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-Great Cultural Revolution
'We Are Literally Experimenting on Children – There's Going to Be Problems' – Bill Maher Takes on Dangers of the Radical Trans Movement (VIDEO)
[Gateway] During Friday’s episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" the HBO host took an at-length look at many of the knowns and unknowns surrounding the trans movement that, he expressed, has come to prominence more out of a youthful rebelliousness than any serious conviction. As such, the fact that adults are validating kids going through a phase should be a concern to everyone.

"The answer can’t always be that anyone from a marginalized community is automatically right; trump card, mic drop, end of discussion. Because we’re literally experimenting on children," Maher contended

"Someone needs to say it — not everything’s about you. And it’s okay to ask questions about something that’s very new and involves children," he noted since the ACLU had declared the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade was being said to have more of a negative impact on LGBTQ people than women.

Maher pointed out the negative impact that puberty blockers have on the development of children and how gender-affirming surgeries are serious procedures being pushed on an age demographic that goes through all kinds of phases.



Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2022 03:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Warning - not safe for the workplace. Get the Netflix memo telling the special interest groups, work here or leave. Maybe this is why.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/24/2022 12:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course there will be serious consequences, that was kinda the point.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/24/2022 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't they call that Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy? Sick bastards.
Posted by: magpie || 05/24/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Like what they did with The Covid? You betchya.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/24/2022 17:20 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Think You Have Monkeypox? Watch For These Ten Strange Symptoms
[Bee] Monkeypox is here! EVERYONE PANIC! You thought COVID wasn't a big deal? Well, get ready to spend every waking moment of your life in constant terror for fear that the next person you run into might have a rare disease with a low transmission rate.

Think you might have it? Diagnose yourself by consulting these symptoms:

1) A mild headache: Run for your life! YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD!

2) You've been to England in the last six months: You might also be British, which is another problem altogether.

3) Italian plumbers make you FURIOUS: Throwing all those barrels is making you super buff, though.

4) You pick a bug out of your wife's hair and eat it: Helpful but gross. Don't do that.

5) You become confused and angry every time you see a monolith: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

6) All of your pants are at the tailor to have a hole added for your tail: If you haven't figured it out by now—you're a monkey. Sad.

7) You just got back from a tour of Dr. Fauci's Wuhan Monkeypox Lab: Duct tape is not a valid tool for air sealing a room against viral infection.

8) A tiny monkey bursts out of your chest: If you had the vaccine, the monkey would have exploded out of your body but in a slightly more mild way.

9) You insist that selectively bred bananas are evidence of creation: An atheist's nightmare! Mic drop!

10) Zero symptoms: Better quarantine just to be safe.

In the end, it doesn't matter what your symptoms are, if you die, you'll be recorded as a monkeypox statistic.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/24/2022 12:02 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think anyone who tests positive for monkey pox should quarantine in a giant blue plastic barrel.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/24/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Monkeypox is spread by people playing DongyKong. Fact!
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/24/2022 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Suddenly picturing people walking around wearing nothing but a blue barrel and a DK mask, doing Covid plague doctor cosplay stuff.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/24/2022 15:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Suddenly start watching MSNBC and looking in closets and under beds for hiding 'theocons and neocons'?
Posted by: magpie || 05/24/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Nurses begin practicing your tiktok lines!

Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/24/2022 16:36 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Briefly about Ukraine. 05/23/2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] 1. Svetlodarsk.
The Svetlodar arc fell down. The village of Mironovsky was taken near Svetlodarsk. There are battles near Vozdvizhenka and Mironovka. The Svetlodarsk-Artemovsk highway is under threat. The Armed Forces unsuccessfully tried to undermine the dam of the Uglegorsk TPP.
See below on Svetlodarsk arc
2. Soledar.
After the capture of Vladimirovka, the RF Armed Forces began shelling the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway, as a result of which the main communications line of the Severodonetsk grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was under direct threat. Fighting also continued in the Novaya Kamenka area.

3. Artemovsk.
The fighting continued at Pilipchatino. Rockets are being fired at the city. The enemy is concentrating troops on the western outskirts of Artemovsk.

