Some day people will look back at those who believed government could do what it purports to do the way we today look at those who believed dancing could make it rain.
A lotta people who shoulda known better chose to trust the government during Covidmania. Instead of demanding our reasons for "lucking out," I want to know WHY YOU abandoned your own instincts, especially given your knowledge of past government misdeeds. Help me understand...
If masks stop the flu, they did a remarkably poor job of it in Asia over the past few years despite virtually 100% compliance in most major countries
Turns out decades of research confirming masks don't work against respiratory viruses was right all along
Just watched The Man Who Wasn't There. Excellent.
But I had one problem, and it is a recurring theme in Hollywood.
Ed Crane obviously kills Big Dave in self defense. But the script goes forward as if he committed willful murder.
I've seen this since the silent era. WTF?
I was born in the 1960s.
For the first half of my life, there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't hear someone say, "Do what you like; it's a free country."
No one says that anymore.
could manage to take credit for creating 2 million jobs in 2022 when the same number of people were working at the end of the year as at the beginning and not feel like an idiot.
The #ChineseSpyBalloon provides another example of the ineptitude of govts.
People imagine their security states are coldly efficient, playing “4-D chess.”
The truth is neither the Chinese nor US govs had any idea where this thing was until it practically landed at a US airport
Our government spends nearly a trillion dollars a year in "defense", and is paralyzed in fear over a balloon.
This is who you think will protect you against invasion?
A New York Times article about masking in Asian countries inaccurately claimed that “mask use is high in countries that kept infections low” while ignoring that South Korea has reported a significantly higher rate of infections than the United States
They just won’t stop lying
Women were vilified, censored, and banned for talking about the effect of the vax on menstrual cycles. We were told we were crazy, hysterical, and just plain wrong. F you,
Went along with regime change attempts in Iran and Venezuela
Increase military spending and spending overall faster than any previous POTUS
What was the problem?
Lately, I’ve been trying to figure out why the establishment hates #Trump so much when he literally did everything they wanted him to do.
Went along completely with #lockdowns, including signing trillions in spending to make them possible.
Bombed Syria, stayed in Afghanistan 1/
How you know Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer of all time: He is the only fighter I know of who lost a title fight collapsing from exhaustion from pummeling his opponent (with a lot of help from the heat).
Before Robinson, the referee keeled over & had to be replaced.
I don't get the weird virtue signal of needing to declare one's wish to kill pedophiles in nasty ways.
People who have sex with children are mentally ill & must be cut off from access to children.
But like homicidal maniacs, this isn't about revenge. It's about public safety.
Honest question because I have no idea about this but why do some Catholics prefer the Latin mass and believe it is important to preserve it?
Is it just a sense of tradition or are there some aspects of the liturgy that don’t translate well into English?
No matter who you vote for (except Trump), Victoria Nuland ends up running the parts of the world which most interests her, usually beginning with Ukraine. She's not a career civil servant. She's a political appointee, beloved by Dick Cheney, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Biden, etc.
Jordan Peterson calls on "The West" to "get their act together" and overthrow the Iranian government in the name of opposing "misogyny." Apparently Jordan Peterson is one of those guys who should just stay embroiled in pronoun controversies 24/7
For about 70 years, #SocialSecurity ran surpluses.
By law, those surpluses were immediately spent on other government crap and replaced with the government's own bonds.
If you don't see that's a scam, please sit this one out.
In fact, please stop voting altogether.
Things have become so bad that even the smart people (anti-#lockdown, anti-#VaccineMandates) don't see the sarcasm in this.
Who can blame them? Mainstream sources say things this idiotic all the time.
#Criticaltheory (including #CriticalRaceTheory) originated as a Marxist strategy to achieve socialism by partnering with oppressed groups.
There just happened to be a real problem in the 20th century. Jim Crow had to go.
But once it did, critical theorists became the problem.
I don't get how anyone could have watched the AFC playoffs and question whether #Burrow, #JoshAllen, or #Mahomes played well.
It's obvious all three will eat you alive if they have time to throw. Allen didn't have time vs. Bengals, Burrow didn't have time vs. Chiefs. Period.
Democrats are bold. They speak in absolutes, like “ending fossil fuels by 2030.” Right or wrong, it resonates.
Republicans are wimps. They talk about “reforming” #SocialSecurity
For God’s sake, grow some balls. This 20th century abomination must be ended, not reformed.
The Federal Reserve will never fix inflation. The institution was designed to make inflation THE permanent US financial policy.
That's why the dollar has lost 96% of its value since the Fed was created in 1913.
The #Chiefs pass rush tonight against the #Bengals is making the #Bills pathetic D-line's effort look somehow worse. Ed Oliver was simply absent, and Leslie Frazier needs to be let go as he has only one scheme.
The early 1990s #Bills had same kind of defense as the 2022 Bills: "read & react" instead of attack & pressure.
They were always ranked high in reg season & got torched in Super Bowls by teams with dominant O-lines & mediocre QBs (other than Aikman)
Fire Frazier & his system.
Watch the bar fight scene in “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” again knowing Victor McLaglen was a pro boxer before becoming an actor.
His first punch is a Hollywood punch, as is maybe one more, but most are boxer punches
And watch him slip punches at the beginning. Didn’t need to act