On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that America was “robbed blind” by fraud with coronavirus relief programs and said that this makes him “a little less excited about the money they’re planning to spend.” He also wondered why Democrats aren’t being “the good government party” they’re supposed to be and Republicans aren’t being the fiscal watchdogs they’re supposed to be.
Maher said, “[T]his is the question I asked back in April and I’m going to ask it again, it doesn’t really make me a conservative, does it, that I don’t want to be absolutely robbed blind? Is there some number at which I go, you know what, you are just taking my money and wasting it and letting people steal it? I mean, I get the idea that money can never be transferred except in a leaky bucket, I accept that. But this isn’t a bucket anymore. It’s just a handle.”
He added that while the government has been dysfunctional, “It was never this dysfunctional.”
He later stated, “I thought the Democrats were the good government party, why don’t they do it? I get it that the Republicans want to strangle it in the bathtub. But why isn’t the other party — and why aren’t the Republicans who are supposed to be, we’re the mean old man to watch your money, why don’t they do their part? Nobody does any of their part.”
For a long time I’ve thought that the GOP should transition to the party of good governance. Smaller, but better too. I think the rhetorical (but nonexistent in practice) emphasis on a smaller gov. allows others to portray the ideological bent as nearly anarchistic. I believe we’re well past the point of a very small fed. gov. being plausible.
This is the Denocracy you demanded billy boy the tarp the arra didnt teach you any lessons at all did you
That was the buzzfeed reporter that published the steele dossier rumors
Im sure he donated to newsom to pelosi probably to schiff gascon so he should like back and think of his time in thr playboy mansion
From the comments, it’s a cut down version of a 17 hour film. Makes more sense.
I don’t think fake as much as trick stop action like a Lego Video, bet she is drawing them and they look good
@TommyJay
It irks me that GWB and Trump spent like drunken sailors, though not as bad as Biden.
Remember when trumps first budget trimmed some govt agencies it was doa with turtle and eddie haskell
The artist in the video, assuming it’s all on the up and up, is incredibly talented.
But alas, none of her work will ever make it to an art gallery because it’s not “cutting edge.”
Now, if she drew a picture of Jesus on the cross placed upside down in a bowl of cow manure, she would be world famous.
Real. And they’re spectacular.
Here are some resources – Rajacenna has been a self-taught artist since age 16, she is now 28 (born January 1994).
Jordan Rivers: “…GWB and Trump spent like drunken sailors.”
Never mind that ALL spending bills originate in the House of Representatives, I am resentful of the whole “drunken sailor” trope. Back in my youth when I was in the USN, I have actually been a drunken sailor. But on my worst day, I never, not once, spent more money than I actually had, and every penny of it was my own money.
Roy,
I think GWB and Trump could have vetoed some spending bills, or threatened to veto them in order to pare them down. My point was that even the “fiscally responsible” GOP, is often not so.
I take your point that the government is worse than you were as a drunken sailor, and thank you for your service to our country!
Speaking of Real and Fake, the fountainhead of the rage for transgenderist has been identified to me (Please add here if you know better.)
The rebel spawn of the Pritzker billionaire fortune (eg, Hyatt Hotel chain).
Meet Jennifer Pritzker and her “transitioned” children. See photo.
To second the philosopher Austin Powers, “that’s a man baby!”
Interesting information on Ron Desantis that may reflect on his trade policies.
While in Congress, DeSantis voted for passage of TPA, which authorized the Obama administration to join the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
When President Trump was elected, he left the agreement. I think history has shown it to be the right decision, as the President thought the US was better represented by bi-lateral agreements.
DeSantis wasn’t alone in the vote as a majority of Republicans voted for the bill, while democrats voted against it.
And yet trump endorsed him over blanc mange putnam who gillum would have walked all over him
As the administration pushes it’s agenda of wokeness in the military, what will be the effect in any future conflict?
Depends on what foe the US military is tasked with facing. Are leftists more interested in loyalty than fighting prowess? Might a future conflict be a civil war the left envisions and secretly relishes?
Could be coincidence and not strategy that the new fighting motto “Inclusion and Equity” might replace “Semper Fidelis”?
