The Morning Report — 5/19/23

Good morning, kids. They're coming for your children, and the way things are going you can add "on" and "in" to that first preposition. When you consider the absolute corruption that has allowed those with whom we had put our trust in, either via our votes or via our taxes, to protect our lives, our property and our freedoms, to then use that power to, for all intents and purposes enslave us, you have to wonder how that happened.

Hence, that first sentence. Is it nature, nurture or some combination of both that spawns individuals like Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray (in Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' case, he's the way he is because someone peed in his mom instead of ejaculating, and that was before the dementia kicked in, but I digress). I'll go with the combo, but for sure without the nurture part of it, that is the almost 60 years of ever-increasing brainwashing and indoctrination in the schools, this country would be a much different place.

As it is, it's a miracle that we still have parents in this country who have led the way in revolting against the brainwashing machine, the shining example being Virginia. Which is why the junta at the highest levels colluded with the NASB to have the Justice Department, a name that can now officially be categorized as Orwellian, declare parents who dared speak out as "domestic terrorists."

Despite the constant haranguing that we need to spend more on education, that we're not spending enough on education, the fact is the more we have thrown at education – and since the 60s, it's got to be in the high hundreds of billions by now – the dumber and more anti-social children have become. This is especially true in the biggest of the big blue cities and states. Yet we always get the same tired bromide that red states and towns in "flyover country" have kids that are inbred morons because they don't spend enough or tax enough to pay for good schools. This is total bullshit as the test scores in basic skills show all too clearly. But I digress. At the same time, the teachers unions have become arguably the most powerful Democrat political lobbying group in the nation. Probably as big or bigger than any corporation or K-Street lobbying group. I'm sure that's merely a coincidence, right?

None of this is by accident. It is absolutely intentional. In the immortal words of Vladdy Lenin:

Well, Randi Weingarten and her predecessors and fellow travelers, most especially Billy Ayers have had well over 50. And now their foot soldiers are getting testy.

Democrat New Hampshire state Rep. Tommy Hoyt lashed out at a parent who urged him to support a proposed parents bill of rights in the Granite State this week, telling the person to “shut up.”

A “parent of four” emailed Hoyt imploring him to pass SB 272, a bill that seeks to establish a parents bill of rights that would prevent public schools from withholding information about their children, the NH Journal reported Thursday.

Hoyt responded to the message angrily, arguing that the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that parents are “incompetent teachers” and shouldn’t be involved in their children’s education.

“Do you know why children’s results tanked during [Chinese] COVID. Their parents were incompetent teachers. Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional,” Hoyt emailed the parent. 

The New Hampshire lawmaker confirmed the authenticity of the message to the NH Journal, telling the outlet he” probably could have used better words.”  

“The way I feel is that children’s test scores in school performance dropped off drastically was because they didn’t have teachers. And the parents that thought, ‘We can replace them and can tell them what to do,’ was not effective,” he explained. . .

. . . Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, notes in a tweet that Hoyt is endorsed by the National Education Association — the largest labor union in the US — and won his seat in the statehouse by a mere 18 votes last year. 

Hoyt’s response to the concerned parent is reminiscent of former Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s 2022 campaign blunder, when he said in the final debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

Republican Glenn Youngkin, whose campaign centered on education and parents’ rights, would go on to defeat McAuliffe in a state [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden won by 10 points. 

"Could have used better words . . . " had he known his actual words would be made public. In other words, "'Fuck you!', he explained." "Let the teachers teach and shut up." Well what the actual fuck are the teachers teaching? That America is illegitimate and inherently evil? Ditto if you're white, male, Christian and Jewish? Ditto free market capitalism? Ditto if you believe there are only two genders and that forcibly ripping the balls and boobs off your boy and girl and swapping them out is not normal? And on and on and on?

It's funny, as in disgusting, that they went after the parents in Virginia, and yet this is happening and . . . crickets.

In the small Colorado town of Woodland Park, nestled on Pikes Peak’s north slope, only 28.6 percent of students scored at grade level in math last year. Just 45.3 percent can read at grade level. So after taking over 18 months ago, the conservative school board immediately sought to recoup the learning loss.

But district leadership is now under siege — facing a deluge of integrated attacks from teachers unions resisting the board’s reform efforts. As the local union awaited a “crisis” designation and funding from the Colorado Education Association (CEA) — which recently condemned capitalism — other allied unions were coming to their aid.

Strangely, national legacy media are weighing in too. NBC News is setting up this school district as a poster child for “experiment(s) in conservative governance.” As reformers mount similar efforts to win and maintain school boards nationwide, they must watch the teachers union playbook unfolding in the Rocky Mountains. . .

. . . Let’s be clear: NBC News is exploiting controversy over education reforms in small-town America for its own agenda — misrepresenting and omitting key details to generate a false narrative of malintent and suspicion. But to what end? . . .

. . . Make no mistake: Union power over Woodland Park Schools has been unjustifiably strong for too long. That influence is diminishing and educational success in conservative Woodland Park jeopardizes their very existence. Teachers unions depend upon educational failures to expand membership, cement political power, and advance ideological agendas. . .

. . . The CEA resolution isn’t just a political statement. It affirms the anti-free-market mindset of the teachers unions, which oppose school choice and charters. Their resistance to a successful Merit Academy is a case in point. Why be concerned if you have a superior product?

Let’s be real: Any model exposing their failures is a threat. Capitalistic competition is deemed unacceptable to teachers unions because they simply aren’t about the kids. As longtime union boss Albert Shanker infamously said, “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”

That’s why teachers unions and national media care about Woodland Park, Colorado. If they successfully thwart this school board’s efforts to prioritize academic achievement, cut out ideological agendas, and address learning loss, it will signal that it’s open season on reform-minded school boards everywhere.

There's this article, "Uneducating America" from City Journal, that notes "The latest NAEP scores show that the nation’s youth are painfully ignorant about U.S. history and civics." Well, that's a feature not a bug.

Garland, Wray and all the others from previous generations at least have the knowledge of what our government, history and society have historically been, if not the respect for it, which had been burned out of their minds and souls long ago by the fires of lust for power and greed. Subsequent generations are being denied that knowledge because without it, they become that much easier to control.

As I said, it is a miracle that parents in Virginia and now even in Colorado have woken (pun intended) up. We shall see what happens next.

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  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Julie Kelly: "The minimal tools to, at the very least, embarrass top officials and expose the existing rot within the Justice Department are in the hands of House Republicans. They would do well to use them."
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• "Without a civic life shaped and guided by Christian moral virtue, our republic will eventually descend into tyranny."
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• Election interference by intelligence agencies threatens the end of democracy.”
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• "Despite clear evidence of a 'Russian Hoax' conspiracy to affect the 2016 election, those responsible go free." ("No reasonable prosecutor," etc. - jjs)
  Durham Report is Utterly Damning, So Where Are All the Indictments?
  
• Well, duh! They and the CIA engineered the Russia Collusion hoax to distract from the e-mail server farm real scandal.
  FBI Dropped 4 Probes into Hillary Clinton, Family’s "Non-Profit" Ahead of 2016 Election: Durham Report
  
• "It is now abundantly clear that Trump’s real sin is that he challenged the legitimacy of the corrupt US elites that are unwilling to give up their exclusive hold on money and power."
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  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• “The Chinese Communist Party using TikTok to spy on Americans, violate their privacy, and collect their personal, private, and sensitive information is well-documented. Today, Montana takes the most decisive action of any state to protect Montanans’ private data and sensitive personal information from being harvested by the Chinese Communist Party.”
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• "New level of denial."
  Jonathan Turley Rips Into WaPo’s Last Defense of "Russian Collusion"
  
• "There’s tons of young talent out there that could spice up CNN’s lineup. Why they keep returning to the well of boring, milquetoast Erin Burnett robots straight from the factory floor and expecting any kind of favorable ratings bump is beyond me." (when all you have is a whorehouse, everything looks like Xaviera Hollander - jjs)
  Kaitlan Collins Parlays Cringe Trump Town Hall Into Primetime CNN Slot
  
• "What should be especially troubling to the cucks at Fox News is that this is a poll of their viewing base—not just of Republicans but likely Republican primary voters. Republican primary voters are the die-hards. I am a Republican primary voter. . . Just last month, Fox looked indestructible. Now Fox is barely beating MSNBC in average primetime viewers. Fox News sucks."
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• "Fox seems to be hurting more than Tucker."
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• David Harsanyi: "Thank you, Mayor Pete."
  Let’s Probe the Beautiful, Voluminous, and Transcendent Mind of the World’s Most Remarkable Human Being, Peter-Puffer Buttigieg
  
• "What do you get when you cross a cheap Soviet propaganda piece with a spot-on Babylon Bee parody of America’s mainstream media? You get Wired’s interview with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg."
  TAKE THE QUIZ: How Weird Was the WiredInterview With Peter-Puffer Buttigieg?
  
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• "We must expose the bad guys for who they are and keep doing it. It’s called vigilance. And that is something the internet can do. That’s why you are able to read this." (for the time being, anyway - jjs)
  While We Were Sleeping

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "Moreover, China Everbright Group also appears to have ties to Hunter Biden’s Chinese business ventures, according to multiple financial disclosures."
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• "The House Oversight and Accountability Committee released a report on May 10 alleging that the Bidens enriched themselves off of Romanian and Chinese assets through influence-peddling. The report includes bank records allegedly showing money transfers to nine different Biden family members through a chain of various LLCs. One corporation that allegedly delivered funds to Hunter Biden had ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Daily Caller News Foundation found."
  Former Trump Officials Sound Alarm Over Biden Family’s National Security Risk

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Will someone tell this Commie wog ignoramus that even if the 14th is the most bastardized amendment in the Constitution, it gives ZERO authority for presidents to do this! But then again, the Left uses the Constitution as a jam-rag and Biden isn't really a/the president, so there you go.
  Khanna: It’s Biden’s ‘Patriotic Duty’ to Use 14th Amendment to End Debt Ceiling Debate
  
• "The debt ceiling, a statute established by Congress that prevents the government from spending beyond a predetermined national debt limit of $31.4 trillion, exceeded the threshold earlier this year. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter that her agency expects to default on obligations as early as June 1 unless the debt limit is soon amended."
  House Freedom Caucus Adopts Hardline Position On Debt Ceiling, Insists On Meaningful Spending Reform

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Advocates for the homeless are always saying that the problem is caused by housing shortages; the migration surge will make the problem exponentially worse."
  The End of Title 42 Comes for Our Cities
  
• Santos-Zacaria argued that he would face persecution in Guatemala, “and fears returning, because she suffered physical harm and faced death threats as a transgender woman who is attracted to men,” the opinion claims. Guatemala does not have any laws which actively criminalize LGBTQ+ individuals; however, the country does not recognize legal “homosexual marriage.” (second look at Guatemala? - jjs)
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• "Even the leftist Tallahassee Democrat conceded this week they were unaware of any truckers actually boycotting the Sunshine State."
  Titty-Caca AOC Backed a Migrant Trucker "Boycott" of Florida. It Had Zero Impact.

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The retiree said passengers were crowding around the exit signs and that they were all “scared for our lives.” Neely had 42 prior arrests and an active warrant, Newsweek reported. In November 2021, Neely attacked a 67-year-old woman, giving her a black eye and broken nose, Fox News noted.
  Eyewitness Heard Jordan Neely Say ‘I Don’t Care If I Have to Kill,’ Calls Daniel Penny a ‘Hero’ 
  
• "The Daniel Penny charges show we are still living in the world 2020 wrought."
  In for a Penny
  
• In a 2015 interview with “The MJ Cast” podcast, Kerry Anderson, the late singer’s director of security, lamented the unseemly way that the news media covered his former boss. “The power of the media is amazing,” said Anderson. “They can take a person like a Michael Jackson who was a person of morals, scruples, and values and demonize him into being some kind of satanic child molester. And then you can take a person that’s a recidivist, that’s a convicted murderer, more than once, and they go to prison, and because they find the lord or whatever, and they start writing children’s books, they get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
  Michael Jackson Would Have Thanked Daniel Penny For His Service
  
• "An unfortunately handy template for contemporary urban crime reporting."
  The All-Too-Familiar Story

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "Rubio’s report also covers how the Chinese endeavored to hide the evidence of WIV’s connection to covid, as well as clues that the Chinese were scrambling to solve serious biosafety issues (likely after a leak had occurred)."
  Sen. Marco Rubio Publishes Chinese COVID Origin Report Focused on China’s Pandemic Cover-Up
  
• "A new study documents major health consequences."
  The Harm Caused by Masks
  
• “'Janssen [Chinese] COVID-19 Vaccine is no longer available in the U.S. All remaining U.S. government stock of Janssen [Chinese] COVID-19 Vaccine expired May 7, 2023. Dispose of any remaining Janssen [Chinese] COVID-19 Vaccine in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations,' the quietly updated CDC guidance reads. What a total waste of taxpayer money. How much good could have been done with all that cash flushed down the proverbial toilet into J&J coffers — all for a poorly conceived product that never worked as promised and carried severe side effect risks."
  Failed Johnson & Johnson Chinese COVID Vaccine No Longer Available in US

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, notes in a tweet that Hoyt is endorsed by the National Education Association — the largest labor union in the US — and won his seat in the statehouse by a mere 18 votes last year."
  New Hampshire Democrat Tommy Hoyt Tells Parents to "Shut Up" About Parents Bill of Rights 
  
• "Teachers unions are focused on a small-town school district because their influence and control are imperiled by a successful conservative school board."
  Teachers Unions Swarm Small-Town Conservative School Board That Dares to Reform Public Ed
  
• “UC Santa Cruz’ DEI statement requirement is nothing more than a rebranding of the unconstitutional loyalty oaths that proliferated during the Cold War. Universities are not permitted to discriminate against applicants because of their political views. UC’s DEI statement screening is a thinly veiled attempt to do exactly that.”
  Assistant Professor Sues University That Allegedly Forces Faculty to Pledge Commitment to Diversity
  
• "The latest NAEP scores show that the nation’s youth are painfully ignorant about U.S. history and civics."(it's a feature, not a bug - jjs)
  Uneducating America
  
