The World Economic Forum is Over

Well, the World Economic Forum for 2024 ended yesterday. Did you notice? It seemed to me to go out with a whimper instead of a bang this year.

In related news, John Kerry is leaving his post as the USA's Climate Envoy. This last trip to Davos may have been his final chance to tell other people how to save the planet. Never mind. He will be helping to re-elect Biden, who will tell everybody what to do. Kerry's a firecracker when it comes to campaign strategy. Heh.

Here's a great quote, from last year's conference at Davos. You may remember it:

When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we — select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet. I mean, it’s so almost extraterrestrial to think about 'saving the planet'.
John F. Kerry

Extraordinarily weird, actually.

Last year, Walter Kirn observed:

What strikes me most about the WEF is how little disagreement there is. The largest matters on earth are at stake (supposedly) yet the conferees don't argue. They don't debate. All points seem smugly settled. It's an ego orgy, a great self-satisfied mutual grope.
Walter Kirn

This year, Kirn wrote:

These WEF clips are almost poignant, the jet-set salonists in them are so out of touch, so trapped in a failing, dated mutual admiration society. Their creaky vision of a sci-fi superstate dates to the 1970s, perhaps the 50s; it's the wizardly futurism of yore. The gleam is gone.

Kirn got some responses:

The technocrats never left, but they've gotten a lot less empirical and a lot more condescending than they used to be.
Used to be: look at where we're going together!
Today it's: look at the nice cage we're building for you!

And:

I don't think it's technocracy. It's some weird form of Star Wars inspired totalitarianism based on influence.

Anyway, Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi have been following the Davos scene for years. They did some commentary in their last podcast.

Tomorrow on America This Week, @mtaibbi and I conclude that the Davos confab is a technocratic "re-enchantment campaign" intended to resurrect interest in modes of governance etc that the 20th century exposed as total nightmares

The first 30 minutes or so of the podcast are here. Their low-key, quirky but precise observations on Davos start just before the 8 minute mark. Chock-full of interesting imagery in an unexpected format. Some of the points I picked up:

"Starbase Davos" doesn't need to make sense.
It's normalizing the spectacle of proclamation-style government
When Matt Taibbi was living in Russia, in 1995 or 1996, a gathering was held in a hotel room in Davos to arrange much of the future of Russia's relationship with the West. Russian people learned to distrust Davos before Americans did.
Ukraine is now responding to a "call of history". Davos did such a great job with Russia . . .
It's a trade show for quasi-totalitarian government. They can't make you excited, but they can make you afraid. They may exaggerate to keep you talking about how you are afraid of them.
They never talk about how they're gonna do it.

"Trust" was this year's theme at Davos. Censorship is the key to trust.

The woman to whom Kirn and Taibbi make reference in the podcast as an advocate of censorship is Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, 13th president of the European Commission since 2019.

NEW - Ursula von der Leyen wants to "drive global collaboration" to tackle "misinformation and disinformation" and "polarization." pic.twitter.com/ITkGFw5Id6
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 16, 2024

Scott Adams is, ummm, concerned and feisty:

I propose a new standard for "misinformation and disinformation."
How about we agree that anyone not willing to debate the other side in public -- or at least describe the other side of the debate fairly -- is assumed to be lying.
For example, wouldn't you like to see the counterpoint to this monster's point of view?

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Speakers criticizing the WEF directly from the podium!

Greta Thunberg has always had permission to scold the attendees at the Davos convention, but there was something different this year - - critiques of the conference leadership from the right!

What made things different this year?

You have probably seen this already, but since it's the weekend now, maybe you have time to pay attention to it. What a departure from past years!

Milei's 2024 Davos talk, directly translated to English by AI (by heygen), in his own accent. Better than the dubbed version imo. pic.twitter.com/8OAGELuqxl
— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) January 18, 2024

Why did they allow him to speak?

They also invite the President of the Heritage Foundation to describe for them what they might expect if a Republican were elected as the next president. He went off script and slammed them, too:

In an op-ed penned ahead of the conference, Roberts wrote that he accepted the invitation to deliver the global elites a message. "Davos must accept the moral virtues, practical benefits, and natural rights of nations, families, and individuals to govern themselves," Roberts wrote, or "'We, the People'" will "take matters into our own hands." . .
Roberts certainly delivered that message. . .
The agenda that every single member of the administration needs to have is to compile a list of everything that's ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum, and object to all of them wholesale

In a statement following the event, Roberts expressed that he had little faith the WEF is capable of reform or adopting a "noblesse oblige" view of the world. Ultimately, Roberts wrote in his op-ed, "the everyday citizens, workers, and families who shoulder the burdens of Davos-style global elitism," will have to work themselves to "reclaim their individual rights and national sovereignty."

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Other Commentary

Elon Musk posted, "Grok roasts Klaus Schwab at WEF"

In yesterday's Morning Report, J.J. Sefton highlighted an interesting piece by Richard Fernandez, The Year the Future Disappeared:

People naturally reflect on the state of the world whenever an old year gives way to a new. Will 2024 resemble the familiar past or are we hurtling into the unknown? Some men of stature, like Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF), whose annual meeting of global Bond villains is currently underway in Davos, Switzerland, fear that order is dissolving into chaos. The heretics are destroying his established church of order and he fears that an inordinate desire for freedom might bring the house.
You have this anti-system movement. What we are seeing is a revolution against the system. So fixing the present system is not enough. Now, of course there is an anti-system which is called libertarianism, which means to tear down everything which creates some kind of influence of government into private lives. It's dismantling the system.

Are we entering a second cold war, or something else? How much of this did Klaus Schwab foresee?

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Quotes

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people's lives.
-Thomas Sowell

Of all contemptible and vile people, few are as grotesque as the @wef and @Davos crowd. Smug vacuous elitists parasitized by dreadful ideologies whilst pretending to be the saviours of humanity. The absolute worst people. One honest farmer is worth more than that entire lot.
Gad Saad

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Weekend

Poetry

Richard Burton�s greatest performance was not in Becket or The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his best was when he sat down and recited Shakespeare in the middle of an interview.

This is a tribute to the Bard and to English and to Anglo-Civilization. pic.twitter.com/20pujeo1UG
— Shelby Foote Appreciator⚓️ (@NoJesuitTricks) January 19, 2024

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Music

Kid playing a guitar

It was at that point they began to regret asking you if you thought you could do any better� pic.twitter.com/1j1qTB0zGD
— Shaughn_A (@Shaughn_A2) January 14, 2024

A World of Our Own without the WEF

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, January 13, Pick Your Utopia

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:14 AM

Comments

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1 There needs to be a movie about the life of Klaus Schwab. Can it The Last Nazi.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 11:18 AM (kSHhA)

2 I didn't expect to be first.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 11:18 AM (kSHhA)

3 When I saw that the WEF was over, I'll admit to being hopeful that this was permanent.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2024 11:21 AM (qPw5n)

4 I don't think it's technocracy. It's some weird form of Star Wars inspired totalitarianism based on influence.

No need to go so far. WEF is basically the Fuhrerbunker as the Soviets close in. Reality is not welcome.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:22 AM (CsUN+)

5 There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people's lives.
-Thomas Sowell

Never has anything more true been written.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 20, 2024 11:23 AM (FVME7)

6 Also, when a halfwit like John Kerry is involved, that tells you all you need to know about their grasp on the issues.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)

7 Correction:
Also, when an equine halfwit like John Kerry is involved, that tells you all you need to know about their grasp on the issues.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:24 AM (CsUN+)

8 The "Amazonian Priestess" coughing on everybody was a nice touch.

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2024 11:25 AM (AwYPR)

9 Kid is ripping that guitar 🎸 up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 20, 2024 11:25 AM (WVAwc)

10 "Why did they allow him to speak?"

When you the bank a hundred grand, you have a problem. When you owe the bank ten billion, the bank has a problem.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 20, 2024 11:26 AM (z+89e)

11 Did they get all the blood scrubbed away?

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 11:26 AM (pIfkX)

12 "Why did they allow him to speak?"

Milei is an actual president of a country, and as such is a huge draw. He was also "a rising star" once upon a time.
and he rejected the BRICS

WEF seems to be a Mary Kay convention that needs some big GOH's to get tickets sold.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2024 11:26 AM (D7oie)

13 When I saw that the WEF was over, I'll admit to being hopeful that this was permanent.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2024 11:21 AM (qPw5n)

I find the lack of gibbets disturbing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2024 11:28 AM (aD39U)

14 Putin should have used the WEF as a platform to call for free and fair elections in the occupied regions of Ukraine. The people there could choose to stay as a part of Ukraine under Zelensky or vote for a pro-Moscow candidate and independence of the region. Putin could vow to abide by whatever the results are as long as Zelensky and the U.S. do the same. Of course, the pro-Moscow platform would win in a landslide.

Posted by: jwest at January 20, 2024 11:29 AM (VP9ao)

15 There needs to be a movie about the life of Klaus Schwab. Can it The Last Nazi.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 11:18 AM (kSHhA)

How. Dare. You!

Posted by: greta at January 20, 2024 11:30 AM (Angsy)

16 The "Amazonian Priestess" coughing on everybody was a nice touch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t72fGEtMUk

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2024 11:31 AM (AwYPR)

17 I watched Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen's entire speech. They are serious about censoring social media in Europe.

Posted by: KT at January 20, 2024 11:31 AM (rrtZS)

18 The WEF meeting at Davos is over. And the attendees are all dead? They are all dead, right? Spiritually, for sure.*

*May or may not be true. I dunno.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 20, 2024 11:32 AM (Angsy)

19 Very nice Seekers clip. Enjoyed it immensely.

Posted by: Screw the WEC! at January 20, 2024 11:33 AM (V5BDR)

20 The WEF meeting at Davos is over.

You can tell because the local airport is now empty of personal jets.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:33 AM (CsUN+)

21 And this year's Nobel Prize for Couldn't Be More Wrong goes to . . .

Lol: Rolling Stone Fearmongers About Trump Invading Mexico

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 20, 2024 11:33 AM (FVME7)

22 Very nice Seekers clip. Enjoyed it immensely.

Judith Durham had an extraordinary and very distinctive voice. RIP.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

23 Morning.

That...I'm guessing Korean guitarista is freakin' excellent.

If you like that kind of playing I highly highly HIGHLY recommend Andy McKee. Not nearly as aggressive but he's the shit.

