VOCABULARY: SCROTUS: the Supremely Corrupt Royalty of the United States

Friday, June 30, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/corruption-potus-scotus-and-scrotus

The Corruption Of POTUS, SCOTUS, And SCROTUS
by Tyler Durden  — Monday, Jun 26, 2023 – 04:20 PM
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

  • Until we reach that point of social transformation, we’re passengers on a ship of state doomed by rampant, systemic corruption and the collapse of moral standards and the rule of law.

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Then there’s SCROTUS: the Supremely Corrupt Royalty of the United States, the corporate bigshots, the lobbyists, the billionaires, the politically influential, the financially connected, and all the elites that are protected from consequence and therefore untouchable.

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Thanks for another acronym that describes the opposite of us deplorables.

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Rant: so sad to see child masked at the park

Thursday, June 29, 2023
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No risk outside. Little risk to young children.

Makes me sad how our corrupt politicians and bureaucrats have inflicted mass stupidity on “We, The Sheeple”!

and I even saw a masked young adult (30’s) diving in a car alone.

Argh.

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HARDWARE: NO folding phones for me

Thursday, June 29, 2023

https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/rip-to-my-pixel-fold-dead-after-four-days/#p3

Sorry — RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days

  • The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.

Ron Amadeo – 6/26/2023, 1:00 PM

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Manufacturers keep wanting to brush off the significant durability issues of flexible OLED displays, thinking that if they just shove the devices onto the market, everything will work out. That hasn’t been the case, though, and any time you see a foldable phone for sale, you don’t have to look far to see reports of dead displays. I’m sure we’ll see several reports of broken Pixel Folds once the unit hits the general public. Corning may save us with an exterior foldable glass cover, but until then, buying any foldable feels like a gamble.

The scary part for Google customers is that a broken Pixel Fold means dealing with the company’s notoriously unhelpful support team. Horror stories are a regular occurrence on the /r/GooglePixel subreddit, where users have called Google Support “hilariously incompetent” and a “nightmare” to deal with, begging the company to improve. It’s one thing to ship normal glass smartphones, but these fragile foldables will put more stress on Google’s support network.

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I’ve always been suspect of “foldable” phones.  Not the old ones but the new ones that promise a “big” screen from a “small” footprint.

Just ain’t going to happen IRL of rough and tumble.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Horse rescue is good practice

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Firefighters rescue horse from Florida swimming pool

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65985119

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Catch the expression on the horse.  “WTH!”  Laugh!

I always think that these rescues are a good use of resources as practice for when there is a real emergency.

And, given how fat us Americans are getting, (me included), it may be necessary to get a human like me out of a pool.

Laugh!

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INTERESTING: Didn’t anyone think about tructural fatigue from repeated trips?

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12228753/Underwater-survival-expert-says-materials-used-Titan-sub-tried-simply-didnt-work.html

Underwater survival expert reveals OceanGate’s biggest ‘red flags’ and says the unconventional combination of materials used to build its doomed Titan sub was NOT innovative because ‘it’s been tried and simply didn’t work’

  •     Rachel Lance, a Duke University biomedical engineer and underwater survival expert, on Thursday said OceanGate was using technology proven not to work
  •     Lance told CNN that the carbon fiber hull was already widely discredited, despite OceanGate’s CEO hyping it as innovative and safe
  •     She said some of the vessel’s design materials ‘were already large red flags to people who have worked in this field’ 

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:44 EDT, 23 June 2023 | Updated: 03:57 EDT, 24 June 2023 

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He also said in 2020 that the hull had ‘showed signs of cyclical fatigue’. 

Carbon fiber is prone to delamination, the process whereby a material fractures into layers while put under pressure.

Cameron said: ‘The way it fails is it delaminates. You have to have a hull, a pressure hull, made out of a contiguous material like steel, or like titanium, which is the proven standard.’

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When I first heard about the disastrous failure and that they had been running “tours” since 2021, I immediately wondered how they were dealing with “material fatigue”.   Anyone, who has unbent and recent a paperclip know that suddenly the clip just fails breaking apart.  When dealing with the tremendous pressure (i.e., the weight of the water above you pressing down), the material must flex every time it goes down and back up.  

Surprising it didn’t fail sooner.

Requiescat In Pacem.

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‘Daniel Penny Effect’ Seen in NYC Subway Attacks Including at Least One Where No One Intervened

Monday, June 26, 2023

“@ManhattanDA @ChrisMarteNYC & others in the far left caucus take notice of the Daniel Penny effect. This is what happens when everyday people are vilified for trying to help others.”
— Read on legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/daniel-penny-effect-seen-in-nyc-subway-attacks-including-at-least-one-where-no-one-intervened/

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Direct result of the failure to lock up criminals.

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GOLDBUG: Gold vending machines should come to the USA

Monday, June 26, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/gold-bar-vending-machines-rolled-out-south-korean-convenience-stores

Gold-Bar Vending-Machines Rolled-Out At South-Korean Convenience-Stores
by Tyler Durden  — Friday, Jun 23, 2023 – 04:15 AM

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Buying physical precious metals is a time-proven method of securing generational wealth while reckless central bankers debase currencies and ignite the worst inflation storm in a generation. Gold and silver investing has long been seen as a hedge against inflation and a store of value against currencies. Access to physical precious metals is challenging and usually involves a bullion dealer. Sometimes online dealers take weeks to receive the delivery. 

