Interesting
1. She talks too fast, which seems the norm for younger people.
2. All the hand gestures were bothersome.
3. She didn’t explain how knitting helped to fuel the Viking expansions. Makes no sense to me.
4. I have several machine knitted sweaters and scarfs made with Alpaca wool. Sweaters are very heavy and very warm.
neo recently had a post about Tucker Carlson, primarily centering on his interview of Vladimir Putin. For those of you interested in hearing Carlson’s perspective I highly recommend Glenn Beck’s recent interview (3 days ago) of him.
I can give a summary of how Carlson responded to some of the topics here, but I recommend listening to it to form your own opinions.
It was a friendly interview, they admit to being friends and respecting one another, but Beck did not appear to be pulling punches. It came across as two men talking honestly and openly on their opinions and perspectives.
Regarding the idea that Carlson was amazed by Russian grocery stores, their subway stations or dictator:
Carlson states that his (Carlson’s) perspective is solely as a U.S. citizen concerned with the U.S. He says (paraphrasing) “Don’t tell me crime, homeless and stepping over drug addicts to get to work is the price of freedom. I’m 54 years old. I lived in America when it wasn’t this way. I saw New York city turn into one of the cleanest, safest cities in the world in the ’90s.”
Carlson states he’s showing these other places; Russia, Hungary, Dubai… not to promote them, but to remind Americans that we do not have to live with the declining services we see in our cities. In other words, nations with worse systems of government than us are still able to achieve these basic things.
Near the very end Beck asks him about being a voice for the working class, and I found this interesting. Carlson states he knows nothing about the lives of working class people (and Beck knows this about Carlson also). Carlson basically says he is motivated by his disgust of our elite class, of which he is one. “There will always be elites,” he states.
As he explains in this interview, Carlson’s over-arching motus vivendi is disappointment in watching corrupt and/or incompetent elites destroy the United States. He states that it is intentional. He states “color revolution” (my words, and Beck’s, not Carlson’s) type things: (paraphrasing) “we are being distracted and encouraged to fight amongst one another over irrelevant things (racism, males swimming against females, wars in other regions…) to keep us distracted from the deliberate destruction of our country by nefarious interests.
On the subject of the Ukraine war, there is a lot of discussion about that. Carlson’s main point is concern over what’s best for America. Why are we sending so much money to a corrupt nation that does not have free elections with no discussion over whether it can help, how it will be used, etc. We say we have to do such and such here, in America, to “protect Democracy,” yet we send billions of dollars to fund a non-Democratic government, Ukraine, in a war that they have almost no chance of winning.
Most all of Carlson’s responses to Beck are couched in a pro-America veneer. Obviously people promoting U.S. support of Ukraine also give pro-America reasons and Carlson is not ignorant of that line of reasoning. But, sort-of like Rene Descartes using “cogito ergo sum” as the building block for all his philosophy, Carlson uses “what is best for Americans and America’s interests?” as the foundation for any position he reasons himself into.
I came out of it feeling a bit better about Carlson. It certainly seems like he believes what he is saying. However, I have paid little attention to him or his words in over a year, so I’m not sure if it is consistent with other things he has said recently. He’s been speaking professionally for his entire, adult life and I’m sure he’s mastered the illusion of sounding sincere, even when he isn’t.
yes going from knitting to viking raids seems a bit of a stretch,
Tucker wants a normal world, is the world of 93, before they started Cloward and Pivening this country, such an unbelievable starting point, yes Lani Guinier was three steps from Kamala Harris perhaps four, this Rd laing cracked mirror universe is where they were going with, now the authorities barely restrained Clinton from corrupting the institutions, from the organs to the arts to the educational system, the voting franchise with motor voters the banking system with the CRA revisions and the nudges from HUD and the
DOJ, of course Obama did his part, leveraging Citibank,
The ‘community engagement” twit who debarred a nonagenarian volunteer from the premises of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (for the offense of asking about pronouns) is named Kali Kumor. She’s deleted her Linkedin profile and it appears the MS society has replaced her. The current ‘community engagement’ twit is one Lisa Goldfarb. She reports to the agency’s director, Cyndi Zagieboylo. Wokery is enforced by actual people. Say their names. (And “Cyndi Zagieboylo” is one you’re not likely to forget).
== https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCd8Z4aFew
Under the wonderful Rule of Law concept (Which apparently dates back to al least Plato?!!?) – from Techno Fog: “criminal charges charges – including perjury/false statements, depending on the prosecutor.”
I’d like to see you address an issue which has lain fallow for awhile; but which you reintroduced en passant recently with regard to anti semitic sentiments you had observed on conservative leaning web sites..
The sentiment, directed as you understood it at left-liberal ideologically progressive Jews was on the order of ‘to hell with them as they have brought this on themselves through their own ideology’.
As there is now war in the Ukraine, and in the middle east, and antifa riots and homicides, and a porous border facilitating terrorist infiltration, and the action which will surely result, … it is probably as relevant as it ever will be, short of a world war and civilizational collapse, to gain some clarity.
So broadening the question out beyond the issue of politically active and progressive Netanyahu hating Jews who may have set the entire nation of Israel up for a fall, what is wrong with the ‘let them reap what they have sown’ attitude in principle – particularly if it can be limited to the sowers?
Should anyone not them, care if progressive Frenchmen, Britons, Swedes, or residents of Delaware or California, suffer as agents of their own destruction?
It’s not as if the past 40 years of history has Ieft much room for unreflective, unintentional, naive go-alongism. Even that superficial appearance of blithe ignorance is the result of conscious choices and deeper values knowingly chosen.
I was in junior high and high school once, and No One was as stupid and mentally dishabile as the young now appear to be, unless they were very sub par IQ types.
For example: all Socialists, know the history of collectivism. Modern devil worshippers are largely cynical apostates with an overt social agenda. The trans freaks know they are at war with natural law, as do the anti-constitutionalists who complain of The Frozen Republic, or argue Against Autonomy. Do the voters of New York not realize what they are doing to the rule of law? Do liberals fleeing from the metropolitan hell holes they have created not realize that their moral choices made those places what they were?
Don’t they deserve what they get, or at least the indifference of those whom they have harmed as their own efforts wash back over and submerge them?
How long can normal people be expected to underwrite the well being of, or even express pity toward, those whose actions have led us to this pass?
When 9-11 happened the Michigan Fatso mournfully wondered why it was NY that was attacked and not the Midwesterners who he believed were deserving of it.
Does it even make sense to expect pity for or solidarity with a social enemy after the next hit that comes?
No man is an island.
Would/could someone please find a place where the liberal (democratic) media gives a number/estimate as to HOW MANY illegals have crossed the border? Please. I need to see what the estimate is that the democrats are using–numerical!
Thank you,
I used to knit on the school bus in first grade, I found it interesting, more so than crocheting. On a side note, Dirac watched Landau’s wife knitting during a visit, and returned excitedly after leaving to announce his discovery of purling.
SHIREHOME: I couldn’t understand her either. Young women seem to have adopted some kind of California ‘Nasal‘ speaking that they added a higher-pitch to, and then quadrupled the speed. I have a terrible time understanding most of them—especially on the phone.
DNW: Without Hate the Democratic party would collapse.
I think that all AI output should be, by law, forced to append the phrase, “Yeah, that’s the ticket,” to its output.