• "Why would any dedicated teacher want to be associated with such a disreputable group?" (mostly because you're forced to - jjs)
  Teachers’ Union Transgressions
  
• "The purple-haired, metal-faced pronoun-fluid crowd apparently does not care or realize, and its enablers do not care or even realize what it means when that document is tossed aside. Like “Orange Man,” they believe that the Constitution is bad. Even if it covers them."
  ASU Student Beats a Trespassing Rap for Handing Out Copies of the Constitution
  
• Christopher F. Rufo: "A taxpayer-supported school condemns the United States as a 'white supremacy system.'”
  The University of Houston’s Radical DEI Bureaucracy
  
• "The fight over new civics education standards isn’t a mere academic squabble. It’s about resisting and rejecting a corrosive left-wing view of America."
  Accommodation Is Capitulation

  ABORTION

• "Its recent override of the governor’s veto, combined with a compromise, demonstrates a path forward for other states."
  North Carolina: A Purple-State Model for a Pro-life America

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Facebook flagged with a warning—and then deleted—a post that simply read, “Jesus died so you could live” due to a “hate speech” violation, or so alleges Billy Hallowell, a former writer for Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.
  The (undeclared) War on Christians

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Brinton lost his job after his habit of stealing women’s clothing from airport luggage carousels during work trips was revealed, and reports indicate he has now been arrested at his home in Maryland."
  Biden’s Psycho Transgender Hire Sam Brinton Arrested as "Fugitive from Justice"
  
• “@SenWhitehouse attacks Supreme Court Justices on alleged conflicts of interests, but he’s taken significant action to benefit Ocean Conservancy (@OurOcean), where his wife has worked … as Marine Spatial Planner & been paid $2.4 million. Interactions are troubling.”
  Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whorehouse Gets Exposed as ‘Conflicts of Interest’ Hypocrite
  
• "'If you support Trump you're a bigot. Just claim it,' left-wing writer Silas House said in 2019."
  Beshear Appointee Scrubs Tweets That Called Kentucky Voters Homophobic Bigots
  
• ". . . what kind of morality would we expect from the guy who thinks the unvaccinated should be starved out through siege warfare?"
  Leftist Hero Noam Chomsky's Financial Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Exposed

  POLITICS

• "Thanks to the Biden [junta's] collusion with the Democrat National Committee (DNC) to change the 2024 Democrat primary calendar, the president may not appear on the ballot in New Hampshire. . . Cronyism involving Biden? Say it ain’t so, Joe!"
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• Feinstein returned to the Senate last week with a “frail appearance” after missing nearly three months of work from being hospitalized for shingles in February. This week, the New York Times revealed that the shingles had “spread to her face and neck, causing vision and balance impairments and facial paralysis known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome.”
  ‘Frightening’: Dianne Feinstein Suffered ‘Several’ Undisclosed Complications After Hospitalization
  
• "Just moments before the exchange, Bowman had been heckling Santos on the Capitol steps, demanding that he resign after a Democratic attempt to oust him from Congress was delayed. Republicans instead voted to kick the resolution to expel the embattled freshman congressman to the House Ethics Committee."
  ‘She Ain’t Worth It’: Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez Intervenes In Verbal Confrontation Between Marjorie Taylor Greene And Jamaal Bowman
  
• "Regardless, both candidates are in a strong position to win the White House in the general election. According to a recent Washington Post general election poll, both Trump and DeSantis have seven-point leads over Biden."
  REPORT: Ron DeSantis to Formally Enter 2024 Race Next Week

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• “If Americans thought Afghanistan was a debacle and took decades, and trillions of dollars, then let me tell you this as a matter of fact: if you get into a hot war with Russia over Ukraine, you will be there for 50 years, and tens of trillions of dollars. This is no small altercation you’re talking about, and not a short altercation you’re talking about.”
  FOREVER WAR: Ukraine Conflict Could Now Last DECADES, According to Biden Junta Insiders
  
• "What does the emergence of a large number of Private Military Companies, which are not necessary for military operations in Ukraine, mean?"
  Is Russia on the Verge of Collapse?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The Vatican press office said that the car got as far as the San Damasco Courtyard at the Apostolic Palace. When the driver emerged from the car, he was arrested immediately."
  Man in Car Rams Vatican Gate, Guards Open Fire on Driver, 40
  
• “Tens of thousands of marchers gather in the capital garbed in the national colors to celebrate the reunification of the city after the 1967 Six Day War.”
  Israel Foils Hamas Terror Attack in Jerusalem as Thousands Take Part in Patriotic Flag March
  
• "U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Saudi Arabia to mediate." (this would be hilarious were it not for Sullivan's and his boss' rap sheet of foreign policy madness and disaster, especially in the Middle East - jjs)
  Belated U.S. Efforts to Negotiate Israeli-Saudi Peace
  
• "The Mexico State Court that though Roxana Ruiz had been raped, she had used excessive force in defending herself. The authorities suggested that striking the perpetrator in the head would have been enough to sufficiently defend herself."
  Mexican Court Sentences Mother to 6 Years in Prison After Claiming She Used "Excessive Force" to Stranger Her Rapist
  
• "US embassy partners with group that claims 'every cis person is transphobic.'"
  Biden's State Department Is Putting Brazilian Trans Activists in English Classes

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Oops . . .
  Biden Junta Walks Back Claim That It Killed Major Al-Qaeda Figure In Airstrike, Killed Father Of 10: Report
  
• You have to have the feeling that Sam Brinton wasn't a one-off . . .
  US Missile Defense Agency Conducted Just Half Of Planned 2022 Tests, Failed Numerous Key Goals, Report Finds

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Naima Khan-Ghany promotes divisiveness, hatred of Jews, and the destruction of Israel."
  Islamist Appointed to School Board Human Relations and Diversity Committees

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "Men are being identified as women and women as men. It's ridiculous."
  Biden State Department Slaps Pronouns on Emails and Misgenders Staff
  
• "As California mulls ideas to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in hiring and other ‘consequential’ decisions, it seems as committed as ever to its top-down regulatory approach."
  Will California Outsmart AI?

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "Meanwhile, another trial using a new pancreatic cancer treatment using mRNA-technology shows promise." (sorry, no dice - jjs)
  NIH Begins Enrolling Volunteers in Clinical Trial for mRNA-Based Universal Flu Vaccine
  
• "State legislators could expand work requirements by exiting Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid to the able-bodied."
  The Best Way To Curb Our Culture Of Dependency Is For States To End Medicaid Expansion

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Texas Children's is the biggest children's hospital in the country."
  Texas Children’s Hospital Performs Sex Change Procedures on Children as Young as 11: Report
  
• One Twitter user shared a brief synopsis of what the WHO has said, posting: “The World Health Organization (WHO) has provoked a fierce backlash over its new guidance that encourages parents and teachers ‘explore’ adult themes with children ‘from birth.’ The new guidance pushes ‘sexuality for infants’ and calls on parents to ‘explore gender identities’ for their babies.”
  WHO Faces Backlash After Saying "Sexuality Education Starts at Birth"
  
• "My goals are to make San Francisco sparkle. I think drag performers bring a lot of sparkle and humor and glamor and silliness to the world. I think that is part of why drag is so successful.” (literally polishing a turd; tons of homeless derelict feces - jjs)
  San Francisco Selects D’Arcy Drollinger as First Drag Laureate in US

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "So gross and weird."
  Twitter Users Blow Up on Adidas Using Male Model to Sell New Women’s Swimsuit
  
• "Apparently, the colors of a movement that seeks to normalize the sexual mutilation of children is now considered 'tough' by Ford."
  Ford’s ‘Redefining Tough’ Commercial Features LGBT Colored Truck
  
• Christian Toto: "Stars pushed false narrative in viral video shot after Mueller Report's release." (and IIRC, that "report" had nothing in it either - jjs)
  Will Rob Reiner, De Niro Apologize for Russian Collusion Hoax?
  
• Deroy Murdock: "It’s time to break the ESG, DEI trust."
  Dylan Mulvaney Offers Companies Exit Plan From Woke Stronghold
  
• "Don't say what?"
  DeSantis v. Disney: "The Party Is Over for Them"
  
• Says he refuses to “fall in line” like everyone else.
  Video: Johnny Depp Trashes Hollywood, Cancel Culture and the Media
  
• "How will Wokeism affect the Synagogue nearest you?"
  Judaism and Identity Politics
  
• "Journalist Louise Perry sets us all straight."
  The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

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1 happy fricking friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 19, 2023 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

3 Good morning horde! Friday is upon us, act accordingly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 07:56 AM (GYIa4)

4 Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

5 LOL.

Emma-Jo Morris @EmmaJoNYC · 8h
just got caught in the craziest car chase for two hours in midtown

Emma-Jo Morris @EmmaJoNYC · 8h
almost died

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

6 G'mornin'

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

7 "They're coming for your children"

My kids are in their 20s. I made sure they are able to defend themselves. I hope they are able to do the same with their kids, if they ever have any.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 07:59 AM (iayUP)

8 Despite the constant haranguing that we need to spend more on education, that we're not spending enough on education, the fact is the more we have thrown at education – and since the 60s, it's got to be in the high hundreds of billions by now – the dumber and more anti-social children have become.
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Of course. It's all about incentives. In public education, the incentive isn't for student performance. They get paid just the same whether the kids come out smart or illiterately stumble out unable to tie their shoes. The incentives encourage activism and subversion, and they have that in spades.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

9 If there is any way possible, homeschool your kids. You may have to sacrifice other things, but you will not regret it.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 08:00 AM (iayUP)

10 Homeschool or 100% moral private school, folks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2023 08:00 AM (EtqYz)

11 morning horde.

thank fuck it's friday.

i don't know if i could handle many more days of shit going wrong like it has.

but i have coffee, working at home, and i'm off at 3 so....

time for content.

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 08:01 AM (Mkvkw)

12 We are in COLD Civil War in America

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2023 08:02 AM (pVWRI)

13 The root of it is lefty nitwits think everyone belongs to the State.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 08:02 AM (iayUP)

14 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at May 19, 2023 08:02 AM (T4tVD)

15 BNO News @BNONews · 8h
BREAKING: Powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Ocean, east of New Caledonia - USGS

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues tsunami alert for Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji after 7.7 quake. No threat to other regions

BNO News @BNONews · 5h
All tsunami alerts canceled after 7.7 Pacific quake, only small tsunamis observed

https://tinyurl.com/yzd6f2yw
30 seconds of swell video!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:02 AM (Vwz3I)

16 The most woke, the most pro-tranny, the intense haters of any kind of free speech, all aspire to be teachers. Entry is easy if you can simply apply.

Apply for college. Any will let you in. Once in, you can stew in the muck, do your time, everybody gets an A, get the degree, then apply again for whatever government doc qualifies you.

Get that ticket punched. Apply again for the job.

Once in, you're in for life. A life behind a locked door, in a classroom full of blank slates and it's your job, and it's what you love doing, to "teach" those blank slates.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 19, 2023 08:03 AM (KiBMU)

17 12 We are in COLD Civil War in America
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2023 08:02 AM (pVWRI)

To be fair, we have been at cold civil war since the 20's (more if you want to throw in that stroke ridden eugenic asshole Wilson- which I do.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:03 AM (zZu0s)

18 ""Brinton lost his job after his habit of stealing women’s clothing from airport luggage carousels during work trips was revealed, and reports indicate he has now been arrested at his home in Maryland.""


He's a mess
Wears a dress

Posted by: Ray Stevens at May 19, 2023 08:07 AM (iayUP)

19 This house looks alot like the one in CBD's Hopper painting yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/hsu2jmrp

No disrespect meant to the slain woman.
R.I.P.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)

20 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2023 08:07 AM (Y2tls)

21 17 To be fair, we have been at cold civil war since the 20's (more if you want to throw in that stroke ridden eugenic asshole Wilson- which I do.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:03 AM (zZu0s)


Woodrow Wilson is the John Fetterman of Joe Bidens.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:07 AM (x0n13)

22 Ciampino's Rescue kitties -

Biscuits' kittens ON VIDEO. Kittens walking around and out from under the bed. It's on the video at the link.

There's also the photo update, #55 & #56, at link below.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

Posted by: Ciampino --- Then there was LISP at May 19, 2023 08:07 AM (qfLjt)

23 ""Brinton lost his job after his habit of stealing women’s clothing from airport luggage carousels during work trips was revealed, and reports indicate he has now been arrested at his home in Maryland.""


He's a mess
Wears a dress
Posted by: Ray Stevens


Waiting for him to confess

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2023 08:07 AM (Y2tls)

24
There was a 2.2 quake reported just north of NYC in the whacko-lefty BIRM Westchester town of Hastings-on-Hudson.

Former home of my good friend and great writer Harry Stein.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

25 "Despite the constant haranguing that we need to spend more on education, that we're not spending enough on education, the fact is the more we have thrown at education "

I JUST looked this up a couple days ago for an argument on reddit, yeah yeah i KNOW, and in 1980 the US spent just over $2,200 per child. in 2019 that number was just over $14,100 per child.

and if you compare results....

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 08:09 AM (Mkvkw)

26 Most school districts don't have historical records available, but we can see the scale of the difference in per-pupil spending from the aggregate federal data. Even if these data are dishonest, they are also consistent and so comparisons can be made.

1995-1996 school year per-pupil spending: $6,959
2016-2017 school year per-pupil spending: $14,778

Adjusting for CPI inflation, the 1995 per-pupil spending should have been around $11,000. The actual per-pupil spending was nearly 35% higher than inflation would indicate. And I chose 1995 on purpose - it was in the thick of the digital revolution and so many of the new expenses (computers and A/V equipment in particular) were are already being baked into per-pupil spending by then.

We're spending radically more in real terms than ever before, all while educational outcomes have steadily declined - even when excluding the disastrous COVID years. Public education doesn't have a money problem. It has an efficacy problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

27 Obama has pulled out that "only 3 tv stations" quote before. He pines for the days when there were only 3 sources for misdisinformation.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 08:09 AM (iayUP)

28 Good morning, JJ. Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 19, 2023 08:09 AM (53oGX)

29 No disrespect meant to the slain woman.
R.I.P.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)

This is known as 'burying the lede.'

