[Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Major airline carriers throughout the United States announced this week they will be offering passengers upgrades to have a gray-haired old man named Steve pilot their flight.
"This has nothing to do with race or DEI," Delta spokesperson Tim Alexander told reporters. "We just feel like some of our passengers would prefer an old pilot with maybe one of those dated little mustaches. For an extra one hundred bucks, they can guarantee that whoever is flying the plane also likes a good game of golf with the boys on the weekends, enjoys pickleball with his wife, and attends the occasional classic car show, if you know what I mean..."
Other airlines joined Delta in allowing customers to choose a pilot named Steve or Dale or someone else who most likely attended Brigham Young University or Florida State in the '70s.
"We feel some passengers might prefer a pilot who passed his check ride the first time around and has a few thousand flight hours in the military under his belt," United Airlines spokesperson Susan Swanson said. "With everything in the news these days about doors flying off and engines spontaneously combusting, we figure passengers might at least like to know their pilot is one of those Sully Sullenberger-types with white hair who could land the plane in a river if the need arises."
As of publishing time, an overwhelming one hundred percent of all airline passengers had paid for the upgrade, with a few customers expressing interest in an additional upgrade to ensure all of their flight attendants are straight, thin, perky blonde ladies with a slight southern accent and names like Pam or Darla.
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[Breitbart] BuzzFeed and Vice Media, two failing left-wing sites, are starting to sell off their parts, reports the Wall Street Journal.
“BuzzFeed … is looking to sell its food sites, Tasty and First We Feast, according to people familiar with the situation,” writes the Wall Street Journal. “Meanwhile, Fortress Investment Group, which took over Vice in bankruptcy last year, is in talks to sell its Refinery29 women’s lifestyle-focused site[.]”
The Wall Street Journal portrays these developments in much too narrow of a way — as “yet another chapter in the demise of these digital-media companies that raised money at sky-high valuations nearly a decade ago only to struggle amid a volatile ad market and a decline in traffic[.]”
That’s not the half of it.
If you take a good look around at the corporate media landscape, online and elsewhere, the wheels are coming off all over.
The corporate/establishment/leftist media are collapsing, and it is freakin’ glorious.
CNN has fallen off a ratings cliff.
The Los Angeles Times is losing about $40 million a year, cutting nearly a third of its staff over two recent layoffs.
The Washington Post slashed staff and lost nearly $100 million in 2023.
BuzzFeed laid off 15 percent of its staff and closed BuzzFeed News entirely.
Vice Media filed for bankruptcy in 2023.
Sports Illustrated shut down.
The Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Condé Nast layoffs are coming.
Jezebel closed.
Best of all, 2,681 liars lost their jobs in 2023, more than the previous two years combined.
Get a load of this…
BuzzFeed went public in 2021, valued at $1.7 billion, and lost 97 percent of its value in the few years since. Now, BuzzFeed is selling its parts, starting with its food sites. According to the report, Tasty and First We Feast had “been a key component of BuzzFeed’s efforts to generate revenue streams beyond advertising” through merchandise.
My take? BuzzFeed is so desperate for cash that it’s forced to sell one of its few remaining popular verticals.
Vice Media went from being valued at $5.7 billion to being unable to pay its bills, filing Chapter 11, no one wanting to purchase it, and now that garbage site is valued at just $350 million. And like BuzzFeed, it’s selling off its parts, in this case, “Refinery29, which saw a decrease in revenue to $30 million last year from around $50 million in 2022, according to people familiar with the matter.”
A mere four years ago, Vice purchased Refinery29 for — wait for it, wait for it — $400 million. So Vice paid $400 million for Refinery29 in 2019, and now Vice itself is valued at less than that, at $350 million.
This is the not-so-slow-motion collapse of an ideology and attitude.
At long last, this young, ignorant, smarter-than-thou, know-it-all, effete, smug way of delivering news and lifestyle content has run its course. People are sick of the attitude, sick of being lied to, sick of being told how to live, how to speak, what to believe, and what does and does not make you virtuous.
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Wait until the end of the garage sale when they realize just how worthless Buzz Feed parts truly are.
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A little off topic, but in the same aisle as they all screaming sexism because whats her face didn't get nominated for a lukewarm Barbie performance yet Ryan Gosling did, even though that gal who said the thing did.
Kids section, young mom, very young daughter, like 5, going past Barbie section. Little girl goes absolutely glowing ape shit when she sees the Ken doll.
[Chronicle] The Pentagon reports that the number of new white recruits has decreased by more than 40 percent in the last five years: dropping from 44,000 in 2018 to just 25,000 in 2023. In the words of one anonymous Army official, "There’s a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded."