4. Zolote.
The troops broke through the fortified area and reached the outskirts of Zolote. A cleansing of Kamyshevakhi is also underway. There are also battles in the area of ​​Viktorovka and Vrubovka. There are unconfirmed reports of the occupation of Toshkovka. The Gorsko-Golden fortified area did not last long.

5. Severodonetsk.
The assault on the city continues. The fighting has already moved to urban areas. On the other hand, there are more and more complaints from the military that they are not being supplied, as well as chatter about the fact that Zelensky does not allow Zaluzhny to withdraw troops from the operational bag.
A fire sack, as mentioned previously
6. Krasniy Limon.
The assault on the city began. Our troops entered from the north and began to occupy city blocks. Artillery and aviation have been working very actively since morning. The enemy retreated to the southern part of the city. A large number of prisoners are reported.

7. Izyum.
Fighting continued in the area of ​​Bolshaya Kamyshevakha, Kurulka and Dolgenkiy. The battles here so far are more of a positional character.

8. Kharkov.
Medium-intensity battles continued in the area of ​​Liptsy, Ternovoye, Rubizhnoye. After the enemy transferred part of his forces from near Kharkov to Izyum, the front here stabilized and the progress was more of a tactical nature.

9. Avdievka.
Fighting near the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway. There is a probing of the enemy defenses on the outskirts of Avdievka and in the area of ​​Krasnogorovka. After occupying Novoselovka, the troops continue fighting on the outskirts of New York.

10. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoe-Orekhovo-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoseloveka without changes. The enemy expects that soon this direction will be activated and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will go on the offensive either on Zaporozhye or in the Gulyai-Polye area.

Marinka, Nikolaev, Odessa - no change.
This is a very big deal. Svetodarsk arc is the last geographical objective before Bakhmut (previously known as Artemovsk).
Why the name change?
Artemosk is a rail/road junction held by the Ukrainians, as Rozhin says in this summary, since 2015 -- during the Debaltsevo Defensive Operation -- from everything I read at the time, it also was a logistics center for the Ukrainians and for their formations holding the line, roughly the Severodonetsk River from the Svetodark Arc to a line ending at the Russian border.

A lot of separatist blood was shed, but they could not crack this line. It now appears the Russian are about to march on Artemovsk.

They broke into the fortified area near Zolote and went to the village itself.

They took the suburb of Svetlodarsk Mironovsky (the village was cleared by the fighters of the Wagner PMC), the process of clearing the villages of Mironovka and Vozdvizhenka is underway.

In fact, we are witnessing the collapse of the Svetlodarskaya arc, which we could not liquidate in 2015. Immediately after the liberation of Popasnaya and Troitsky, the enemy was under the threat of encirclement of the Svetlodar group and was forced to withdraw troops to Artemovsk (Bahkmut). There will be good news from here in the next few days.

There are reports that they took Toshkovka (but so far without video confirmation, as of yesterday ours controlled about half of the village)

Well, the assault on Krasniy Liman has recently begun. Our troops are already in the city. There are fights.



From Krasniy Limon:

Posted by: badanov || 05/24/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why the name change?

Russians change place names all the time. Donetsk once was known as Stalino, for example
Posted by: badanov || 05/24/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Volgograd used to be Stalingrad back around the last time Ukraine was used as the playing field in somebody's war.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/24/2022 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/24/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||

#4  ...St. Petersburg used to be Petrograd till it become Leningrad till it became St. Petersburg.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/24/2022 16:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Rantburg U is clearly doing seminars on the lawn on this beautiful day, :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/24/2022 21:25 Comments || Top||

#6  As ever, the Rooskies are winnin'!
Amidst all the din and the spinnin'
Of plates by the Bear,
Take a gander at Tver
And recall all the ghosts of Kalinin.
Posted by: Creretle Grumble6164 || 05/24/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||


Economy
The Federal Morons Have Fixed It So Gasoline Won't Come Down Until The Economy Does
[Hayride] That’s not our opinion, it’s that of Oilprice.com...