Posted by: Robert at January 20, 2024 11:35 AM (vrxOi)

24 20 degrees and occasional about 20mph wind gusts, driveway is clear enough.
Should have made the big pot of coffee, so tea or is it too early for cognac?

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)

25 I've seen 2 maybe 3 videos of attendees at WEF ripping Klaus and his followers a new asshole. You can tell by the look on their faces they're not used to being told "to go fuck yourselves."

I enjoyed them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2024 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)

26 Did they get all the blood scrubbed away?
Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 11:26 AM (pIfkX)

No! They just threw all their used tampons on the floor!

Posted by: "Mens" Room Attendant at January 20, 2024 11:36 AM (Angsy)

27 Did they get all the blood scrubbed away?
Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 11:26 AM (pIfkX)

"My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
Retire we to our chamber. A little water clears us of this deed.
How easy is it, then! Your constancy Hath left you unattended."

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2024 11:37 AM (D7oie)

28 "It's some weird form of Star Wars inspired totalitarianism based on influence."

They have at least over 50% of the West's population under 60 staring at tiny screens all the time!!

Success!

Posted by: pawn at January 20, 2024 11:38 AM (QB+5g)

29 I enjoyed them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2024 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)

*Writes down name*

One more for the death camps.

Posted by: Enforcer for the future international socialist global megastate at January 20, 2024 11:39 AM (vrxOi)

30 “Yellowstone” Creator Taylor Sheridan Adapting “Empire of the Summer Moon” as Next Project

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Could be good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 20, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)

31 I've seen 2 maybe 3 videos of attendees at WEF ripping Klaus and his followers a new asshole. You can tell by the look on their faces they're not used to being told "to go fuck yourselves."

I enjoyed them.

I posted a link yesterday to the guy heading the Heritage foundation doing exactly that. They're worth posting again.

http://tinyurl.com/m8a48wts
http://tinyurl.com/4c9yxc5k

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

32 Generally, I ignore corporate media like the plague they are, but what strikes me sometimes is what they don't cover.

The Davos gathering might be one of the most significant developments in human history, but it seems we're talked to about it as if it's the most normal thing ever, that we've always done things this way. And of course we haven't.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 11:40 AM (6Mtpb)

33 They have at least over 50% of the West's population under 60 staring at tiny screens all the time!!

Success!
Posted by: pawn

I seem to remember a few cartoon panels in Mad Magazine in the 70's referencing that very thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2024 11:41 AM (qoGsy)

34 Flower Moons and Summer Moons...what other kinds of moons can Hollyweird make into movies?

Posted by: Robert at January 20, 2024 11:41 AM (vrxOi)

35 Start with Davos stuff.
Javier's speech was a great kick in the pants. Seems to me his ultra-libertarianism could go too far though. Would still go to one world thing as opposed to national borders. I could be wrong.

Heritage president pretty good except on Ukraine who he thinks should be supported but Europe should do more. Either unaware it's nothing but a get much richer scheme, among other things, or, in on the take?

Young musicians - it is getting absolutely ridiculous, in a good way. I really enjoy watching what they can do on utube.
Check out Saxon Weiss, Sina and Yoyoka, among others.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 20, 2024 11:41 AM (5k0TE)

36 I watched Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen's entire speech. They are serious about censoring social media in Europe.
Posted by: KT at January 20, 2024 11:31 AM (rrtZS)

a good part of governance is understanding how many people you have to make sweet to stay in power. Another part is managing that number to keep it as small as possible, since that makes it easier, and gives the people in power more time to play and make profits.
Censorship destroys competition and isolates individuals, it make that totalitarian rule in their best interest so much easier.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2024 11:42 AM (D7oie)

37 Great: LA Times and Washington Post Losing Tens of Millions Annually

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I thought fantasy was supposed to popular.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 20, 2024 11:43 AM (FVME7)

38 Heritage president pretty good except on Ukraine who he thinks should be supported but Europe should do more. Either unaware it's nothing but a get much richer scheme, among other things, or, in on the take?

You know, it's just possible he thinks it's the right thing to do, and doesn't have ulterior motives.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:43 AM (CsUN+)

39 I posted a link yesterday to the guy heading the Heritage foundation doing exactly that. They're worth posting again.
. . .
Posted by: Archimedes

Also, The Heritage Foundation had previously ranked the state of Tennessee's election integrity #1 in the country.

One more reason I am a big cheerleader for TN.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2024 11:43 AM (qoGsy)

40 I'm just hanging out on a cardboard sky.

Posted by: Paper Moon at January 20, 2024 11:43 AM (NBVIP)

41 Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, She Wolf of the WEF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 20, 2024 11:44 AM (FVME7)

42
When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we — select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet. I mean, it’s so almost extraterrestrial to think about 'saving the planet'.

John F. Kerry

Bite me, you horse-faced nullity

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 20, 2024 11:45 AM (xG4kz)

43 Bite me, you horse-faced nullity

Careful, he might just do it. Do you resemble a carrot?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:46 AM (CsUN+)

44 Why did they allow him to speak?

I think Klaus and co realize they've overplayed their hand and the public has a lot of ways to resist. That's why Blackrock's pulling back from DEI, and it's why Milei and the Heritage Foundation were invited to speak.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 11:46 AM (KLKSV)

45
Flower Moons and Summer Moons...what other kinds of moons can Hollyweird make into movies?

Posted by: Robert

Beaver Moons: The Holes are Everywhere!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 20, 2024 11:46 AM (xG4kz)

46 The real stuff that goes on at these conferences isn't what the public is allowed to see. It's the stuff that's going on in the meetings you don't see; real work and planning being done in committees and sub-committees by people who's names you don't know. This is where the boilerplate language for laws and treaties are drafted and distributed. This is where all the bad stuff pushed by Academia starts. The Forever Wars, etc. And it's not just WEF, it's Club of Rome, Bilderberg Group, U.N. and others. It's all very well-coordinated and they're succeeding.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 20, 2024 11:46 AM (PWI4f)

47 You know, it's just possible he thinks it's the right thing to do, and doesn't have ulterior motives.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:43 AM (CsUN+)

It would be nice to argue this on its merits, instead of having to first discus how it is AN ABSOLUTE EXISTENTIAL EMERGENCY

but that's just me and apparently it isn't how we decide things anymore

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2024 11:46 AM (D7oie)

48 Judith Durham had an extraordinary and very distinctive voice. RIP.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:34 AM

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And she was a real cutie too.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 20, 2024 11:47 AM (+j+ar)

49 "A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies!"
~Friedrich Nietzsche”

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 11:47 AM (hOUT3)

50 The real stuff that goes on at these conferences isn't what the public is allowed to see.

This is true of almost all large conferences.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:47 AM (CsUN+)

51 I find it perturbing when a horse faced nitwit like Kerry thinks he's a higher class of being.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 11:49 AM (kSHhA)

52 Given recent statements, it sure sounds as if Chancellor Scholz is about to ban Alternative For Deutschland (AfD), which is now the second-biggest political party in Germany.

Any political party to the right of the WEF consensus is Nazi, you see.

Scholz specifically called out AfD's questioning of the "benefits" of mass migration to Germany - questioning that is no longer acceptable political speech.

There is a worldwide movement towards "Our Democracy" - where only approved people and approved political parties will be allowed on the ballot.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (YAtuc)

53 Why did they allow him to speak?

You aren't paranoid if the rat bastards are really out to get you. And those elite rat bastards want us dead-diddly-'ead.

The WEF let them speak, so as to use their technocrat censor capabilities to determine whom are their supporters and wrong think allies. That is their next target list for cancellation, censoring, doxxing, nullification, and 'whoops, ooopsie, were you not supposed to lose your job?' activities.

They want me dead, and i believe it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (3CCua)

54 Ran a couple errands, dropped off laundry, and coming home the car started running rough. Could just be cold weather aches and pains that will cure itself, could be something needing attention. I should just burn it and get one of them lectrik cars that always run good, 'specially in the cold, Or maybe take a bus that doesn't run here. Better yet, I'll just stay in my hovel and wait for rations to be delivered. And keep my mouth shut and like it just like Herr Schwab orders me to do.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (0EOe9)

55 50
This is true of almost all large conferences.
Posted by: Archimedes

Now do Congress!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (hOUT3)

56 Britain about to become unable to make steel.

http://tinyurl.com/bdd9prp8

Posted by: pawn at January 20, 2024 11:51 AM (QB+5g)

57 Sports Illustrated Lays Off Entire Staff - Future Unclear

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Well, the future's uncertain
And end is always near

Posted by: Jim Morrison at January 20, 2024 11:51 AM (FVME7)

58 @38 - Archimedes

Then he needs to "get out" more.
Color revolution
Bio-labs
AZOV Battalion (nazis) persecution of eastern provinces (ethnic Russians) civilian population over the years
Human trafficking, including children
Who and what their "president" actually is.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 20, 2024 11:52 AM (5k0TE)

59 This is true of almost all large conferences.
Posted by: Archimedes

Now do Congress!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (hOUT3)

Piece o'cake.

Posted by: Debbie (who does things) at January 20, 2024 11:52 AM (rSx3V)

60 "Well, the World Economic Forum for 2024 ended yesterday. Did you notice?"

I'm alive, warm and not starving. For now.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2024 11:52 AM (PTDkx)

61 The WEF let them speak, so as to use their technocrat censor capabilities to determine whom are their supporters and wrong think allies. That is their next target list for cancellation, censoring, doxxing, nullification, and 'whoops, ooopsie, were you not supposed to lose your job?' activities.

I'm pretty confident they already have those lists, but that they're also rattled by the blowback in the last year against them. Multiple states defunded and/or outlawed DEI, there were major protests in the Netherlands followed by Geert Wilders being elected, and now there are major protests in Berlin.

The only peasants lying down and taking it are the British. They're going to elect a hard-leftist who wants to eliminate non-green electricity generation entirely.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 11:53 AM (0A/JS)

62
I have noticed that "message" or "feelz" entertainment creators have a thing for including songs by low-T and quavery-voiced groups of which you've never heard (nor will ever hear again) and their offerings are emo and angst-dripping bags of waste. Think, the closing song for "Good Will Hunting", for example.