That observation is astute. Of course the military’s reputation among young white men has suffered. The new American military is explicitly left-wing, anti-white, and incompetent. The Department of Defense openly celebrates furries, transgenderism, and abortion while embracing the demographic decline of America’s white population.
It is no wonder that America’s young white men no longer want to join the armed forces.
This decline in white recruitment is both the Pentagon’s goal and a serious problem for them. The internal struggle over white soldiers in the Department of Defense provides a window into the spiritual and political crisis playing out across the West.
Make no mistake, the modern military is anti-white. There is no point in shying away from the truth. When military officials talk about "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" what they really mean is that the institution has too many white men in it.
The DEI liberal worldview understands race in simple terms: a room full of blacks is diverse. A room full of whites is racist. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told Congress when testifying about the January 6 protest, he wants to understand "white rage," as if that was the obvious question raised by the incident. He would never use the phrase "black rage" under any circumstances.
I had my own experience with anti-white prejudice in the military. While in officer training for the Marine Corps at The Basic School, my cohort was split into two groups one afternoon. All of the white men were sent to the barracks to perform "field day" (clean the facilities) while all of the women and non-whites went to a special social mixer where they were encouraged to join the combat arms (infantry, artillery, and armor).
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'They' talk about colonization. What they don't digest is that Europeans pretty much conquered the world in the 19th Century. You really want to tic off and motivate them again?
BLUF:
[Federalist] As school choice expands across the country, millions more parents have the chance to send their children to schools that best meet their needs. They are eager to flee schools that foster poor behavior. Parents know their children best, and they know a child’s best educational fit is based on more than only test scores and graduation rates.
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Yes, I went to public school when the reigning theory was "the smart kids will pull the rest of them up" (by osmosis, apparently.) My parents quickly tightened their belts and moved me and my siblings to private school.
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The ancient Greeks understood, that without discipline there can be no learning (other than Darwinistic).
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[REGNUM] For several days now, the Western, and subsequently the Russian, information field has been seething with discussions around the situation in Texas. Local governor Greg Abbott once again entered into a public conflict with federal authorities and refused to implement the decision of the US Supreme Court. The court prohibited the state National Guard from taking control of a section of the American border, as well as erecting barbed wire fences there. In response, Abbott sent a letter to federal authorities in which he reproached the current administration and President Joe Biden personally for violating the constitutional duty to protect the country's territory. And along the way he said that such circumstances reserve the state’s “right to self-defense.” At the same time, new wire fences were installed on the border and additional National Guard forces were sent.
[ZeroHedge] Earlier today we reported that according to Biden's Bureau of Economic Analysis, in the fourth quarter US GDP grew at a torrid 3.3% pace, which was a 5-sigma beat to consensus estimate of 2.0% and also came in well above the highest Wall Street forecast. We also laid out the components that accounted for the growth: mostly the lack of inventory destocking (which means growth will be subtracted in Q1 instead), a bizarre jump in exports despite the soaring dollar, and last but not least, a jump in healthcare spending and a surge in RV purchases. How about reducing regulations and taxes to generate new GDP? I know, that's crazy talk
Yes, bizarre, but whether the GDP growth number was realistic or not (spoiler alert: the latter) is less important than what funded said growth. And it is here that we reveal something shocking: the chart below shows the Q4 change in GDP in nominal dollars as well as the corresponding increases in the US budget deficit (because the last time the US actually had a surplus was last century) and the increase in debt.
The result, for better or worse, speak for themselves: while Q4 GDP rose by $329 billion to $27.939 trillion, a respectable if made up number, what is much more disturbing is that over the same time period, the US budget deficit rose by more than 50%, or $510 billion. And the cherry on top: the increase in public US debt in the same three month period was a stunning $834 billion, or 154% more than the increase in GDP. In other words, it now takes $1.55 in budget deficit to generate $1 of growth... and it takes over $2.50 in new debt to generate $1 of GDP growth!
[WND] Now that President Donald Trump has (for all intents and purposes) wrapped up the GOP presidential nomination for the third time, Democrats are dead — and they know it. If this next election is about a fair, honest, popular vote, Democrats lose by a landslide in November.
Desperate Democrats see it in the latest polls. They can feel it as young people, blacks and Latinos all move toward Trump. Black community leaders in Chicago are even announcing they will vote Republican in November because of the open-border disaster. There is no one left.
But that's why this is the most dangerous moment in America's history.
[Townhall] Young voters are already frustrated that Joe Biden couldn’t deliver on an actual student loan bailout. Biden didn’t have the votes in Congress to pull off something of that scale, and doing so by executive decree was later deemed constitutionally questionable. He did so on a smaller scale because Joe, like crackhead Hunter, thinks the rules don’t apply to him.
