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Federal agents make huge seizure of fentanyl in Arizona, enough to kill every American plus
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-Great Cultural Revolution
America's Ever-Growing Pile of Societal Deadweight
[Culturcidal] What does make someone a "useful" member of society? That is not an easy question for a variety of reasons that go well beyond not just agreeing about the answer. In fact, in a nation as hyper-individualistic as the United States, a lot of people don’t feel like that’s an appropriate question to ask in the first place. Their answer would be some version of, "It’s not anyone’s job to be useful to the country. People don’t owe anybody anything except themselves." In other words, it’s sort of the opposite of John F. Kennedy’s famous quote:

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/05/2023 07:30 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Much of the deadweight is in our government.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/05/2023 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe we will learn that the ‘dead weight’ is us senior citizens.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/05/2023 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, I no longer build things for others to use. But I do spend money, supporting others.

And I also maintain a lawn and a dozen trees, to do my part to remove dangerous carbon from the atmosphere.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/05/2023 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I think Glenmore is expecting a Logan’s Run reboot in our future.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/05/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5  ^4 or maybe Soylent Green
Posted by: Warthog || 06/05/2023 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Gov Cuomo nods in agreement.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/05/2023 10:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Soylent Green is people...or maybe bugs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/05/2023 11:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Gee, a few jabs of the Fauci Flu vaccine and a few trips to the IC with some of Fauci's favorite juice Remdesivir just might reduce the rolls of Social Security recipients, much to the delight of the DC cognoscenti.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/05/2023 11:33 Comments || Top||

#9  just might reduce the rolls of Social Security recipients....

Needed to facilitate the efficacy of a 'single-payer' health system.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/05/2023 11:43 Comments || Top||

#10  And I get to keep my doctor!! Oh, wait, never mind.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/05/2023 11:45 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Merit Doesn't Matter Anymore
[Townhall] Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings in a pair of landmark cases Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) has brought forth against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, alleging that their race-based college admissions practices actively discriminate against high-achieving students who don't fit the woke mold, often Asian American applicants.

Townhall has conducted a series of sitdown interviews, in the lead-up to the much-anticipated SCOTUS decisions, with Asian American community members outraged over the Ivy League's racial gatekeeping and affirmative action's trickle-down effects, now seeping into suburbia. As an affront to the race-obsessed Left's forever war on meritocracy, and in unyielding defense of the American Dream, which we, like many, believe is well worth fighting for, here are their firsthand accounts from the frontline:
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/05/2023 07:20 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing new here. This has been going on for decades.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/05/2023 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought that was shown with Biden's appointment to SCOTUS.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/05/2023 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  The left has been using the long time it takes to move these issues through the courts. Implement a new 'regulation' and it'll take 20 years to overturn it.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/05/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  So some Asian person wins their right to attend Harvard and then gets registered for their mandatory Freshman BLM indoctrination seminar taught by Brian Stelter’s graduate assistant. Who really wins?
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/05/2023 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Participation trophies for everyone! Seriously, I'm seeing commercials telling wymyn they're empowered because they have armpits.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/05/2023 10:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ex-Anheuser-Busch exec reveals how lefty investment firms pressure companies to go woke
[NYP with Jesse Waters] Woke governance that has sent profits spiraling at companies like Anheuser-Busch and Target often begins with lefty investment firms pressuring them to push products their way, an ex-top Anheuser-Busch exec said.

During an appearance on Fox News’ "Jesse Watters Primetime," Anson Frericks said behind-the-scenes politicking from firms like New York-based BlackRock and Pennsylvania-based Vanguard spur many of the controversial decisions sparking nationwide boycotts from longtime more conservative customers — such as the ill-fated Bud Light promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney

He said BlackRock, Vanguard, and another firm, State Street, manage about $20 trillion in capital and use their clout to promote agenda politics being pushed on them by progressive lawmakers overseeing government pension funds that the companies profit from.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/05/2023 06:04 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rubbing out the entire CEI accreditation infrastructure should rank right behind cleaning up voting nationwide for anyone who truly cares about this country.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/05/2023 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  The urban left has been working on this for fifty years. The Rural Purge was a trial balloon. When CBS didn't go bankrupt, they knew they could get away with anything. We are at the end of a different long march.
Posted by: no mo uro || 06/05/2023 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  It is like the ERIC system. There has to be action in the red states or there is no fight.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/05/2023 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Reaping what was sown with all those bank and investment bail outs, where they sold assets at pennies on the dollar and the taxpayer absorbed the losses.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/05/2023 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Funny. All these DEI experts weren’t worried about the low score of Epstein’s employees when they visited his island. It was Snow White, Cinderella and the original Ariel. There wasn’t any Jasmine, Lilo, Mulan, Tiana or Dylan on the payroll. I think The View ought to do a segment on that hypocrisy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/05/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  This is why each day we hear of another company having gone woke while others continue to dig their fiscal graves. None of this is organic.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/05/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#7  We live in Weimar America. Only thing being done out of order is we have the Russian Front before the snazzy uniforms are even issued.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/05/2023 10:22 Comments || Top||

#8  The effing teachers unions put pressure on the investment firms.

"Public Sector" unions must be decertified by Federal Law under RICO statutes.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/05/2023 15:38 Comments || Top||


Massachusetts man banned from Facebook after sharing cryptic letter about democracy's demise
[FoxNews] "1) Divide the nation philosophically.
2) Foment racial strife.
3) Cause distrust of police authority.
4) Swarm the nation’s borders indiscriminately and unconstitutionally.
5) Engender the military strength to weaken it.
6) Overburden citizens with more unfair taxation.
7) Encourage civil rioting and discourage accountability for all crime.
8) Control all balloting.
9) Control all media."
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/05/2023 04:27 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He ran afoul of number 9.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/05/2023 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Struck me as Alinsky-ish as well...
Posted by: Warthog || 06/05/2023 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  A roadmap to dismember the nation via Intersectionality. Some of the comments picked up on the similarity to new methodologies espoused by the Frankfurt School and the timing of the letter fits in with the timeline.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/05/2023 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Getting censored and banned from Fakebook is not a big deal. There are now other avenues for publication and dissemination. I dumped FB and my life is better for having done so.

Zuckerberg can shove his FB where the light don't shine.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/05/2023 11:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I've never had a Fartbook or Instagram account and never will. And when friends send me links of photos or whatever from their FB accounts, I won't even open them because those assholes demand you accept their cookies.

Or like a phone I bought in 2018. I deleted most of the unnecessary apps which were preloaded, but alas! I was not permitted to delete the FB app.

Goddamn how I hate FB.

P.S. - And let's not forget that Instagram was selling users' personal info a year or so ago. Scum.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/05/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||


#7  "Turks at the gates? Bless your heart child, well yes we know all that. Now,here's some pistachios, run along as we're currently debating."
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/05/2023 16:40 Comments || Top||

#8  I have a girlfriend who enjoys stormy confrontation. For the past decade or so she has regularly had to announce being given time-outs by Facebook — and several times she’s been banned, thereafter setting up a new identity, sending out friend invites to her regular circle, and carrying on as if it never happened.

Posted by: trailing wife || 06/05/2023 18:17 Comments || Top||



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