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There was a Bond for parks put to a vote – the things it was supposed to fund were the basic things the dept was getting a budget for — amazingly in Denver, the vote went NO
The large local park is surrounded by essentially a moat of ditches. After the vote, they removed all the wood from the bridges, denying everyone access to the park. The wood was in excellent condition before removal – they cited “maintenance” and the non-completion of the job as “shortage of funds”
So you budgeted a significant part of your remaining resources for bridge removal AFTER saying “oh no, we don’t have enough funds to do anything” and the no vote.
The obvious answer is to fire enough parks administrators to free up funding for the bridges.
And then keep firing administrators until we have few enough that they are too overworked with real tasks, no spare time to remove bridges, too stressed and busy to dream up new multimillion bonds to put us in further debt.
DOGE is the way.
The objections requiring detailed, metaphysically-considered decisions for each individual expenditure are exactly like the demand that each and every felon here illegally get a personal day in court. It’s solely for the purpose of keeping the scam going.
If you starve an organization for funds, you will discover that they don’t have the money to support a 20:1 ratio of administrators to people who actually do the thing you need. MAYBE they waste all the money you give them on tertiary things, but then they are naked, failed 100% to do the job instead of only 96% failed and they’re gone. They have barely enough money to scrape together the means to show something for it.
What need have I for a 0% successful thing? We need government for roads but we don’t need government for 0% roads and a bunch of road-administrators, unless we lay the administrators down on the ground to make a corduroy road.
The school declares an emergency. Needs a new massive bond. The roof is super old, needs replacement! Hurry, pay more taxes!
That’s called BUDGETING. You had a budget. You are a school, which before anything else is a building, the primary component of which is a roof. What did you spend the most basic component of your budget on rather than a roof?
The best application we could make of AI is continually find the managerial-class people who fuck everything up and, once identified, move them sideways into a do-nothing job, basically adult daycare, where they can do no harm.
It would be better to continue to pay them low 6 figures in important sounding positions, posting selfies with their frappuccinos, living their best lives and rendered totally harmless than what we have now.
Men vs Women left to cook COMPLETELY from scratch. (Survival Island – male team vs female team)
Women starving, dying of dehydration but kept going through the repeated intervention of men. (despite being ackshully intrinsically superior hunters…)
Meanwhile, Men: “Thanks for the vacation!!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzCO0G8AGLU
The show even DELIVERED “a bow drill set” directly to the women after they failed to re-light their fire for 48 hours. How difficult is a bow drill, the concept and the construction? You’re in the middle of a FOREST.
You have a team member who says she is a FORESTER. Can she not harvest a stick and some fibre? (She verbally established herself as the Forest Expert, demanded no one question her navigation, then led them in a circle for a day)
You self-selected to go on a survival show, nobody swooped in and kidnapped you randomly out of a downtown nail salon. It didn’t occur to you to practice making a fire BEFORE going? Was there some root unquestioned assumption that other people take care of things if you don’t? In EVERY team member?!??!?
They bragged, not only about being strong and independent, but of their superior communal system.
Male sleeping areas were separate – each built their own little space.
The women all slept close together in a single structure – holy #%& The Longhouse is real!!!!!
Before I go full misogynist, there could be other factors in play than sheer differences in sex. Perhaps the women tended to be in corporate, government, and NGO jobs that are part of the modernist managerial culture? …so that we’d see more of just an illustration of people being a product of their environment, which points back to the nature of most corp/gov/ngo environments?
Working in a corp environment myself, I can attest that it is paralyzing. A lot of people become accustomed to half-doing things because they make the assumption someone else will do the rest. Knowing how to shitcan the work is a highly advanced skill – I learned every trick in my decades in a corporate bureaucracy, I could always see when/how people were doing it. I used the sneaky methods, but for other goals. Mainly to get shit done under the radar.
There’s a culture in which, if the managerial class realizes you are sizing up situations, coming to conclusions, making judgments, and acting on your own judgments, then they appear to feel a sort of total all-encompassing existential horror. They are totally dependent on this HAPPENING and competently happening – it’s why you hire human beings for jobs instead of relying totally on a touch-tone phone tree to deliver customer service.
…yet year after year, anytime they saw individuals DOING things, they’d jump in to stop it. They’d require anything they could find HAPPENING to get supervisor approval. Then it occurred to them the supervisors were people apprehending, judging, deciding, acting.
