Hi everyone. Thanks for your generosity yesterday. I might have accidentally slept through the afternoon links. I had a long week, and yesterday was the first time in a long while that I had no due date bearing down on me. Or there was more fentanyl than usual in my bag of heroin. It was a pretty epic nap that just happened to coincide with leaving the money bleg up longer. Anyhow, I’ve more or less been awake and at work all day today, so here’s some links.
The Fed is fucking Trump. Or, you know, raising the cost of borrowing money when it appears that demand and supply are mis-matched. Your call.
Paul Ryan says absolutely nothing of substance in his farewell address. In that respect, it is much like his time as Speaker. Bye, Felicia.
I’m confused about the difference between an entirely pre-fabricated “tiny house” on wheels and a trailer. I don’t seem to be able to come up with a criteria to differentiate besides “will hipsters pay too much to live in a trailer?”
The Florida Man disease is spreading.
I hate each and everyone of you, so I got you a shitty song just to put some random new pop in the mix.
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Wednesday pm boobs, many sizeable, many NSFW.
Might I direct your attention to 10, 5 , and 24 — all unambiguously NSFW.
https://thesexier.com/hot-boobs-pics/
I’m confused about the difference between an entirely pre-fabricated “tiny house” on wheels and a trailer. I don’t seem to be able to come up with a criteria to differentiate besides “will hipsters pay too much to live in a trailer?”-
One is for deplorables the other for hipsters.
This. Trailers are for trash!
You pay extra for a tiny house “tornado magnet” while it comes standard with a trailer?
Some of the pre-fabs are advertised as tornado proof. Double glued and screwed, no gaps.
*Returning to the stolen trailer*
“Aww! Jesus–what’s that smell, man?”
“Uh, yeah. Its ah, probably a vagrant, slept in the car. Or maybe just used it as a toilet, and moved on.”
It’s called a soup kitchen
Yeah, only poor Republicans living trailers. Duh.
So are those bell ringers paid jobs or volunteerism?
Officers were called to the store after 40-year-old David Kelley allegedly stopped collecting donations and licked vials that appeared to contain oil.
Salv Al uses volunteers. I do it most years.
So some guy volunteers and says “you know what charity needs? More PCP fueled hi Jinkx”
Why do you hate gays?
House Speaker Paul Ryan bemoaned America’s “broken politics” in a farewell speech Wednesday and called Washington’s failure to overhaul costly federal benefit programs “our greatest unfinished business.” –
Boo-hoo. You have control for 2 years and dick two things. Jack and shit.
It wasn’t his fault McCain was a shitweasel.
Yep. They don’t actually have control. There’s no such thing as a DINO, ever since Zell Miller left. But there’s about five fucking Republican Senators from red states who seem to don’t actually ever want to do any of the things the Republican agenda has on it. They always have some bullshit reason why none of the stuff they run on is politically possible.
The Democrats don’t have that issue. Every single one of their elected officials is willing to vote for the Democratic agenda items, even if it costs them their seat. That’s why they will continue to win, long term, because their elected officials are willing to actually advance the party agenda.
I despair at the realization that there really are people in the world who believe the Federal Reserve Bank can/should “fine tune” the economy.
^hey everybody, check out the gold bug amirite
The Fed is fucking Trump. Or, you know, raising the cost of borrowing money
In all fairness, the primary take should be that government meddling gives the impression that there are fewer risks to be borne by borrowers than actually exist in the market, so it’s fairer to say that there are asset bubbles due to cheap credit, not expensive credit in general. In particular, the discount window essentially eliminates liquidity risk, so the big boys are, net of the liquidity risk premium they avoid, really borrowing at the fed funds rate = free money. This lines up with my intuitive notion that some sort of “risk free rate” should be no lower than 5%: who in their right mind would lend money for less than that?
I know Mises argues the opposite somewhere, but all I recall are a theoretical notion of the inefficiency of central banking; I find it a hard stretch to say such inefficiency outstrips the easing that the aid and incentives I describe above impart.
The simple test for who is right is that no one is out there undercutting the Fed by making money available cheaper; said another way, if you want to run out and lend a bunch of bucks at 1%, there’s nobody stopping you: knock yourself out, you’ll never run out of clients.
I’m glad to be schooled on all this; my macro is about 30 years old and I’m admittedly just blabbing my own notions after thinking about this in a schoolboy fashion and reading about it lightly. And I’ll admit that I have no idea of the demand elasticity for money and concede that the government’s enduring need to float a year’s GDP as debt certainly is inflationary.
I’m just saying that the day after both the USG is right-sized to less than 10% of GDP and the debt is entirely retired, there’s not instantly going to be trillions available at 2% for mortgages and working capital. Without the fantasy that Uncle Sam is backing everything, fiat bucks and the credit in which they are denominated will be harder to come by. I want a libertarian moment, but the USG is essentially doG in whom we trust and abide; without miH, I need to truly understand the climate and my clients before I loan money, fiat or otherwise.