Well hes the size of a small continent
I do not play electronic games, but if you are playing, or just want to peek into the future of your children / grandchildren, be sure to get acquainted with the phygital reality of the Games of the Future, which began 2 days ago in Kazan. Opening Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTUiZ4YTDI
Putin addressed the participants of this mass participation event: “…I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future. The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes. It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.
The Games of the Future are our gift to the international sports family.”
http ://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73520 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4LtmXoFoQ
More:
“it is crucial today to strike a balance between the digital and physical. The principle of ‘phygital’ helps with that. It is not just about sports competitions but a new philosophy of life and personal development. …[The Games of the Future] once again demonstrate that a modern person, a person of the future, is a harmonious individual, fit both physically and intellectually. …harmonizing intellectual and physical perfection is one of the absolute priorities of the emerging multipolar world”
*So, in case you didn’t understand, digital and intellectual are the same thing.
More in the link: “National Cyberphysical Platform “Den” [Berloga] “an attempt for the first time in the world to combine the physical and virtual world in the individual logic of a child’s development.”
And the reason for all this work is at the bottom of the comment.
“The next technological revolution will be associated with neurotechnologies and a radical increase in the productivity of mental labor due to the integration of the human brain and computing machines.. The Neuronet Roadmap..Stages and terms of implementation, Second stage (2019-2025).. “Neuro-entertainment and sports”.. “The product of 2035 will be a large-scale gaming platform that constantly interacts with the user. The platform will continuously monitor functional, psycho-emotional states, assess the cognitive background of the user’s current activity. Based on the data obtained, non-invasive stimulation of users will be carried out to achieve the necessary conditions.”
“For the kids!”
“Liberalism moves, therefore, toward radical individualism and the corruption of standards that movement entails. By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified… Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos.”
Those near-prophetic words were written nearly three decades ago by the late great Robert Bork in his landmark book, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah.”
First paragraph of an article at Hot Air (I think) title “Is it to Late”
Would Bork have made a difference? Certainly, but just prolonging the collapse of our society as we see what becoming our own gods looks like.
And, since I see that it has been said again, after the adventures of the slightly feeble-minded Tucker in the far country without the homeless and with the shops full, be sure to see again what was the only reason for his interview with the multipolar tsar. Here and here. Namely: the entire interview was to officially announce – and to the Russian, but especially to the Western audience – that Putin and Russia are not against brain chips and genetic modifications “but we need formalization and regulation” (see the part with Tucker’s question about “AI empire”) + at the same time to consolidate “the reality of the real war in which Russia is right”, thus confirming that Russia is against the plan for the world of Western elites.
So:
1. The United States (as the leader of the “collective West”) and (the multipolar – “spiritual, moral” not economic, which is China – leader) Russia, are at war.
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2. In Russia there are full shops (according to Tucker; for an average Russian with an average salary, a full store is not quite equal to a full refrigerator), there are no homeless, and – the main, cream de la cream of multipolar advantage – there is no LGBT propaganda, the LGBT minority does not indoctrinate children, no one tells children that they can choose their gender, even for adults it is forbidden (“except in special medical cases”).
Do you want to tell me you don’t like this? I can see from here. ZERO TRANSGENDERISM. None, none and none. (Eat yourself out of envy – ZERO!)
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3. In the U.S., they have all the other advantages that keep people from all over the world wanting to come there, but there are these nasty things (and others: immigrants coming in; a climate in the media and entertainment that destroys spirit and morality; drugs; malicious policies, like billions on Ukraine, etc.). And the nasty Democrats are “in power.”
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4. Everything else is almost exactly the same. Far, far worse: the plans for the near future are almost exactly the same. Which include:
– digital footprints and personal trajectories even for children, outlining their path from the cradle to the grave
– implementation of artificial intelligence systems in every sphere of society (for what?)
– social rating sistems
– digital rubles (CBDC)
– wide application of biometrics
– future widespread genome editing
– bugs for people’s food (because it is good for the climate)
– measures to tackle climate change (including personal carbon credits)
– shit for superfood, including for people (as seen in here)
– destruction of the indigenous Russian (mostly Christian as well as atheists, all these years of communism have said their) population, by stimulating the migration of Central Asian ethnicities traditionally professing Islam
And a future in which all communication with society, other people, animals and inanimate objects takes place through invasive brain-computer interfaces.
In addition: multiple wearable and implantable biosensors, for health monitoring, drug delivery and other things.
Development of epidemiological safety, “for protection against pandemics” (including genomic observation and development of mRNA vaccines).
(We miss a lot of things because it’s inexhaustible.)
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November comes back Donny the savior, the father of the vaccine, limits (or maybe just stops) those bad things that are mostly in the US and make the difference between the US and Russia for example, and push everything else (not suddenly, step by step, there is time).
Won’t many embrace it, even the majority? Perhaps perhaps the majority of Americans are quite “sober-minded”, “pragmatic” minds, and quite calmly perceive these innovations as “part of the process of development”, even some accept them as “the fruit of progress”, even many “on the right”. It was with a little surprise that I found it. So why not?
(*The scheme is also valid for the whole of Western Europe. While in the “growing multipolar world”, the same those things are sold directly as “progress”, you understand “to we catch up with the West and not be all development and prosperity only for the golden billion of the former colonial master world”. And, although I have not measured them, I have no doubt that there are more there, and perhaps many more willing this “progress” than in the West, because they grew up in a not very rich life or directly in a poor one.
Also, they will like even more such a world in, its more generous, Western version, so one might think about who the Western *elites want to build it for, whether for some who are used to living poorly, with limited energy, lack of freedom of speech and freedom in general, surveillance, some of them eat bugs as part of the menu.)
(**And this is definitely knitting (of network) that transforms the world (just like on the knitting scheme of Brzezinski and Kissinger (search references to the “regionalization” desired by the CFR, for example, which is like exactly this “multipolarity that is.)
Simplified version, it’s more complicated, but it is. I bet on a billion dollars (now, we’re waiting for the dollar to fall, aren’t we?.. – 2 biliion.)
Light evening
Here’s how the aid package proposed by our Leaders would be spent.
$20 billion is for replenishment of the U.S. military with weapons and equipment provided to Ukraine from Defense Department inventory.
$14 billion is for Ukraine to purchase weapons and equipment from U.S. firms.
$15 billion is for U.S. support including military training, intelligence sharing, increased presence in Eastern Europe, and other activities.
$8 billion is for Direct budget support for Ukraine.
$3.2 billion is for $1.6 billion for economic development, $1.6 billion to bolster air and maritime defenses in and around Ukraine.
I’ve read people complaining Avdiivka fell in part because he didn’t provide this support– which is, of course, just propaganda.
First off, why are we putting the $20 billion to replace weapons we already sent Ukraine in this supplemental? Wouldn’t that have been part of the previous aid package? And why wasn’t this part of the 2024 defense budget? This is absurd,
Out of this $60 billion proposal– only $14 billion is for actual ammunition/weapons for the troops.
I love the $15 billion expenditure for stuff…..”and other activities”. Is it $1 billion for stuff and $14 billion for “other activities”? What kind of “other activities” are they suggesting? Undermining the Orban government? My trust level of this government is running on fumes.
The rest is pretty much to fund the Ukraine government.
