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Tuesday, June 14. 2022

Tuesday morning links

How McDonald's burgers are made 


Why aren't Liberals delighted with high gasoline?.


 ‘What is a woman?’ exposes the lunacy of pro-trans extremism


 Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness - Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?


 Study: Color-blind philosophy regarding race ‘perpetuates structural racism’


 Even Rachel Maddow Isn’t Drinking the J6 Committee’s Kool-Aid


I don’t blame Trump for being unhappy, but his emotional state cannot dictate the future of the Republican Party.


  Ukraine is running out of ammo and taking heavy casualties



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"Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?"

Contemporary liberal-left culture IS a mental illness.
#1 Maniac on 2022-06-14 08:55 (Reply)
A lot of people say Trump should let go.

I say a lot of people, RINOs and the Republican Establishment of Lazy and Cowardly Gentlemen, need to be told over and over and over that the electoral frauds the Democrats perpetrated in past elections will be repeated and increased unless there is complete exposure of the frauds, punishment for them and huge vigilance for further attempts.
#2 Fred Z on 2022-06-14 09:36 (Reply)
There's a lot of messaging right now, trying to gently, subtly prise people away from their support of Trump. The tactics being used now are the same ones that were trotted out hysterically, with desperate urgency, while he was President. Always these were insistently critical, usually focusing dishonestly on details that were irrelevant and out-of-context from the original thrust of Trump's ideas. I guess the idea now is that he is no longer front & center in the daily dialog to counter-reinforce the message, or maybe the idea is that hysteria is counter-productive and produces a buttressing effect. I do now what I did then. Listen to Trump myself, if I'm interested, and watch what he actually does instead of what others say he is doing. The fact that this messaging is always being produced, even 2 years ahead of the next campaign, is evidence enough that we need more of what Trump brings.
#2.1 Aggie on 2022-06-14 10:14 (Reply)
One Submarine, Two Flags and Two Heroes: WW1

The Curie was a French sub that tried to enter the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola on the Adriatic in 1914. It ended up getting caught in anti-submarine netting. The sub was able to reach the surface and most of the hands survived, but the sub was lost.

However the Austro-Hungarians salvaged the sub and put her back in service. Her second commander was to be Linienschiffsleutnant Georg Ritter von Trapp.

Yes, THAT von Trapp, the one played by Christopher Plummer in the Sound of Music.

https://dawlishchronicles.com/2022/06/09/french-submarine-curie-1914/
#3 feeblemind on 2022-06-14 09:37 (Reply)
We are now reading story after story about the shifting demographic among young people with regard to their stated sexuality, with increases to LGBTQ identities. Only a few commenters are pointing to the dangers of suggestibility of youth, as well as the difficulties of standing up to the intimidating forces of peer pressure. And mostly all of the reporting is focusing on the messaging that is dripping down from the grownups: Embrace Pride Month, bring your kids to Drag Queen Story hour, and so on. No doubt there are plenty of parents doing right by their kids, and these are fairly isolated circumstances getting Big Press coverage.

But the damage being wrought by the proponents of transsexualism is downright evil, portraying the grueling medical procedures and their permanent, painful impact on the human body and soul. Girls that used to be tomboys are now definitely trans males. Boys that used to be emotional and effeminate are now [definitely trans[/b] females.

In my family we have a person that was at the extremes of this type of behavior as a young child and well into teen years, so much so that I watched the child and really wondered if one day they would suddenly decide a life path toward the rather dark despair of homosexuality (that is how I see it). But now: From a very loving family into 'very happily married' with a well-suited mate, with children. What would happen to that child these days, with so many quietly sinister advocates within the schools prodding such kids along to their agenda?

And the message is undeniably a Sales Pitch: It's an easy switch, so easy, your parents don't need to know! Gender practically changes itself!

Now read this account from a de-transitioned person and understand what the end results are to live with: https://twitter.com/TullipR/status/1536422533230206976.

It is truly horrific. Progressive Democrats that are tempting Hansel and Gretel down this path as a wholesome, available alternative are taking children to this place. They are truly a Death Cult.
#4 Aggie on 2022-06-14 09:47 (Reply)
"I don’t blame Trump for being unhappy, but"

It is a case of a never Trumper happily accepting the crime of the century rather than simply agree that Trump is right about this. That stolen election will probably go down in history as the tipping point on the downfall of America and the neo-cons could care less. They are happy to eat the scraps that the left leaves behind and would prefer that to actually doing the right thing for Americans. Liz Chenny is the poster child for the anti-American Neocons. They don't give a shit about you or this country all they care about is gathering the scraps of power that slip out of the hands of the communist left.

