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Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...

From Public.News: "California Governor And L.A. Mayor Diverted Billions From Fire-Fighting To Migrant, Homeless, And Climate Subsidies"

“There wasn’t sufficient funding for pre-deployment,” says new firefighter whistleblower.

wendybar বলেছেন...


Eric Abbenante
@EricAbbenante
Adam Carolla notices that the liberals who supported the BLM riots are now getting a taste of their own medicine as their homes are being looted:
Adam Carolla: "So the National Guard has pulled in because there's been lots of stories about lots of looting, because we live in Sodom and Gomorrah times here in Los Angeles.
So we've called the National Guard and the fine people of Santa monica and Malibu and the Palisades are very happy that the National Guard is now here protecting their homes and their valuables and their property and stopping arsonists who are copycat arsonists, who are starting and trying to light more fires and being successful.
But when BLM was burning everything to the fucking ground in Seattle and in Chicago and in Portland, you post these were against the National Guard being called in because it wasn't your shit that was on fire and it wasn't your store that was being looted and it wasn't your house that was being looted.
That was somebody else's. So during the entire BLM riots, when everything was being burned to the ground, well, those were just business owners who may have lived in the Portland area so they can fuck off because you're too busy virtue signaling and taking a stand.
And God forbid Trump suggest that the National Guard be called in to these cities, you are dead set against it.
Citizens of Santa monica, because you're so much better than we are. But now that it's your shit that's getting looted. Well, now you're happy to see the boys in uniforms that are cordoned off your neighborhood with your precious shit in it that you don't want to see stolen or burned to the ground. You didn't give a fuck when this was going on.
In every blue city in the United States, you were all against it. Well, now it's your city and you love it. So think about that. Fuckin hypocrites."

The same people who chanted 'Defund the police' to cheer on looters, are now begging for the police to protect their homes from looters.
https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1878969700555612368

BUMBLE BEE বলেছেন...

I enjoyed watching Pam Bondi kickin the shit out of those dem senators today.
Especially Schiff. Epic beatdown was administered. She's fierce and fearless!
I need more popcorn for tomorrow.

HistoryDoc বলেছেন...

The Pardons are coming. Will Biden even know who he pardoned? Has the NY Times readied their insider story on the extensive legal vetting of all these pardons, the white house staff's deep legal reasoning, and Biden's keen philosophical and moral struggles over it?

Big Mike বলেছেন...

Republican women are not merely more attractive than Democrat women, but they're smarter and more talented too.

narciso বলেছেন...

https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/1879664834062451010

Clyde বলেছেন...

Boy, I sure wish we lived in the America that Biden is describing in his farewell address. Just leave, Joe. In the name of God, go!

narciso বলেছেন...

https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1879698696608288995

Iman বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
Iman বলেছেন...

VERY talented, this I can tell you.

narciso বলেছেন...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FjECSv8KFN4 compare and contrast

Jaq বলেছেন...

WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump both claimed credit on Wednesday for a Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal that was months in the making but was helped across the line by a Trump envoy.
In announcing the ceasefire, Biden noted the final deal largely mirrored the framework of a proposal he made back in May.


In other words, the deal has been on the table since May, and Bibi wouldn't accept it, until Trump showed up and read him the riot act.

Joe Biden went to negotiate a Status of Forces deal in Iraq, he got no deal, but he did get a $2 billion contract for his brother James to rebuild the housing that Joe voted to bomb, James had no previous experience in doing this, but it probably cost way less than $2 billion to bring in competent people to do the work.

Joe Biden went to China to negotiate with China over the Spratley Islands, he came back with no deal, but he did manage to secure $2 billion ChiCom dollars to set up his son's brand new hedge fund.


Joe is no closer, unless it benefits him personally.

Chest Rockwell বলেছেন...

As a born and raised Texan who later moved to Michigan, I greatly prefer the depths of winter to the swampyhot summers of my youth. But man these last few days have tested that preference. It's freaking cold out.