It's like the "musical" pieces are used audio condoms that they are throwing into the audience's ears: "Eeeeeeyuck, what is this shit?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 20, 2024 11:53 AM (xG4kz)

63 There is a worldwide movement towards "Our Democracy" - where only approved people and approved political parties will be allowed on the ballot.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (YAtuc)

They do not want mere citizens/residents (that might make bad decisions) involved in planning their own lives!
A wise centralized and absolute authority is far preferable for the world!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 11:53 AM (hOUT3)

64 Incredible content KT!

Klaus Schlub and all the other idiots at WEF like John Kerry are a weird combination of evil and incompetent to an almost silly degree…. Think of that ridiculous comic villain played by Mike Myers (one MILLION dollars!)….

BTW…. It’s cold outside (speaking of weather). I just got back from my Saturday morning run…. When I started here in DFW it was a balmy 18 degrees with a stiff breeze out of the north. Keep moving!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 20, 2024 11:53 AM (xT8gx)

65 Britain about to become unable to make steel.

Apparently they can't get anyone to join the armed forces. They don't have enough soldiers, and it's so bad in the Royal Navy that their two new aircraft carriers can't put to sea for lack of manning. Misrule Brittania!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

66 I would cite C.S.Lewis; but, the Davos crowd are more of a Pol Pot and Mao type than do gooders attempting control to *help* us.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2024 11:54 AM (hcnLe)

67 Very nice musical selections, the guitarist is exemplifying classical flamenco technique, in which the guitar becomes also a drum. The technique of pulling the strings with the left hand to produce a note without plucking is widely adopted by rockers, the rockers call it "hammer on". In tablature notation this is indicated with the letter H.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 11:54 AM (MeG8a)

68
WOW, that Milei throwing numbers and history at those jackbooted elitists.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 11:54 AM (lCaJd)

69 TeeJ at January 20, 2024 11:52 AM (5k0TE)

I'm not doing this today.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 11:55 AM (CsUN+)

70
Sports Illustrated Lays Off Entire Staff - Future Unclear

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future

Fly like an eagle, quack like a duck

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 20, 2024 11:55 AM (xG4kz)

71 I think Klaus and co realize they've overplayed their hand and the public has a lot of ways to resist. That's why Blackrock's pulling back from DEI, and it's why Milei and the Heritage Foundation were invited to speak.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 11:46 AM (KLKSV)

Or it's controlled opposition. Pretend to let your enemies have a voice, and you get the goodwill of the sheep, who still don't know you are wolves.

Go back to sleep. Have an "election." Don't worry about the next plandemic. No, turbo cancer isn't anything to worry about. Those things you like, you still have them. The Big Game is coming, isn't it? So what could there be to worry about.

Meanwhile, the world planners prepare to head to their underground compounds. Nothing weird about that.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 11:55 AM (bZhLu)

72 Heh. Anytime I see Klaus Schwab I think of a really so stupid it's funny movie with some lines about a kraut with the same first name. Movie is Rat Race. A family is pursuing a prize, driving through the desert. The little girl sees a sign, "Barbie Museum". Starts whining about visiting because she loves her Barbie. Dad pulls in and it's a bunch of skinheads with a museum dedicated to Klaus Barbie, Gestapo Butcher of Lyon and accomplished ballroom dancer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2024 11:56 AM (0EOe9)

73
"Klaus Schwab: Lederhosen and Labor Camps"

You only THINK that you've seen this movie before!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 20, 2024 11:57 AM (xG4kz)

74 I think this is what might make WEF take notice.... put pressure on the Swiss to quit hosting them and those stupid climate conferences. Political pressure, military pressure, economic pressure... all of it.

Switzerland needs to be canceled. At least Davos does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2024 11:59 AM (Q4IgG)

75 Any political party to the right of the WEF consensus is Nazi, you see.

Scholz specifically called out AfD's questioning of the "benefits" of mass migration to Germany - questioning that is no longer acceptable political speech.

There is a worldwide movement towards "Our Democracy" - where only approved people and approved political parties will be allowed on the ballot.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (YAtuc)

AfD should simply be ready to change their name to "NewAfD", and say "we're not that nasty old nativist AfD, but a new and friendly AfD, nyuk, nyuk."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2024 11:59 AM (tkR6S)

76 Humanity is divided into 2 categories, imho.
First there are those who know that they didn't create themselves or this world, we used to refer to these as God fearing.
Then there are those that think that they are God or gods.
The latter comprises the WEF.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 11:59 AM (MeG8a)

77 Puck you!

http://tinyurl.com/2s3v5jsn

Posted by: Jim Morrison at January 20, 2024 12:00 PM (FVME7)

78 There is a worldwide movement towards "Our Democracy" - where only approved people and approved political parties will be allowed on the ballot.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2024 11:50 AM (YAtuc)

"Our Democracy" must be preserved, and the best way to do that is stop letting people vote for who they want.

Elections, such a quaint idea.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:00 PM (y29sO)

79
It took a few thousand years, but humans finally got over the notion of the divine right of kings and rule by hereditary monarchs.

Now we moral rationalists are fighting collectivism. It's far from over, but it will eventually be over. I wonder what will replace it as the next anti-human ideology beloved by power-mongers?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:00 PM (lCaJd)

80 The technique of pulling the strings with the left hand to produce a note without plucking is widely adopted by rockers, the rockers call it "hammer on".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 11:54 AM (MeG8a)

You've described a "pull off"....hammer on is different.

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2024 12:01 PM (AwYPR)

81 There is a worldwide movement towards "Our Democracy" - where only approved people and approved political parties will be allowed on the ballot.

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.

Posted by: The 1930s at January 20, 2024 12:01 PM (CsUN+)

82 Kerry did marry into a billion dollar empire, must account for something for brains, or luck

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 12:01 PM (fwDg9)

83 Not widely known, but the Fuhrer was also a terrific dancer.

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at January 20, 2024 12:01 PM (V5BDR)

84 I had such a crush on Judith Durham of The Seekers back in the day. Her voice was such a thrill to hear. RIP, Judith. I still love the sound of your voice and your music.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 20, 2024 12:02 PM (iODuv)

85 Or it's controlled opposition. Pretend to let your enemies have a voice, and you get the goodwill of the sheep, who still don't know you are wolves.

If that's the goal, it's not working. Nobody thinks any more highly of the WEF or is standing down from opposing them.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 12:02 PM (wItF4)

86 John Kerry is a golddigger to another golddigger.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2024 12:02 PM (aD39U)

87 Will Switzerland remain neutral "next time"? I shared a house with 5 other guys one year while in college. One was an exchanged student from Switzerland. Some evening we walked over to a Chum's room and he was watching a WW2 flick. Swiss Ziggy chortled "oh, the Americand are killing those bad Nazis again?". I said, yeah. Someone had to.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 20, 2024 12:03 PM (hirWM)

88 Milei is the real deal and exposes Trump as the blowhard he is.

Posted by: Steve at January 20, 2024 12:03 PM (6ukE+)

89 >>You've described a "pull off"....hammer on is different.
OK, I've seen this notated in tablature with a letter P.
Is hammer on like a tap on the neck?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:04 PM (MeG8a)

90 Guess all the hookers can go home now.

Posted by: PlainJane at January 20, 2024 12:04 PM (EPtmA)

91 Is hammer on like a tap on the neck?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:04 PM (MeG8a)

yep

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2024 12:05 PM (AwYPR)

92 WOW, that Milei throwing numbers and history at those jackbooted elitists.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 11:54 AM (lCaJd)

It will be very telling, what happens to him over the next year. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it turns out he's an actor, a Ray Epps type.

Maybe not, and if not, let's see how they stop him.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:05 PM (+K0IN)

93 87 Look into Switzerland's camp for interned POWs that violated their rules. It was deemed worse than anything the Krauts had by the International Red Cross. Chocolate making pricks (they do make some nice rifles).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2024 12:06 PM (0EOe9)

94 That's fine, Ardhimedes.
And for the record there are a number of things I like about the Heritage Foundation.
Last year my county zoning board had public hearings on allowing the idiotic windmills. Citizens could sign up for 5 min talk.
Had em play a Heritage vid on the subject just a touch over 5 min long. Great vid.
Between that and others comments they got shot down,,, for now.
Gonna be another hearing end of the month.
Take care.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 20, 2024 12:06 PM (5k0TE)

95 That classical guitar playing was amazing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2024 12:06 PM (MSxPN)

96 WEF: World Escorts Fellowship?

Posted by: PlainJane at January 20, 2024 12:06 PM (EPtmA)

97 Outstanding Post KT!
Happy Saturday.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 20, 2024 12:07 PM (t/2Uw)

98 I don't think it's technocracy

It's tricknology

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 20, 2024 12:08 PM (VLtO5)

99 As a player of the upright bass, such techniques aren't available to me. But I have a bow. And rosin. And no frets so I can do a true portamento.
The kid is good tho'.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:09 PM (MeG8a)

100 "I have noticed that "message" or "feelz" entertainment creators have a thing for including songs by low-T and quavery-voiced groups of which you've never heard (nor will ever hear again) and their offerings are emo and angst-dripping bags of waste"

Relatedly, I was listening to some classic rock station on a long drive a couple weeks ago. Grew up on that stuff and was actually sick of it for a along time. Listening to some of these old groups first time in years, many I didn't even like at the time (ex. Cheap Trick) I couldn't help being impressed how intricate and well produced it was, and all without computers, auto-tuners etc.. Background instrument coming in perfectly , back-up singers at just the right time and right level, emphasis on drums for few seconds etc. Just flawless production. I just don't hear that in modern pop music, it all seems too effortlessly perfect. Admittedly, I don't listen to much new rock/pop music but none of it that I do hear moves me in any way.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2024 12:09 PM (PTDkx)

101 Elections, such a quaint idea.

Klaus Schwab did say recently that soon we will be able to determine who gets elected by polling, so actual elections will be unnecessary.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2024 12:10 PM (YAtuc)

102 It will be very telling, what happens to him over the next year. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it turns out he's an actor, a Ray Epps type.

Maybe not, and if not, let's see how they stop him.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:05 PM (+K0IN)

They ousted Bolsanaro in Brazil with some kind of fake election but they haven’t been able to get at Orban in Hungary so they have mixed results. Is Argentina important enough to bother with?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 20, 2024 12:10 PM (xT8gx)

103
And this year's Nobel Prize for Couldn't Be More Wrong goes to . . .

Lol: Rolling Stone Fearmongers About Trump Invading Mexico
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024

Maybe in goatee Spock mirror universe Bizarro world.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2024 12:10 PM (63Dwl)

104
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it turns out he's an actor, a Ray Epps type.

Posted by: BurtTC

===========

I was wondering that myself.

