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Thursday, January 18. 2024

Thursday morning links

 Climate change anxiety: A hidden contributor to prenatal distress in expectant mothers


 Largest Ape Ever Went Extinct Because of... Climate Change?



 The Most Ridiculous 75 Seconds Of Bullshit From Davos Yet On "Ecocide"


 Elections Will Soon Be a Quaint Relic of the Past, Says Globalist Klaus Schwab


 What Books Are Really Getting Banned?


 Doctors protest proposed DEI emphasis in Canadian medical school training


 The Most Florida Man Story Ever


DEI’s Attack Dog - The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting the Biden administration’s sham campaign against “domestic terrorism.”


 Build the Wall - an Interview


 EU President Says Number One Challenge for Global Control Systems in Next Two Years is to Control Information and Speech


 John Kerry Goes Full Davos Totalitarian: No Politician Can Reverse Climate Change Policy


 WEF creeps descend on Davos to ‘rebuild trust’... and subsequently book all the local prostitutes


 A Canadian court ruled against Jordan Peterson on mandated re-education classes 


Federal gummint gets a snow day 


 Courts, The New Campaign Trail


 Why Trump bewilders psychiatrists


 What’s really working for Trump


 Rachel Maddow announced that MSNBC would not be covering Trump’s victory speech, and CNN cut away after just a few minutes of it. Why was that?


 Dems Spend on Pregnant Boys and Worldwide LGBTism


America Works. DEI Doesn’t.


 The Supreme Court could put an end to urban squalor


 JPMorgan CEO and Dem Donor Jamie Dimon Defends Trump and MAGA — Calls Out Democrats for Demonizing Millions of Americans: ‘Democrats Need to Grow Up’


 Will the Supreme Court Finish Trump’s War Against Regulation? The former president made little headway while in office against the administrative state, but the Roberts court is ready to step in.


" Technocrats have long told us what we can and can’t do, what we’re allowed to own, what our kids must learn in school, and so on. For the most part, we never voted for any of that, yet we have gone along docilely, not noticing or not caring or, at best, unwilling to make waves."

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Fauci has admitted that masks and 6 foot distancing was pure bullshit and was just lipstick on the Covid pig. So do those people kicked off planes arrested and beaten and denied service now have a legal right for compensation? Understand this bullshit was backed up by federal mandates not recommendations or the famous "it might help" but mandates with all the force of law that federal laws about murder have. It is likely that the Supremes would rule that the federal government never had the right to pass mandates without the vote of congress but they di it anyway and punished hundreds of thousands of people. Where are their rights now?
#1 OneGuy on 2024-01-18 09:26 (Reply)
After appearing bemused at the durability of Trump's support, and going through the litany of what they think voters are wrong about, the CNN article on Trump says this: ..."Given that Trump has successfully sold election denialism to his supporters..." along with their description of Trump's populist hucksterism, as the foundation of his popularity. CNN is still treating Trump voters like rubes and hicks susceptible to the Flim Flam Man. They are still insisting on getting it wrong.

Either they are impossibly dense, or they are unwilling to characterize it in words: Trump's resurgent popularity is, in a large part, due to the treatment that he got in Term 1 from the political machinery in Washington DC and their mouthpieces like CNN, and a loss of faith that elections are being conducted reasonably, fairly and legally. That is not the same thing as 'denialism,' which is a pejorative and propagandistic term used to paint its subject unfavorably.

He was put into office on the basis of dissatisfaction with Washington's status quo, but what happened during his term, the absolute levels of antipathy, has only confirmed to his base that the state has become entirely too powerful.

