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  1. Going back to Elon Musk and the German far right AdF party; Elon made a virtual speech at a rally wherein he stated that: “Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents,” and “It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything...” Seems as if he's encouraging Germans to use the Christopher (anti-CRT/DEI) Rufo playbook wherein one focuses on white people, specifically children, being victims. Ah well, considering 1930s Germany paid close attention to U.S. history let's see how round 2 goes....
  2. Riiiiight Marco. You expect me to believe you? This is the administration that campaigned for four years while in office, including a presser at Four Seasons Landscaping courtesy of Rudy G., and now returning to office is the same administration that didn't like the fact that there were call logs kept between officials (including the President) and transcripts of those calls, and thus having likely learned their lesson this go round will either: not keep transcripts or falsify transcripts because oversight is now nonexistent. So Marco, I suspect everything you say is ass and the military was ordered to just drop 'em off OR you got played by the President of Columbia who called your bluff and now you look stupid...and are throwing a temper tantrum because you look stupid. Unfortunately that reflects upon all citizens of the US, more than half of whom will likely cheer the stupidity. Great. Wonderful. It makes me miss Angela Merkel and her expressions whenever she appeared at a function with DT.
  3. I went to the website and clicked on the little dots just to see what's up and the two in the US are thus: The one on the right: Heightened political antagonism in the United States following the reelection of Donald Trump leads to acts of domestic terrorism and political violence. Likelihood: Moderate. Impact: High The one on the left: A highly disruptive cyberattack on U.S. critical infrastructure by a state or nonstate enitity. Likelihood: Moderate. Impact: High The dot on the border between U.S. and Mexico: Deployment of US forces to the southern border triggers a humanitarian crisis among migrants and heightens tensions with Mexico. Likelihood: High. Impact: High
  4. This thread could really just be titled living under authoritarian and/or fascist regimes, as violence is a feature not a bug. Whether perpetrated by the regime itself or by citizens against the regime or each other, it's what happens when the powerful make (to quote Carlo Testa) "empty promises in response to real questions, real issues, and real problems — promises which are not kept, or are only kept to the extent that they serve the ruling classes’ own interests. The central concept is a perfunctory “symbolic” appeasement of the masses through things like direct propaganda, architecture, sports, the media, cinema, etc." These promises are made to specific groups but not others, in an attempt to "appease" them in a symbolic but meaningless way (of course that way tends to end up harming the out groups but 'fuck them others' is the fascist way) something of which most of the CR readers are already aware. The Leopards thread of reality meeting those promises is fairly benign, but the outcome should this RW bender continue, almost assuredly will get fairly gruesome. Directing violence against the ruling oligarchs is much trickier in our surveillance state nowadays. When one cannot reach the true source of one's rage, it seems the innocent further suffer as collateral damage. That's going to be beyond sad but welcome to our nightmare.
  5. Thank you for posting the article w/o the paywall. Not surprised regarding some of the author's discoveries. Even not being a member of the target demo for these podcasts, as a frequent youtube viewer/listener, I get caught up in the algorithm occasionally and the suggestions and ads associated with these accounts are rather obvious (to me) because, again, I'm not who they are trying to influence but the cuffs have been removed (not that anything was all that restrictive) and they've got a lot of eyes and ears soaking in the hate that's sprinkled in amongst the sports and other chatter so as to come across as reasonable people. Protect one's person and one's wallet when around someone who is straight up saying, "I'm a reasonable trustworthy person, see?"
  6. Sardines in a skillet with oil, lemon, garlic, and parsley is pretty darned delicious. Served on crackers, toasted bread/bagel and yeah, I dig it.
  7. Think about it for a minute though. The timberland some tribes own in Wisconsin, the mineral resources on the Pine Ridge reservation in SD and other tribal lands across the country, the casino properties, etc Just as many Japanese-Americans lost much of their assets during WWII when they were removed to camps far away from their homes, others stepped in and reaped the windfall of their labor. There are plenty of people who wouldn't bat an eyelash at this type of action. There is a good article in a recent Smithsonian magazine about a few cool Americans who did the right thing and tended farms etc for their neighbors while they were away and welcomed them back when they were able to return.
  8. These are sound ideas; if a certain Tier I SEC university isn't having too much buyer's remorse regarding the jv coach they hired after a very expensive buyout of the former coach, I would say wrap it in maroon and white and dub it The Elkmo and it will probably sell this fall for waay more than the initial purchase price. The key is the timing. Gotta act before the roller coaster hits peak velocity.
