Looney for Money

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

It is one of the ironies of the world that leftist persons have always been highly money motivated.

Wait, I’m not saying “always” as in history, but “Always” as in my experience with them. Though do you really want to bet that if we dug deeply into the movements behind, say, the Russian revolution or the Cuban leftist take over, we wouldn’t find people frantically stuffing their pockets with the spare valuables? Because I wouldn’t.

In fact, things like the destruction of Venezuela by avowed commies seems to have — ultimately — been in the name of enriching a small, deeply corrupt group of leftists. (Honestly “corrupt” and “leftist” are practically synonymous at least in the current world, and I’d make no bets as to the past. Because a philosophy based on envy fosters a certain type of person. Also there is something about a profoundly materialistic outlook — note not all atheists are materialistic and many prioritize friendships or human connection. Like my friends/adopted siblings who are atheist — that ends up reducing people to just trying to grab material goods as reassurance that their life matters or something like that.) I do know that the French revolution — who were Marxists before Marx (eh. Not really, but the philosophies were if not the same very similar) — was all about looting the old, inheritance-locked estates.

This should surprise nobody. A lot has been done in history where the idealistic and true believers were used as cannon fodder for the greedy and cynical. Most of it, in fact. (And sometimes the idealistic and true believers were even sovereigns.)

The thing about the current left, though…. and important as we face the years to come, is…. how much of the culture is left for pay and looney for money?

The indications, more and more, are “Most, if not all of it.”

I have before talked about the time my accounts were broken into, and where I only didn’t lose control of my online life, including this blog because by the grace of G-d — I’m not being facetious — I not only didn’t go to bed at my then normal time, but was screwing around on line, in a kind of desultory “I don’t even know why I’m doing this” and therefore saw the hack happen in real time, and had time to stop-gap the still-untaken accounts (here, discord, a dozen others) but also to continuously wrestle my email from them, until we could call the phone company and stop the replicant THEY’d allowed. (Long story.)

(Here I have to explain because every time I say stuff like this, some idiot of the “newly right” thinks I’m alluding to secret services. In this case, and almost certainly in the baiting me to attend the Jan 6th quixotic (on our side) get together in DC in 21, I’m not saying there was any official involvement. There might have been. But for what I watched, militant left of the Blac Block/BLM or such affiliated groups, or Polis’ Russian mob backers suffice and are enough.)

Yes, I do have reasons to think the highjacking of my phone account was ideologically motivated, a left operation. (The attempts to highjack my email continue, at an amazing rate, compared to my other similar accounts which have only the “normal” background, probably automated attempts. The only difference is that that account is the one I give here and to anyone involved in politics.) There were indications in the investigation my phone provider made, as in we were more or less told that it was something like that.

Anyway, the interesting part in all of this is that while it seemed to be a politically motivated operated by those annoyed by my denouncing of the left, they didn’t manage to take over my accounts partly because they allowed themselves to be delayed by …. looking for money. No, seriously. They must have made a search on the words “money” “dollars” and perhaps $.

First, that account is never used for financial anything. It’s not linked to any of my publishing contract/work stuff. Second, it’s remarkably free of monetary discussions, except for a negotiation of a writing contract that happened to take place there, because all the editor knew when he first contacted me was my public address, and friends who are indie discussing their take per book/monthly.

Note that these must not have been understood for what they were by whoever was doing a frantic search, because they also — then — took time to send highly insulting, bizarrely racist insults to anyone who mentioned money in their emails.

Both of these indicated a view of the right as one where we’re casually and for no reason racist, and in which…. we’re paid?

At the time I thought this was truly bizarre. “Do they think that being paid is the only reason we oppose them?” I mean, it wasn’t exactly a surprise. They continuously accuse us of “selling out.” (Hint, as I’ve said here before, and my reason to smack people who say things like “I’d never donate to x blogger, because they have enough.” EVEN THOSE OF US ON THE RIGHT WHO DO OKAY or, in come cases, spectacularly well (Alas not me, but I’m trying. I’m very very trying.) are making maybe half of what we would have if we were establishment left. (Maybe in some cases 1/10th.) This might be changing. But for now it is that.) Which would mean we’re all mentally disabled and “selling out” for less money. They also continuously claim we’re paid. And they drink their own ink. By the bucketful. They make up lies, then forget they are lies and swallow them, themselves. (Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. I guess.)

But I’m starting to think it’s not just that. I’m more and more convinced that they, once more, accuse us of what they do.

Look, raids looking for the money and money connections are old. I always thought they were intimidation tactics. But there is the raid on the owner of Polymarket.

Unless the FBI has lost its bloody mind — okay, but take a deep breath — and thinks crazy intimidation tactics will work on Trump, then what was this all about?

I think it was about finding money-corruption on the right, so they could smear Trump before he took power. (And if that’s what they’re doing, a lot of us are going to be at the pointy end again, of the leftist inanity brigade, as far as hacking, if not FBI raids, which I think are reserved for people worth millions or billions.)

I mean, suddenly their raid of the “My pillow” guy after he endorsed Trump makes perfect sense.

And apparently the reason they think everyone on the right is being paid is because… well, everyone on the left is.

Like, a lot of us have suspected that in fact the reason we’re not seeing the ante-fa paid mobs burn and loot this time is because they can’t pay them, since Kamala is now … 20? million in debt.

And apparently all the endorsements of Kamala, from Oprah to … Al Sharpton (really?) were pay for play. I wonder if those two are now looking at what she paid for stars (some of them mediocre) and wondering if they should have raised the price tag. Same for Taylor Swift. Is she upset she did it for free? (If she did it for free that is.)

Everywhere we look, all the “very sincere” Kamala boosters were being paid. And it makes you wonder about the past. It makes you wonder how much Obama paid for his “upsurge of support” and his semi-deification. (I mean, if I paid I’d want more than my pant crease praised, but whatevs.)

We do know for a fact that the “never trumper” “right” is raking it in as they never did when they were on the side of the right.

So, since the Soviet Union, and the demise of the true believers (heck, people older than I would say since the Hitler-Stalin pact and the demise of the true believers) I wonder how much international communism, including the ones flying under the flag of “Democrats” at home are really in it for the cash.