…so they required that we go to the supervisors and then the supervisors would send a ticket to a department somewhere else in the world which we had NO way to communicate with other than sending the ticket. Checking memos on customer accounts, they eventually had to have supervisor approval within THEIR department to do anything.
I shit you not, this ACTUALLY happened.
And the other dept turned out to be in the Philippines – an outsourced call center. So you had executive escalation reps with 10-20 years of tenure with the company asking supervisors like children asking to go potty so the supervisors could send a ticket to Cebu in the Philippines for a foreign outsourced below minimum wage person to consult THEIR foreign outsourced below minimum wage supervisor what the fate of our American customer would be.
…to try to get the right outcome we already knew should have happened 4 levels below us in the escalation path 3-4 weeks ago. Back when it was a frontline care rep fielding the escalation to a lead… both of them in an outsourced call center in the Philippines. Precisely where the failure to resolve originated.
So maybe the type of jobs women self-select for… Even the Forester lady may have been more of a bureaucrat?
Anyway, scratching my head here, the only reason I can think to loudly bemoan women not living on hyperprocessed food anymore is that they wouldn’t be stuffed to the gills with endocrine disruptors and hormone mimickers, leaving just the birth control pills and SSRI’s to do all the heavy lifting by themselves.
china uses it to make “pressure-cookers, instapots, microwaves, ovens, stoves, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, bread machines, refrigeration. water from the faucet, flush toilets”.
working that problem…
like, I’m going to focus on MAKING AND EATING STUFF and getting on with my day while you are still complaining about how this might impinge on your perceived social value amongst your 5 office/margaritas chicks and social media or something.
When I make food from scratch, I’ll make 20-30 healthy breakfast burritos at once, or do 20-30 en papillot meals at once and throw them all in the chest freezer my wife couldn’t comprehend me buying.
There’ tons of males working the problem of food-from-scratch they are all over youtube. I guarantee males are shouldering the “burden” of scratch meals as much as women.
The difference is that men approach it as problem solving, tool-using. Part of defense/protection (from poison) and self-improvement. So we end up coming up with systems that make it efficient and lower the burden. We come up with tools to decrease the time sink.
This is also how you got pressure-cookers, instapots, microwaves, ovens, stoves, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, bread machines, refrigeration. water from the faucet, flush toilets — but by all means, complain as a first, second, and third step.
The burden of cooking real food — women most affected.
To say cooking from scratch hurts women in particular is to say they are Special Needs, like… retarded or something.
The Culture War does not appear to have abated yet. Fantastic Four next up.
In the meantime we have the recent release of Ironheart™ – what if Iron Man was a sociopath marxist criminal black lesbian genius idiot with the ugliest possible suit plagarized very badly from the female Centradi mecha suits in Macross? You don’t have to wonder anymore. What if yet ANOTHER try was taken at having idiot writers try to write genius characters? Find out by watching Disney’s latest $200m+ minimum, 8 episode show!
The show has a high concept – that the way to be a Great Inventor or Successful Businessperson is to FIRST be a multibillionaire and THEN do the rest.
She starts her journey as a full ride student at MIT who has had her courses designed around her needs and has received millions in grant money. This, of course, is inequity and you can see the oppression she is under right away, of course.
She’s kicked out for not producing anything workable with her grant money, not doing her homework or coursework, and helping other students cheat to get good grades an degrees, so they can go on to be the ones who design our airplanes and bridges.
She becomes part of a crimin– revolutionary team that goes after “rich assholes” who do things like dig tunnels under the city to clear traffic congestion and come up with new seeds to better feed the hungry. Don’t worry. When the next generation of scientists and engineers – “experts” – grows up, (the ones you helped cheat for grades) you’ll no longer have the inequities of STEM people doing useful things for money anymore.
It really is like Pravda – what people would LIKE to read, what skill it is done in, what format of presentation or style is desired, or any relation to reality is totally irrelevant. The presses will keep printing in the same volume, at the same speed, for decades due to a waterfall of money from somewhere.
