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richwicks says

mell says

You keep saying that buy that's not really accurate these days (back in the Iraq war days I'd agree).

Yes, I know. I'm quite (very pleasantly!) shocked that the "turn the Middle East to glass!!!" crowd is now the peaceniks and the rational ones calling for sanity. I never thought in a MILLION YEARS that this would happen, but I'm very happy it happened. I'm just reminding everybody that the "right" can go fucking insane too.

mell says

You have Tucker today, I don't give a shit whether people like him or not, but objectively he comes pretty close to reporting the truth every single day.

He's controlled opposition, perhaps a limited hangout, which is fine. He won't really expose what is going on. I don't dislike him, but he doesn't have the balls we need...

Tucker did bring up the Ukraine overthrow more than once, incl. Nuland's role. Yes, Greenwald and Taibbi come from the left but they have been kicked out long ago and get zero air time on the leftoid lamestream media, except for smears. I think it's more like Fox are hedging their bets than controlled opposition, and they're gaining viewers that way. Doesn't make it a great channel, but 1000 x better than the leftoid garbage

mell says

Tucker did bring up the Ukraine overthrow more than once, incl. Nuland's role. Yes, Greenwald and Taibbi come from the left but they have been kicked out long ago and get zero air time on the leftoid lamestream media, except for smears.

And this is why you don't pay any attention to "mainstream" media - it's complete garbage. I'll admit that Tucker Carlson is a breath of fresh air, for the "mainstream" media, but you're still inhaling garbage fumes.

I haven't owned a television since 1993, well to be precise, I've not owned one since 1988. It's just toxic. I've SEEN it, but only on the Internet.

mell says

I think it's more like Fox are hedging their bets than controlled opposition, and they're gaining viewers that way. Doesn't make it a great channel, but 1000 x better than the leftoid garbage

For now it's the least deleterious garbage out there. For now. I'll agree with you, but "Faux News" - that is a correct assessment. They lied relentlessly about the Iraq War, and I will never forgive them.

Sean Hannity is Joseph Goebbels reincarnated. These people are not trying to inform you, they aren't giving you information, they are giving you propaganda. CURRENTLY, at the MOMENT, Carlson isn't fucking shit at this moment in time, but that will change. He was a Neocon asshole at one point, he'll do the same thing again. He's not a moral person, although he SEEMS to be right now, but he's not. He's just playing a part.

They draw you in by telling you the truth for a period of time, then they go off into propaganda land. That's what Rachel Maddow did, Keither Olberman did, the Young Turks did. They were all correct about the Iraq war, but they all prostituted themselves out as whores after. Nobody in "mainstream news" lasts long if they are truthful. I used to respect all those people, but I don't now. My values have remained unchanged, and they have no values, and they have no allegiance to the truth. They are human garbage. These are bad people.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/20/san-francisco-reconsiders-boycott-of-conservative-states-adds-10-20-to-costs/

The City of San Francisco is reportedly reconsidering its boycott on socially conservatives states, after the ban on travel and contracting failed to change those states’ policies and raised the city’s contracting costs 10-20%.

Go woke, go broke.

zzyzzx says

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/20/san-francisco-reconsiders-boycott-of-conservative-states-adds-10-20-to-costs/

The City of San Francisco is reportedly reconsidering its boycott on socially conservatives states, after the ban on travel and contracting failed to change those states’ policies and raised the city’s contracting costs 10-20%.

Yes, the blue states cost more because of the kickbacks they get on those contracts.

This thread has been viewed 64,000 times. Nobody was saying that Democrats lack critical thinking skills, until I started this thread. Now it's a common theme in Memes and reporting.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/norway-counts-cost-wealth-tax-180738281.html

Norway counts the cost of its new wealth tax as billionaires flee to Switzerland

“A difficult choice has been made. I’ve moved from Asker, Norway, to Lugano in Switzerland,” Norway’s biggest taxpayer, and the largest shareholder of investment firm Aker ASA, Kjell Inge Røkke wrote to the rest of the board in an open letter last September.

Mr Røkke, an industrial tycoon with an estimated net worth of Nkr 19.6bn (£1.5bn), is among 50 billionaires and millionaires to have left Norway over the past year as they were hit with higher rates of wealth tax.

A federal grand jury has charged three St. Louis residents with illegally pushing pro-Russian propaganda and misinformation about Ukraine and sowing discord across Missouri, Georgia and Florida through the African People’s Socialist Party.

The indictment alleges that African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela and members Penny Joanne Hess and Jesse Nevel acted as illegal agents of the Russian government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. They each face up to 10 years in prison for that charge. They also face up to five years in prison for conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents.

