialization and increasing personal wealth. They lost the last big increase because they killed it off. And that was obvious fairly early on.
Not to mention the cultural damage the one-child policy did. They have had a "two-child" policy for several years, and it is now "three-child" policy, and Party members are being essentially ordered to have children, and it isn't working. It was too little and far, far too late. They spent decades brainwashing people into thinking kids are bad, and more kids are worse. The generational wealth effects of the policy, especially in real estate, are huge and not conducive to a reversal.
China's demographically fucked.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (V6f9+)
China didn't take the clot shot. Their COVID jab is a real vaccine. The FNM tells me it doesn't work, which is probably true but...that means no SADS and the like for them.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2023 11:05 AM (eYoxG)
Pretty sure that their birthrate isn't lower than what you might refer to as multi-generational Americans but all the preggos flooding the southern border to pop out their own personal funding source keeps our numbers up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 17, 2023 11:13 AM (uvymP)
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:13 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2023 11:13 AM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:04 AM (t0OGg)
It might not be as much of a problem as you think. Famously, Himmler and Hitler said that they would only teach the Slavs enough German to read road signs and to obey orders. I suspect that, were the Chinese to import slaves, they'd keep them penned up, bus them to wherever they need to be and only teach them enough language to understand basic orders.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2023 11:13 AM (AW0uW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
.076% sounds like the rate for 60 and over, when left untreated. 3.5% may be the number when they "fortified" deaths with nursing home murders, motorcycle accidents, etc.
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (WjNQL)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 17, 2023 11:10 AM (uvymP)
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Yeah, they all seem to ignore the stabilization or decline of populations as civilization becomes more advanced. It seems to be a natural consequence. When human capital is replaced by automation, there's just not enough need for human labor in many fields, other than that required to keep the systems running.
It's why a minimal amount of the population is required to feed all of us.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (zR7zg)
All those Mexicans and Venezuelans can learn Chinese.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (lf83v)
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Well, you can't have such incitement at a football game. There might be violence.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (FVME7)
They will enslave them. Just like every other empire has done when they lose the ability to provide enough labor for themselves.
Slavery is the natural state of the world. Too many people think that the ENTIRETY OF HISTORY is the outlier and that Pax Americana is the norm.
Which is what happens when people don't learn history because we outsourced the education of children to people who hate the greatest nation in the history of the world.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (N1tpc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 17, 2023 11:10 AM (uvymP)
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Some of them were, because they all perform static analysis. It wasn't really clear until fairly recently that populations in industrialized nations naturally level off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)
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It was a missing link; see the Art Thread for details.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:05 AM (zZu0s)
Could that be accounted for due to the virus becoming less deadly with mutations? They were suffering the worst variant, perhaps, since they had it the earliest.
Posted by: Emmie at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (Emce2)
The website, citing a report by The Washington Examiner, noted that Alianza Americas, a nonprofit funded by Soros’ Open Society Foundations, was accused of failing to disclose political lobbying on its IRS 990 tax forms for two years.
The conservative National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, a watchdog group, argued that Alianza representatives made more than 200 “visits to Congress” between 2017 and 2019, in addition to attending congressional briefings to advocate for legal privileges for illegal immigrants.
Yet it failed to note any of them on IRS tax records.
Nonprofit organizations can lobby lawmakers but must disclose such activity.
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2023 11:15 AM (RHGPo)
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It was a missing link; see the Art Thread for details.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (Vwz3I)
Thankee
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:15 AM (V6f9+)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (lc5cP)
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The J&J vaccine caused clotting, too. Whether Sinovac does or not remains to be seen - not that you can trust CCP data.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:15 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: andycanuck
The #4 Lunch special is a Chimichanga with spring roll.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (qoGsy)
Posted by: weew at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (+m+uH)
Even now, that death rate is what, 50 times higher than anyone else ever saw- and that was counting everything as covid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:05 AM (zZu0s)
Back when the Balkans unpleasantness started I said that everything you were told, from either side, was a lie. Since then I've had to amend the statement to "Everything that you are told from any authority, on any topic is a lie. Even if it's accidentally the truth, it's a lie".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (uvymP)
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Was that the Cowboy kicker who missed every extra point?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (ssJXH)
They'll just do it like the Arabs do with Turks (and others). Lure them in with promises of (comparatively) big money. Then pressure them into signing on for indentures they can barely read, and then it's curtains - you're never leaving again unless you flee illegally, and they own you until you're all used up.
Super easy; barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (oINRc)
True - but JJ wasn't a normal vaccine either. They grafted a spike protein onto some other virus.
Sinovac takes dead covid viron and sticks that into people.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:17 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:15 AM (lc5cP)
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The household registration system. When you have a kid, you have to register it with government. If you're very, very rich you could probably get away with hiding it, but not otherwise. The kid will need medical care or schooling or something eventually. In the villages, where people know each other, it's even harder to hide.
So if you have an illegal kid, the state knows about it and would fine you brutally as punishment. If they caught wind of it before birth (often would), forced abortion becomes the answer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:17 AM (t0OGg)
Well...it's not like invading other lands to steal women hasn't been a part of human history.
Kill the men. Take the women. also has a pretty good tradition throughout Chinese history. IIRC.
If I were Xinnie the Pooh, I might give that one a whirl against my weaker neighbors while China's still the area Big Dog.
BONUS! It would give WEF types a much needed lesson in real world politics and warfare and real problems. Not phony-baloney climate crap.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2023 11:17 AM (KLPy8)
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Time to invest in a chain of Chinese-Mexican restaurants??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (Vwz3I)
I am thinking that beef egg foo yung sounds really good. Mmmmm. Brown gravy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:17 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:15 AM (lc5cP)
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They're gonna need more test tubes ... Gat-ta-ca! Gat-ta-ca! Gat-ta-ca!
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 17, 2023 11:18 AM (BRmwW)
The data on J&J is much more suspect than the mRNA shot data. In particular, the clots on J&J were almost exclusively women who were on the Pill, which is known to cause clots even more than mRNA.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:18 AM (ZGrMX)
Super easy; barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (oINRc)
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Wouldn't be surprised if they are already doing it. As you point out, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience. They can keep those "indentured servants" (slaves) isolated in remote factory areas.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2023 11:18 AM (zR7zg)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:18 AM (kCox1)
Posted by: 18-1
Ban oral sex.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 11:18 AM (FVME7)
No, I mean the opposite. If China is demanding you have more then one kid now how do they force that. I mean they could ban birth control but that doesn't mean you are getting the little lady preggers and Kamala could tell you...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: andycanuck
The #4 Lunch special is a Chimichanga with spring roll.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (qoGsy)
#6 you get egg roll
Posted by: Mmm...egg rolls... at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (s2na+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (t0OGg)
Yeah. Demographic collapse is not some emergent property of "capitalism" or "getting rich". It is intended wherever it happens. Excepting legit plagues. It is a symptom rather than a cause.