But if he puts his money where his mouth is, it's gonna be a Thing to behold. AOC and her ilk will have to spin very hard to explain away all the prosperity and freedom -- as long as it makes the news.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:11 PM (lCaJd)

105 It's tricknology
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 20, 2024 12:08 PM (VLtO5)

Or "ticknology"...they burrow in and suck your blood.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2024 12:12 PM (tkR6S)

106 It will be very telling, what happens to him over the next year. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it turns out he's an actor, a Ray Epps type.

A Ray Epps type wouldn't have actually closed all the government agencies and fired the workers. We know very well from US and UK and other examples how the global uniparty operates, and actually getting stuff done ain't it.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 12:12 PM (0A/JS)

107 I just don't hear that in modern pop music, it all seems too effortlessly perfect. Admittedly, I don't listen to much new rock/pop music but none of it that I do hear moves me in any way.
Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2024 12:09 PM (PTDkx)

SuperTramp, Foreigner, Journey, Eagles, Boston, Cheap Trick…. and I could go on. Yep those old time rockers turns out many of them were fine musicians and singers…. I love the old stuff

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 20, 2024 12:13 PM (xT8gx)

108 That kid is a very creative guitar player. He may have been listening to Mike Dawes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjn-UXZ6VU

Posted by: huerfano at January 20, 2024 12:13 PM (Q4KYm)

109 Klaus Schwab did say recently that soon we will be able to determine who gets elected by polling, so actual elections will be unnecessary.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2024 12:10 PM (YAtuc)

AI will tell us who is best. It won't be up to voters, because the right person will be known, merely by putting in the data.

He's actually saying this. I almost don't trust it, how completely he's embraced the image of fascist dictator. It's bizarre how transparent he is about it, but then nobody on the world stage is arguing with him.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:13 PM (+K0IN)

110 They ousted Bolsanaro in Brazil with some kind of fake election but they haven’t been able to get at Orban in Hungary so they have mixed results.

They apparently were more interested in Poland. Do we know what all happened there? Ace mentioned it once, and there was a little bit on Twitter, but because no news outlets are actually reporting on it it's hard to know what happened.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 12:13 PM (0A/JS)

111 Doctor of Macaroni Art Dioramas Dr Jill Biden spoke at a high school yesterday

Hunter High School, or "Hunter High"
unfortunate photo at Foxnews site

Posted by: Don Black at January 20, 2024 12:13 PM (geLO8)

112 >And no frets so I can do a true portamento.
---

ah mushrooms
I always get them on pizza

Posted by: Don Black at January 20, 2024 12:16 PM (geLO8)

113 Is Argentina important enough to bother with?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 20, 2024 12:10 PM (xT8gx)

Maybe not. I don't know, I stopped making predictions some time ago. I'm of the belief that nihilism isn't cynical enough. Whatever we imagine, our minds aren't thinking darkly enough.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:16 PM (+K0IN)

114 I saw it coming. Even though Interest rates and misery are the worst since the early 80's, the World Financial Deep State is pushing the SP 500 up to new highs to Help Biden.

Jerome Powell buying bonds thru the roof. POS

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:16 PM (gwrBY)

115 https://youtu.be/WhQwFf6Qb9U?si=
I1HiXuruz-l-R-gH

Gerard Vanderleun posted this. It's Richard Burton reading what was said to be Liz Taylor's favorite poem. It's an amazing reading.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 20, 2024 12:16 PM (L8hCM)

116 The Powerline Week in Review is apropos. See the first cartoon.

http://tinyurl.com/5e4np87j

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 12:16 PM (CsUN+)

117
Is Argentina important enough to bother with?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

============

Argentina was a first-world country at one point. It's resource-rich (agriculture and shale gas & oil) and, I'm wildly guessing, the potential of being a big manufacturer. It also has some nice tourist spots, I believe. If it threatens to get really free and prosperous, they just might bother with it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:16 PM (lCaJd)

118 But if he puts his money where his mouth is, it's gonna be a Thing to behold. AOC and her ilk will have to spin very hard to explain away all the prosperity and freedom -- as long as it makes the news.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:11 PM (lCaJd)

That's the hope, at least. We shall see.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:17 PM (+K0IN)

119 Argentina is very important. A top 15 Economy that keeps Brazil honest.

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:17 PM (gwrBY)

120 Both hammering on and pulling off are fretwork done after the impact of the plectrum. Creating a string impact with the left hand alone is a left-hand pizzicato. Bass players can do this, and no rosin is involved.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 20, 2024 12:17 PM (zdLoL)

121 Taiwan is the biggest producer of the wanted AI chips, in the World. No way WEC and the corrupt Wall street allows China to invade. It would plunge the markets, and hurt Dementia Joe

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:19 PM (gwrBY)

122 35 Start with Davos stuff.
Javier's speech was a great kick in the pants. Seems to me his ultra-libertarianism could go too far though. Would still go to one world thing as opposed to national borders. I could be wrong.

-SNIP-

Posted by: TeeJ at January 20, 2024 11:41 AM (5k0TE)

My admiration of Trump is exceeded by relatively few folks among the Horde.

That said, there is no way that Trump could make a speech like this one. He knows this instinctively, but could not express that like Millei does. Positively Thatcheresque.
In fact, the only GOP figures who could make a speech like that can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And that's a shame.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2024 12:19 PM (uPqUj)

123 A Ray Epps type wouldn't have actually closed all the government agencies and fired the workers. We know very well from US and UK and other examples how the global uniparty operates, and actually getting stuff done ain't it.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 12:12 PM (0A/JS)

Yeah, but as noted, this is Argentina. Do the world actors care what happens there? If they have a plan to undermine him, or show him to be a fake libertarian... and some are saying he's hiring world banking people into his government, it would be strikingly important to the WEF types if his little experiment fails.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:19 PM (+K0IN)

124 Poland does have globalist Trusk as PM, but the Polish President is hard right, and has strong veto power over Parliament

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:20 PM (gwrBY)

125 I can only hope the Hookers of Davos all have vile and infectious diseases.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:20 PM (kSHhA)

126 For those that liked the guitar player, here's his YT channel. You can here the full version of the tune along with other great stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/c/JinsanKim

Posted by: pawn at January 20, 2024 12:20 PM (QB+5g)

127 121 Taiwan is the biggest producer of the wanted AI chips, in the World. No way WEC and the corrupt Wall street allows China to invade. It would plunge the markets, and hurt Dementia Joe
Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:19 PM (gwrBY)

Yup... The "media" is bending itself in pretzels trying to prop up that senile old fart...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2024 12:21 PM (n2vyf)

128 They apparently were more interested in Poland. Do we know what all happened there? Ace mentioned it once, and there was a little bit on Twitter, but because no news outlets are actually reporting on it it's hard to know what happened.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 12:13 PM (0A/JS)

I know almost nothing about what happened in Poland. It’s amazing I get more real news from this smart military blog than from any mainstream news source supposedly devoted to, you know, reporting the news….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 20, 2024 12:21 PM (xT8gx)

129 They apparently were more interested in Poland. Do we know what all happened there? Ace mentioned it once, and there was a little bit on Twitter, but because no news outlets are actually reporting on it it's hard to know what happened.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 12:13 PM (0A/JS)

I heard the guy who was leading the right leaning side before the election. Dare I say, he almost sounded like Kari Lake in his confidence.

Now they're locking up the opposition. It may take years for us to know, because yeah, nobody in corporate media is talking about it. The whole thing has gone silent, while whatever that government has planned, it might be hard for info to get out.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:22 PM (+K0IN)

130
Meanwhile, Bill Ackman continues to be his adorable self.

"Based on what is still on his [Dean Phillips's] website, he still has much to learn about the problems with the DEI ideology and its impact on education, government and corporations.

When you get to know Dean, you will understand that he is an extremely principled man and not your typical politician.

That is one of the important reasons why I believe he would make a great president."

Head --> desk. If Ackman thinks that "still having much to learn" about the evil of DEI is good enough to be president, then Ackman himself still has much to learn.

I don't think the scales will ever full drop from his eyes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:22 PM (lCaJd)

131 Javier himself is only possible because Argentina is in a world of hurt. He is just trying to stop the bleeding.
Our time is coming.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:23 PM (MeG8a)

132 On Powerline liked the read window of the truck,

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 12:23 PM (fwDg9)

133 WEF is pure Soviet Communism done western style. They have the same non existent utopian goals where they are the puppet masters for our own good. They are morphing into pure fascists which is inevitable whenever the utopian fantasy is pursued.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 20, 2024 12:23 PM (wNewd)

134 Head --> desk. If Ackman thinks that "still having much to learn" about the evil of DEI is good enough to be president, then Ackman himself still has much to learn.

Nobody wants to believe in Communism more than atheist Jews. It's that Tikkun Olam crap.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2024 12:25 PM (0A/JS)

135 Posted by: Titanium White at January 20, 2024 12:23 PM (wNewd)

You've got Kerry and Al Gore battling it out for biggest green dick....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2024 12:25 PM (n2vyf)

136 Semi related to WEF.

Several years ago, I bought a Xbox game I just now got around to playing. Paradise Lost is a walking simulator /mystery /alternate history /psychological horror game in which 20 years after the end of WWII, in 1960 when everybody nuked up and blew the shit out of everything, a Polish boy searches a long abandon Nazi bunker in search information about a man in a photograph next to his mother, who has just died. (Some have described the art as beautiful; I don't know about that but it is striking.) The horror in this psychological horror is not because scray things happen, although there are memories of scary things. The horror arises from the ideas, particularly the depths to which people will descend in a quest for absolute power (WEF anyone?) as those who read past this
SPOILER ALERTwill realize. Once the Polish underground had captured the bunker from the Nazis, they, particularly a certain scientist /religious leader, adopted Nazi computer technology which was dependent on a supply of human brains, particularly those of closely related persons. Having condemned his daughter to a fate worse than death, he then fathers a son so he, too, can be sacrific

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 12:25 PM (FVME7)

137 ...Head --> desk. If Ackman thinks that "still having much to learn" about the evil of DEI is good enough to be president, then Ackman himself still has much to learn.

I don't think the scales will ever full drop from his eyes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:22 PM (lCaJd)

I saw a Dean Phillips interview on the All-In podcast last month. He agrees with - and voted for - all of Biden's big initiatives so far this term. His only complaint about Biden is that he's too old to win in 2024. That's it.