Thing is, you know…. Trump is good with money. He’s good at “waging war by money means.” And he’s quite likely to cut off all or most of their money supply. I mean the fact they lost big is already making people leery of throwing good money after bad.

What does that mean?

Well, if I’m right and most of the left is looney for pay it means that there will be a lot less lunacy this time around.

Sure, the pussy hatters were true believers (probably. At least the street level ones. Remembers her first sf convention after the 2016 win and winces) but the people spurring them on and driving them crazier sure as heck weren’t. Or at least I’d bet they weren’t.

If most of the left is in it for the money, what does it mean when they come to the end of cake money?

I can’t tell you. But I think we’re about to find out.

Buy popcorn futures!

188 thoughts on “Looney for Money”

  1. You mean the Great Right Wing Conspiracy isn’t paying you????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    Oh, where do I go to get paid for Being White? (IE My White Privilege) 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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        2. Look! Here’s a guy who think he can explain to a dragon that dragons are out of the running for treasure.

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    3. My local branch of the Half-Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy seems to be having some financial difficulties.

      I keep trying to get hold of the upper management, but they’re still on retreat in Barbados.

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  3. The Reader is very puzzled by the raid on the CEO of Polymarket. It implies that the deep state believes it can ride out the next 4 years with minimal consequences. He believes they are wrong but it makes him wonder.

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    1. My puzzlement comes, in two parts, from a report that the CEO was a Harris-Walz donor. Part the first: isn’t it somewhat troubling behavior to put your little bit of weight on the scale of an event you’re encouraging people to bet on? If it were a sporting contest, it would be denounced as corruption without hesitation. Part the second: why are the Democrats (to whom the FBI currently is functionally equivalent) raiding their own donors? Because he was in a photo with DJTjr? The scorpion is so crazed that it is stinging itself. Which would be comforting, except that in this state it could end up stinging anybody.

      Hang on tight.

      Republica restituendae, et, Hamas delenda est.

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      1. There has been something going on between this administration and crypto for the last couple of years and most of the prediction markets function on crypto. Maybe BGE has some more insight. The Reader notes that crypto and related stocks jumped with the election results.

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        1. Pixy MIsa? AI dot mee dot nu?

          Writes very skeptically about a lot of crypto, and also especially AI. He reports:

          http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_12_november_2024

          “It’s not clear yet who Trump might pick to head the SEC, but it’s hard to imagine anyone more criminally antagonistic to crypto than Gary Gensler. While the agency missed the FTX fraud case until it was already over, it has spent four years simultaneously refusing to specify the rules around crypto trading and prosecuting companies involved in crypto trading,”

          I think my own view of the arrest is ‘we shall see’, and that if the election is as we understand it, there would be a lot of stupidity that does not make any particular sense once we get the full story.

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          1. I have seen generative AI for text (not talking about images here) work well in one scenario: programming suggestions that are one line at a time. I’ve watched my coworker who uses Supermaven (an AI coding assistant) as he types code. He’ll type the first few letters of a function call, and the Supermaven plugin will suggest the rest of the line including the parameters he’s probably going to pass in. When it guesses wrong he ignores it, but when it guesses right, he can just hit Tab and save about 70-80 keystrokes.

            But you’ll notice that he’s using AI not to generate his code, but to save typing time on the code he was going to write anyway. (In many cases once you have typed the name of the function you’re going to call, the parameters you’re going to pass in are obvious so the autocomplete isn’t really generating code so much as it is filling in the only possible choice).

            That use of AI isn’t going to replace skilled coders, it’s just going to make them more efficient. And it’s also not going to introduce bugs, at least the way my coworker uses it, because he’s a skilled coder and he knows at a glance whether the line of suggested code is right or wrong.

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            1. I’ve been retired almost 9 years and I was using that type of coding AI for 20+ years. Would not surprise me if it has improved. Also utilized code builders, note not used, utilized. Would let the AI of the time build then figure out what the AI did. Never was quite right, but always a way to get a starting point when needing to dig deep into tool library.

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              1. Oh yeah, that’s another way the AI tools have proven handy. I need to use library X to accomplish a task, and its documentation is poor. (These days “poor” documentation means docs filled to the brim with things like “boolean Validated: whether the data has been validated” without any mention of what you actually want to know, which is what are the validation rules and which function you need to call to validate the data.)

                So rather than spend half an hour searching through the lousy documentation, I ask ChatGPT “Write me some C# code using the Foo library to validate input data”. Then I look at the results and say, “Oh, it’s using RunValidationRules(). No wonder I couldn’t find it: I was trying Validate() and CheckValidation().” Then I go off and write the code myself: now that I know that RunValidationRules was the function I needed, I can look up its documentation and write the code I needed faster than I could tweak a ChatGPT prompt to write the whole code block for me.

                It also works quite well, I’m told, for writing automated tests. Those are mostly boilerplate anyway, so you get the AI tool to generate the boilerplate (setting up database connections, injecting mock dependencies so you’re not sending real email during testing, etc.) and then you fill in the core of the test that checks the actual business logic. Time saved: several minutes per test.

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                1. “Write me this so I have some idea of where to start with my own version” sounds a bit like when I use this tech for brainstorming during writer’s block. I’ve also had some success using the LLMs for dictation cleanup, and for blurbing. Here’s my recent case study on blurbing with LLM assistance: https://jaglionpress.com/2024/11/13/weird-wednesday-using-ais-to-write-blurbs/

                  I’m not terribly enchanted with Suno.com’s function for writing lyrics – the results are fine for what they are, but why bother when you can tell the LLM to set any great poem from the public domain to the musical style of your choice?

                  I recently did something stupid and enrolled in a python training course online; the AI assistant function on that has been very helpful in explaining how I bricked the syntax this time.

                  But the best AI use was the one Bob C. mentioned yesterday over on madgeniusclub, where some British or Australian phone company built a chatbot with a grandmotherly spoken voice and style of conversation to troll scammers with! :D

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          2. Add far as I read there was no arrest in the betting market guy raid, just a search warrant for seizure of electronic devices. The kind of thing that in non-drama-world would be handled as a request to the guy’s lawyers rather than a 6am “raid”.

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            1. Was it a raid, or standard warrant?

