Elon Musk Says His Acquisition of Twitter Is 'On Hold'

Plus: The Pro-Choice Caucus thinks choice is a harmful word, trade restrictions worsened the baby formula shortage, and more...

Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter is "on hold" pending a review of the proportion of spam accounts on the site, the billionaire investor and CEO of Tesla said on Friday.

Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022

Musk added that he was "still committed to acquisition."

Twitter has estimated that spam accounts comprise about 5 percent of the site's total, and Musk has indicated that he will hold the company to that. His comments could suggest an intention to back out of the deal entirely, or he might be trying to drive down the value of Twitter in order to make the acquisition easier, according to The New York Times.

Musk had recently indicated that if he does acquire Twitter, he will rescind the permanent ban of former President Donald Trump.

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FREE MINDS

The Pro-Choice Caucus in the House circulated new talking points to Democrats on Thursday, recommending different language about abortion.

NEW: The Pro Choice Caucus has just sent out messaging materials to House Dems on Roe draft.

One of the recommendations: Don't use "choice." pic.twitter.com/nqVA8W1nWT

— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) May 12, 2022

It's hard to argue that the purportedly "helpful" language is superior to the purportedly "harmful" language. Many pregnancies are "unexpected," but don't result in abortion, to take just one example.

If Democrats had conducted some polling and concluded that choice and safe, legal, and rare were unpopular ways to describe these issues, that would be one thing. But no. This framing seems to be the work of progressive activists who decided that choice "ignores the lived realities of people, especially Black people and people of color."

One wonders if the Pro-Choice Caucus will immediately rebrand itself as the Pro-Decision Caucus.

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FREE MARKETS

The baby formula shortage is making life difficult for many mothers across America. More than 40 percent of formulas are unavailable, according to The New York Times:

"Realistically, I think we're looking at several more months," said Dr. Steven Abrams, a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics. "Even once that factory restarts, I don't think the situation will get better super rapidly because the shortages have been developing for so long."…

If you can't find your baby's typical formula, your first call should be to their pediatrician. Health care providers might be able to help you find samples, connect you with a local formula representative or point you toward a charity that can help, Dr. Abrams said. Your local Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, office might also be able to help you find options.

Local parenting groups can also be an important resource. As the shortage continues, regional Facebook groups helping parents find their preferred formula have been popping up.

The Cato Institute's Gabriella Beaumont-Smith writes that trade restrictions are a significant cause of the shortages:

One reason retailers are struggling to recover stock levels is the multifarious trade restrictions that limit infant formula imports. The United States subjects infant formula to tariffs up to 17.5 percent and tariff-rate quotas (TRQs); for TRQs some level imported are subject to a tariff with the excess subject to a tariff and additional duties. A few trading partners receive "special" duty rates where some infant formula imports are duty-​free or receive lower tariffs and TRQs. Mexico is one of the few U.S. trading partners that has some duty-​free access for infant formula, and uncoincidentally, is the top trading partner for U.S. formula imports. Though, in comparison to total imports from Mexico (worth almost $400 billion), formula imports are extremely low.

Absurdly, provisions were added to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to restrict imports of formula from Canada, supposedly because China was investing in a baby food plant in Ontario, and this new production might eventually enter the U.S. market (heaven forbid!). Thus, the provisions in the USMCA's agriculture annex establish confusing and costly TRQs on Canadian exports of infant formula, and the United States imported no baby formula from Canada in 2021.

Making matters even worse, infant formula is subject to onerous U.S. regulatory ("non-tariff") barriers. For example, the FDA requires specific ingredients, labeling requirements, and mandates retailers wait at least 90 days before marketing a new infant formula. Therefore, if U.S. retailers wanted to source more formula from established trading partners like Mexico or Canada, the needs of parents cannot be quickly met because of these wait times. Businesses also have little incentive to go through the onerous regulatory process to sell to American retailers, given the aforementioned tariffs and the relatively short duration of the current crisis.