  9. Texas. Apparently (see above post by Diggler) don't mess with Texas means just leave everything everywhere.
  10. One of my 'hobbies' if you will is picking up trash as I finish my outdoor exercise. If I could catapult some of the drive through coffee shops into the sun I would do it. For what its worth, I don't think it is the boomers who are grabbing an iced coffee, drinking it, and then tossing the ice-filled cup out the window. The weight of the ice tends to force the lid off so instead of one piece of trash it's often cup plus the lid and straw. Even better is when the landscape services don't bother to stop and thus shred the plastic into pieces that are a PITA. I can fill a kitchen sized garbage bag every week (I usually pick up weekly or bi-weekly) simply walking several blocks. The little foil granola bar wrappers are another PITA. At least the shitty beer drinkers have turned to the equally shitty spiked teas and seltzers so I can spot the neon bright cans easily. The one item I don't see so much anymore? Cigarette butts. The vape cartridges have yet to match the numbers, maybe people are better about throwing those away.
  11. Anchovies. You can flavor a lot of pasta, etc with those little buggers. We even got our kids to like them early on. Sorry for the derail. Yeah, eggs are high but I was still able to get a whole chicken for a reasonable price. Bought two and froze one. You can stretch out a roast chicken (pot pie, soup, etc) for a couple of meals if you serve it with a lot of vegetable sides that first night.
  12. Definitely. I could've gone with a global list of rankings based on human rights abuses but many of the players listed above make the top 25 so it seemed pointless. The anti-abortion stance is central to the document and the rejoining may be a harbinger of the next four years w/respect to womens' reproductive healthcare in the US. Oral contraception, which many women take for reasons other than reproduction, is something I would not be surprised to see become forbidden.
  13. This was first initiated by former SoS Mike Pompeo during the first term of Trump and central to its function is preventing access to abortion, so women having children they cannot feed in impoverished countries, women dying in hospital parking lots, women becoming infertile due to late stage complications, is so much about "allowing" women more opportunities to suffer, which is exactly what Pompeo's rapture based faith seems to promote. Given that many women from these countries experience hell on earth, maybe death is welcome.
  14. Speaking of endangered species, here is a link on the proposal to place the monarch butterfly on the list. The deadline for comments will be here all too soon (March 12, 2025): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-12-12/pdf/2024-28855.pdf be aware--this is not a short read, so you may wish to skip to how to submit comments with the info below... Some more info The proposal to list the monarch butterfly, and designate critical habitat, will publish in the Federal Register on December 12, 2024. A 90-day comment period will open on December 12, 2024, and will close on March 12, 2025. Information about how to submit comments can be found on regulations.gov by searching for docket number FWS-R3-ES-2024-0137. This docket also includes information about how to attend two virtual public information meetings, and associated public hearings, about this listing proposal. We are woefully behind when it comes to protection of species (lol, including our own). By the time things move to this stage, so much damage has been done. Pollinator numbers are crashing everywhere and yet we seem to think some of our food crops will just bloom and grow without them--when over 80% of flowering species need pollinators for reproduction. Anecdotally, I've certainly witnessed the decline as I have butterfly weed all over the garden. Numbers of adult monarchs and caterpillars have been way down and what is worse is that due to a longer warm season, the ones that arrive to feast and lay eggs are coming quite late and then the offspring cannot emerge from the chrysalis in time to migrate. I used to cut the weed down in the fall to encourage migration, but now it's a matter of just keeping some alive in the hopes that a percentage make it to Mexico. The western monarch (overwinters in California) is at a 95% chance of extinction while the eastern monarch is at a 56-75% chance. Not great to know that the monarch, while an iconic butterfly to most people and readily identified, is likely one of many many species that will disappear in our lifetime.
  15. However this ends up, whether it turns into a bend-the-knee for federal aid or some grifting scheme, we should never forget President Trump's visit to San Juan, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
  16. Our therm is typically set from 65-67 in the colder months. We have warm clothes, blankets, socks(!), etc and the kids learned to use a microwave heatpack if they felt cool in the house. I love the winter months.