CHN faces issues RUS does not as CHN is over a decade away from autarky. RUS is there.
Xi has to withdraw from US system which is collapsing without collapsing CHN.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (1ais2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)
China's Collapse Is Far Worse Than You Think - China Is Finished
https://youtu.be/28uKYss7iHg
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:02 AM (qoGsy)
Sorry, but this mentality always pounds you in the ass. China is NOT finished. They will do EVERYTHING they can to survive. At least their communist government will. They're not going anywhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (IXZGh)
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Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: weew at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (+m+uH)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (lc5cP)
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Ah, okay. Apologies for misreading that.
The CCP is learning the difficult lesson that you can force people to *not* have kids with relative ease, but the opposite is a much harder problem. The changed the policies, yet birth rates have not improved. They are still declining last time I checked.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (t0OGg)
Xi's father was denounced by the CCP and died in prison, his mother denounced him, his sister then committed suicide and Xi himself was forced into harsh foster care.
No one is more familiar with CCP state terror campaigns than Xi himself, and less afraid to exercise it.
That is China's future.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (E3gRs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)
Were you missing yesterday, or was that a happy daydream?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (zZu0s)
No, I mean the opposite. If China is demanding you have more then one kid now how do they force that. I mean they could ban birth control but that doesn't mean you are getting the little lady preggers and Kamala could tell you...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (lc5cP)
And there's a 200 Yuan tax stamp, if you want to fit the kid with a silencer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: 18-1
Cultural pressures also. Everyone knows someone that has abandoned a toddler in the marketplace or an infant in the woods. Guess what they do with disabled children? It's not just the State - individual families take there own action.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (qoGsy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)
Were you missing yesterday, or was that a happy daydream?
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)
You mean Int'l Finance forces industry to pursue cultjre suicide to reduce wages so they pay "servicing" and interest?
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (1ais2)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (kCox1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (qJoMy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (LvTSG)
Hope everything's all right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (1ais2)
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I very much doubt that the answer is that simple.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)
Kill the men. Take the women. also has a pretty good tradition throughout Chinese history. IIRC.
When historians started looking into the Indo-Europeans they found that within a few generations after the Indo-Europeans discovered horse riding that all of the other villages around them were making the same style of pottery as them and that only the local women reproduced.
And what did modern woke historians take from this? The Indo-European men were just so hot that the women from the other tribes no longer wanted to have sex with their own men and dumped them for the hotties on horses.
And no, I'm not kidding.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (lc5cP)
Also, it's widely agreed that China inflates it's birth numbers. The sole exception *might* have been the year when the One Child Policy was done away with, and there was a one-time bump in births (that only lasted for that one year). So it's possible, and even likely, that this is not actually the first year that the population has decreased. It's just the first year when it's officially done so.
Posted by: junior at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (PTw5h)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (qJoMy)
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To be replaced, likely by SE Asia, India and Africa.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (IXZGh)
I agree. I have been hearing reports of China's imminent demise for years, including the days after Tienanmen Square. How did that work out for those brave folks who stood up to the CCP?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (V6f9+)
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Posted by: Michael Mann, "Ph.D" at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (h5TKJ)
Was that the Cowboy kicker who missed every extra point?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (ssJXH)
That game did NOT come down to a kick. And was that guy allowed on the plane ride home?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (IXZGh)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:21 AM (LvTSG)
Hope everything's all right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (zZu0s)
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I was off work yesterday, not in front of my computer. That's all.
Also, I've been coughing up a lung for a week, but I seem to be on the mend. The phlegm is slightly less disgusting this morning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: weew at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (+m+uH)
There is a Chinese/Mexican fusion place in Phoenix called Chino Bandito's. It has been here for years, and is very good, and quite inexpensive.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)
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This question will soon be a crime if Sheila-Jackson Lee gets her way.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (BRmwW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (kCox1)
He said something spicy. Ahhh, he used the racial epithet for Chinese.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (kCox1)
I don't know. It's redacted.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:24 AM (kCox1)
See you in a week.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2023 11:13 AM
If it's for the use of a certain word you missed one. Not that I wanna see anyone get a time-out, but maybe a warning is in order.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2023 11:24 AM (enJYY)
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So no moar gobs of brownish yellow oysters?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:24 AM (ssJXH)
The US is doomed. China is also doomed. For some of the same reasons, and for many different ones.
Both civilizations are vacuous and masturbatory and will pass into history pretty soon.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2023 11:24 AM (oINRc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (IXZGh)
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No, not any time soon. They're still huge and they're still comparatively rich. But this will not be the Chinese Century.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (qJoMy)
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To be replaced, likely by SE Asia, India and Africa.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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If you thought quality control was bad in China let me introduce you to Africa.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2023 11:24 AM (u4CEu)
Previous Brie: https://tinyurl.com/stsuznkx
There is an argument that Hollywood actresses will often intentionally uglifiy themselves thinking it will end the terrors of the casting couch.
Brie was quite pretty when younger. And we all get older but that's not what's happening here.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:25 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)
Shrimp-n-grits.
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2023 11:25 AM (AwYPR)
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I guess she didn't get the memo on who's getting replaced.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:25 AM (ssJXH)
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So no moar gobs of brownish yellow oysters?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:24 AM (ssJXH)
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It's more whitish yellow now. I had a fever Sunday night. I've been mainlining cough drops for a few days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:25 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)
My newsletter is only $20mnth.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:25 AM (1ais2)
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (RHGPo)
Deep State now wants Biden gone so they have time to figure out who they will support next election.
But its also an attempt to spin the news cycle away from the smoking gun evidence that the FBI and DHS interfered in the 2020 election.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2023 11:26 AM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:26 AM (qoGsy)
Jerry Jones posted on Twitter during the game that if anyone in the stadium can kick, please come down to the field and they'll throw a uniform on you. That's hilarious, but of course some people have the vapors about it.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:26 AM (ZGrMX)
It's one thing to insist on lies, e.g. that the CCP is there for the benefit of the people, but there simply isn't any way around the fact that their population is going to crash. One can argue about how bad an impact that will have, but the pop numbers at this point are indisputable.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2023 11:26 AM (eOEVl)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:25 AM (lc5cP)
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Brie was adorable in 21 Jump Street, but she's never been hotter than "girl next door". She's far from a sex symbol, and yet, because she's in Marvel product, she has her stans that drool over every stupid picture of her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)
Chi-coms, EU, Russia and US. Four hegemons walk in. One, maybe two walk out.
We suck. But the rest of the World sucks more.
The USA will be different in five years. What that is I don't know.