I also linked recently to a speech where the EU had committed $50 billion to Ukraine. I later read that is their commitment for the next four years– which would be closer to $12 billion/year. I haven’t verified this, but I suspect it’s true.
Fani Willis and her lover should be disbarred and face criminal perjury charges.
How stupid could they be? Did they think they could lie, under oath, and get away with it?
If the GA Counsel for Discipline doesn’t take action, then everything is rigged.
Why Indian peacocks? Who actually knows how big they are? And with feathers extended or not? Why this strange reference? Other sources say the asteroid was the size of a double-decker bus, which more people would relate to.
Anyway, we survived the close fly-by … I guess.
Abraxas:
The “six Indian peacocks” thing sounds like something AI would come up with.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
I’ve been to The Bulwark looking for the odd cultural article. There’s an okay one every month or so. Otherwise, the content is junk. Tim Miller reminds me of the Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt or Rick Wilson. They’re people who go on and on about the monstrous vulgarity of Trump, while being horribly vulgar themselves.
No rounds in the tubes certainly helped your man Vlad. Just can’t accept it?
Just take off the mask and celebrate it while working to ensure it stays that way.
Time to work with Vlad’s allies in Europe to shut off all assistance. You can do it! For mother Roosia.
Could be worse; an asteroid the size of Lizzo (from a comment on the X post).
om, I suggest you take off your blinders.
Only $14 billion of the $60 billion is going to buy weapons. Why not call your congressman and tell them to reduce the request to, say $15 billion. Or why don’t we match whatever the Europeans are willing to spend on their defense.
Let’s get real. Germany’s debt/GDP ratio is much, much lower than ours. The official number is 124% for the US and last I checked about 80% for Germany.
They can afford it. Why not encourage them to pay for their own defense– if they’re worried Russia will roll through Ukraine on the way to Poland.
You see one example how shambling is like gift to stalin and lenin in hell could they have destroyed the country as thoroughly dismantling every institution that matter
Is that wray or cop killer fanclarkes little fillip trying to cripple our intelligencd
The danchenko fraud was the modern zinoviev telegram referenced above
Six peacocks doesnt seem to be that big
American industry american scientist woth some of the best emigres fermi einstein szilard were the key to winning the war
Now all of this has been compromised along with our cultural and historical identity
Peacocks are a larger sized bird with a length from bill to tail of 100 to 115 cm (39 to 45 in) and to the end of a fully grown train as much as 195 to 225 cm (77 to 89 in) and weigh 4–6 kg (8.8–13.2 lb). The females, or peahens, are smaller at around 95 cm (37 in) in length and weigh 2.75–4 kg (6.1–8.8 lb). Indian peafowl are among the largest and heaviest representatives of the Phasianidae. So far as is known, only the wild turkey grows notably heavier.
@ miguel — San Francisco is hurting in more ways than one, although this post is more general than the shoplifting crisis.
Referring to the question DNW asked on an earlier thread: how much sympathy should we have for the residents, who elected the government that has facilitated all of these problems?
I wonder how the hardware store owners voted.
(Well, allegedly elected; I don’t discount voting fraud at the municipal level, based on the dribbles of election information that we have seen over the last few years, where Democrats have had no problem cheating each other in the polls, much less Republicans.)
Oh great, another Chinese balloon. This one now over Colorado. They are “tracking” it. Why not just turn over all our intelligence to the Xi, rather than playing these transparent games?
Why have qualms or hesitation about shooting down an unmanned spy balloon?
It’s not like anybody will be killed.
Another well-researched piece from Daniel Greenfield:
Seattle began installing dozens of EV chargers only for thieves to show up and raid at least eight of the charging cables for copper requiring thousands of dollars worth of repairs.
In response, the city is planning to put the chargers high up on poles that can only be lowered by an app. This will cost even more money and in an environment in which brazen copper thieves toppled an FM radio tower in Oklahoma, isn’t likely to deter the criminals.
EV owners who suffered from copper theft while leaving their cars to be charged in public places were told by the Seattle Police Department to “stay with the vehicle if you can while it’s being charged,” Considering that it can take an electric car hours to charge, that’s gonna be a wait.
The problem is not green energy per se, but the karma and stupidity of the majority of those advancing it – especially blue city elites. Whosoever contrived or contributed in any way to the installation of Joe Biden in the White House shall reap the whirlwind.
Call it “whirlwind energy”. Mounting chargers ‘high up on poles’? Something should be hoisted on those poles, but not EV chargers.
Were there any sane candidates for mayor in san francisco or oakland
Re: spy balloon
Their excuse last time was these balloons are huge and shooting them down over land is dangerous to people on the ground.
Of course ev chargers are being looted. These retards are city people where you can’t even turn your back on your gloves on the bench next to you if you expect to see them ever again. This was true 45 years ago. I had some creep steal a bent motorcycle rim from my driveway as I was getting ready to take it to the shop.
The Great Orange Whale, if reelected, could replace The Wise Latina!
Karma is a Bitch indeed.
OH PLEASE ! Please take my request seriously!
I dare you to find a liberal press–NYT, CBS, anyone of them that has produced an article about the border and included a number–just an approximation would be the norm. I cannot find a single liberal news source that has put themselves on the line with an approximation of how many illegals have crossed into this country. I think this is an interesting and I believe important. Has no liberal reporter or media outlet ever guessed or reported as to the number of illegals? WHY DON”T THEY DO THE NUMBERS?
Rufus on Glenn Beck interviewing Tucker Carlson on the long Putin interview:
“I have paid little attention to [Tucker Carlson] or his words in over a year, so I’m not sure if it is consistent with other things he has said recently. He’s been speaking professionally for his entire, adult life and I’m sure he’s mastered the illusion of sounding sincere, even when he isn’t.”
In answer to your concluding line, Perhaps. But no, really, no!
Just read from Carlson’s book “Ship of Fools.” (Out in 2016 I think?)
I believe he never mentions or even quotes Trump (perhaps not even Rush Limbough). But Carlson was clearly MAGA oriented early on. The class war divisions you relate from Glenn’s interview are there from middle of the last decade of his career.
I think it was the hypocrisy and decadence of the Obama regime that opened up his mind.
You can, however, add that the Trump experience has been clarifying to him.
Tucker actually GREW UP IN DC, and he comes from family and a neighbourhood imbued with a positive ethos towards the Federal Government work.
Thus, his volte face or turn to criticise of his own kin and kind gains his views greater legitimacy, to me.
GREAT video, Neo. Concise and fast paced and illuminating.
As for SHIREHOME’s complaint about it being too fast, you can adjust the playback speed. Go to the toolbar with your cursor (along thebottom of the window) and find the icon vaguely resembling a ship’s wheel.
I’m not sure whether you mean the total number of illegal aliens present in the US today, or whether you mean recent crossings. But it’s not difficult to find MSM reports on the latter numbers.
In just five days last week, Border Patrol processed nearly 50,000 migrants who entered the U.S. illegally, with daily apprehensions surpassing 10,000 thrice, up from the 6,400 average last month, according to federal data obtained by CBS News. Roughly 1,500 additional migrants are being processed each day at official border crossings under a Biden program powered by a phone app.
The record level of unauthorized crossings has strained federal and local resources in communities across the U.S. — from small towns like Eagle Pass, Jacumba Hot Springs, California, and Lukeville, Arizona — to large cities, such as Denver, Chicago and New York. It has also upended the politics of immigration, putting Democrats on the defensive ahead of the 2024 election.
