patrick.net

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/truckin-wednesday-january-24-2024

💉 A story in four headlines. How it ended!




How it started (February 2022):




How it’s even more ironic than it looks:




As you consider that headline, you might also want to know the LA Times is owned by a person who is a minority, Patrick Soon-Shiong, an American of Asian descent, who also happens to be a billionaire.

Still, Soon-Shiong probably still the victim of systemic racism, as the headline suggests. He should be even more of a billionaire, or something.

Anyway, the irony runs even deeper than those three headlines suggest. Soon-Shiong made his billions in vaccines, and now the stock in his company ImmunityBio (IBRX) is tanking, which probably explains why the liberal billionaire hesitates to dump more millions into the vanity-project-slash-dumpster fire called the ‘LA Times.’ Headline from yesterday’s Investor Business Daily:




IBD pointed out that back on March 10th, 2021, Soon-Shiong’s personal stake in ImmunityBio was valued at a whopping $11.3 billion. But that healthy valuation has dwindled down to a meagre $1 billion. In other words, he’s about to fall out of the billionaire club. Which might be why Soon-Shiong’s tightening his money belt.

You know, sometimes I wonder whether all our country’s problems are nothing that a little recession can’t fix.

https://notthebee.com/article/megan-basham-dug-into-the-funding-of-the-new-david-french-and-russell-moore-bible-study-about-christianity-and-politics-and-found-some-very-interesting-financial-backers

Rockefeller’s interest in bankrolling Bible studies is a red flag. In the same grant round as The After Party is a group seeking to promote the “leadership of rural LGBTQ+ people.” Another is committed to “keeping the remaining fossil fuel resources in the ground” in the name of “climate justice.” In 2019, The After Party’s benefactor gave $100 million to the Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equity, an initiative that funds efforts to safeguard abortion and ensure “youth” have access to “gender-affirming care.” A full accounting of all Rockefeller grantees committed to furthering hard-left causes would require a book long enough to rival Alberta’s.

Rockefeller’s isn’t the only progressive purse with strings attached to The After Party. The project’s website lists One America Movement, an ecumenical group, as one of its partners. The group’s board includes the leader of an LGBTQ-affirming synagogue, as well as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York who excuses rioting as self-defense and has called Jesus a “black radical revolutionary.” One America has received over $2 million from some of the most powerful foundations on the left—such as the Tides Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Walton family’s Catena Foundation, and the John Pritzker Family Fund—all of which fund enterprises promoting abortion, LGBTQ issues, and other left-wing priorities. The Hewlett Foundation, which also directly funds The After Party, is the second largest private donor to Planned Parenthood.

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/01/follow-the-money-to-the-after-party

HeadSet says

"I do not see how she could be an F-16 pilot since she just graduated the Air Force Academy in 2023. Pilot training takes a year, so she has not had time to earn her wings, let alone the follow-on months of training to qualify in a fighter. I did notice she rode in the back seat with the actual pilot up front."

You are correct HeadSet. I just came across a YouTube video that seems to be the original video and Madison Marsh is indeed sitting in the back seat. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8oz3akKZQ

Pakistan Deports Half A Million Illegal Immigrants In Just 3 Months...

Round Them Up And Ship Them Out




https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1751031627399016934

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/shocker-lindsey-graham-is-calling-war-iran-as/

Enough Of These Frauds And Liars




https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1753078612243423563

January 6 Was A Publicity Stunt



https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1752745118430359621

GNL says

NuttBoxer says

So that guy in Argentina was legit. Cut a shit-ton out of the government so far, causing communist protests. Also, pulled Argentina out of BRICS..

Why pull out of BRICS?

They wouldn't add an A to BRICS.

https://twitter.com/dbenner83/status/1753549498524037370

https://twitter.com/RonaldRichards/status/1753518800002048442

https://twitter.com/AlternatNews/status/1753402636898865302

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/is-there-nothing-to-be-done-are-there

What unites all of these things, is an elite political orientation that has almost totally abandoned the national context. Western nations today are controlled by a political class that claims to govern on behalf of the whole world rather than for their own people. Our rulers believe it is their responsibility to defend the rights and the prosperity of foreigners even to the extent of resettling them en masse in the West, to redress supposed imbalances in atmospheric gases across the globe, and to enforce their liberal beliefs everywhere. Because they have arrogated to themselves a scope of responsibility (the world) that massively exceeds their scope of accountability (their citizenries), they are forced to adopt a harsh programme of domestic political enforcement as they strive to free themselves from the constraints of their own nation states.

(paywall)

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1753185001296789768

Pilger is a fucking Red bastard, but he's right on this.

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1753827565293436943

Hold on there chief. If you suppress free speech and lock up all your political opponents, or just kill them, the state sponsored media will of course give you a high popularity rating. Putin is ex-KGB, Russia never transitioned power, because no country in the history of the world has ever had leadership just leave without a fight. Just because they changed the titles around, doesn't mean anything's different.

Stop falling for bullshit tactics...

NuttBoxer says

"Hold on there chief. If you suppress free speech and lock up all your political opponents, or just kill them, the state sponsored media will of course give you a high popularity rating."

You are confusing Joe Biden with Putin. Besides,the American main stream media is in fact state sponsored media - they are all reading from the same propaganda sheet.

https://twitter.com/sagesteele/status/1753551457192747464

The_Deplorable says

You are confusing Joe Biden with Putin. Besides,the American main stream media is in fact state sponsored media - they are all reading from the same propaganda sheet.

No, you are confusing government with good.

const government = evil;

NuttBoxer says

const government = evil;

Lol, maybe we should all speak javascript to each other!

Kind of steam of consciousness, not in the mood to document stuff.

Obama's whole life story is fuckin' weird. Was just talking on the phone about it.

Raised in Hawaii, Indonesia, and Chicago... never at Public Schools, only Private ones.

Grandmother was a Vice President of several Banks but never earned a degree, Grandfather was a salesman... both Unitarians...

Barak's mother Ann Durham even weirder... met Barak Obama Sr. at a Russian language class... divorced in mere months, then found Lolo Suetero in a few months later...

Ann Durham in Indonesia is working for all these Ace Tomato Company fronts like USAID and DAI Global... in between stints teaching Batik....

DAI Global employees have been ambushed in little controlled areas of Afghanistan and subject to immediate SEAL Team 6 rescue... caught smuggling satellite communication equipment into Cuba... so you can pretty much guess what they're really about. BTW the chick involved was working for MI6, Linda Norgrove, and surprise - remember the Unitarian links to the Durham - was given a "Humanist" funeral. Seeing a pattern here?

Reminds me of a remark made about Wild Bill Donovan in Target: Patton. "Anti-Anti-Communists"

Oh looky:
Clients of DAI include development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and governments. Among them: United States Agency for International Development, European Commission, U.K. Department for International Development, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, United States Department of Defense, United States Department of State, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid), World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Food Programme, Asian Development Bank, and various private companies and national governments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAI_Global

Smells worse than Pepe Le Peuw

They always seem to be these liberal/mainline/humanist/reform social justice/prog types like John Dewey, think they're hot shit and are nicer and better than everybody, but easily get taken in by Potemkin Villages and the most basic tricks... Not necessarily Communists or even Pink, but snobby and think their solutions are the bomb and that everybody else is dumb and greedy and they should be running everything.

Here is moron Dewey's (long beloved of public school teachers) account of him being suckered and tricked in 1920s Soviet Russia:
https://ariwatch.com/VS/JD/ImpressionsOfSovietRussia.htm

"Liberal Do-Gooders" I guess, who are also sort of arrogant types who think the world would be best run by technocrats