              There’s been a lot of cases of “OMG EARLY MORNING RAID!!!” and then it turns out it…was a standard warrant being served, during standard hours. And police wear police gear.

              The “request information from their lawyer” route was a popular abuse that made it so folks were told what to destroy, and folks have gotten smacked for it.

              :Glares at the Dems and their amazing vanishing computers: “oopsy! Sorry, your warrant got here just after the computer fell down a flight of stairs and shot itself int he back!”

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              1. Fair, I wasn’t there, and the stories are coming out of the subjects.

                If there’s bodycam it would be interesting to see how much BS “respect mah authoritay” the officials actually put them through while holding them outside, to see if it matches up with the reports, and if and when they used the magic “I want my lawyer before I say anything” phrase.

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                1. I was hoping there was video– that’s gotten pretty popular, since Ring and similar cameras have it.

                  Especially nice when one side says that there’s no video, and then the other releases it. ^.^

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                1. Found it!

                  It’s from a “Source,” but it’s also the Post, so we can be pretty sure the source isn’t their sockpuppet account on Twitter or their imaginary friends who then all stood and clapped while cheering “Brave, brave!”

                  They did have a warrant.

                  It’s related to accepting bets from US– which means that HE wouldn’t be accused of anything, it’s the company which is accused.

                  And while his electronics would be picked up, it would be because he’s got business stuff on them.

                  https://nypost.com/2024/11/14/business/fbi-raided-home-of-polymarket-ceo-over-alleged-illegal-bets-by-us-users-sources/

                  I know of some cases that broke open because they had a warrant for the electronics involved in drug gang activity…and the f’ing drug dealer decided to hide it in his gaming rig.
                  Which meant they got his gaming rig, and that led them to the sensible-people-would-not-keep-these-together communications list which got more of his gang.
                  (Compartmentalize!)

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        2. I don’t know anything about crypto. The notion is extremely appealing, but there’s too much scam in it for me. I only play where I understand and I don’t understand crypto.

          As for stocks generally, my take is that it was a short covering rally as many traders had short positions on in anticipation of a contested election. Markets really hate uncertainty. When the dems couldn’t produce the margin of fraud, traders covered and you had a typical short covering rally. Seems to have mostly dissipated now.

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          1. I like the idea of crypto as a replacement for digital cash, but my concern boils down to two things:

            Sooner or later, you have to purchase real, physical things like food, shelter, or anything else. Those purchases are trackable, and the authorities can always ask the Al Capone question “where’s the income that pays for this coming from?” Another part of that equation is finding vendors that will take it as a medium of exchange. Right now, it seems to be like finding ethanol free gas: You can, but it isn’t easy or convenient.

            Security in a world where everything is nothing but bits and bytes. From credit cards to crypto, keeping things secure electronically is a never ending fight.

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      2. At a guess, a large portion of the money the Kamala campaign is missing, they pumped into Polymarket.

        Why I think so:

        Leftists have a postmodernist view of reality, where reality IS consensus. The media was pushing that she’d win. The polls (paid for by the media) were posting that she’d win. Even most pundits on the Right were saying that it would be close, and fraud would seal the deal. The only somewhat significant outlier was Polymarket. And then, during the last couple of weeks before the election “someone” dumped millions of dollars into the Harris side of the bet (which the media dutifully trumpeted). If perception=reality, then such an expenditure would have been a risk free way to multiply their money. (And remember that the candidate gets to keep leftover campaign funds.) If you were a doctrinaire Leftist, it would have been a no brainier. Lock down the reality and make out like a bandit at the same time? What’s not to love?

        Until your assumptions are proven false.

        As to why the FBI is freaked out about the Kamala campaign losing their shirt on a shady bit of market manipulation… Well, I’ve got a few guesses.

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        1. Polymarket was not that big. Certainly not big enough to hide camel traders in size. Best estimate is $3.2 Billion, which is a lot for you and me but not in terms of markets. It’s one of the reasons the FBI can prove anything they want, any bet, no matter how small, could move that market.

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    2. No. I genuinely think they believe they’ll find stuff that allows them to stimye Trump. You know, Russians paying the CEO of Polymarket or something. They’re that far gone.

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  4. When I saw the headline I started trying to remember which fictional country has a unit of currency called the Loonie. Then I remembered it’s Canada.

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  5. The news about the Polymarket raid reminds me…

    A few years ago here in Southern California, an FBI team visited a bank, and had the bank open all of the safety deposit boxes. They said they were looking for drug funds, and I’m guessing that they had a warrant.

    Two things, though –

    1.) . They opened *all* of the deposit boxes in the bank.

    2.) . They seized *all* of the valuables that they found, even though most of said valuables couldn’t possibly have been related to the purported investigation.

    In short, FBI agents went into the place where people store valuables that they don’t want to risk being found by a burglar, and took all of them.

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    1. Color me unsurprised by anything the Fibbies do; they’ve become little more than thieves with badges. That said, I’m curious…Even if theyt had a warrant, I’m trying to figure out how they could fit all the individually-rented boxes into the legal requirement for a single warrant: “…particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

      They might be able to cover “place” as the bank itself (although a specific box would be more in keeping with the intent of the 4th Amendment), but I don’t think “anything we can say relates to drugs” would cut it as a legal description of “things to be seized”.

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      1. IIRC this is the one where they “lost” a bunch of the stuff they took, only to “find” some of it later even though it wasn’t on the inventory list. I think the courts frowned pretty hard at these antics and there are a couple of ongoing court cases against the .gov guys.

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        1. Yeah, that’s the one.

          And in response to Bob’s question – it’s an open secret that many judges will sign off on *very* open-ended warrants. Presumeably that was the case here.

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          1. Yeah, I know; some consist of a signature alone, with everything else to be filled in “as needed”. :-x

            I just like to point out the more blatant ones and how they relate to the Constitution, and why tar and feathers may be good investments.

            Rope, too.

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            1. Don’t forget the Dauphin’s Horse°: a stout, creosote-permeated timber of a railroad tie. Otherwise folks might think the rope is for festooning lampposts with, and we haven’t enough lampposts. No, it’s a safety-line for the horseman° so that he doesn’t have a chance to fall off.

              ° You did read your “Huck Finn,” and remembered the exit the Duke and the Dauphin made from their Royal Nonesuch show, right? Right?