“Historical rates of enslavement predict modern rates of American gun ownership”
“The higher percentage of enslaved people that a U.S. county counted among its residents in 1860, the more guns its residents have in the present, according to a new analysis by researchers exploring why Americans’ feelings about guns differ so much from people around the globe.”
Certainly gives you a sense of confidence around scholarship in what passes for higher education!
How do they know how many guns are in a county? Simple.
“Because there is no national record of gun ownership, the study uses a widely accepted proxy—the proportion of suicides in a county that involved a firearm, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality records from 1999 to 2016.”
What about all the counties that had no slaves in 1860? They even have an answer for that– Facebook.
Lately I’ve been listening to Zeihan’s YouTubes. He’s ferociously knowledgeable, quite articulate and has a surprisingly cheerful demeanor. He called Russia’s war on Ukraine years ago:
________________________________
Zeihan frames the current geopolitical situation as the drawdown of the global economic system that the United States imposed upon the free world at Bretton Woods after its victory in World War II: The United States used its overwhelming naval superiority to build a global trade network as a means towards the end of soviet containment, but is belatedly realizing that the Soviets are gone, that the rest of the world’s markets don’t have much to offer because they are entering dire economic straits due to aging demographies, and that America is insulated both geographically and, thanks to shale oil, its energy independence.[13]
Zeihan writes that Russia’s declining birthrates and ageing population of skilled labor will put Russia on “a collision course” with its eight EU member state neighbors and Ukraine, asserting that “if it [Russia] fails to act before 2022, it will lose the capacity to act both militarily or economically,” although he does not specifically predict Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Zeihan writes that “should Russia follow a piecemeal approach it can encroach upon Europe’s eastern borders without unduly provoking Western Europe’s heavyweights.”
Zeihan sees globalism failing — due to American disengagement — which will have dire results on much of the world, but less so on the US due to our resources, demographics, labor, military, flexibility and industrial plant.
OTOH he argues both China and Russia are headed for collapse due to demography and resources within a few decades. He claims the Chinese are already overstating their population by 100 mil and predicts their population will drop 50% to 650 mil by 2050.
I’m inclined to agree. The US is doing plenty of stupid things, as we always have, but we are so rich and dynamic that we can afford mistakes which would cripple other countries.
Termites are feeding on our foundation but china and russia are under threat ok boomer
miguel cervantes:
Ok, gloomer!
As a boomer I’ve lived through so many apocalyptic threats — some of them true — that it’s hard for me to take the latest scare du jour with the wide-eyed seriousness of my youth.
I doubt you watched Zeihan’s video, not that I blame you, but he is an interesting fella and listening to him is like sipping from a firehose of facts.
Even if one doesn’t listen to Z. but reads a lot, one realizes how fabulously rich the US is in just about everything — food, resources, good land, infrastructure, talent. Then there’s the miracle of our founding fathers and our constitutional republic.
It’s almost a curse because it lets us get away with so much stupidity. We just have to stop doing stupid things and we can recover from practically anything. This explains the good times under Trump. He’s a decent businessman and all, but mostly he began to stop the stupid and start some smart.
Not so with the rest of the world, especially China and Russia.
Our legal medical and other institutions are being corrupted at the root pur military is being transformed our energy and fuel supply is being dismantled
Xi is enabling some of this
huxley on Zeihan: The Demographic collapse of China —
“he argues both China and Russia are headed for collapse due to demography and resources within a few decades. He claims the Chinese are already overstating their population by 100 mil and predicts their population will drop 50% to 650 million by 2100”.
The old story was that population in China would peak in 2050, then decline for the rest of the century. Then, in 2021, results of China’s latest census were being released.
It found that population decline would begin by 2030, and that China has been systematically overstating their population size. How much? By 100 millions — and of the younger generation, ie, those of the one-child only policy.
Zeihan then further states that looking closer at the data by Chinese academics means China is already in population decline, and has been since the 00s!
This therefore explains why the Chinese labor is no longer labor rich and thus wage rate cheap. Mexico is now less costly, and tech businesses are moving factories to Vietnam and SE Asia where wages are lower.
