Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 5:42:37 AM

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Good morning.

Boy, this whole Biden “return to normalcy” thing is going just swell, isn’t it?

lucius septimius 1/25/2022 6:07:03 AM

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lucius septimius 1/25/2022 6:11:02 AM

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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Boy, this whole Biden “return to normalcy” thing is going just swell, isn’t it?

From one son of a bitch to another, I'll drink to that!

Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 6:33:55 AM

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In #3 lucius septimius said: From one son of a bitch to another, I'll drink to that!

Hey, that's STUPID son-of-a-bitch, to you, thank you very  much. 

Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 6:36:43 AM

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In #2 lucius septimius said: Psaki Recommends Ukrainians Just Take A Kickboxing Class And Have A Margarita

Heh.

And once again, it's hard to tell (initially) that it's parody. 

JCM 1/25/2022 7:23:23 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5:

The parody makes more sense the the stupid hashtag tweet.

vxbush 1/25/2022 7:36:51 AM

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In #6 JCM said: The parody makes more sense the the stupid hashtag tweet.

That is the truth. 

Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 8:06:05 AM

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In #6 JCM said: The parody makes more sense the the stupid hashtag tweet.

Well, meanwhile, we're seeing the press dutifully report on modest shipments of US "lethal aid", with pretty much zero curiosity regarding what is the content of those shipments.  I've only seen it referenced as "ammunition".  Okay, well... small arms ammo, that's nice.  Javelins and Stingers?  That might actually get Vlad's attention.  But our Watchdog Press aren't interested.  (Though Lord, knows, if the journos did try to get into more detail, they'd report that the lethal aid consists of fully semi-automatic AR Glock Uzis, or something.) 

vxbush 1/25/2022 8:08:38 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: (Though Lord, knows, if the journos did try to get into more detail, they'd report that the lethal aid consists of fully semi-automatic AR Glock Uzis, or something.) 

LOL. I'm imagining the military arms procurement guy reading that kind of news story and rolling his eyes so hard they fell out and into the corner. 

Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 11:33:27 AM

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Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 11:47:24 AM

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It's grimly fun to watch/hear/read MSM stories now delicately touching on the incontrovertible and glaring reality of soaring energy prices, without ever once mentioning the concept of "supply".

(Never mind, of course, mentioning that the Demcratic Party has been trumpeting high energy prices as an affirmative policy goal, for decades.) 

Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 12:37:00 PM

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Oops.  She said the quiet part out loud.

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1484355983082094598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1484355983082094598%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F

/Via Ace of Spades

Kosh's Shadow 1/25/2022 1:16:53 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 12:

The Coming Neo-Feudalism 

From this PJM article that is behind the paywall that lets me through for some reason

    WEISS: The Democrats are supposed to be the party of the little guy. Right? At their best, that’s what it’s about. But you know what the Democrats are now comfortable with, or seemingly comfortable with? A two-tiered system in which the haves get to go into a restaurant, laugh with their friends for hours, and the people serving them are masked and wearing gloves. Or they get to walk as AOC did at the Met Gala while in the background the staff looked like they were in The Handmaid’s Tale. This is a look that is unbelievably detrimental to them.

    MAHER: And jobs. The people with the consulting jobs, or whatever bulls**t they do. They get to stay at home and order the food out and do sh** by Zoom. Whereas it’s the working-class people who are breathing their sh**ty stale air all day. That looks like, it’s gonna create a class resentment. I mean it looks like the liberals are always suggesting sacrifices they themselves don’t have to take part in.

Just swallow the red pill already. What Weiss and Maher are seeing is not just a Democrat Party phenomenon. How many Republicans have spoken out about the treatment of the largely working-class defendants being held in Washington, D.C. over incidents on Jan. 6? To say the criminal justice system mistreated them does not require declaring them innocent. Do any Republicans defend voters skeptical about the 2020 election? Point to the apparent election night irregularities in 2020 and the private funding of election offices in swing states by Mark Zuckerberg? Do they support the politicians at the state level trying to fix the election loopholes? Not in significant numbers.

The ruling elite in the Republican Party has just as much disdain for the voters they pander to every few years as Nancy Pelosi had for the masked servants at her Napa fundraiser or the unemployed when she flaunted her designer ice cream. Chapman University Urban Studies professor Joel Kotkin refers to the emerging system that Maher and Weiss describe as Neo-Feudalism.

Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 1:29:42 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

Maher is just an opportunist-comedian, I have no trust in him actually getting red-pilled.  He'll do whatever increases his ratings.  Weiss, I think, is another story.... maybe. 

vxbush 1/25/2022 2:14:53 PM

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In #15 Occasional Reader said: Weiss, I think, is another story.... maybe. 

Given that Weiss worked at The New York Times, that highest-blue-blood tier of news publishing, I am skeptical. She's written a few good articles, but I'm still left thinking that she thinks this problem is an aberration, and that everyone will go back to their sides of the political spectrum. 

Kosh's Shadow 1/25/2022 3:05:49 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:
The book I linked to, however, does describe what is going on very well, not just with the political parties but with the elite. 

Kosh's Shadow 1/25/2022 4:39:07 PM

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RUSSIAN COLLUSION!

The likelihood that Russia is sitting on a wealth of compromising Ukraine-related material on Joe Biden and his family may come as a shock to media that pushed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative for four years. But the Biden-Russia kompromat story may be more than a political funhouse mirror. It may explain the president’s curious passivity toward Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline and why, almost as soon as Biden took office, Putin seized the opportunity to move more than 100,000 troops to Ukraine’s border.

What’s more, it may also provide new insight into the Russiagate conspiracy theory that poisoned America’s public sphere and made people lose their collective minds.

Given the amount of genuinely compromising material tying Joe Biden and his son to shady dealings involving Ukraine and Russia, including a $3.5 million payment Hunter received from the widow of the former mayor of Moscow in 2014, it’s worth asking if the 46th president of the United States was the initial target of the Hillary Clinton-funded Russia dossier? In fact, allegations about the Bidens’ activities in Ukraine, sourced in part, it seems, to the Clinton campaign, made their way into The New York Times in 2015, encouraging Biden to dispel second thoughts about reentering the 2016 race.

Kosh's Shadow 1/25/2022 7:02:29 PM

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Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 7:09:36 PM

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Wish we still had our Canucks here, to give us some inside scoop on this:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/truckers-fighting-government-vaccine-mandate-march-canadian-capital-2022-01-24/

buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2022 8:02:12 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

Convoy

Occasional Reader 1/25/2022 8:37:47 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21:

Yep, posted that at Insty in the related thread; obligatory, really.