[FOX via Right Scoop] "Of course social media is dividing us, it’s destroying us," said Tucker Carlson on Fox News last night, in a segment ruining and utterly detonating the Big Tech Purge overseers.
There is way too much to quote here. He blasts Twitter’s Jack Dorsey extensively, as a burn-out and LSD fiend who wields unearned power, acts as the god of information access, and manipulates human behavior. "It’s not a conspiracy theory," said Carlson, and he brings the receipts, in the social media industry’s OWN WORDS and admissions.
"Google is incompatible with democracy. If you’re not for breaking up Google, you’re not for Democracy," says Tucker toward the end.
He’s right, his evidence is incontrovertible, it has been for months, it’s not going to stop on its own, and the "press" are part of it.
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I really like the guy. Would be fun to be young again and a member of his research staff, sorting thru leads and tips. I'll bet there are a lot of 'high fives' as the pieces and facts come together and are assembled. The fact that this young fella and his staff can sort it all out week-after-week clearly illustrates the cowardly, stone cold ineptness of our political 'leadership.'
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Besoeker, consider the 2015 film The Intern. starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. From IMDB:
Seventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
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^ And the fact that there haven't been any might tell us something. I'm sure that by now the DNC has examined Tucker's high school yearbooks down to the subatomic level and extensively interviewed all of his grade school classmates.
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[Townhall] Last week, former President George W. Bush said he's not worried about the current moment in American politics because "these populist movements begin to fritter over time." I don't know Bush well personally, but I served in his administration for eight years. As a senior staffer to Vice President Dick Cheney, I was in numerous meetings with Bush each week. While I did not agree with the president on every policy issue, I did leave my service with a feeling that, agree with him or not, Bush is a good person who cares a lot about our country.
That's why his statement is so frustrating.
The country is going through profound changes and political difficulties, to say the least. Populist sentiments started way back with the Tea Party movement on the right in 2009 and the Occupy Wall Street movement on the left in 2011. You could even argue that the first signs surfaced with the Ross Perot presidential candidacy in 1992. The populist movement has been building for many years, and it shows little sign of slowing down. The majority of voters on the Republican side are Trump populists, and all the energy in current Democratic politics is with the socialist wing led by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Populism is, of course, less of a political ideology than it is a sign people are unhappy with American leadership. The approval and trust levels for elected leaders and leading institutions have been in free-fall for years. On the left and on the right, there is a growing belief that society's riches are flowing too heavily to a privileged and well-connected few and not enough to the average American.
In the worst-case scenario, our leaders can ignore the warning signs and hope things just fritter away. That's the scenario we are in, unfortunately. Populism can definitely turn ugly. We have seen some of that already. And historically, ignoring the concerns of regular people led to almost 100 years of repressive communist rule in Russia and the development of a Nazi state in Germany that didn't end until millions were killed in a world war.
Our leaders aren't ignoring all of today's warnings because they are bad people; they do it because our society has become so segregated that people who are thriving are surrounded almost exclusively by others who are also thriving. This segregation facilitates worldviews that can grow detached from reality. In conclusion -
The same voters now clamoring for change once voted for Barack Obama and George Bush. They haven't turned into bad people overnight. They just don't believe our system is really working for their interests. That concern can lead to positive reform, or it can turn really ugly. It's still up to us. Either way, this isn't likely to just fritter away.
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[Babylon Bee] EGYPT—When massive shipping container vessel the Ever Given got stuck, authorities had no idea how they were going to free it and get traffic moving through the Suez Canal again. But then one of them had a great idea: he called a Chick-fil-A location in America to ask if they'd loan them a few drive-thru workers.
"Sure, it'd be our pleasure," said the manager of the Chick-fil-A as he motioned for his drive-thru workers to get a move on. The employees sprinted to the airport and jumped on the next plane bound for Egypt. When they arrived, they rushed to tame some wild camels and took them across the desert to the location of the blockage.
"Hi! How can we help you today?" said Kyle Barton, drive-thru manager, as he arrived. "Oh, golly gee! It looks like ya got stuck there! We're on it!" The Chick-fil-A workers got to work, humming praise songs as they went, and got the ship unstuck in no time. Then, they worked with Suez Canal authorities to streamline the process of moving ships through the canal, identifying hundreds of inefficiencies and ways to improve the customer experience of shipping containers through the important trade route.
Now, according to sources, every ship captain and crew member will receive a complimentary chicken sandwich, large waffle fry, and frozen lemonade at the end of the journey.
"It's my pleasure," said Barton as he whistled for his crew and they took off back to America to solve the national debt crisis.
[ZERO] In a humorous clip that made the rounds on social media overnight, Montana Sen. Steve Daines was caught on camera appearing to wax nostalgic about the good ol' days when Montana's basement-dwelling meth cooks had yet to be driven out of business by high-purity Mexican imports.