He fridged her. Literally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:10 AM (zZu0s)

30 Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional,” Hoyt emailed the parent.

Honestly, I don't think that's the result of some grand fifty year plan of indoctrination. It's simply the attitude of the vast majority of bureaucrats and government employees. It's the prevalent attitude of every alphabet agency. It's the dominant view of law enforcement.

We've duped ourselves, with this notion of public servant and protect and serve.

Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:10 AM (E2vEk)

31 Also, the house in the painting was much smaller.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:10 AM (zZu0s)

32 When The Educators™ have completed their education of our children and grandchildren those kids will not be knowledgeable on any subject matter.

"They will not own anything and they will be happy."

Posted by: Jim at May 19, 2023 08:11 AM (zhWvq)

33 “Do you know why children’s results tanked during [Chinese] COVID. Their parents were incompetent teachers. Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional,” Hoyt emailed the parent.

The New Hampshire lawmaker confirmed the authenticity of the message to the NH Journal, telling the outlet he” probably could have used better words.”
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Nah, bro. This isn't a messaging problem. This isn't an issue with word choice. That dodge won't work. Using fancy language to do the same thing would be equally reprehensible. You called your constituent - and all parents more broadly - an incompetent rube who needs to shut up and give you the kid because he or she is stupid, incapable, unsophisticated and irrelevant.

That ain't a language problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:11 AM (DU+/6)

34 Teachers unions are claiming (Tommy Hoyt's own words) that the decline in educational achievement, which no one can deny happened during the Covid lockdowns, is the fault not of lockdowns but instead because parents are incompetent teachers.

Can you imagine a more insulting and false statement? The criminals are victim-blaming because they are so obviously caught out. Screw 'em.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 19, 2023 08:12 AM (AWPtk)

35
Honestly, I don't think that's the result of some grand fifty year plan of indoctrination. It's simply the attitude of the vast majority of bureaucrats and government employees. It's the prevalent attitude of every alphabet agency. It's the dominant view of law enforcement.

We've duped ourselves, with this notion of public servant and protect and serve.
Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:10 AM (E2vEk)

Bureaucracies are bad news, man. And that's all we have these days. They do not even have to be particularly ideological. Is someone is promising more gravy/graft, they'll be right there with bells on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:12 AM (zZu0s)

36 That American Thinker article "Is Russia collapsing?" points the way to America's future - as central authority collapses, residents (who are no longer citizens) find that they have to tie themselves to locally powerful groups, for their own survival. Currently the most powerful mafia-style group here is still the Democrat party. But that's failing. And no, the GOP-e is too feckless and self serving to ever replace them - some other locus of power will arise.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 08:12 AM (S6gqv)

37 Completely agree. Parents should not be telling teachers what to teach. Parents should be whipping them, kicking them, and throwing them headfirst into black marias.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:12 AM (oINRc)

38 NYC mayor claims half of all hotel rooms in the city are occupied by "migrants."

*Only half?!

Abbott better get on the stick.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

39 No injuries reported after an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 5.1 shook the southern Greek island of Crete.

[Spelled out by AP because most of its readers don't know where Crete is.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

40 It's National Devil's Food Cake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

41 >>REPORT: Ron DeSantis to Formally Enter 2024 Race Next Week


DeSantis entering the race is silly, pointless and counter-productive.

He is gong to get blown off the stage by Trump, get less than 10 pct of any primary or caucus and be humiliated.

His candidacy is being pushed by GOPe forces, it's sad really.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:13 AM (up/3i)

42 That’s why teachers unions and national media care about Woodland Park, Colorado. If they successfully thwart this school board’s efforts to prioritize academic achievement, cut out ideological agendas, and address learning loss, it will signal that it’s open season on reform-minded school boards everywhere.
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Yes, but I still think it's the wrong model. Even if Woodland Park can eke out a win - and to be clear, there are many reasons I hope they do - it will require constant warfare with the larger education establishment to retain those gains. The moment parents get complacent and let another asshole onto the Board, it's game over.

The public education system needs to be scrapped entirely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

43 On the one hand, I feel bad for anyone with chirruns who have to attend a government indoctrination center today. On the other hand, most parents as well as their feral utes they shot out of their loins today are dumb as a stump so even the government indoctrination centers cannot make anything useful out of them.

In 10 or 20 years it won't matter anyways as the replacements from South Of The Border will run the government skools as they see fit.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2023 08:14 AM (4KbXy)

44 "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. "

James 3:13

Posted by: Marcus T at May 19, 2023 08:15 AM (kLbP8)

45 38 NYC mayor claims half of all hotel rooms in the city are occupied by "migrants."

*Only half?!

Abbott better get on the stick.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)


Ugh. I gotta go there in August so I better get a room! Got to see if I can bunk with my cousins.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:17 AM (x0n13)

46 And it's Malcolm X Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

47 The public education system needs to be scrapped entirely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

Scrapped? Like with metal shredders and baling presses?

I'm intrigued by your proposal and would like to learn more.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:17 AM (oINRc)

48 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 08:17 AM (znP06)

49 “This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things they are doing that are wrong.”
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The malicious federal government is baldly attacking anyone who criticizes it. Lerner-izing everything.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 19, 2023 08:18 AM (tZYbS)

50
“Do you know why children’s results tanked during [Chinese] COVID. Their parents were incompetent teachers. Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional,” Hoyt emailed the parent.

Wait, I thought Our Hero Teachers were keeping students educated during the lockout their union bosses relentlessly pushed for.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2023 08:18 AM (MoZTd)

51 Note the convenient little circle of blame. Teachers insist on virtual classrooms. Many parents object. Virtual classrooms fail. Teachers blame parents.

Sadly, it'll work. Not 100%, but enough. Because too many people are simply too dumb to object, for a variety of reasons. Some can't even see the circle. Others are conditioned to revere teachers.

Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:19 AM (E2vEk)

52 46 And it's Malcolm X Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

See the article Above the Fold from Billingsley. Guts-curdling.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:19 AM (x0n13)

53 He is gong to get blown off the stage by Trump, get less than 10 pct of any primary or caucus and be humiliated. His candidacy is being pushed by GOPe forces, it's sad really.

It's entirely probable his candidacy is being pushed by the GOPe in order to humiliate him.

Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:20 AM (E2vEk)

54
"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom."

*buffs fingernails on lapel*
*regards them with self-satisfied expression*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2023 08:20 AM (MoZTd)

55 "They're coming for your children,..."


I appreciate the use of "your" instead of "our" which we have been hearing since the Clinton's. It really started bothering me a few years ago. Conservatives/norms have fallen into that trap and should refuse to use the collectivist, it-takes-a-village "our"

Posted by: Ripley at May 19, 2023 08:21 AM (cUYo/)

56 It's always fun to see a place on TV you've been to. Retardo was at a meeting on Miyajima Island, Japan. Been there. Took the train down for the boat races (crazy Jap thing, they have parimutuel betting). It was there I discovered the quaint way the Japanese have of boarding a train. Polite people my ass.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 19, 2023 08:21 AM (lz5hY)

57 Eric Adams to use school gymnasiums in Brooklyn to shelter illegals. American students will not suffer because "only temporary."

Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2023 08:21 AM (4h9M3)

58 Diamonds are forever
Sparkling 'round my little finger
Unlike men, the diamonds linger
Men are mere mortals who
Are not worth going to your grave for

zerohedge @zerohedge · 5h
World's Top Polishing Diamond Hub Warns "Difficult Year" Ahead On Weak US, China Demand

Time to buy? Let me check out Jim Kramer's view first, then do the opposite.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:21 AM (Vwz3I)

59 Virtual classrooms were shoved down the throats of everyone in our school district during Covid. Blame virtual non-learning, not the parents. Parents I know tried their best to supplement the non-learning of virtual.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (45fpk)

60 Durham Report is Utterly Damning, So Where Are All the Indictments?

As was shown by the cases that he did bring to trial, it's a waste of time. Leftist crimes are primarily committed in leftist strongholds and leftists will never convict leftists.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (GYIa4)

61 @53

>>It's entirely probable his candidacy is being pushed by the GOPe in order to humiliate him.


There are rumors that Rove and his group are behind this, which makes sense.

Never trust a guy who's nickname is turd blossom.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (up/3i)

62 Wait, I thought Our Hero Teachers were keeping students educated during the lockout their union bosses relentlessly pushed for.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2023 08:18 AM (MoZTd)
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It's even better.

"Remote learning" works, you see, and there are no downsides because our Brave and Heroic Teachers Who Are Just Great In All Things effectively deliver education no matter the venue. The problem isn't "remote learning," the problem is that with "remote learning," parents can stick their noses into the process and screw everything up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (DU+/6)

63 I find the Desantis shit tedious. He is already considering Sanders as his VP pick. Really?

At the same time, all of this seems to be coordinated to divide us and keep our eyes on the horse race and not who is holding the photo finish camera (voting integrity.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (zZu0s)

64 Because too many people are simply too dumb to object, ... Others are conditioned to revere teachers.

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Those are the same people.

If you've experienced public school, and revere teachers instead of quietly hoping to chuck them all in baling presses one day, then you are either dull-normal or completely insane.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (oINRc)

65 There are rumors that Rove and his group are behind this, which makes sense.

Never trust a guy who's nickname is turd blossom.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (up/3i)

Failure Penguin, turd of DC.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:23 AM (zZu0s)

66 but i have coffee, working at home, and i'm off at 3 so....

time for content.
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 08:01 AM

This implies you commented before reading the content.

Is this who we are?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 08:23 AM (a3Q+t)

67 Time to buy? Let me check out Jim Kramer's view first, then do the opposite.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:21 AM (Vwz3I)
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Well, diamonds *are* forever so it might be a chance to pick up a durable asset on the (comparatively) cheap. Prepaying your beejers while prices are low is the kind of thing a savvy man should consider.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

68 53 He is gong to get blown off the stage by Trump, get less than 10 pct of any primary or caucus and be humiliated. His candidacy is being pushed by GOPe forces, it's sad really.

It's entirely probable his candidacy is being pushed by the GOPe in order to humiliate him.
Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:20 AM (E2vEk)


I'm not sanguine about Trump, but DeSantis' record on every key issue gets an "A."

And that said, I still support and like Trump especially after his continuous high-tech and soon to be low-tech lynchings.

Is this contradictory? Hell yes!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:24 AM (x0n13)

69 We have plenty of earthquakes, wars, famine and pestilence these days. Could be a hint.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2023 08:24 AM (lTGtQ)

70 This implies you commented before reading the content.

Is this who we are?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 08:23 AM (a3Q+t)
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Uhhhhh, who's gonna tell him?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

71
And it's Malcolm X Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

Nice to know we're celebrating a violent Jew hater and segregationist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2023 08:24 AM (MoZTd)

72 Ugh. I gotta go there in August so I better get a room! Got to see if I can bunk with my cousins.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:17 AM (x0n13)

Save your money J.J. and sleep in the subway. In fact, you can panhandle while your down there, grope out of towners during rush hour and use the turnstiles as a toilet. Just act cray cray and everyone will leave you alone.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2023 08:24 AM (4KbXy)

73 Failure Penguin, turd of DC.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:23 AM

We must resist Big Penguin!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 08:24 AM (a3Q+t)

74 @63

>>I find the Desantis shit tedious. He is already considering Sanders as his VP pick. Really?


Sarah just got elected and is really effective, so the GOPe's big idea is to take two effective Governors and move them to the capital city to fight battles they more than likely will not win, just to spite OrangeManBad and the GOP base.

BRILLIANT!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:25 AM (up/3i)

75 53 He is gong to get blown off the stage by Trump, get less than 10 pct of any primary or caucus and be humiliated. His candidacy is being pushed by GOPe forces, it's sad really.

It's entirely probable his candidacy is being pushed by the GOPe in order to humiliate him.
Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:20 AM (E2vEk)


Years ago, a comedian who I don't remember did a routine where he said, "When you ride the subway, just hold yourself hostage and act crazy so no one will bother you - SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:26 AM (x0n13)

76 Those are the same people.

If you've experienced public school, and revere teachers instead of quietly hoping to chuck them all in baling presses one day, then you are either dull-normal or completely insane.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (oINRc)

Or related. Knew a gal a few years ago. Reasonable, logical and level headed. Her mom was a teacher. She went absolutely cultist when education was brought up. Complete switch flipped. Teachers are so important (they are.) They are undervalued and underpaid. Home schooled kids are horrible. You get the drift.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:26 AM (zZu0s)

77 A few years ago I did some research on what states spend on education K-12. This was before the pandemic and the associated fed dot gov firehouse of printed monopoly money flooding the country, mind you. The total?

$1.07 trillion dollars. With AZ's new $18 billion budget (pre-plandemic it was just over $9 billion) nearly half goes to K-12. The education budget has doubled in 3 years. Yet the schools are still crying poor.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at May 19, 2023 08:26 AM (l7Kbv)

78 Has there been a Penguin meme created while I was not looking? Is there a secret meme generator hidden away here somewhere??

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 08:27 AM (RFmMX)

79 Trump will get the FU vote over RDS and anybody else. Whether he wins or loses, I will not miss my chance to say "FU" to the Uniparty.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 08:27 AM (iayUP)

80 US News and World Report has ranked Green Bay WI as the number one place to live in America. Have they been to Green Bay??