The indictment alleges Russian national Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov founded the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, a Moscow-based organization run by the Russian government, to promote pro-Russian propaganda and create influence campaigns among political groups across the country, including the African People’s Socialist Party. It also alleges Ionov tried to promote the Russian invasion of Ukraine with pro-Russian talking points. It says that Ionov would appear on video calls hosted by the party in which he likened support to Ukraine to supporting Nazis and that Yeshitela made statements supporting Russia.

Omali Yeshitela:

RWSGFY says

A federal grand jury has charged three St. Louis residents with illegally pushing pro-Russian propaganda and misinformation about Ukraine and sowing discord across Missouri, Georgia and Florida through the African People’s Socialist Party.

The indictment alleges that African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela and members Penny Joanne Hess and Jesse Nevel acted as illegal agents of the Russian government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. They each face up to 10 years in prison for that charge. They also face up to five years in prison for conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents.

The indictment alleges Russian national Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov founded the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, a Moscow-based organization run by the Russian government, to promote pro-Russian propaganda and create influence campaigns among political groups across the country, including the African P...

I believe this man was covered today by Glenn Greenwald. I have what people might call "partial facial blindness", so don't be accusing me of being a racist, because I've misidentified a man. Start at 42:00 minutes in:


original link

This man's crime, is that he's anti-establishment. He opposes both parties. I'm guilty of the same crime. I disagree with his solution, but I agree with him about the problem.

BTW: I had to look up possessives for that. I believe that's grammatically correct to say "man's" in which case it would be possessive of "men". "Mans" would be plural. Fucking french, germans, and saxons, romans, and who knows what else. We have a fucked up language. Fuck all you invaders, even though I'm very minority english and have to deal with this fucked up language.

If you think people you disagree with should be silenced, you're wrong. You can see the results of this sort of suppression now. The purpose of free speech isn't only to spread good ideas, but also to demolish bad ideas.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/red-cross-launches-weird-initiative-to-urge-gamers-to-stop-committing-war-crimes-in-games-set-in-conflict-zones/

Booger says

How long should we go before we just start killing these assholes?

I don't care what anybody says, but the people who implement it an enforce it, that's another problem entirely. He's got a bullshit job title for a bullshit job. Does he have power or does he just have rhetoric?

A good way to limit absolutely unnecessary carbon emissions is for a group to cross into northern Iraq from Turkey, pick up a few SA-18s from the open air arms bazaar, then use them to take out any private jet flying a climate czar around.

https://thelibertariancatholic.com/liberal-woman-goes-viral-on-tiktok-for-saying-its-hard-to-find-masculine-man-whos-not-conservative/

This sums up the left.
When offered something for nothing it means nothing for something.

Biden Voter Can't Understand Why His Business Keeps Getting Robbed

https://rumble.com/v40655h-biden-voter-cant-understand-why-his-business-keeps-getting-robbed.html

Booger says

Biden Voter Can't Understand Why His Business Keeps Getting Robbed

https://rumble.com/v40655h-biden-voter-cant-understand-why-his-business-keeps-getting-robbed.html

Love the comments, as usual.

PumpingRedheads says

Hmmmmm....seems they still haven't gotten the message:



Oh well, there is an infinite number of Darwin Awards available to give out.

UkraineIsFucked says

socal2 says

He refuses to even consider the massive cost Russia has paid.

Already addressed: https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=2021834

Not my problem you can't read or have to resort to outright lying about my position.

Let’s start with two simple axioms:

1. Certain sorts of the mentally ill seek power over others as they cannot control themselves. it’s a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by seeking to make their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable; it’s environment as surrogate for self.



2. The anxious and insecure seek out powerful patrons/ideologies to which to conform in order to feel “safe.” when you have little faith in your own identity or drives, the desire to be subsumed and validated by the will of others is a powerful opiate; again environment as surrogate for self.

The confluence of these two trends creates the alliance that is the DEI calamity: it’s an externalization of internal instability.

It also ensures its endless escalation until it eats itself an fiery singularity of absurdity because staying atop the hierarchy requires ever more intense and baroque protestations of marginalization and fealty.


https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/absurdity-theater-goes-from-tragedy

Yep, she's pregnant.

Booger says

These "avatars" don't have legs and lower bodies.

Guess which ones are the assailants.

zzyzzx says

I think liberalism (the current form of liberalism (maybe we should say progessivism?)) is a form of unresolved/repressed anger looking for a way to express itself without the consequences?

@Booger

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Booger says

So she liked it?