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              1. I read Huck Finn (and Tom Sawyer) a little over 65 years ago, so the details have faded a bit…😉

                As for a dearth of lampposts, we have plenty of trees. And overpasses. And balconies. Festoon America!😁

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              2. The District of Columbia web site says the city has 46,000 street lamps. (isn’t the web useful?)

                They’re re-useable, and most can probably support double or more occupancy.

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            2. Don’t forget the Dauphin’s Horse°: a stout, creosote-permeated timber of a railroad tie. Otherwise folks might think the rope is for festooning lampposts with, and we haven’t enough lampposts. No, it’s a safety-line for the horseman° so that he doesn’t have a chance to fall off.

              ° You did read your “Huck Finn,” and remembered the exit the Duke and the Dauphin made from their Royal Nonesuch show, right? Right?

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        1. Maybe. It has happened several times, it’s just that particular one seemed to get a lot more national-level media attention than the others.

          It wasn’t an isolated case. The Feebs have been thieves for a long time.

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    3. The case is a bit more complicated than that, including that it wasn’t a bank, it was a business named U.S. Private Vaults — it was specifically designed to avoid the protections of banks, thus the emphasis on BUISNESS rather than bank or similar terms– they opened the boxes to inventory them during a raid because the idiot owner was bragging about money laundering, quite a few of the boxes had no names associated with them and thus were hard to connect to anybody, and the over-reach of opening was noticed, and folks were punished for it.

      A big warning flag is how many stories don’t bother to give names so you can look up primary sources. Especially when they don’t mention which of the several cases they’re discussing, and inability to tell number of boxes in the building from number inventoried from number unclaimed.

      We stopped donating to the Institute for Justice because of their behavior in lying about the cases which they fund raised for, won, and then acted like had never happened. Right back to step one, including fund raising and concealing information.

      This news story should have enough information for anyone interested in research. I strongly suggest getting a conspiracy board and lots of note papers, though, there are a lot of things to keep track of.

      https://beverlypress.com/2022/03/beverly-hills-private-vaults-company-guilty-of-federal-money-laundering-charge/

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      1. I stopped my donations to Save the Children years ago when “my child,” turned 18 and they didn’t notice, then they simply switched over to another “child”. I would have appreciated a bit of formality.

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  6. Just a quick reminder that more than one blogger came forward and stated that the Harris campaign offered a lot of money in exchange for a public endorsement, and signing an NDA that would have forbade talking about said cash payment (which is an ethics issue due to hiding a conflict of interest).

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    1. I cannot fathom how hard they had to work to blow over a billion dollars in that short a time, without buying an aircraft carrier timeshare or somesuch. Only in military procurement are money flows like that typical.

      Even Hollywood productions would be very hard pressed to burn that much cash that quickly.

      Astonishing.

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      1. The Reader notes that a billion is a rounding error in most military procurement. But yes, it would be interesting to see the cash flow statement for the campaign.

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      2. Celebrities.

        OTOH, you should note that if a celebrity appears for free, that’s counted as an in-kind donation if they usually charge.

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        1. Well, Oprah’s company got $1m from teh campaign, but Oprah says she didn’t take any and the company said she didn’t take a fee for appearing at that town hall, but it’s her company so it’s her money, but she said there was no quid pro quo…

          The Fox News story at https://www.foxnews.com/politics/1-billion-disaster-heres-what-fec-filings-show-about-harris-campaigns-3-month-spending-spree seems like a good summary based on the FEC filings, but even the $4m to some agency that “connects clients with social media influencers” (insert “You got Paid?!” clip), $12m on “digital media consultants” (I am clearly in the wrong business), $15m on “event production”, $4m on private jet flights, “in excess of $100m” to “consulting and marketing firms”, and $56m on three months of payroll (apparently that number is incomplete if campaign staff are worried about their last paychecks bouncing) plus a whole slew of “contributions” to far left groups that hate the popo and such, that’s still way shy of “One Billion Dollars”.

          Maybe they pulled a Joker and burned it.

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    2. Oh, yeah. And some right wing bloggers were “honeytrapped” into taking money from a dubious outfit for… nothing.
      I’m actually a little salty I never got offered that. True, it would completely discredit me, but…. 2 million? My family would like that. :D

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      1. My real concern in that respect is if some whackjob manages to make a third attempt successful, in spite of whatever semi-competent “official” protection he has; I don’t know if USSS policy forbids private (i.e., competent) protection, but I suspect it does.

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        1. If that happens, then Vance becomes president. While Trump getting dying in office (for any reason) would be bad, Vance would likely be a good replacement.

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          1. I don’t disagree about Vance, but I’m afraid that if anything would cause a sudden switch from audible to kinetic it would be that, and everyone who could be identified as leftists would be targets. And that’s something that no one rational wants.

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                  1. It’s a difference in detectability, but not really a major one other than initially. Given some time to watch them, which we’ve had, they reveal themselves by their actions, and they have; their covers are mostly blown.

                    It’s essentially a zero difference otherwise. An enemy is an enemy, no matter what “uniform” is worn, and they should be treated equally; no points for either openness or stealth.

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                    2. I can’t disagree; both, as an old-time Western lawman once commented about some (other) criminals, “need killin’ “. And while the killin’ may be implemented metaphorically, it should still remove them from any participation in government at any level, permanently.

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                    3. I’m with Imaginos1892. The Never Trumper section of the RINOs are fifth columnist Quislings and far more offensive than plain old idiot lefties. There are those who were never Trump but generally just shut up (Bush the Younger for the most part). I disagree with them, but that was the correct tact. Joining the other side when you can see the damage they are doing makes you far more of a liability than some 20 something that has been poorly educated and never learned how to think. If the 8th amendment weren’t there I’d say draw and quarter them. Given it does restrain us I say simple execution or they renounce their US citizenship forever and get dumped with a couple grand in the third world hell hole of our choice. First choice is Haiti, second Cuba. Probably better to accept execution.

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                    4. OK, I get that. My attempted point was that RINOs and the current crop of leftists are both effectively traitors*, one to their stated party loyalty and the other to the Constitution they lie about supporting. As such, I wouldn’t expect anyone to turn away from the latter in order to deal with the former; both should be dealt with similarly. And IMHO the leftists in government are worse, since they violate an actual oath; the RINOs are just venal opportunists.