Read more here.

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Comments

[Ra's al Gore]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/musk-threatens-walk-away-twitter-deal

Update (0750ET): Twitter shares are bouncing back now that Musk has clarified that the deal saga isn’t over yet: on the contrary, Musk just clarified that he is “still committed to the acquisition”.

[Overt]

His PsyOps are quite advanced. The snowflakes at Twitter are going to be emotionally drained by the time he actually closes the deal.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Perhaps his goal is to get most of them to quit before he takes ownership.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

No educated, informed, well-adjusted, reasoning person (oir regulator) considers Elon Musk credible. He is an impulsive, immature, proven liar and loose cannon.

Disaffected, on-the-spectrum, antisocial losers find him just dreamy, though.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I think the Rev has revealed his bromance fantasy.

[Mother's Lament]

Kirkland says, as he types one-handed.

[Hank Ferrous]

As he furiously masturbates with 40 grit sandpaper trying to remove the offending pink appendage in support of the the matriarchy… Next, the eyes, male gaze no more.

[Square = Circle]

He is an impulsive, immature, proven liar and loose cannon

Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, who should be in charge of the internet.

[Tony]

Zuckerberg’s problem is that he dropped out of college to become a tech billionaire and simply has no other life experience. He, according to accounts, has a stick up his ass about relinquishing power, even though everyone around him thinks he should do just that since he’s not up to his own job. Certainly not up to the task of managing a global information platform that can change governments and cause riots.

I don’t know for sure but I think Elon Musk’s problems are more about mood instability along with just not being very smart.

Neither should be in charge of much of anything. No one person should have a hell of a lot of power in a free society, even if they aren’t intellectually and emotionally stunted boys with toys. If it’s necessary for people to have a lot of power, we place them in restraints known as regular elections.

[Truthfulness]

When a man is doing a better job than the government on the electric car and space industries, that is not indicative with “not being very smart”. It really helps that he actually believes in free speech unlike you and Kirtland, who want censorship.

Musk does not plan to have much authority over Twitter despite the ownership. So he’s not breaking any principle you supposedly hold to.

[Tony]

Could you people go one goddamn day not sucking the cock of some charlatan? It’s embarrassing.

[(Redacted)]

Hmmm….., let’s see…… Musk has a couple hundred billion dollars, and you’re homeless Marxist faggot retard. Also, until this Twatter thing, you progtards circle jerked each other while raving about him.

You’re just mad he will never fuck your pedo ass.

[perlmonger]

Hopefully he won’t be charged with several thousand counts of shaken baby syndrome.

[(Redacted)]

Torturing Marxists is it’s own reward.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is “on hold” pending a review of the proportion of spam accounts on the site…

What he calls spam I call democracy.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

The Disinformation Governance Board would like a word with you.

[CE]

But don’t worry, they have enforcement powers. Yet.

[Nelson]

LOL!

[Ra's al Gore]

Progs: We need total war with Russia ’cause Putin.
Russia: cuts off gas supplies to countries saying that
Progs: What?!?!? Consequences?!?!?

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/germany-says-russia-weaponizing-energy-after-gas-supplies-cut-seized-gazprom-unit

Germany Says Russia ‘Weaponizing’ Energy After Gas Supplies Cut To Seized Gazprom Unit

[Don't look at me!]

I thought cutting gas supplies was good for the planet?

[Minadin]

I didn’t think you worked for the Biden Administration.

[Moonrocks]

This isn’t so much a consequence of progressives urging for war against Russia, it’s more a consequence of progressives urging for war against energy. They’re the same guys that shut down domestic nuclear and coal power sources while signing up for more Russian oil and gas.

[Moonrocks]

By the way, none of this was unforeseen. Those icky Populist Far Right Ultra MAGA types have been warning about this for years.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

No worries. The Disinformation Governance Board will soon erase that seditious propaganda.

[HorseConch]

Russia wouldn’t be funding a war if there weren’t already an ongoing war against energy.