This decline also explain Prez Xi’s turn to aggressive ethnic Han-nationalism, and away from jobs and economic growth, which China has.
Finally, says Zeihan, this means that China will NEVER become a first class industrial nation, now that it is the world’s fastest aging society. Instead it will remain second rate, and the population growing old before it can grow rich — yet the CCP has sold the People on the story that China’s rightful place is leading a world moulded to its liking.
Can it sustain this radical shift? Or will the people grow restless? Rebellious because denied CCP promises?
All this has profound consequences, first of all that the 21st Century will not be the Chinese Century. Demographic projections of a half sized China may even be wrong: they depend upon a return to two children per couple, and there is no sign that reproductive practices are rebounding from one per couple. Instead their culture has absorbed the one child policy and is therefore headed for a population decline to one-third it’s present size, 400 million instead of 600 million.
All of the formerly glorious future is now in fundamental jeopardy. Hence, Zeihan’s concern with decline, and the ‘loose cannon’ possibility that Xi may choose the time to attack Taiwan, despite the failure to create a Navy of invasion capacity. Better to call the one in an attempt and fail than to never try.
What’s interesting is that Zeihan has been on this theme of accelerated Chinese demographic collapse for over three quarters of a year, but historian Niall Ferguson — despite lecturing annually at a Beijing university for over ten years — has just learned all this at an economists conference in Aspen, Colorado, according to his latest Hoover Institution release (See YT).
Thus, I think this is very revealing. It reshapes our expected long-term challenges of the future world.
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Here’s an Australian Shepherd who works in the best Impressionist tradition of “freely brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwxhzWVDyg&ab_channel=IvyTheAussie
(There is even a French song as background music).
Has to be fake.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmmaJoNYC/status/1560828222006300672?cxt=HHwWgMC4gfK_lqkrAAAA
This, from Bill Maher, is interesting and a curiosity.
For a long time I’ve thought that the GOP should transition to the party of good governance. Smaller, but better too. I think the rhetorical (but nonexistent in practice) emphasis on a smaller gov. allows others to portray the ideological bent as nearly anarchistic. I believe we’re well past the point of a very small fed. gov. being plausible.
This is the Denocracy you demanded billy boy the tarp the arra didnt teach you any lessons at all did you
That was the buzzfeed reporter that published the steele dossier rumors
Im sure he donated to newsom to pelosi probably to schiff gascon so he should like back and think of his time in thr playboy mansion
He only gave $5 to biden but 1,000,000 to schumer some cash to klobuchar also o rourke and some other ciphet.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/bill-maher-productions/recipients?candscycle=2018&id=D000071834&toprecipscycle=2018
Some artists are descended from and proof of extraterrestrials.
https://www.luxuo.com/culture/art/hammer-nail-pointillism.html
From the comments, it’s a cut down version of a 17 hour film. Makes more sense.
I don’t think fake as much as trick stop action like a Lego Video, bet she is drawing them and they look good
@TommyJay
It irks me that GWB and Trump spent like drunken sailors, though not as bad as Biden.
Remember when trumps first budget trimmed some govt agencies it was doa with turtle and eddie haskell
The artist in the video, assuming it’s all on the up and up, is incredibly talented.
But alas, none of her work will ever make it to an art gallery because it’s not “cutting edge.”
Now, if she drew a picture of Jesus on the cross placed upside down in a bowl of cow manure, she would be world famous.
Real. And they’re spectacular.
Here are some resources – Rajacenna has been a self-taught artist since age 16, she is now 28 (born January 1994).
This one has videos in addition to the one posted here.
https://mymodernmet.com/rajacenna-van-dam-ambidextrous-artist/
This is her own website.
https://www.deviantart.com/rajacenna
Did this make anyone else think of Lois Bujold’s quaddies?
Glenn Reynolds: “I’ll believe it’s a crisis…” —
https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-0-of-leftists-who-are-warning-about-overpopulation-have-volunteered-to-die-first
Jordan Rivers: “…GWB and Trump spent like drunken sailors.”
Never mind that ALL spending bills originate in the House of Representatives, I am resentful of the whole “drunken sailor” trope. Back in my youth when I was in the USN, I have actually been a drunken sailor. But on my worst day, I never, not once, spent more money than I actually had, and every penny of it was my own money.