And we have a de facto one child / two tops policy for the white middle class. Kids have gotteen too expensive.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2023 11:27 AM (SJsWC)
1. Fewer females due to families favoring male children which means less kids for the future.
2. Because there is only one male child with 2 sets of grandparents, sending junior to war and getting killed will not only piss off grandparents, who are relying on Jr to take care of them but also extinguish the family name.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 17, 2023 11:27 AM (PX01u)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 17, 2023 11:27 AM (AB9Pq)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM
When Tienamen Square happened, life was still rapidly improving for most Chinese. People will give a pass on tyranny and government abuses if it happens to others, and their personal situation is improving.
Now, after several decades of great improvement, people's lives are getting worse, and the government is not seen as caring, let alone helping. It's impacting huge numbers of people, instead of just a few vocal protesters. It's going to get much worse in China, for the people and the government.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 17, 2023 11:27 AM (PX01u)
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Also, since the one-child policy started so long ago, many of these childless men are well past prime fighting age. They're already part of the aging population, and they don't have a next generation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (LvTSG)
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Speaking about honking monstrous boogers, how are your sinuses?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (kCox1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (LvTSG)
It took me like 2 weeks to get through a sinus/throat thing. Seems to be on the mend, now I am just having sinus headaches. Weather, man. Or brain tumors.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (zZu0s)
And when I see what our government had devolved to I just pray it was right for her to bring her here.
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (8erNz)
We suck. But the rest of the World sucks more.
The USA will be different in five years. What that is I don't know.
And we have a de facto one child / two tops policy for the white middle class. Kids have gotteen too expensive.
Corporate America pulled a real coup with feminism: it halved real wages by doubling the potential workforce, and it taught women that work is more important than kids so they can be more productive.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (ZGrMX)
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Speaking about honking monstrous boogers, how are your sinuses?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (ssJXH)
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It went from my lungs to my sinuses. Seems like an odd direction, but what are you gonna do? I'm just glad I don't work in an office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)
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It was a missing link
talking about the missing link in the monkey thread? there's yer science, right there.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 17, 2023 11:29 AM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023
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Plus it is a tonal language. A change in tone in a sound = change in meaning. For those of us who can't carry a tune even if it has handles, this would be a problem. I might utter a sentence I *think* is "You are truly lovely," and what the Chinese lady *hears* is "You have the complexion of the more expensive spread."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2023 11:29 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (zZu0s)
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Brain cloud.
The only cure is jumping in the Big Woo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)
And we have a de facto one child / two tops policy for the white middle class. Kids have gotteen too expensive.
That is part of the problem but I don't think it is really the main reason.
If you are a woman what does society tell you? Go through college. Get an office job. Work hard. Maybe start looking for a husband around 30. Get married at 32. How many kids does that give you time for?
If we weren't a stupid society we'd tell women to look for a husband in their early 20s. We live long enough there is plenty of time to go to college/build out a career after having the number of kids you want. But almost no one is telling them that.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:29 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Moron Analyst
If you replace 'China' with 'America' your paragraph remains true.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:30 AM (qoGsy)
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That was amazing to watch. Being a Redskin fan I always enjoy Cowboy misery.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:30 AM (ssJXH)
The only cure is jumping in the Big Woo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)
Joe Vs the Volcano. Meg Ryan was hot as the redhead. Also the dirty blonde. Never looked sexier than that movie- too bad it was a shitty movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:30 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:30 AM (Vwz3I)
China has a more serious problem than demographics, and so do we. That problem is a sterile ideology and culture that only offers people comfort in return for subservience.
That can't work for very long.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (oINRc)
Then all bets are off, but I sure do hope we get some really nice dishes and recipes from the upcoming Chinese Civil War 2: General Tso's Chicken Boogaloo.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (YypaB)
What they can't take from those they'll fight for elsewhere before they're done.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)
See, I don't understand the logic behind that. The people who are in a position to do anything about it won't. The people who care about it are in the minority. And the MFM only 'reports' in order to emply the 'old news' excuse later on.
The vast majority of 'Americans' are perfectly content with stolen elections and with the FBI and DHS putting their finger on the scale, so long as it means the Bad Orange Man goes to jail, those meanie Rethulgicans are kept out of office and the spice continues to flow.
We are a minority. People are not going to wake up. I dislike having to repeat that, but the sooner others come to that realization, the sooner the collapse can come.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (AW0uW)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:29 AM (lc5cP)
And then wonder in your late 30s early 40s why you have this great emptiness running through you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (zZu0s)
Because that's not how it works. Once you have kids, your time is severely constrained. If you want a high power career, you have to start early, and if you're lucky, your rep will carry you in the years when your productivity necessarily drops.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)
The RUS Boreis and Poseidons being ignored for example.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (1ais2)
Indeed.
If you were born in say 1920 think of how much your life improved over your life span.
Now compare that with someone born in 2000. Your life WILL be worse then your parents. You WILL be poorer. And every other reasonable metric you could use to measure quality of life WILL be worse.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (OTzUX)
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Speaking about honking monstrous boogers, how are your sinuses?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:28 AM (ssJXH)
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It went from my lungs to my sinuses. Seems like an odd direction, but what are you gonna do? I'm just glad I don't work in an office.
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I recommend Claritan and Bourbon.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2023 11:26 AM
Why would the deep state care? Biden is a demented puppet...doesn't that mean the deep state has MORE control? If the 2020 election was stolen, why would 2024 be any different? A weak president is a blessing for bureaucrats and political appointees, right?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (JCZqz)
At some point the fact that they've loaned DC tens of trillions that the Democrats have no intention of paying back is going to bite China really hard.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (AW0uW)
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I don't but it either. I think it's just internal faction positioning. Joe is weak and can be taken out, replacing one faction on top of the Democrat pile with another.
They don't fear 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (LvTSG)
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Was that some kinda Piltdown, man??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:33 AM (Vwz3I)
And mentioned it again this morning, or one of his staff did. Via a 2015 Richard Dreyfuss interview:
…my fear for my children’s welfare which translates to my nation’s welfare has been met with so many nods of agreement and nothing else that I want to scream… We are on a clock we don’t see or comprehend.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 11:33 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Henny Biden at January 17, 2023 11:33 AM (NB94o)
They think there are more popular people they can pull the strings on. Biden will be shuffled off and blamed for all of the deep state's fuckups - think late-period Soviet Union.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:33 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:33 AM (kCox1)
interesting opinion, from a luggage perspective.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 17, 2023 11:34 AM (oY6Yp)
Brie was quite pretty when younger. And we all get older but that's not what's happening here.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023
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I'd think that "uglification" technique would only work if you have actual acting talent. If your *only* asset is your looks, and you ruin them, you won't get work. If you're a Meryl Streep (I know what most people here think of her, but she's good) or a Margot Robbie, though, you may still be valuable to the producers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2023 11:34 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Archimedes
Steiner will come.
STEINER WILL COME!!