“85 Billion though, man. You could pull shit that would last years for that…”
“….just to enjoy people going ‘what the fuck? why doesn’t it close??? ….but they’ve been open for 50 YEARS now…'”
“dealing with” consisting of
Hitler: 6 Million
Communism: 150 Million
150/6 = 23
Communsim = 23 Hitlers
kultsommer: “Yeah, but..”
studies have shown that socialism is responsible for circa 73% of all old man rants.
Once all those wealthy socialist boomers on the brink of death who are turning the Communism up to 11, trying to “make their mark” like a personal funeral pyre they put their possessions and grandkids on top of, then hopefully we can stop hearing neverending pro-socialist rants from them through a million paid astroturf throats.
I got a reply from Senator John Hickenlooper – to my email requesting an account of the dollar value of everything we have given Israel and what they have given us in return MINUS assistance from them aligned with their own interests, MINUS any Israeli assistance dealing with blowback from giving them assistance or aligning ourselves with their interests.
It was a statement about how horrified he is by the October Hamas attack, reassuring me how we will prevent another one. It describes Israel as our closest ally. But they are “adamant that Israel must obey international law including allowing aid into Gaza and protecting civilians from harm”
it was from a donotreply email address, so I couldn’t explain in reply that my email was about funding and accounting the cost-benefit blanace, with an aside that if we hadn’t given Israel money, maybe they wouldn’t have had the money to fund Hamas and then Israel wouldn’t have the current troubles with the Hamas that they funded.
Finally the light at the end of the tunnel, re who is the beneficiary of the socialism in the US.
…so socialists in the US, whose policies and programs and ideology fuck everything up, aren’t Trying Real Socialism
Man on the Street report on RealID
I had to go into the DMV to renew my drivers license because RealID required a new photo.
Lots of verification built into the RealID program – so I came ready after reading the requiremetns online – 2 proofs of residency, passport, social security card or W2 to prove your ssn, birth certificate…
When I got there, I heard more spanish than english at the DMV
They checked absolutely NOTHING. Just passed me through after showing my current license.
ICE, ICE Baby: Denver City Council Ends Car Theft Tracking System To Protect Illegal Immigrants
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ice-ice-baby-denver-city-council-ends-car-theft-tracking-system-protect-illegalAfter the hotel full of migrants 100 yards away, the wife is on board to move somewhere not in the jurisdiction of Denver.
That system resulted in the recovery of 170 stolen cars and 300 arrests. It is also credited with key evidence in the investigation of hit-and-run and murder cases.
However, it could also be used to assist ICE
Unanimous city council vote removing it.
We’re living in an era where just this last week, actually, an executive order came out instructing the Department of Justice and the FBI to look for reasons to prosecute local elected officials and activists who they believe are, quote, unquote, obstructing ICE enforcement.
Reasons like, you actually obstructing ICE enforcement? Reasons like that, mayor?
Did your pledge to raise an army of tens of thousands to obstruct ICE – a number cited which, curiously, matched the number of illegal migrants you previously cited proudly as having welcomed – maybe, do you think, might that have raised suspicions that people in your government were obstructing ICE enforcement?
But noticing is the absolute worst thing a Big Meanie can do?
Thank goodness we have the Socialists, who care the MOST about running everything through the government.
This is why Leftists rose up in one body applauding DOGE, demanding they go even farther, that the program be expanded, brought to every level of government, be made a permanent rather than temporary program.
Because of how sincere they are.
…but surely, other states will see a DECLINE in leftists, as they rush to New York? Surely? Obviously?
Does not compute. You know it doesn’t.
Socialists always seek access to non-socialists. Never to other socialists.
I was super pissed at the whole Iran debacle AS PRESENTED, certainly THAT was total bullshit and betrayal of MAGA.
But with the ineffectual activity on both sides – between US and Iran, it comes off as epic trolling by Trump. AGAIN. Like Syria.
Incidentally, also like the H1B Christmas Twitter War, in which the MAGA admin said how wonderful unlimited H1B visas were and then got utterly destroyed on about 1000 conceivable bases. The MAGA base absolutely devastated the MAGA “leadership.” Massive use of H1B denigrated and being made the subject of focused attention was the ultimate result.
Idunno how much of Trump Epic Trolling is purposeful or a double-triple-quadruple fake or not. Results SEEM to occur and they SEEM to be more or less ok even if the optics look seriously fucked up.