[Mother's Lament]

It’s been paying for their invasion.
For the the last 15 years the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments have been crying that Russia and the Gulf States have been funding most of the propaganda and protests against “dirty” Canadian oil. And for the the last 15 years the media has been studiously ignoring them.

[jimc5499]

The “Big Guy’s” got to get his 10% from somewhere.

[(Redacted)]

Is it clear to everyone that we don’t need a war on Russia but we need a war on progressives?

[Eeyore]

I thought we were committed to making war green?

[Ra's al Gore]

Lockdown Advocate Admits Negative Impacts Were Never Considered
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lockdown-advocate-admits-negative-impacts-were-never-considered

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

Of course we didn’t think about second or third order attempts. How could we, we have the collective iq of a fruit fly

[Hank Ferrous]

There are reasons I say progressives and left-leaning types are incapable of considering 2nd and 3rd order consequences. Their focus on immediate gratification and ego stroking is one, but the primary is, as you say, they are simply not very bright.

[Unable2Reason]

Stated intentions are all the matter, not results.

https://fee.org/articles/nyt-explores-what-happens-when-democrats-have-all-the-power-the-answer-may-surprise-you/

[I, Woodchipper]

Also the Dunning-Kruger effect where they think they are so smart that any idea that pops into their head is a brilliant solution to a complex problem.

[(Redacted)]

These people don’t ever think.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Pro-Choice Caucus in the House circulated new talking points to Democrats on Thursday, recommending different language about abortion.

How is abortion not rebranded Trans Justice? smdh

[A Thinking Mind]

The problem with the pro choice position is that most people dislike full, unlimited abortion. The word “choice” becomes undesirable because it’s an accurate term for their position-that women just choose for literally any reason and with no restrictions on whether a fetus gets to live.

[Zeb]

I’d be OK with it if the people calling themselves “pro-choice” were consistently pro-choice about things other than abortion. The time period of the choice may be constrained to the first few months or whatever, but the choice to continue a pregnancy still exists in that situation.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

They are pretty consistent. Most progressives would like to use “choice” to avoid work, default on debts, and obtain things they want without payment.

[Zeb]

Yeah, I guess. They lose me there. Insisting that others be forced to enable your poor choices is another thing.

[Nelson]

Assuming poor choices is another dishonest narrative from the anti-abortion extremists.

[DesigNate]

Zeb is referring to the poor choices of avoiding work, not paying your debts, and asking for the government to give you free shit.

[(Redacted)]

Yes, considering babies to be human beings with a right to live not withstanding the mother’s wishes is the ‘extreme’ position. As opposed to rational actions, like infanticide.

[A Thinking Mind]

The whole reason the movement is called “pro-choice” is because they didn’t think anyone would support them if they were “pro-abortion.” People who think abortion should be legal still aren’t in favor of it, they want it to be an exception for rare cases and not a primary method of birth control.

The reason they’re struggling with the word “choice” is that it’s become synonymous with “abortion,” and most people don’t like abortions. It’s like saying “retard” is a slur and we shouldn’t use it, but ANY term we use for the mentally handicapped is going to end up being a slur because it’s not desirable. Call it “pro-choice,” call it “planned parenthood,” call it “Baby-Be-Gone,” it’s going to end up with a negative connotation because abortions are not desirable even in the circumstances most people will accept them (health of mother, rape/incest).

[Roberta]

And “decision” is going to be better how?

[A Thinking Mind]

….

It’s almost like that was my point.

[Zeb]

Yeah, and that’s a lot of why I will call myself pro-legal-abortion, but avoid “pro-choice”. The people who want to make it out as some kind of positive and desirable thing are creepy as fuck.

[American Mongrel]

Me:
Pro-expedited-medical-interventions-for-whores-and-those-impregnated-by-whores.

[Nardz]

The problem they’re having with the word choice is that their ideology fundamentally rejects the concept of choice.

