I couldn’t find anything through DDG, but then, it’s DDG. Insufficient caffeine to try other search engines. (She was on The Spew that day, if that helps.)
Where? Only thing I saw from her on X recently is a lot of sound & fury about everything, but nothing about oversight on taxes. Additionally , the only thing that popped up a search was this:
I think the real problem Ms. Warren has isn’t whether or not she really said it, but that we have no trouble believing that it is something that she would have said.
From what they’re saying, the bill as written SUCKS.
Hawley keeps repeating that ‘members of Congress should not trade stocks while in office’ but the bill prohibits them OWNING any stock, or any ‘non-small’ business.
I say, if somebody owns stock before running for office, they can keep it. If Congresscritters want to buy or sell stock, or options, or any other security, they should be required to publicly disclose their intended trades at least a week in advance.
It’s not simply the buying and/or selling of stocks that’s corrupt, it’s the secrecy and inside information. Require everything to be made open and public.
I’d be happy with a situation of a congresscritter owning stock, if it would be placed in a real blind trust, unlike the ones where the blindfold is transparent (“just between friends”).
I believe that’s one of the reasons why Nasty Pelosi (and probably Occasional Cortex) have turned their salaries into impressive fortunes. In Pelosi’s case, there’ve been indications of congressional moves that mysteriously happened to benefit her (or hubby’s) stock portfolio.
I read yesterday (the 8th) that Sandy showed up in DC broke and on a less than $200K/y salary is now worth over $30M. If thats just on a blind stock fund, I want to know who her broker is! And yes, we *know* it’s not just from investments in a fund.
…and AOC still wants us to pay off her student loans. Talk about entitled.
Most of that money didn’t come from ‘fortunate’ stock trades, though. It was ‘contributions’ from rich donors. Then they ‘just happened’ to get support for some law or bill they favored.
And they went to the trouble to get screencaps from the actual routine. Which, there’s a radio version I like better than the filmed one, but still, good work.
For the Judith Curry quote about “climate change” I like to refer back to the GISP2 paleoclimate data, which captures temperature (in central Greenland) for the past 50k years. A graph of the past 10k years (clipping off the ice age preceding it) is informative. It shows that we’re currently below average, and the 1800s period that warmists refer to as “pre-industrial” times as if they were in any way representative are about 1.25 degrees C colder than the average of the past 8000 years.
In the days of Leif Eriksson it was a few tenths warmer than average. In the days of Julius Caesar it was a full degree C warmer than average, and around 1200 BC it was close to two degrees above average.
Climate change? Sure, ever since the atmosphere was invented. Anthropogenic climage change? No evidence for that.
One of these days I’ll dig through other paleoclimate data (NOAA has quite a collection) for similar analysis.
Yup, the Late Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period. Followed by the Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age, which ended around 1850. We are currently just past the peak of a Solar Maximum; that is, the sun is burning hotter than it has in 600 years.
We saved the 1995 edition of the Farmers Almanac because it had an article on a 600-year solar cycle. Pointing out one low point was the mid 1300s, where Europe got lots of cold rain, and the Black Death. Also pointing out the cycle would be turning down again right……about…..now.
They may have been converted to the True Faith since then, but we kept,that article.
Or, because the primary weather data sources (measurement stations mis-sited, phantom measuring stations so false data can be introduced., etc.) they rely on to put it together have been so thoroughly corrupted that it doesn’t matter whether they’ve converted or not; the only way not to spout the line is quit publishing the Almanac entirely.
They read Heinlein as well as we do:
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what the stars foretell, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable verdict of history – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
So they’ve made as many facts as possible disappear beyond recovery. And for all the mockery their dupes deserve, they’ve been frightfully efficient and effective in many areas.
Yeah. My understanding is that while the Huns were moving in from the East at the tail end of the Roman Empire, the proto-Vikings were having troubles of their own due to the temperature dropping. That caused them to start raiding the outlying Roman settlements in Western Europe and England.
Oh yes, the climate has varied a great deal since the end of the active Ice Age and the Younger Dryas, then the Altithermal/Atlantic Climate Optimum. The Roman warm period tapered off, then crashed in AD 535-539 CE, thanks to a large volcanic eruption. The three years at the nadir of the period are probably where the Fimbulwinter idea of the sagas came from, and what led to Scandinavian culture going from a pretty average Iron Age farming society to the Vikings. It also might be where some of the descriptions of the infertile years of the Mabinogion come from.