The state has reached a level of power where arbitrary punishment is sometimes taken as the first, almost capricious, option. And if the state can do this to an elected President, the state can do this, and worse, to anybody, without so much as a second thought. That is not how a Representative Republic works.
#2 Aggie on 2024-01-18 09:36 (Reply)
Trump's resurgent popularity is exemplified in exactly what CNN is saying and they know it, yes, they really are that tone deaf that they think we don't all know that they are lying. Yes the 202 election was stolen in a enormous complex plot that included the Chinese government. Over 5 million ballots were printed in China and smuggled into America in a matter of a few days. These almost perfect counterfeit ballots were used in multiple voting venues to put Biden over the top. This was an enormous steal by China and people at the top of our government including a former first black president and the speaker of the House. Billions of dollars were spent on this steal including paying huge sums to mules to stuff ballot boxes in a dozen critical states. The number of (oddly) Democrat cities where more people voted than were registered exceeded all past voter fraud. Yes we deplorables know that our government has been stolen/bought by the Chinese and that they are right now busy destroying and occupying us. We know that if Trump or someone; anyone does not reverse this that there will be open warfare with our government declaring martial law and killing Americans in the streets. Our days are numbered, they know we know they stole the election and lied and they are desperate to finish the takeover and end free elections forever before we wake up to what hey are doing. They are preparing the final solution and it will involve killing and imprisoning enough patriots that all resistance ends. Right this moment the Democrats are preparing a shadow candidate to step in when the leading Republican is "unexpectedly" eliminated and the leading Democrat has a medical event. Timing is everything; you don't want this now or even in the next few months it must happen close enough to the election so that no effective counter campaign can be mounted and yet at least a month or two from the election so that the candidate and the "story" can be sold to Democrat voters. August looks good, maybe July but likely August. The two major candidates need to hire food testers because somehow, someway they will both have a sudden health event that will eliminate them from the candidacy.
#2.1 Anon on 2024-01-18 10:39 (Reply)
Aggie: He was put into office on the basis of dissatisfaction with Washington's status quo

Quite so. That doesn't mean Trump and his allies haven't used that populist reaction for less than honorable purposes.

Aggie: The state has reached a level of power where arbitrary punishment is sometimes taken as the first, almost capricious, option. And if the state can do this to an elected President, the state can do this, and worse, to anybody, without so much as a second thought. That is not how a Representative Republic works.

The prosecution of Trump is based on probable cause.

Anon: Over 5 million ballots were printed in China and smuggled into America in a matter of a few days.

Can you provide evidence of this claim?

Anon: The number of (oddly) Democrat cities where more people voted than were registered exceeded all past voter fraud.

Can you provide a specific example of this?
#2.2 Zachriel on 2024-01-18 11:53 (Reply)
Can you prove you aren't a Chinese communist bot?
#2.2.1 Anon on 2024-01-18 12:52 (Reply)
Actually he outed himself years ago. He's Lee Croteau and he sells reverse mortgages to the elderly to suck their generational wealth dry. His pencil-necked visage is not hard to find online and will confirm every mental image you had of him over the years.
Pathetic, and super creepy.
#2.2.1.1 manbearpig on 2024-01-19 11:24 (Reply)
Quibble-DickZ infected with TTS virus.
Trump Tourettes Syndrome
#2.2.2 Zachinoff on 2024-01-18 14:40 (Reply)
The CCP's underground biolab in California has been swept under the rug by our federal government. Meanwhile in unrelated news the CCP continues to give Biden millions of dollars. Also in unrelated news that mysterious disease X being tested in underground biolabs seems to be a success with 100% kill rate. It does seem strange that our federal government refuses to talk about this and seems to be colluding with the Chinese. I'm sure it's fine.
#3 Puta Gorda on 2024-01-18 10:05 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Largest Ape Ever Went Extinct Because of... Climate Change? . . . Analyses of ice core samples and other geologic records tell us that the planet and been going through cycles of heating and cooling for as long as it has existed.