Headline: U.S. Cash Repatriation Plunges 50%, Defying Trump’s Tax Forecast
The article: Companies repatriated $92.7 billion in the July-September period, the lowest amount this year and down almost 50 percent from the previous quarter, according to data released Wednesday by the Commerce Department. U.S. corporations repatriated $294.9 billion in the first three months of 2018 and $183.7 billion in the second quarter.
The latest quarter’s total compares with $55.1 billion from the same period a year earlier — before the tax law took effect. The tax overhaul signed into law by Trump last December gave companies incentives to bring money back to the U.S. by lowering the tax rate on repatriated profits.
Down almost 50% from prior quarter, still double compared to 2017. Truly a mystery.
they give us the numbers RIGHT THERE IN THE ARTICLE too.
Quarter-over-Quarter is 55.1B pre-tax cut vs 92.7B post-tax cut
good grief.
One of those articles that doesn’t exactly lie, but is spun like a top.
and down almost 50 percent from the previous quarter
Gosh, its almost like there was cash piled up overseas due to our stupid tax laws, and when the stupid tax laws got reformed, people started bringing it back as fast as they could, so that the amount coming back starts dropping off BECAUSE THERE’S LESS TO REPATRIATE.
I wonder whether Dems likely taking back the House (from the perspective going into Q4) had something to do with faltering expectations for the US markets. I’m no wealth manager—I’ve got a jar full of change to my name—but I figure staring into the maw of madness that is Dems coming roaring back onto the scene ready to burn it all down if it gets Trump would put me off wanting to invest any more of my money here, especially with some pretty explicit promises to reverse his tax cuts.
There’s no rational investment plan that is based on a Dem House somehow overwhelming both a Rep Senate and Rep White House.
If there is a dominant emotional issue, it is the random spasms of the President’s governance, particularly when and where he will start pissing contests (China? Canada?) and in what form (tarriffs? jawboning? picking winners and losers?). For the complex firm selling complex products, any one ejaculation means little, but many firms are simple and streamlined: a manufacturing firm that mainly transforms metals into shapes (eg: fenders), say, or even a seller of high-value metal-based products (eg: pumps) can be stricken by a tariff war; if a narrow sort of import constitutes 70% of your cost of goods sold (very common in the industrial US), presidential urine-slinging can render you unable to compete essentially after only a few taps on twitter.
If DJT45 can through his saber rattling deliver a reduction in tariffs that creates substantial net increases in GDP, most of us will accept the result. I rather think his gambit is attitude and not calculation that will create needless frictions in markets; I’d be happy to support a campaign that was rationalized in dollars and percentages with clear steps and goals, but none is forthcoming. Mr Trump is a dunce and a bully, merely guessing; if he is wrong or unlucky, the costs will be tremendous but not even noticed by himself or his friends. . . and we’ll see what history the populists then write.
Fair points. I withdraw my hypothesis.
*hugs coin jar*
ONE MORE FUCKING DAY (well, one day plus however much longer I have to work today) and I’m done working for the year. Been under the gun all month as a result, which is why I mostly haven’t been here.
But ONE MORE DAY.
Meh, I have to work Christmas Eve. And the 26th.
Two more weeks for me. TWO FUCKING WEEKS.
Two more days for me. Although, I have to do some work at home (timecards Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve for all our union daily hires).
I’m confused about the difference between an entirely pre-fabricated “tiny house” on wheels and a trailer.
I think it boils down to aerodynamics. A “tiny house” will be torn to shreds on a long trip.
True. But many house trailers only make one intact journey – from the factory to the site where it will sit until hurricane or fire destroys it.
Too true.
Also, at least in my county, new house trailers are considered ‘Manufactured Homes’ as a ‘House Trailer/Mobile Home’ could not be placed on my FiLs property and a Manufactured Home could.
When I pressed for the defining difference, it boiled to being built before or after ’78 and boiled down to wiring standards.
Its really a confusion of what terms mean
Manufactured homes are what used to be called mobile homes, or trailer homes. They are built to standards set by HUD. This is the type of housing that so many places try to prohibit.
Modular homes are built to meet or exceed building codes of the town/county where they will be placed on a permanent foundation.
So while they arrive at a site on a trailer, they are built to the same standards as a stick frame home built on site.
Tiny homes, at least those with wheels built on a trailer chassis are treated more like RVs than anything else.
Or meth lab explosion.
House Trailer v Tiny House Built on Trailer – I’m sure it’s some type of arbitrary regulatory difference. I was surprised to see the “tiny house” in the article built around the wheel well of the trailer – to me that says purpose-built trailer, not house.
i’m pretty sure it’s just a square footage limit. I believe a “tiny house” has to be like under 400 sqft or something like that. That’s pretty much the only difference afaik
I halfway looked into one of these many many moons ago. If I remember correctly, it has to do with zoning and municipal square footage requirements. A lot of places won’t let you build a house that small but you can park a trailer on a lot pretty much indefinitely in many of those. The “tiny house” stuff is just an affectation, it’s a house trailer.
“If your richest relative buys a new house and you have to help take the wheels off, you may be a redneck.”
