AT ONE TIME HE WAS YOUNG, BUT HE’S ALWAYS BEEN UGLY: Joe Biden Plays the Old Ugly American.
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October 13, 2022
IT’S VERY SIMPLE: Roll Left And Die.
October 12, 2022
HE’S RIGHT, OF COURSE:
A “disinformation expert” is someone who’s an expert at disinforming you, and who intends to exercise those skills to the fullest.
I’M SURE IT’S TOPS: Released: The Biden-Harris Administration’s National Security Strategy.
WHAT DID SOCIALISTS USE BEFORE CANDLES? ELECTRICITY! Biden to create Camp Hale monument today, Thompson Divide measure also being announced. “President Biden today is scheduled to designate the new Camp Hale ━ Continental Divide National Monument during a visit to Colorado in which the Biden administration also plans to announce a proposal to withdraw more than 200,000 acres in the Thompson Divide area southwest of Glenwood Springs from new oil and gas leasing and mining claims.”
OPEN THREAD: We’ve come a long way together, through the hard times and the good.
NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Inferno (Kelly Turnbull Book 7).
LAWRENCE PERSON: Huge Ukrainian Offensive in Luhansk?
AS THE NOT-ESPECIALLY-SWEEPING UKRAINE CONFLICT ILLUSTRATES, MODERN WAR RUNS THROUGH STOCKS FAST: Launch on demand: If satellites are shot down, will Space Force be ready to restock?
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Why NOBODY should be using the ‘thumbs up’ emoji in 2022 — and the 10 symbols only ‘old people’ use that have Gen Z rolling their eyes.
Sending a thumbs-up can be seen as passive aggressive and even confrontational, according to Gen Z who claim they feel attacked whenever it is used.
Whether the chat is informal, between friends or at work the icon appears to have a very different, ‘rude’ meaning for the younger generation.
A 24-year-old on Reddit summed up the Gen Z argument, saying it is best ‘never used in any situation’ as it is ‘hurtful’.
‘No one my age in the office does it, but the Gen X people always do it. Took me a bit to adjust and get [it] out of my head that it means they’re mad at me,’ he added.
Others agreed it is bad form, especially at work where it can make the team appear unfriendly and unaccommodating.
‘My last workplace had a WhatsApp chat for our team to send info to each other on and most of the people on there just replied with a thumbs up.
‘I don’t know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me,’ one woman said.
And according to Business Consultant Sue Ellson it could be time to take the younger generation’s lead.
Or not — this feels way too close to the 4Chan trollers convincing the DNC-MSM that the “Okay” hand gesture is racist (except when Biden flashes it of course). But if you’re a fan of Happy Days, it might be wise to buy its seasons on physical media before all of Fonzie’s thumbs up gestures are edited out.
Trigger warning: Here are two minutes of non-stop hate-thumbing on display:
https://youtu.be/hrlMb4-Nf6s
I don’t know why it took Martinez three days to get to this point. The last straw might have been the raucous council meeting yesterday where dozens of people came forward to demand she and the other council members resign immediately.
The other thing which might have been the last straw was the fact that reporters were still finding other offensive comments Martinez made in the same recording, including one aimed at Jews:
In the same leaked audio clips posted to Reddit in which former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made racist remarks about Black people and Oaxacans, she also made crude remarks about Jewish people and Armenians…
In the recording reviewed by The Times, Martinez can be heard saying the “judíos” — which means Jews in Spanish — “cut their deal with South L.A.”…
Later in the conversation, Martinez was attempting to identify Areen Ibranossian, a former chief of staff for Krekorian who is now a senior advisor to Rick Caruso’s campaign for mayor. Someone in the room asks, “What’s his name? What’s he look like?” She said he’s “the guy with the one eyebrow.”…
When Martinez couldn’t recall his last name and asked what it was, Cedillo responded, “It ends in i-a-n, I bet you.”
So it was clear no one was getting over her comments about Mike Bonin’s son but even if they were, there were other comments guaranteed to anger other constituencies. The situation was getting worse for her, not better.
Why is the left such a cesspit of racism?
NOBLE INDIGENOUS NATIVE AMERICANS: Human Sacrifices in The Midnight Terror Cave Had Strange Blue String in Their Teeth. “More than 15 years after its discovery, Belize’s Midnight Terror Cave is still leaving clues about more than 100 people who were sacrificed to the Maya rain god there more than a millennium ago. . . . A three-year excavation project by California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) professors and students concluded that the more than 10,000 bones uncovered in the cave represented at least 118 people, many of whom had evidence of trauma inflicted on them around the time of death.”