Posted by: grammie winger at May 19, 2023 08:27 AM (45fpk)

81 Our Governor, Sarah Sanders is doing a very good job. Let her get a term or two on her resume and she could be material for the big prize.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 19, 2023 08:27 AM (lz5hY)

82
Well, diamonds *are* forever

Graphite is the more stable allotrope of carbon at STP. Not by much and of course the energy of activation to go from diamond to graphite is monstrous.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2023 08:27 AM (MoZTd)

83 Don't cancel me. I'm just the messenger:

https://tinyurl.com/5n99a37y

(Twitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2023 08:28 AM (EtqYz)

84 22
Ciampino's Rescue kitties - NOW LIVE STREAMING!!
https://www.twitch.tv/kittenwatch

Posted by: Ciampino - Million Men March with 'utensils' on DC at May 19, 2023 08:28 AM (qfLjt)

85 I think the real conspiracy with teachers isn't even exactly political, though politics plays a part in it.

I think it's just to condition every child to accept a scenario where they must meekly obey the authority of the very stupidest, most petty and malicious members of their communities, because that's the way it's always going to be. The American way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:29 AM (oINRc)

86 University Housing Biden Center Took Funds From Firm Controlled By China’s ‘Supreme Organ Of State Power,’ Docs Show

Who knew that CCP stood for Communist Chinese Penis.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 08:29 AM (GYIa4)

87 78 Has there been a Penguin meme created while I was not looking? Is there a secret meme generator hidden away here somewhere??
Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 08:27 AM (RFmMX)

Yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:30 AM (zZu0s)

88
I think it's just to condition every child to accept a scenario where they must meekly obey the authority of the very stupidest, most petty and malicious members of their communities, because that's the way it's always going to be. The American way.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:29 AM (oINRc)

“It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.” - Hilaire Belloc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2023 08:30 AM (MoZTd)

89 @68

>>Is this contradictory? Hell yes!

People seem to conveniently forget that Trump blew away 16 of the GOPs best and brightest in 16 and it came down to him and Cruz and Trump blew away Cruz, mostly because he revealed himself to be kind a phony, smarmy dick weed.

DeSantis has a lot of Cruz's qualities in that respect.

And any debate stage that has Trump on it is going to be Trump centric, so forgetting the GOPe tools that will be on the stage, the focus will be on Trump and DeSantis, so when J6 comes up or voter fraud or Ukraine, DeSantis is either going to have to come out counter to Trump or be even more Trumpian than Trump, which is impossible.

It's going to be a stupid an pointless shit show, but apparently a lot of people want that shit show.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:31 AM (up/3i)

90 And it's Malcolm X Day.
--------------
That's pretty dumb. I don't think Scotland had ten kings named Malcolm.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:31 AM (Vwz3I)

91 The Chicken begat the Otters begat the Penguin…where will this all end?

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 08:32 AM (RFmMX)

92 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday — Otherwise known as The Day Before the Day When I Have to Do Battle with the Lawn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 08:33 AM (5+1HQ)

93 For the first time in almost 100 years, Oscar Mayer has changed the name of its beloved Wienermobile to the Frankmobile.

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile gets a new name: The Frankmobile

Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2023 08:34 AM (lJmG6)

94 but i have coffee, working at home, and i'm off at 3 so....

time for content.
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 08:01 AM

This implies you commented before reading the content.

Is this who we are?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2023 08:23 AM (a3Q+t)

it's the moring report, i'll always read the content.

otherwise .... eh, it's a tossup. sometimes i don't even go back to check the content....

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 08:35 AM (Mkvkw)

95 DeSantis entering the race is silly, pointless and counter-productive.
He is gong to get blown off the stage by Trump, get less than 10 pct of any primary or caucus and be humiliated.
His candidacy is being pushed by GOPe forces, it's sad really.
This is why we can't have nice things.
---
I just don't understand the rational for his candidacy.
No one supporting him can show or explain any way he brings in a single Trump voter by running against Trump. I'll concede every single possible criticism of Trump is accurate.
That still is 1,000 miles away from "and that's why the millions who voted for him and the hundreds of thousands who went to his rallies will vote for Ron."
No, they will stay home.
But I guess we are going to discard them for the fools gold of fickle Republicans and Obama-Biden voting "moderates" who will stampede to vote for Ron.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2023 08:35 AM (Vhzin)

96 It's going to be a stupid an pointless shit show, but apparently a lot of people want that shit show.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:31 AM (up/3i)

The NTers in the coffee klatch GOPe, still firmly believe that if there is a palatable alternative to Trump, people will flock to them. Regardless of any other consideration.

Record has nothing to do with this.

Results have nothing to do with this.

This is all complete and utter visceral dislike/revulsion for the guy- no matter what he says and does. It's bizarre to witness from the outside people acting on an obsession/compulsion that you do not share. They really do not realize they are doing it.

The flip side of this is also true.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:35 AM (zZu0s)

97 41
DeSantis entering the race is silly, pointless and counter-productive.

He is gong to get blown off the stage by Trump, get less than 10 pct of any primary or caucus and be humiliated.

His candidacy is being pushed by GOPe forces, it's sad really.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:13 AM (up/3i)

If I may introduce another theory.
They will cheat.

There is little reason to believe primaries are any more trustworthy than election day.
That being said, I embrace competition. I don't think anyone, even Trump should get a free ride to the general.
DeSantis has backers and we will see what he can do.

If he is not obviously wiping the floor with Trump and beats him, the GOP will have a real problem on their hands. Because a lot of people will think it was rigged.

Posted by: Inogame at May 19, 2023 08:35 AM (53oGX)

98 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile gets a new name: The Frankmobile
Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2023 08:34 AM (lJmG6)
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Sorry but "Frankmobile" just doesn't roll off the tongue like "Wienermobile."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 08:36 AM (YIVH2)

99 ‘Frightening’: Dianne Feinstein Suffered ‘Several’ Undisclosed Complications After Hospitalization
______

Even in her current state, I suspect she's still brighter than Gillibrand, Whitehouse, and Hirono.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 19, 2023 08:36 AM (TgBWG)

100 Do you know why children’s results tanked during [Chinese] COVID. Their parents were incompetent teachers.

Generally parents have a full time job.

So the argument here is that the school system forced kids into a "learn from home" model and because they had no clue how to do that...parents should have become full time teachers in addition to having a full time job so they could continue to pay the taxes to pay the teachers' salaries??

THAT IS CONSIDERED A SERIOUS ARGUMENT?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:36 AM (lc5cP)

101 “Do you know why children’s results tanked during [Chinese] COVID. Their parents were incompetent teachers. Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up. You’re clearly no professional,” Hoyt emailed the parent.

This is the exact same mentality behind any artificial disruption. When dispatchable energy is shut-down and replaced with wind/solar, you get grid failure; when ICE is replaced by EV, you get a collapse in transportation; when the food system is disrupted by ethanol mandates or when animal protein is over-regulated in favor of TVP or insects.

The C19 disruption in "education" had no ramp up, no plan, no Plan B, it was basically, the teachers fled to Tahiti and the feral children are conflated to represent all children. There was no infrastructure for learning at home; no syllabus, no schedule, no equipment, no way to corral kids with little to no discipline. The culture was not ready for an instant shift from in-person kenneling to perpetual mandated truancy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 08:37 AM (YXHzG)

102 Is this contradictory? Hell yes!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:24 AM (x0n13)

Not really. You just like both candidates, but prefer one. It's not necessary to pick one and despise the other, after all, though most people enjoy that paradigm.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:37 AM (oINRc)

103 "Hoyt responded to the message angrily, arguing that the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that parents are “incompetent teachers” and shouldn’t be involved in their children’s education."

Most parents weren't trying to home school their kids, they were trying to comply with the on-line schooling/daycare the schools insisted on. As we know, parents that do actual homes schooling and have the time to do it far outperform the public schools. And in far less time daily.

Posted by: Ripley at May 19, 2023 08:37 AM (cUYo/)

104 ChatGPT: For students too lazy to plagiarize by using google.

Another nail in the coffin of Higher Ed

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 19, 2023 08:37 AM (RqMSv)

105 People seem to conveniently forget that Trump blew away 16 of the GOPs best and brightest in 16...

I have mixed feelings on this. If the 2016 had the GOP's best and brightest....damn (please clap). No, not mixed feelings, just sad realization that it's probably right, and any normal GOP politicians I think could break the mold and jump in would, I'm sure, turn out to be sellouts willing to fold if the Party demanded it. For all his flaws, I think Trump is willing and able to buck the party...but the pool he has to draw lieutenants from are not as based.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 19, 2023 08:38 AM (NCgXW)

106 Morning Horde, thx JJ, Happy Friday. I keep seeing people saying "what about the Mueller report" as a defense to the Durham findings. They don't seem to realize that if the actions uncovered in the Durham report hadn't taken place the Mueller investigation would not have been necessary. Bootstrapped scumbaggery

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2023 08:38 AM (lRky4)

107 63 I find the Desantis shit tedious. He is already considering Sanders as his VP pick. Really?

At the same time, all of this seems to be coordinated to divide us and keep our eyes on the horse race and not who is holding the photo finish camera (voting integrity.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 08:22 AM (zZu0s)

RDS and the rest of them are splitting the GOP ticket, not Trump. I like Vivek a lot, and I think he serves to act as the conscience of the GOP. If Vivek's candidacy can prod Trump to follow through on cleaning up the Deep State, more power to him. The rest of the lot shouldn't be on the ticket. RDS should sit this one out until '28.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 19, 2023 08:38 AM (NJWRL)

108 Schlongwagen

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 08:38 AM (us2H3)

109 The reason to nominate DeSantis is for the uniparty to have a softer target for takedown or takeover.
That's why the GOPe are pushing him.
They think he's malleable.
They might be wrong, they might be right.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 19, 2023 08:38 AM (/jq25)

110 51 Note the convenient little circle of blame. Teachers insist on virtual classrooms. Many parents object. Virtual classrooms fail. Teachers blame parents.

Sadly, it'll work. Not 100%, but enough. Because too many people are simply too dumb to object, for a variety of reasons. Some can't even see the circle. Others are conditioned to revere teachers.
Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:19 AM (E2vEk)

I'm not sure about this... I mean pretty much best way to get my better half from 0 to murder is to tell her how she's ruining the kids... ESPECIALLY if you don't know her.. but even if you do.

Posted by: Inogame at May 19, 2023 08:38 AM (53oGX)

111 Another unhappy day for JJ

Posted by: Paul at May 19, 2023 08:38 AM (LY/1s)

112 It's been amusing to watch Disney's attempts to corporatize Star Wars collapse. Their "Galactic Starcruiser" hotel, an effort into which they poured huge amounts of cash, is closing after little more than a year. And the less said about their film and tv efforts, the better. Taken as a whole, this may end up being the most expensive entertainment themed failure ever in history, with losses in the billions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 08:39 AM (i9ffA)

113 Currently there's no substitute for Trump.

DeSantis was a history major, so he should understand why.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 19, 2023 08:40 AM (RqMSv)

114 The un-education system is performing a duty to the State. It's pushing out generation after generation of State dependents. Look at the bulk of kids who'll be exiting the public indoctrination centers this summer. Are they, as a whole, ready to be productive members of society or are they more likely to be dependent on the State?

Furthermore, many have been indoctrinated to hate those of us who are (were) productive or otherwise "normal."

The State is playing a long game here. They hope to wait us out by incrementally pushing their agenda out if only the radicals would cool their jets and not screw it up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)

115 >It's going to be a stupid an pointless shit show, but apparently a lot of people want that shit show.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


the US presidential campaign season is always a shitshow, worsening at an exponential rate

you'd think a nation of over 330M people could come up with better people to serve in gov't

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:40 AM (geLO8)

116 @97

>>If I may introduce another theory.
They will cheat.

By and large, most voting in most locales, regardless of party is "fortified," in some form or fashion.

Having said that, on the GOP side, that usually takes the form of managing who the candidates are and destroying them in the media not outright electoral manipulation, the GOP doesn't have that sort of infrastructure.

Trumps downsides are baked into the cake and he is largely immune from that sort of manipulation and reputational destruction.

Again, this is all pointless and stupid but totally on brand for the GOP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 08:40 AM (up/3i)

117 Good morning and Happy Birthday JJ! I am where you are on the primary. DeSantis is one of my governors so I selfishly want to keep him.

I want to vote so hard though!

Posted by: blaster at May 19, 2023 08:41 AM (pwExq)

118 Paul's shift at the gloryhole must have ended early

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2023 08:41 AM (lRky4)

119 Oscar Meyer needs different 'mobiles for regions and taste. The Boudinmobile, cruising the streets of NOLA until carjacked in the 9th Ward.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 19, 2023 08:41 AM (lz5hY)

120 you'd think a nation of over 330M people could come up with better people to serve in gov't

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:40 AM (geLO


Better people have little desire to serve in government.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 19, 2023 08:41 AM (45fpk)

121 As we know, parents that do actual homes schooling and have the time to do it far outperform the public schools. And in far less time daily.

Remember how in the 50s it wasn't uncommon for one salary to be enough to support a family. Home schooling wasn't as common then, though it is interesting to suppose where we would be today if instead of culture pushing mothers to enter the workforce it instead pushed women to adopt home schooling.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:41 AM (lc5cP)

122 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO8)

123 Wait! Didn't every single teacher get full pay for the entire shut-down? Why were parents supposed to pick up the slack if they were all getting their regular checks?


So much wrong with covid hysteria and it was obvious at the time. Pointing it out made you a hater and a public menace .

Posted by: Ripley at May 19, 2023 08:43 AM (cUYo/)

124 if instead of culture pushing mothers to enter the workforce it instead pushed women to adopt home schooling.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:41 AM (lc5cP)

Instead of pissing away countless dollars on useless administrators and money laundering schemes, what if they just cut any parent who was homeschooling a check so long as their kid performed satisfactorily every year?

Ha. I kill me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 08:43 AM (/EuRN)

125 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 08:43 AM (oRtbV)

126 Cornyn says Trump can't win in 2024

that really hurts

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 08:44 AM (us2H3)

127 DC_Draino @DC_Draino · 21h
🚨BREAKING🚨

FBI whistleblower testifies under oath that FBI won’t allow 11,000+ hours of J6 footage to be released b/c it would expose undercover agents committing crimes inside Capitol

Not only was J6 a Fed setup, but now it’s confirmed that FBI is also covering its tracks

https://tinyurl.com/yck637yh

DC_Draino @DC_Draino · 21h
BREAKING: FBI confirms under oath that undercover officers, confidential informants, and FBI assets were present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th

J6 WAS A FED SETUP!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:44 AM (Vwz3I)

128 what if they just cut any parent who was homeschooling a check

How the argument starts: Parents aren't trained to teach...this requires years of experience

How the argument ends: Fine, fine those home schooled kids know more then our public school kids. But if you take money away from our schools you'll hurt black children!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:45 AM (lc5cP)

129 Democrats race to avoid a Biden embarrassment in New Hampshire. Top Democrats are scrambling for ways to avoid a catastrophe in New Hampshire in which Joe Biden may not appear on the primary ballot, ceding the first unofficial contest of 2024 to a fringe candidate.

republicans have used all kinds of shady law changes that affect voting and elections. If they're trying to keep him off the primary ballot, they might also try to legislate to keep him off the general!