Maybe the only Jeff Foxworthy joke I laughed at.
Well the Fed just helped my short positions.
Get out of here with that Maroon 5 shit.
I weep for anyone over the age of 12 that believes Monopoly contains all of the necessary elements to accurately represent capitalism.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1075077340122599424
People who say such things only do so because it confirms their biases.
At least until the plumbing gives out.
What an asshole.
And it violates the rules of the game. Rent can never be forgiven, and must be collected.
I love how these deluded retards are ultimately at odds with reality. “Going around the board forever” implies resources are unlimited.
You want a chance to really screw over opponents because rebates etc. are not against the rules? Try “Rail Baron”. It is available as a board game or a computer game. Your job? Build a railroad empire.
Simple enough a callow youth can understand the basic rules and the game ends before they grow bored.
“wealthy and successful by going around the board forever”
So like real communism it seeks to make you bored and miserable while you toil without reward or any hope of seeing the day when the ride stops?
How does everyone become wealthy then? WTF?
Because there’s no money and it feelz good! It you’d just shut your face, it would all work out! See, we don’t want censorship, but you’re ruining everything! *sticks fingers in ears, dances around * ‘nah, nah, nah, nah! I can’t hear you!’.
Georgist economics.
Because they all have a pile of paper that is worthless to anyone outside of their game. Like Venezuela. Those people with wheelbarrows full of Bolivars are enormously wealthy!
And they can hardly buy anything with them. Think of all that pent-up demand! Truly, Venezuela is the wealthiest nation in the world.
Don’t you see, if the government just gives us all $200 every time we pass “Go”, then we could all own Boardwalk and Park Place, and everyone will be rich
The ‘People’ own Boardwalk and Park Place, but you’re only allowed to stop at Baltic avenue, Comrade.
You know who else stopped at Baltic Avenue?
It’s a version of economic freedom where you are forced to buy things.
Totally models capitalism.
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Three merchants were stranded on a desert island. Ten years later, when rescued, they were all rich, from trading hats.
So woke.
Libertarian fascism, yeah… about that…
There is so much derp in that thread alone that I may need to lie down for a while.
Sweet Jesus, the stupid, it burns
She not puttin’ out?
Everytime someone links to one of that idiot’s tweets I end up going down the rabbit hole:
if you just change number 2 to: “Fascists who think the government will get rid of anyone they disagree with”, then this tweet applies to Dems pretty well, really.
“for free”
“Kickstarter”
“support it here”
I’m not sure that’s what “free” means. But i guess it depends what the definition of “is” is
With the proper definition of ‘is’, you get a cigar up your hoo-ha.
I’m sure it’s some type of arbitrary regulatory difference.
If you put it on a foundation, you become subject to a whole raft of planning and zoning regs, most notably minimum footprint and lot size.
This.
I’m reading this while my wife goes over a number of plan checks for the city she works for. She’s in civil engineering, and there are a LOT of regulations.
A tiny house on wheels is totes woke sustainable organic and a trailer is where the racist #MAGA yuckpeople live.
And you have to sleep in your attic.
Don’t you see, if the government just gives us all $200 every time we pass “Go”, then we could all own Boardwalk and Park Place, and everyone will be rich
And yet, there are those who say Universal Basic Income would never work.
It’s like that old saying: give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Give a man a fish every day for the rest of his life, and…..well……the price of fish will probably go up pretty significantly
False, nobody will want fish. There will be a hella price for black-market chicken, though.
“(Ryan)called Washington’s failure to overhaul costly federal benefit programs “our greatest unfinished business.”
WHAT A DISHONEST PIECE OF SHIT.
You must start something to call it ‘unfinished’.
“(Ryan)called Washington’s failure to overhaul costly federal benefit programs “our greatest unfinished business.”
“Fire Chief asks why nobody put fire out.”
Haha, that’s crazy. One was rich, and the other two carried him around the island in a palanquin all day.
There are a lot of butt hurt conservatives today about the announced withdrawal from Syria. Daniel Larson, a Trump critic (but from a non-interventionist standpoint and not the pro-war #Resist contingency) says “tough shit”.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/live-by-illegal-presidential-warfare-die-by-presidential-whim/
Rand Paul drank your milkshake.
FTA:
“President Obama arbitrarily expanded the war on ISIS into Syria in 2014 with no legal authority to do so, but virtually no one in Congress said anything about it then or later. Now that there is a chance that Trump might withdraw U.S. forces from a war they should never have been in, suddenly hawks in Congress are extremely upset about the president’s failure to consult Congress. There are few things that could better illustrate the absurd extent to which illegal presidential warmaking has distorted our constitutional system.”
It would be fitting if Congress held hearings to find out the administration’s rationale for LEAVING Syria when they completely ignored hearings on why we were IN Syria
We’re obviously leaving because it benefits Russia.
Does not supporting whatever side in Yemen the US is supporting benefit Russia?
Logical consistency is for losers.
It’s just more proof that Trump is Putin’s bitch. You know that’s coming.