He's another Dem retread. Old wine in a new wine skin.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2024 12:26 PM (uPqUj)

138 Tell the WEF to go and suck on a big fat one.

Suck it and suck it hard.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 20, 2024 12:26 PM (R/m4+)

139 If I only use left hand on the upright to make a pizzicato almost no sound gets made.
Electric fretted bass, with nice action, no problem. I used to do this all the time in order to make page turns.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:26 PM (MeG8a)

140
there is no way that Trump could make a speech like this one. He knows this instinctively, but could not express that like Millei does. Positively Thatcheresque.
In fact, the only GOP figures who could make a speech like that can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And that's a shame.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

=============

What are you talking about? Trump campaigning is different from Trump presiding. And Trump knows numbers, too. He may not be as avid an historian as Millei, I believe because he hasn't had to live in a socialist hell first-hand and wonder how his country got there, but Trump could throw numbers and ideology with the best of them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:26 PM (lCaJd)

141 Javier himself is only possible because Argentina is in a world of hurt. He is just trying to stop the bleeding.
Our time is coming.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:23 PM (MeG8a)

That's been the story for us for a long time. The socialist less freedom advocates screw up and the capitalist more freedom advocates clean up the mess. But it's been a one step forward, two steps back since the Constitution was ratified. Socialists are like the terminator. They will never quit even in light of their continued failures.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 20, 2024 12:28 PM (wNewd)

142 Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:19 PM (gwrBY)

Yup... The "media" is bending itself in pretzels trying to prop up that senile old fart...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2024 12:21 PM (n2vyf)

Which ought to be its own tell. The U.S. of A... has a dementia patient as its "president." As the media drumbeat talks about what a tyrant Trump would be, tyranny rains down on the nation, from multiple fronts.

Could the U.S. stop Chi Nah... if we wanted to? I doubt it. But Chi Nah is ruled by serious men, and while they might not have the strength to complete whatever world domination goals they MIGHT have, it's possible they're actually accomplishing everything they want, by merely exerting influence everywhere they can. It's possible they won't invade Taiwan, because they don't have to.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:28 PM (69sd5)

143 What strikes me most about the WEF is how little disagreement there is. The largest matters on earth are at stake (supposedly) yet the conferees don't argue. They don't debate. All points seem smugly settled. It's an ego orgy, a great self-satisfied mutual grope.

Think of them like the Soviet Union. Of course there are no debates in public. They decide things behind the scenes and everyone agrees to it or...bad things happen to them.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2024 12:29 PM (ibTVg)

144 So it is true that Klaus Schwab father was a Nazi?

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:30 PM (gwrBY)

145 The World Economic Forum is Over

*haz sadz*

Posted by: hookerz at January 20, 2024 12:30 PM (2xCPU)

146 Rifting off of Ripley:

I am warm, dry, haven't missed any meals, and no one is shooting at me.
Life is good...but, all of the above can change in a heartbeat.

Posted by: waepnedmann: "The peasants are revolting!" "We know." -Davos et al at January 20, 2024 12:30 PM (yfK0G)

147 Back in the day when I read National Review they had a columnist who attended Davos regularly. I can't remember his but he was an effete sort of chap.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:30 PM (kSHhA)

148 147 Back in the day when I read National Review they had a columnist who attended Davos regularly. I can't remember his but he was an effete sort of chap.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:30 PM (kSHhA)

Jay Nordlinger. And yes, he was.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2024 12:32 PM (uPqUj)

149 Javier himself is only possible because Argentina is in a world of hurt. He is just trying to stop the bleeding.
Our time is coming.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:23 PM (MeG8a)

Ok, one prediction: The fed lowers interest rates, close enough to the election to at least TRY to push the Dems over the top (whether it works or not, I don't know).

Hyperinflation is the result. Yay.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:32 PM (69sd5)

150 Jay Nordlinger. And yes, he was.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January

Ah yes.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:32 PM (kSHhA)

151 What is really sad, is how many Republican Governors went to Davos, begging for Globalist money

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:32 PM (gwrBY)

152 Man. My toddler had a tantrum, so I put on Jackson 5, because she likes that. No help at all.

So, I thought, maybe I'm going the wrong way, here, and started cranking Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera. Didn't work. She just went extra crazy and turned red and started throwing furniture around.

I'm going down the middle of that road with Bad Company right now. It seems to be helping.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 12:32 PM (0FoWg)

153 Thanks to Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood starring in a little movie called 'Where Eagles Dare,' the world was introduced to Ingrid Pitt.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:33 PM (4sSBh)

154 Censorship destroys competition and isolates individuals, it make that totalitarian rule in their best interest so much easier.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2024 11:42 AM (D7oie)

It’s also fucking stupid and pointless. History shows this time and again: the truth WILL out. Yet so many people keep wanting to try it over and over…

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 20, 2024 12:33 PM (8sMut)

155 Stunningly our taxes help pay for the WEF

Posted by: GOP sux at January 20, 2024 12:33 PM (Zzbjj)

156
I saw a Dean Phillips interview on the All-In podcast last month. He agrees with - and voted for - all of Biden's big initiatives so far this term. His only complaint about Biden is that he's too old to win in 2024. That's it.

He's another Dem retread. Old wine in a new wine skin.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

=============

Yup. He renamed his webpage on "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" to "Equity and Restorative Justice" and changed zero words below the title. It's literally the very trick that Ackman lamented re Harvard's new "anti-semitism taskforce" that's headed by an avowed anti-Semite.

I think Ackman will go to his grave bewildered and deluded.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:34 PM (lCaJd)

157 Argentina exports a red wine called Recri, a combination of malbec and cabernet. $4 a bottle, screw top.
Very drinkable.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:34 PM (MeG8a)

158 Jay Nordlinger is an insufferable little bitch.

I hated him well before I hated the rest of ConInc. There's a guy who should have gotten a lot more swirlies than he did.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 12:35 PM (0FoWg)

159 I'm going down the middle of that road with Bad Company right now. It seems to be helping.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 12:32 PM (0FoWg)

That’s impressive parenting skills, YD!

You didn’t even try “Baby got Back” like Ross on Friends….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 20, 2024 12:35 PM (xT8gx)

160 Hyperinflation is the result. Yay.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:32 PM (69sd5)

Hyperinflation will result when people are told to 1) not produce goods 2) not produce services and 3) just rely on government for everything. This basically is what happened in Zimbabwe.

That is, until Robert Mugabe ended inflation by simply outlawing it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 20, 2024 12:36 PM (8sMut)

161 ...but Trump could throw numbers and ideology with the best of them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:26 PM (lCaJd)

Off the cuff, absolutely. I just don't recall him saying those words in the same way that Milei did in that clip, in a prepared speech, and for the reasons that you expressed.

And Trump is light-years ahead of any other US politician, for sure.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2024 12:36 PM (uPqUj)

162 Thanks to Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood starring in a little movie called 'Where Eagles Dare,' the world was introduced to Ingrid Pitt.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:33 PM (

I enjoyed that movie. I liked the book too.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:36 PM (kSHhA)

163 Our taxes pay for so many things directly harmful to us, I lose track of them all.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:36 PM (MeG8a)

164 Think of them like the Soviet Union. Of course there are no debates in public. They decide things behind the scenes and everyone agrees to it or...bad things happen to them.

Posted by: 18-1

Yeah, you kind of think something like , say, reducing meat consumption by 80% (and related jobs and ranches and investments) just might produce some heated discussions on benefits vs drawbacks, But no, just a panel of experts and rich people all agreeing this what must be done and that, is that. End of discussion.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2024 12:37 PM (PTDkx)

165 Yup. He renamed his webpage on "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" to "Equity and Restorative Justice" and changed zero words below the title. It's literally the very trick that Ackman lamented re Harvard's new "anti-semitism taskforce" that's headed by an avowed anti-Semite.

I think Ackman will go to his grave bewildered and deluded.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 12:34 PM (lCaJd)

"Restorative Justice" aka taking my shit to give a fraction of it to some bum who claims his ancestors were enslaved by my ancestors, while keeping the remaining fraction to enrich himself.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2024 12:37 PM (tkR6S)

166 Trailer for Paradise Lost.

http://tinyurl.com/mv6t6cjv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 12:37 PM (FVME7)

167 Thanks to Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood starring in a little movie called 'Where Eagles Dare,' the world was introduced to Ingrid Pitt.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:33 PM (

I want one of those infinity capacity magazines that Eastwood used.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 20, 2024 12:37 PM (wNewd)

168 Having condemned his daughter to a fate worse than death, he then fathers a son so he, too, can be sacrific
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 12:25 PM (FVME7)

Sounds like a fun game.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:38 PM (JgqvA)

169 Stunningly our taxes help pay for the WEF

You call that stunning? THIS is stunning:
*shows picture of people taking John Kerry seriously as a presidential candidate*

Posted by: Archimedes at January 20, 2024 12:39 PM (CsUN+)

170 The WEF is as much a mutual masturbation society as it is anything else. There's no disagreement among members in good standing. When someone dares to poke the governing body of that cult the members get all huffy and walk away.

It's like the click at school everyone wants to join until they're actually in it and they find out it's a bunch of assholes.

Our weak willed and minded political class would dine on turds fished out of a bus station toilet if the WEF said that was something they should do. That's the danger. That idiots we've put in charge of our livelihood are so gullible and stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2024 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

171 What brought on the sudden improvement in musical taste to the blog ??

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 20, 2024 12:39 PM (KBjAN)

172 Man. My toddler had a tantrum, so I put on Jackson 5, because she likes that. No help at all.

-
My daughters and granddaughter liked the Supremes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 12:39 PM (FVME7)

173 So it is true that Klaus Schwab father was a Nazi?
Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2024 12:30 PM (gwrBY)

Basically. I don't know if he was a card carrying party member, but he certainly participated in the fun.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:40 PM (JgqvA)

174 Speaking of censorship, a game has been banned in Australia so can't download it off STEAM.

Guess the Aussie government has never heard of VPN.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:40 PM (4sSBh)

175 I would love someone, anyone, to declare the WEF a terrorist organization.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:41 PM (kSHhA)

176 Thanks to Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood starring in a little movie called 'Where Eagles Dare,' the world was introduced to Ingrid Pitt.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:33 PM

I just read her obituary in the NYT. Wow. From spending time in a Nazi concentration camp as a child, to escaping the German Commies in spectacular fashion, she led quite a life.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2024 12:43 PM (uPqUj)

177 126 For those that liked the guitar player, here's his YT channel. You can here the full version of the tune along with other great stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/c/JinsanKim
Posted by: pawn at January 20, 2024 12:20 PM (QB+5g)

Thanks. He's obviously of the Tommy Emmanuel school ... and, of course, the second most-recent video gives credit to Tommy.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 20, 2024 12:43 PM (KBjAN)

178 Clint Eastwood

Dual wielding MP-40s

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:44 PM (4sSBh)

179 But no, just a panel of experts and rich people all agreeing this what must be done and that, is that. End of discussion.
Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2024 12:37 PM (PTDkx)

Yeah, like putting experimental genetic alterations in people's bodies, and calling it a vaccine.