[Facebook] Until 2016, the Panama Canal limited ship sizes to 965' length overall and a 106' beam. (The expanded canal accommodates ships of 1200' LOA with a 168' beam.) Merchant ships, and most naval ships (an Iowa-class battleship will just fit), were designed around those parameters. That limited their tonnage as well, to around 50,000 tons displacement. Those ships were known as Panamax and for many decades those dimensions constrained the size of not just most ships, but all ships presumed never to need transit the canal. (Aircraft carriers have not been able to transit the canal since the Midway-class.)
I sailed in the US Lines Econ-class vessels, then the largest container ships in the world, on the 'round the world run (90 days) back in the eighties. Those ships were big, and carried just under 5000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent length) in containers. They were a pig in the wind, because of their high sail area created by their deck cargo of containers, just as aircraft carriers, car carriers, and roll-on roll-off carriers are. At sea wind can be accounted for in the course one steers and by speed of the vessel, just as sailboats do, although such ships, when the weather got really bad and they hove-to in order to ride it out, were a hot mess. Their sail area ensured they'd end up with the wind on their quarter, which isn't entirely a bad thing, though they will then roll, and roll heavily. Their sail area was of yet greater concern when tied up alongside a dock or pier, when winds got up over 30 kts. All the ships lines could not hold them alongside and anywhere from three to five tugs might be called out to hold them alongside, depending upon the size of tugs available.
A brief word about harbor tugs. Harbor tugs commonly carry around 1000hp engines, though there are many still around with far less horsepower still earning a living. The Japanese, who have some of the finest tugs in the world, ran tugs up to 3000hp, and a couple of them would push the largest ships in the world alongside with no problem. The newer tugs in Japan and Northern Europe may produce 5000hp. That's a lot considering the containerships already discussed possessed around 35,000hp.
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On smaller scale when our design proposal to Exxon included a double bottom for the two ship tanker contract (Exxon Valdez and Exxon Long Beach) Exxon said the cost was to much, and went with the single bottom hull design instead.
(We had built several double bottom tanker ships called the "San Clemente Class" before double bottoms were required}.
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Excellent summation of both the current Suez mess and world trade. As an aside, yet another validation of the critical importance of hemispheric supply chains not utterly vulnerable to interdiction or closure. Every basic component of the national economy needs to be on this side of our ocean borders. Preferable even is in the Northern Hemisphere. To be vulnerable to interdiction of any basic commodity needs as a nation is a complete failure of national political policy and leadership. Now look at the past 50 years and see how poorly served we have been by all of fhem.
[Am Thinker] Two weeks ago, I wrote of the Department of Justice’s overreach respecting some of the hundreds of January 6 defendants. On Friday the D.C. Circuit clipped the department’s wings. I expect more such losses as time goes on and the Department must actually present evidence in contested trials.
The ploy of keeping in D.C. jails without bail some of the protestors who engaged in no specific violent acts at the Capitol until their cases can be heard was very obviously designed to compel them to plea bargain so they could return home to their families and jobs, and the three-judge panel wasn’t buying it. If you think that there is a partisan tinge to their decision, you’d be wrong, Judge Robert Wilkins was confirmed under Barack Obama; Judge Judith Rogers under Bill Clinton, and Judge George Katsas under Donald Trump. It was bipartisan.
The case made it to the Circuit Court upon appeal from a detention order by Judge Royce Lamberth (a senior judge first appointed to the bench by then-president Ronald Reagan). I mention the judicial appointment history of these judges as an antidote to the all-too-common implications that judges are always using the law to cover their personal political beliefs. Sometimes it appears they do. Other times -- like this one -- they are honestly applying the Constitution and law to the facts.
And they do so here in what was clearly the Department of Justice’s political effort to paint with a broad brush anyone who supported Trump on January 6 and to place unreasonable and unlawful burdens on those protestors in order to bolster overcharged crimes. SNIP
As BuzzFeed reports, the Munchel ruling is already impacting existing cases of January 6 protestors being held without bail. Two Oath Keepers members, Connie Meggs and Donovan Crowl, were granted bond by Judge Amit Mehta (by the way, an Obama appointee) who relied on the Munchel decision.
The description of Munchel and Eisenhart’s conduct at the Capitol, a description based on evidence, not news reports, is more in accord with my view of what almost all the thousands of protesters exhibited -- no armed violence to persons or destruction of property; at best misdemeanor trespass which given the encouragement to do so by a number of Capitol Police even seems a dubious charge. This description is contrary to the perfervid press coverage and the bias it engendered upon which it appears that the Department of Justice was counting in the subsequent criminal court proceedings. The florid accounts in the press were in my view designed to tar any Trump supporters and justify surrounding the Capitol with National Guard troops, fences, and barbed wire. When actually facing evidentiary challenges, those accounts failed here.
“Last time we were here 30 days ago, I was convinced that it was a plan to execute an incursion on the Capitol building,” the judge told Caldwell’s attorney. “You’ve raised some evidence that, I think, rebuts that notion.”
The judge has since released other defendants, noting there’s no evidence they assaulted anyone at the Capitol or, in some cases, don’t appear to be as involved in the planning before Jan. 6.