Yup. That’s already started.
#Resist has always been #War
It is nice to finally the death of the notion that there exists a bunch of “anti-war” Democrats.
Jesus help me, I agree with Winston
That’s right in there with Congress objecting to the pullback of the Dreamer’s program, which had no legal footing either.
What a bunch of useless shitheels.
Gas attack coming in 3…2…1…
IIRC nothing ever came of that attack which was strongly suspected of being staged during Obama’s tenure.
Our media, not the doing the jobs nobody else won’t do.
I believe it’s almost certain that it was staged…….some principled journalist did a really good piece on it that was roundly ignored…..I’ll go digging and see if can find it……
UN Security Council report says the results were inconclusive. In other words, they can’t tell who did it.
https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/wp-content/uploads/s_2016_738.pdf
Yep. By the next 24 hour news cycle we’re going to be seeing nothing but stock footage coverage of bloody, filthy kids amidst war-torn rubble accompanied by commentary about how Trump wants these kids to die.
Trump’s going to use those kids he’s keeping in cages at the border, to drop on Syrian kids, before he abandons all of the other poor kids. Plan all along, win/win for Trumputin.
Interestingly, both the Jacket and Fruit Sushi have pieces at TOS that, at least judging by the headlines, support the withdrawal.
Wait until the coming cocktail party fallout, they’ll get Shikha right in there to right the ship.
http://pelicanmagazine.com.au/2017/11/23/rockism-and-poptimism/
How many glibs does this describe?
All Glibs, because we are Tulpa.
Don’t label me Man!!°!!!!!
WTF is a ‘Gang of Four’?
These guys I assume?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(band)
“…you lazily thought Pink Floyd were automatically better than Gang of Four”
They were automatically better than Gang of Four. They had actual talent.
I think both of them were good.
Yes, I liked both and saw both live.
http://www.realclearlife.com/music/american-rock-not-dead-think-pieces-must-die/
Can someone translate this for me?
Don’t ask me, I don’t listen to anything recorded this millennium.
Music has sucked since Ragtime died.
That reminds me I heard a young organist play some ragtime this summer at the Wanamaker in Philly. I was pulling my hair out because he had absolutely no sense of rhythm. Drives me nuts when they don’t teach that part of music effectively.
“That’s not the right key for the Charleston!”
It’s seriously necessary. And ragtime isn’t music you can play without a sense of time. (Not that there are a lot)
I queued up “The Entertainer” and “Maple Leaf Rag”, so thanks for that. Been a while since I heard those songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DyHFonnu2E
Someone wants to impress you with all the cool bands he listens to and bemoans the fact that nobody cares?
“Can someone translate this for me?”
The music might suck, but all the band members are totes woke and mutlicultural.
Have some holiday music by someone who can play their instrument.
Wow, that takes some serious coordination.
Carpenter is off the charts in that department. He’s an interesting character.
Damn! Impressive. I have to share this with my nephew. He loves organ music.
“Florida man tried to pay for McDonald’s with bag of weed, police say”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-tried-pay-mcdonald-s-bag-weed-police-say-n949246
By the way what does Alice Walker think about the Civil War and WWII?
(((They))) did it?
referring to this:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/12/tuesday-morning-links-74/
“Facebook gave about a dozen companies wide access to its 2.2 billion users’ personal data without consent, including private messages, names and contact info for friends, according to a report in The New York Times.
The revelations contradict the social media giant’s claims that it no longer allowed third party apps to access user information via friends.
Revelations of Facebook’s partnerships with Netflix, Spotify, Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon were detailed in hundreds of internal Facebook documents obtained by The Times. The report was published late Wednesday.
“Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages,” The Times alleges in its report.
“The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer,” the report said. “Facebook, in turn, used contact lists from the partners, including Amazon, Yahoo and the Chinese company Huawei — which has been flagged as a security threat by American intelligence officials — to gain deeper insight into people’s relationships and suggest more connections, the records show.””
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-gave-netflix-spotify-amazon-access-user-messages/story?id=59907238
TW: autoplay
Nobody ever seems to remember/mention how Facebook gave the Obama campaign a complete set of data on voters back in 2012.
And received enthusiastic tonguebaths from the media for being so utterly brilliant in doing so.
And then the media took back that tongue bath and decided Russian bots via Facebook got Trump elected.
And I will bet that the 20 pages of legalese everyone clicked “Yes” to a decade ago gives them every right to do this.
If there was a new Marvel Comics superhero called Fagman, what would be his super powers, his one weakness and his origin story?
Able to suck a cigarette down in single breath.
Never able to sleep thru the night without taking a smoke.
He just wanted to look cool.
Not sure if euphemism or British.
If he was a Brit, he’d have called it a fag.
Evidently Youtube must have purged the clips of Willum DaFoe talking about the ‘fagman’ in Boondock Saints because I can’t find it.
Well, if it’s NEW Marvel, I imagine his strengths would be the power to raise a well adjusted child with his same sex partner. His weakness would be none, and his origin story would be that he was oppressed in gay conversion camps operated by Mike Pence until he tapped into the power of #RESIST and busted everyone out of that place.