Like, Trump said “Fine Israel, if you REEEEEALY think you can do it go ahead and do it show me”
And then the rest was theatre, letting them FAFO, pre-discussed through backchannels with Iran????
OR total flailing around that results in an acceptable-ish landing in the sense of didn’t escalate to WW3? The non-immediate term effects are yet to be fully observed and discussed.
Idunno, I KINDA get the feeling he was doing a thing, kinda don’t. Gaza does not appear to be better off nor its situation part of a ceasefire agreement, which was what I had thought we might have been working towards. I’ve gone from pissed to laughing to scratching my head over all this. WTF happened?
I does not take many words to say the citizens of the United States, our whole lives, have gone along to get along and here we are.
Everyone knows now that collective guilt is fake, gay, cringe, and retarded. Not effective like it was a decade ago.
It’s been dawning on even the majority of doom-o-sphere denizens that the American people are getting poisoned relentlessly as if they were vermin to be eradicated. Can I even count the ways? Fake food, fake medicine (which itself breaks down into like 20 different major poisonings), poisoned water, massive fentanyl importation, poisonous cookware, poisonous outgassing consumer goods and housing materials, promotion of horribly toxic non recyclable windmills, solar panels, and batteries.
It should be dawning on you the people of the United States are not aggressors, they’re victims and survivors. They’ve been surviving their OWN bombardment for decades.
And there’s the continual mental carpet-bombing of Americans. Again, can we even count the ways? Via “education,” entertainment, “news,” social media, “experts,” astroturf, and institutions (which breaks out into its own awful list) …and of course some of the poisoning plays into the mental carpet bombing – birth control pills, SSRI’s, fluoride. And then, if you don’t happen to leave any of these avenues open for carpet-bombing you, you’ll still be walking out into society and be surrounded by people who were.
take the case of
Popular Fox Rescuer Commits Suicide After Degenerate Redditors Launch Character Assassination Campaign
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/popular-fox-rescuer-commits-suicide-after-degenerate-redditors-launch-characterThis youtube channel was adorable. RECOGNIZABLY the same type of people, organizing the same kind of way, using the same tactics, drove this nice woman to death. And we know these activities were being funded in the billions.
And yet a lot of people are STILL totally naive. “oh, that would be CRAZY for them to bother with me” yes it would and did you notice they ARE crazy? Not their foot soldiers but the people behind them?
Or “oh,I’m too small for them” no, actually you are not. Because if you are on the C team, THEY have their cadre of C-Team people for whom little old you are NOT too petty for, have nothing better to do, and are cheap. If they think there is ANY utility to this activity, it’s worth it just to keep your troops’ training sharp between more important events or to train up new people.
Women seem to be more disposed to re-orient around society and consensus, such that if you blow away some cherished illusion or truth-bomb them, they will, with you, during that conversation, say like any sane person “Woah, that kinda blew my mind, I get it. This changes my outlook and is concerning” …..therefore I must do some soul searching. ….by checking with consensus and what society is doing. This is not insane nor contemptible. It would have, for millions of years, been a great human strategy.
But you can see what it does. That corrective loop was used to kill this poor wonderful woman.
We know it is not accidental or random, not just weirdos who randomly do stuff. We know about the billions in funding now, we can recognize the ideology and the tactics that go along with it – they were trying to – are in the middle of – “occupying the space” – meatsuiting the particular niche this woman occupied. They have a meatsuit “fox rescue” ready to slot into that place. So clearly, nothing is happening.
But Americans have been carpetbombed like this for DECADES and even after realizing the USAID and other massive funding revelations, STILL not getting how that translates down to man-on-the-street level.
Accusing Americans of collective guilt is – becoming more obvious by the day – just another arrow in the quiver of carpet bombing them.
And some boomers who think you have to act like THEM from the late 60’s early 70’s or you are doing nothing buy into it, go along with it, quite easily.
Under this continual rain, if someone makes a home, loves someone, raises a family, carries on culture or traditions, that’s resistance too even if they never groveled in the street performatively imitating leftist college kids from over half a century ago to satisfy bomers in their twilight years.
They’re all endlessly arguing about measurements in Metric over at Moon of Alabama today (In the Iran section), which tells me two things:
1. Metric system? What a bunch of gay communists
2. After a hiccup, ceasefire must be holding between Iran and Israel.
lol looking back I fucked up one of the calculations, but there would STILL be a ridiculous $ amount per Gazan goldfish if they had simply paid them all to leave.