Sure, let's do it! What could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:45 PM (6Mtpb)

180 Speaking of censorship, a game has been banned in Australia so can't download it off STEAM.

What game? I know Germany forced some WWII games to change their NAZI insignias for...the NAZI forces...under threat of ban if they didn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2024 12:46 PM (ibTVg)

181
Our taxes pay for so many things directly harmful to us, I lose track of them all.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 12:36 PM

Our taxes are important, but even more important to the leftists is the ability to spend over and above any sort of break-even point. Then, a new sort of tax kicks in that the left somehow never gets the blame and rightful outrage over, inflation.

As long as trillions go to fund their pet projects - so what if a loaf of bread, a carton of eggs, or a stick of butter costs 50% more?

If only there was a political party that could use an early 1980's spreadsheet and take an ax to spending. But apparently technology and politics are poor bedfellows when it comes to reducing expenditures.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 20, 2024 12:46 PM (nIvob)

182 For a toddler I would try smoother music, wood wind concert music

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 12:46 PM (fwDg9)

183 New game that has 'coffin' in the title.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:47 PM (4sSBh)

184 It is NOT warm out thar.

With an ICE COLD WIND for emphasis !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2024 12:47 PM (T4tVD)

185 this year's Nobel Prize for Couldn't Be More Wrong goes to . . .

Lol: Rolling Stone Fearmongers About Trump Invading Mexico

Oh, you tease. One can only dream.

Posted by: Dandalo at January 20, 2024 12:48 PM (VtYZF)

186 Start the kidd off with Baby Metal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2024 12:48 PM (4sSBh)

187 Nobody wants to believe in Communism more than atheist Jews. It's that Tikkun Olam crap.
Posted by: Ian S

Not this one. But my 6th grade teacher, a Jewish woman herself, taught us about Mao and Stalin, the Refuseniks, and we read stuff like Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem. I well know whst communism is and isn't.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2024 12:49 PM (KAi1n)

188 IIRC there were two women working with the good guys in Where Eagles Dare. One was Burton's girlfriend Eastwood had the hots for the other.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:50 PM (kSHhA)

189 Tim Henson couldn't carry that guitar kid's jock. Damn.

Posted by: He's good. Real good. at January 20, 2024 12:50 PM (pKFK0)

190 Interesting sign of the times . Brawls between African American and Somali hs students in Minneapolis caused at least two parents to be arrested. Intersectionality goes boink , again

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 20, 2024 12:51 PM (wJraq)

191 Never heard that Seekers song before. Was thinking of Roger Whittaker’s “New World in the Morning” when I saw the title. Yeah, my late dad liked Roger. Internet says Roger passed away last Sept. RIP

Posted by: Rex B at January 20, 2024 12:51 PM (tAqdW)

192 The World Economic Forum is about maximizing profits for the Davos Crowd, and especially for the Inner-Davos Crowd. It is not about, "Saving the Planet," or any of the rest of the scams they use to mask their true intentions and dupe the sheep.

Posted by: davidt at January 20, 2024 12:52 PM (SYTee)

193 I'm snacking on taco chips and that fake cheese stuff. Doggie is convinced a good human would share.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 12:54 PM (kSHhA)

194 Not this one. But my 6th grade teacher, a Jewish woman herself, taught us about Mao and Stalin, the Refuseniks, and we read stuff like Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem. I well know whst communism is and isn't.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2024 12:49 PM (KAi1n)

I had a french teacher, eons ago, who taught very little french, but would wax on and on about how she was part of Le Resistance!!

I remember thinking "then what are you doing here? Shouldn't you still be there?"

Lots of people who claimed to be one thing, were actually another, and that post-war period likely had lots of people pretending they were on the right side... when they weren't.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 12:55 PM (6Mtpb)

195 Now I've eaten the last banana. What am I supposed to do now?

Posted by: Out of Sorts at January 20, 2024 12:55 PM (V5BDR)

196 I remember reading some Nordlinger missive about some punkassed bitch thing or another back when I was fifteen, getting a haircut in Conifer, CO at a hillbilly strip mall. I remember thinking "What a fucking homo."

My opinion has only grown more prejudicial since then.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 12:55 PM (0FoWg)

197 Jay Nordlinger is a breathing New Yorker cartoon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 12:57 PM (0FoWg)

198 >>>@152 Man. My toddler had a tantrum, so I put on Jackson 5, because she likes that. No help at all. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Greetings, YD ... When our oldest grand-daughter was a toddler -- and for maybe 2 years straight -- the only music to calm her was Enya's Watermark album ... The effects were so dependable that my DIL ordered 5-6 extra CD copies (for all grandparents and also as backups in case the home copy got lost or damaged). Seriously, not having the Enya music at bedtime was far worse than not having a binky.

Posted by: Kathy at January 20, 2024 01:01 PM (LPNLk)

199 Someone should hold one of these totalitarian wankfests on US soil.

The Air Force needs to have the X-37 on standby with a cargo of tungsten poles.

Quietly evacuate the civilians to a safe distance while they're in meetings, then let fly.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 20, 2024 01:04 PM (gJKGU)

200 The best cure for infatuation with communism is to actually live under communism. Or have at least a long visit to a communist country as I have done. I saw people in lines hundreds deep and they didn't even know what the line was for. They just saw a line and figured they'd better get in it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 01:06 PM (MeG8a)

201 Interesting sign of the times . Brawls between African American and Somali hs students in Minneapolis

That's been going on for a long time.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2024 01:06 PM (YAtuc)

202 Ah. Judith Durham - RIP

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2024 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

203 Socialists are like the terminator. They will never quit even in light of their continued failures.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 20, 2024 12:28 PM (wNewd)

It's because they're a cult. The sacred dogmas cannot be wrong, so when the ritual fails, they do the ritual again... and again... and again.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 20, 2024 01:07 PM (gJKGU)

204 So my vague impression that Jay Nordlinger is an effete sort is in the ballpark?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 01:08 PM (kSHhA)

205 The best cure for infatuation with communism is to actually live under communism. Or have at least a long visit to a communist country as I have done. I saw people in lines hundreds deep and they didn't even know what the line was for. They just saw a line and figured they'd better get in it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 01:06 PM (MeG8a)

This is one of the reasons why communist systems are moribund - one of, but far from the only one.

If you waste hours standing in line every day, or even every week, that's lost time that could have been spent either making more things, or making your workers more productive (with rest and leisure to recharge themselves before the next work day).

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 20, 2024 01:09 PM (gJKGU)

206 I've never seen so many people so full of themselves as the WEF..

I also suspect that they're crashing bores.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 20, 2024 01:12 PM (w6EFb)

207 Davos--the week where high priced Austrian, Swiss and French escorts/hookers make their nut for the year. After Davos is over, it's all gravy for the rest of the year.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 20, 2024 01:13 PM (cB7nX)

208 Did they make any announcements about the chocolate ration?

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 01:13 PM (w34GY)

209 >>The best cure for infatuation with communism is to actually live under communism

And that's why Milei speaks with the precise language he does. Argentina went down the road of tyranny many years ago. Milei doesn't just speak as an observer, he's lived it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2024 01:14 PM (ZLI7S)

210 WEFites, WEFies?
What do we call these cultists? It's a cult of all high priests, in any case.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2024 01:14 PM (TX2EM)

211 Never heard that Seekers song before. Was thinking of Roger Whittaker’s “New World in the Morning” when I saw the title. Yeah, my late dad liked Roger. Internet says Roger passed away last Sept. RIP
Posted by: Rex B
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*?!*

Here is version recorded at Abbey Road. Nice close ups of Durham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZf41UudAbI

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2024 01:15 PM (XeU6L)

212 WEFites, WEFies?
What do we call these cultists? It's a cult of all high priests, in any case.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2024 01:14 PM (TX2EM)

WEFtards?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2024 01:16 PM (tkR6S)

213 WEFites, WEFies?
What do we call these cultists? It's a cult of all high priests, in any case.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2024 01:14 PM (TX2EM)

Clif High calls them the motherWEFers.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 20, 2024 01:16 PM (w6EFb)

214 8 The "Amazonian Priestess" coughing on everybody was a nice touch.

Posted by: BignJames at January 20, 2024 11:25 AM (AwYPR)
----
I wonder what with will they all come down? CovMonkPox?

Posted by: Ciampino - Apply directly to the forehead .... at January 20, 2024 01:16 PM (qfLjt)

215 OT this also came up on.my X feed when I looked at the linked tweets

NEW: New York City driver intentionally plows her car into an NYPD officer, telling authorities she wanted to teach him a "lesson."

This is what happens when you convince people that cops are the enemy. Terrible.

Sahara Dula, who is a criminal justice graduate, was driving the wrong way when a police officer confronted her.

"I told the cop I wanted to go straight, and he wouldn’t move, so I hit him. I did it on purpose,’’ Dula said to investigators.

“F**k these cops! He wouldn’t move! F**k these cops, it’s a lesson to him, and hopefully he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore."

Dula also admitted to being high on marijuana.

She was *not* charged with attempted murder but was instead charged with first-degree attempted assault as well as other charges.

The officer suffered a broken leg.

video

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/
1748462448078905582

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2024 01:16 PM (TX2EM)

216 I've never seen so many people so full of themselves as the WEF..
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I also suspect that they're crashing bores.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 20, 2024 01:12 PM (w6EFb)

Extracting the adrenochrome from the toddlers they're having sex with and killing is not completely boring.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:17 PM (wuQTn)

217 216 I referred to attending, say, a cocktail party with them.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 20, 2024 01:19 PM (w6EFb)

218 Time to cancel the WEF.

Posted by: sidney at January 20, 2024 01:19 PM (Uy/WF)

219 204 So my vague impression that Jay Nordlinger is an effete sort is in the ballpark?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 01:08 PM (kSHhA)

Not only in the ballpark, but right in the middle of the strike zone.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2024 01:20 PM (uPqUj)

220 If you waste hours standing in line every day, or even every week, that's lost time that could have been spent either making more things, or making your workers more productive (with rest and leisure to recharge themselves before the next work day).
Posted by: Cato

Now do what those lines look like when people get paid hourly wages in a hyperinflation.
The workers need a wheel barrel to carry their money to the store for a loaf of bread.
Coming to a country near you soon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2024 01:21 PM (8wIVV)

221 24 "...or is it too early for cognac?"