[(Redacted)]

One of the ‘choices’ being infanticide…….

[R Mac]

“Baby-Be-Gone,”

You should trademark that ASAP.

[ElvisIsReal]

It’s like saying “retard” is a slur and we shouldn’t use it, but ANY term we use for the mentally handicapped is going to end up being a slur because it’s not desirable.
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This is maybe one of my favorite things about English. Every 20 years or so we need to come up with a new term for the disabled because ‘normies’ keep using the latest ‘new’ term as an insult.

See: Idiot, imbecile, moron, retard, handicapped…….

[Square = Circle]

Every 20 years or so we need to come up with a new term

I was still teaching English 20 years ago when “People of Color” started becoming common, and I told my students at the time “in just the way that “colored people” was the PC term 30 years ago, you will be told in 20-30 years that “People of Color” is racist, and you will be given a new term to use that you’ll be told is not racist, but that one will be, too.”

To paraphrase Ezra Pound, it’s gratifying to reach middle age and realize you’ve been right all along.

[R Mac]

I’m still waiting for an explanation why colored people is racist but people of color isn’t.

[DesigNate]

Are you white? Then it’s racist.

[Mickey Rat]

As well as the eye-rolling fact that “people of color” and “colored people” are functionally equivalent.

[American Mongrel]

Don’t forget special!

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

See: Idiot, imbecile, moron, retard, handicapped…….

Great example. I always found it interesting that the clinical labels for varying degrees of IQ, Idiot, Imbecile, Moron, Retard, turned to insults for lack thereof.

We still use them in different degrees. An idiot is close to being a normie, but with some dumb ideas. Moron – a real dummy. An imbecile, hardly worth engaging with and then forget about the retard.

Also the word dumb. Someone who couldn’t speak. But later becomes someone who shouldn’t speak. Dummy. Man you’re dumb.

I agree with Square Circle on the people of color. Seems a mild twist on Colored but nowadays being ‘White’ is becoming the race to hate and/or apologize for being. What happened to Negro?

[R Mac]

When I lived in NC a lot of black women would call someone stupid to mean funny. As in haha funny.

[The Encogitationer]

The only real acceptable term should be “healed,” but even if the cure is discovered and even if harmless wnd fully consensual, that would be lambasted to the high heavens as “Ableist Violence.”

[Nelson]

Because choice is a terrible thing? The only people who think “choice” has negative connotations are those who believe abortion is, universally, a bad thing. Those who think abortion is, situationally, a good thing are perfectly comfortable with it. And most people are comfortable with abortion being a choice.

[DesigNate]

Because they aren’t actually pro-choice. They are pro-abortion.

You can tell this because they still wage the war on drugs, try to pass laws regulating the size of a Big Gulp, and like fucking with anyone who chooses differently then what they think they should.

[(Redacted)]

Yes, it’s totally ok to abort a retarded baby, but don’t dare use the word ‘retard’ because it’s impolite.

[Nelson]

“The problem with the pro choice position is that most people dislike full, unlimited abortion.”

Of course a majority of pro-choice advocates also disagree with full, unlimited abortion. Claiming otherwise is one of many dishonest narratives that anti-abortionists use to pretend they are the rational ones and the rest of us are extremists.

[DesigNate]

Yes, well the vocal minority are ruining it for people who think there should be some kind of legal abortion.

[Roberta]

At first I read “Trans Justice” as “Texas Justice”. I could just see the Lone Ranger swooping down to do D&C on unexpecting persons — even males!

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

“Unexpected pregnancy”

::rawdogs it because a rubber is too difficult to figure out::
::doesn’t take the morning-after pill::
::gets pregnant::

“Gee, I never expected that this might happen!”

[Nelson]

Way to pretend that’s what usually happens. Demonize, much?

[R Mac]

How do you suppose women get pregnant?

[Minadin]

Tripped and fell while working in a sperm bank, knocking over several shelves of specimen. Next nurse comes in to help the poor gal up, but the floor is slippery so down she goes too.

