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Good summary of Biden presidency


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2021 May 13, 1:13pm   40,966 views  587 comments

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https://spectator.us/topic/enjoying-biden-presidency-gas-inflation/

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than four months into the Biden-Harris deep-state maladministration and we have roaring inflation, the most disastrous jobs report in recent memory, rising unemployment, spiking gas prices, an imploding stock market, devastating cyber attacks on critical infrastructure and a janus-faced crisis on our Southern border in which tens of thousands of disease-ridden illegal migrants are huddled into cages while thousands more fan out across the fruited plain taking jobs from Americans even as they infect us with COVID. Quick work, Joe!

And of course that is just the tip of the proverbial North Atlantic iceberg into which His Senileness is steering the ship of state. When Donald Trump left office, the economy was rebounding, millions of doses of the COVID vaccines he had brought into being in record time were being distributed — and peace was breaking out all over the Middle East. The so-called Abraham Accords precipitated the impossible: comity among various Arab nations and Israel. All that is in tatters now as Hamas bombards Jerusalem nightly. Meanwhile sanctions on Iran, the world’s largest exporter of terrorism, are being dropped or pared back and the theocratic, anti-Semitic backwater is charging ahead with its plans to build a nuclear arsenal. China rudely lectures our secretary of state while pushing forward with the militarization of the South China Sea, oppression of the Uighurs and theft of our intellectual property.

More than a hundred retired flag officers — decorated admirals and generals — have issued a public letter questioning the Venerable One’s mental fitness and raising questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Too late, chaps! You had your chance. Even as the audit in Arizona raises red flags, the media-industrial complex, echoed by yapping chihuahuas like Liz ‘I-used-to-be-a-congresswoman’ Cheney, covers their collective ears and shouts that anyone questioning the election is guilty of perpetrating The Big Lie™, hoping thereby to get their opponents branded as ‘domestic extremists’ by an out-of-control FBI and CIA.

What is clear now, a hundred-odd days into to this steaming pile of ordure, is that the Marxist-inspired apparatchiks behind the Biden wheeze are working overtime not only to dismantle all the many achievements of the Trump administration but also to poison the wellsprings of our economy and our freedom.

It’s only mid-May 2021. In a matter of weeks, and with 60-odd executive orders behind him, Biden has largely unraveled all that Trump accomplished and more. This is the reality: Biden has set us on a collision course with tyranny and immiseration at home and armed conflict abroad.

He has denominated his political opponents ‘domestic terrorists’ and directed the FBI to harass and arrest them. He has done everything in his considerable power to surrender the country to the woke mob. Meanwhile, the rest of the world isn’t standing still. Look for a kinetic incident with Russia, China or Iran soon. It’s coming to a theater near you by the end of this summer — and I do not mean a movie theater. Enjoying the Biden-Harris administration so far? There’s a lot more where that came from. Expect the velocity of our declivity to increase — the gauge is set to move from ‘gradually’ to ‘suddenly’ now — and there will be plenty of shock and awe when it does.

Is this alarmist? Maybe, but that is appropriate when the situation is alarming.

Expect also to hear many people quoting the poet Delmore Schwartz: ‘Even paranoids have enemies.’

Meanwhile, as Americans line up for their suddenly expensive gasoline and realize that that house their were going to build is suddenly out of reach, they will also find their pay check has been whittled away by higher taxes as well as circumscribed buying power due to inflation. All the pundits told them that voting for Joe Biden was a vote to restore ‘normality’. Too late they learned that it was a way to put Vladimir Lenin in office. ‘The way to crush the bourgeoisie,’ Lenin observed a long time ago, ‘is to crush them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.’

But look on the bright side: at least Joe Biden doesn’t tweet mean things about Jim Acosta or Stacey Abrams.


Wow, that's even more negative than I would have put it, but I can't say it's wrong.

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397   mell   2021 Oct 16, 10:19pm  

Booger says


Priceless! Can't stop laughing
398   richwicks   2021 Oct 16, 10:24pm  

Patrick says
@richwicks If you just tell me the ffmpeg command to reduce the resolution of the one above, I can do it on my server.


@Patrick

ffmpeg -y -i INPUT -vf scale=540:-2 -c:v libx264 -c:a copy OUTPUT

File extensions are important, so you probably want to use mp4.