                      *Just to be clear, note that calling them traitors doesn’t mean they legally committed treason, which is clearly defined in the Constitution (Article III, Section 3), and assuming that “enemies” refers specifically to the other side in a declared war, which the US hasn’t been in since 1945.

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            2. And that’s something that no one rational wants.

              “What you want is irrelevant; what you have chosen is at hand.” Spock to Valeris, “The Undiscovered Country”

              When you have fairly large groups of unhinged strangers threatening to poison their partners and random strangers based on politics, how do you avoid it?

              And we’ve been saying for years that one percent of the gun owners deciding to shoot should be enough of a threat to deter bad actors; what percentage of these lunatics deciding to poison people is “tolerable”? Or do you just discount that they mean what they say? How many bodies are enough to make you believe them?

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              1. You seem to have read more into my post than I wrote, since I said neither that any of that is “tolerable”, nor that I “discount” their ravings, nor that any number of bodies is OK. So let’s discuss what I did write, which wasn’t that I think I get to choose, but that I have a preference which I assume most rational people share. Apparently you disagree, so I have to ask…Why do you think that anyone rational would want a civil war? As you note, what we get isn’t what we might want; it’s what we have. Does that change our preference?

                My default position is that I want to be left alone:

                https://drhurd.com/2021/12/13/the-men-who-wanted-to-be-left-alone/

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          2. If I was him, I would have my guys doing the actual security and uses the SS for the scut work. The SS has the credentials necessary for dealing with “local authorities” and other agencies, so they’d be hard to dispose of entirely. But the US Secret Service can’t be trusted any more.

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      2. The Reader sees the first time ICE attempts to deport a criminal from a blue state as a different kind of flashpoint. We are going to find out if the Democrats remember lessons from the outcome of fracas that shall not be named here. Based on the noises the blue state governors are making it appears to the Reader that they don’t.

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  8. If this is even partially true, it wou explain wby the cities did not burn the day after the election. Soros, who seemed to be the primary driver, stepped back a few months ago, a year ago? His son took over. He is not the driven person his father is/was. Or maybe they thought they would win and were waiting for the Trump mobs to erupt.

    Either way, no pay, no riots….just sad isolated acts 9f insane violence like the man who killed his family or the crazy person who killed his father with an ice ax.

    if we could trust crime stats I woukd wo der where they are now…..

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      1. Soros apparently has at least three sons. From reading between the lines, it sounds as if the two oldest sons were too independent, so Soros decided not to pass his empire to them. That would imply that the third son – who’s the current heir apparent – isn’t likely to be able to take the initiative as well as his father, or his brothers.

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    2. The Summer of St. George of the fentanyl featured palettes of bricks “randomly” placed near where the spontaneous, mostly peaceful protests were going to be held.

      As far as I can tell, such palettes were conspicuous by their absence after the election. Either they thought they had it rigged well enough (I saw one chart–don’t recall where–shoing Que Mala getting the 3AM vote dump but it was insufficient to change the lead), or the price of bricks just got too high.

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      1. I think that was from Wisconsin, along with another Fulton Countied race for US Senate. Don’t forget that that’s how Ossoff and Warnock won in GA four years ago as well, but with the double runoff on January 5th, almost nobody was watching when the chart came out.

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      2. That might be plain old ground level initiative.

        I keep bragging about Iowa, but when the BLM protests hit town here, they had some Very Serious Discussion about how people were being “hysterical” about the piles of bricks that were around the protest sites.

        But the police were being polite and listening to citizens, and went and verified that the bricks belonged to specific people.

        Isn’t it amazing, every single one of them decided it was smarter to keep the bricks when a protest was scheduled! Someone might trip on them, you know.

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    3. Attacks on Jews, too.

      That might be related to a different angle on the money– the Ways and Means committee forwarded investigation requests for the tax-free status of a bunch of charities.

      Specifically, the ones funding pro-Hamass protests, especially violent protests, especially actual designated terrorist groups type protests.

      It showed up on… I think the Joe Pag’s show, maybe the weekend show, weekend before the election, but here’s about the only thing I could find mentioning it in print:

      https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2024/10/16/treasury-sanctions-sham-charity-for-terrorist-ties-following-ways-and-means-investigation/

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  9. Interesting thing that struck me, I did a bunch of digging into attachment theory earlier this year. One of the interesting bits is, when people are under stress, they switch into a resource acquisition and hoarding mode. They can’t even think about interactions that don’t involve the use or exchange of resources.

    And given the left is entirely zero sum positional warfare with no victory condition in sight, it makes sense that they would be perpetually locked down that way.

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  11. I see the left/MSM is all abuzz with Matt Gaetz hysteria. And while I will say that if the rumors are true they’re very bad, all I can think of is all the hit pieces they’ve had on Trump that failed to materialize a single shred of evidence. These rumors about him have been ongoing for years and he hasn’t been charged with anything yet. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m starting to think he maybe wasn’t actively participating in criminal behaviour and will be a good candidate for AG.

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    1. One commentator asked why, if such evidence exists, he was not perpwalked and tried in a compliant jurisdiction during the Brandon Regency, when DOJ basically had a free hand for pursuing Rs.

      If they coulda they woulda, as far as I can see.

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        2. Because there have already been at least two criminal investigations, and no reliable witnesses to the allegations could be found. In fact, all the evidence disclosed so far points to his “partner” cutting a plea deal and then being unable to provide credible testimony, and Gaetz’s father being the target of an extortion scheme based on the allegations.

          Outcome: the two allegers have been sentenced to prison.

          The House Ethics Committee has lower standards of evidence.

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      2. Based on what I can tell (which isn’t much), the accusations revolve around a 17 year-old girl. That’s not illegal in many places in the US, even though it will raise eyebrows.

        So, no perp walk for that part, at least.