What will those crazy scientists come up with next?! How can they possibly know that climate changed before the invention of the modern thermometer!? Or even after the invention of the modern thermometer?! Poppycock!
#4 Zachriel on 2024-01-18 11:47 (Reply)
Chicken Little, no one says that climate doesn't change. Everyone knows that it does. But man-made climate change isn't real and you don't need to be afraid of it. It's just an acorn that fell on your head, Chicken Little.
#4.1 jack walter on 2024-01-18 12:42 (Reply)
From the linked Article: "Analyses of ice core samples and other geologic records tell us that the planet and been going through cycles of heating and cooling for as long as it has existed."

Disingenuous Zach-GPT sarcastically remarks: you fools don't even believe that scientists can determine climate in the past.

The article was not disputing the fact that scientists can know climate changed. In fact, it was saying precisely that they can. The article is making claims about 200000 years ago and Zach-bot linked a graph going back to 1900.

Yet another example of how Zach-GPT doesn't even read and/or comprehend what it is reading. It's just looking for a chance to spout the 'message.' Do you really want to engage this thing in honest debate?
#4.2 eeyore on 2024-01-18 12:52 (Reply)
The earth has been cooling for the last 8000 years.
And we're due for another ice age to begin.
Oh, and the polar bears are doing fine.
#4.2.1 Panda on 2024-01-19 11:09 (Reply)
Panda: The earth has been cooling for the last 8000 years.

What will those crazy scientists come up with next!? Though, actually, the Earth has been warming slightly over the last 11,000 years or so. See Osman et al., Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature 2021.

Panda: And we're due for another ice age to begin.

Milankovitch cycles would normally predict another glacial period in about 50,000 years or so; however, the next glacial period has been postponed due to anthropic greenhouse gases additional 50,000 years. See Ganopolski et al., Critical insolation–CO2 relation for diagnosing past and future glacial inception, Nature 2016.
#4.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2024-01-19 12:03 (Reply)
jack walter: no one says that climate doesn't change.

That's right! Two points:
  • Scientists have found evidence that the Earth's climate has been in flux throughout the history of the planet.
  • Scientists have found evidence that the current warming trend is not due to natural fluctuation but is due to human activities.
You believe the former findings but reject the latter—even though the same evidence supports both findings.
#4.3 Zachriel on 2024-01-18 13:44 (Reply)
Zach-GPT:"even though the same evidence supports both findings"

Laughably untrue.
#4.3.1 eeyore on 2024-01-18 15:31 (Reply)
Scientists have NOT found that current climate change is due to human activity. That is nothing more than a narrative promoted by authoritarian government, academic morons, and brain dead MSM. AGW is a figment of your borg imagination. We need MORE CO2, not less.
#4.3.2 indyjonesouthere on 2024-01-18 17:12 (Reply)
Somebody should tell Senator/Secretary/Envoy Lurch that we don't have to reverse Davos' climate change policies when we can just ignore them. What are they going to do, send the UN's crack blue helmets after us?
#5 RebeccaH on 2024-01-18 11:53 (Reply)
First, in order to enforce tyranny, they must take away your guns. A certain indicator that they intend tyranny is a widespread assault on the 2nd amendment. Things like governors declaring various guns to be illegal or filing legal charges against gun manufacturers or dramatically increasing the tax on ammunition. So when you see these sort of things you will know the federal government is intending to implement tyranny. Oh wait! They are already doing these things.
#5.1 OneGuy on 2024-01-18 12:50 (Reply)
"Elections Will Soon Be a Quaint Relic of the Past, Says Globalist Klaus Schwab"

The man is 85. I daresay it won't be too long now before he is a quaint relic of the past.
#6 JJM on 2024-01-18 12:34 (Reply)
Instead of closing schools to students so they can house illegals why not send the illegals to Martha's vineyard. Surely the rich adults would put themselves out to make sure those NY City children could attend school. Besides, most of the adults who live in Martha's vineyards are in Davos now anyway.
#7 Dave in LA on 2024-01-18 13:03 (Reply)
re: Rachel Maddow

The girl's infected with the TTS virus and there's no vaccine.

Trump Tourettes Syndrome
#8 Zachinoff on 2024-01-18 14:29 (Reply)

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