Exactly WTF are you talking about?! I'm too old for silly games!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 20, 2024 01:21 PM (8Ta2Y)

222 She was *not* charged with attempted murder but was instead charged with first-degree attempted assault as well as other charges.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2024 01:16 PM (TX2EM)

It's not like she was restraining a lunatic on a train, who was threatening to kill everybody. Or stabbing a guy who invaded his shop and was beating him to death.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:21 PM (wuQTn)

223 What does the average WEF delegate pay for the privilege of being buggered by Schwab?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 01:21 PM (kSHhA)

224 217 216 I referred to attending, say, a cocktail party with them.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 20, 2024 01:19 PM (w6EFb)

Me too.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:22 PM (wuQTn)

225 In NFL news, it seems rumors that the Kansas City Chiefs were planning to trade Taylor Swift for Selena Gomez were unfounded.

Posted by: This Just In at January 20, 2024 01:22 PM (NBVIP)

226 211 posted by: Mike Hammer

That opening lyric must have been what triggered the Roger Whittaker tune- “There’s a new world somewhere…”

Thanks

Posted by: Rex B at January 20, 2024 01:22 PM (gZceY)

227 What does the average WEF delegate pay for the privilege of being buggered by Schwab?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Do we really need to answer?
20 bucks same as in Davos.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2024 01:23 PM (8wIVV)

228 Vmom @ 215-
There was a time when a cop would just the this driver. Done and done.

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 01:23 PM (w34GY)

229 Like energize your EV

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 01:24 PM (fwDg9)

230 208 Did they make any announcements about the chocolate ration?
Posted by: Eromero

Yes, they're being increased...

again!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 01:24 PM (hOUT3)

231 Sounds like a fun game.
Posted by: BurtTC

Kinda reminds me of Martha Is Dead in which you wander around a beautiful Italian vineyard investigating your sister's mysterious death and then a shattering ending that you didn't see coming.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 01:24 PM (FVME7)

232 Seriously, not having the Enya music at bedtime was far worse than not having a binky.
Posted by: Kathy at January 20, 2024 01:01 PM (LPNLk

TY, I'll try Enya next time.

I used to make fun of Enya (my dad liked it), because it was a wuss thing.

Then, I find out two of the meanest motherfuckers I ever met, one a multiple-tour Marine in 'Nam, the other a violent gang member, both listened to it to relax, and I thought "maybe there's something to this Enya thing."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 01:25 PM (0FoWg)

233 The three best deliveries of Shakespeare I have enjoyed were by Burton, Branagh, and, oddly enough, William Shatner.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2024 01:26 PM (W/lyH)

234 The workers need a wheel barrel to carry their money to the store for a loaf of bread.
Coming to a country near you soon.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2024 01:21 PM (8wIVV)/i]

And the workers race to the store as soon as they get paid so they can buy necessities before the price goes up again!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 01:26 PM (hOUT3)

235
*There was a time when a cop would just the this driver.*

Posted by: Read it again out loud at January 20, 2024 01:26 PM (NBVIP)

236 Now do what those lines look like when people get paid hourly wages in a hyperinflation.
The workers need a wheel barrel to carry their money to the store for a loaf of bread.
Coming to a country near you soon.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2024 01:21 PM (8wIVV)

the shortages of consumer goods in the USSR actually hid their inflation, it meant that only part of the salary people got was spendable at controlled sales prices, and the rest had to be banked in hopes that sometime in the future there would be something worth buying.

It was like a temporary "haircut" without the drama of inflation or taking people's money from them. With "openness" of the markets under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, the inflation became apparent, and that was part of the hammer that destroyed the USSR.
I swear that is one of the reason Bernie and his sort like "few choices in toothpaste" because it leaves him a free hand to spend while you get to consume what he allows because you are an stupid peasant.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2024 01:26 PM (D7oie)

237

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 01:26 PM (hOUT3)

238 Is this real life?

just tried to get on AMZ, looks like the site is down

Posted by: kallisto at January 20, 2024 01:27 PM (dCxaZ)

239 Kinda reminds me of Martha Is Dead in which you wander around a beautiful Italian vineyard investigating your sister's mysterious death and then a shattering ending that you didn't see coming.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 01:24 PM (FVME7)

Not being a gamer, it does remind me of another game that came out of few years ago, with the manga style Japanese girls, I think there are five of them, and you play through each of their stories separately, I think.

Anyhoo, one of them hangs herself.

Spoiler alert... but I don't know which one, so there's that.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:28 PM (wuQTn)

240 it's back up, i better order my groceries right quidk

Posted by: kallisto at January 20, 2024 01:28 PM (dCxaZ)

241 WEF is like a TED Talk, but for corrupt neo-aristocrats instead of smug dweebs.

Posted by: CppThis at January 20, 2024 01:28 PM (PZvjL)

242 @ 235- autocucumber. Roll your own, but was supposed to be ‘just shoot the driver’.

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 01:30 PM (w34GY)

243 Then, I find out two of the meanest motherfuckers I ever met, one a multiple-tour Marine in 'Nam, the other a violent gang member, both listened to it to relax, and I thought "maybe there's something to this Enya thing."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 01:25 PM (0FoWg)

There are several female artists whose music I love. I don't know why some dudes think listening to girls sing is somehow fruity. I listen to them sing, the same way I like watching them perform on stage and screen. I think it would be weird to only want to watch movies with guys in it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:30 PM (wuQTn)

244 manga style Japanese girls

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Mmmmm, Japanese girls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 01:31 PM (FVME7)

245 ‘just shoot the driver’.
Posted by: Eromero

Stupid of the aimee not to take the shot.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2024 01:31 PM (8wIVV)

246 No yellow!

Posted by: Hunter at January 20, 2024 01:31 PM (NBVIP)

247 242 @ 235- autocucumber. Roll your own, but was supposed to be ‘just shoot the driver’.
Posted by: Eromero

And sane people would think too bad but the driver had it coming!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 20, 2024 01:32 PM (hOUT3)

248 Diogenes--Is the Branagh speech you mean the St. Crispin's Day speech? I suspect so. It's certainly one of my favorite speeches. I make sure to listen to it every October 25.

It would be a good Texas MoMe ritual, come to think of it.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 20, 2024 01:32 PM (FEVMW)

249 Kinda reminds me of Martha Is Dead in which you wander around a beautiful Italian vineyard investigating your sister's mysterious death and then a shattering ending that you didn't see coming.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 01:24 PM (FVME7)

Not being a gamer, it does remind me of another game that came out of few years ago, with the manga style Japanese girls, I think there are five of them, and you play through each of their stories separately, I think.

Anyhoo, one of them hangs herself.

Spoiler alert... but I don't know which one, so there's that.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:28 PM (wuQTn)

I'm not a gamer either but I think I know which one you're talking about. It apparently gets really weird as reality gets all fucked up as the game progresses. And yeah, lots of dead cute anime goils.

I'm currently watching an anime called Higurashi - When They Cry. Also features a crazy fucked up reality with lots of dead cute anime goils.

Posted by: Debbie (who does things) at January 20, 2024 01:32 PM (1Yy3c)

250 The Dula bitch should get at least five years for that.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2024 01:32 PM (W/lyH)

251 Now I've eaten the last banana. What am I supposed to do now?
Posted by: Out of Sorts at January 20, 2024 12:55 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QqkrIDeTeA

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2024 01:33 PM (a3Q+t)

252
*I don't know why some dudes think listening to girls sing is somehow fruity.*
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.
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Linda Rondstadt has entered the chat.

Posted by: Be still my heart at January 20, 2024 01:34 PM (NBVIP)

253 I swear that is one of the reason Bernie and his sort like "few choices in toothpaste" because it leaves him a free hand to spend while you get to consume what he allows because you are an stupid peasant.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2024 01:26 PM (D7oie)

I think we're more surreptitiously being channeled into buying from a few select providers. If you go down the grocery store aisle, you notice all the name brand products, and then a store brand.

Where's the variety? Sure, you can buy 75 different types of chips, but they're all made by Frito-Lay. All your laundry detergents, your toothpastes, etc... they're all Proctor and Gamble products.

Well, not all... but damn close enough.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:34 PM (wuQTn)

254 I always look forward to Saturday KT .
Thank you.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2024 01:34 PM (6Tbhy)

255 I always look forward to Saturday KT .
Thank you.
Posted by: Braenyard

Same here.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 01:36 PM (kSHhA)

256 The random thing I unpacked today...

"Your Souvenir Bottle of First Water Pumped by [SiD's mom's hometown] Water Authority, Official Opening, November 6, 1963"

Still almost half full.

Shall I drink it?

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 20, 2024 01:36 PM (i671v)

257 Mmmmm, Japanese girls.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 01:31 PM (FVME7)

With ropes around their necks.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:36 PM (wuQTn)

258 I was very fortunate be able to attend a parochial school where our principal, who was a family friend, also taught 8th grade. Very influential teacher, each year he would schedule 2 weeks for the entire 8th grade class to read Orwell's Animal Farm, and to discuss intensely exactly what Orwell meant.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2024 01:36 PM (EFUZI)

259 "She was *not* charged with attempted murder but was instead charged with first-degree attempted assault as well as other charges."

She best leave town and change her name cause she's going to have problems anytime a cop sees here.

Posted by: pawn at January 20, 2024 01:36 PM (QB+5g)

260 Diogenes--Is the Branagh speech you mean the St. Crispin's Day speech? I suspect so. It's certainly one of my favorite speeches. I make sure to listen to it every October 25.

It would be a good Texas MoMe ritual, come to think of it.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 20, 2024 01:32 PM (FEVMW)
***

Yes. I think he does that better than anyone. And dang! You're right. That would be an awesome ritual!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2024 01:36 PM (W/lyH)

261 I'm craving a cream soda but I think I'll have beer instead.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 01:37 PM (kSHhA)

262 Mmmmm, Japanese girls.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 01:31 PM (FVME7)

At the risk of horning in on Mannix's territory...