The Medieval Warm Period was great in western Europe, and northern Eastern Europe. The eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia went very cold, so cold that in the early 1000s, Bagdad had snow on the ground for six weeks. The drought and cold caused some of the springs that supplied Jerusalem dried up forever. That climate phase is probably what started the decline of the Byzantine Empire, based on coinage debasement. Everything went “splat” starting in 1304 in Western Europe, then spread east. Similarly, the worst of the 1600s weather hit Russia first (three years of no crops), then western Europe before zapping Poland.
During cold phases, the large pattern so that North America gets megadroughts, Europe gets flooded and frozen. I’ll take a pass on both, thanks.
As an aside, if you look through the NOAA/NCAR datasets, be aware that they “adjusted” the temperatures for the late 1800s-1900s. It is supposed to be a correction to make the older stuff fit what modern instrumentation would show. A lot of us who were in the business at the time cached data sets before the “correction.” The biggest change is in temperature, but some rainfall data might also have been changed a little. I’m not sure on that last, because I didn’t see it when I compared my regional data sets.
“I’ve done some terrible things in my lifetime. Such as get up in the morning to go to work. Also getting up in the evening to go to work. Now, it’s not the getting up, exactly, that is the problem.”
A friend on the dark side posted carping about how DOGE received seven million dollars the first week. From one of the mimes, DODGE have already stopped about a billion dollars in wasteful spending. About 143 times the investment (if I am correct, a 14,300 percent return on investment). If DOGE were a private company, I’d be buying stock in them.
I suppose they might have received that much in reimbursements for tech equipment? (Which I’m sure they, unlike the critters they are auditing, had receipts for.)
Just saw a Joe Rogan video. His guest summed up the last 20+ years perfectly: “The Era Of Malignant Governance”
THAT is what Trump and Musk are exposing. We have been ground under the boot of Malignant Governance for longer than those protesting against Trump have spent in this world.
It has been far longer than twenty years. It has just gotten especially bad in that timeframe. Depending on how you want to define things, it either goes back a good fifty years, or a full century.
Longer. There were debates on corruption (not just here) going back over two thousand years, if I remember correctly. The problem is endemic. Vigilance must be held across generations.
Sometimes the bandits win. Best plan accordingly, and teach your children well.
There was not a USA two thousand years ago. And there was not a world-wide funding of all media by a shadow government in the USA until probably the 1960s, though internally, back to Woodrow Wilson seems about right. The media were certainly corrupt before that, but it was localized, not nationwide and systematic.
1910, minus the Democrats racism, Jim Crow, KKK, etc. would be a pretty good thing. Now, we keep the technological progress, of course. Just dump all the evils of THOMAS Woodrow WILSON. (Why do I put his name thus? “Joe the Plumber” “But ‘Joe’ is just his middle name!” “Oh, like WOODROW?”)
I suspect that if they stop all the grift and lies there will be more than enough in the “budget” to cover governmental expenses, with a good bit left over for paying down the national debt.
That’s Zoe Quinn. She made some (questionable) video games. Her boyfriend claimed she’d been cheating on him with game journalists. Players started asking questions obvious questions, and were called basement-dwelling, misogynist incels by the game developers and publications.
This is what started Gamergate. And videogamers have been getting more cranky and more openly anti-woke ever since.
She’ll probably do the “I’m fasting on large coffee-shakes” like one group did (at least it supported their local froo-froo coffee shop), or the “rotating fast” where the people fasted for 12 hours per day and others then took the second shift.
I can’t stand Al Sharpton, but I’ll give him this. When he went on the hunger strike to protest US military using Vieques as a bombing range, he fasted. I think he lost 70 pounds.
According To Hoyt 
Thanks for these.
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The Reader wants to know if that Elizabeth Warren quote is real.
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I couldn’t find anything through DDG, but then, it’s DDG. Insufficient caffeine to try other search engines. (She was on The Spew that day, if that helps.)
