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Archive for 2024
April 2, 2024
CULTURE IS UPSTREAM FROM POLITICS: Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie Create ‘Non-Woke’ Film Studio, Promise Unfiltered Movies.
Related: Nick Cave says woke culture has a “lack of mercy, a lack of forgiveness.”
FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: She Won Sydney Sweeney’s Ford Mustang—Now What?
UNEXPECTEDLY: Fast food workers blindsided by sudden closure of Fosters Freeze in Lemoore, Ca.
Employees at Fosters Freeze in Lemoore are out of a job.
Assistant General Manager Monica Navarro says she was called Monday morning by her boss who was at the restaurant to open, only to find the locks were being changed.
Navarro said she thought it was an April Fools joke.
“I was so caught off guard. We had no type of notice, no type of warning either. I mean the owner had told me happy easter,” she said.
And she wasn’t the only one.
“We had gotten a text in the group chat that we were shutting down, and I completely thought it was an April Fools joke,” said former employee Jason Boado.
After learning it was real, she drove to the restaurant on Hanford Armona Rd, where the owner was handing out final paychecks.
Navarro says the owner, Loren Wright, had previously told her the $20 minimum wage increase for fast food workers was going to be really hard on him.
She said he did not tell her or any of the other workers that he was going to close.
“I walked in, and he had just immediately said you guys are out of a job; I’m sorry,” said Boado.
Bad luck, I guess.
DAVID THOMPSON: Perhaps The Cardboard Has Magical Properties.
The cards, we’re assured, are “a concrete way to deal with an unsafe situation.” Though given the consequences of recent attempts at intervention – or what Bay Area Rapid Transit refers to as “allyship” – readers may wonder whether prompt and meaningful assistance may be less frequent than one might wish.
In case you had doubts, WTP adds, “This is not parody.”
Perhaps we can look forward to the issuing of “I am being stabbed” cards. And some “The man next to me is masturbating” cards. It does have the makings of an unhappy board game. It also calls to mind this uplifting scene from no-less-progressive Portland[.]
And don’t even try to respond if you’re on the New York subway: Making Jordan Neely The New George Floyd Is The Next Step In The Left’s War On America.
MICKEY KAUS: The Pepcidammerung.
4. Many people think President Biden has a mild case of cognitive decline. We can argue about it—he did not take a cognitive test as part of his recent pysical.** Some who’ve negotiated with him (e.g. Kevin McCarthy) say he’s all there. But enough people who’ve observed him say he’s gone downhill to establish it as a distinct possibility.
Cognitive decline is not, apparently, like getting the bubonic plague (either you have the plague or you don’t).** It’s more a spectrum, or, if you prefer, a slippery slope. The issue is not just where Biden is now but where he’ll be in 2026 or in 2029, when his second term would end.
And he’s taking a drug that seems as if it’s likely to make any decline down that slope go faster.
Yikes.
I’m not “just askin’ questions”! Or “raising concerns.” I’m saying “Yikes!”
Maybe some conscientious reporters could ask some non-politicized neurologists (if there are any) about this risk.
Meanwhile, Google Gemini is asking questions of its own:
A reader asks Google Gemini:
To be fair, AI is an equal-opportunity offender in its rapscallion early days: Does AI Stand for Anti-Irish? I was skeptical about robotic racism until it happened to me.
CYBERSECURITY: Does Malicious Backdoor Compromise SSH? “For those outside of tech, that sentence was an unreadable jumble of acronyms. For those inside tech, a chill probably ran down their spine, as those technologies are everywhere.”
ASK IT OF EVERYONE YOU MEET: The Most Important Question of 2024 That Whoopi Doesn’t Want You Asking.
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OUCH: Tesla shares fall after deliveries drop 8.5% from a year ago. “Tesla’s deliveries for the quarter fell far below even the lowest of analysts’ expectations.”
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH JON STEWART IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Watch: Jon Stewart Mocks MSNBC and CNN Into Next Week for Histrionic Coverage of Hogtied Biden Image.
Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler absurdly claimed in a statement that the video was yet another instance of Trump attempting to incite violence.
This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a bloodbath or when you tell the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by.’ Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol Police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6.
No word if the hypocritical Mr. Tyler was equally offended when pretend-comedian Kathy Griffin posted a photo in May 2017 of herself holding up a Donald Trump mask made to look like a bloodied severed head.
Then it was Jon Stewart Time.
Before showing the clip, the “Comedy Central” host deadpanned:
It’s got to be devastating. News channels show images from Ukraine, from Gaza, from natural disasters. They get through them dispassionately. I can’t imagine how devastating this footage must be.
He then stared at his audience dumbfounded as laughter filled the studio.
After the clip was aired, Stewart mercilessly went to work on the Trump-loathing networks.
That’s what was so disturbing and dehumanizing you wouldn’t show it on television? An airbrushed Biden decal on the back of a truck? Aren’t you the same networks that show reruns of 9/11 every year?
[I]t’s not like people really think that Biden was tied up in the back of the truck. If you think that’s really Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck, I don’t know if you have the mental acuity to be operating a motor vehicle.
As the laughter continued, a grand time was had by all.
Related: Watch: James Carville Calls for ‘Wet Work’ (Assassination Term) to Be Done Against Donald Trump.
Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE, YOU JUST HAVE TO FALL IN LINE, 2024 EDITION: Hillary to Voters: ‘Get Over Yourselves.’
(Classical reference in headline.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Helmets Now Required Simply to Walk Around in NYC.
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“IT’S VERY HARD TO HAVE PEOPLE COME BACK AND INVEST WHEN YOU’RE ARRESTING THEM:”
Amb. Rahm Emanuel discusses Xi's business crackdown on ChinaTalk.
"It's very hard to have people come back and invest when you're arresting them."
"China's quite an entrepreneurial culture, and he [Xi Jinping] crushed their entrepreneurship. And in crushing their… pic.twitter.com/GNcR6keCK3
— Jordan Schneider (@jordanschnyc) April 1, 2024
Flashback to November of 2019: How to Conduct Business with Chinese Companies That See a Dark Future.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: That 1938 Feeling: A Scent of Trouble in the Air.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Stray Voltage, National Rent Control, and Biden’s ‘Bananas’ Moment.
IT SHOULD BE READY JUST IN TIME FOR THE ELECTION: First human case of bird flu reported in Texas, following exposure to infected cattle.