U.S. immigration officials along the southern border are on track to process more than 300,000 migrants in December, an all-time monthly high that will likely include record numbers of families traveling with children, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.
The extraordinary number of migrant arrivals this month is the most dire juncture yet of a three-year-long crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that has strained resources in small and large U.S. communities, left countless of migrants in limbo, prompted lawmakers to consider drastically limiting asylum and created a major political vulnerability for President Biden as he seeks reelection.
Re: Woke AI hilarity / Teach Your Children Well
Google’s new AI offering, Gemini, has been trained poorly — or well by Woke standards. The latest version is unable to create images of whites, especially men, when one would expect.
Did you know George Washington was black?
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Here’s a full look at what Google Gemini thinks George Washington would look like:
Google pauses its Gemini AI tool after critics blasted it as ‘too woke’ for generating images of Asian Nazis in 1940 Germany, Black Vikings and female medieval knights
well one could refer to the trek episode with nomad, the probe that had merged with an alien consciousness, and had mixed up the creator’s name roikirk with captain kirk, star trek discovery poorly tried to retconn the whole thing,
I draw the line at retconning reality!
There are many things I find disturbing about AI, but these Mega Oops! moments in new AIs are especially so since the developers failed to catch them before Going Primetime.
For now it’s annoying and sometimes funny. However, these AIs are going to become smarter and we will give them more power. The price of “mistakes” will become more serious.
There’s a reason that AI researchers rate the possibility of AI as an extinction event for humans:
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There’s a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct, say scientists
In the largest survey yet of AI researchers, a majority say there is a non-trivial risk of human extinction due to the possible development of superhuman AI
actually it was star trek picard’s second season, from my understanding, which was bad enough,
as you see, they don’t actually state a number of total entrants because with gotaways, a very neutral term, the number could be as high as 10-11 million,
every film from the forbin project to singularity suggests the prospect for annihilation,
we know anthony kennedy, let the progs get away with metaphorical murder in some rather dramatic instances, bork was rather ideosyncratic so may be might have made as strong a bond with some of the justices,
Re: Knitting
I recall a boomlet of knitting interest back in the 00s. Stitch ‘n Bitch.
Turns out it goes back further than I thought:
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Stitch ‘n Bitch is a name that has been used to refer to social knitting groups since at least World War II. Before the slang term “Stitch ‘n Bitch” was used, groups of women in the 1940s would join to knit and talk in organized Stitch and Bitch clubs. The term was further used in the 1980s as part of the book Social History of American Knitting by Anne Macdonald.[2] It is partly due to the book’s success that the modern day Stitch ‘n Bitch knitting groups have emerged in cities around the world. The groups, mainly women, meet to knit, stitch and talk. Typically, attendees knit, though others crochet (they are called ‘Happy Hookers’), and still others engage in cross-stitching, embroidery, and other needlecraft.
I suppose what’s good for the corrupted goose, etc.
Neo: Thank you so much. With all that is going on right now and the different conversations here, I really appreciate you taking the time to find this information. I searched and could not get any mention of numbers. I sure must have been using the wrong inquiry terms! Thank you very much. It means a lot here at this house!
My late cousin had a top job with a major international conglomerate. His duties included traveling to various offices, deciding who needed to be fired, and then doing so. In the later years of his career he took up knitting, I think because it relaxed him, and he liked to do it on plane trips.
Knitting is an activity that it might be good to see a revival of. Maybe more salubrious than staring at a phone.
More on the Colorado balloon — I didn’t learn about it in time to go outside and wave hello to our New Overlords.
IMO, if you don’t know / can’t tell from inspection what it’s doing, who it’s from, and why it’s there — shoot it down.
If someone complains, too bad.
This was the only post I could find on Google’s first page of results that wasn’t a knee-jerk supporter of the Leftist censors and defensive “histories” of activism in past knitting societies (eg supporting the Revolutionary War in America) or tangents on how artistic fabric crafts are ackshually.
At least the authors were willing to quote one of the banned pro-Trump members noting that people who posted pro-Obama and anti-Trump patterns were not kicked out.
Given the size of the group, and its already numerous subgroups, why not just ask political-minded folks to keep to a separate section so as not to offend people who thought otherwise?
Rhetorical question, of course.
Everything inside the Left, nothing outside the Left.
Hi AesopFan,
I very much, totally agree.
I wonder how we, The USA, look to [the presidents, and other leaders] of other nations, who look at us:
when our Government CAN’T CONTROL our air space, and CAN’T keep our borders SECURE.
…I wonder if I can get an Air Force job, or another US-Military job…all the Biden White seems to do with these military people is:
have them hang around in the break room, or say, “Yes, that foreign balloon is invading our air space, and our Government’s orders won’t let us do anything about that.”
Please read that as, the “Biden White HOUSE”, in my previous comment.
…Time for me to put a spellchecker in my computer.
🙂
AesopFan writes.
Referring to the question DNW asked on an earlier thread: how much sympathy should we have for the residents, who elected the government that has facilitated all of these problems?
I wonder how the hardware store owners voted.
I don’t know offhand how the hardware store owners of Portland or Seattle voted when the going was good and no one had yet caught the backflow in their faces.
But by 2019, the progressive reaction to Trump was already causing the soy drinking class to lose its mind and convert its own municipalities into hellscapes reflective of the complete implementation of their mindsets. https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-cost-of-bad-intentions
But the fact is that in the recent case of a particularly notorious D.A. named Mike Schmidt had 77 % support at the polls.
I wrote:
… what is wrong with the ‘let them reap what they have sown’ attitude in principle – particularly if it can be limited to the sowers?
Should anyone not them, care if progressive Frenchmen, Britons, Swedes, or residents of Delaware or California, suffer as agents of their own destruction?”
And, Willamette Week wrote,
“In Portland, many liberals are dodging stray bullets, losing catalytic converters to thieves, and sidestepping tents. Then they open their tax bills.
Maybe they aren’t voting Republican. But some are voting with their feet …
Katie Schneider … moved to the Woodlawn neighborhood of Northeast Portland in 2009, and … quickly grew accustomed to the occasional sound of gunfire outside her house.
Then someone opened fire from a car on a summer evening in 2020, killing 22-year-old Jordan Lee Lewis on Dekum Street, just around the corner from her house …
Seven months later, after putting her kids to bed, a car crashed in the intersection in front of her house. Her husband found a man, gut-shot and bleeding. … police found 60 shell casings in the street.
In April 2021, two months after the car crash, they moved to a rented house in Vancouver, where she worked as a school counselor.
Schneider, 42, is a liberal who—still—loves Portland. But she couldn’t raise her family in a city where leaders don’t seem to have any solutions, despite having coffers full of taxpayers’ money”
They havent abandoned their political and social views though. Since there will always be someone else’s community to flee to, subvert and wreck, before the effect of your own activities catch up with you and you are forced to move on or die as a result of them.
Now, I don’t mind them living by their principles, but if anyone is to die from the implementation of those insane principles, it should be them.
Hi DNW,
You bet, I agree.
To me, the [group of Democrats + the liberals, who love the dumb politics of Barbara Streisand, and others], are like: [spoiled, selfish, pet cats]…who don’t care about anyone, and they don’t even care about the people who take care of them.