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It is, from Twitter. And someone replied with the relevant text from the Constitution saying that, yes, we do have the right.
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Where? Only thing I saw from her on X recently is a lot of sound & fury about everything, but nothing about oversight on taxes. Additionally , the only thing that popped up a search was this:
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/02/fact-check-elizabeth-warren-constitution-tax-dollars.html
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I think the real problem Ms. Warren has isn’t whether or not she really said it, but that we have no trouble believing that it is something that she would have said.
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Meme harvests are doing very well this year.
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Oh, this week it was a crazy bumper crop
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Yep. Need to put up a new shower rod, then check the printer for ink.
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Much appreciated though.
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Very nice bumper crop!
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“Hating the Feds isn’t a hobby.”
“We know. It’s a profession. And we excel at it.”
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Hun’s & Hoydens, what is your profession?
HAOOH! HAOOH! HAOOH!
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Woke up early. Found this in my inbox.
The day is now GREAT.
Thanks, Sarah!
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Sunny day! Everything’s A ok!
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Laughed out loud in the restaurant at the Ouiji carpet/Roomba.
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SFBS!
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Not a meme.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eAyCFrwH0LA
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From what they’re saying, the bill as written SUCKS.
Hawley keeps repeating that ‘members of Congress should not trade stocks while in office’ but the bill prohibits them OWNING any stock, or any ‘non-small’ business.
I say, if somebody owns stock before running for office, they can keep it. If Congresscritters want to buy or sell stock, or options, or any other security, they should be required to publicly disclose their intended trades at least a week in advance.
It’s not simply the buying and/or selling of stocks that’s corrupt, it’s the secrecy and inside information. Require everything to be made open and public.
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I’d be happy with a situation of a congresscritter owning stock, if it would be placed in a real blind trust, unlike the ones where the blindfold is transparent (“just between friends”).
I believe that’s one of the reasons why Nasty Pelosi (and probably Occasional Cortex) have turned their salaries into impressive fortunes. In Pelosi’s case, there’ve been indications of congressional moves that mysteriously happened to benefit her (or hubby’s) stock portfolio.
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I read yesterday (the 8th) that Sandy showed up in DC broke and on a less than $200K/y salary is now worth over $30M. If thats just on a blind stock fund, I want to know who her broker is! And yes, we *know* it’s not just from investments in a fund.
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…and AOC still wants us to pay off her student loans. Talk about entitled.
Most of that money didn’t come from ‘fortunate’ stock trades, though. It was ‘contributions’ from rich donors. Then they ‘just happened’ to get support for some law or bill they favored.
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Great Memes! Great Morning!
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I loved the Abbott & Costello classic.
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And they went to the trouble to get screencaps from the actual routine. Which, there’s a radio version I like better than the filmed one, but still, good work.
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For the Judith Curry quote about “climate change” I like to refer back to the GISP2 paleoclimate data, which captures temperature (in central Greenland) for the past 50k years. A graph of the past 10k years (clipping off the ice age preceding it) is informative. It shows that we’re currently below average, and the 1800s period that warmists refer to as “pre-industrial” times as if they were in any way representative are about 1.25 degrees C colder than the average of the past 8000 years.
In the days of Leif Eriksson it was a few tenths warmer than average. In the days of Julius Caesar it was a full degree C warmer than average, and around 1200 BC it was close to two degrees above average.
Climate change? Sure, ever since the atmosphere was invented. Anthropogenic climage change? No evidence for that.
One of these days I’ll dig through other paleoclimate data (NOAA has quite a collection) for similar analysis.
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Yup, the Late Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period. Followed by the Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age, which ended around 1850. We are currently just past the peak of a Solar Maximum; that is, the sun is burning hotter than it has in 600 years.
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We saved the 1995 edition of the Farmers Almanac because it had an article on a 600-year solar cycle. Pointing out one low point was the mid 1300s, where Europe got lots of cold rain, and the Black Death. Also pointing out the cycle would be turning down again right……about…..now.
They may have been converted to the True Faith since then, but we kept,that article.
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Or, because the primary weather data sources (measurement stations mis-sited, phantom measuring stations so false data can be introduced., etc.) they rely on to put it together have been so thoroughly corrupted that it doesn’t matter whether they’ve converted or not; the only way not to spout the line is quit publishing the Almanac entirely.
