Kosh's Shadow 1/16/2024 5:40:20 PM

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Repost from last night

I predicted something close to but not exactly, like this:

Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'

EV batteries can't be too cold or they won't charge. 

If these were gasoline vehicles - if out of gas, pour some into the tank, jump the car if needed, and VROOOM!

vxbush 1/17/2024 5:56:46 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

I have no idea how many Teslas in Illinois were unresponsive over the arctic blast this weekend. Low temperatures were around -15ºF some nights. 

Occasional Reader 1/17/2024 6:18:44 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

“Teen” car thieves hardest-hit.

Occasional Reader 1/17/2024 6:20:17 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

Note in that first photo, the Tesla is being powered by renewable, low-carbon energy!

vxbush 1/17/2024 6:43:40 AM

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A summary on gun carrying by illegal aliens in the US per Kevin Downey, Jr.: 

• Various law enforcement departments (not federal) are already hiring illegal immigrants to be cops
• The only illegal immigrants who can become cops are DACA recipients
• They cannot carry guns while off-duty
• The laws specified by the ATF are confusing and full of loopholes

But now there are questions. How long will this DACA-only rule apply? How long until that rule is stretched to include allowing people who sneak illegally into the nation to become cops? 

Kevin notes that because the LLLeftists pushed cutting back police forces, the states put themselves in this situation to begin with. He notes Colorado, California, and Illinois have either already hired aliens for local police or are in the process of doing so. I can't say I'm thrilled about having to defend myself (extremely politely, mind you) to a cop who was allowed to stay in the States because someone brought them over as a kid. 

vxbush 1/17/2024 6:44:25 AM

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Calif. Appellate Court Rules That the Homeless Can Sleep on the Sidewalks

JCM 1/17/2024 7:30:36 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

How long until we all have to learn spanish so we don't get shot by cops?

JCM 1/17/2024 7:31:05 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 6:

The compassion of the left.

JCM 1/17/2024 7:38:55 AM

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WTF is up with the Stanley mug / tulip mania?

It's stuff like that make me despair for the country. I have a Yeti mug, it's my favorite coffee mug I use it every day. It was qift. I never would have spent $40 on a coffee mug.

The Stanley craze demonstrates such herd mentality. Sudden for no real reason it's popular and people wait for hours to get one? That's for a damn cup.

Now how about the important stuff. MSLSD won't broadcast a Trump speech because he lies. They are ramping up covid again for the election. "Democracy" is being saved by denying voter choice. I could go on. You all know all too well.

The Stanley thing is a sign.... and not a good one.

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 9:16:33 AM

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In #6 vxbush said: Calif. Appellate Court Rules That the Homeless Can Sleep on the Sidewalks

Judging from the photo at the beginning of the article, the situation in California cities is tents indeed.

Who was it said that "equality under the law" is exemplified by both the rich and the poor having the right to sleep under bridges?

Occasional Reader 1/17/2024 9:17:50 AM

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Reply to JCM in 9:

I was blissfully unaware of this phenomenon. But consider, 40 years ago people were lining up in the cold to buy cabbage patch kid dolls. It happens.

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 9:19:07 AM

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In #7 JCM said: How long until we all have to learn spanish so we don't get shot by cops?

The Democrats' pandering to the twin communities of LGBTQ+ and Hispanic border jumpers is the reason why the official dog of the Democratic Party is the cock or español.

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 9:25:43 AM

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In #11 Occasional Reader said: But consider, 40 years ago people were lining up in the cold to buy cabbage patch kid dolls.

Solomon in the Cabbage Patch 

In search of toys, Moms prowl the stores

With lists and unsheathed Santa claws.

They wade through ice, they walk through fire

To find their child its heart's desire;

And greatest prize of all to snatch?

A doll born in the Cabbage Patch.

Without one of these to adopt,

The holidays will be a flop:

So, though the toy be soon forgot,

They all now hunt the plastic tot.

The stores, ill served by Santa's elves,

Can't keep the dolls stocked on their shelves.

What happens, then, when mothers twain

Both sight the last one to remain?

Each grabs it, claiming hers by right,

And won't give up without a fight;

They tug and shout, they pull and thunder

And all but rip the toy asunder,

While other shoppers seek, confused,

Security or T.V. News.

Then Solomon, an employee,

Strides fearless into the melee;

In loud and kingly tones he cries,

"Ladies, unhand that merchandise!

You must not tear these goods to shreds,

But leave the job to me instead;

I'll neatly clip the doll in two

And charge half-price to each of you."

And like his namesake did of old

The manikin he grasps ahold.

But as Sol cuts the toy in half,

Both of the mothers start to laugh.

"If neither can have all," they say,

"We will not take but half away;

Now that the doll you've disembowelled,

We both of us throw in the towel.