  17. Edited out the bits about the President as that has its own thread in CR, but speaking of Elon and healthcare...I never paid a whole lot of attention to the neuralink implants other than having some skepticism and also the interesting dilemma of asking for volunteers for the implants among the disabled community to be test subjects. However, now that Mr I Like Government Money and Control is in DC and has his finger in some pies in different sectors, I happened to run across some blurb about TeslaCare, a little handheld device that uses terahertz tech to "operate on the principles of energy healing, utilizing specific frequencies and heating elements to encourage the body’s innate ability to recover. " Yes, you read that correctly. Here is a pic of the device: Strangely, though, I cannot find anything that shows whether this is something manufactured by one of his companies or a quack device that is using the Tesla name to sell pseudo health care. Most of the web info is just fakey reviews and links to buy them (cheapest I saw was around $500.00) but I did locate a business startup registered in New York with a foundation date of 1/18/25. (Yes, I'm wasting my morning break time). Anywho, the domain is using a privacy filter or whatever it's called so I suspect that it's the latter--someone just using the name and trading off of it-- but the RFK Jr. nomination, if it were to succeed, would greatly benefit so many of these types of shit, whether it's Musk grabbing the $$ or some other low end grifter. I mean that game has been going on for centuries, but the wealthiest dude having access to things like the FDA (FDA approved!! You can trust us!), NIH research $$ and so on just grinds my gears.
  18. Sometimes I reach the point of no return and I want to leave planet earth but yet I save a prayer for a new religion; one that is kind to others, selfless, and bold in love. You might say I'm hungry for that. Hungry like the wolf.
  19. touché my friend, touché.
  20. Since series set in Korea has been under discussion, I did notice last night that season 2 of The Recruit begins at the end of the month (Jan 30). Noah Centineo is the lead; first season got mid reviews but the second (shorter--six episodes) season is has cast Teo Yoo (Past Lives, Leto, and a really funny romcom called Love To Hate You) as the connection Centineo has in Seoul when tasked with an operation in South Korea. Yoo is pretty good so I may watch. Sidenote: I really hate the trend toward truncated seasons now though. I get that some folks prefer it, but why should I care about a story when the characters are so undeveloped and underwhelming. It doesn't have to be a years long Days Of Our Lives soap opera, but Succession was four seasons of ~10 episodes each and rather enthralling. A one or two year commitment of about 16-20 episodes seems like a better long term strategy than a short and awful series but what do I know. I may end up watching that Lucifer series above because it looks interesting and it's got a long play.
  21. Yeah, it is crazy isn't it? He went from open hand on heart to stiff fingers with an alacrity that excludes the plausible deniability for which the typical crowd of supporters is known. Elon is someone who, on the one hand, thinks he's the smartest guy in the room (remember all the shitposting he did when it became evident that Twitter was going to be his and people just prior to that, during the takeover, and then on) and yet is filled with insecurities displays behaviors that IMO shows both his distorted belief system and his emotional needs. He's not a leader, he's not emotionally healthy, he's not someone you could trust with anyone or anything you care about. So he has money and is given a platform and we (Americans) have only ourselves to blame. Just because someone says they're on your side doesn't mean they're telling you the truth. He's a high tech grifter and silicon slicky with some powerful contacts and a spigot of our tax dollars. He's going to tighten that lasso on everyone's wallets and keep yanking until we're broke. Yee haw.
  22. His golf course in Scotland. Two decades ago there was to be a wind farm near where he owned land and wanted to place a course (Aberdeen). He went ahead and built the course several years later and attempted to delay the wind farm with, what else, a court battle and complaining. The windmills went up sometime around then while the lawsuit was going on. He lost the suit and its appeals and ramped up the rhetoric about windmills. It's personal because of course it is.
  23. Thank you for taking the time--I didn't know that thread existed and will now have a few more things to watch!
  24. From the article: Umm, is it just me, or did he just describe DEI and certain reactions to it but inverse? I mean, he's referring to his 'morality' which I'm not going to take a stab at guessing how he defines that but I have a pretty good idea that he comes out okey-dokey but others not so much. Then I like (sarcasm alert) this next quote by the senator: It's called a commandment because that is how (you) wish to wield it. It's not encouraging, it's enacting rules and laws that bind others to these while ignoring that many of the earliest documents were crafted by people who were fleeing just such type of "encouragement." The very first commandment, which I notice is lacking mention in the interview is that one shall have no other Gods before me. What principle in education is that serving exactly? What happens if a student takes the Lord's name in vain (#3) in the classroom? Who decides the spectrum upon which the penalty of "vain-ness" is enacted? Is a by gawd it's hot in here going to get a seventh grader sent to detention? Instead of working to assist with restricting access to weapons, mental health support, and other useful ways to spend tax dollars to actually improve education, yes let's command via the law that public schools place the ten commandments in the classroom. It can go right alongside thoughts and prayers the next time commandment #6 is violated.
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