Selling 600 copies of the debut, and going downhill from there.
His superpower – becoming a featured superhero with zero sales.
“I’m confused about the difference between an entirely pre-fabricated “tiny house” on wheels and a trailer. I don’t seem to be able to come up with a criteria to differentiate besides “will hipsters pay too much to live in a trailer?”
Are tiny houses made out of wooden frames or something equally ‘house like’, or are they made of sheet metal or plastic over wooden slats? I mean do they have real walls? And floors, and ceilings? Trailers have none of those. Outside of that, what? Size and being prefabbed would not equate a trailer and house in any way. Most pre-fab houses I’ve seen have 2×6 or even 2×8 walls, there were a lot of those in the midwest, almost all of them very quality construction. They also aren’t on wheels, but real foundations or basements. Just saying, there was a huge industry there with pre-fab, I can ony imagine that they’ve gotten into tiny houses by now.
Jon Gruden puts his money where his mouth is:
Raiders to sign former Bills QB Nathan Peterman
Intercept Peterman?
Lol.
Teams do the strangest things. Like the Yankees going, at least it’s being reported, after Machado but not pitching.
Well, he finally got rid of that pesky meddling McKenzie and so now it’s all the Chucky show 24/7, right here on Chucky TV. Chucky’s back, baby, and he means business this time, in Chucky 2, 100 million dollar evil doll.
That is the best show ever. Even better than ‘BoJack Horseface Ruins the Broncos’!
/Go Chiefs.
Bow down, fools, you are in the presence of greatness.
Over the next decade at most, if the United States is going to do its part in the international effort to combat the existential risk posed by climate change, it must conduct an all-out crash decarbonization program.
The biggest obstacle to that objective is the Republican Party. But the second-biggest is the moderate faction of the Democratic Party, which may grudgingly acknowledge climate change — and many other problems only somewhat less important — but is too corrupt and mealy-mouthed to do anything remotely sufficient about it.
That’s why it’s so heartening to see leftist champion Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) considering backing a primary challenge to fellow New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D), who recently beat Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) to become the Democratic caucus chair in the House of Representatives. Nothing short of an all-out political struggle will topple the centrist Democrats — or perhaps convince them to start taking these problems seriously.
Those guys at The Week know what’s what.
Worth a click just for the photo of the Nieman Marxist which could have been composed by Leni Riefenstahl, herself.
The biggest obstacle is that….
Americans don’t fucking want it.
We just ain’t splained it right to the plebes yet.
“Nieman Marxist”
Nice, very nice
Second
Oh, she’s wearing glasses now so you know she’s really smart.
Totes
Worked for Rachel Maddow.
Anyone who supports Ocasio-Cortez on any level is a twat and an idiot.
Change my mind.
You can’t possibly support such obscene ignorance.
You’re just jealous of her brilliance and you’re a hateful bigot monster and poopy head.
The district she is from is so dark blue it is going to have a Dem rep. May as well be one as highly amusing as she is who serves as an ambling, rambling exemplar of the vacuousness of socialist ideas.
This is my sentiment, but I was just going to type: “She makes me laugh”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_14th_congressional_district
Libertarian Moment!
Unlike that white bastion of freedom, Vermont, that gave us Bernie Sanders.
It is the last bastion of those sensible Republicans before the libertarians radicals like Reagan and Trump took it over.
My point is race doesn’t determine politics. The 2 proud socialist came from 1/2 Latin New York and 98 percent white Vermont
True. My point is that the vaunted Latino immigration hasn’t exactly lead to a libertarian moment. Nor has urbanization. And the heavy Democrat areas aren’t electing Libertarian Democrats…
Related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKcUOUYzDXA
Awesome
an all-out crash decarbonization program.
Something something carbon-based lifeforms something re-education camps.
crash decarbonization program Or, as they used to call them, pogroms.
I guess we finally found a cause (“destroying the economy”) that the Left isn’t in total lockstep over. Well done, comrade.
Orrin Hatch and Chuck Schumer are teaming up. What could go wrong?
So…a lot. A lot can go wrong.
“[The two clowns] have introduced the Sports Wagering Market Integrity Act of 2018”
I can’t even believe Schumer would be involved in such a thing.
lolwut
Oh, I get it – the NFL is helping write the law.
The baptist and the booblegger?
ION, has CNN started attacking Trump over the prison reform bill, yet, before he even signs it? I look forward to them doing that and then it getting killed in the house by the ‘liberals’. Then it will be CNN and NYT right on to praising commie China and their dictator in article after fawning article.
“Beginning in January, I will kick off my campaign for POTUS in earnest. Expect to see vids way more intense than this example from my 2016 run.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1074490809624551424
I wonder why the video cuts off?
Because you’re too weak to handle the intensity. It would fry your puny mind.
“#SureSexIsGreatBut have you tried it while vegan?”
https://twitter.com/peta/status/1075054329873293319
What?