This busty brown haired Japanese bikini babe wholeheartedly embraces life and liberty and wants nothing to do with the delusional soft totalitarianism of the WEF.
http://tinyurl.com/htkc73v9

Posted by: Robert at January 20, 2024 01:38 PM (1Yy3c)

263 Scream, use that water to mix with some expensive whiskey. You know it’t the right thing to do.

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 01:39 PM (w34GY)

264 "Your Souvenir Bottle of First Water Pumped by [SiD's mom's hometown] Water Authority, Official Opening, November 6, 1963"

How bizarre.

I bet someone would pay for the bottle.

Posted by: pawn at January 20, 2024 01:39 PM (QB+5g)

265
There's a new commercial out with Barky and Joey standing next to each other, starting with the halfrican saying "Our Democracy" is in danger and the dementia patient saying "That's no joke"

About the weakest spectacle yet presented. Their political opponents could not have produced anything to make them look worse.

Hope.

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2024 01:40 PM (j4U/Z)

266 Still almost half full.

Shall I drink it?
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 20, 2024 01:36 PM (i671v)

It'll be fiiiine!

Posted by: Robert at January 20, 2024 01:40 PM (1Yy3c)

267 *I don't know why some dudes think listening to girls sing is somehow fruity.*
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Linda Rondstadt has entered the chat.
Posted by: Be still my heart at January 20, 2024 01:34 PM (NBVIP)
***

I listen to Norah Jones all the time. The scotch is a tad more smooth and the cigars a bit more flavorful.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2024 01:40 PM (W/lyH)

268 November 6, 1963"

Still almost half full.

Shall I drink it?
Posted by: screaming in digital

Does your life insurance cover the cost of your new home?
If not, no.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2024 01:40 PM (8wIVV)

269 I'm currently watching an anime called Higurashi - When They Cry. Also features a crazy fucked up reality with lots of dead cute anime goils.
Posted by: Debbie (who does things) at January 20, 2024 01:32 PM (1Yy3c)

Let's be honest, all the anime/manga stuff, where the girls all have big breasts, faces that look like children, with the pink/red cheeks that are meant to suggest orgasm... there's something about it, if you happen to be a red-blooded adult male like myself, you're either fully into it, or you realize you must RESIST whatever urge you have to be into it.

I'm in the latter group, and it's very uncomfortable to me, when I see an image here or there, because part of my brain tells me I shouldn't be looking at this.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:41 PM (Tr/ye)

270 >>>

I agree, however, I go out of my way not to buy Frito-Lay etc.
I buy the store brand and find that my local store brand most competitive if not superior to Big Corporate.

I loath them not for being big or offering big variety but for them buying a smaller quality or distinctly tasty brand then changing the formula, reducing it to bland.

That's what Big Corporate wants to do to us.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2024 01:41 PM (6Tbhy)

271 I’ve seen two Shakespeare plays, Othello with Olivier, and Henry 5 with Branagh. Branagh is best.

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 01:43 PM (w34GY)

272 GARDEN NOOD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 01:44 PM (fwDg9)

273 I would prefer my Japanese teenage girls driving tanks

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 01:44 PM (fwDg9)

274 November 6, 1963"

Still almost half full.

Shall I drink it?
Posted by: screaming in digital

Got plenty of TP ?

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2024 01:46 PM (T4tVD)

275 About the weakest spectacle yet presented. Their political opponents could not have produced anything to make them look worse.

Hope.
Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2024 01:40 PM (j4U/Z)

I watched a clip the other day, forget who posted it, Bobama is sitting with some gay looking "journalist" who accidentally asks the fruity ex-president about his annual list he posts, showing the books he's read, the music he listens to, the shows he watched.

The guy is incredulous regarding the music, and Barky plays all coy, saying "yeah I listen to this stuff, cuz I'm coooool!"

Then the guy asks him to summarize the plot of a book he supposedly read. And the cook-killing fag goes back to talking about the cool music he listens to.

You fraud. You didn't read it. It's all made up, you cox suxing bitch.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:46 PM (L49LX)

276 I have to keep this bottle, because it's so random.

I'll save the water for when the SHTF.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 20, 2024 01:46 PM (i671v)

277 271 I’ve seen two Shakespeare plays, Othello with Olivier, and Henry 5 with Branagh. Branagh is best.
Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 01:43 PM (w34GY)

Branagh's got it going on when it comes to Shakespeare. It's kind of his passion.

Posted by: CppThis at January 20, 2024 01:46 PM (PZvjL)

278 Linda Rondstadt has entered the chat.
Posted by: Be still my heart at January 20, 2024 01:34 PM (NBVIP)
***

I listen to Norah Jones all the time. The scotch is a tad more smooth and the cigars a bit more flavorful.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2024 01:40 PM (W/lyH)

My favorite singers are generally not all that well known. I don't care if that makes me sound like a snob.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2024 01:48 PM (L49LX)

279 Braenyard,

Check out the story and the real story about the hot Cheetos flavoring recipe.

http://tinyurl.com/3edjykty

This is how Big Snack corporations think and act.

Posted by: pawn at January 20, 2024 01:48 PM (QB+5g)

280 KT

Really interesting thread!

I would've added, "in addition to being a trade show for quasi-authoritarian government," the WEF is also promoting a suicide pact for western civilization.

I guess The Wise Men of Davos calculate that when their beloved globalization is complete, they'll be the last ones to be eaten.

I've never liked Libertarians (thanks a lot for Sen. Tester, assholes!), but if the WEF detests them that much, I may have to reconsider my antipathy to them.

Posted by: mnw at January 20, 2024 01:48 PM (NLIak)

281 Heh. No subtext here.

http://tinyurl.com/39nrecex

Nooooo sir!

Posted by: Robert at January 20, 2024 01:56 PM (1Yy3c)

282 So the Dutch Queenie is all in on biometric scanners to, you know, track people who have actually taken the Vaccination.
*another country I will never visit again*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2024 01:57 PM (W/lyH)

283 280 I've never liked Libertarians (thanks a lot for Sen. Tester, assholes!), but if the WEF detests them that much, I may have to reconsider my antipathy to them.
Posted by: mnw at January 20, 2024 01:48 PM (NLIak)

Libertarians scare establismentarians because, as a general rule, they have a very well defined and historically aware ideological territory and they are well capable of defending it--as just demonstrated by Milei's speech.

US conservatives, on the other hand, pretend to like limited government--right up until nebulous wars or Jesus Family Values are on the table, then the state can do no wrong. The liberals for their part pay lip service to civil rights, until they've got some power and then it's all obedient conformity all the time. Neither has much of a raison d'etre other than power, and that becomes immediately clear if they try to have a debate with a capable libertarian.

Posted by: CppThis at January 20, 2024 01:59 PM (PZvjL)

284 >>>I'll save the water for when the SHTF.

Posted by: screaming in digital
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For old times sake.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2024 01:59 PM (6Tbhy)

285 To wit: whatever you may think of the practicality of what libertarian groups want to pursue, they have the ability to call the mainstream factions' bluff. And that is why they get marginalized.

Posted by: CppThis at January 20, 2024 02:01 PM (PZvjL)

286 ***

I listen to Norah Jones all the time. The scotch is a tad more smooth and the cigars a bit more flavorful.

Posted by: Diogenes
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Yes, I can tell why she would make that scotch a bit smoother.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2024 02:04 PM (6Tbhy)

287 I'm not sure I have good taste but I might taste good.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 02:13 PM (kSHhA)

288 The guy is incredulous regarding the music, and Barky plays all coy, saying "yeah I listen to this stuff, cuz I'm coooool!"

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Yup. It's ridiculous. It's rare for most people outside of the recording industry to keep abreast of new music after their 20s. Too busy. They have lives outside of concert venues by that point even if they're not political creatures who used to be Presidents and now have to help prop up a rapidly changing Party structure.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2024 02:14 PM (0FoWg)

289 The NYT is quick like a bunny and only four years too late.

Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey
Shocking to read this from the
@nytimes
. I feel redemption coming. I won’t hold my breath for apologies though.

“Some pandemic mistakes were inevitable… But others betrayed an ideological intransigence. The obvious example was long-term school closures, mostly in blue states, which we now know caused significant delays in learning, especially among the most vulnerable populations with the fewest resources. In many places during the pandemic, to suggest that kids might suffer learning loss or social and emotional consequences was tantamount to wishing death upon teachers. Forbidding socializing among young children denied them the development of social skills, yet to advocate otherwise could get you kicked out of a parent group chat [or worse, you might lose your job]”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 20, 2024 02:17 PM (FVME7)

290 They can take their Ideological intransigence and cram it up their ass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 20, 2024 02:20 PM (WVAwc)

291
I'll go along with everything except the word "pandemic." It was a lockdown, not a pandemic.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 20, 2024 02:43 PM (lCaJd)

292 "long life dammit!"

Love Milei, (and that he quoted our founding documents too)

Posted by: PJ at January 20, 2024 02:43 PM (G1dq6)

293 If ever there was a need for SMOD to hit a place that was it.
Missed opportunity

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 02:45 PM (fwDg9)

294 Nobody is saving anything, you delusional, megalomaniac narcissists.

Mortality is your fate. Now shut the fuck up and get back to pumping that petroleum and digging that coal.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 20, 2024 02:55 PM (J3ryZ)

295 If they can bring down the US then they can achieve a lot of things. That's why preventing another Trump presidency will be their top priority.

Posted by: SamIam at January 20, 2024 03:03 PM (oasF3)

296 For lunch today I'm enjoying some cold barley soup, seasoned with hops and yeast.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 03:04 PM (kSHhA)

297 Not sure even want to winter dress up to go get mail

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 03:36 PM (fwDg9)

298 >>>============

Argentina was a first-world country at one point. It's resource-rich (agriculture and shale gas & oil) and, I'm wildly guessing, the potential of being a big manufacturer. It also has some nice tourist spots, I believe. If it threatens to get really free and prosperous, they just might bother with it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Before WWII they were first-world up and coming but still a bit wobbly. (they were neutral) After the war Nazi influence ruined them.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2024 04:14 PM (6Tbhy)

299 Pr0n bot cleanup on aisle 299.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2024 05:53 PM (Wnv9h)

300 RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2024 05:53 PM

Thanks. You are now in that aisle after clean-up, but it's not you, of course.

Pron bot was far more obvious than the hookers at Davos.

Posted by: KT at January 21, 2024 09:51 AM (rrtZS)

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