They read Heinlein as well as we do:
So they’ve made as many facts as possible disappear beyond recovery. And for all the mockery their dupes deserve, they’ve been frightfully efficient and effective in many areas.
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Yeah. My understanding is that while the Huns were moving in from the East at the tail end of the Roman Empire, the proto-Vikings were having troubles of their own due to the temperature dropping. That caused them to start raiding the outlying Roman settlements in Western Europe and England.
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*Sees the Environmental Historian sign flashing*
Oh yes, the climate has varied a great deal since the end of the active Ice Age and the Younger Dryas, then the Altithermal/Atlantic Climate Optimum. The Roman warm period tapered off, then crashed in AD 535-539 CE, thanks to a large volcanic eruption. The three years at the nadir of the period are probably where the Fimbulwinter idea of the sagas came from, and what led to Scandinavian culture going from a pretty average Iron Age farming society to the Vikings. It also might be where some of the descriptions of the infertile years of the Mabinogion come from.
The Medieval Warm Period was great in western Europe, and northern Eastern Europe. The eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia went very cold, so cold that in the early 1000s, Bagdad had snow on the ground for six weeks. The drought and cold caused some of the springs that supplied Jerusalem dried up forever. That climate phase is probably what started the decline of the Byzantine Empire, based on coinage debasement. Everything went “splat” starting in 1304 in Western Europe, then spread east. Similarly, the worst of the 1600s weather hit Russia first (three years of no crops), then western Europe before zapping Poland.
During cold phases, the large pattern so that North America gets megadroughts, Europe gets flooded and frozen. I’ll take a pass on both, thanks.
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As an aside, if you look through the NOAA/NCAR datasets, be aware that they “adjusted” the temperatures for the late 1800s-1900s. It is supposed to be a correction to make the older stuff fit what modern instrumentation would show. A lot of us who were in the business at the time cached data sets before the “correction.” The biggest change is in temperature, but some rainfall data might also have been changed a little. I’m not sure on that last, because I didn’t see it when I compared my regional data sets.
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So, when your theory doesn’t fit the facts, change the data to match your theory. I’m not even surprised. Disgusted, but not surprised.
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Or change the model to mangle it in real time, then corrupt the peer-review process….
Michael Mann started doing this in the 90s.
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I tried to use reason, logic, and actual history to calm some of these people https://frank-hood.com/2022/09/24/to-warm-or-not-to-warm/.
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I fear you are but shouting into the void…
…the void between their ears. Facts, logic and especially math are RRRAAACISSST!!! you see, to be assiduously avoided by the Politically Correct.
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How do you stop a stampede of Congress Critters? With crossed arms and a bored stare. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dvdDrm_5YueovxXLxIR6kAVWcumAfoUs/view?usp=sharing
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Well, and there were no news cameras and microphones inside that building.
It’s well known in DC you never stand between a politician and a microphone.
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(Bored almost to tears): “None shall pass.”
“No.”
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No, the last time Trump grabbed a pussy it marked the end of a national scandal.
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Well met!
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Over 27000 wakeups here, and I’m not used to it, either.
I wonder if I will be surprised when I miss one.
Looping back to yesterday’s post, Postcards from Barsoom has a parallel essay.
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“I’ve done some terrible things in my lifetime. Such as get up in the morning to go to work. Also getting up in the evening to go to work. Now, it’s not the getting up, exactly, that is the problem.”
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T2 needs a sound track. https://youtu.be/mpMg1upld0w
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Remember, Elon Musk found all this corruption just by lifting one small corner of the curtain. Try to imagine how much more rot remains to be exposed.
The ‘man behind the curtain’ is a decaying zombie!
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A friend on the dark side posted carping about how DOGE received seven million dollars the first week. From one of the mimes, DODGE have already stopped about a billion dollars in wasteful spending. About 143 times the investment (if I am correct, a 14,300 percent return on investment). If DOGE were a private company, I’d be buying stock in them.
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And I very much doubt they received that.
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I suppose they might have received that much in reimbursements for tech equipment? (Which I’m sure they, unlike the critters they are auditing, had receipts for.)