U.S. gasoline and diesel prices are soaring to record highs nearly every day these days, as crude oil prices hold above $110 a barrel, the Russian invasion of Ukraine upends global crude and refined product trade flows, and refinery capacity globally is now lower than before the pandemic after some refineries—including in the United States—closed permanently after COVID crippled fuel demand in early 2020. There isn’t a quick fix for all-time high fuel prices in America— or elsewhere — analysts say. The quickest fix is actually not one American consumers would want — a recession that would lead to job losses.

Despite the Biden Administration’s months-long efforts to lower gasoline prices — including massive releases of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and blaming oil companies for price gouging — U.S. refineries cannot catch up with demand.

Not that demand has soared so much. It’s the capacity for supply, globally and in the U.S, that is now a few million barrels per day lower than it was before the pandemic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2022 03:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For the love of God, the economy will not recover unitil the price of energy goes down. Asshats!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/24/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Environmentalists cheer. They want gas up to $20/gallon. Because fuck the little people.
Posted by: Bertie Lumumba1577 || 05/24/2022 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  good place to watch gasoline prices by State is the AAA site

https://gasprices.aaa.com/

Ave price in CA now over $6/gal; average price in NY and IL likely to his $5/gal soon.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/24/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Paid $4.799 for mid-grade this morning on the Space Coast.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/24/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Interestingly, prices slipped about 10-20 cents a gallon here yesterday - most places now down to 4.19, some as low as 4.09.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 05/24/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Ave price in CA now over $6/gal; average price in NY and IL likely to his $5/gal soon.

Trying to slow down people seeking to escape?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/24/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Spike in Early Voting in Georgia Proves Madness Over New Voting Law was a Nothingburger
[LI] Stacey Abrams and other lefties have a ton of eggs on their face. Remember when they screamed the new Georgia voting law would restrict minorities from voting? The Republicans want to make it as hard as possible for minorities to vote!
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2022 06:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, if the desired (by the left) outcome is not achieved, it is proof that voters were "suppressed."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/24/2022 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2 

What concerns me is them being so quiet going into the actual voting process.

What new Illegal work arounds have they come up with now?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/24/2022 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  A spike in primary voters is a bad sign for incumbents
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/24/2022 12:59 Comments || Top||


My Biden-Voting Friend Had 'No Idea' Things Could Get This Bad. Buckle Up, Buddy, We're Just Getting Started
[PJ] A friend told me yesterday he voted for Biden because he was tired of Trump’s "drama." He said he "didn’t vote for Jared Kushner or Ivanka" and didn’t like them "hanging around" the White House.

"Right message, wrong guy," he said of Trump.

My buddy considers himself a "non-Trumping, Democrat-hating conservative." I guess his "non-Trumping" bias trumped (heh-heh) his hatred of Democrats.

He claimed he had "no idea things would get this bad under Biden."

My friend also doesn’t like the far-left judge in the Bronx who has a habit of releasing violent criminals from jail. He lives nearby.

"She’s causing a one-woman crime wave," my friend lamented. He fears for his family’s safety and worries about his 2-year-old granddaughter’s future.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2022 02:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unintended consequences
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 05/24/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#2  most of the leftists I know are still in 'denial' or 'anger'

since nov 2016

Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/24/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Good and hard
Posted by: Billy Budd || 05/24/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  When things are really important, listen to the brain not your feelings.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/24/2022 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  most of the leftists I know are still in 'denial' or 'anger'

since nov 2016


At least some Never-Trump Republicans, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/24/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Have you noticed? These people now quickly retort.... "we don't like to talk about politics."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2022 8:39 Comments || Top||

#7  A shattered nation yearns for mean tweets and $1.90/Gal gasoline again!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/24/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Octavian style Proscriptions!!!
Posted by: 746 || 05/24/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#9  This is why a vote for a democrat is an act of treason. You chose evil, live with the consequences.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/24/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#10  We all live with the results!
Posted by: Maggie Ebbitle5000 || 05/24/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#11  People need to realize that the vote is for the President of the United States, the leader of the free world.