NH Democrats are in the same place as IA Democrats. State law dictates how we do our primary stuff...and we're not in charge in the state, so we can't change it.

Play hardball, don't worry about what politico says. Biden won’t be embarrassed, regardless of what Politico says. This is true, but only because he's demented AND shameless lol.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 19, 2023 08:45 AM (NCgXW)

130 If the 2016 had the GOP's best and brightest....damn (please clap).

US politics doesn't work that way. The best and brightest are almost always gunned down at the starting line. We get the people who sucked the right dicks.

That is why Trump is very different. For decades, politicians sucked his dick. Now if Vivek had Trump money and could send in body doubles to suck the dicks - might have a better chance at having the best and brightest.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (YXHzG)

131 122 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?
Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO

Yes. Somalia.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (z6EXk)

132 99 ‘Frightening’: Dianne Feinstein Suffered ‘Several’ Undisclosed Complications After Hospitalization
______

Even in her current state, I suspect she's still brighter than Gillibrand, Whitehouse, and Hirono.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 19, 2023 08:36 AM (TgBWG)

----
Fetterman enters the room.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Million Men March with 'utensils' on DC at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (qfLjt)

133 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?

Some of the Caribbean countries do ok. You probably have to bribe the local governments though on a regular basis.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (lc5cP)

134 122 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?
Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO

Second look at Niue?

Posted by: blaster at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (pwExq)

135 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?

We'd have to build it. The we'd have to constantly defend it, internally. Not from Communists and Socialists. From those who want to remake a "strong" Cold War era America.

Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (mdx6+)

136 I was skimming J.D. Unwin’s 600 page book Sex and Culture yesterday, and one of his characterizations of uncivilized cultures is “Method of Controlling the Weather”.

I found this amusing. We’re still carrying on this impulse from the Stone Age.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 19, 2023 08:47 AM (1huWu)

137 I still find it well night miraculous that the folk of Frankfurt and the folks of Vienna both independently invented the hot dog.

It's like Leibnitz and Newton inventing calculus by accident.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 08:47 AM (/EuRN)

138 [takes dollar, looks around furtively]

Word on the street is, the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse, Psoriasis, calls Feinstein's case of shingles a "close enough" herald of his arrival.

Posted by: Johnny The Shoeshine Guy at May 19, 2023 08:47 AM (0beTq)

139 Instead of pissing away countless dollars on useless administrators and money laundering schemes, what if they just cut any parent who was homeschooling a check so long as their kid performed satisfactorily every year?

Ha. I kill me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

As if. But it would be wonderful. I had to leave my area to escape paying roughly $14K/yr for the privilege of living in a district where I disagreed with damn near everything as it relates to teaching kids.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 08:47 AM (oRtbV)

140 Yes. Somalia.

Not really. The various warlords don't have the bureaucracy that say the US does, but they will get their 10% and you will do what they say or...they'll just shoot you.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:47 AM (lc5cP)

141 131 122 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?
Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO

Yes. Somalia.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (z6EXk)
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Two things, not tiny and more like anarchy rules (war lords, bandits and pirates. etc.).

Posted by: Ciampino --- Million Men March with 'utensils' on DC at May 19, 2023 08:48 AM (qfLjt)

142 Not really. The various warlords don't have the bureaucracy that say the US does, but they will get their 10% and you will do what they say or...they'll just shoot you.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:47 AM (lc5cP)

Community Organizing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 08:48 AM (/EuRN)

143 I take that back-- there is a rational for Ron: Lose with dignity.

None of the GOP are embarrassed by the pathetic performance of McCain or Romney getting blown out and losing.
But they are embarrassed by Trump winning.

There is only one path to 270: Overcome near insurmountable fraud in 6 deep-blue cities.
Neither of the plans by Trump or Ron are good enough; we're going to need a miracle.
But Ron's "I'll win by getting the NeverTrump back" is worse.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2023 08:49 AM (Vhzin)

144 I think it's just to condition every child to accept a scenario where they must meekly obey the authority of the very stupidest, most petty and malicious members of their communities, because that's the way it's always going to be. The American way.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 08:29 AM (oINRc)
++++
That was John Dewey's goal, yes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

145 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?

Now you know the definition of "American Exceptionalism"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 08:49 AM (YXHzG)

146 The North Dakota DA has dropped murder charges against Shannon Brandt who, in an act of blatant terrorism, deliberately struck and killed a conservative, Cayler Ellingson, with his car after a political argument.

Happy Friday.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 19, 2023 08:49 AM (DTX3h)

147 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?
Posted by: DB - slightly askew

Yes. Somalia.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Two things, not tiny and more like anarchy rules (war lords, bandits and pirates. etc.).
Posted by: Ciampino

Oh, you mean like we are going to be.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 08:49 AM (oRtbV)

148 I saw close up pictures of Feinstein . Her eyes are weirdly sunken in their sockets. It's like the soft matter in her head is shrinking

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2023 08:50 AM (lRky4)

149 You know because school districts don't decide what textbooks to buy ever...

Breaking News @BreakingNews · May 17
BREAKING: Penguin Random House, PEN America, five authors and two parents sue a Florida school district for removing 10 books related to race and the LGBTQ community.

🐧 🐧 🐧

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:50 AM (Vwz3I)

150 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?
Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO
==================
Let's make one!

Posted by: Sam Adams and the boyz at May 19, 2023 08:50 AM (Unb6L)

151 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile gets a new name: The Frankmobile
Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2023 08:34 AM (lJmG6)

Finally! Vindication!

Posted by: PreZombie Frank Stallone at May 19, 2023 08:50 AM (RJQ8g)

152 Note that after doing a totally phony Woman Push from 2016 to 2020, and pissing off men sufficiently about it, they have now deployed the next phase which is a wholesale comprehensive and wide-ranging attack on women.

Note who was "featured" in the Snitch Training. There were many female "terrorists" featured, which would never have happened back in 2012.

All the problem people back then were supposedly men. Now they're "women who care about children". And now men, having been beaten into submission about their gender, don't give a shit about helping women ("welcome to the party pal") and so the breakdown continues apace.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 08:50 AM (OUpHg)

153 The North Dakota DA has dropped murder charges against Shannon Brandt

Didn't the ND Gov just declare he is running for president. Has anyone asked him if we will demanded the DA's resignation?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:51 AM (lc5cP)

154 Woodland Park may be a small town but it’s not what you think of when you hear the phrase “small-town America.” When we lived in Colorado 15 years ago, it wanted to be the next Boulder.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 19, 2023 08:51 AM (nfrXX)

155 it was an ill-advised question

carry on

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:51 AM (geLO8)

156 republicans have used all kinds of shady law changes that affect voting and elections.
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Like requiring photo I.D.! The bastards!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:51 AM (Vwz3I)

157 I think diamonds are a poor investment. I saw Superman create one in seconds by squeezing a large chunk of coal in his bare hands. The diamond was placed back into the idol, which placated the natives and saved the life of Lois and Jimmy. If it's that easy to make one, diamonds can't be that inherently valuable.

Posted by: Great Caesar's Ghost! at May 19, 2023 08:52 AM (Nn3xT)

158 But Ron's "I'll win by getting the NeverTrump back" is worse.

Mainly because Ron would have to be all the things that we hate and despise about the Never Trumpers.

We don't need a neo-con, all-war-all-the-time, loot-and-spend, the-border-is-a-welcome-mat, we-need-moar-surveillance, phuque-phree-speech losers.

We have enough of them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 08:52 AM (YXHzG)

159 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile gets a new name: The Frankmobile
Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2023 08:34 AM (lJmG6)

So, Ava Gardner's been talking about me again.

Ring-a-Ding-Ding!

Posted by: Zombie Frank Sinatra at May 19, 2023 08:52 AM (RJQ8g)

160 >I saw close up pictures of Feinstein . Her eyes are weirdly sunken in their sockets. It's like the soft matter in her head is shrinking

Posted by: Smell the Glove


she looks like a corpse, just a few days dead
-they should bring in a mortician to spruce her up a bit

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:53 AM (geLO8)

161 so-called quote-unquote "president"

Crowder exclusively refers to Brandon as “former vice president Joe Biden”, which conveys the correct amount of disrespect.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 19, 2023 08:53 AM (X4R3E)

162 it was an ill-advised question

carry on
Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:51 AM (geLO

It was a perfectly cromulent question.

It's the answer that sucks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 08:54 AM (/EuRN)

163 Scientists say it rains diamonds on the planet Neptune

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:54 AM (geLO8)

164 Diamonds are useful against Gorns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 08:55 AM (5+1HQ)

165 >>> Hang the DJ

Time to change my nic

Posted by: DJ at May 19, 2023 08:55 AM (H5y4s)

166 The North Dakota DA has dropped murder charges against Shannon Brandt who, in an act of blatant terrorism, deliberately struck and killed a conservative, Cayler Ellingson, with his car after a political argument.

Happy Friday.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik

Brandt pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Even our normally biased tv report stated there was no evidence that the 2 had had any political disagreement that night.

Thank you JJ for including the link.

Posted by: old chick at May 19, 2023 08:55 AM (sOete)

167 There is only one path to 270: Overcome near insurmountable fraud in 6 deep-blue cities.
Neither of the plans by Trump or Ron are good enough; we're going to need a miracle.
But Ron's "I'll win by getting the NeverTrump back" is worse.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2023 08:49 AM (Vhzin)
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It's worse than that. It's like "whack-a-mole."

Even if the fraud is overcome in the same cities that determined the last election, they will just spin up the fraud machine in 6 *different* cities (or 8 cities, or 10 cities, or however many cities they need) to achieve their desired goal.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 08:55 AM (YIVH2)

168 the only way Meatball can win the nomination is to colpletely turn off MAGA voters

and then in the general, MAGA stays home and Ron loses

Maybe that's the plan for the Meatbal/Rove machine

just get rid of Trump, we'll worry about the fallout later

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 08:56 AM (us2H3)

169 "Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?
Posted by: DB "


Third world South American country Bolivia my wife is from, currently governed by socialists , is like the wild west. Some laws but mostly not enforced. Local police don't care what people do and national govt too broke to do anything but talk and promise and blather. You pretty much do whatever you want expect kill somebody. Always makes for an interesting trip. (It was even more chaotic 20 years ago.)

Posted by: Ripley at May 19, 2023 08:56 AM (cUYo/)

170 completely

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (us2H3)

171 Even if the fraud is overcome in the same cities that determined the last election, they will just spin up the fraud machine in 6 *different* cities (or 8 cities, or 10 cities, or however many cities they need) to achieve their desired goal.

I wonder how good the personal security is of these city election officials.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (YXHzG)

172 ... Taken as a whole, this may end up being the most expensive entertainment themed failure ever in history, with losses in the billions.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2023 08:39 AM (i9ffA)
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Maybe. I suspect that Disney has broken even on the Lucasfilm acquisition. The first round of movies were major hits, until TLJ caused the whole franchise to stall. Lucasfilm only cost Disney about $4 billion, and The Force Awakens alone made by a quarter of that. TLJ, for all its hatred, probably also made close to a billion dollars. Rogue One was a decent money-maker, too, as was the shitty final act in the new trilogy. Add in some merchandising and whatnot and they probably broke even before they started turfing the IP.

"Galactic Starcruiser" has been a tremendous debacle that was fairly predictable. If Ace or the others don't cover it, I might make my next rant about it. It's fairly interesting as a case study in corporate stupidity, lack of oversight and collapse in budget discipline.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (DU+/6)

173 I was skimming J.D. Unwin’s 600 page book Sex and Culture yesterday, and one of his characterizations of uncivilized cultures is “Method of Controlling the Weather”.

He’s saying JJ is uncivilized? Oof.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (X4R3E)

174 J6 WAS A FED SETUP!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:44 AM (Vwz3I)

Concur.

Like Leonard Cohen sang, "Everybody Knows".

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (4KbXy)

175 Catturd ™
@catturd2
Republicans rumored to be announcing a run for President by next week ...

1) Ron DeSantis
2) Chris Christie
3) Mike Pence and the fly

Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

176 Speaking at the Catholic University of America this week, Sen. J.D. Vance reportedly said, “There is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the United States of America.” His remark drew outraged responses. “This is how the right lays the predicate for even more comprehensive state control of the private sector, including plowing through constitutional limitations on state authority,” wrote David French, the New York Times columnist.
____

Wow.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2023 08:58 AM (fs1hN)

177 It's worse than that. It's like "whack-a-mole."


One possible answer to this is a massive, real turn out.

Most of the increase in ballots from 2016 to 2020 was the Ds identifying people that don't vote, and voting in their name.

If those people actually vote it causes issues. Remember a few thousand people in 2020 went to vote in person and were told they voted by mail already? That's the fraud...

But imagine it isn't a few thousand but 10M or more?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 08:58 AM (lc5cP)

178 168 the only way Meatball can win the nomination is to colpletely turn off MAGA voters

and then in the general, MAGA stays home and Ron loses

Maybe that's the plan for the Meatbal/Rove machine

just get rid of Trump, we'll worry about the fallout later
Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 08:56 AM (us2H3)

Yep. If RDS gets the nomination, I'm staying home. That's how much of a mistake I think he's making running against Trump right now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 19, 2023 09:00 AM (z6EXk)

179 Speaking at the Catholic University of America this week, Sen. J.D. Vance reportedly said, “There is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the United States of America.” His remark drew outraged responses. “This is how the right lays the predicate for even more comprehensive state control of the private sector, including plowing through constitutional limitations on state authority,” wrote David French, the New York Times columnist. ...
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2023 08:58 AM (fs1hN)
++++
David French: conserving conservatism through literal progressive fascism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:01 AM (DU+/6)

180 If it rains diamonds on Neptune, what does it rain on Uranus?

Posted by: Captain Video at May 19, 2023 09:01 AM (Nn3xT)

181 173 I was skimming J.D. Unwin’s 600 page book Sex and Culture yesterday, and one of his characterizations of uncivilized cultures is “Method of Controlling the Weather”.