That male meat eater fucking the vegan chick didn’t even ask for consent before he flipped her over. That’s rape.
Why do you think we have to clear out some of this space in prison of those non-violent drug offenders, we have non-contract signing rape thinkers everywhere!
https://www.popmatters.com/no-apologies-a-critique-of-the-rockist-v-poptimist-paradigm-2495499446.html
Bunch of words on a page to me.
Also it still hilarious to me that the rebellious yute music of the past is once again the music of old fogeys bemoaning the death of real music thanks to kids these days.
Jesus, the people who write these sorts of things are the most tedious motherfuckers on earth.
I imagine you are awaiting links to the “Is A Star is Born rockist or poptimist?” articles that do in fact exist. 😛
Then why do you keep posting essays about it?
To me, this article almost hits it on its head. The problem is that music journalists have become like shallow teenagers, more concerned with how they’ll appear to their progressive peers by propping up certain music, and writing about the celebrity culture around popular musicians and forcing them into almost-always dubious sociopolitical narratives, rather than actually writing about the music itself.
It’s just an extension of the obnoxiousness of journalism (of all types) itself and journalists themselves. They’re the fucking worst.
“Republicans from TX, CA, FL (the three biggest GOP delegations in the House) secured $100 billion in “disaster assistance” for their own states last year but can’t come up with $5 billion for border security/wall.”
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1075370788117725184
Florida is surrounded by water. Why would we need a wall?
To keep out those traitors to the great utopia of Cuba?
Anyone figure out yet how Trump and the thuglicans totally disappeared Cuba’s world leading medical system, along with all the facilities and equipment, and cancer cures right after people were allowed in to see it?
To keep out Georgia?
To keep the storm sugres out.
Sports Wagering Market Integrity Act of 2018
Honest? Honest as the day is long.
Honest as the Pope is Jewish?
Common sense gun safety
Law enforcement encourages everyone to make sure their vehicles are locked when they leave them, especially if there’s a firearm inside.
“We’re in Montana and there’s a lot of vehicles that have weapons in them. We just want to reiterate that if you do have a weapon in your car, number one, hide it,” said Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin. “Put it in a glove compartment, put it underneath the seat, or something like that. Secondly, make sure the vehicle is secure so that way we don’t have any guns out with people that are breaking into cars. That’s the last person we want having weapons.”
No hysterical shrieking? Somebody get Bloomberg on the phone.
I’m not shocked.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article223189365.html#storylink=latest_side
That’s what integrity looks like.
“There’s a culture of lenience here, a lack of responsibility,” he said. “So many mistakes were made that led to these killings, but nothing is happening to the people who made them. The people of Broward are OK with these people.”
That’s the part that infuriates me about assholes like Hogg and his cohorts. There were people who actually failed to do their jobs and protocols in place that did more harm than good but instead of fixing them and holding who failed accountable, they want to take away guns from law abiding citizens.
It’s all about the feelz.
That’s why at first I felt sort of bad for Hogg because despite his irritating behavior, his classmates did get shot which can be traumatic as hell. But as time went along and he started appearing more on the news and throwing out shit on Twitter, my sympathy for him went out the window because he seemed more interest in being in the news and fighting wind mills than actually do something positive.
Second
Make no mistake, that’s been their goal all along.
Yeah. I used to foolishly think that despite being wrong, the gun control crowd had good intentions but now, I honestly do believe that the best and only answer to give them is, “Fuck off, you can’t have my guns.”
Me too. But I’ve noticed they offer the exact same solution every single time: take the guns away from the people who did nothing wrong.
Piglet is a disgusting and evil creature. Orwell skewered his type in Animal Farm. Little fucker would be happy in his Hugo Boss or commissar’s uniform carrying out orders until the day he got tapped on the shoulder.
My wife’s aunt went to the gun control rally in DC and it took all of my strength to not only go on a fucking rant but also to not call Hogg an authoritarian piece of shit.
The dude is capitalizing on his classmate’s death and I find that disgusting.
What’s wrong with Piglet? He was one of my favorite Winnie the Pooh characters.
OG Piglet is ok in my book.
Seconded. The dude used the bodies of his dead class mates as his vessel to fame and notoriety. It doesn’t get any lower.
Re: Cameron Carpenter
That was impressive. Ya know, Liberace was a helluva piano-player. But he really…..sucked on the organ !
hey-ohhhhhh!
You’ll be here all week, right?
Tip the veal and try the waitress!
Ba-dum TISS!
Q: What’s better than roses on your piano?
A: Tulips on your organ.
Has this been posted?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/opinion/human-extinction-climate-change.html
Sounds like the NYT is buttering up its readership for a death cult.
“death cult”
So, the leftist flavor of the decade?
It is the logical end result of their “climate change” program. And the way that writer is tip-toeing around it screams “trial balloon”.
I have to concede, if I had to spend all day every day in an office full of NYT journalists, I would have already lost all hope for humanity as well.
Like I said elsewhere, that’s the obvious next step of all this LARPing the 60s.
Radical environmentalism and excessive white guilt leaves a really big opportunity for someone to exploit.