Rinse, repeat . . . 9 months later you need an entirely new nursing staff.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

That is, actually, what usually happens.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The baby formula shortage is making life difficult for many mothers across America.

Luckily, and completely coincidentally, Bill Gates started working on a solution just before the shortages started.

[JesseAz]

If vaccines provide better immunity than natural immunity, artificial milk should be better than natural milk.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I think the Chinese are ahead on artificial milk.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

The good news is this is all a myth, because the supposed babies are mythical – until they complete one of those Naked and Afraid XL challenges

[JesseAz]

Is TTJ holding you hostage? Blink twice if I need to call the cops.

[(Redacted)]

What baby?

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Luckily, and completely coincidentally, Bill Gates started working on a solution just before the shortages started.

Gates may be playing the long game here.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1524885016932540417?cxt=HHwWgoCj2f-1vakqAAAA

[Ra's al Gore]

WIC customers exempt from limits on baby formula purchases the rest of us have to deal with:

https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1524906913443422209

From a pal in Wisconsin. This is Biden’s America, and you are a second class citizen.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Equity!

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

What does wic stand for?

[Ronbback]

Woman, Infants and Children, program by government to help those with little to get the food they need. Men need not apply those sexist

[JesseAz]

And they get a lot of money. Used to annoy the wife and I buying formula, baby food, only buying what was needed and wouldn’t spoil to see someone with a full cart buying so much baby good you know it would spoil on WIC because it was use it or lose it.

[jimc5499]

Around here they max it out and then sell the excess. I knew a woman who would buy it from them and sell it from her table at the flea marked. She made good money at it, selling at 75% store cost. When we had the “peaceful protests” some of the first things looted out of the stores was formula, followed by diapers, laundry detergent, diabetic test strips, Viagra and so on. Hard to trace and pretty much instant money.

[R Mac]

Viagra and so on. Hard

ISWYDT

[The Encogitationer]

Now it’s all in locked plastic cages that need someone from half-way across the store called to unlock it and then escort it to the register where the customer checks out. Even then, when the customer changes theit mind on where to check out, the xashier has to run to where it is. Sometimes, someone else gets it anyway, by hook or by crook, then the circle of life starts again. /sarc.

This is also why babies don’t have nice things.

[The Encogitationer]

Ackshuyally, I have, in my grocery work, seen men who used both the WIC paper vouchers and the newer eWIC cards. Sorry to ruin any MRA/MGTOW or Rad-Fem narratives there.

[(Redacted)]

Low income men should identify as men on their WIC applications. Not to mention those that identify as adult babies. Not to mention business loans and other identity based government incentive programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXugTKhysKM

[Ra's al Gore]

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1524998029475995648

Prime Minister of Poland declared this week: “Putin is neither Hitler nor Stalin… he is more dangerous.” How could Putin possibly be more dangerous than Hitler or Stalin? Because he has “infected the internet with millions of instances of fake news,” the Prime Minister explains

[Don't look at me!]

Fake news is so much worse than mass graves.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Being sad is worse than being dead.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Say what you want about Stalin, at least he never put out any Fake News

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

In America, people check facts. In Soviet Russia, facts* check people.

*100% true official Soviet facts

[The Encogitationer]

Under Stalin, ethos has you!

[The Encogitationer]

Who says you can’t have it all? Goodness knows Putin is trying very hard.

[Moonrocks]

It’s because Hitler and Stalin are dead and Putin is alive and kicking right now.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

But not as bad as mao

[mad.casual]

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of Russian Oligarchs and all the odious apparatus of Putin’s rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on Facebook, we shall fight on Twitter and Youtube, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our social media island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight at the logins, we shall fight on the landing pages, we shall fight in the posts and in the forums, we shall fight in the archives; we shall never surrender. And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this social media island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the network, armed and guarded by the British Intelligence would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Pretty sure I’m not the first to execute the meme. Pretty sure I’m not the last.