Still, it hasn’t masked the fact that young voters are souring on Joe; they think he’s too old, and now he’s enabling genocide in Gaza. You know there’s no genocide in Gaza. Still, the kiddos and the Muslim voters here think Treblinka 2.0 is unfolding before our very eyes, blinded to the fact that Hamas committed an actual genocidal terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Israel is killing terrorists. The Palestinian people support Hamas and their attacks. I’m not crying over the death toll.
Nevertheless, Biden dared to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose nation experienced the equivalent of a dozen 9/11 attacks in proportion to population, to scale down the war...because it’s hurting his re-election chances (via Axios):
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Joe has no re-election hope. I think he has been told he will drop out in May, but he has RAM and his hard drive is in poor shape.
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We ould have paid off all those student loans but your US Congress thought it was more important to send the money to Ukraine instead, where it could be wasted on a war instead of being put to good use.
[American Thinker] You've got to hand it to Texas's Gov. Greg Abbott: When he protects his state's border, the cartel human smuggling operators take their migrant landing points elsewhere, because not every state protects its borders like he does.
Which brings us to far-west San Diego where I am, with its famous surfing spot, Windansea Beach in tony, ritzy, La Jolla, which is at least as rich as Martha's Vineyard, immortalized in Tom Wolfe's 1968 New Journalism masterpiece, "The Pumphouse Gang."
Maybe the "mysterioso" stuff is a lot of garbage, but still, it is interesting. The surfers around the Pump House use that word, mysterioso, quite a lot. It refers to the mystery of the Oh Mighty Hulking Pacific Ocean and everything.
What's going on at Windansea now? What's going on at Windansea now? A swarm of illegal aliens just washed up on one of my all time favorite surf spots. The writer says the waves were gnarly and the panga boat capsized. I don't see that in the video at the link (dunno how to copy and paste X videos or else I would have here). I've seen days when the waves would have bashed that boat onto the rocks and the illegals could have been seriously injured. It would have been an easier landing at a lot of other beaches. Anyway there is more at the link. And, yes, I said Terror Networks because this is organized human smuggling at its worst. Just because they don't come in with guns blazing, yet, doesn't mean it isn't war.
It sure is.
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From a city planning standpoint, never allow a Home Depot to be built near beach front property.
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I'm pretty sure the nearest Home Depot is miles from Windansea beach. That kind of big box retailer would never be allowed in La Jolla. Only high tone fashion boutiques, restaurants and such are permitted in the commercial zone. The rest is luxurious, high end homes and full on mansions. Well, one exception as I recall, there was/is a Jack-in-the-Box about a block or so from the beach. Wouldn't be surprised if it employs illegals but certainly not that many. I know that landscapers do a lot of business in La Jolla because you'd be hard pressed to find a single weed or even a blade of grass out of place. It's that nice. But, from what I hear, many of the landscapers are Asian.
I'm pretty sure the boat's pilot made a mistake beaching his craft at Windansea. As has been noted, the waves there can be very big and the rocks are dangerous. A lot of nearby beaches would have made for easier, safer landings. You'd think they would have learned by now because this sort of thing has been going on for years.
I'll say one thing for them, for that panga boat to make it all the way from Tijuana to La Jolla with that many passengers is a remarkable bit of seamanship, especially since most of the journey was probably in the dark of night. I might like to get me one of those boats. I wonder if the Border Patrol auctions them off. But then, we don't really know how many of them capsize and sink with all passengers lost.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Major airline carriers throughout the United States announced this week they will be offering passengers upgrades to have a gray-haired old man named Steve pilot their flight.
[REGNUM] For several days now, the Western, and subsequently the Russian, information field has been seething with discussions around the situation in Texas. Local governor Greg Abbott once again entered into a public conflict with federal authorities and refused to implement the decision of the US Supreme Court. The court prohibited the state National Guard from taking control of a section of the American border, as well as erecting barbed wire fences there. In response, Abbott sent a letter to federal authorities in which he reproached the current administration and President Joe Biden personally for violating the constitutional duty to protect the country's territory. And along the way he said that such circumstances reserve the state’s “right to self-defense.” At the same time, new wire fences were installed on the border and additional National Guard forces were sent.
[Townhall] Young voters are already frustrated that Joe Biden couldn’t deliver on an actual student loan bailout. Biden didn’t have the votes in Congress to pull off something of that scale, and doing so by executive decree was later deemed constitutionally questionable. He did so on a smaller scale because Joe, like crackhead Hunter, thinks the rules don’t apply to him.