He’s saying JJ is uncivilized? Oof.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (X4R3E)

"Classy guy. He gets out of the shower to pee!"

- - Leonard Hacker, aka Buddy Hackett

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)

182 LOL.

Quote Tweet: Mark Hemingway @Heminator · 20h
Ex-Biden Nuclear Official Sam Brinton Arrested As Fugitive From Justice

Jon Gabriel @exjon · 20h
That guy has so much baggage.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:02 AM (Vwz3I)

183 180 If it rains diamonds on Neptune, what does it rain on Uranus?
Posted by: Captain Video at May 19, 2023 09:01 AM (Nn3xT)

Buckyballs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:02 AM (/EuRN)

184 Little Tommy Hoyt forget to account for the abysmal education results prior to COVID? Or that millions of parents weren't prepared to homeschool when the government kicked their kids out? Or that it was still the teachers "teaching" most of them during that time?

I could put my kids on Youtube educational videos of my selection for a quarter of the day and get better results than most public schools.

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 19, 2023 09:02 AM (wNDOJ)

185 and then in the general, MAGA stays home and Ron loses

Trumps out there endorsing Bud Light and Disney. The Jared/Ivanka process has completed, he’s Adam Schiff with funnier hair.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 19, 2023 09:03 AM (X4R3E)

186 If it rains diamonds on Neptune, what does it rain on Uranus?

Yet another example of poor schooling. Everyone knows that Men are from Mars, Women from Venus and everyone else from Uranus.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 09:03 AM (YXHzG)

187 183 180 If it rains diamonds on Neptune, what does it rain on Uranus?
Posted by: Captain Video at May 19, 2023 09:01 AM (Nn3xT)

Buckyballs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:02 AM (/EuRN)

Men?

Posted by: Mayor Pete at May 19, 2023 09:03 AM (z6EXk)

188 Further to Brandt killing Ellingson ...

Brandt attempted to use the political climate of Trump hate to camouflage the outright murder of Ellingson and the mainstream media fully participated with only the murderer's account of the night.

The msm created the atmosphere that allowed Brandt to believe he could blame an entire political party and it's supporters for committing murder.

Posted by: old chick at May 19, 2023 09:03 AM (sOete)

189 Buckyballs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Wow - I haven't thought of them for decades.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 09:04 AM (oRtbV)

190 I could put my kids on Youtube educational videos of my selection for a quarter of the day and get better results than most public schools.
Posted by: McLurkerson at May 19, 2023 09:02 AM (wNDOJ)

No idea who Angela Davis is, but able to grow potatoes, outline the Constitution, and draw a free-body diagram.

i.e., "uneducated"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:04 AM (/EuRN)

191 Bill in Arkansas, are you available for a consultation, please? What is your fee?

Email link in nic.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 09:05 AM (Emce2)

192 “The way I feel is that children’s test scores in school performance dropped off drastically was because they didn’t have teachers. And the parents that thought, ‘We can replace them and can tell them what to do,’ was not effective,” he explained. .

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Huh. That's weird. I was told that the teachers were working hard and just as effective and the children were learning online and everything was awesome.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:05 AM (4jwtW)

193 Years ago, a comedian who I don't remember did a routine where he said, "When you ride the subway, just hold yourself hostage and act crazy so no one will bother you - SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 08:26 AM (x0n13)

In the late 80's I was working at a NYC TV station in engineering. My chief engineer had an interesting technique while riding the subway at night on the way back from the transmitter. He would sit at the end of a seat with a piece of string hanging from his mouth, while rocking back back at forth and muttering to himself. He would also wear a ratty old coat in the winter and earmuffs. I still chuckle at the sight. Oh, he was a Brooklyn boy by birth. Funny guy.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 19, 2023 09:05 AM (Zvtjl)

194 I could put my kids on Youtube educational videos of my selection for a quarter of the day and get better results than most public schools.
Posted by: McLurkerson at May 19, 2023 09:02 AM (wNDOJ)
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The dirty little secret about education is that anyone with sufficient self-motivation and discipline can learn just about ANY subject to ANY level for free (or nearly so). You want to learn quantum mechanics? There's tons of freely available resources out there that will help you along the way. Ditto for any other engineering or scientific discipline. The only downside is it's difficult to get true hands-on experience in those fields because they often require expensive, specialized equipment (e.g. scanning electron microscopes).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 09:05 AM (YIVH2)

195 looks like Gums Scott is gonna announce soon

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 09:06 AM (us2H3)

196 this 100-way primary race is gonna be fun to watch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:07 AM (/EuRN)

197 I could put my kids on Youtube educational videos of my selection for a quarter of the day and get better results than most public schools.

As an experiment, I would love to see Hoyt's Dream Team of educators take a K-12 (thirteen years) and compare that to six years of kids taught primarily by Kahn Academy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 09:07 AM (YXHzG)

198 too many people on the right are still asleep. My school district has bond measures practically every year. And every year they pass with 65%. This is in an area that votes Republican 65%

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:07 AM (jBD8U)

199 In the late 80's I was working at a NYC TV station in engineering. My chief engineer had an interesting technique while riding the subway at night on the way back from the transmitter. He would sit at the end of a seat with a piece of string hanging from his mouth, while rocking back back at forth and muttering to himself. He would also wear a ratty old coat in the winter and earmuffs. I still chuckle at the sight. Oh, he was a Brooklyn boy by birth. Funny guy.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 19, 2023 09:05 AM (Zvtjl)
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So you're saying that he was yet another in a long list of examples of entitled and oppressive bourgeois men appropriating the culture of others to advance his personal safety and comfort?

How unexpected.

Posted by: Progressive Activist at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

200 166 Brandt pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Even our normally biased tv report stated there was no evidence that the 2 had had any political disagreement that night.

Thank you JJ for including the link.

Posted by: old chick at May 19, 2023 08:55 AM (sOete)

Your link is broken. Here's a Fox News story:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/2p8pzbuj

Shannon Brandt, 42, of Glenfield, North Dakota, initially said he hit and killed Cayler Ellingson in McHenry, about 150 miles northeast of Bismarck, after a political argument in September 2022.

The case drew attention on social media after Brandt told authorities Ellingson was a Republican extremist and that he was afraid that Ellingson was calling people to "come and get him," according to court records.

That sure sounds politically motivated to me. But, I guess it's not political-political when it's a leftist who's committing the murder.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (DTX3h)

201 In the late 80's I was working at a NYC TV station in engineering. My chief engineer had an interesting technique while riding the subway at night on the way back from the transmitter. He would sit at the end of a seat with a piece of string hanging from his mouth, while rocking back back at forth and muttering to himself.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

In a just world, I'd go for the Charles Bronson approach but, well, you know. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (oRtbV)

202 and then in the general, MAGA stays home and Ron loses

-

I'll vote for Trump or Desantis and hope for a miracle.

I think Trump is the only one who offers the path to that miracle, because the people who elected him in a landslide in 2020 and watched their votes stolen, lies told, the country torn apart, wars started, the economy ruined, and their dollars cut in half will be returning to the polls for vengeance with Trump.

I don't think Desantis will be able to appeal to the same energy or righteous wrath.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (4jwtW)

203 The education system isn't about "education" anymore.

It's about indoctrination.

To some parents the words "education" and "indoctrination" sound similar enough so they let it go.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (Q4IgG)

204 Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2023 08:58 AM (fs1hN)

They have to be putting us on, right? Have to be.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (mlv7N)

205 @172

>>Maybe. I suspect that Disney has broken even on the Lucasfilm acquisition.

Doubtful, they paid over 4 billion for the rights to LucasFilm and their IP.

The three films plus Rogue One, combined, made 5.5 billion globally, with production costs, M+A, plus the splits with distributors, they probably netted Disney about 2 billion dollar of gross profit, if that.

And with them having killed their IP, the money coming in from future Star Wars films is going to be dramatically curtailed.

Their streaming shows ratings are in the toilet and I don't see that improving anytime soon based on their diving into politics full force.

They are a dead company walking and they don't even seem to know it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (up/3i)

206 “There is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the United States of America.”
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Back in the day, I recall that being named as 'syndicalism.'

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (MIKMs)

207 Greg Price @greg_price11 · 16h
Six month pregnant nurse gets off a 12 hour shift, rents a bike to go home, group of black guys tries to steal it from her, films her crying and claims she's a racist, video goes viral and she's the one who loses her job.

Look at my systemic racism dawg.

Quote Tweet: NBC News @NBCNews · 3h
A New York City hospital employee has been placed on leave after a viral video that appeared to show her attempting to take a rental bike from a group of young Black men garnered millions of views.

Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando · 1h
This article doesn’t mention that she proved she paid for the bike.

Do you see how Narrative works? This particular narrative was disproven yesterday. But here it is, still being perpetuated by NBC.

Realize where we are.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:09 AM (Vwz3I)

208 The only downside is it's difficult to get true hands-on experience in those fields because they often require expensive, specialized equipment (e.g. scanning electron microscopes).

I'm 100% sure that the local ISD doesn't have scanning electron microscopes. And if they did, the teachers would probably be sticking their junk under them and then posting the pictures.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 09:09 AM (YXHzG)

209 I could put my kids on Youtube educational videos of my selection for a quarter of the day and get better results than most public schools.

--

You could no-joke let them watch random youtube videos with the filter on and they'd have a safer experience than "kids" shows by Disney or Nickelodeon.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:09 AM (4jwtW)

210 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

WaPo's
@Eugene_Robinson
on Republicans asking for spending cuts in exchange for a bigger national debt:

"The cruelty here, the cruelty is not a bug, it’s a feature. It’s the whole point right now of what the Republicans are demanding is the cruelty. It’s not saving money"

https://tinyurl.com/yc7d52jm

Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

211
DeSantis is Trump without the baggage.

And Karen Gillan will be stopping by my place later in a nurse uniform and a smile.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2023 09:10 AM (mlv7N)

212 Anyone have an update on Captain Hate?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 19, 2023 09:10 AM (flINI)

213 Education has always been about indoctrination. The polite lie from day one was that it was about learning the doctrines of America and its culture, in order to be a Good Citizen. Indoctrination is not inherently bad or good. What matters is the doctrines that are taught. And the doctrines of the ruling classes have been hot soupy garbage for well over a century.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:11 AM (/EuRN)

214 Greg Price @greg_price11 · 16h
Six month pregnant nurse gets off a 12 hour shift, rents a bike to go home, group of black guys tries to steal it from her, films her crying and claims she's a racist, video goes viral and she's the one who loses her job.

-

Black culture is broken beyond repair.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:11 AM (4jwtW)

215 I've spent time in Neptune, NJ. Wish I could reclaim that time. Twenty bucks for a badge to get on beach? Phooey!!!

Posted by: Moved to NC at May 19, 2023 09:12 AM (Nn3xT)

216 So according to the narrative a 6 month old woman tried to steal a bike from the black men? And people believe this shot?

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:12 AM (jBD8U)

217
Black culture is broken beyond repair.
Posted by: Telling a Child

A quibble, if you will. I'd modify that a bit - Black Urban Culture is . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2023 09:12 AM (oRtbV)

218 That sure sounds politically motivated to me. But, I guess it's not political-political when it's a leftist who's committing the murder.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (DTX3h)

There was no evidence of any political disagreement between the 2 that night, other than Brandt's drunk ramblings and the FOX report is furthering those lies.

Posted by: old chick at May 19, 2023 09:12 AM (sOete)

219 They are a dead company walking and they don't even seem to know it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (up/3i)
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Lucasfilm as a division is dead. I seriously doubt the made only $2 billion on the Lucasfilm IP before the wheels came off. The first new trilogy movie probably cleared a billion its own. That was a *huge* movie and they hit the ground running and had a lot of momentum. Home video was pretty big for Disney Star Wars, too, and they sold a lot of merchandise.

With Hollywood accounting we won't know, but I suspect they broke even on the acquisition before it hit the turf. But then they've kept going and pouring more and more money - more than they spent to acquire Lucasfilm in the first place - into it, with massive losses. From the start until now, it's been a major money loser. From the start through Rise of Skywalker, though, they probably broke even or close to it. They've since burned a *ton* of cash on Lucasfilm properties, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

220 Although I sort of love that NYC nurse did the things she did, too.

GRRRRRL POWRE!!!!

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:13 AM (4jwtW)

221 Black culture is broken beyond repair.
Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:11 AM (4jwtW)

has been for decades

Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 09:13 AM (us2H3)

222 214 Greg Price @greg_price11 · 16h
Six month pregnant nurse gets off a 12 hour shift, rents a bike to go home, group of black guys tries to steal it from her, films her crying and claims she's a racist, video goes viral and she's the one who loses her job.

-

Black culture is broken beyond repair.

no they're being smart. this was a tactic and it clearly worked for them.

it will be done in cities all over the place.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 19, 2023 09:13 AM (w0NJk)

223 With all the free crowdsourced content available today how can the current educational model continue?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 19, 2023 09:14 AM (DhOHl)

224 Do you see how Narrative works? This particular narrative was disproven yesterday. But here it is, still being perpetuated by NBC.

Realize where we are.||
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:09 AM (Vwz3I)
********
Ben Crump has entered the chat-

Ben Crump
@AttorneyCrump

This is unacceptable! A white woman was caught on camera attempting to STEAL a Citi Bike from a young Black man in NYC. She grossly tried to weaponize her tears to paint this man as a threat. This is EXACTLY the type of behavior that has endangered so many Black men in the past!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

225 I wonder what party the nurse belong to? Hmm. She’s in NYC, she’s a woman and she’s in a union, definitely MAGA. Lol.

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:14 AM (jBD8U)

226 Neptune, Ohio is a cool place.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 09:14 AM (5+1HQ)

227 @Eugene_Robinson on Republicans asking for spending cuts in exchange for a bigger national debt:

"The cruelty here, the cruelty is not a bug, it’s a feature. It’s the whole point right now of what the Republicans are demanding is the cruelty. It’s not saving money" ...
Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 09:09 AM (NpAcC)
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Yes. Cruelty. Nothing but the love of hurting people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:15 AM (DU+/6)

228 Flu vaccine. I once asked my doctor if I was missing out on developing a wide repertoire of immunities by not getting an annual flu vaccine. He said, "It doesn't work that way" but didn't elaborate further. I wonder what he meant. He might be able to tell me now that he's retired.