Also, this is so juvenile, yet so hilarious.

Chest Rockwell বলেছেন...

Senator Reed: "Would you explain what a 'jagoff' is?"

I haven't watched Bondi's confirmation yet, but I expect the same dumb bullshit.

Mason G বলেছেন...

"Also, this is so juvenile, yet so hilarious."

She seems nice.

Jimmy বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
Clyde বলেছেন...

"Beware the oligarchs!" says the guy who gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros.

Narr বলেছেন...

Take some deep breaths, relax, and spend a tenth of an hour enjoying this cover of a hit from 1701--

Into the Gamba-Verse Marin Marais Chaconne en Rondeau.

Warning: Includes theorbo, and beautiful young people. MTV was never like this.

Jimmy বলেছেন...

Again with Twitter or X. Pam Bondi the nominee for AG, is 60???? good Lord, she looks 40.
Seems 'sharp as a tack' Joe, in his fantasy based final address, said out loud, 'end of quote'. Glad that venial , corrupt degenerate is leaving soon. They will stash him in a room somewhere. Meanwhile, DJT, in a post I read on Twitter, says he is bring in many new people to help with the next 4 years. Then he pointed out he would NOT want anyone who worked for, or had anything to do with Charles Koch
- John Bolton
- Nikki Haley
- Mike Pence
- The Cheneys
- Mitt Romney
- Paul Ryan
- Mark Milley
- James Mattis
- or Mark Esper.
Maybe things will be different this time.

Mason G বলেছেন...

"Pam Bondi the nominee for AG, is 60???? good Lord, she looks 40."

Jen Rubin is 62 and looks 104. It all evens out.

Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...

Reddit: How is she doing that? She looks like she's levitating.

Gospace বলেছেন...

There are still liberals on X who haven't migrated to Bluesky. And they're posting how Democrat senators are making mincemeat of Trump's nominee's. Almost as if they are, in the words of a famous cartoonist, living in another movie from the rest of us.

Narayanan বলেছেন...

if FJB author this deal then wait for resemblance to Afghanistan!!
could be FJB was right to blame Trump for it???

Big Mike বলেছেন...

@Jimmy, Wikipedia says Pam Bondi was born in November 1965, so she’s only 59.

Amexpat বলেছেন...

A mildly strange thing happened to me today. In the co-op complex where I live, our mailboxes our opened electronically by a small digital key. I've been having a problem with mine for a few months - it never opens on the first swipe, I need to do it multiple times before it opens. I've sent emails to the co-op board about this and the head of the board wanted to come and see what the problem was. When he did come to see, the mailbox opened without a problem on the first try, multiple times, something it hasn't done in many months.

What was strange to me is that I've been thinking about quantum mechanics lately, trying to wrap my head around the concept of how observing a situation can effect it's outcome. For some reason I was worried that my mailbox would open without a problem when the head of the co-op board came making me look foolish. Luckily he just laughed and said my mailbox was opening without a problem because he came to look at and didn't doubt my complaint. I know this was just a coindence and the opening of my mailbox is not a wave function, but it still struck me as odd.

wendybar বলেছেন...


Greg Price
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Biden: "I want to warn the country [about] concentrated power in the hands of a few ultra wealthy people."

Last week, he gave our nation's highest civilian honor to George Soros.

wendybar বলেছেন...


Seriously. Because WE don't care. It's good we won't have to look at her scowling angry face that day. Stay home.

Riley Gaines

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Can someone point me in the direction of the MAGA people freaking out about Michelle Obama not attending Trump’s inauguration because I've yet to see that
Harry Sisson
@harryjsisson
It’s so funny to watch MAGA freak out over Michelle Obama not attending Trump’s inauguration. Like, guys… you do realize Donald Trump didn’t go to Biden’s, right? Not a single member of the Trump family attended. Save your fake outrage.
5:37 PM · Jan 15, 2025

Enigma বলেছেন...