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        2. Of course all of this hinges on an unconfirmed alleged action. Age of consent in Florida is 18 or so says the internet so if in his home state potentially Statutory rape. That DOJ walked away may mean that they have no authority in the matter (which would be the case for a statutory case, that is a state issue). If somewhere else it may be consensual. However in either case , it shows a GREAT lack self control, especially if the alleged young lady was somehow related to his work like Ms Lewinsky was with Clinton. That then involves abuse of power issues and is VERY questionable. Mr Gaetz is also married (since 2021), bringing Adultery into the realm of possibility. I know they need to fill a LOT of positions and I want the AG to be an absolute hardass on DOJ and FBI etc as they have gone way into being near Stasi. If this is real though this DOES feel like an unforced own goal to select someone with such an obvious defect.

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    2. At this point, I don’t even care whether Gaetz has been a bad boy or what he might’ve done — as long as his appointment leads to *someone* horsewhipping the DOJ, I’m on board.

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  12. I heard Matt Gaetz resigned already fron congress so that now the ethics committee couldn’t release their report.

    But if he was so worried about what was in the report that he couldn’t bear to have it released, why did he run for this term?

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    1. He resigned so that DeSantis could call a special election (under Florida law) to replace him and have a new Rep ready before the House is seated in January.

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    2. Kim Strassel at WSJ said that it’s hard to make everyone in your party hate you, but Gaetz has managed. Part of it was undermining McCarthy, but also that he’s all sizzle, no steak: he talks about being one of the “true conservatives,” but doesn’t have much in the way of serious accomplishment.

      According to her, the House probe covers other issues than the, “sex trafficking.” Things like drug use, sexual misconduct, misusing funds and special favors.

      I’ve seen several people suggest he’s being used as a lightning rod: he gets to brag he was nominated, perhaps turning it into a lucrative gig, but can get the votes, leaving Trump the chance to nominate someone aggressive and competent who might have otherwise been rejected. Who knows?

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      2. People forget DJT has had a really long time to think through how to do this part, with firsthand experience of doing it once already. In addition to R control of the Senate, he also has the advantage of this being a full change-of-government, which lends a certain flexibility: If he’d won last time, he’d have had pressure to keep a lot of the existing choices, no matter how bad, so there would not be confirmation fights, especially if that hypothetical-2020 Senate had gone one-vote-Schumered the same way it did in our timeline.

        Lightning rod, bag-of-blood, sacrificial lamb – I think that is possible for Gaetz. Give the Senate a chew toy they can publicly be mean to so the rest get through confirmation, and then appoint him as ambassador to somewhere reasonable in six months.

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      3. “Things like drug use, sexual misconduct, misusing funds and special favors.“

        9 out of 9 members of Congress have the same extracurricular activities.

        As to claiming to be a True Conservative who hasn’t accomplished anything…

        I’m not aware of a True Conservative congresscritter that *has* accomplished anything beyond a few sound bites and sternly worded letters.

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      5. Note, maybe he really is that terrible, but also note that the screaming and moaning about change of leadership was mostly from the egop. And in the end, it was better….
        So– Don’t know, but sort of trust JDT on this. He’s sending little wrecking balls out into the state, and I’m just here to eat popcorn and watch the breakage.

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        1. My bet is the guy is simply a jerk. But if he’s a competent jerk….

          (And remember, his constituents were OK with him, they just re-elected him).

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          1. That’s not necessarily a ringing endorsement; 73 million people almost elected Kackling Kamela. We are all fortunate indeed that Trump got 76 million votes.

            How can they not see that Kamela is nothing but another dummy for the same ventriloquists that had their arms up 0bama’s ass for 8 years? Biden hasn’t made a decision of his own in 20 years or more, including running for office, being installed as Pretendent, and getting kicked to the curb.

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        2. I find it amusing that when you wrote “egop” without any capital letters in it, rather than reading it as “establishment GOP”, I read it as “ego-p”. And, since I’ve recently been studying the Common Lisp programming language a bit (where function naming convention for yes/no question functions is to add “-p” for “predicate” at the end, e.g. a function that checks whether a list is empty would be called “empty-p”), I found myself reading it as “ego? Yes or no?”

          (The answer, clearly, is “Yes”.)

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      6. I don’t know, in 2016, Ted Cruz was hated enough by his party that Bob Dole would rather have Trump than Cruz because “nobody likes him”.

        The WSJ has been NeverTrump with bells on, and anti-Tea Party before that. They are Swamp.

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        1. They are…Wall Street. So, swamp-adjacent. Same Ivy League feeder schools, mostly, so their college roomie is a Foggy Bottom Mid-level now, “I’ll just call him up.”

          Possibly a difference without a distinction, but a difference nonetheless.

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      7. Gaetz annoyed Republcians in congress two or three times with speaker votes.

        They deserved to be annoyed.

        The core matter is that literal criminal charges, fairly serious ones, have been filed against Trump, and Trump has been impeached by the House, on false premises.

        Trump did not order/authorize the unorganized militia to hang congress. Futhermore, it would be sucky precedent, but if he had it could have been argued as legal.

        In absence of those charges having been filed, and in absence of other indicators of serious criminal conspiracy by the Democrats, a Republican Speaker would not have had a special obligation to help resolve matters.

        Yet, such did, McCarthy and Johnson had such duties, and they have seemingly failed in them.

        Relative especially to Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Gaetz is a ‘true conservative’, in so far as that term means anything at all right now.

        To cover those current events, and to then ignore the elephant in the room has to be a deliberate act.

        Yes, very weird time of political chaos and factional uncertainity.

        Annoying congress by delaying the election of a Speaker was a mitzvah.

        If Strassel said those things, that was Strassel demonstrating that Strassel is blind, or a knave.

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  13. Okay, the concept that myself and other people who have views similar to mine must be paid for their support obligates me to post:

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  15. Considering how many of the people live-and live well-at the mid-to-top level of the Democratic Party and various “doing well by doing good” organizations, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were playing every single fraud and money game possible to rake in the dollars.

    And they genuinely believe that we’re doing the same-and just living frugally to “conceal our money” or something like that.