Imagine that the right massively and openly stole the 2020 election, perhaps 20 million fake votes in total. Imagine the mountain of evidence that is uncovered and even shown in a movie for crying out loud. Imagine that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would then say It's time to get over it. It makes no sense to me that the Republicans don't want to bring these people to justice. They are clueless as to the scope and precedent of this massive steal. Republicans are the stupid party.
#5 OneGuy on 2022-06-14 10:15 (Reply)
There is desperation in the Democratic camp over failed attempts to remove, not just Trump, but those who voted for Trump. Hearings, impeachments, and constant MSM interventions for the sole purpose of poisoning the Trump/Trumper image have reached the hysterical level. Election cheating is their only avenue to sucess. Focusing on the election scandals drives the authoritarian democrats even farther into the make believe world. Trump is right to keep the focus on election law and uncovering the illegal voting.

The Ukraine is done but the US is more than happy to fight to the last living Ukrainian. And Europe is not bright enough to go its own way to save their economies. Political correctness and authoritarian mandates and sanctions will bankrupt the US and Europe.

When authoritarians are unable to determine what is a women or what is a man then they are likely to never figure out what is a life or its meaning. They are in a fight against God and reality and the outcome is mass mania. That mania is all around us and the focus of television.
#6 indyjonesouthere on 2022-06-14 11:01 (Reply)
Voter fraud is the most corrosive and contemptible thing to a free society. I can live with losing an election. I can not live with a stolen election and then have my rights eroded by the office holders.

There were six states, in the 2020 election, that had massive voter fraud; the evidence for this is high, circumstantial as it may be. I think there is little reason to deny this. The results of the fraud put Biden in the White House. Trump is right to be very angry about this. As all of us should be. Why do more people not demand voting integrity?

The so called elite, ruling class in this country, continues to brow beat us and poke us with a stick. They mock and try and outlaw our values. The very values that created this magnificent country, that they work so feverishly to destroy. The elected office holders may not even be in charge; the many career bureaucrats are. The elected have become the sycophants. And now, we have entered the realm of the great communist show trial; televised in prime time. Angry barely describes my contempt for these people.

Those elected, that have courage and backbone to put the country above their needs, perhaps a clean record, are a rare individual. The stench of corruption, for the good, must be nauseating upon entering the hallowed halls of Congress. For the weak and malicious, it smells of money and power. These are the men and women that we continually elect; how many of them came to office through fraud?

I grew up naïve in my thinking, that there still existed men and women with courage, and the conviction of the greatness of the founding of this country. Thousands of years of history. Thousands of years of government in charge of man, making him little better than a slave. History that told of times when those in charge where likened to gods. And from this history, a group of men came together, putting aside their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, in order to form a more perfect Union. A government of the people, for the people. A government that had at its very foundation, the consent of the governed. A government that could not grant rights to man, but a government that protects the natural, God given rights of the individual. Voter fraud lays waist to all these principles.

Trump is right to be enraged about the fraud. Yes, there has always been fraud, but why is this acceptable? We have ways of reducing fraud to all but zero. Why don’t we demand such things?
#7 B. Hammer on 2022-06-14 11:15 (Reply)
They arrested some Patriot Front radicals who went to Idaho to riot. Strangely they all dressed just like those fake white supremacists in NC that the left trotted out to try to change the election. They also had full masks on and the picture that they took after they were all handcuffed and arrested they still had the mask on! When have you ever seen that? Obviously the police would have removed or pulled down the masks but... It was almost as though they didn't want a picture of their faces. Now we find out that, wait for it, there was an FBI informer in the group! I'm shocked! I'm thinking that this group was recruited and financed by the FBI and that at least half of them have no clue why they were there in Idaho.
#8 JustMe on 2022-06-14 11:20 (Reply)
It's no secret, in fact one could come to a different conclusion altogether: Although charged with no crime, their mug shots and names have been published by the coppers just for spite, so they can look forward to a nice dose of doxing from all the right people. They'll be nice and miserable, out of work and all their life accounts closed down, in no time at all.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/doxxed-named-police-name-31-patriot-front-members-stopped-arrested-idaho-allegedly-planning-interrupt-gay-pride-event/
#8.1 Aggie on 2022-06-14 21:28 (Reply)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3pae31aBbbTOKkkg4BRh_qXbhKrGLBcMp9RUbg03YpS_gknE1oa18-3JCWyZXaJsvU2fgwBAIQ_GKNfaLWsG7ZEyWFVLsAftUIOxfuBW2HRNhP3PAg9Hgual-G98P-zSX7DU1xdJjCxL9-3cI12I12tkzzHe4EhzRLw8mE7NZ6kwdPrNE_fc_wj4Iw/s517/1%20dfgsdgdffgdfgd.jpg
#8.1.1 JustMe on 2022-06-15 12:14 (Reply)
I have a questio for the engineers and/or those proficient in physics