Not-so-smart partisans everywhere love "red meat." The mere attack or accusation against an opponent sends a shiver down their spines and they feel good for a moment.

wendybar বলেছেন...

I wish everyone could see this. Hilarious.

Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
THIS IS MEME PERFECTION FROM IL DONALDO.

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1879755233800409522

Enigma বলেছেন...

And the guy who was funded by oligarchs Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, and other anonymous oligarchs who filled money funnel for Sam Bankman-Fried and his vampire girlfriend.

Clyde বলেছেন...

Here's your link, Narr: https://youtu.be/qDi28Ce-f38?si=7O9axT8W06nkcxb3

john mosby বলেছেন...

amexpat: maybe you use a different technique on your mailbox when you are in a hurry coming in/out, with stuff in your hands, etc, versus how you did it in a deliberate demonstration with the board prez.

Still means there's something wrong with the system - shouldn't depend on such precise positioning of the fob. But it could be an explanation.

JSM

Leland বলেছেন...

It is cold in Texas this week and will be colder next week. Stay safe.

Old and slow বলেছেন...

23F here in AZ for my morning run. 18F forecast for early next week. Cold enough for me. I still wear shorts, but I put wool socks on my hands...

Aggie বলেছেন...

@Amexpat don't know the mechanism, but sometimes a little silicon spray can work wonders. In the electronic latch there must be something that has to move in order to unlock the box. Also if the key is 'electronic', does that mean it has a small internal battery? It kind of sounds like the garage door clicker, when the battery gets low, requiring multiple clicks.

pacwest বলেছেন...

I see Trump is opening a External Revenue Service. I read a few years ago that the US is owed over 2 trillion dollars in penalties by countries that have cheated on various trade deals. Penalties already put in place by the WTO, but never paid.

Jaq বলেছেন...

You do know that "measurement" in QM means any interaction with another force or particle. So if a photon gets absorbed by a speck of dust in the vast gulf between galaxies, that's a "measurement," even if it's hopeless to think that any conscious being will ever see the "reading." It's more fun to think about a universe where conscious beings have God like powers to bring reality into being just by observing it, but it would exist, and did exist, without us, and will exist after we are gone.

The observation doesn't affect the outcome, it just fixes it as the choice that the universe made out of the range of possibilities and probabilities that existed prior to the "measurement." It's more like baseball, where a pitch approaches a hitter and there is a huge range of possible outcomes with varying probabilities, until the ball hits either the bat, or the catcher's glove, when the result has become fixed. The spectators have nothing to do with it.

One place where the human eye can observe QM is in the reflection off of a window. Why do some photons reflect off of the glass, and why do some pass through it? Well each photon that hits the glass has the same probability of either passing through, or bouncing off as any other photon, and it is theoretically impossible to know in advance what any individual photon will do, but when a photon hits the glass, those possibilities "collapse" into a result. Isaac Newton knew that something was up with glass that surpassed our understanding, but he had no idea what it was.

Curious George বলেছেন...

It's like Michael Jackson's "Moon Walk", just forward. Cool though.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

Only four days left for Biden to pardon the rest of his family.

Amexpat বলেছেন...

I tried the opening the mailbox today without the head of Co-op watching and it didn't open. There was no difference in technique I used with or without the head of the Co-op present. As it happened, a neighbor came by today while I was trying to open the mailbox who has experienced the same problem. She explained that the mailbox lock has opened but the door is a bit stuck and just needs a push with a finger on the side to finish the job. So problem solved.

@Jaq: Thanks for the detailed explaination. I'm aware that the in QM an observation fixes the outcome. I'm

Jaq বলেছেন...

It's right out of the '90s novel, "Infinite Jest." There was a businessman president who implemented "experialism" and renamed stuff in order to sell the marketing rights, including naming the years, so instead of 2024, it would be called "The Year of the Depends Underwear" which would be very fitting for Biden's last year of his presidency.

Narr বলেছেন...

Thanks, now others have an easier time getting there.

Narr বলেছেন...

The Law of the Universal Perversity of Matter explains it all.