”to a full moral assessment of the prospect of our demise”
This is so fucking stupid. Only humans care about morals and morality. Without us, it’s an empty question.
The animals cannot consider the morality of their extinction.
Higher intelligence comes with a cost.
this. Without humans, the Earth is just another planet. One of billions in our galaxy alone. If we don’t live here anymore, who the fuck cares what happens to it?
I’m not big on the whole “doxxing” thing, but it sounds like this loser actually outed himself. Why does every one of these idiots always look like they’ve never been punched in their entire life?
(T.W.: Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/18/antifa-leader-violent-communist/
Looking at his picture, it’s Ironic that he’s giving advice on neck-punching.
look like they’ve never been punched in their entire life?
He looks like if he had ever been punched, he’d be dead now.
Well, at least he doesn’t have to worry about the stigma of toxic masculinity.
That is exactly the type of person that would shoot someone in the back of the head for fun if ever given the opportunity.
Check out Dele Ali’s finish on Spurs 2nd goal today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2T2jvAY7nI
Soccer link. NSFM (Not Safe For Men).
Dortmund finally lost yesterday.
Saw that, to one of the bottom teams too
Fick Marco Rubio and Graham. And any other Republican opposing a pull out of Syria.
Rubio is that asshole who practiced his inaugural speech in front of the mirror when he was in fifth grade.
I bet Graham dresses up in his camo onesies and plays with army men on his bedroom floor. Still sad that McCain didn’t join him again this evening.
I have to go to Houston for work in February. In my entire life I’ve never spent time in Texas at all (except for connecting through airports), which puts me on equal footing with most Cowboys fans.
Gonna need food recommendations.
https://rudysbbq.com/location/detail/houston-290-tx
Rudy’s is a competent chain, but I respectfully recommend that, like anywhere else, you do everything you can in Texas to try Mr SmallGuy proprietor and his local flavor. These guys have kept the list of record, and I find no fault with this one (notice they include my Brook’s recommendation as an honorable mention.
It’s a haul, but I argue that Black’s in Lockhart is the state’s best brisket. As for chains, Hard 8 from Stephenville is super solid and inspecting their works is part of the ordering process.
I had forgotten about that article. Very good recommendations based on what I’ve been told by people I trust.
Bombay Pizza for a fun lunch downtown: pineapple would be the least weird thing to appear on your pie there.
Pho Binh Trailer on Beamer is a wonderful but complete dive and perfect for a winter’s breakfast: there will be more Espanol than English in there, just shut up and eat.
Shackburger in Cypress is fun, outdoorsy dining: shade, beer, quail eggs, and picnic tables . . . very Texas and above average food.
Brook’s Place (not that I spend a lot of time in Cypress) is okay (beef) barbecue and have offered a discount to customers who open carry in the past.
Lupita’s if you’re in Pasadena. And in the mood for tex-mex.
Mai’s downtown has good Vietnamese food, is open until 04:00 and if you order beer after legal serving hours, they will pour the bottle into a teapot to serve it to you.
Rudy’s is a solid choice. Get the green chili stew to go with whatever else you order.
The various “Pappas” chains (Pappacito’s, Pappadeaux, Pappa’s Steakhouse, etc.) are foundational to the Houston upper-midmarket restaurant industry.
Tex-Mex at any strip mall.
if you order beer after legal serving hours
Fucking regulations.
Yeah, Texas does have a few.
Well, we’re getting the fuck out of Syria, apparently. Gotta put that feather in Trump’s cap.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-orders-deported-asylum-seekers-to-be-returned-to-us-in-trump-administration-rebuke
But the ACA decision was embarrassing to the federal judiciary. I don’t know the logic or reasoning, but this stinks of activist judge asserting power he does not have. At what point do elected officials say fuck you you don’t have power to do that?
Suing the country to let you in. And I thought I had seen everything.
I don’t understand how this is even possible. I mean, seriously. How can a non-citizen and non-resident have standing to sue? And fuck the ACLU for backing them.
“Sure, he can come back Judge, if you send him a ticket”
Trump et. al. need to start defying these orders. The judiciary is out of control.
Return them to the judge’s house. Seriously, bus the people in and eminent domain his yard as a camp.
Girls with asses.
http://archive.is/GsqLW
‘Nuff said.
Before I click, big asses or nice asses?
Kardashian size asses.
Some big, some nice, some nice and big.
Meh.
8, 16, 18, 28, 48, 62, and 67. Yowza, depraved orgy for the lot.
Ocassional Cortex for Speaker of the House when?
OT: I managed to finally get my site donation in today. Thank you all (posters, Founders, STEVE SMITH and Family, ZARDOZ, general glibertariat, etc.) for all the good times, knowledge, and great things this website has shown me. Looking forward to the future and I hope to think up and write some more pieces.
Occasional, not ocassional, I think that was a Freudian slip there.
Seconded. I gouty donation in too. This holiday season I’ve had a very bah-humbug attitude toward giving. Ringing the SA bell, Toys for Tots, etc….