Roy,
I think GWB and Trump could have vetoed some spending bills, or threatened to veto them in order to pare them down. My point was that even the “fiscally responsible” GOP, is often not so.
I take your point that the government is worse than you were as a drunken sailor, and thank you for your service to our country!
Speaking of Real and Fake, the fountainhead of the rage for transgenderist has been identified to me (Please add here if you know better.)
The rebel spawn of the Pritzker billionaire fortune (eg, Hyatt Hotel chain).
Meet Jennifer Pritzker and her “transitioned” children. See photo.
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/the-billionaire-pritzker-family-is-pushing-transgender-synthetic-sex-identities-on-america/
To second the philosopher Austin Powers, “that’s a man baby!”
Interesting information on Ron Desantis that may reflect on his trade policies.
While in Congress, DeSantis voted for passage of TPA, which authorized the Obama administration to join the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
When President Trump was elected, he left the agreement. I think history has shown it to be the right decision, as the President thought the US was better represented by bi-lateral agreements.
DeSantis wasn’t alone in the vote as a majority of Republicans voted for the bill, while democrats voted against it.
And yet trump endorsed him over blanc mange putnam who gillum would have walked all over him
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/russiagate-binder-messages-peter-strzok-lisa-page
As the administration pushes it’s agenda of wokeness in the military, what will be the effect in any future conflict?
Depends on what foe the US military is tasked with facing. Are leftists more interested in loyalty than fighting prowess? Might a future conflict be a civil war the left envisions and secretly relishes?
Could be coincidence and not strategy that the new fighting motto “Inclusion and Equity” might replace “Semper Fidelis”?
“Historical rates of enslavement predict modern rates of American gun ownership”
“The higher percentage of enslaved people that a U.S. county counted among its residents in 1860, the more guns its residents have in the present, according to a new analysis by researchers exploring why Americans’ feelings about guns differ so much from people around the globe.”
Certainly gives you a sense of confidence around scholarship in what passes for higher education!
How do they know how many guns are in a county? Simple.
“Because there is no national record of gun ownership, the study uses a widely accepted proxy—the proportion of suicides in a county that involved a firearm, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality records from 1999 to 2016.”
What about all the counties that had no slaves in 1860? They even have an answer for that– Facebook.
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-historical-enslavement-modern-american-gun.html
Ok then
https://mobile.twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1561487837538779137?cxt=HHwWgoC82ci6wqsrAAAA
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/dc_lawyer_of_the_year_natasha_taylorsmith.html
And now for something completely different:
–Peter Zeihan, “I’m Very Optimistic about the Future of America”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6FQN1oUbyk
Lately I’ve been listening to Zeihan’s YouTubes. He’s ferociously knowledgeable, quite articulate and has a surprisingly cheerful demeanor. He called Russia’s war on Ukraine years ago:
________________________________
Zeihan frames the current geopolitical situation as the drawdown of the global economic system that the United States imposed upon the free world at Bretton Woods after its victory in World War II: The United States used its overwhelming naval superiority to build a global trade network as a means towards the end of soviet containment, but is belatedly realizing that the Soviets are gone, that the rest of the world’s markets don’t have much to offer because they are entering dire economic straits due to aging demographies, and that America is insulated both geographically and, thanks to shale oil, its energy independence.[13]
Zeihan writes that Russia’s declining birthrates and ageing population of skilled labor will put Russia on “a collision course” with its eight EU member state neighbors and Ukraine, asserting that “if it [Russia] fails to act before 2022, it will lose the capacity to act both militarily or economically,” although he does not specifically predict Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Zeihan writes that “should Russia follow a piecemeal approach it can encroach upon Europe’s eastern borders without unduly provoking Western Europe’s heavyweights.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zeihan
________________________________
Zeihan sees globalism failing — due to American disengagement — which will have dire results on much of the world, but less so on the US due to our resources, demographics, labor, military, flexibility and industrial plant.
OTOH he argues both China and Russia are headed for collapse due to demography and resources within a few decades. He claims the Chinese are already overstating their population by 100 mil and predicts their population will drop 50% to 650 mil by 2050.