If the spoiled pet CATS 1) don’t get what they WANT, + get mad, or 2) if they wreck the places that they live in, and get mad-
then they can always run away, to another place or town, and find [someone else] to feed them, and to take care of them.
And then [those spoiled, bratty cats] might then turn around – and wreck the NEW place that they have found.
(Please don’t put up with bad cats, or with bad neighbors. That is my opinion.)
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Interesting
1. She talks too fast, which seems the norm for younger people.
2. All the hand gestures were bothersome.
3. She didn’t explain how knitting helped to fuel the Viking expansions. Makes no sense to me.
4. I have several machine knitted sweaters and scarfs made with Alpaca wool. Sweaters are very heavy and very warm.
neo recently had a post about Tucker Carlson, primarily centering on his interview of Vladimir Putin. For those of you interested in hearing Carlson’s perspective I highly recommend Glenn Beck’s recent interview (3 days ago) of him.
I can give a summary of how Carlson responded to some of the topics here, but I recommend listening to it to form your own opinions.
It was a friendly interview, they admit to being friends and respecting one another, but Beck did not appear to be pulling punches. It came across as two men talking honestly and openly on their opinions and perspectives.
Regarding the idea that Carlson was amazed by Russian grocery stores, their subway stations or dictator:
Carlson states that his (Carlson’s) perspective is solely as a U.S. citizen concerned with the U.S. He says (paraphrasing) “Don’t tell me crime, homeless and stepping over drug addicts to get to work is the price of freedom. I’m 54 years old. I lived in America when it wasn’t this way. I saw New York city turn into one of the cleanest, safest cities in the world in the ’90s.”
Carlson states he’s showing these other places; Russia, Hungary, Dubai… not to promote them, but to remind Americans that we do not have to live with the declining services we see in our cities. In other words, nations with worse systems of government than us are still able to achieve these basic things.
Near the very end Beck asks him about being a voice for the working class, and I found this interesting. Carlson states he knows nothing about the lives of working class people (and Beck knows this about Carlson also). Carlson basically says he is motivated by his disgust of our elite class, of which he is one. “There will always be elites,” he states.
As he explains in this interview, Carlson’s over-arching motus vivendi is disappointment in watching corrupt and/or incompetent elites destroy the United States. He states that it is intentional. He states “color revolution” (my words, and Beck’s, not Carlson’s) type things: (paraphrasing) “we are being distracted and encouraged to fight amongst one another over irrelevant things (racism, males swimming against females, wars in other regions…) to keep us distracted from the deliberate destruction of our country by nefarious interests.
On the subject of the Ukraine war, there is a lot of discussion about that. Carlson’s main point is concern over what’s best for America. Why are we sending so much money to a corrupt nation that does not have free elections with no discussion over whether it can help, how it will be used, etc. We say we have to do such and such here, in America, to “protect Democracy,” yet we send billions of dollars to fund a non-Democratic government, Ukraine, in a war that they have almost no chance of winning.
Most all of Carlson’s responses to Beck are couched in a pro-America veneer. Obviously people promoting U.S. support of Ukraine also give pro-America reasons and Carlson is not ignorant of that line of reasoning. But, sort-of like Rene Descartes using “cogito ergo sum” as the building block for all his philosophy, Carlson uses “what is best for Americans and America’s interests?” as the foundation for any position he reasons himself into.
I came out of it feeling a bit better about Carlson. It certainly seems like he believes what he is saying. However, I have paid little attention to him or his words in over a year, so I’m not sure if it is consistent with other things he has said recently. He’s been speaking professionally for his entire, adult life and I’m sure he’s mastered the illusion of sounding sincere, even when he isn’t.
yes going from knitting to viking raids seems a bit of a stretch,
Tucker wants a normal world, is the world of 93, before they started Cloward and Pivening this country, such an unbelievable starting point, yes Lani Guinier was three steps from Kamala Harris perhaps four, this Rd laing cracked mirror universe is where they were going with, now the authorities barely restrained Clinton from corrupting the institutions, from the organs to the arts to the educational system, the voting franchise with motor voters the banking system with the CRA revisions and the nudges from HUD and the
DOJ, of course Obama did his part, leveraging Citibank,
The ‘community engagement” twit who debarred a nonagenarian volunteer from the premises of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (for the offense of asking about pronouns) is named Kali Kumor. She’s deleted her Linkedin profile and it appears the MS society has replaced her. The current ‘community engagement’ twit is one Lisa Goldfarb. She reports to the agency’s director, Cyndi Zagieboylo. Wokery is enforced by actual people. Say their names. (And “Cyndi Zagieboylo” is one you’re not likely to forget).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCd8Z4aFew
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/san-francisco-hardware-store-requires-customers-shop-with-escort-to-curb-shoplifting/
New Cell Phone Records Prove DA Willis Affair
Under the wonderful Rule of Law concept (Which apparently dates back to al least Plato?!!?) – from Techno Fog: “criminal charges charges – including perjury/false statements, depending on the prosecutor.”
I’d like to see you address an issue which has lain fallow for awhile; but which you reintroduced en passant recently with regard to anti semitic sentiments you had observed on conservative leaning web sites..
The sentiment, directed as you understood it at left-liberal ideologically progressive Jews was on the order of ‘to hell with them as they have brought this on themselves through their own ideology’.
As there is now war in the Ukraine, and in the middle east, and antifa riots and homicides, and a porous border facilitating terrorist infiltration, and the action which will surely result, … it is probably as relevant as it ever will be, short of a world war and civilizational collapse, to gain some clarity.
So broadening the question out beyond the issue of politically active and progressive Netanyahu hating Jews who may have set the entire nation of Israel up for a fall, what is wrong with the ‘let them reap what they have sown’ attitude in principle – particularly if it can be limited to the sowers?
Should anyone not them, care if progressive Frenchmen, Britons, Swedes, or residents of Delaware or California, suffer as agents of their own destruction?
It’s not as if the past 40 years of history has Ieft much room for unreflective, unintentional, naive go-alongism. Even that superficial appearance of blithe ignorance is the result of conscious choices and deeper values knowingly chosen.
I was in junior high and high school once, and No One was as stupid and mentally dishabile as the young now appear to be, unless they were very sub par IQ types.
For example: all Socialists, know the history of collectivism. Modern devil worshippers are largely cynical apostates with an overt social agenda. The trans freaks know they are at war with natural law, as do the anti-constitutionalists who complain of The Frozen Republic, or argue Against Autonomy. Do the voters of New York not realize what they are doing to the rule of law? Do liberals fleeing from the metropolitan hell holes they have created not realize that their moral choices made those places what they were?
Don’t they deserve what they get, or at least the indifference of those whom they have harmed as their own efforts wash back over and submerge them?
How long can normal people be expected to underwrite the well being of, or even express pity toward, those whose actions have led us to this pass?
When 9-11 happened the Michigan Fatso mournfully wondered why it was NY that was attacked and not the Midwesterners who he believed were deserving of it.
Does it even make sense to expect pity for or solidarity with a social enemy after the next hit that comes?
No man is an island.
Would/could someone please find a place where the liberal (democratic) media gives a number/estimate as to HOW MANY illegals have crossed the border? Please. I need to see what the estimate is that the democrats are using–numerical!