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        1. I’ve been known to respond to “is there anything else I can do for you” by asking for a million dollars. [Crazy Grin]

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  17. In my experience all humans are motivated by sex … either the physical or the mental (the thrill of something/whatever that gives someone the same joy as physical sex) … the desire for money or power, both of which leads to sex (either physical or mental stimulation) …

    Money and or power are the external, obvious goals but only because one or the other leads to sex in one form or another …

    The basic human desire to control others is the same hunger for power that leads to a mental sexual release …

    In rare cases, usually because a person no longer needs to chase sex, they may be motivated by a real desire to help others … in the idea world priests would be examples of this (in the real world of course sex still intrudes on priests as well) … maybe nuns are the only real world examples …

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    1. You’re missing a small but significant fraction of the population, then. There are a fair number of people with no interest in sex, who’d rather just accomplish something interesting. It doesn’t have to have “the same thrill” to be motivating.

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      1. Don’t worry, we’re really motivated by sex, too.

        We just don’t realize it.

        It’s really all sex, you see.

        ….you probably read that in the correct tone. ‘cuse me, going to go find my eyes, again.

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        1. Freud really owes western civilization a debt. I’d like to collect it with a piece of polished wood, tastefully turned, and applied to him in a dark alley with only select but appreciative witnesses.

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        2. Right. The sensible position to take is that sex is a powerful motivation for most (but not all) people, but it’s just one of the motivations that drive psychologically-healthy people.

          And TXRed is 100% right about old Sigmund Fraud.

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          1. At least the reduction of everything to “power” gives some kind of allowance for individual motive of what to do with the power, sort of.

            (It really fails, because a lot of folks want a specific result, not “power.” And “power” can’t give them it, anyways. But yeah….)

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    2. That’s a bit too reductionist; the reality is more nuanced. Sure, sex is a powerful motivation for many, even most, people. But, though you didn’t say that people are “only” or “primarily” motivated by sex, that’s the implication of your first paragraph. And it’s just not true of all people. Other motivations play a large role.

      For example, religion. Many people are highly motivated by religion, both in good (altruism) and bad (jihad) ways. But I can tell you from personal experience, the religious motivation is not connected to sex. My mindset when I’m in church singing worship songs to God is not remotely similar to my mindset when I’m in bed with my wife. Both are good, healthy activities that God encourages, so when I’m engaging in either activity I have not the smallest twinge of guilt about it. But they are not at all connected in my psyche.

      And the hunger for power, while it can be sex-related in many people, can also stand on its own. In fact, for many (psychologically unhealthy) people, the sex drive is actually subservient to their hunger for power, and you see that show up in how they express their sex drives: choosing “partners” (who are really victims) who are a lot less powerful than them. Interns in their company (or in the White House), for example. It may not be forcible sexual assault, but there’s a reason why relationships with someone under your authority are forbidden in any sensible organization (unless the relationship pre-dates the authority: a professor whose wife starts taking his classes isn’t suddenly forbidden to sleep with his wife). With people like that, it’s power, not sex, that fundamentally drives them, and their sex drive is subservient to their desire for power.

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  19. In other news…

    There’s apparently a movie coming out soon called “Mary”, that’s about the mother of Jesus. The titular role will be played by an Israeli Jew.

    There are apparently a ridiculous number of people up in arms over this…

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        1. Saw an account on X earlier today arguing in all seriousness that she was Moslem. /facepalm

          And specifically, the accounts are complaining that she isn’t Palestinian (which is Arab, but makes more sense putting it that way than a generic Arab).

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          1. So, SO many people have no idea where the name Palestine came from… It was first used by Herodotus (referring to the area where the Philistines lived), but first officially used by the Romans who named the province Palaestina around the early 2nd century (one source says around AD 132 or so). Since the Romans controlled the area for centuries, their name for the region stuck. But it would be historically inaccurate to have Mary be played by a Palestinian: when she was alive, the region of her homeland was called Judea, not Palestine.

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            1. One account I saw on X was making a far more modern argument. You see, everything happened in Bethlehem, and Bethlehem is a Palestinian city (in the West Bank), so…

              (ignoring – for obvious reasons – that she was living in Nazareth until Augustus’s tax decree forced her and her husband to leave for Bethlehem)

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          2. There’s a “theory” you can find on the intertubules that the Cherokee Nation, or randomly other native tribes, were actually practicing moslems, apparently due to there being “plenty of time” for intrepid moslem seafarers to sail here well before Columbus and leave nothing at all as evidence except the conversion of a few natives.

            And oddly, given the strong yet quaint custom of the moslem slave trading tradition, not taking any home as slaves.

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            1. And we all know that the Moslems were *great* sea-farers and maritime explorers, and are renowned as such…

              Some of them did apparently make it as far north as the British Isles. But afaik, there’s little evidence that they did so for any reason other than to conduct slave raids on whatever locals they discovered. And that means that they had little interest in exploration for exploration’s sake (they likely were able to secure maps of those areas with a little effort, in any case), but were instead acting purely as parasites.

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              1. They had some of the tools thanks to all their research put into pointing the right direction to properly orient towards that meteorite, but there’s not a lot of open ocean voyage-of-discovery stuff evident in anything I’ve seen.

                The slaving raids that continued from North Africa into England and Ireland as late the mid-1600s were pretty clearly using mostly follow-the-coast navigation. The Barbary States also raided Iceland, so they did do some crossings, and clearly they sailed out of sight of land even in the Med, but there’s nothing I have seen documenting the type of oceanic stuff that, say, Henry the Navigator used, which is what you’d need even to do the Africa-Brazil crossing, the closest and least messed up by currents, and it’s a lot of follow the coast, or a bit of a hike, from there to Cherokee lands.

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        2. I’ve met a number of practicing Christians who somehow never realized that Jesus was Jewish. And not just Jewish – he was a rabbi as well.

          And a hardcore, fundamentalist pain in the ass at that, who made plenty of enemies among the not-so-devout.

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          1. I recently read a bit online by a Jew who was reading the Gospels and reported finding Jesus real cool, having just read the bit about the moneychangers in the Temple.

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      3. Damn, I knew I should have vacuumed the office. Now I have to get Kat’s hair off my eyeballs. She’s not one of the fuzzy border collies, but smooth-coated BCs can shed as much as the rough-coated. All year long.

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      4. Conversation between us and our house guest:
        HG: But Jesus was Jewish. Where did they think that came from?
        Me: No. they don’t believe Jesus was Jewish.
        HG: WHAT?
        Mathematician: No, she’s telling the truth. They think Jesus was Palestinian.
        HG: What in HELL? Does their idea of the world involve time travel?