Anyway, across the years I've noticed that whenever one of my acquaintances comes down with influenza, they always say, "But I got my flu shot!" Oddly, no one ever says, "I should have gotten a flu shot!"

I don't think I'm missing out.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 09:15 AM (Emce2)

229 @AttorneyCrump
This is unacceptable! A white woman was caught on camera attempting to STEAL a Citi Bike from a young Black man in NYC. She grossly tried to weaponize her tears to paint this man as a threat. This is EXACTLY the type of behavior that has endangered so many Black men in the past!
Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
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Who the hell is Ben Crump? I mean, besides a lawyer who doesn't understand the 48-hour/72-hour rule?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:16 AM (DU+/6)

230 Not joke or sarcasm. I’ve never taken the flu shot and I also have never had the flu.

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:16 AM (jBD8U)

231 In theory the flu shot gives you the same immunity getting the flu does.

But it gives you immunity to some flu identified months before, not the ones you are eventually exposed to.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 09:16 AM (lc5cP)

232 Re: Hollywood accounting.

What about the model being demonstrated by The Chosen?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 19, 2023 09:16 AM (DhOHl)

233 Yes. Cruelty. Nothing but the love of hurting people.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:15 AM (DU+/6)

This is so mandarin it's both hilarious and disgusting to behold.

Withholding The People's money from the celestial rulers is an insult to The People.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:16 AM (/EuRN)

234 160 >I saw close up pictures of Feinstein . Her eyes are weirdly sunken in their sockets. It's like the soft matter in her head is shrinking

Posted by: Smell the Glove


she looks like a corpse, just a few days dead
-they should bring in a mortician to spruce her up a bit

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:53 AM (geLO
----
You meant 'freshly dead' right?

Posted by: M. Brooks at May 19, 2023 09:17 AM (qfLjt)

235 What I don’t get it is why fight the black men for the bike. It’s a rental. Just tap “end rental” on the app and be done with it.

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:17 AM (jBD8U)

236 DeSantis is Trump without the baggage.
=====

Of course RDS has no baggage; he has never lived outside the government bubble.

RDS is an exceptionally talented person and I do not want to waste that talent before he has had some kind of opportunity at real life.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 19, 2023 09:18 AM (MIKMs)

237 234 160 >I saw close up pictures of Feinstein . Her eyes are weirdly sunken in their sockets. It's like the soft matter in her head is shrinking

Posted by: Smell the Glove
----
So is it Feinsteyn or Feinsteen?

Posted by: M. Brooks again at May 19, 2023 09:18 AM (qfLjt)

238 @219
>>Lucasfilm as a division is dead. I seriously doubt the made only $2 billion on the Lucasfilm IP before the wheels came off. The first new trilogy movie probably cleared a billion its own.

Global takes for each film.
FA - $2.68B
TLJ - $1.33B
ROS - $1.77B
R1 - 1.58B

Total 5.53B

Rule of thumb for production costs plus M&A plus distributor splits, 1/2 of gross.

Which would come out to around $2.77B

Let's say with creative accounting they netted $2.5B, which is itself doubtful.

Did they make more, did they make less, perhaps.

They certainly aren't making any profits on streaming as they are losing money on their streaming endeavors.
They have not recouped their over 4 billion dollar investment as of yet, perhaps one day, but I doubt it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 09:18 AM (up/3i)

239 Former FBI Official Tells House Republicans Bureau Denied Agents J6 Riot Footage to Protect Assets, Informants Present at U.S. Capitol

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Just like tranny shooting at the Covenant School.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 09:18 AM (FVME7)

240 I have been asked to handle the roll-out of the Ron DeSantis Presidential campaign and all subsequent commercials.

Here's my pitch. Here is my vision!

For the roll-out, I see a Giant Stone Head of Ron DeSantis defending into the Miami Dolphins Stadium.

Giant Ron opens his mouth and vomits forth a flood of ripe, delicious, sunshine-bright Florida Oranges.

"I have come.", says Giant Ron, "I have come to reclaim Orange for all. Orange! Not the province of on Orange Man Bad! But, the Orange of Freedom and Juiciness!

"Come feast upon the Orange I bring you."

Men, women, children from all walks of life run to grab the Oranges and begin eating them.

The Giant Stone Head of Ron DeSantis lands and out steps....Ron DeSantis.

He says, "My name is Ron DeSantis and I'm am running for the Presidency of the United Staes of America."
*Blackout*

H-u-u-uh? Well! The symbolism! Right?!?!?!

Posted by: Film Director John Boorman at May 19, 2023 09:19 AM (RJQ8g)

241 131 122 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?
Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO

Yes. Somalia.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM (z6EXk)

As someone who has been there I would suggest just buying a van and finding an isolated area down by the river.

Posted by: Reforger at May 19, 2023 09:19 AM (B705c)

242 The other crazy part is to watch the video and realize I can't understand the majority of the speech. I know they're in America, and I think they're speaking English, but it's a weird grunts and guttural dialect.

Thank a teacher!

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:19 AM (4jwtW)

243 You meant 'freshly dead' right?
Posted by: M. Brooks at May 19, 2023 09:17 AM (qfLjt)

Mostly,
Mostly dead is still slightly alive.

Posted by: Mr. Saturday Night at May 19, 2023 09:19 AM (53oGX)

244 J6 WAS A FED SETUP!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 08:44 AM (Vwz3I)

Concur.

Like Leonard Cohen sang, "Everybody Knows".

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2023 08:57 AM (4KbXy)

i like the concrete blond version better...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 09:19 AM (Mkvkw)

245 So is it Feinsteyn or Feinsteen?
Posted by: M. Brooks again at May 19, 2023 09:18 AM (qfLjt)

Di(e in a )Fi(re)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:19 AM (/EuRN)

246 Dammit!

Descending!!!! Not defending!!!!

Thx AC!

Posted by: Film Director John Boorman at May 19, 2023 09:19 AM (RJQ8g)

247 Let Me Be Frank About Frank:

https://youtu.be/3AUbu3cZ1dk

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 09:20 AM (iayUP)

248 DeSantis is Trump without the baggage.

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Desantis is Trump without the Trump.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:20 AM (4jwtW)

249 Parents THOUGHT they could teach ? WTF ?

No, MFer, they were FORCED to teach. Parents preferred that the schools remain open and the asshole teachers continue to do their fucking job.

Instead, bitches like Tommy Hoyt closed the schools and forced parents that are otherwise full time employed to do their job for them.

Tommy Hoyt, lampost, rope - some assembly required. Maybe the asshole will start to get the message

Posted by: deadrody at May 19, 2023 09:20 AM (kYmXc)

250 So you're saying that he was yet another in a long list of examples of entitled and oppressive bourgeois men appropriating the culture of others to advance his personal safety and comfort?

How unexpected.
Posted by: Progressive Activist at May 19, 2023 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

Damn! You broke the code!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 19, 2023 09:21 AM (Zvtjl)

251 Pence is Quisling without the Gjetost

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:21 AM (/EuRN)

252 J6 WAS A FED SETUP!

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This is not true, and we cannot release video footage because we need to protect our employees that were in the crowd.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:21 AM (4jwtW)

253 Hank Johnson of the US Geologic Survey has a new study out saying Manhattan buildings weigh too much, the island is going to sink, and now Global Warming is coming! Everyone should panic. (via the Telegraph)

New York 'observed to be subsiding'
“New York City faces accelerating inundation risk from sea level rise, subsidence, and increasing storm intensity,” explained the study.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (l3k/y)

254 Elon Musk de facto praises the Babylon Bee...

https://tinyurl.com/34zumjtk

[photo meme]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (Vwz3I)

255
168 the only way Meatball can win the nomination is to colpletely turn off MAGA voters
and then in the general, MAGA stays home and Ron loses
Maybe that's the plan for the Meatbal/Rove machine
just get rid of Trump, we'll worry about the fallout later
Posted by: REDACTED at May 19, 2023 08:56 AM (us2H3)
The RNC does not have the slightest intention of winning the general.election. Not even a smidgen.
THIS election, from the RNC's viewpoint, is ALL about defeating MAGA.
The RNC is planning for an epic defeat of MAGA.....hence Meatball(very foolishly and unnecessarily allowing himself to become a Rove/RNC tool) and the usual 'R' suspects.
MAGA wont vote for any of the RNC candidates...and the RNC is elated; for once the RNC has a 'winning' strategy ; the defeat and demolition of MAGA.

Posted by: Voter theater. at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (/5Who)

256 Who the hell is Ben Crump? I mean, besides a lawyer who doesn't understand the 48-hour/72-hour rule?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:16 AM (DU+/6)
*******
He's a grifter that understands that even if he's proven wrong it won't matter to half the people because the narrative has been cast.

Whitey is evil and the reason for all the problems in this country. Whitey keeps the Blacks from succeeding.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

257 So is it Feinsteyn or Feinsteen?
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FRONK-en-steen.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (MIKMs)

258 Just like tranny shooting at the Covenant School.

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Someone posted that she went out of her way to shoot out a stained glass image of Adam. Seems like that sort of thing would be reported by news agencies. Almost like it's important.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (4jwtW)

259 We are in COLD Civil War in America
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Agreed. The current prog Leftist authoritarians are not stupid enough to go full commie. That would mean government owning the means of production. And being responsible for the production.

They realize they can achieve the same objectives by controlling those who control the means of production. We used to call it fascism. It's probably more efficient in that at least some competent people are involved. The government is completely incompetent at everything except amassing power.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (FBf3u)

260 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile gets a new name: The Frankmobile
Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2023 08:34 AM (lJmG6)

This is some f*cking bullshit.

Posted by: Frank at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (dRxzV)

261 239 Former FBI Official Tells House Republicans Bureau Denied Agents J6 Riot Footage to Protect Assets, Informants Present at U.S. Capitol

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 09:18 AM (FVME7)

Sounds believable. Plenty of assets and informants there.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 09:23 AM (Emce2)

262 They certainly aren't making any profits on streaming as they are losing money on their streaming endeavors.
They have not recouped their over 4 billion dollar investment as of yet, perhaps one day, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 09:18 AM (up/3i)
++++
Need to factor in home video, merchandising, cross-marketing tie-ins and the new sales of old products that suddenly Disney owned. As it another billion and a half? Yeah, probably not. But it was significant.

But break even or modest loss, they have done nothing but hemorrhage money since ROS. I doubt they will *ever* make money on the Lucasfilm acquisition at this point. Maybe if they just quit making anything new completely and flog home video, merchandise, and partnerships for the next 20 years. But I doubt it. The brand is toxic at this point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:23 AM (DU+/6)

263 "So according to the narrative a 6 month old woman tried to steal a bike from the black men? And people believe this shot?

Posted by: Montec"

In today world, yes. I saw some propaganda piece the other day, , Yahoo News I think. about some elderly white woman who supposedly said something snide to some black man on an airplane and it was chalked up to racism based wholly on word of black man. No looking into what he was doing, asking other passengers or, gasp!, the elderly white lady's version. Nope, straight to the racism smear. It was practically as bad as slavery


Why this can't be grounds for a lawsuit is beyond me. Although I have doubts the incident even happened or the black man and white woman are real it was so sloppy. Just a narrative news story, maybe even put out by AI.

Posted by: Ripley at May 19, 2023 09:23 AM (cUYo/)

264 Ah Jeez… if it is Trump I vote Trump, if DeSantis I vote DeSantis… I DO KNOW I don’t vote for any Democrat ever again in my life. Is that too simple?

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 09:23 AM (RFmMX)

265 No photoshop today, JJ?

This will be reflected in your annual review.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 09:23 AM (5+1HQ)

266 Manhattan buildings weigh too much, the island is going to sink...

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A couple million electric cars should help.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:23 AM (4jwtW)

267 218 There was no evidence of any political disagreement between the 2 that night, other than Brandt's drunk ramblings and the FOX report is furthering those lies.
Posted by: old chick at May 19, 2023 09:12 AM (sOete)

So, now Fox is lying by by virtue of reporting what the leftist murder *himself* told the police immediately after committing said murder?

Okay. You do you. I'm out.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 19, 2023 09:24 AM (DTX3h)

268 Oh, the photoshop is up after all.

Never knew Lenin had such nice gams.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 09:25 AM (5+1HQ)

269 135 Is there a tiny independent nation somewhere, where the government just leaves people alone?

We'd have to build it. The we'd have to constantly defend it, internally. Not from Communists and Socialists. From those who want to remake a "strong" Cold War era America.
Posted by: Same Old Story at May 19, 2023 08:46 AM

No...the socialists and communists, whether organized or organic, are always the main problem. People always stumble across hard times, and it's always the easiest solution to ask the powerful government to help....and political leaders that need votes always want to.

Our Founders created a system of government that maximized individual sovereignty, but it relied on constant vigilance and drive on the part of the citizens to maintain. Humans (like all animals) are lazy, and want to work as little as possible to survive (those driven to great work/success are the outliers). Over the years, we've gradually ceded more and more freedom (and work/responsibility) for the false comfort of being taken care of by the government.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 19, 2023 09:25 AM (NCgXW)

270 I really don't get the Trump/DeSantis arguments at all. Neither one has a good chance to win a general election, and if either one pulls off a miracle and does, then most here will be happy with that result. It seems like an odd one to get all fired up about.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 09:25 AM (oINRc)

271 in my district the highest pay for a teacher is $85k after 15 years tenure. Given they wok only 9 months that’s effectively $115k a year. Plus incredible benefits and a guaranteed pension.

And yet ask anyone randomly on the street, they’ll say teachers are horribly paid. Because that is the narrative.

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:25 AM (jBD8U)

272 I don't get the whole, DeSantis is Trump without Trump baggage, what does that even f**king mean?

What exactly is Trumps "baggage?"

That a bunch of NeverTrumper and leftist douchebags have sand in their FartClams and catch the vapors at every turn.

You know, DeSantis is pretty pugnacious himself, what, he's not going to frighten the "Independents," Leftists and hardcore NT's.

