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December 31, 2022

Reminds me of Milo Yiannopoulos shilling Catholic tchotchkes on behalf of Church Militant...

...and the execrable Michael Voris. I guess Don Jr also wanted in on the grift.

December 31, 2022

Trump is self-plagiarizing, so to speak. In 2019, he made another one of his misspelled tweets...

...questioning the existence of global "waming" (sic). This one is basically the same tweet...er..."truth". Actually, you can even read the original (from 1/29/2019) now that Trump's old Twitter account is back online.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/20/dear-mr-president-thats-not-how-global-warming-works/

In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2019
December 30, 2022

That's correct. All kinds of largely-undisclosed spycraft was used...

...to get PPE and other supplies where they needed to go.

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/21/states-smuggle-covid-19-medical-supplies-to-avoid-federal-seizures-as-house-probes-jared-kushner/

I recall at the time that they were using vinyl shrink-wrapped semi trailers to disguise them as commercial shipping companies, and there was at least one story I saw that said encrypted tactical radios were employed for operational security. This was CIA-level stuff being done on the local and state levels to get around the Trump regime.


December 19, 2022

Pavone was a favorite on the execrable EWTN network. They even gave him his own show...

...Defending Life, which was basically an infomercial for his organization, "Priests for Life". He had already been previously disciplined and removed from his show; he was then fired from PFL. In both cases, I believe it was his religious order that appointed replacements. Pavone has been just asking for this for years now. As the kids say, fuck around and find out.

December 19, 2022

Yes, I had it in late summer along with several family members. No one reported...

...loss of taste or smell. My doctor said the same thing: most people catching the new variants aren't affected by those particular symptoms.

December 19, 2022

I hope that the attendees of these "conferences" end up on some Three-Letter-Agency watchlists...

...because the rhetoric has been getting hotter over the last couple of years. And today, Trump tweeted...er..."Truthed" out a message to his fans about how the country is afflicted with a "cancer" and it "must be dealt with".

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143008992

They are getting closer to the infamous "time to cut down the tall trees" incitements that were seen in Rwanda in the '90s. It's not a good look for the American political process.

December 19, 2022

Yep. The obsession with "wokeness", "purple-haired SJWs", etc. That is "mainstreaming", where...

...ever more extreme alt-right material is plagiarized from 4Chan/8Chan/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-now, airbrushed so that it's a little less ugly, and then made into old wine in new bottles, as we see here. None of this garbage is new or original. It started at places like r/Incels (now banned) and the various websites, some now defunct, owned by MRA/PUAs like Roosh V. The only thing that might be called "original" about the mainstreaming process is how it is seemingly randomly broken up and rearranged, like making sentences in a word game. Just string together words like "SJW", "purple hair", "woke", "George Soros", "groomers", and "Democrat Party". Demonizing and dehumanizing the political process couldn't be easier.

December 16, 2022

The first of the cards should be the "Crisis of Confidence" national address, often derided...

...as the "American Malaise" speech. If more Americans had taken it seriously, the nation would be in a much different and better place.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090721024329/http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3402

December 16, 2022

One fun fact of chemical trivia: a couple of those compounds are used as "accelerators"...

...for the "super glues" (cyanoacrylate). I think one of them is m-toluidine, but I would have to look on a bottle to be sure. They definitely have a nasty aromatic amine odor to them. As far as I know, the "accelerators" or "kickers" act as a base and catalyst in the hardening reaction. You can buy them in small spray bottles for use with the fancy super glues used in woodworking and musical instrument repair. I don't recall any prominent warnings on the packaging. To a hobbyist, the exposure to that stuff is pretty small, but you can definitely smell it when it's in use, and I would be concerned if I was using it all the time on the job.

December 15, 2022

Charlie Kirk is a college dropout. It baffles the mind that anyone would consider...

...Kirk or his ridiculous "think" tank to be any kind of solution to the nation's educational woes.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk

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