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 17, 2023 11:35 AM (Dm8Ly)
indeed. think of all the hastily-constructed unoccupied cities they could have built with all that money.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 17, 2023 11:35 AM (oY6Yp)
*throws flag, blows whistle*
The correct quote is "as a luggage problem".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2023 11:35 AM (eOEVl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2023 11:34 AM (J2vNu)
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It's pretty obvious that Brie is some kind of minor queen bee of the Mean Girls of Hollywood, the kind that the female producers that rose to power in the wake of MeToo love. Plus, she's got her Marvel contract.
She doesn't need to make men's eyes happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:35 AM (LvTSG)
Seriously. Joe vs. the Volcano is on my short list of movies to watch repeatedly. The moon scene on the raft is my DVD player’s wait screen.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 11:35 AM (EXyHK)
I assume it is the collapse that will wake people up.
I look around now and even though we are in hyperinflation with routine shortages of everything I see the LIVs around me just pretending everything is normal.
Oh a night out with the family costs twice what it did 2 years ago? Put it on the card. And they have eggs finally but they cost 4X what they did 2 years ago? Put it on the card. Junior got into college but it will cost 80K a year? Well, let's get that second mortgage.
At some point borrowing the money is no longer going to work. And THEN the LIVs will wake up. Of course honestly we should hope this comes sooner rather then later as the junta is slowly building a better and better police state.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (u4CEu)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (SJsWC)
Seriously. Joe vs. the Volcano is on my short list of movies to watch repeatedly. The moon scene on the raft is my DVD player’s wait screen.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 11:35 AM (EXyHK)
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Someone needs to ask Meg Ryan how she keeps her hair so perfect in the middle of the ocean!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (LvTSG)
Note that I said demographically.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (P1+Yz)
Agree completely about that scene.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (eOEVl)
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 17, 2023 11:35 AM (Dm8Ly)
I'm not sure even Xi thinks that any more. The collapse of China's baked into the cake.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (ZGrMX)
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We gave them Brazil, fair and square.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:30 AM (qoGsy)
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Yes, which is a serious problem. Same in various other countries.
The norm used to be - and I was lucky enough to live through the tail end of it - that things next year will be better than things this year. There are always setbacks - recessions, wars, etc. - but on average, things kept getting better. That era is over. The best most people can hope for now is to hold on and have it not be worse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:37 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:38 AM (ssJXH)
I've read pretty much every Tolkein book. I went to the theaters to watch LotR. I watched all of the Hobbit movies.
I should be the prime demographics for the Rings of Wokeness but I have no interest. So...who the hell is watching the show?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:38 AM (lc5cP)
I assume it is the collapse that will wake people up.
It'll wake some up. It'll finish others off.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (Dm8Ly)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:38 AM (lc5cP)
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Political commentators.
Not television commentators. They're too bored.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (kCox1)
but seriously, I think that this is the reason the PRC gummint (which presumably knows the "real" numbers) is pushing so hard to cement some degree of global hegemony before their demographic implosion makes it impracticable.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (XzIdt)
We spent that money on illegals, trannies, and being able to download cat videos at any time almost anywhere on earth.
This is where you say thanks!
Posted by: Our Elites at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (lc5cP)
Mostly because of the weirdness that the Millennials are the tail-end kids of the Boomers. Every generation's parents are now 2 generations back because of women not having kids until it's almost too late.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (kCox1)
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She played three roles. The second role, the flibbertigibbet in LA, was the redhead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (LvTSG)
Secret backstory: her character is James Bond’s daughter.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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The hope is that the slope of things getting worse does not steepen. Spoiler alert it will. We are in the "Then all of a sudden" part of our demise.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (u4CEu)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (u4CEu)
It's more like they believe they are entitled to a man of greater status. So women with degrees expected to marry higher earning men with more advanced degrees. When you reach PHD, they're just highly unlikely to ever find someone sufficiently high status (in their view) to warrant marrying.
A high school dropout is happy to marry a doctor, a female doctor might turn up her nose at one.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (eYoxG)
If you replace 'China' with 'America' your paragraph remains true.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:30 AM
Close, but not to the same extent. The US hasn't grown nearly as rapidly as China over the last 30 years, and we aren't crashing as hard now. Yeah, Americans are bitching (and rightfully so), but it's not like people are welded into their apartment buildings, or denied local travel due to COVID status.
The US will continue its slow, managed decline with a mostly pacified populace...China is on the verge of major societal issues.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (LvTSG)
Why should they?
Fetterman proves PA is locked up for them.
Hobbs proves same for AZ.
Whitmer same for MI.
Like DiF says, no path to 270.
Posted by: Yung Gravy at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (3Rx5G)
Boston Dynamics has working dog robots, and a flying car was recently demonstrated. Pending FAA approval, which LOLGF.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:41 AM (zZu0s)
So, I have few ideas about how the Chinese will respond to a collapsing birthrate, whether Xi will rue the day he became de facto emperor, or whether China will attempt imperialism on a broader scale before it flounders.
More concerned about the US for natural reasons, I live here. And we have massive problems as well with no sign that the Uniparty or that the American people aim to fix those problems before they explode into violence, depression, and perhaps a crackup in the Union.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:41 AM (bDjBG)
No explain Tilda Swinton.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 17, 2023 11:41 AM (KFhLj)
I'm a bit more concerned about our crash than China's.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2023 11:41 AM (ZLI7S)
Put the illegals into the containers and ship them to Chyna?
Perish the cruel thought.
They get better pay in Venezuela.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (TXFi7)
His reaction when Klaus tells him about eating zee potato boogs is gonna be great.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (ZGrMX)
Otter: I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
Kerry: We're just the guys to do it.
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (RHGPo)
The Cowboys telling Brett Maher that if he kicks the ball between the two yellow poles they get an extra point added onto their touchdown
https://twitter.com/NFL_Memes/status/
1615170680042946561
And an on-topic tweet also involving Brett Maher...
https://tinyurl.com/2325pj96
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (Vwz3I)
It's more like they believe they are entitled to a man of greater status. So women with degrees expected to marry higher earning men with more advanced degrees. When you reach PHD, they're just highly unlikely to ever find someone sufficiently high status (in their view) to warrant marrying.
Indeed the problem there is a woman with some level of career success wants a man with more career success.
A man with significant career success doesn't give a sh*t about whether his female partner has any career success.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: 18-1
AWFLs
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (bDjBG)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (kCox1)
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I find the Hitler cats amusing.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (ssJXH)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 11:39 AM (kCox1)
Brunette, Redhead and Dirty Blonde. Three sisters.
