We don’t let athletes bet on games they have the ability to influence. Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?
• Why is it that when archaeologists find human remains, they always determine that they are either male or female and none of the other hundreds of genders?
• Why is it that so many are more outraged that Brittney Griner is stuck in Russia than they were about Americans being stranded in Afghanistan?
• How is it that the government can’t control gasoline prices...but the weather is something they can fix?
• We’re churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work.—Mike Rowe
• If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank goodness nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery—Bill Maher
• Why were we told to lower our AC usage on hot days to prevent overwhelming the electric grid while simultaneously being told to trade in our gas cars for electric vehicles?
• Why is canceling student debt a good idea? Does it make sense to reward people who do not honor their financial commitment by taxing the people who do?
• Does it make sense to cut off oil from an ally and buy it from an enemy who calls for your death?
• Are we living in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended?
• Is this a great description of America: Andy has left town and Barney is in charge?
• Why is talking sexually in the workplace considered sexual harassment to adults...but talking about sexuality to children K-3 at school considered education?
• Who else had a ’ministry of truth"...Hitler...Goebbels...Stalin
• Eliminating the production of 500,000 American barrels of oil a day to buy 500,000 barrels a day from Russia is simply...well...stupid.
• I saw a movie where only the police and military had guns; it was called Schindler’s List.
• If your electric car runs out of power on the interstate, do you walk to a charging station to get a bucket of electricity?
• Why are we running out of money for Social Security and Medicare and not for welfare, illegals and free college?
• I just got a full tank of gas for $22. Granted, it was for my lawn mower, but I trying to stay positive.
• There is a coin shortage. America is officially out of common sense.
• If an 18 year old isn’t mature enough to own a firearm, then maybe five year olds aren’t mature enough to change their gender
• Sign in Texas: DON’T VOTE FOR WHAT YOU FLED
• Nobody called it "Toxic Masculinity when we were saving the world
• Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free. Just like socialism.
• The most powerful governments on earth can’t stop a virus from spreading...but they say they can change the earth’s temperature if you pay more taxes.
• Want to stop drunk drivers from killing sober drivers? Ban sober drivers from driving. That’s how gun control and COVID lockdowns work.
• If you don’t want to stand for the national anthem, perhaps you should give your legs to a veteran who lost his. That way a real man can stand in your place.
• If socialism is so good and capitalism is so bad...then why aren’t the caravans heading to Venezuela?
History is not there for us to like or dislike. It is there for us to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better...because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not anyone’s to erase...it belongs to all of us.
[AccordingToHoyt] Well, we got our butts in a bear trap and no mistake. Which is a funny thing to post about when I want to do a post on thankfullness.
But we’ve got our butts in a bear trap. And I don’t see any point lying about it. It certainly won’t make things easier, and it will make you distrust me, at which point my talking is useless.
So — we got our butts in a bear trap. And we must escape, even if it means chewing our tails off. Right now, still looking for solutions that free our tails. And having no clue how to do it. Still hopeful of a miracle, but the miracle needed is bigger than the miracle we needed this month, which didn’t happen. So not hopeful.
And yet thankful. Why thankful, you daft woman, when you have your butt in a bear trap, and are likely to have to leave your tail behind? Well, we can always gnaw our butts off, but it will be ugly and not tasty.
Ah. Well, first of all, it’s not just our bear trap. To an extent the rest of the world is in this bear trap. It was set by early twenty first century utopians, and reinforced by propaganda before, after, during and post the two world wars.
It’s a beaut of a bear trap, too, you know?
It came from the increasing ease of mass production and concentration of power in certain nodes in the early twentieth century. Mass production was faster and more efficient, so mass everything has to be the same.
And thus we came to hyper-centralized governments and orders issued from above for increasingly minutia and details to be carried out in the hinterlands.
Which of course got into the problem of knowledge. Because humans aren’t machines. And how things are done and what works are different district to district/county to county, let alone across the country.
Only the people giving directions and telling us how things are going to be done don’t know that. It’s an unknown-unknown.
And since the media went the same way, to the same level of centralization, and embraced the same bigger-more centralized-more-topdown philosophy, the media covered up the failures of the model — the more I read the more I think it started failing almost immediately — and made it seem viable and honky dory. And it entrenched more.
But there’s a limit on what you can run on what we’ll call the “Marxlite” model, though in practice it’s more corporatists-fascist, but the excuses are the same until you reach a critical level of failure, all over the world.
It’s reaching that now. And of course the Marxlitians are blaming “capitalism” and “nationalism” when the opposite is pretty much true. Because that’s what they’ll do, of course.
So — what is there to be thankful for?
We’re still us. No, please, shut up. The Doom Brigade on the right is bad as the left for not realizing how unique the US is.
Yes, yes, the founding fathers would already be shooting. Yes, but then again no. They put up with just as great or greater abuses for going on two decades, until it became obvious it couldn’t go on. And then they had to fight: from a position of weakness, with their butts in bear traps.
Americans don’t like war. Partly because we’re so good at it. So we’re slow to engage, because heaven help our foes when we do. Partly because we’re people who make and create things: art, yes, but new ways to make a widget, new ways to farm, a better gadget to do x when it’s needed.