I understand that electric cars weigh about 25% more than a comparable car with a gas engine due to the battery load.

So if that's the case, how much more energy does it take just to carry those heavy batteries up and down the road?

Or, if you had two identical gas burning cars, except for one being 25% heavier than the other, how much better is the gas mileage in the lighter one?

Is the difference not significant?
#9 feeblemind on 2022-06-14 11:51 (Reply)
And that is just the beginning of the physics problems with EV's. The power to your electric outlet lost between 2% - 6% through normal losses over transmission lines and transformers. The electric power then goes through a charger to lower the voltage and convert it to DC to charge the battery resulting in another loss of between 4%-8%. Then the battery begins to accept the charge but there again there are losses in that process of 2%-8%. Now your batteries are fully charged and you go for a drive but there is another loss between converting the battery stored energy to DC to run your motor about 2%-8% or so. But wait! You thought it was over? Noooo! The motor wastes energy too. Not too much; 5%-10%, maybe less when new and more after you drive it awhile. Finally! That's it, right? a mere 15% - 38% waste of energy due to unavoidable losses in the various conversion process. Well... no! If you are in a very cold or very warm environment the energy in the battery itself is degraded even more, perhaps another 5%-20% or in extremes of temperature 30% to 40%. Those extremes are in places like Southern California and all of the Southwest. And Alaska and all of the northern states. So losses due to temperature extremes is normal and inevitable.
#9.1 OneGuy on 2022-06-14 13:28 (Reply)
Clinton emails reporter dead in 'suicide': ABC journalist, 45, who broke story of secret Arizona tarmac meeting between Bill and Loretta Lynch in 2016 before Hillary email probe was dropped 'kills himself'

Christopher Sign, 45, was found dead in his home in suburb of Birmingham

Police said they received 911 phone call just before 8:15am on Saturday

Investigators found Sign's body when they arrived at his home in Hoover

Initial reports indicate that his death is being investigated as a suicide

In 2016, Sign broke story of tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9681551/Journalist-broke-Bill-Clinton-Loretta-Lynch-tarmac-story-dies-suicide.html
#10 feeblemind on 2022-06-14 12:23 (Reply)
Maybe he can say hi to Seth Rich.
#10.1 OneGuy on 2022-06-14 13:31 (Reply)
Check the date, this is from a year ago.
#10.2 Aggie on 2022-06-14 14:06 (Reply)
More evidence that masks don't work https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2022/06/13/the-latest-mask-research-is-bad-news-for-branch-covidians-n2608609 and worse that they cause illness
#11 One Guy on 2022-06-14 13:47 (Reply)
I know a guy out at Trenton who was just talking about this a couple of weeks ago.

Get ready for the catastrophic DEF shortage

QUOTE:
Every diesel truck that has been made since 2010 is required to use it. It's a product made of 32.5% urea (made from natural gas) and 37.5% de-ionized water. DEF is kept in a separate tank in the truck and the trucks using it will not start unless the DEF system is working properly. There are regulators inside the engine that mix DEF with the diesel exhaust to reduce diesel emissions. That's the purpose of DEF.

https://sensingonline.blogspot.com/2022/06/get-ready-for-catastrophic-def-shortage.html

The common denominator in this shortage is Black Rock. Black Rock is all in for The Green New Deal, and the people at the top are tight with the 0bamas and Bidens.

We are really screwed.
#12 feeblemind on 2022-06-14 15:06 (Reply)

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