Redhead:
https://tinyurl.com/3zwc63xs
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (vN+oL)
We can ship them some soy boys, aggressively tatted girls, gender benders, influencers, celebs and IRS agents.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (MoZTd)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (lc5cP)
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Men marrying their secretaries was sexism!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (R8uWY)
Redhead:
https://tinyurl.com/3zwc63xs
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (zZu0s)
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The brunette wasn't related to the other two.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM
Haggis.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (uNylN)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (D25PY)
Just imagine drunk illegals crashing into your house instead of driving into it.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (lc5cP)
We may go the Sweedish route, where it becomes much more normal/acceptable in soyciety to have stay-at-home dads. Or, more likely, we go the Japanese/Chinese route, with more young men doing the minimum to get by personally, playing video games and using drugs in their off time, as society declines.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (JCZqz)
And 2020 election, if it was stolen, was stolen in 5-7 states. Not by the feds. And in none of those states were there any consequences - in fact all of them, I think, have rejected any real reforms or serious investigations, and a few have doubled down by rejecting "insurrection-ish" figures or even literally making their low-integrity systems *worse* (MI at least).
PA MI WI AZ GA all had 2020 to some extent on the ballot this past November, and I don't think any outcomes showed any "waking up".
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (OTzUX)
Watched that last week. It is excellent. Also had this additional one come up on my recommended videos yesterday. Absolutely aggravating listening to the racist twats on the panel, especially after Konstantin Kisin made a great argument and asked a simple question "If London was now 50% Scottish population, wouldn't we say London was becoming less English?" They refused to answer him and just kept saying "that's not what he said, he was being racist". Talking to a Leftist is like talking to a brick wall.
Comedian DESTROYS 3 SJWs with facts and logic - Konstantin Kisin
http://bit.ly/3iMdlyq
And another one: Konstantin Kisin Calls Out BBC Bias... On the BBC
http://bit.ly/3Xi8iVs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (SJsWC)
Put the illegals into the containers and ship them to Chyna?
I like this plan. It goes well with my idea to ship black Democrats to Africa and tell them it's Wakanda.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (ZGrMX)
The brunette wasn't related to the other two.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)
Oh, was she just some rando that worked where Joe did and he had a crush on her and she did not know he existed?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:45 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2023 11:44 AM (D25PY)
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Failing to win elections is a really bad path towards political power. It's weird than anyone ever thought it was a good path.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM
Haggis.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
General laziness and eels in the hoovercraft.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2023 11:45 AM (D25PY)
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Taiwan. The place that - after three years - supposedly still can't supply the chips to get America's car lots back to having more than a dozen new cars on them at any given time.*
Just wait until China makes their move. And they will.
Cheapo Civics and entry level Hyundais will cost as much as houses. $50k trucks that are overpriced now will be worth a quarter of a million dollars because you can't get them any longer.
Plan accordingly.
* I think it's BS and now it's the manufacturers figuring out how they can sell exactly what and how much they want at over MSRP with no insurance, planning, staff, etc. involved.
Posted by: Did you know you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 17, 2023 11:45 AM (BGev3)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:45 AM (5Tc06)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (R8uWY)
If you believe Dankula, it all started when Thatcher closed the mines, or got blamed for it, then everyone went on the dole and drugs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)
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It isn't as bad as it's often made out to be. One reason for this is that the rural parts of China were allowed to have another kid if the first was a boy. The second reason is probably due to both corruption (local officials bribed to look the other way when mom to be gets pregnant again), and families who "adopted" the infant daughter of "distant relatives who just died and who no one in this community has ever heard of before".
Posted by: junior at January 17, 2023 11:46 AM (PTw5h)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Same thing as in the rest of the West--destroy the industries producing things that primarily employ men and you get a feminized government.
Scotland is essentially an economic basket case in the UK simply because the UK went to being a financial and services economy rather than making things.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:46 AM (bDjBG)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (lc5cP)
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"How DARE you!" -- John F'ing Kerry-Heinz
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 17, 2023 11:46 AM (BRmwW)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM
The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots.
http://bit.ly/3GMKsds
Posted by: King Longshanks at January 17, 2023 11:47 AM (Do5/p)
The microcontroller shortage is extremely real, unfortunately. It's putting a big squeeze on computer hobbyists too.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:47 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
The industrious ones went to America.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (ErBMn)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (J6v1Q)
From what I've seen anecdotally if you are purely a "stay at home dad" your wife IS going to divorce you. It is only a matter of time.
That can work if you have some sort of status gathering job you can still do that way (writer, scientist, whatever) but if as a stay at home dad you do exactly what stay at home moms traditionally did get ready to get divorced...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (SJsWC)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (anj39)
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:46 AM (bDjBG)
The world misses Lucas electricals and UK auto maker build quality..
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (R8uWY)
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Their best began leaving for North America and Australia beginning in the mid-to-late 18th century.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (BRmwW)
I'm tempted to laugh.
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (eGTCV)
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Robert the Bruce lived. William Wallace died.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (1ais2)
The information we are learning about CISA and social media collusion might beg to differ.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (ZLI7S)
If we play our cards right and abandon the great reset, we can stay on top.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:45 AM (5Tc06) "
but to do that we need a ruling class who actually want that outcome instead of just getting wealthy by looting the country's remaining assets.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (XzIdt)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (J6v1Q)
Same as here. Educational system corruption, elite capture of the levers of power, disengaged and passive population.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (R8uWY)
John Calvin
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (TXFi7)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)
Right. Sacrifice the time where your body is engineered to deal with the stresses of raising young children and use that strength and energy to instead build a career.
And then give whatever you have left-over, later in life to the children who, honestly, aren't as important as that high-power career. It really works out well both individually and for society.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (SJsWC)
*in before MP4/Denethor cries 'The West Has Failed!', sets himself on fire and throws himself from the Tower of Ecthelion.*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:50 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (vN+oL)
Good. Bring them all over here. I want a Chinaman on every street corner.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 17, 2023 11:50 AM (YypaB)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:43 AM (R8uWY)
John Calvin
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (TXFi7)
Well then it was destined to happen, obvs
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:51 AM (V6f9+)
That can work if you have some sort of status gathering job you can still do that way (writer, scientist, whatever) but if as a stay at home dad you do exactly what stay at home moms traditionally did get ready to get divorced...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (lc5cP)
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I just got a great idea for a #Woke "Mr. Mom" tranny reboot ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 17, 2023 11:51 AM (BRmwW)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2023 11:51 AM (J6v1Q)
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I think its worse.
It was going to go down anyway, but a one-child policy even if skirted here and there is going to have an outsized effect.
Who said China would get old long before it got rich.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at January 17, 2023 11:51 AM (sX1BW)
https://tinyurl.com/3zwc63xs
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023
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Darned if she doesn't look like Nicole Kidman in that pic!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 17, 2023 11:51 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Go back one hundred years or so. Essentially, WWI and WWII depleted UK capital which added labor woes to it from massive population loss of working males in the wars but before that England was industrialized before any other country.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:52 AM (bDjBG)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 17, 2023 11:52 AM (XzIdt)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:52 AM (R8uWY)
http://bit.ly/3ZKzttN
I think Mauler (Longman) may be Scottish as well.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (1ais2)
Married to the Mob?