Thank you,
I used to knit on the school bus in first grade, I found it interesting, more so than crocheting. On a side note, Dirac watched Landau’s wife knitting during a visit, and returned excitedly after leaving to announce his discovery of purling.
SHIREHOME: I couldn’t understand her either. Young women seem to have adopted some kind of California ‘Nasal‘ speaking that they added a higher-pitch to, and then quadrupled the speed. I have a terrible time understanding most of them—especially on the phone.
DNW: Without Hate the Democratic party would collapse.
I think that all AI output should be, by law, forced to append the phrase, “Yeah, that’s the ticket,” to its output.
Well hes the size of a small continent
I do not play electronic games, but if you are playing, or just want to peek into the future of your children / grandchildren, be sure to get acquainted with the phygital reality of the Games of the Future, which began 2 days ago in Kazan. Opening Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTUiZ4YTDI
Putin addressed the participants of this mass participation event: “…I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future. The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes. It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.
The Games of the Future are our gift to the international sports family.”
http ://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73520
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4LtmXoFoQ
Lukashenko attended the opening ceremony: “Forward into the future, friends!” Aleksandr Lukashenko spoke in Belarusian. He was the first one to take the floor.”
https://president.gov.by/en/events/poseshchenie-ceremonii-otkrytiya-igr-budushchego-v-kazani-1708679218
More:
“it is crucial today to strike a balance between the digital and physical. The principle of ‘phygital’ helps with that. It is not just about sports competitions but a new philosophy of life and personal development. …[The Games of the Future] once again demonstrate that a modern person, a person of the future, is a harmonious individual, fit both physically and intellectually. …harmonizing intellectual and physical perfection is one of the absolute priorities of the emerging multipolar world”
*So, in case you didn’t understand, digital and intellectual are the same thing.
More in the link: “National Cyberphysical Platform “Den” [Berloga] “an attempt for the first time in the world to combine the physical and virtual world in the individual logic of a child’s development.”
And the reason for all this work is at the bottom of the comment.
“For the kids!”
“Liberalism moves, therefore, toward radical individualism and the corruption of standards that movement entails. By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified… Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos.”
Those near-prophetic words were written nearly three decades ago by the late great Robert Bork in his landmark book, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah.”
First paragraph of an article at Hot Air (I think) title “Is it to Late”
Would Bork have made a difference? Certainly, but just prolonging the collapse of our society as we see what becoming our own gods looks like.
And, since I see that it has been said again, after the adventures of the slightly feeble-minded Tucker in the far country without the homeless and with the shops full, be sure to see again what was the only reason for his interview with the multipolar tsar. Here and here. Namely: the entire interview was to officially announce – and to the Russian, but especially to the Western audience – that Putin and Russia are not against brain chips and genetic modifications “but we need formalization and regulation” (see the part with Tucker’s question about “AI empire”) + at the same time to consolidate “the reality of the real war in which Russia is right”, thus confirming that Russia is against the plan for the world of Western elites.
So:
1. The United States (as the leader of the “collective West”) and (the multipolar – “spiritual, moral” not economic, which is China – leader) Russia, are at war.
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2. In Russia there are full shops (according to Tucker; for an average Russian with an average salary, a full store is not quite equal to a full refrigerator), there are no homeless, and – the main, cream de la cream of multipolar advantage – there is no LGBT propaganda, the LGBT minority does not indoctrinate children, no one tells children that they can choose their gender, even for adults it is forbidden (“except in special medical cases”).
Do you want to tell me you don’t like this? I can see from here. ZERO TRANSGENDERISM. None, none and none. (Eat yourself out of envy – ZERO!)
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3. In the U.S., they have all the other advantages that keep people from all over the world wanting to come there, but there are these nasty things (and others: immigrants coming in; a climate in the media and entertainment that destroys spirit and morality; drugs; malicious policies, like billions on Ukraine, etc.). And the nasty Democrats are “in power.”
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4. Everything else is almost exactly the same. Far, far worse: the plans for the near future are almost exactly the same. Which include:
– digital footprints and personal trajectories even for children, outlining their path from the cradle to the grave
– implementation of artificial intelligence systems in every sphere of society (for what?)
– social rating sistems
– digital rubles (CBDC)
– wide application of biometrics
– future widespread genome editing
– bugs for people’s food (because it is good for the climate)
– measures to tackle climate change (including personal carbon credits)
– shit for superfood, including for people (as seen in here)
– destruction of the indigenous Russian (mostly Christian as well as atheists, all these years of communism have said their) population, by stimulating the migration of Central Asian ethnicities traditionally professing Islam
And a future in which all communication with society, other people, animals and inanimate objects takes place through invasive brain-computer interfaces.
In addition: multiple wearable and implantable biosensors, for health monitoring, drug delivery and other things.
Development of epidemiological safety, “for protection against pandemics” (including genomic observation and development of mRNA vaccines).
(We miss a lot of things because it’s inexhaustible.)
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November comes back Donny the savior, the father of the vaccine, limits (or maybe just stops) those bad things that are mostly in the US and make the difference between the US and Russia for example, and push everything else (not suddenly, step by step, there is time).
Won’t many embrace it, even the majority? Perhaps perhaps the majority of Americans are quite “sober-minded”, “pragmatic” minds, and quite calmly perceive these innovations as “part of the process of development”, even some accept them as “the fruit of progress”, even many “on the right”. It was with a little surprise that I found it. So why not?
(*The scheme is also valid for the whole of Western Europe. While in the “growing multipolar world”, the same those things are sold directly as “progress”, you understand “to we catch up with the West and not be all development and prosperity only for the golden billion of the former colonial master world”. And, although I have not measured them, I have no doubt that there are more there, and perhaps many more willing this “progress” than in the West, because they grew up in a not very rich life or directly in a poor one.
Also, they will like even more such a world in, its more generous, Western version, so one might think about who the Western *elites want to build it for, whether for some who are used to living poorly, with limited energy, lack of freedom of speech and freedom in general, surveillance, some of them eat bugs as part of the menu.)
(**And this is definitely knitting (of network) that transforms the world (just like on the knitting scheme of Brzezinski and Kissinger (search references to the “regionalization” desired by the CFR, for example, which is like exactly this “multipolarity that is.)
Simplified version, it’s more complicated, but it is. I bet on a billion dollars (now, we’re waiting for the dollar to fall, aren’t we?.. – 2 biliion.)
Light evening
Here’s how the aid package proposed by our Leaders would be spent.
$20 billion is for replenishment of the U.S. military with weapons and equipment provided to Ukraine from Defense Department inventory.
$14 billion is for Ukraine to purchase weapons and equipment from U.S. firms.
$15 billion is for U.S. support including military training, intelligence sharing, increased presence in Eastern Europe, and other activities.
$8 billion is for Direct budget support for Ukraine.
$3.2 billion is for $1.6 billion for economic development, $1.6 billion to bolster air and maritime defenses in and around Ukraine.
I’ve read people complaining Avdiivka fell in part because he didn’t provide this support– which is, of course, just propaganda.
First off, why are we putting the $20 billion to replace weapons we already sent Ukraine in this supplemental? Wouldn’t that have been part of the previous aid package? And why wasn’t this part of the 2024 defense budget? This is absurd,
Out of this $60 billion proposal– only $14 billion is for actual ammunition/weapons for the troops.