We are not voting for Prom King. Our feelings about drama or whatever are irrelevant to the office of President.
Posted by: Tom || 05/24/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#12  "A friend told me ..." my sister voted for 'brandon' and now she wont respond to my emails which mainly are links to "https://www.michaelpramirez.com/index.html"
Posted by: irish rage boy || 05/24/2022 11:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Have you noticed? These people now quickly retort.... "we don't like to talk about politics."

They're always the ones who initiate the festivities but that's what they say when I try to respond.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/24/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||

#14  Somewhere I read Biden was described as the Kamikaze-President, essentially a vain, slow (now partially demented/senile) political puppet that was sold by The Kalorama Coalition as the mainstream alternative to Trump in essentially a basement bunker propaganda blitz by a supportive media funded by massive tech wealth and anonymous "dark money".
"Orange-Man Bad" worked, Jojo got the job (or at least seemed to win), and the Coalition got the perfect patsy. An administration led by Obama loyalists and radical progressives had a one-term President whose vanity, corruption and 3rd tier intellect made him the perfect teleprompter Puppet. Every radical, racist, divisive policy that Obama et al were too afraid to attempt became fair game. Jojo was never seen as a two-term President, just the battering ram to end traditional American political life and breakthrough to the Socialist Workers Paradise the visionaries imagined awaited the faithful on the other side of ending the last vestiges of the Republic. In brief moments of lucidity, Jojo seems to sense its not going well, hence the angry frustration a the "they" who define his script each day.
Lurking behind the Kalorama Cabal looms the CCP and the Globalists at Davos this week. The aristocracy of the New World Order, plutocrats and zealots, and the cunning Chinese totalitarians who manipulate them.
What they did not see coming was the shock effect of poverty, scarcity, fear and anger that the richest society since Imperial Rome is now awakening to in America. Inflation, scarcity, actual hunger, and invasion, crime, hate-mongering public policy, media dishonesty, and woke insanity are electric shocks. That the Biden Administration has established the false premise of " institutional racism, white supremacy, nativism and insurrection" hints at what they are planning to do in reaction to the looming anger spilling into public squares. Remember the hang-dong look of Rodney King and "Can't we all just get along", that seems prophetic again...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/24/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

#15  Sometimes people need a painful reminder of how good it was and of all the things they took for granted. What the cabal doesn't grasp, have failed miserably at removing the threat, is what happens when the government has no power because it destroys the value of any money among very broadly armed population. That's what happens when you blow off real history as just a 'construct' of someone else.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/24/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#16  I thought maybe we'd make it to August before things get jumpy..

Warnings of electricity rationing already.

Starting to think July.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/24/2022 14:44 Comments || Top||

#17  What did we have before bicycles, windmills and candlelight?
...automobiles, nuclear power and automobiles. Quiet peasant!
Posted by: magpie || 05/24/2022 14:54 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2022-05-24
  Lithuania will withdraw ambassador from Russia
Mon 2022-05-23
  IRGC Quds Force officer Hassan Sayad Khodayari assassinated today
Sun 2022-05-22
  4 PRC Generals executed over last weeks audio about war mobilization
Sat 2022-05-21
  Russia will create 12 new military units near the western borders
Fri 2022-05-20
  Russia Withdraws Forces From Posts In Syria's Lattakia And Homs
Thu 2022-05-19
  Arrested Kidnappers Confessed To Raping New Bride Multiple Times
Wed 2022-05-18
  Terrorists Abduct 30 Passengers Along Abuja-Kaduna Highway, Shoot Others
Tue 2022-05-17
  Reversing Trump, Biden acts to deploy US troops to Somalia
Mon 2022-05-16
  Battle rages for the region of Donbas
Sun 2022-05-15
  Ten die in Buffalo, NY supermarket shooting
Sat 2022-05-14
  Cairo sentences 25 to 15 years in prison, acquits 12 in Rabaa dispersal case
Fri 2022-05-13
  Violent protests all over Iran sparked by massive price increases.
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  Ukraine thwarts Russian battalion's river-crossing and destroys at least 58 vehicles
Wed 2022-05-11
  Camps Discovered in Russia House Thousands of Ukrainians Forcibly Removed From Homeland
Tue 2022-05-10
  Sri Lanka PM quits as violence kills 3, injures 150


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