Michelle Pfeiffer is just perfection in everything. Dunno where her self esteem issues come from, but...girl.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (V6f9+)
His reaction when Klaus tells him about eating zee potato boogs is gonna be great.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:42 AM (ZGrMX)
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"It's the Eye of the Tater --
It's the thrill of the blight ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (BRmwW)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 17, 2023
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I'd prefer to see a Lucy Liu lookalike on every street corner.
(Yeah, I know she's a California girl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (J2vNu)
http://bit.ly/3ZKzttN
I think Mauler (Longman) may be Scottish as well.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (Do5/p)
And Morgoth's Reviews.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (V6f9+)
We send revenues north from London, and control their government through allocations of those funds. The average Scot turned for . . . far less.
Posted by: Longshanks at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (j5Tg0)
Guess what? He was lying.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at January 17, 2023 11:20 AM (JCZqz)
Holy shit. What was that bruce campbell line in army of darkness? "honey, you got real ugly"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (Do5/p)
Welshman for Mauler.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (R8uWY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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I think the rumor is that Michelle did a bit of work escorting before becoming an actress. Dunno if that is true but it came out about the time of the Fabulous Baker Boys.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (bDjBG)
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I knew a few stay at home dads, and my observation is that they tend to be on the simpy soy closet homo teh ghey woke as fuckweenies side when they are stay at home by choice.
When they are stay at home because they have NO choice (due to a sick wife or being single, etc) then they tend to be the more manly conservative of the bunch
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (/EuRN)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (ZLI7S)
Great Grandpa Jack is spouting sedition again, Mom!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (zZu0s)
I won't believe him until he kicks McConnell in the vagina.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (D25PY)
I think she is both pretty and can act. Maybe she isn’t Sofia Loren sexy, but you can’t transform the way she does without having amazing bone structure to start. She also doesn’t seem to age without looking frightening a la Meg Ryan or Madonna, which I would like to tap into.
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2023 11:55 AM (ZdaMQ)
Michelle Pfeiffer is just perfection in everything. Dunno where her self esteem issues come from, but...girl.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 11:53 AM (V6f9+)
Yes! Wow. Wow.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:55 AM (1ais2)
Yup. From a supply-chain POV, being able to build something on the scale of the Titanic multiple times was something only the UK could do at that time. The US started to catch up quickly after WWI though, and WWII ended Europe's ability to make things at scale for a while.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2023 11:55 AM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 17, 2023 11:48 AM (UuD2k)
Not all was bad. We have a set of drinking glasses made in the UK during the 70s. Those things are strong! All have survived unscathed over the decades.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 17, 2023 11:55 AM (t4BDZ)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 11:56 AM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2023 11:56 AM (dHzaG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
I blame the kilt.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2023 11:56 AM (D25PY)
Posted by: Zombie Deng Xiaoping! at January 17, 2023 11:56 AM (2tUFv)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2023 11:56 AM (ZhJ5o)
WEF2023: John Kerry Says the Only Way to Get to 1.5 Degrees of Global Warming is “Money, Money, Money, Money, Money, Money, Money”
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You forgot power, power, power, power, power, power.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 11:57 AM (FVME7)
It’s impossible to miss how completely different the Trump years were from the Obama years and the Biden years. Ignoring that requires a level of willful blindness I don’t think I’ve seen in my 29 years.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 11:57 AM (EXyHK)
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Dydych chi ddim yn ffycin dweud?
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 11:56 AM (VTu1l)
Hah! Was not sure that was not gibberish, so I plugged into the translator.
Yes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:57 AM (zZu0s)
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More than "here and there". From what I've heard, the things I described were pretty common in areas where Beijing wasn't paying as much attention.
Posted by: junior at January 17, 2023 11:57 AM (PTw5h)
We need sane representatives who aren't liars and swindlers and phoneys. We need representatives who will stand up and say, "no, you may not do that, that is illegal". We need representatives who will say "i don't care what you're offering, my district is not for sale".
We need human beings. Not fictional characters.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 17, 2023 11:57 AM (/EuRN)
Posted by: Corporal Hicks at January 17, 2023 11:57 AM (zZu0s)
A former intelligence official who signed the letter attacking the New York Post story on the Hunter Biden laptop as potential Russian disinformation has admitted to knowing much of the story had to be true and has no regrets about signing the letter at the time. Douglas Wise from DIA to an Aussie newspaper.
Fu*k you Wise. Too much of a coward to speak to American media?
And how many Americans are dead because you politicized the intel you miserable asshole?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (anj39)
He's boring, and I interact with alpha males at work!
Posted by: Deep Female Programming! at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2023 11:55 AM (ZdaMQ)
Trixie Delight?
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (AwYPR)
Plan accordingly.
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My crystal ball is cloudy but I don't think our society and culture are on an upward trend - financially, morally, or standard of living wise. A crash? Probably - that why we, as a family, have made our recent financial choices.
And I'm an optimist!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (qoGsy)
https://tinyurl.com/mr27cu2k
Posted by: Movie Moron at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Colin at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (Xid9A)
Posted by: Did you know you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 17, 2023 11:45 AM (BGev3)
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There are a lot of problems throughout the industrial supply chain. Taiwan can make the chips, but then what? How do those chips make their way into parts? Often, that happens across the Strait on the mainland. Different auto companies have different levels of dependence on Red China for parts, but it's a serious problem given their production and shipping disruptions. Then there are also sanctions. High-end chips have a hard time making it into China because embargoes (ours, primarily), which disrupts even more stuff downstream.
It is going to take *years* to shake out, across the industrial supply and input chain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Dorcus Blimlime at January 17, 2023 11:59 AM (VV4Zk)
Posted by: Deep Female Programming! at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (2tUFv)
Yeah. It causes problems when you are in a leadership position and you will NOT bang the gals working for you.
Posted by: Corporal Hicks at January 17, 2023 11:59 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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The SNP and Labour in Scotland are two of the most leftist parties in Euro land. Essentially, much of Scottish nationalism devolves around getting their hands on North Sea oil and gas and becoming a rentier socialist state.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:59 AM (bDjBG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (t0OGg)
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"So, we have to give more money to China to alleviate the egg price problem!"
-Joe Biden
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 11:59 AM (LvTSG)
https://tinyurl.com/mr27cu2k
Posted by: Movie Moron at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (JCZqz)
VERY nice pull. That was a good movie.
Posted by: Corporal Hicks at January 17, 2023 11:59 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 11:57 AM
Absolutely!! All the mean tweets and uncivil discourse! Things are thankfully returning to normal again...
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at January 17, 2023 12:00 PM (JCZqz)
Yes.
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Its funny, before I started watching Welsh based mystery shows I had thought Welsh was just English with a hard slang to it like Scottish and Irish, I had no idea just how different it was
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 12:00 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:00 PM (zZu0s)
It is going to take *years* to shake out, across the industrial supply and input chain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
What uses more chips than an ICE vehicle??
