(It starts to get fun at about 12:40)
The boneheaded Cult45 devotees are acting just like this moron.
And I'd dearly love it if the 1st and 3rd branches of the federal government would do a little window-smashing. Soon.
Oct 9, 2019
Random Idiots
When you google "How To Pass The Bar" during a traffic stop, but the damned WikiHow page doesn't load.
(It starts to get fun at about 12:40)
The boneheaded Cult45 devotees are acting just like this moron.
And I'd dearly love it if the 1st and 3rd branches of the federal government would do a little window-smashing. Soon.
(It starts to get fun at about 12:40)
The boneheaded Cult45 devotees are acting just like this moron.
And I'd dearly love it if the 1st and 3rd branches of the federal government would do a little window-smashing. Soon.
Mindf*ck
As usual, there are things we will never get to learn about all this Russia-Trump-2016 mess.
Whatever the sleuthing academics of the future come up with will help to evolve the story - and our understanding of what went on - but Daddy State politicians always try to stall, knowing most of us will lose interest eventually, and since we don't pay much attention while it's happening, they'll be back in business as soon as they know enough of us have forgotten all about it.
Mindf*ck, Christopher Wylie
At first, it was the most anticlimactic project launch in history. Nothing happened. Five, ten, fifteen minutes went by, and people started shuffling around in anticipation. “What the fuck is this?” Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, barked. “Why are we standing here?”
It was June 2014. Fresh out of university the previous year, I had taken a job at a London firm called SCL Group, which was supplying the U.K. Ministry of Defence and NATO armies with expertise in information operations. Western militaries were grappling with how to tackle radicalization online, and the firm wanted me to help build a team of data scientists to create new tools to identify and combat internet extremism. It was fascinating, challenging, and exciting all at once. We thought we would break new ground for the cyber defenses of Britain, America, and their allies and confront bubbling insurgencies with data, algorithms, and targeted narratives online. Then billionaire Robert Mercer acquired our project. His investment was used to fund an offshoot of SCL, which Steve Bannon named Cambridge Analytica.
Here's hoping Christopher Wylie is telling it straight and that there will be a few more who can corroborate his story.
Oct 8, 2019
Today's GIF
eVilleTimes EXCLUSIVE
Damning video evidence of Cult45's efforts to find dirt on their opponents.
Damning video evidence of Cult45's efforts to find dirt on their opponents.
Today's Tweet
Blurring the line between art and life.
holy shit watch this pic.twitter.com/QSrB69WdN8— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 8, 2019
Oct 7, 2019
Oct 6, 2019
Lay That Burden Down
Don't throw your shit out the car window. Pick up after yourself. You can be a good Eco-Citizen without becoming a warrior-zealot about it.
But we can all stop acting like each individual is personally responsible for AGW-Driven Climate Change.
Vox, Mary Annaise Heglar:
I’m at my friend’s birthday dinner when an all-too-familiar conversation unfolds. I introduce myself to the man to my left, tell him that I work in the environmental field, and his face freezes in terror. Our handshake goes limp.
“You’re gonna hate me …” he mutters sheepishly, his voice barely audible over the clanging silverware.
I knew what was coming. He regaled me with a laundry list of environmental mistakes from just that day: He’d ordered lunch and it came in plastic containers; he’d eaten meat and he was about to order it again; he’d even taken a cab to this very party.
- and -
I don’t blame anyone for wanting absolution. I can even understand abdication, which is its own form of absolution. But underneath all that is a far more insidious force. It’s the narrative that has both driven and obstructed the climate change conversation for the past several decades. It tells us climate change could have been fixed if we had all just ordered less takeout, used fewer plastic bags, turned off some more lights, planted a few trees, or driven an electric car. It says that if those adjustments can’t do the trick, what’s the point?
The belief that this enormous, existential problem could have been fixed if all of us had just tweaked our consumptive habits is not only preposterous; it’s dangerous. It turns environmentalism into an individual choice defined as sin or virtue, convicting those who don’t or can’t uphold these ethics. When you consider that the same IPCC report outlined that the vast majority of global greenhouse gas emissions come from just a handful of corporations — aided and abetted by the world’s most powerful governments, including the US — it’s victim blaming, plain and simple.
When people come to me and confess their green sins, as if I were some sort of eco-nun, I want to tell them they are carrying the guilt of the oil and gas industry’s crimes. That the weight of our sickly planet is too much for any one person to shoulder. And that that blame paves the road to apathy, which can really seal our doom.
Way back when, we got messages about "Don't be a litter bug" and "Beautify America" and Iron Eyes Cody in one of the most famous ads ever.
I don’t care how long you’ve been engaged in the climate conversation, 10 years or 10 seconds. I don’t care how many statistics you can rattle off. I don’t need you to be all-solar-everything to be an environmentalist. I don’t need you to be vegan-er than thou, or me, for that matter. I don’t care if you are eating a burger right this minute.