I love the $15 billion expenditure for stuff…..”and other activities”. Is it $1 billion for stuff and $14 billion for “other activities”? What kind of “other activities” are they suggesting? Undermining the Orban government? My trust level of this government is running on fumes.
The rest is pretty much to fund the Ukraine government.
I also linked recently to a speech where the EU had committed $50 billion to Ukraine. I later read that is their commitment for the next four years– which would be closer to $12 billion/year. I haven’t verified this, but I suspect it’s true.
Fani Willis and her lover should be disbarred and face criminal perjury charges.
How stupid could they be? Did they think they could lie, under oath, and get away with it?
If the GA Counsel for Discipline doesn’t take action, then everything is rigged.
https://www.emerald.tv/p/whys-nobody-reading-the-bulwark
An asteroid the size of over six adult Indian peacocks is set to pass close to the Earth on Thursday, February 22, according to NASA’s asteroid tracker.
Why Indian peacocks? Who actually knows how big they are? And with feathers extended or not? Why this strange reference? Other sources say the asteroid was the size of a double-decker bus, which more people would relate to.
Anyway, we survived the close fly-by … I guess.
Abraxas:
The “six Indian peacocks” thing sounds like something AI would come up with.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
I’ve been to The Bulwark looking for the odd cultural article. There’s an okay one every month or so. Otherwise, the content is junk. Tim Miller reminds me of the Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt or Rick Wilson. They’re people who go on and on about the monstrous vulgarity of Trump, while being horribly vulgar themselves.
Erasure of women
https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1760475399056695518
Tim miller was jebs campaign manager the answer to a taranto question no on was asking whoever is running haleys campaign is the next one
They really are working for russia
https://twitter.com/15poundstogo/status/1761103576464601158
Brain E:
No rounds in the tubes certainly helped your man Vlad. Just can’t accept it?
Just take off the mask and celebrate it while working to ensure it stays that way.
Time to work with Vlad’s allies in Europe to shut off all assistance. You can do it! For mother Roosia.
Could be worse; an asteroid the size of Lizzo (from a comment on the X post).
om, I suggest you take off your blinders.
Only $14 billion of the $60 billion is going to buy weapons. Why not call your congressman and tell them to reduce the request to, say $15 billion. Or why don’t we match whatever the Europeans are willing to spend on their defense.
Let’s get real. Germany’s debt/GDP ratio is much, much lower than ours. The official number is 124% for the US and last I checked about 80% for Germany.
They can afford it. Why not encourage them to pay for their own defense– if they’re worried Russia will roll through Ukraine on the way to Poland.
Unbiased
https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1761115261887795511
Thats a very deep gravity well 10Gs
You see one example how shambling is like gift to stalin and lenin in hell could they have destroyed the country as thoroughly dismantling every institution that matter
Is that wray or cop killer fanclarkes little fillip trying to cripple our intelligencd
The danchenko fraud was the modern zinoviev telegram referenced above
Six peacocks doesnt seem to be that big
American industry american scientist woth some of the best emigres fermi einstein szilard were the key to winning the war
Now all of this has been compromised along with our cultural and historical identity
Miguel cervantes:
Maybe if they are males with their tails spread?
@ miguel — San Francisco is hurting in more ways than one, although this post is more general than the shoplifting crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kZBD9xoQRQ
Short news / opinion video; the amazing thing is that it’s from ABC!
Referring to the question DNW asked on an earlier thread: how much sympathy should we have for the residents, who elected the government that has facilitated all of these problems?
I wonder how the hardware store owners voted.
(Well, allegedly elected; I don’t discount voting fraud at the municipal level, based on the dribbles of election information that we have seen over the last few years, where Democrats have had no problem cheating each other in the polls, much less Republicans.)
Oh great, another Chinese balloon. This one now over Colorado. They are “tracking” it. Why not just turn over all our intelligence to the Xi, rather than playing these transparent games?
Why have qualms or hesitation about shooting down an unmanned spy balloon?
It’s not like anybody will be killed.
Another well-researched piece from Daniel Greenfield:
Green Crime: An Electric Car, Wind and Solar Crime Wave
Seattle began installing dozens of EV chargers only for thieves to show up and raid at least eight of the charging cables for copper requiring thousands of dollars worth of repairs.
In response, the city is planning to put the chargers high up on poles that can only be lowered by an app. This will cost even more money and in an environment in which brazen copper thieves toppled an FM radio tower in Oklahoma, isn’t likely to deter the criminals.
EV owners who suffered from copper theft while leaving their cars to be charged in public places were told by the Seattle Police Department to “stay with the vehicle if you can while it’s being charged,” Considering that it can take an electric car hours to charge, that’s gonna be a wait.
The problem is not green energy per se, but the karma and stupidity of the majority of those advancing it – especially blue city elites. Whosoever contrived or contributed in any way to the installation of Joe Biden in the White House shall reap the whirlwind.
Call it “whirlwind energy”. Mounting chargers ‘high up on poles’? Something should be hoisted on those poles, but not EV chargers.
Were there any sane candidates for mayor in san francisco or oakland
Re: spy balloon
Their excuse last time was these balloons are huge and shooting them down over land is dangerous to people on the ground.
Of course ev chargers are being looted. These retards are city people where you can’t even turn your back on your gloves on the bench next to you if you expect to see them ever again. This was true 45 years ago. I had some creep steal a bent motorcycle rim from my driveway as I was getting ready to take it to the shop.
Ruh roh
https://twitter.com/mtredden/status/1761116734990274783
What info do they have yet to steal
That would be a stretch or a snap.
Ruh Roh x 11
The Great Orange Whale, if reelected, could replace The Wise Latina!
Karma is a Bitch indeed.
OH PLEASE ! Please take my request seriously!
I dare you to find a liberal press–NYT, CBS, anyone of them that has produced an article about the border and included a number–just an approximation would be the norm. I cannot find a single liberal news source that has put themselves on the line with an approximation of how many illegals have crossed into this country. I think this is an interesting and I believe important. Has no liberal reporter or media outlet ever guessed or reported as to the number of illegals? WHY DON”T THEY DO THE NUMBERS?
Rufus on Glenn Beck interviewing Tucker Carlson on the long Putin interview:
“I have paid little attention to [Tucker Carlson] or his words in over a year, so I’m not sure if it is consistent with other things he has said recently. He’s been speaking professionally for his entire, adult life and I’m sure he’s mastered the illusion of sounding sincere, even when he isn’t.”
In answer to your concluding line, Perhaps. But no, really, no!
Just read from Carlson’s book “Ship of Fools.” (Out in 2016 I think?)
I believe he never mentions or even quotes Trump (perhaps not even Rush Limbough). But Carlson was clearly MAGA oriented early on. The class war divisions you relate from Glenn’s interview are there from middle of the last decade of his career.
I think it was the hypocrisy and decadence of the Obama regime that opened up his mind.
You can, however, add that the Trump experience has been clarifying to him.
Tucker actually GREW UP IN DC, and he comes from family and a neighbourhood imbued with a positive ethos towards the Federal Government work.
Thus, his volte face or turn to criticise of his own kin and kind gains his views greater legitimacy, to me.
GREAT video, Neo. Concise and fast paced and illuminating.
As for SHIREHOME’s complaint about it being too fast, you can adjust the playback speed. Go to the toolbar with your cursor (along thebottom of the window) and find the icon vaguely resembling a ship’s wheel.