The more I learn about incentives the more I see how ‘charity’ enables the worst kinds of human behavior.
Pauls admonition “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat” comes to mind.
Giving to an organization of people who voluntarily work their tales off so I can learn and yuck it up and overall makes my life better is a much more rewarding use of my money.
grrr…*got my*
I changed how I give this year. Much more personal, much more satisfying. And SA has a sad.
You just hate Santa. Like you were from Philly or something.
I love Santa. Who didn’t get any of my money was any Jooh charity. They own everything already.
Really I shouldn’t have used Salvation Army as an example. Among charitable non-profits they are probably one of the best.
I still drop a bill in the red can now and then but the local food bank, a local toy drive, and a few layaway payoffs at Walmart got the lion’s share of my money. I also give to the various local Veteran’s groups throughout the year. Boy and Girl Scouts will never get another penny.
The beggars here got a couple of ducats as well.
Not even buying Girl Scout cookies?
Keebler Grasshoppers.
Nope. Not even Girl Scout cookies.
This holiday season I’ve had a very bah-humbug attitude toward giving.
St Jude Hospital has been my sole beneficiary for four decades. Their boundless progress has constantly refueled my commitment to them. If you’re ever unsure or need a pickmeup, toss them a Franklin and then go through their site and accomplishments.
Wounded Warrior Project’s ads completely creep me out: tons of vague generalizations, missing the easy opportunity to document a single solid benefit they deliver. Maybe they’re great, but the big hole in their campaign where the easy explanations belong is off-putting. “~they do so much~” cut to amputee . . . implying they paid for rehab or even prosthetics, or at least making it very easy for a well-meaning and uncritical watcher to infer such. Maybe they’re great, but I think I smell a rat.
My pet charities are the local battered women’s shelter and Habitat for Humanity. I might add St Jude’s to that.
I believe WW was busted a few years ago for being one of those ‘charities’ that have administration costs taking over half of their income, Director’s jet-setting around the county first class, 5-star hotels, steaks and lobster dinners, etc..
As for me, I gave the Q-tastic waitresses an extra large tip today at lunch.
Charitable giving done and done.
That’s something I always do the couple weeks before Christmas; I become an extra-good tipper.
I gave LOTS of $ to WW back in the day. NEVER again. After I learned that they are basically a glorified referral service and they have one of the worst ratings by charity watchdog groups I vowed to never give them another cent. Their annual conferences have been reformed in light of bad press but I guess for a couple years they were ridiculous boondoggles.
I have one problem with St. Jude. And it’s not with the hospital, but the charity’s marketing department:
When I first became aware of Amazon Smile, St. Jude was my pick. The wonderful things they do was a big reason, but I also didn’t realize I could pick a local charity. Once I learned that, I switched. That was 2-3 years ago. I am still getting approximately bi-weekly mailers from them asking for a donation. Not only that, but nearly every one has some gift in it; usually return address labels. And these mailers started coming when they were still “my” charity, not just after I had stopped.
What they have sent me far exceeds the pennies I gave then through Amazon. And obviously, they don’t need to raise awareness with me since I originally chose them without any prodding. I am but one of thousands of people they are doing this with. All that money could be put to much better use.
That said, I think I will head to St. Jude and pay them back for some of those labels.
The Dems sure do love their fake Hispanics.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/18/antifa-leader-violent-communist/
Damn that’s a popular post today. Of course he’s going to make his LARP character Hispanic, all the coolest Commies were from South America.
I mean, Che’s last name was actually “Lynch”.
Ernie Lynch, what a nerd name, he should have worked for IBM
Not quite as good as Herbert Kornfeld
HEY YUFUS!
I would love to see this pendejo try to peddle his nonsense in Hialeah or Calle Ocho.
After having lived in Miami for 2 years, this is exactly why I find it so amusing that talking heads continue to lump “Latinos” into some monoculture.
People are tribal, who knew?
They prefer the term Hispanic Whites.
Dr. Demento warned of this character decades ago.
He’s a true believer and one scary son of a bitch. Consider for a moment what he would be capable of if ever given any real power.
“In a 2013 tweet, Alcoff said he wanted to join “a conspiracy to destroy the United States from within” — a position that doesn’t seem to have changed.”
Well he’s hanging out with Diane Feinstein and Mad Max so I’d say he’s in with the right crowd.
Someday I’ll have the time and energy to do another TeenVogue parody, but in the meantime, why not have the real thing?
lookit who watched 60 Minutes Sunday night….
The sky is literally falling – happy holidays!
Holy fuck.
What don’t you understand about smaller and smaller?
Your wife says you understand that better than I do.
She wouldn’t stop talking about it.
Well, our public schools and permanent bureaucracy are beyond politicized so why shouldn’t higher ed join in the fun?
https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1074427290929508352
This will totally not further harm relationships between fellow Americans. No sirree.
Sounds like a helluva scam.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/trump-border-wall-gofundme-page-breaks-1-million-in-donations-in-3-days-despite-being-censored/
I wish I thought of it.