You know, Florida is where woke goes to die, I've been told that talk frightens Independents.

It's all silly and ridiculous, but is totally on brand for Clown World.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 09:25 AM (up/3i)

273 Elon Musk de facto praises the Babylon Bee...
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:22 AM (Vwz3I)
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Uhhh, he bought Twitter. That's a pretty big indicator.

The Babylon Bee getting banned was certainly not the only thing that prompted Musk to buy Twitter, but it was the spark that blew up the powder keg.

It just goes to show that you never know what's going to be the last straw.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

274
And yet ask anyone randomly on the street, they’ll say teachers are horribly paid. Because that is the narrative.

If you give LIVs the average teacher salary in their area vs the average salary overall they are always shocked.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 09:26 AM (lc5cP)

275 #224 A reply to Crump:

Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck · 7h
She has now produced the receipt that shows she paid for the bike. She’s six months pregnant and a group of guys accosted her while she was on the bike to take it from her. Are you going to apologize to this woman or keep the act up Ben?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:27 AM (Vwz3I)

276 270 I really don't get the Trump/DeSantis arguments at all. Neither one has a good chance to win a general election, and if either one pulls off a miracle and does, then most here will be happy with that result. It seems like an odd one to get all fired up about.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 09:25 AM (oINRc)

I don’t get it either. We are anti-Democrat, anti-Left, anti-WEF here… either guy ( and a number of others) fit that bill…

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 09:27 AM (RFmMX)

277 it just seems odd to say 'fresh corpse'

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 09:28 AM (geLO8)

278 If you give LIVs the average teacher salary in their area vs the average salary overall they are always shocked.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 09:26 AM (lc5cP)


Assistant District Attorneys make far less than teachers in my area.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 19, 2023 09:28 AM (45fpk)

279 @robbystarbuck
She has now produced the receipt that shows she paid for the bike. She’s six months pregnant and a group of guys accosted her while she was on the bike to take it from her. Are you going to apologize to this woman or keep the act up Ben?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:27 AM (Vwz3I)
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Neither. If redridinghood @256 is correct, then he'll just ignore it and move on. He did his bit and it requires no further action.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 09:28 AM (DU+/6)

280 Another Musk-related item:

ALX @alx · 8h
This is, by far, my favorite thing ever printed in The Washington Post.

https://tinyurl.com/2kxhtw6y

[photo meme]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 09:29 AM (Vwz3I)

281 Assistant District Attorneys make far less than teachers in my area.

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Yep.

The median individual teacher salary is equal to the household median salary nationwide.

They played that poormouthing strategy brilliantly.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:29 AM (4jwtW)

282 I think Musk is trolling the world…

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 09:29 AM (RFmMX)

283 Any Trump supporter who would stay home rather than vote for DeSantis in the general election is no better than NeverTrump people.

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:29 AM (jBD8U)

284 Neither. If redridinghood @256 is correct, then he'll just ignore it and move on. He did his bit and it requires no further action.

And some number of people will just vaguely recall this story as "entitled white woman harasses oppressed yutes"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 09:30 AM (lc5cP)

285 Can you guys believe some racist pregnant woman on a bike single handedly choked and killed half a dozen youths? Just for the crime of being black?

Disgusting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:30 AM (/EuRN)

286 Trumps "Baggage" has been laid upon him by the Media and the Uniparty.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 09:30 AM (iayUP)

287 That nurse is lucky she's not dead or beaten to a bloody pulp.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:31 AM (4jwtW)

288 270 I really don't get the Trump/DeSantis arguments at all. Neither one has a good chance to win a general election, and if either one pulls off a miracle and does, then most here will be happy with that result. It seems like an odd one to get all fired up about.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 09:25 AM (oINRc)


I would have to say the fix is in. No way either will win. IF and it's a big-ass if the candidate does win, whoever it is, watch an actual insurrection led by Antifa, BLM the Capitol Cops and probably the Army that will make the summer of 2020 look like a church picnic.

The irony is huge.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2023 09:31 AM (x0n13)

289 283. Yes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 09:31 AM (5+1HQ)

290 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 09:31 AM (5+1HQ)

291 So, now Fox is lying by by virtue of reporting what the leftist murder *himself* told the police immediately after committing said murder?

Yes. Brandt went home for an hour and concocted a narrative to defend killing the young man prior to phoning 911.
I don't know what transpired if anything between the 2 prior but there was no evidence of a political disagreement, and, much like the J6 "insurrection is a false narrative, so is the attempted defense of > a teen Trump supporter made me afraid for my life and I was forced to run him down in an alley.

Posted by: old chick at May 19, 2023 09:32 AM (sOete)

292 You know my benchmark for Trump vs D?

Who's got a plan to beat the fraud?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2023 09:32 AM (lc5cP)

293 @283

>>Any Trump supporter who would stay home rather than vote for DeSantis in the general election is no better than NeverTrump people.

I will crawl over a flaming pit of broken glass to vote for Ron DeSantis if he is the candidate.

That's not the point, the point is there is no rationale for DeSantis to run in 24, it's silly, pointless and counter-productive to run him while Trump is still on the field of battle.

But apparently that's what's going to happen.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2023 09:32 AM (up/3i)

294 There is an incredibly taught little floss of hope some cling to (including me) that The Right Guy might actually fix everything without too much mess or fuss. And any contender who isn't The Right Guy plucking at that little strand and trying to break our last little hope is to be shut down and despised at once.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 09:32 AM (/EuRN)

295 300

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2023 09:33 AM (RIvkX)

296 Anyone have an update on Captain Hate?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 19, 2023 09:10 AM (flINI)
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I'll be in Cleveland next Tuesday and would be happy to drop off some bourbon, if he doesn't get out much any more.

Posted by: Sam Adams and the boyz at May 19, 2023 09:33 AM (csNwE)

297 Actually, I *do* see why *some* Trumpers would be pissed at Ron. If you think Trump is owed because of what happened to him in 2020, that's a legit reason to want DeSantis to stand down.

But I don't think that's going to happen. He seems like he will announce his candidacy at some point soon. And if he wins the nomination, most of the objectors will vote for him. It's just politics.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2023 09:33 AM (oINRc)

298 283 Any Trump supporter who would stay home rather than vote for DeSantis in the general election is no better than NeverTrump people.
Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:29 AM (jBD8U)

Shame as a tactic, interesting.
How about voters who are sick of the GOP constantly abandoning them? I mean... there is a non-insignificant percent of the GOP base that is ready to walk away.
Those voters should just suck it up and vote I guess... I mean, lest they be the other GOP who abandoned the party. Couldn't be a GOP problem... nah...

Posted by: Inogame at May 19, 2023 09:33 AM (53oGX)

299 Part of the “teachers are badly paid” nonsense is because they always use starting salary. Like teachers make $38k a year this is outrageous. Uhm no. That’s what a 22 year old first year teacher makes. Every year they get a bump of a few $1000s. And then if they get a masters degree the pay zooms up automatically. It’s part of the grift by colleges. Force taxpayers to pay more for teachers with a masters, which guarantees every teacher will get a masters. It’s a never ending circle where tax payers get fucked while unions and colleges make bank.

But it’s always implied that every teacher gets that $38k for life, when teacher pay is talked about in the media

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:35 AM (jBD8U)

300 Yeah, the Trump/DeSantis Wars are just silly.

Either would be fine. Let's see what shakes out.

While I would prefer Trump, this to me seems like 2016, where I preferred Cruz but would've taken Trump.

Then Cruz shot himself in the head with his stupid comments regarding the people at Trump's rallies being "violent" as per the MSM. So, Trump it was for me.

Let's just see where this goes.

Lots of changes, surprises, and stupid ahead I'm sure.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 19, 2023 09:36 AM (RJQ8g)

301 Part of the “teachers are badly paid” nonsense is because they always use starting salary. Like teachers make $38k a year this is outrageous. Uhm no. That’s what a 22 year old first year teacher makes.

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And most if not all get some sort of 5-7K local incentive right off the bat.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:36 AM (4jwtW)

302 Interesting, you write about America's children in jeopardy...this morning I'm pondering 2 Samuel 21:10, the story of a grieving, exhausted mother protecting the bodies of her hanged sons from predators over many long, cold, dark nights, many days of circling predators.

Children today are stalked by predators; leftism, nihilism, socialism, sexualization...who among us can or will drive away these buzzards and bears?

Who is able to withstand the storm troops of "Change We Can Believe In" indoctrination, the smiling faces behind "Safe and Effective" childhood injections? The broadcast/print propaganda of media networks all owned by only 6 corporations?

"Rizpah spread out sackcloth on a nearby rock. She wouldn't let the birds land on her sons bodies during the day, and she lit a fire to keep wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of harvest until it began to rain."

Oh well, time to check out what the Kardashians are up to...oh, look, there's Oprah! Let's listen in and learn not to be such bitter clinging deplorables, thereby win the approval of Barry and Bunch.

Posted by: Ju at May 19, 2023 09:36 AM (aTmM/)

303 298

Yes I will shame you, if you do anything to help Biden win.

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:37 AM (jBD8U)

304 Blaming the parents for the low scores is absolutely EVIL. Parents AND TEACHERS "couldn't teach" because the instructional materials available were CRAP.

I had the unhappy experience of going to my state's "virtual" website and discovering - despite millions of dollars over more than a decade - the Powers That Be had completed only one unit of study in English 7 and only the primary courses (colors, numbers, etc.) for world languages.

My school relied heavily on Scholastic Magazine for content and exercises, because those were compatible with Google Classroom. They were no substitute for in-person writing and grammar lessons.

Many online courses were awful, too. My colleague said the difference between an "A" for an in-person chemistry class and the online one was day and night. High grade/low knowledge harms the students. (As opposed to "harming" a student with the wrong pronoun.)

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 19, 2023 09:38 AM (fxCK2)

305 By far the best part is the ability to remain stagnant in your job and never, ever need to improve your abilities over your 30 year career before retiring with full benefits for life.

Doing the exact same thing at the same level on year 30 as year 1? Awesome.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:38 AM (4jwtW)

306 Yeah, well put up another loser for the nomination and be shocked that no one cares.

Another constant is the whole vote for GOP because Dems are BADDIES!
It's a loser tactic for the loser party.

Posted by: Inogame at May 19, 2023 09:38 AM (53oGX)

307 Yes I will shame you, if you do anything to help Biden win.

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That's five cities that shut down for a toilet flushing in Atlanta.

Nothing we do can influence much if anything. The only hope is overwhelming voting to overwhelm the fraud, but all they need to do is count until they win and then stop counting.

Same as last time.

Posted by: Telling a Child They Were Born Wrong is Child Abuse at May 19, 2023 09:40 AM (4jwtW)

308 "What is Trump's baggage?"
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That's just closing your eyes to the obvious.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 09:41 AM (GQNjd)

309 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

"If they do it with you, they'll do it to you," good advice to me that I also used on mine. Sometimes it sinks in before one 'volunteers' to take a huge ass-kicking in life.

The main teachers unions are facing membership crises of their own, i.e., PA Penn-Live Opinion, Pennsylvania teachers’ union facing a membership crisis of its own making, Updated: Mar. 06, 2023. But they've taken the big bucks to cover pensions, etc. and must do their assigned 'jobs.' C'est la vie.

Now comes the SEIU which had 9 union initiatives by 2016 including Faculty Forward; Stand for Security; IAmerica & Child Care Fight for $15. It's the largest healthcare union in North America with more than 1.1 million members including doctors and nurses & home care and nursing home workers. Teachers on the university level, adjunct professors, are unionizing with its Faculty Forward program. It represents public, social, and human services workers of several states & also provides tools and support to immigrant families to "inspire change and impact America’s future." It marchs well, too.

Bottom up, middle out.

All, imo.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at May 19, 2023 09:42 AM (GshMh)

310 A friend of mine’s wife is a teacher. She readily admits that her job is on auto pilot. All the lesson plans she has are from her first couple of years. And she said those first 2 years were pretty hard and she worked a lot of extra hours to get things ready.

But once she had everything set, years 3+ were super easy, barely an inconvenience. Same lessons, same tests, same everything. Every year is Groundhog Day.

Posted by: Montec at May 19, 2023 09:42 AM (jBD8U)

311 Christina Nemr, the evil genius the Federalist says is behind the creation of censorship technology the government uses to control online speech is pretty hot, in an exotic sort of way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 09:47 AM (GQNjd)

312 Vote for a meatball? Moi? Never.

Posted by: Ziba at May 19, 2023 09:48 AM (4h9M3)

313 Yeah I voted for McCain and Romney. Not voting DeSantis for them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 19, 2023 09:49 AM (ouTlx)

314 FBI Concerned Jan. 6 Footage Would Expose Undercover Agents, Informants: Whistleblower

"There may be—may be—UCs, undercover officers, or … confidential human sources, on those videos whose identity we need to protect..."

Posted by: Neo at May 19, 2023 09:58 AM (RovqD)

315 The move by U.S. officials comes after the slain man's family and others who knew him claimed that the father of 10, a former bricklayer, had no ties to terrorism and was tending to his sheep when he was hit by a Hellfire missile in Syria.
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Maybe the IC should concentrate on their damn jobs instead of killing the innocent while persecuting Americans for political crimes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 10:04 AM (GQNjd)

316 If you can get it...Read Closing of the American Mind by Alan Bloom, I think. I read it 35 years ago. Fucking spooky. And I wasn't smart enough to retain it until I had kids. Homeschooling for the win.

Posted by: DefendUSA at May 19, 2023 10:07 AM (QwnRn)

317 That is the hill to die on. And a Winning strategy.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 19, 2023 10:50 AM (ytSiK)

318 I thought seriously about tipping JJ. I mean it. I do appreciate this site.

But I can’t forget some of the bull pumped out on this site by Duece and CBD about the GOP Presidential contest and their myopic focus on Florida — though it’s funny they conveniently forget to comment on how the candidates that Meatball (BiteMe) Ron endorsed recently got their butts kicked — including in the Jacksonville Mayor election.

So I have decided hard pass on the tips.

My prerogative because it’s still a free country.

And if course as CBD noted, Deuce is the miniMurdoch of this site and can purge whoever he/she/they want, so again, hard pass.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (FkMTW)

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