But we can all stop acting like each individual is personally responsible for AGW-Driven Climate Change.
Vox, Mary Annaise Heglar:
I’m at my friend’s birthday dinner when an all-too-familiar conversation unfolds. I introduce myself to the man to my left, tell him that I work in the environmental field, and his face freezes in terror. Our handshake goes limp.
“You’re gonna hate me …” he mutters sheepishly, his voice barely audible over the clanging silverware.
I knew what was coming. He regaled me with a laundry list of environmental mistakes from just that day: He’d ordered lunch and it came in plastic containers; he’d eaten meat and he was about to order it again; he’d even taken a cab to this very party.
- and -
I don’t blame anyone for wanting absolution. I can even understand abdication, which is its own form of absolution. But underneath all that is a far more insidious force. It’s the narrative that has both driven and obstructed the climate change conversation for the past several decades. It tells us climate change could have been fixed if we had all just ordered less takeout, used fewer plastic bags, turned off some more lights, planted a few trees, or driven an electric car. It says that if those adjustments can’t do the trick, what’s the point?
The belief that this enormous, existential problem could have been fixed if all of us had just tweaked our consumptive habits is not only preposterous; it’s dangerous. It turns environmentalism into an individual choice defined as sin or virtue, convicting those who don’t or can’t uphold these ethics. When you consider that the same IPCC report outlined that the vast majority of global greenhouse gas emissions come from just a handful of corporations — aided and abetted by the world’s most powerful governments, including the US — it’s victim blaming, plain and simple.
When people come to me and confess their green sins, as if I were some sort of eco-nun, I want to tell them they are carrying the guilt of the oil and gas industry’s crimes. That the weight of our sickly planet is too much for any one person to shoulder. And that that blame paves the road to apathy, which can really seal our doom.
Way back when, we got messages about "Don't be a litter bug" and "Beautify America" and Iron Eyes Cody in one of the most famous ads ever.
And not to get too Foil-Hat-y, but:
The kicker:
I don’t care how long you’ve been engaged in the climate conversation, 10 years or 10 seconds. I don’t care how many statistics you can rattle off. I don’t need you to be all-solar-everything to be an environmentalist. I don’t need you to be vegan-er than thou, or me, for that matter. I don’t care if you are eating a burger right this minute.
I don’t even care if you work on an oil rig. In some parts of the country, those are the only jobs that pay enough for you to feed your family. And I don’t blame workers for that. I blame their employers. I blame the industry that is choking us all, and the government that is letting them do it.
All I need you to do is want a livable future. This is your planet, and no one can advocate for it like you can. No one can protect it like you can.
We have 11 years — not to start but to finish saving the planet.
I’m not here to absolve you. And I’m not here to abdicate you. I am here to fight with you.
In Plain Sight
If what you've done was perfectly innocent in all respects, then you don't need to blame anybody for it.
Peter Wade, Rolling Stone, via MSN:
According to a report on Saturday, a source told Axios that the president told House Republicans during a conference call on Friday: “Not a lot of people know this but, I didn’t even want to make the call. The only reason I made the call was because Rick asked me to. Something about an LNG [liquified natural gas] plant.” Axios also reported that the president’s quote was confirmed by two other sources.
Earlier this week, Politico reported that Perry is expected to announce his resignation from the administration by the end of November.
Trump has been trying to sell that the call was not intended to put any pressure on Zelensky to investigate the president’s political foes, but was instead “perfect.” The news of the call along with the withholding of congressional approved funds by Trump moved Speaker Nancy Pelosi to accelerate the already-in-motion impeachment inquiry, and it now appears now that Trump might be looking for an out or a scapegoat.
Axios went on to report that this might not be the end of Trump’s blame Perry strategy, with one source telling them, “more of this will be coming out in the next few days.”
Congressional Democrats are already interested in a trip Perry made to the Ukraine in May when he attended Zelensky’s inauguration in place of Vice President Mike Pence. Further, according to Axios, the House’s subpoena of Rudy Giuliani includes documents related to Perry and Ukrainian leaders.
Random Notes:
Random Notes:
- Eventually, in 45*'s world, it comes down to him vs you. I think he sees everything through the filter of Jungle Rules. Kill or be killed. There's no right or wrong - only survival.
- His "company" is an elaborate false front. There are no partners; no close advisors; no best friends and confidants.
- A narcissist knows deep down that he's a bad guy, but the very large and fragile ego that always goes with narcissism won't let him admit any of that so he projects it all unto everyone around him. He sees everyone else as untrustworthy precisely because he knows himself to be untrustworthy. And that puts him on an island all alone all the time.
Oct 5, 2019
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