FFMpeg does EVERYTHING so I myself have to look up how to use it. Flags change depend on many things. The command above makes it 540 pixels high, and scales the width appropriately. The original video is 1080p high, 540 is exactly 1/2.
399   Patrick   2021 Oct 17, 12:53pm  

@richwicks Do you have a statically linked version of ffmpeg?

I can't easily install the Debian version for some reason:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate
400   richwicks   2021 Oct 17, 1:30pm  

Patrick says
@richwicks Do you have a statically linked version of ffmpeg?

I can't easily install the Debian version for some reason:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate


There's 179 libraries it links to, it's an everything video program.

I can give you the smaller video:

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~patrick/Passengers%20Taunt%20Biden%20And%20Vaccine%20Mandates%20On%20Airport%20Loudspeaker (had to remove mp4 again)

Thinking about changing your Linux maybe? I use kubuntu, but you might prefer Lubuntu. Lubuntu is lightweight, but the website is broken:

https://lubuntu.net/

Version is currently at 20.04 - I had to get an old version, and go through multiple upgrades on my VM, but I can tell you, ffmpeg is there.

If you really want, you can try to compile it. I've done that once.

I can make you a virtual machine in Virtual Box if you like.
401   richwicks   2021 Oct 17, 1:38pm  

Patrick says
E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate


@Patrick - you may be able to install it this way:

https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-linux

There's a static build there.
402   Patrick   2021 Oct 17, 1:53pm  

@richwicks

Got the statically linked executable, and it works!

I reduced the file size from 59M to 17M and it looks about the same to me:

Patrick says

403   richwicks   2021 Oct 17, 2:23pm  

Patrick says
I reduced the file size from 59M to 17M and it looks about the same to me:




Yeah, I often use ffmpeg to take an 8GB file and reduce it to 2GB - no noticeable reduction in quality.

FFMPEG is GREAT for modifying formats. MP4 is .h264 - there IS .h265 and you can encode a feature length film in 1 GB with that, which looks flawless, but storage is so cheap and 265 is not well supported.

Duckduckgo and Yandex are your friend when you run into the problem of "how do I do X with FFMPEG?" - I've taken films that were in Russian, coupled with the same film that was dubbed into English in HORRIBLE video quality, and made a great archive.

Ever seen Nightwatch/Daywatch? It's a Russian film that pretty much was aping Hollywood style. I still like them.

If you still have the public RSA key you gave you me, ages ago, you can log into my pi:

ssh -XC -p 2201 patrick@samoyed.dynu.net

Want to make a direct mount to it?

mkdir -p /tmp/mnt/samoyed ; sshfs -p 2201 -o reconnect,allow_other -o ServerAliveInterval=30 -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 patrick@samoyed.dynu.net :/ /tmp/mnt/samoyed

When you go to /tmp/mnt/samoyed - that's a network mount (through sshfs) to my pi.
404   HeadSet   2021 Oct 17, 5:40pm  

richwicks says
there IS .h265 and you can encode a feature length film in 1 GB with that, which looks flawless, but storage is so cheap and 265 is not well supported.

True, but that would allow one to email a 10 minute video without using a link to a server.
405   richwicks   2021 Oct 17, 7:37pm  

HeadSet says
richwicks says
there IS .h265 and you can encode a feature length film in 1 GB with that, which looks flawless, but storage is so cheap and 265 is not well supported.

True, but that would allow one to email a 10 minute video without using a link to a server.


You want that ability? I can do it.

I'm running a server on a $75 machine.
406   HeadSet   2021 Oct 17, 7:57pm  

richwicks says
You want that ability? I can do it.

What I mean is sending a video as an attachment to an email. Any attachment over 25 meg cannot be sent through any of the commercial email servers I know of. If you try to attach a file bigger than 25 meg, it puts a link in the email for the recipient to download. Your H.265 coding would keep 10 min videos under that limit. I just have to be sure the recipient can play an H.265 encoded video.
407   richwicks   2021 Oct 17, 9:28pm  

HeadSet says
What I mean is sending a video as an attachment to an email. Any attachment over 25 meg cannot be sent through any of the commercial email servers I know of.


Commercial servers should be done away with and I'm going to do just that.
408   Patrick   2021 Oct 17, 9:36pm  

I think everyone should run his own server at home.

The big problem is that most services either block all incoming connections, or they cripple the incoming bandwidth.

If I could get a service with 1mbps upload ability around me for less than $100/month, I'd run patrick.net from home. Of course moving would then be a problem, but I could handle it.
409   richwicks   2021 Oct 17, 10:20pm  

Patrick says
I think everyone should run his own server at home.