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Just saw a Joe Rogan video. His guest summed up the last 20+ years perfectly: “The Era Of Malignant Governance”
THAT is what Trump and Musk are exposing. We have been ground under the boot of Malignant Governance for longer than those protesting against Trump have spent in this world.
Here’s to ending The Era Of Malignant Governance!
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It has been far longer than twenty years. It has just gotten especially bad in that timeframe. Depending on how you want to define things, it either goes back a good fifty years, or a full century.
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Yeah, USAID has been cover for CIA, both spending and personnel, since there’s been USAID, so since 1961.
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Longer. There were debates on corruption (not just here) going back over two thousand years, if I remember correctly. The problem is endemic. Vigilance must be held across generations.
Sometimes the bandits win. Best plan accordingly, and teach your children well.
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There was not a USA two thousand years ago. And there was not a world-wide funding of all media by a shadow government in the USA until probably the 1960s, though internally, back to Woodrow Wilson seems about right. The media were certainly corrupt before that, but it was localized, not nationwide and systematic.
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1910, minus the Democrats racism, Jim Crow, KKK, etc. would be a pretty good thing. Now, we keep the technological progress, of course. Just dump all the evils of THOMAS Woodrow WILSON. (Why do I put his name thus? “Joe the Plumber” “But ‘Joe’ is just his middle name!” “Oh, like WOODROW?”)
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I suspect that if they stop all the grift and lies there will be more than enough in the “budget” to cover governmental expenses, with a good bit left over for paying down the national debt.
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It’s starting to seem like that.
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So something that occurred to me from this week’s news:
When they ended an industry (was it coal in Kentucky? search engines aren’t helpful), they told the people out of work, “Learn to code.”
The primary driver of the DOGE discoveries is well-executed programming.
THEY TOOK THE ADVICE AND LEARNED TO CODE.
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Flu seems to be making a comeback. Ugh.
cmon t-cells. Time to fix bayonets. (Grin)
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Our son’s cooks called in sick this morning. Which is why he’s on the grill line and not at church.
What managers have to do…
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Yes, indeed.
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He managed to turn up for a few minutes, now gone to work his “scheduled” shift. Going to be interviewing a potential third manager this week.
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Survived. Back to work. Grave whizzers… have to wait a while.
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A most excellent crop of memes this week. *G*
Cheese!
“I’m With Vlad!”
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Vlad needs the big cart.
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Vlad needs a Surena against the Romans train of camels bringing more ammo….
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Here’s another good one –
https://x.com/DAKKADAKKA1/status/1888398450162561111?t=LqL1GM1GHnglw13BtdvZhQ&s=19
That’s Zoe Quinn. She made some (questionable) video games. Her boyfriend claimed she’d been cheating on him with game journalists. Players started asking questions obvious questions, and were called basement-dwelling, misogynist incels by the game developers and publications.
This is what started Gamergate. And videogamers have been getting more cranky and more openly anti-woke ever since.
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Also: Woohoo! Mine made the cut!
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If that Olivia Julianna ‘activist’ goes on a hunger strike for a month, the weight loss might be noticeable.
I doubt she’ll make it more than a day or two.
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She’ll probably do the “I’m fasting on large coffee-shakes” like one group did (at least it supported their local froo-froo coffee shop), or the “rotating fast” where the people fasted for 12 hours per day and others then took the second shift.
I can’t stand Al Sharpton, but I’ll give him this. When he went on the hunger strike to protest US military using Vieques as a bombing range, he fasted. I think he lost 70 pounds.
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About 500 too few? Yes, I know he didn’t weight that much.
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https://x.com/DeclanFinnBooks/status/1888575326084805112/photo/1
All of this.
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Someone watched cheesy late night SciFi shows and the title shows. :-D
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Or someone has heard really depressing songs.
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Embrace the power of “and.”
I just heard a lovely instrumental cover of a Metallica song – think it was, “Nothing Else Matters.”
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Some sort of Bohemian Rhapsody?
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No, it’s songs. I rarely watch TV if I can help it, though husband and I have fallen into old British mystery series again.
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THAT.
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Someone heard cheesy sf songs from the sixties. Remember my brother is 10-ish years older than I.
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