MAYBE MARKETING IT AS “AUTOPILOT” LED TO CONFUSION: Drivers woefully overestimate hands-free driver tech, study shows.
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ALAN RICKMAN AND THE MISERY OF BEING FAMOUS:
Rickman comes across as the ultimate champagne socialist, proud of his left-wing views but also liable to be distracted by the perks and privileges of a millionaire actor’s life. (“Car to Piccadilly Circus for the anti-cuts march… at Park Lane the sight of the Dorchester proved too much…[we] went in and had tea, sandwiches and cakes like good socialists everywhere might do at 4 p.m.”) The best-known role he was associated with in the last decades of his life was Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films, something he appears deeply lukewarm about (“the deal is finally done [for the last two films] and people are all carefully left in possession of genitalia.”) Smaller projects, whether in theater or film, are discussed with greater affection, undercut with Eeyore-like moaning about a lack of public appreciation for them.
The abiding impression of Madly, Deeply is that it is miserable to be an actor in demand. There is endless complaining about long plane journeys, interminable times spent in make-up or waiting to go on set, meetings with ignorant financiers and rapacious agents, and co-stars who do not meet Rickman’s exacting professional standards. (Bizarrely, his best friend was the garrulous American comedian Ruby Wax, whom he appeared to adore.) Rickman goes to the movies a lot, and often despises the films he sees, dissecting them afterwards over an expensive meal at one of London’s most exclusive restaurants.
He seems a deeply unhappy, stressed man, forever busy and exhausted by a punitive work rate. One is left wondering to what extent his premature death was caused by dedication to a craft that seemed to bring him enormous professional respect but little personal joy. In any case, we’ll always have Hans Gruber, the Sheriff of Nottingham and — if we must — Professor Snape to appreciate, whatever the grouchy man behind the mask might have said.
In the charming 2008 comedy about the birth of the Napa Valley wine industry, Bottle Shock (currently free to watch for Amazon Prime Video subscribers), Bill Pullman’s character asks Rickman’s character, “Why don’t I like you?” To which Rickman replies, “Because you think I’m an arsehole. And I’m not, really. I’m just British and, well… you’re not.”
HMM: Diminishing access to care leaves millions of U.S. women in maternity care ‘deserts.’
Given that Knoxville’s “Food Desert” included a Super Walmart, a Sam’s Club, a Trader Joe’s and “a couple of tasty oriental supermarkets,” color me skeptical about the “desert” talk.
SEVEN TIMES ‘DISINFORMATION’ TURNED OUT TO BE JUST THE OPPOSITE:
At the heart of the second trial to come out of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion probe is a story of disinformation.
Marc Elias, general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, testified both during a House Intelligence Committee investigation in 2017 and recently during Durham’s ongoing probe that he was the one who hired the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump.
Fusion GPS went on to commission former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to create the infamous “Steele dossier,” which purported to show collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin. It contained several salacious and since-debunked claims about Trump and his alleged ties to Russia.
The federal government infamously used the now-discredited dossier to obtain a warrant to surveil former Trump 2016 campaign aide Carter Page. The Justice Department later admitted the warrant application was full of misinformation and the surveillance warrant should’ve never been approved.
The primary source of the Steele dossier was Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who’s now on trial as part of Durham’s investigation for allegedly lying to the FBI about his own sources for the information that he provided to Steele.
Federal prosecutors allege that Danchenko, who has pleaded not guilty, fabricated and concealed his sources in conversations with the feds. The trial began in Alexandria, Va. on Tuesday.
The case highlights how potent a weapon disinformation can be in today’s political climate, where falsehoods can slip through the cracks and transform into received truth without the public noticing.
However, it works the other way as well.
Indeed, in the past few years the opposite has more often been the case: Something deemed disinformation ultimately turns out to be true. Here are seven recent examples of elites in government, Big Tech, and other positions of influence targeting various ideas as mis- or disinformation only to be proven wrong in the end as the facts come in[.]
Paypal could not be reached for comment: PayPal Value Down $6 Billion, ‘Delete PayPal’ Searches Soar 1,300% After Daily Wire Report Exposes ‘Misinformation’ Policy.
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