The internet tells me we’ve given roughly 200 billion in aid to Israel since the 50’s. I doubt this severely. But let’s say inflation-adjusted it ends up being 300 Billion? Because we are gullible fucking idiots?
Hey AI, what was the population of Gaza in 1980?
The population of the Gaza Strip in 1980 was estimated to be between 818,300 and 832,400 people
Hey AI, what’s $300,000,000,000/800,000?
$375,000
Hey AI, whats’ the exchange rate Dollars vs the Egyptian Pound?
0.020 US Dollar
And how does the purchasing power match up?
1.0 US Dollar = 50.05 Egyptian Pound
And what is $300,000,000,000 / 0.020?
15,000,000,000,000
And what is $15,000,000,000,000 x £E 50?
750,000,000,000,000
What is $750,000,000,000,000 in dollar-equivalent purchasing power / 800,000 Gazans, then?
$937,500,000 per Gazan – every man, woman, child, and infant
If we assume an average of 1 family pet per Gazan and divide the dollar-equivalent purchasing power by Gazans AND their pets, how much can each of their pets each get?
$750,000,000,000,000 / 1,600,000 Gazans and Pets =
Each and every Gazan dog, cat, gerbil, and goldfish gets $468,750,000 in dollar-equivalent purchasing power in Egypt
AI, could EVERY SINGLE Gazan been easily bribed to willingly move out of Gaza at these levels? Could 1/100th of the aid US have accomplished the task? Hell, go crazy and make it 1/50th? Is it possible INDIVIDUAL bombs and missiles used to try to drive Gazans out cost as much as would have bought them a nice house in Egypt?
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Why didn’t Israel BRIBE the Gazans out? They’d have been done with the project decades ago. So why? Because the Gazans would have HAD THAT MONEY don’t you see, and that’s wrong, sir. Wrong.
American hive-mind is aflame with histrionic…
Right, right, in terms of the styling of ending the gravy train, I COULD go hysterical, unconscious, and brainless, yeah. That would get the job done.
But how about if I reach over to that gravy spigot and, while maintaining so much wisdom, massive genius, superhuman consciousness, and total calm, and with a level of total sanity that, if you could barely conceive of it, my level of total stability, reasonableness, and genius would permanently blow your mind, leaving you drooling, unable to function unassisted in normal, life forevermore, just totally blown away by my super awesome reasonable intelligent conscious genius….
and WHILE doing so, maintaining eye contact with you, I reach over to the spigot labeled “Israel Gravy Train” and. while you object “Stop! Don’t touch that! Don’t you dare do that!” I turn off the spigot? Aaaaaalllllll the way off?
Like, you object to the STYLE in which I turn it off? Is that your beef?
I’m an American, so I am pragmatic. I don’t MIND terribly if I flap my arms, spin in a circle, and ululate and then turn it off.
Kunstler…
For all that, often the simplest explanation is the correct one. Of the MOP attack on Iran, Secretary of State Rubio said, “They had all the pieces in place to have a nuclear weapon. . . now, not so much.” Mr. Rubio’s Sunday chat with Maria Bartiromo is well worth a listen for clarity. He also succinctly stated, “They [Iran] are the sole source of instability in the entire Middle East, and the world has been paying a price for this for forty-something years.”
Yet, the American hive-mind is aflame with histrionic hypotheticals over Iran…
Curious that in this SPECIFIC instance, which is any decrease of friendliness to Israel must be perpetrated by non-human animals.
Kunstler has access to, is acquainted with, all the various “conspiracy theories” and non-MSM news sources, analysis. How telling is it that he nevertheless is totally, completely locked into a particular mindset regarding Israel, despite its total dissonance with everything else? HOW this ONE thing?
And it is telling that, being in that mindset, he’s experiencing some fairly heavy-handed paranoia that Americans might be “histrionic” in the sense of “unreaseonable” (dawning realization, ever-increasing reasonableness…) towards Israel.
What does the “concern” over American “historionics” boil down to? The concern over daring to THINK LESS OF Israel? Conflated with anti-semitism?
An end to the gravy train. The end of a neverending gigantic waterfall of free shit.