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 17, 2023 12:00 PM (Dm8Ly)
Posted by: Truth! at January 17, 2023 12:00 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (kCox1)
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The microcontroller shortage is extremely real, unfortunately. It's putting a big squeeze on computer hobbyists too.
Posted by: Ian S.
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You misunderstand. I'm not saying the microprocessor shortage isn't real. It's as real - and similar to - 3% or so of the U.S. chicken egg-laying flock being used as an excuse for eggs being $5+/dozen. Does the problem exist? Yes. Is it why things are now the way they are? No.
I'm saying it's being used as an excuse for the automotive manufacturers and dealerships to flip the relationship that has existed between dealers and customers for the last 100 years. No need staff your dealership to sell 40 cars a day or carry insurance for $5M in inventory if you just keep six cars on hand that you know you'll sell for 3% over MSRP with no haggling within a week of getting them. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: Did you know you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (BGev3)
It is going to take *years* to shake out, across the industrial supply and input chain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (t0OGg)
This is where I find Jeff Snider really interesting. He argues it is a chronic shortage of currency specifically USD that is causing the slowdown in Int'l Trade. This all began prior to 2008 and nothing has made a dent in the issue.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (1ais2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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I think the rumor is that Michelle did a bit of work escorting before becoming an actress. Dunno if that is true but it came out about the time of the Fabulous Baker Boys.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (bDjBG)
More than a few actresses have done the same, formally or informally (Denise Richards is one that was a formal escort)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (kCox1)
Don't mention BSG.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:02 PM (zZu0s)
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Robert the Bruce lived. William Wallace died.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at January 17, 2023 11:49 AM (sX1BW)
I told the story of how I ran into a few in a hotel bar in Italy. In the same conversation they were bitching at me about gun ownership in the states and then onto bitching about how England stole their country. I said yeah they tried that with us, but we threw them the fuck out..with guns, so whats your excuse? It was bizarre.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2023 12:02 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (V6f9+)
Sad, but not necessarily anything new. I remember reading something that Instagram is essentially advertisements to rich dudes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: WEF Goals at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (lx//y)
I think the rumor is that Michelle did a bit of work escorting before becoming an actress. Dunno if that is true but it came out about the time of the Fabulous Baker Boys.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2023 11:54 AM (bDjBG)
More than a few actresses have done the same, formally or informally (Denise Richards is one that was a formal escort)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (V6f9+)
I believe the hip term now is "yachting". As in being flown to rich guys on their yachts.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (1ais2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (gGPg3)
Posted by: Colin at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (Xid9A)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (kCox1)
China has the decade of the 20s to rise to super power preeminence. After that, demographically they are toast.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (pRAb9)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 17, 2023 11:27 AM (PX01u)
I saw this observation for the first time shortly before covid hit. Made me think that a disease which wiped out the elderly would be awfully convenient for the CCP. No more old people expecting to be taken care of and whining about only grandson being sent to die for The State.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 12:01 PM (kCox1)
Don't mention BSG.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:02 PM (zZu0s)
Jennifer
Love
Hewitt
Game over
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (DoyvL)
***************
I found Winona Ryder Schaudenfreudeistic right up to until she chopped her hair off, then the economy experienced massive deflation
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Hey, $500 is $500.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (FBf3u)
LSE, Oct 2018: In part: "China invests large sums of money in Russian, Ecuadorian, Brazilian, Venezuelan and Angolan oil projects. Its investments in Eastern Europe are mostly in coal-fired power plants whereas its energy investments in South East Asia are mostly a mix of coal and hydro. Among the top-22 financial recipients of aid, Pakistan is the only country that receives investments in nuclear energy."
That was then; there's a lot more instability now. Is it US and 'euro' Europe's intention to control both energy & a great number of potentially useful workers, while also taking just 'warm bodies,' too - in order to sustain certain employment and bureacracies, profit and keep wages low - as they thward - or even crush - competition in the later half of the century?
I don't see the Congressional Black Caucuses (think SJL) & perhaps other such Caucuses protecting the current political elite of the executive branch w/o some promises of future expansion, power and, of course, money.
Posted by: Lola at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (p39Z2)
I just survived that beast. It was not fun.
Posted by: creeper at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (cTCuP)
-------
I never found Madonna particularly appealing, but you owe it to yourself to do an image search for her to see what kind of horror show she's turned herself into.
Posted by: Did you know you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (kCox1)
Banana Splits Guy had a jones for Wynonna Ryder.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (J6v1Q)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2023 12:02 PM (VwHCD)
Got into a similar argument at a bar in Japan. I went more with 'Have you noticed how quick the police show up in America? Would you trust your kid's lives to that? Take your balls out of the emperor's purse and do for yourselves!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (enJYY)
I believe the hip term now is "yachting". As in being flown to rich guys on their yachts.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (1ais2
When you got enough money, any boat can be a tugboat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (/EuRN)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 17, 2023 12:05 PM (pRAb9)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January
Meghan Markle was a yacht girl. So classy, that one.
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2023 12:05 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Hey, $500 is $500.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2023 12:04 PM (qoGsy)
Indeed. And in Hollywood, it can lead to acting gigs and or rich husbands if you know how to play right.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:05 PM (V6f9+)
https://tinyurl.com/mr27cu2k
Posted by: Movie Moron at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (JCZqz)
She was hot in Taxi Driver!
Posted by: JRB at January 17, 2023 12:05 PM (Zvtjl)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 17, 2023 12:05 PM (pRAb9)
Love
Hewitt
Game over
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (DoyvL)
Well played.
https://tinyurl.com/2dpds4r7
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 12:06 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Not necessarily. Maybe they'll make a new Alien movie and she can be their queen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 12:06 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 12:06 PM (VTu1l)
Not their fault. Nor Jennifer Connelly.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:07 PM (zZu0s)
Doing the “Silly Walk” from the British TV show “Monty Python's Flying Circus” could be much better for you cardiovascular-wise and calorie-burning-wise than simply walking normally.
In fact, just 11 minutes a day of Silly Walking could be a fun way of getting you past the 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week threshold that the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2023 12:07 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (pRAb9)
It's not just a labor shortage that is going to trip China up; it's the incredible shortage of females. Personally, I can see mainland China kidnapping marriagable women from all over the world.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (z7W9M)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (1ais2)
Jah, there's a spectrum. From bar girls/party girls who getting drugs and cash for spreading their legs, up to actresses who meet 'producers' or actors in Hollywood hotels for auditions, to the yachting girls who get expensive presents, and then there are the pros working solo or with agencies with hourly rates. And some of those are also porn stars, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (gGPg3)
Yeah, that was a tragedy. She was the epitome of "adorable" and then decided to get her face "improved". Now it's just sad.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Thesokorus
So it turns out that a bunch of high-end prostitutes are in Davos, Switzerland at the same time all the world leaders are gathering for the WEF meeting
-
Helluva coinky dink.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (FVME7)
**********
She rides a mechanical horse
thats all you need to know
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 12:09 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 11:16 AM (ssJXH)
The laces were in! They were IN!!!