The big problem is that most services either block all incoming connections, or they cripple the incoming bandwidth.

If I could get a service with 1mbps upload ability around me for less than $100/month, I'd run patrick.net from home. Of course moving would then be a problem, but I could handle it.


Do you know how to open up port 80 and port 443 on your router to a computer?

I can AND WILL build you a virtual machine running linux. You setup the certificate with Let'sEncrypt and run whatever you like on it. You'll have to get a dynamic address on www.dynu.com.
Got a pi? I'll just send you an SD Card, or an image.

You don't need bandwidth for text. The standard upstream speed of nearly everybody's network is faster than your downstream was in 2010 and if you don't have 1000 people all accessing your system at the same time, you won't even notice, plus you can impose rate limiting.

I'm telling you, the next innovation is a complete decentralization.
410   HeadSet   2021 Oct 18, 6:28am  

richwicks says
If I could get a service with 1mbps upload ability around me for less than $100/month,

My mom had old copper wire telephone service at her house that eventually corroded away. Verizon did not want to replace copper, so the put in a "FIOS" system at a low monthly price. The system they put in has 1 gig up and down (I tested this). Unbelievable, I cannot get that kind of bandwidth installed at work. All Mom does is email, so she basically has a Ferrari to drive around the parking lot.
415   RWSGFY   2021 Oct 22, 8:43am  

zzyzzx says


LET'S GO, BRANDON!
417   HeadSet   2021 Oct 22, 11:13am  

FuckCCP89 says
zzyzzx says


LET'S GO, BRANDON!

Have you noticed a decrease in traffic because of these fuel prices?
418   Eric Holder   2021 Oct 22, 11:44am  

HeadSet says
FuckCCP89 says
zzyzzx says


LET'S GO, BRANDON!

Have you noticed a decrease in traffic because of these fuel prices?


No. But they are still mostly under $5 in my neck of the woods.
420   Bd6r   2021 Oct 23, 11:10am  

This real?????????

zzyzzx says
422   RWSGFY   2021 Oct 23, 12:27pm  

Bd6r says
This real?????????


It is real but it is not typical. Usually happens in some touristy place far from other towns, like couple of places on Hwy 1 or near Death Valley.

The gas is still below $5 in the most of CA.
427   Onvacation   2021 Nov 1, 6:08pm  

Who the fuck are the 22% that thinks this country is "Headed in the right direction"???
428   richwicks   2021 Nov 1, 6:11pm  

Onvacation says
Who the fuck are the 22% that thinks this country is "Headed in the right direction"???


Why do people believe polls anymore? When's the last time YOU participated in a poll? Do you know anybody that has? These are all just bullshit numbers.
430   zzyzzx   2021 Nov 3, 7:15am  

https://en-volve.com/2021/11/03/watch-kamala-harris-was-pissed-after-crowd-greets-her-with-fk-joe-biden-in-new-york/

Kamala Harris Was PISSED After Crowd Greets Her With “Fuck Joe Biden” in New York
431   WookieMan   2021 Nov 3, 7:46am  

HunterTits says
HunterTits says
Biden in his full glory in Glasgow - where he can't hide from the press and the press over there do not cover up embarrassments like this:

Actually watched some of it live. It's awful. I'm no great speaker, but could easily answer questions I'm expected to be coherent on. No one with a working brain could think this POTUS is good. And this isn't even the worst of his speak.
432   Eric Holder   2021 Nov 5, 1:45pm  


“OPEC and Russia are putting the recovery at risk because they won’t pump more oil.” -- POOPUS

433   RWSGFY   2021 Nov 12, 7:14am  

Couldn't get a full tank yesterday because of $100 cut-off:



Let's go, Brandon!
435   HeadSet   2021 Nov 12, 11:07am  

FuckCCP89 says
Couldn't get a full tank yesterday because of $100 cut-off:



Let's go, Brandon!

Wow, $4.70 per gallon. Interesting - if they can put a shutdown at $100, they could put a shutdown at $25. Flexibility in rationing or to push electric.
436   Eric Holder   2021 Nov 12, 11:11am  

HeadSet says
Interesting - if they can put a shutdown at $100, they could put a shutdown at $25. Flexibility in rationing or to push electric.


Nothing prevents you from swiping your card a second time. This is what RV owners have been doing for years.

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