If I say I swear to love Israel and Jews everywhere with all my heart and all my soul and all my strength for the rest of my days while withholding all military, economic, intelligence, espionage, logistical, and monetary aid of any kind, if we I make dual US/Israeli passports illegal and make all government officials with dual passports recuse themselves, step down from their offices, while continuing to love Israel and Jews everywhere with all my heart and all my soul and all my strength, will you be satisfied by my “reasonableness”? Or will you cry out in pain?
It’s the free shit. It’s ONLY all that free shit.
Behind all that bobbing and weaving in Kunstler’s article,every twist and turn of “logic” and complaint — the gravy train might end.
If I go back 10, 20 years, could I find Kunstler hand-wringnig about Iran just about to have a bomb? I feel sure I COULD if he has not scrubbed his history.
Okay then, you dumb shit:
1. When Israel tells us Iran is about to have a bomb, this is definitely THE TRUTH
2. Israel has been telling us Iran was about to have the bomb 30 years ago
3. That’s THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!! Unquestionable, you bigot!
4. Ergo, Iran got the bomb 30 years ago
5. Checking, Israel is not currently under a mushroom cloud
6. Checking, Israel has never been under a mushroom cloudHey Kunstler, stop worrying about the bomb we unquestionably know – we don’t doubt our greatest ally, never!!!! – Iran got 30 years ago and START worrying about how to stop the Israeli govt from all these endless provocations in which they try to get themselves nuked by doing violent things about the Bomb they already let us know Iran must have gotten 30 years ago.
If 30 years of Iran not nuking you while having the bomb isn’t satisfactory to you and you just HAVE to keep “preventing,” don’t you think you are putting a LOT of energy into changing the state of affairs from not-nuking to nuking?
Israelis of 30, 25, 20, 18, 15, 12, 10, 9, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1, years and also 5 months ago were all ignorant stupid animal food trough water fools, nothing but cheesy leather, second-hand, electric donkey bottom biters, experts at NOTHING! Idiots!!!!!
OOOOOOOONLY listen to Israelis of THIS EXACT SECOND!!! They’re the only big-brain geniuses and all past Israelis were morons, even past versions of the same exact big brain geniuses! Listen ONLY to THIS second Israelis, you horrible, horrible bigot!!!!!!
After the initial alarm from the latest missiles…. wait how does this work exactly?
US bombs already emptied or non vulnerable Iranian targets, Iran hits emptied US targets after giving advance notice?
Other stuff from Moon of Alabama Comments (I do not vouch for accuracy or truthfulness)
Alarms at the US Al-Harir Air Force Base in Iraq.
Alarms sound at Ali Al Salem base in Kuwait
Alarms also in Bahrain
Operation Basharat al-Fatah against US bases in the Middle East has begun.
UAE closes its airspace – American press.
Bahrain calls on all its citizens and residents to immediately reduce movement in the area
Early Reports of 3 direct hits on Al Udeid air base in Qatar.
Iran’s IRGC have shut down the Strait of Hormuz
Reports that three missiles fell directly on the US Al Udeid base in Qatar.
Given all the PAC-3 interceptors fired that would be a poor performance. Remember only 650 missiles are made for the entire world per year.SIRENS ARE STILL SOUNDING AT ALL US BASES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST, INCLUDING SYRIA, IRAQ, JORDAN, SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, QATAR, THE UAE AND OMAN.
Burning US Patriot AD missile wreckage can be seen along Qatari highway. It seems Iran is getting a lot of missiles through.
U.S. Aircraft Took Off from Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
According to AXIOS, 10 ballistic missiles were launched at U.S. assets in the region.
The Iranian National Security Council stated that the missile strike on the American Al-Udeid base in Qatar does not pose a threat to the brotherly nation of Qatar.
More videos from Iranian missiles in the sky in Qatar
American troops run to shelters in US bases in Iraqholy #@%#& oil is DOWN 4%. I guess if you feel like taking candy from babies (and morons), now is the time??? (edit: and it just passed 5% down..)
Anyone watch Trump’s speech about the Iran strike?
I was carefully watching the 3 guys behind him.