Push it and select 0.75 playback speed!
Trying to teach a ruminant french
https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1761168658984820850
Anne:
I’m not sure whether you mean the total number of illegal aliens present in the US today, or whether you mean recent crossings. But it’s not difficult to find MSM reports on the latter numbers.
For example, a CBS article from two months ago:
And this from CBS December 31, 2023:
Re: Woke AI hilarity / Teach Your Children Well
Google’s new AI offering, Gemini, has been trained poorly — or well by Woke standards. The latest version is unable to create images of whites, especially men, when one would expect.
Did you know George Washington was black?
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Here’s a full look at what Google Gemini thinks George Washington would look like:
https://nichegamer.com/google-ai-chatbot-gemini-is-hilariously-bad/
Google pauses its Gemini AI tool after critics blasted it as ‘too woke’ for generating images of Asian Nazis in 1940 Germany, Black Vikings and female medieval knights
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13114705/google-pauses-gemini-ai-woke-images.html
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Firesign Theatre said it best:
Everything You Know is Wrong!
well one could refer to the trek episode with nomad, the probe that had merged with an alien consciousness, and had mixed up the creator’s name roikirk with captain kirk, star trek discovery poorly tried to retconn the whole thing,
I draw the line at retconning reality!
There are many things I find disturbing about AI, but these Mega Oops! moments in new AIs are especially so since the developers failed to catch them before Going Primetime.
For now it’s annoying and sometimes funny. However, these AIs are going to become smarter and we will give them more power. The price of “mistakes” will become more serious.
There’s a reason that AI researchers rate the possibility of AI as an extinction event for humans:
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There’s a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct, say scientists
In the largest survey yet of AI researchers, a majority say there is a non-trivial risk of human extinction due to the possible development of superhuman AI
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2410839-theres-a-5-chance-of-ai-causing-humans-to-go-extinct-say-scientists/
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Nah, it’ll be fine!
actually it was star trek picard’s second season, from my understanding, which was bad enough,
as you see, they don’t actually state a number of total entrants because with gotaways, a very neutral term, the number could be as high as 10-11 million,
every film from the forbin project to singularity suggests the prospect for annihilation,
we know anthony kennedy, let the progs get away with metaphorical murder in some rather dramatic instances, bork was rather ideosyncratic so may be might have made as strong a bond with some of the justices,
Re: Knitting
I recall a boomlet of knitting interest back in the 00s. Stitch ‘n Bitch.
Turns out it goes back further than I thought:
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Stitch ‘n Bitch is a name that has been used to refer to social knitting groups since at least World War II. Before the slang term “Stitch ‘n Bitch” was used, groups of women in the 1940s would join to knit and talk in organized Stitch and Bitch clubs. The term was further used in the 1980s as part of the book Social History of American Knitting by Anne Macdonald.[2] It is partly due to the book’s success that the modern day Stitch ‘n Bitch knitting groups have emerged in cities around the world. The groups, mainly women, meet to knit, stitch and talk. Typically, attendees knit, though others crochet (they are called ‘Happy Hookers’), and still others engage in cross-stitching, embroidery, and other needlecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stitch_'n_Bitch
Newsmax headline reads “Some Dems Mulling not Certifying Trump” if he wins the coming election.
Why not? The 14th Amendment’s Insurrection clause is cited here.
Democrat Rep8$ like Zoe Lofgrin and perpetual if not congenital liar Adam Schiff get quoted, both of California,
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-2024-election/2024/02/23/id/1154783/
I suppose what’s good for the corrupted goose, etc.
Neo: Thank you so much. With all that is going on right now and the different conversations here, I really appreciate you taking the time to find this information. I searched and could not get any mention of numbers. I sure must have been using the wrong inquiry terms! Thank you very much. It means a lot here at this house!
My late cousin had a top job with a major international conglomerate. His duties included traveling to various offices, deciding who needed to be fired, and then doing so. In the later years of his career he took up knitting, I think because it relaxed him, and he liked to do it on plane trips.
Knitting is an activity that it might be good to see a revival of. Maybe more salubrious than staring at a phone.
More on the Colorado balloon — I didn’t learn about it in time to go outside and wave hello to our New Overlords.
IMO, if you don’t know / can’t tell from inspection what it’s doing, who it’s from, and why it’s there — shoot it down.
If someone complains, too bad.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/02/23/us-military-tracking-high-altitude-balloon-over-colorado-n2635663
The sad part is how many knitting clubs got political in the last few years, mostly since Trump, and then Covid.
What in the world possesses people to inject ideology into every part of their lives, when there are things it has nothing to do with?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/06/905472/ravelry-ban-on-pro-trump-patterns-unraveled-the-online-knitting-world-censorship-free/
This was the only post I could find on Google’s first page of results that wasn’t a knee-jerk supporter of the Leftist censors and defensive “histories” of activism in past knitting societies (eg supporting the Revolutionary War in America) or tangents on how artistic fabric crafts are ackshually.
At least the authors were willing to quote one of the banned pro-Trump members noting that people who posted pro-Obama and anti-Trump patterns were not kicked out.
Given the size of the group, and its already numerous subgroups, why not just ask political-minded folks to keep to a separate section so as not to offend people who thought otherwise?
Rhetorical question, of course.
Everything inside the Left, nothing outside the Left.
Hi AesopFan,
I very much, totally agree.
I wonder how we, The USA, look to [the presidents, and other leaders] of other nations, who look at us:
when our Government CAN’T CONTROL our air space, and CAN’T keep our borders SECURE.
…I wonder if I can get an Air Force job, or another US-Military job…all the Biden White seems to do with these military people is:
have them hang around in the break room, or say, “Yes, that foreign balloon is invading our air space, and our Government’s orders won’t let us do anything about that.”
Please read that as, the “Biden White HOUSE”, in my previous comment.
…Time for me to put a spellchecker in my computer.
🙂
AesopFan writes.
I don’t know offhand how the hardware store owners of Portland or Seattle voted when the going was good and no one had yet caught the backflow in their faces.
But by 2019, the progressive reaction to Trump was already causing the soy drinking class to lose its mind and convert its own municipalities into hellscapes reflective of the complete implementation of their mindsets. https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-cost-of-bad-intentions
But the fact is that in the recent case of a particularly notorious D.A. named Mike Schmidt had 77 % support at the polls.
I wrote:
And, Willamette Week wrote,
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/02/01/they-left-portland-is-losing-some-of-its-biggest-fans/
They havent abandoned their political and social views though. Since there will always be someone else’s community to flee to, subvert and wreck, before the effect of your own activities catch up with you and you are forced to move on or die as a result of them.
Now, I don’t mind them living by their principles, but if anyone is to die from the implementation of those insane principles, it should be them.
Hi DNW,
You bet, I agree.
To me, the [group of Democrats + the liberals, who love the dumb politics of Barbara Streisand, and others], are like: [spoiled, selfish, pet cats]…who don’t care about anyone, and they don’t even care about the people who take care of them.
If the spoiled pet CATS 1) don’t get what they WANT, + get mad, or 2) if they wreck the places that they live in, and get mad-
then they can always run away, to another place or town, and find [someone else] to feed them, and to take care of them.
And then [those spoiled, bratty cats] might then turn around – and wreck the NEW place that they have found.
(Please don’t put up with bad cats, or with bad neighbors. That is my opinion.)