South Korean convenience store GS Retail, with 10,000 locations, has understood the soaring demand for ‘sound money’ and wants to enhance accessibility. The company rolled out gold bar vending machines with offerings in five sizes, weighing 0.13 ounces to 1.3 ounces, according to UPI News Korea. 

“The most popular gold bar is the smallest, the 0.13-ounce one, which is currently priced at around $225,” a GS Retail representative told the media outlet. 

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How else can some youngster “save” for retirement?

Certainly it’s NOT in “dollars” or even in dollar-denominated assets.  When the FED, aka the Gooferment, is inflating the fiat currency into worthlessness.  Remember Zimbabwe and the Weimar Republic?  Coming soon to the USA.  

How long can the Ponzi scheme last?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: How can a State not have “standing” to call the Federal Gooferment to account for not following the laws?

Sunday, June 25, 2023

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/23/supreme-court-strikes-texas-challenge-biden-border-policy/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell

Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas’ Challenge to Biden Border Policy
Tyler O’Neil / @Tyler2ONeil / June 23, 2023

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The Supreme Court struck down a challenge to President Joe Biden’s border policy Friday, ruling that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge a policy the states claimed was illegal.

The Supreme Court Friday stuck down Texas and Louisiana’s legal challenge to new Biden administration border policies that violate federal statutes and harm citizens in Texas and Louisiana, the states argued. (Read the full ruling below.)

All justices besides Samuel Alito concurred in the opinion that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge the new rules, which the Department of Homeland Security promulgated in 2021.

Texas and Louisiana argued that federal law requires law enforcement to arrest certain noncitizens upon their release from prison or entry of a final order of removal, but the new DHS rule only prioritizes the arrest and removal of noncitizens who are suspected terrorists or dangerous criminals who unlawfully entered the country recently. The states claimed that these rules harmed them by imposing extra costs by requiring them to continue to incarcerate or supply social services—such as health care and education—to noncitizens.

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I just don’t understand.  No one seems to want to enforce the laws!

Argh!

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POLITICAL: I guess “We, The Sheeple” don’t care about honesty in Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats

Saturday, June 24, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/the_swamp_strikes_back.html

 americanthinker.com
The Swamp Strikes Back
By Dennis Lund

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One example of the evidence contained was the deposition on page 28 of one Richard Salazar, who under penalty of perjury stated that he saw multiple boxes of ballots and cash delivered from a private residence in Tempe, to Runbeck Election Services, the company hired by Maricopa County to assist in the counting of absentee ballots.

The corruption revealed in the presentation needs to be taken seriously and indeed it is, according to Thaler, at least by some people in positions of authority to investigate issues well beyond the election fraud and other aspects stated above.

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Certainly seems like EVERYTHING and EVERYONE is corrupt in Arizona.  

If the voters don’t care, all is lost.

So sad, “a republic if you can keep it”.

Sigh!

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DISCOURAGING: Gooferment “welfare” is the new form of slavery

Friday, June 23, 2023

https://palexander.substack.com/p/the-great-society-potus-lyndon-johnson?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579356&post_id=129401807&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

The Great Society: POTUS Lyndon Johnson & Democrats destroyed minority & African-American, he broke their backs with his fraud dependency program in 1964 (the largest social reform plan in history)

  • these democrats that wanted to do good by blacks, well, with welfare, housing etc. they reversed 100 years of strong progress where blacks post slavery were outpacing whites on most socio-indicators

Dr. Paul Alexander  —  Jun 19, 2023

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Key was welfare that emerged as the ‘husband’ of the minority American woman; Democrats took the father out of the home, destroyed his role, his place, turned potent strong independent hard working blacks into dependents, destroyed the will and mind. No government program has done more damage to the American people than The Great Society. Broke the backs of blacks when truth be told, blacks were digging out of the slavery hole post 1865, outpacing whites.

From 1965 (100 years post abolition of slavery), when you look at the socio-economic indicator curves, you see it plunge downwards for blacks while whites stayed up. What blacks were doing on their own was reversed in 1965 and one key is the devastation of the nuclear family where today over 3 out of 4 African American homes are lead by a single person often not mother who is a crack whore while father is a dead beat drug addict thug just screwing each woman he could and getting her pregnant. Not taking responsibility and leaving the kids fatherless who then use the judge as their mother, the streets as their homes, and the jail as their father. 

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It is the Democrat party that is the modern day slave plantation and it is imperative that blacks leave that plantation. Complete, for it worked to destroy them. 

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Malcolm X said: “The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.”

And, my sainted Uncles heard this and agree that he had hit the nail on the head.

“I recall when Mrs. Viola Meekins, when I was a student at Stoddart-Fleisher Junior High School in the late 1940s, had our class go page by page through a textbook and correct each instance in which Negro was printed with a lowercase “n.” In Malcolm X’s day, and mine, Negro was a proud name and not used derisively by blacks as it is today.”  — Walter Williams 

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”  — Thomas Sowell 

Instead of “Black Live Matter” stealing from that charity and phone hearings on “reparations”, we should demand the Gooferment get out of the “welfare” business that is the new form of slavery for poor white AND black women.

Sigh!

Argh!

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