To me, Rubio looked a little bit panicked and bewildered – in my head, his thoughts were “Hey, I was just supposed to take some bribes, get some kickbacks, vote a few things, not start WW3 or collapse the world economy, wtf is happening?!?” (RubioTelepathy™)
To me, Hegseth seemed like he was working hard to and successfully maintaining neutral-affect. Although maybe that says something.
Vance was just continually frowning. Is that his sober, serious wartime face? His “This is not what I would have done” face? His stand-in for neutral?
Stuff from Moon of Alabama comments that might be wrong, but looks like news
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf officially announced that Iran is suspending all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
NATO Chief says US strikes on Iran were not in violation of international law.
Israeli Power Generation – 60% offline ?
‘Everything depends on what Iran needs’ — Kremlin spox Peskov on Russia’s readiness to assist Iran
‘We have offered our mediation efforts. We have stated our position. This is one form of support for Iran. But going forward, everything will depend on Iran’s needs’UK Foreign Office issues travel warning for Kuwait, Qatar and UAE
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “We are confident that Iran’s nuclear sites were completely and totally obliterated.”
US embassy in Qatar tells American citizens that they should shelter in place until further notice.
WSJ: The U.S. has asked Arab nations to convey a message to Iran that Israel wants the war to end soon.
Just checked Ship Traffic Live AIS feed and it does indeed indicate that Ashdod Port is going dormant. The strikes Sunday-Monday night seem to have been successful. To be confirmed.
Eilat
Haifa
Ashdod
Thats all 3 commericial ports.Russia & US are in talks on Iran — Putin aide Ushakov
DPRK strongly condemns US strikes on Iran
Trump Doesn’t Rule Out Regime Change in Iran
The IDF announced it has attacked six air bases in Iran and destroyed 15 fighter jets and helicopters of the Iranian Air Force:
As part of efforts to strengthen its air superiority in Iran, the IDF attacked six Iranian airfields in western, eastern and central Iran.
The strikes damaged runways, underground bunkers, a tanker aircraft, and F-14, F-5 and AH-1 aircraftIran publishes detailed 3D visualization of #Israel’s Dimona nuclear site in the Negev desert.
Some unconfirmed reports claim that Israeli jets flew into Iran from the Caspian Sea at low altitude. Azerbaijan?
Some of the Israeli targets in Tehran / Karaj:
– Iranian State TV buildings
– Evin Prison and another prison in Karaj
– Energy Ministry building
– Shaheed Beheshti University
– Police / Basij district offices
and then the roads to fordow to allegedly prevent workers and people form assessing the damage.Following Trump’s announcement last night regarding the U.S. government’s intention to change the “regime” in Iran, this issue has been placed on the agenda of the Israeli Air Force, and as of this morning, bombings in Tehran and Karaj have resumed.
The targets chosen by the Zionist regime are all related to internal security and include police stations, cyber police, Basij forces, urban patrols, the entrance to Tehran’s Evin prison (which houses Mossad spies), and other urban service centers.Latest BDA assessments on Fordow suggest that the three topmost holes might not be impact craters at all, but the visible remains of the ventilation ducts, whose massive concrete covers have been obliterated by channelling a large underground blast that occurred inside the the 2009 section of the installation.
Best, most concise summary of Iran situation in my best-guess summary:
The massive, obliterating strike appears to be a repeat of the ol “obliterating” Syria strike, remember that one? May have been mostly ineffectual. Maybe that was the intention.
New launches with relatively heavy missiles at Israel – Iran says they destroyed Israel’s main biological warfare facility — no ceasefire between Israel-Iran has been achieved with the bombing.
Iranian parliment has okayed blocking Hormuz. Now up to the security council and supreme leader.
no time to go more in depth, errands to run
kultsommer, want to re-explain to me how, WHILE they grind my nose in Critical Theory and False Consciousness FOR. FUCKING. SURVIVAL… WHILE knowing about the BILLIONS going to fund exactly that, “nothing is happening” and I have no standing to come to any conclusions?
No retractions, no apologies? Sorry yet for pissing on me and telling me it is raining?
Man-On-The-Street update – has Trump Put The Woke Away? No
My latest indoctrination so that I do not end up jobless, homeless, dying of exposure and (hopefully!) a fentanyl overdose in a gutter was this past week.
I was educated that not only are there micro-aggressions, but micro-INEQUITIES and this is super, super important.!!!!