We like our little lives. “Petit bourgeois” the French would call it with a sneer, but petit bourgeois is where the soul of America lives. We want to do work we by and large enjoy and are good at, while having families and raising fat babies who grow taller and bigger and more capable than us, and raiser fat babies, in turn, while doing the daily, unglamorous work of making the world a better place. Look, it’s nothing much. It’s just who we are.
We know that once things go kinectic that option is gone. It might not come back in our life times. Worse, it might not come back during our children’s lifetimes, and that’s much worse.
So we hold off.
Are we holding off too long? It’s always a danger, isn’t it? But so is going hot too fast. And you know it. And we all know it.
#1
Sounds like a typical indecisive Republican. 'We must do something! But then again we must hold off until it is absolutely time to really do it! Should we not? Oo err...'
#2
I tuned this broad out years ago when she boiled seemingly half of her posts on Instapundit with the unfunniest of catch phrases 'This is my shocked face'. It got old real quick, reading that shit.
#4
Republicans are not always indecisive. The GOPe can whip out "That's not who we are" in a flash when the discussion revolves around punishment for the deserving.
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Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.
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#3
Most of the self-appointed clerisy that revels in broadcasting their own dearly beloved opinions on Twitter are on the Crapple platform. Tim Cook is a crook, but a smart one. He's not going to take a favorite thing away from his customer base.
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[YouTube] Rail is one of the primary means of transport in the US, and a union strike could put all of that at risk. To understand how the US got itself into this mess, we have to consider the following facets of the American system.
First, the Jones Act diverted a majority of the cargo away from waterways, meaning without rail a whole lot of things just...stop. Second, the turning of the political system has forced the organized labor faction into a game of tug of war between both parties, each vying for the union's support.
As long as there is a threat to the systems that the union has a stake in, they will resist. This will likely result in government intervention, but not necessarily the kind of intervention we would have seen 10 years ago.
#1
...Just a little thought experiment: what happens if the railway unions go on strike anyways?
It's not like there's a backup of trained, capable people to run the trains. And President Biden might be more than willing to jam a somewhat unfair contract down their throats, but is he willing to pull the trigger on fines or even arrests of a labor union and its members?
#3
It seems like the LSD's have a
Transportation / Union / Fuel pincer movement, in place to screw up the whole delivery process and screw up the supply chain.
#5
Mike: South Korean truckers striking for more pay mainly due to high fuel costs. Gov’t threatening to arrest them, revoke license, etc if they don’t return to work. Already seeing slowdowns at ports. Also fuel truckers also taking part in strike. Might be a preview of rr strike if WA sh1tshow has their way.
Real railroading ain’t a Lionel around the Christmas tree, but these fools would try and wonder why an American Flyer set won’t run on the 3 rail big L…….
#10
Sure, finally the project was done
And brass, engraved, shone like the sun
From me humble caboose.
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[Free Beacon] After President Joe Biden this week urged Congress to prevent rail worker unions from striking, unions turned against the president, accusing him of betraying his commitment to stand by labor.
"Joe Biden blew it," Railroad Workers United treasurer Hugh Sawyer said Tuesday. "He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers. Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days."
Biden's conflict with unions comes after he promised them during his 2020 campaign that he would be the "strongest labor president you've ever had."
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, a Teamsters rail workers' affiliate, said it was "deeply disappointed" that the president would not back the union's strike to fight for paid sick days. A national strike could cost the United States $2 billion per day, according to the Association of American Railroads.
The House voted Wednesday to intervene in the labor dispute and avert a strike, pending Senate approval. Congress will also vote on a separate measure that would grant rail workers seven paid sick days.
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Bill passed house yesterday. Later this week will probably pass Senate.
Will give more paid sick days.
Will probably end strike threat.
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Main bill passed yesterday; separate one addressing sick days passed House, Senate looks sketchy right now w/some R’s holding up the works. Currently do not have the needed votes.
#4
Y'all really thought he wasgoing to stand by his word, you're fucking morons.
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#5
Red on red. We need popcorn.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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#6
^ Battered wife scenario. The union rank and file will still vote dem in lockstep and funnel money to the donks.
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#7
The Eskimo mechanic working on a faulty snowmobile: "Looks like you blew a seal."
Eskimo customer: "Hey, leave my personal life out of it, OK?"
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#8
Agree with #6. Who will they endorse in 2024?
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Let the games begin! Senate passed main bill prohibiting strike but did not pass the separate extra sick day bill.
L look for work slowdown at very least.
[X22 Report] The [DS] is panicking, they have lost their weapon of narrative control. The [DS] will continue to hit EM and Trump. They don’t have a choice. The election fraud is being produced. Each time more evidence is produced the case is getting stronger and stronger. Bait and traps are being used by EM and Trump and the [DS] is doing exactly what they want.
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[YouTube] Rail is one of the primary means of transport in the US, and a union strike could put all of that at risk. To understand how the US got itself into this mess, we have to consider the following facets of the American system.
[X22 Report] The [DS] is panicking, they have lost their weapon of narrative control. The [DS] will continue to hit EM and Trump. They don’t have a choice. The election fraud is being produced. Each time more evidence is produced the case is getting stronger and stronger. Bait and traps are being used by EM and Trump and the [DS] is doing exactly what they want.
Well, I guess DC needs a deflection, or the media needs some clickbait.