Posted by: Ray Finkel at January 17, 2023 12:09 PM (s2na+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:09 PM (zZu0s)
When China takes Taiwain, you'll look on the days of a 23K mile used Accord costing $1700 over what a new one on the lot would cost (if one could be found on the lot) with longing and sentimental tears.
Posted by: Did you know you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 17, 2023 12:09 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2023 12:09 PM (kCox1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (zZu0s)
Career Opportunities.
She was so fine.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
A Spanking?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2023 12:07 PM (63Dwl)
Prancercize!
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (ZdaMQ)
She was so fine.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (V6f9+)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (zZu0s)
The title you’re not looking for is Dark City.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:08 PM (zZu0s)
Her peak was kinda long. Rocketman was a star turn. She even did a boob thing in the beginning of an Ellroy movie. So many choices. Then she got thin and was just antiseptic beautiful.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (1ais2)
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 17, 2023 12:11 PM (ssJXH)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at January 17, 2023 12:09 PM (VTu1l)
++++
Unlike Morrissey, then. For as we all know, Morrissey rides a cock horse:
https://youtu.be/vx47jR3gE1w
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 12:11 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 12:11 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (EXyHK)
She was also quite beautiful in The Rocketeer, but she has a certain sensual, sexy, door banging froth quality in Career Opportunities.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:11 PM (zZu0s)
That's been happening for decades. Not a chance of assimilation.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 17, 2023 12:11 PM (jTmQV)
When they leave S.America, Central America, Mexico, Africa and stop spending the wealth of small nations spying, stealing and sabotaging us I'll consider their global domination slipped away.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 17, 2023 12:11 PM (+wfSw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 17, 2023 12:12 PM (LvTSG)
Oh, wait.
Posted by: Did you know you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 17, 2023 12:12 PM (BGev3)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
A Spanking?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (FVME7)
Horde Mind
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 17, 2023 12:12 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 12:10 PM (1ais2)
She did a LOT of boob things.
Hot Zone
Inventing the Abbots
Requiem for a Dream (which I refuse to see.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Did you know you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now?
She needed a Picture of Dorian Gray thing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 17, 2023 12:13 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (zZu0s)
From getting run through by all the Chads, Tyrones, and Ray-Rays in her late teens/early twenties.
Posted by: Train tunnel. Choo choo! at January 17, 2023 12:13 PM (s2na+)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2023 11:07 AM (IC8YN)
==
They took their money, knowing they wouldn't be around. They know they are going way. Biden has done nothing but amplify the anti-China stance Trump took. China got played, democrats have been playing everyone for years. China is just the latest one to get burned. They hoped the elite of the west would totally sell out but they forgot the western elite never totally sell out. They just find the next sucker for the next sting.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:14 PM (UVyKP)
Love
Hewitt
Game over
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2023 12:03 PM (DoyvL)
My brother ran into her and her mom in Maui (during the filming of IKWYDLS). He ended up going to dinner with them and getting her cell number.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 17, 2023 12:15 PM (OgrpQ)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 17, 2023 12:15 PM (OgrpQ)
Die now! For nothing you can accomplish in your life can match this moment!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 17, 2023 12:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:12 AM (t0OGg)
==
As is Germany, Russia, Italy, etc. Most of the developed and developing world is in terrible demographic shape.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:19 PM (UVyKP)
Posted by: p-squared at January 17, 2023 12:19 PM (UxSB9)
Posted by: aelfheld at January 17, 2023 12:22 PM (Zy9Yy)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)
==
Nope - the facts have always been there. We just figured it was so far into the future we quit paying attention to it.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:24 PM (UVyKP)
He's Welsh.
So the Welsh have him and Richard Hammond going for them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 17, 2023 12:25 PM (mA41u)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 17, 2023 11:19 AM (1ais2)
==
Wrong - the US system is abandoning China, which needs the US, and its market, to survive. The US no longer cares about China, and is actively promoting policies that will harm China even quicker. China is done, at least as we have known them.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:29 PM (UVyKP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 7, 2023 11:20 AM (IXZGh)
==
Probably true. We don't have to worry about that. And they won't be part of the US trading system, so whatever China looks like in the future, it won't impact us. Maybe they can sell their nukes to the Saudis.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:32 PM (UVyKP)
Posted by: Lola at January 17, 2023 12:33 PM (p39Z2)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:23 AM (t0OGg)
==
Yeah, Vietnam will do well. South Korea and Japan are already in the US trading sphere. India is an interesting place as they are sure to pick up some China scraps, already are. But they are not specifically in the US orbit, so they need to work on that.
Africa is a lost cause. And if we assume the fertilizer crisis isn't fixed in the next 6-12 months, Africa's biggest problem is going to be famine.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:39 PM (UVyKP)
That can't work for very long.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2023 11:31 AM (oINRc)
==
Debatable - perhaps the fixation on the almighty dollar is driving the demography. Also, the failing of a willingness support our own country's mythos. As well as an abandonment of faith in something beyond ourselves. Israel is a pointed example of a society which has seen this issue - perhaps refocused after a madman tried to wipe their entire race out - and is bucking the demographic trends. But they are alone in the advanced nations.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:47 PM (UVyKP)
Note that I said demographically.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2023 11:36 AM (P1+Yz)
==
Except they aren't having many kids yet. We may have just delayed what is happening in the rest of the world for another 40-50 years.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:52 PM (UVyKP)
A high school dropout is happy to marry a doctor, a female doctor might turn up her nose at one.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2023 11:40 AM (eYoxG)
==
Socially women will not marry down, which is an indictment of how our society is presently ordered. Men will.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 12:53 PM (UVyKP)
It is going to take *years* to shake out, across the industrial supply and input chain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:58 AM (t0OGg)
==
China doesn't do much auto chip work.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 17, 2023 01:00 PM (UVyKP)
Nothing distracts from domestic problems like a foreign enemy.
Besides, Xi & Co. are, every day, seeing the golden window of opportunity slip away as the end of Joe's reign draws nearer. This kind of opportunity to start and win a war against us, given what we have done to ourselves the past couple of years, is something that only happens once in two or three generations.
War is coming.
Posted by: Taylor at January 17, 2023 01:28 PM (KN5M2)
Higher education takes 4 years, grad school takes longer, and nowadays nobody expects a college girl to find a man and marry him during their college years, much less start having babies. There are tons of abortion clinics near campuses.
Posted by: suburbanbanshee at January 17, 2023 01:49 PM (cHUaN)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2023 11:04 AM (t0OGg)
====
There are ways around all problems - particularly for those who lack ethics.
The CCP positions overseers to communicate with indentured servants in a common, simple language, then report back to the CCP in mandarin.
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