You would think that micro aggressions and micro inequities would warrant micro punishments. I raise an eyebrow in skepticism at a protest-too-much appeal to victimhood when a fellow coworker is being rude or failing to do something they should do and am micro punished with a tiny quirk of the mouth in a disdainful manner? Oh no, not a micro punishment at all. Vague allusions to investigation, examination, reeducation, god knows what else. Go die in a gutter somewhere.
I was informed/educated – by my fucking INSURANCE corporation employer – that IF I realize I have micro-inequitized, I must “do the work” and re-educate myself…. fucking on MY OWN TIME, UNPAID. Research stuff, find the right websites. Find videos that re-educate me and watch them and so on.
Sir, no sir. Even a prostitute has principles. Ask Ayn Rand. The greatest outrage is to do it UNPAID.
You want me to sit there browbeaten for multiple 4 hour stretches by Ibrahim X Kendri like T-Mobile did, as part of my scheduled shift, hey man, I do whatever Workforce schedules me to do. If they schedule me to sit in an unlit windowless room for 4 hours unbending and rebending paperclips, jobs a job, man. Fuck you pay me.
Diversity Training was an hour and a half of totally paranoid mysticism, superstition. Like some medieval peasant wandering around handling all of reality in terms of ghosts, demons, faeries, curses, spells, witches, etc for over 1000 years with no decent engineering or science anywhere in sight. A totally parallel and MORE IMPORTANT layer of mystical unseen reality overlapping and redefining all things.
There were tests after each segment. If you answered wrong, you would be sent to an extra sub-loop of “training” for re-education. If you failed again, you ended up in an even LONGER sub-loop for re-education. The process is the punishment.
I was trained that if I see an interaction between 2 employees I THINK was prejudiced in any way, even if I thought it was a MICRO aggression or MICRO inequity, then I MUST get involved and confront the oppressor and interact with the victim. Must! Must encourage the victim to report the oppressor and report them myself.
(what if it was only ME who perceived it? But I manage to convince the “victim” they are a victim and to report it to HR? What? Having ENCOURAGED me to perceive microstuff happening everywhere? This is how you want to run your COMPANY??!?!?!?? You want to throw yourself totally on the mercy of people deciding to ignore you, then, for your survival? Or you’re all in for anarchy. You’re saying things we all implicitly agree are stupid, wrong, and will/should ignore????)
I was sent to re-education repeatedly when there was a scenario in which someone did not properly use a pronoun. There was a list of answers, what to say to the pronoun-person. Obsequiously apologizing and swearing to always obey their command was one answer, which I knew to select. But I also selected “Sorry you were offended. It wasn’t my intention to offend you.” This was the totally, completely wrong answer that sent me repeatedly back to re-education subroutines. To find this was “evil” to be a fucking HUMAN BEING and express regret and to communicate you meant no harm outraged me. Of course, they had made plain the you that YOU are aware of, have known all your life, is nothing. The real you is the “subconscious” that THEY know and you NEVER do. Therefore expressing your actual intentions would be totally false, since your consciousness, your conscious self, is false, I get it. I kept answering with the apology and expression of intention until I failed the question for good. I decided if this makes me fail the training so be it, but I answered enough “correct” overall to pass.
This is REQUIRED training to keep the job mind you
Generally I had to actively validate others’ “reality” and invalidate my own. They are both realities. Please explain why it is not EQUALLY good to validate mine and invalidate theirs? One reality is still invalidated. One is still validated. A net no-loss to the universe, surely? Or is there some middle ground where mine is NOT invalidated and everyone minds their own business?
And of course the whole travesty using the mouth-sounds and lettering of totally misusing the psychology term “subconscious” to tell me that I am just a stupid non-conscious animal with no access to reality but Experts DO have access to their reality and mine.
Not only was I encouraged to perceive MICRO events as major incidents, not only was I told I must snitch 100% of the time I think I saw a micro, but I was told I must actively insert myself into the altercation as a 3rd party both confronting the “oppressor” and massaging, psychologically stroking the “victim,” convincing that they are a victim and should snitch.
Thank #%&#$*(ing god I am work from home and not in an office.
map of the Mongol Empire
…but it did take Alexander the Great, Heraclius, and The Mongols.
Kind of like a one-off The Second Foundation cannot calculate for. Still a testament to their toughness.