I’m inclined to agree. The US is doing plenty of stupid things, as we always have, but we are so rich and dynamic that we can afford mistakes which would cripple other countries.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/rethinking-salman-rushdie/
Another piece of evidence for the proposition ‘Resolved: Palaeocon outfits are collecting pools of jerks’
Where are we 1989, this was a revolutionary directed hit like the captain of the vincennes
Termites are feeding on our foundation but china and russia are under threat ok boomer
We are burning our seed corn slashing our femoral arteries (its a fleshwound) amd putting down our shield. Rank delusion of the highest order
What we have is parasites in the command heights of our institutions
Well if we take master luce at his word
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11133799/Private-Christian-school-leaders-receive-death-threats-LGBTQ-biological-sex-stance.html
Termites are feeding on our foundation but china and russia are under threat ok boomer
miguel cervantes:
Ok, gloomer!
As a boomer I’ve lived through so many apocalyptic threats — some of them true — that it’s hard for me to take the latest scare du jour with the wide-eyed seriousness of my youth.
I doubt you watched Zeihan’s video, not that I blame you, but he is an interesting fella and listening to him is like sipping from a firehose of facts.
Even if one doesn’t listen to Z. but reads a lot, one realizes how fabulously rich the US is in just about everything — food, resources, good land, infrastructure, talent. Then there’s the miracle of our founding fathers and our constitutional republic.
It’s almost a curse because it lets us get away with so much stupidity. We just have to stop doing stupid things and we can recover from practically anything. This explains the good times under Trump. He’s a decent businessman and all, but mostly he began to stop the stupid and start some smart.
Not so with the rest of the world, especially China and Russia.
Our legal medical and other institutions are being corrupted at the root pur military is being transformed our energy and fuel supply is being dismantled
Xi is enabling some of this
huxley on Zeihan: The Demographic collapse of China —
“he argues both China and Russia are headed for collapse due to demography and resources within a few decades. He claims the Chinese are already overstating their population by 100 mil and predicts their population will drop 50% to 650 million by 2100”.
The old story was that population in China would peak in 2050, then decline for the rest of the century. Then, in 2021, results of China’s latest census were being released.
It found that population decline would begin by 2030, and that China has been systematically overstating their population size. How much? By 100 millions — and of the younger generation, ie, those of the one-child only policy.
Zeihan then further states that looking closer at the data by Chinese academics means China is already in population decline, and has been since the 00s!
This therefore explains why the Chinese labor is no longer labor rich and thus wage rate cheap. Mexico is now less costly, and tech businesses are moving factories to Vietnam and SE Asia where wages are lower.
This decline also explain Prez Xi’s turn to aggressive ethnic Han-nationalism, and away from jobs and economic growth, which China has.
Finally, says Zeihan, this means that China will NEVER become a first class industrial nation, now that it is the world’s fastest aging society. Instead it will remain second rate, and the population growing old before it can grow rich — yet the CCP has sold the People on the story that China’s rightful place is leading a world moulded to its liking.
Can it sustain this radical shift? Or will the people grow restless? Rebellious because denied CCP promises?
All this has profound consequences, first of all that the 21st Century will not be the Chinese Century. Demographic projections of a half sized China may even be wrong: they depend upon a return to two children per couple, and there is no sign that reproductive practices are rebounding from one per couple. Instead their culture has absorbed the one child policy and is therefore headed for a population decline to one-third it’s present size, 400 million instead of 600 million.
All of the formerly glorious future is now in fundamental jeopardy. Hence, Zeihan’s concern with decline, and the ‘loose cannon’ possibility that Xi may choose the time to attack Taiwan, despite the failure to create a Navy of invasion capacity. Better to call the one in an attempt and fail than to never try.
What’s interesting is that Zeihan has been on this theme of accelerated Chinese demographic collapse for over three quarters of a year, but historian Niall Ferguson — despite lecturing annually at a Beijing university for over ten years — has just learned all this at an economists conference in Aspen, Colorado, according to his latest Hoover Institution release (See YT).
Thus, I think this is very revealing. It reshapes our expected long-term challenges of the future world.