Since neither takes, then neither lacks,

And you can have the pieces back."

So, smiling, off the mothers go

To browse E.T. and G.I. Joe.

JCM 1/17/2024 10:48:06 AM

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Iran really, really wants a regional war.

Iran admits carrying out deadly strike on Pakistan territory

lucius septimius 1/17/2024 11:42:46 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

Related: I saw yesterday that of the $2 billion the Biden people have distributed for building EV charging stations a total of two have been built. That's 1 billion dollars per station.

The main reason is that the construction is contingent on checking all kinds of social justice boxes and making sure that the unions get all the work. 

JCM 1/17/2024 11:57:34 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 15:

Start a construction company identify as gay trans disable minority and clean up all the contracts!

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 12:16:18 PM

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I long ago suggested that anyone who hadn't should read Sinclair Lewis's novel "It Can't Happen Here," written in the 1930s, which details a fascist takeover of the US via the election of former Senator Buzz Windrip (i.e., "Fart") to the presidency. 

I renew that recommendation.  Yes, Lewis tends towards the prolix and overlong, and yes, the alignments of good guys and bad guys has changed somewhat since Lewis wrote the book in the mid-'30s---but his ability to accurately describe American types and interest groups still resonates, and it is interesting, given the Democrats' cozying up to the LGBTQWERTY crowd, that President Windrip's sidekick and right-hand man is clearly and flagrantly homosexual.

lucius septimius 1/17/2024 1:15:53 PM

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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: given the Democrats' cozying up to the LGBTQWERTY crowd, that President Windrip's sidekick and right-hand man is clearly and flagrantly homosexual.

The whole trans thing has become the equivalent of Stalinist loyalty oaths.  DEI bascially means that you can't be hired unless you repeat the Marxist catechism perfectly.  

vxbush 1/17/2024 1:39:47 PM

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In #18 lucius septimius said: The whole trans thing has become the equivalent of Stalinist loyalty oaths.  DEI bascially means that you can't be hired unless you repeat the Marxist catechism perfectly.  

That's an excellent way to put it. 

Occasional Reader 1/17/2024 4:07:49 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13:

Excellent.  Your work?

JCM 1/17/2024 4:28:51 PM

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"Where did the money come from?" Bowman said. "We spent it into existence."

Go back to pulling fire alarms..... something you are good at. At economics you are dangerous, incompetent, ignorant.

Kosh's Shadow 1/17/2024 4:57:20 PM

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In #18 lucius septimius said: The whole trans thing has become the equivalent of Stalinist loyalty oaths.  DEI bascially means that you can't be hired unless you repeat the Marxist catechism perfectly.  

The DEI officials are the zampolit.

Kosh's Shadow 1/17/2024 5:21:33 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 5:46:19 PM

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In #20 Occasional Reader said: Excellent.  Your work?

Yes, indeed---from back in the mid-'80s, when the Cabbage Patch Kids were hot stuff.  It was part of a December mailer, with an accompanying image, in the days when I was still drawing for dollars.

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 5:49:20 PM

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Reply to JCM in 21:

Before you spend lavishly on "reparations," you must deeply invest in "scaffoldism."

JCM 1/17/2024 5:57:36 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 22:

Complete with Struggle Sessions, Stukahs, unpersons,

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 6:02:07 PM

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In #26 JCM said: Struggle Sessions

You mean, like WorldWide Wrestling...?

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 6:08:16 PM

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Hey, kiddies!

Don't worry if you're not all filled with anxiety about your "gender" in elementary school or high school.  From high school, you'll go to college, and learn all sorts of academic jargon.   

It takes time to learn "academic" gobbledegook, but once you do, remember---you can always become a "trans" later.

Kosh's Shadow 1/17/2024 6:37:58 PM

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In #28 buzzsawmonkey said: remember---you can always become a "trans" later.

Well, our entire technology is based on the trans sister

buzzsawmonkey 1/17/2024 6:38:49 PM

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In #29 Kosh's Shadow said: the trans sister

Don't forget her brother Chip...

Occasional Reader 1/17/2024 6:42:10 PM

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The Federal government has been lying *massively* about EV efficiency.  

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-electric-car-cheating-scandal-subsidy-rule-efficiency-falsehood-2798b4ab?st=k7pqj8qaxc9vbtn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Kosh's Shadow 1/17/2024 6:42:56 PM

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In #31 Occasional Reader said: The Federal government has been lying *massively* about EV efficiency.  

I'm SHOCKED!

JCM 1/17/2024 7:31:59 PM

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In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: I'm SHOCKED!

There will be resistance to the report.

Kosh's Shadow 1/17/2024 7:46:20 PM

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In #33 JCM said: There will be resistance to the report.

Well, it involves current events