But Mehta on Friday ordered Meggs to remain locked up, calling him a danger to the community. The judge said his communications in the weeks leading up to the attack show he was planning for violence in the streets of Washington even if none specifically mention a plot to storm the Capitol.
Prosecutors have also apparently been unable to get on the same page about what to say to the press.
A judge recently scolded the Justice Department over a “60 Minutes” interview during which the prosecutor who was leading the investigation suggested some of the rioters could face sedition charges. Former acting District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin’s interview appeared to violate Justice Department rules and Sherwin is now under internal investigation, a prosecutor told the judge.
It’s no secret that Justice Department counsel hoping for career advancement have in recent years relied on manipulated news to influence judges and jurors. It’s long past time for adult supervision of excessive criminal charges and overly aggressive advocacy. As the hoopla about January 6 fades, I expect more losses for the department.
As if that incompetent SCOAMF could actully do it
[Babylon Bee] Former President Barack Obama visited his old buddy Joe Biden at the White House today for the first time. The two threw back a few beers in the Oval Office, reminiscing on the good old days when they opposed gay marriage, put kids in cages, and bombed the Middle East relentlessly.
"Come here, Barry -- I have a special treat for you," Biden said as he brought him into the drone control room he had built next to the Oval Office for easy access. "Close your eyes... wait... wait... now, open them!"
"Oh, Joe -- you shouldn't have!" Obama said, tearing up at the touching gesture as he beheld the Predator drone controls. "Man, it feels like just yesterday it was me and you against the world, old pal. Well, me and you against all the brown people, anyway."
"Go ahead - give it a whirl!" Biden said. "What'll it be? An American citizen? A hospital?"
"You know, I'm gonna go old school and hit a wedding," Obama said, settling behind the controls. He expertly navigated the drone and killed dozens of Middle Easterners with the push of a button. "Love you, buddy," Obama said as the two hugged goodbye. "Don't be a stranger!"
Awwww, we love these two! Let the bromance continue!
And we speak for all of us when we say: we really needed this return to normalcy!
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Actually, I really doubt Soetoro has any real affection for the SOB. Plugs is simply a tool to accomplish a mission. Same as before, the modus operandi has not altered.
[American Thinker] Passover began last night. Jews have celebrated this holiday annually since the Biblical Exodus when Moses, with God’s help, liberated the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. For American Jews, last year was a Passover unlike any other and this year’s Passover is beginning to carry ominous overtones of past Passovers in times and places very threatening both to Jews and to all craving individual liberty.
In 2020, for the first time ever in America, Jews were unable to gather for Passover — but they coped. They gathered with family and friends via Zoom, coming together to repeat the ancient rituals, passed down through generations, to remember the blessings of liberty God bestowed upon their people many years ago.
One of those traditions is that Jews recline, or at least sit comfortably, at the Passover table. This simple act of relaxation reminds us of the difference between freedom and slavery. In everything we do at the Seder, we remind ourselves that the Jewish people cherish freedom and fight to protect it.
The Seder also reminds us, though, that we have often lost our freedom in totalitarian nations. From slavery in Egypt, to the Babylon captivity, to the Spanish Inquisition, to Pogroms in Russia and Poland, to the systematic killing of six million Jews in the Holocaust, we have constant and terrible ancestral reminders that we can lose this precious liberty.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Townhall] Last week, former President George W. Bush said he's not worried about the current moment in American politics because "these populist movements begin to fritter over time." I don't know Bush well personally, but I served in his administration for eight years. As a senior staffer to Vice President Dick Cheney, I was in numerous meetings with Bush each week. While I did not agree with the president on every policy issue, I did leave my service with a feeling that, agree with him or not, Bush is a good person who cares a lot about our country.
The country is going through profound changes and political difficulties, to say the least. Populist sentiments started way back with the Tea Party movement on the right in 2009 and the Occupy Wall Street movement on the left in 2011. You could even argue that the first signs surfaced with the Ross Perot presidential candidacy in 1992. The populist movement has been building for many years, and it shows little sign of slowing down. The majority of voters on the Republican side are Trump populists, and all the energy in current Democratic politics is with the socialist wing led by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
[Babylon Bee] EGYPT—When massive shipping container vessel the Ever Given got stuck, authorities had no idea how they were going to free it and get traffic moving through the Suez Canal again. But then one of them had a great idea: he called a Chick-fil-A location in America to ask if they'd loan them a few drive-thru workers.
[Facebook] Until 2016, the Panama Canal limited ship sizes to 965' length overall and a 106' beam. (The expanded canal accommodates ships of 1200' LOA with a 168' beam.) Merchant ships, and most naval ships (an Iowa-class battleship will just fit), were designed around those parameters. That limited their tonnage as well, to around 50,000 tons displacement. Those ships were known as Panamax and for many decades those dimensions constrained the size of not just most ships, but all ships presumed never to need transit the canal. (Aircraft carriers have not been able to transit the canal since the Midway-class.)