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        1. The amusing part of that is the authoritative interpretation of the Koran is that time travel is not possible, since it says only Allah knows anyone’s fate, and a time machine would let the operator go look and know theirs, QED.

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        3. These are the same people that think the core of Big Ben (in London) is a clock made by a Palestinian, that was stolen from Jerusalem by the British.

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  20. I think Taylor Swift did a freebie because she’s young and (yes really) still naive enough to have thought that’s what one does and then she walked when she found out she was the only freebie. Absolutely a guess but it does explain her support that started strong and ended tepid.

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    1. If she does one of her break-up songs featuring the Commie La Whorish campaign, I’d almost like to hear it.

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    2. and one would hope it got more tepid the more she worked with/dealt with the campaign just from the realization how moronic they were. But I don’t hold much

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      1. Do not ascribe any personal initiate to the TAYLOR SWIFT program’s public avatar. She is fully corporate music, and managed to the nth degree. The issue is clearly being discussed in the TAYLOR SWIFT program directorate and probably someone will be fired, but the avatar will just keep doing as she is told.

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            1. I’ve heard her twice “live”-ish, and Later With Jools Holland doesn’t have/allow Autotune, One song was closer but my first thought was “Gotta be just her looks, cuz it sure ain’t talent”
              Maybe her songwriting is okay, but I’ve not heard enough to impress or put me off. Maybe she can get Floor Jansen to sing a few and change my mind.

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              1. I haven’t heard anything to impress me with her songwriting. Actually a couple of her country songs were OK. But modern country is a low bar. Willie and Waylon did not school their successors.

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  21. “If most of the left is in it for the money, what does it mean when they come to the end of cake money?”

    War.

    Or they all give up and go home, more likely. The Chicoms are F-ed, capital F, thanks to their own crooked nature, the Russians failed to take over a disgusting kleptocracy they share a border with, and who else is there? No more free money.

    The Pantifa Brigades won’t put down their videogame controllers for free, right? These aren’t the people who built The Machine. These are their descendents, spoon-fed for life from the Iron Rice Bowl grandpa made.

    Tantrums and lying for the next four years, at most.

    For example, looking for the various literature awards to either go rapidly bankrupt or emerge from massive reorganization as tools for boosting legit sales. CHORFs do what they do because awards are part of a Leftist money ecosystem, right? Money dries up, suddenly they have to SELL BOOKS.

    That should be fun.

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    1. Yep. Awards help you get on TV programs and prestigious “online” lectures and to teach in universities. That’s where the money actually is. Except it’s in indie too, but they have no idea how to write stuff that sells.

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      1. I am greatly encouraged this week by #TheDonald announcing that campus anti-Semitism will get schools de-listed and de-funded.

        If they don’t have government accreditation and they don’t get government money, they’re reduced to grubbing for dollars from the famously tight-fisted Rich American Left. Who’s going to send little Arthur Higgins-Botham III Jr. to a snotty Woke diploma-mill with no official accreditation? (Which I love, because Lefties are the ones who drove accreditation all this time. You don’t got the degree you ain’t nuthin’, according to them.)

        Ivy League schools will fall in line like trained seals under a threat like this.

        Which means that all the little weenies like the ones who infest TOR.Com and do things like write up the Nebula short list will all get a memo. Which will read “Lay off the DEI shit!” By which I mean, they will get a memo -this- year. Before Christmas, I bet.

        Look for all the anti-Semitic/gay/trans/nonconforming artists under the bus by around March, I would think. I’m sure they’ll like it down here with all of us Conservatives, we have all the cake. >:D

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        1. All the universities should be de-funded. If they don’t provide a product (education) that customers (students and parents) are willing to pay for, they serve no useful purpose. Propping them up with government subsidies is wrong.

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        2. Making the universities clients of the government is even more wrong. That means their first priority is politics, not education or science. They’ll do anything to keep their place at the trough.

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            1. Yup. Scientists spend most of their time navigating various labyrinthine bureaucracies to get grants that are handed out based on politics, not merit. They are also quite aware of what results the bureaucrats want them to report, and that the ‘wrong’ results will impact the probability of their getting any grants in the future.

              Even if the scientists really, really want to do honest science, they are managed and overseen by…more bureaucrats, with a wide range of carrots (tenure, bigger grants) and sticks (no grants for you! Might as well resign now) to employ.

              Those bureaucrats don’t want scientific results that are disruptive or transformative; they care for nothing but keeping their snouts stuck in the public trough. Scientists are simply a means to collect grant money and more scientists == more grant money. That’s driving the proliferation of ‘scientists’ she’s talking about, and the proliferation of bullshit.

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  22. I do believe that it is the guilt that they feel at having so much when so many have so little that drives them to Marxism. They want the easy fix, never realizing that it is the choices you make in life that puts you in your economic situation, not the fact that someone has more or less than you. Marxism and all it’s fetid variations are nothing more than slavery to the state. They are feeling, not thinking, that is Marxisms biggest lie, that feeling the right way somehow fixes things, it doesn’t. Alas misery loves company, so they try and do the same things they blame their parents for, buying their way out of their own guilt. Just because you want to fix the world doesn’t give you the right to enslave it to a failed ideology because it assuages your guilt. Trying starting a business if you want to help the poor, don’t put slave collars on them.

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  23. There is a cruel stereotype about Presbyterians believing that a healthy bank account is a sure sign of being one of God’s Elect, and I think it also applies to many Leftists, who accept large salaries and plush perks being proof that they are on The Right Side Of History. One can only hope that cutting NGO funding and the subsequent layoffs will make these activists begin to doubt their faith.

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  24. Marxists before Marx (eh. Not really, but the philosophies were if not the same very similar)

    He tied a bunch of similar things together and put a pretty bow on it.

    Call it “the philosophy of envy.”

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  25. drink their own ink

    Google uses Reddit (among other sources) to train its LLM AI. Reddit officially disallowed AI-generated “content”, but it’s becoming more and more common, and a source of entertainment for members who delight in identifying it and calling it out. Yet the AI posts are almost never removed, which indicates that Reddit is allowing AI content despite their official policy.

    It’s going to be interesting after some of that “content” goes back through the LLM a few times.

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