[Don't look at me!]

Do birthing persons no longer lactate?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Of course not. But they can try milking their vegan cat.

[American Mongrel]

Why tf did they go with chest feeding? The chest of males is also called the breast. What a stupid bunch of faggots

[(Redacted)]

You can milk anything with nipples.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

This one probably doesn’t.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1524885016932540417?cxt=HHwWgoCj2f-1vakqAAAA

[Ra's al Gore]

I can’t find the tweet, but its been pointed out that the same ‘antifa’ that are protesting outside judges houses never seem to protest outside the houses of defense contractors.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://twitter.com/BH_Friedman/status/1524395242623053825

Is it still forbidden to say that unconditional and seemingly bottomless western support might encourage Ukrainian overreach in diplomatic efforts at a settlement and tragically prolong the war?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You should call the new Disinformation Governance Board hotline:
1-800-Am I allowed to say this?

[Mother's Lament]

“and tragically prolong the war?”

Just until November.

[Nelson]

The only thing that will prolong the war is Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. Once Russia leaves Crimea, the Donbas, and the rest of the sovereign nation of Ukraine, the war will be over.

Unless you want to argue that invaders should be rewarded for starting a war and getting thousands killed?

[R Mac]

Russia is never leaving Crimea, and probably not Donbas either.

[The Encogitationer]

Just like they never left Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Angola, Mozambique, Cuba, Nicaragua, Southeast Asia, etc.?

[R Mac]

No.

[The Encogitationer]

Before The DGB can get to it, that Straw Man has to stand up long enough first.

[Nardz]

Saw a tweet from some rabid aborto fanatic promising more assaults like the one on the Wisconsin pro life office.
Dude works for Bellingcat…

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sweden, like Finland, is now interested in joining NATO.

Well, we have no choice now. We have to admit Russia into NATO.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But not the Irish.

[Mother's Lament]

Not until they renounce leprechaunism.

[Hank Ferrous]

Damned straight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8UVBgUd9GE

[The Encogitationer]

More and more Irish are renoincing The Roman Catholic Church and are wresting away it’s former control over religion, education, charity, and above all, the law.

So I guess that counts as renouncing ugly, evil, Gold-obsessed little fiends 🙂

Leprechaun 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 Trailers
https://youtu.be/sF3qj847Egw

[Truthfulness]

And the Irish have turned out for the worse. Catholicism did much to ensure their unity in the past.

[Dan_In_Philly]

Just curious if the option “Invite Russia to join NATO” was ever in any Powerpoint side deck anywhere?

“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”

[Nelson]

It was publicly discussed in the 90s.

[American Mongrel]

Considering the historical enmity between them and China, and the actual threat Russia and China pose, I don’t see how this never happened. They couldn’t be any worse than the saudis human rights wise or worse than india civilization wise.

[R Mac]

“india civilization wise.”

Shitting in the street isn’t a sign of a great civilization?

[(Redacted)]

Seattle, Portland, and every major California city would like to have a word with you

[Nardz]

It’s a hell of a tool to steal and launder money from the western working/middle class to globalist oligarchs

[OpenBordersLiberal-tarian]

Good morning Peanuts! Is your portfolio experiencing record growth like mine is during this fantastic Biden economy? It should be, because the Warren Buffett Net Worth Index is plus $2.62 billion this year! Don’t believe wingnut.com disinformation. We’re literally in the best economy ever.

Yeah, I’m still attempting to provide Buttplug-style analysis since he’s so busy buying yachts and Ferraris and mansions and private islands with his #BidenBoom earnings.

#DefendBidenAtAllCosts

[Don't look at me!]

For an extra bit of authenticity, mention that the WTI is lower than Brent because high demand,

[JesseAz]

Just don’t start grooming kids.

[Overt]

I know you are being mocking and all, but the best thing for this board is for him to continue to show up under some other sock that isn’t linked to child porn. The sooner we can put that handle in the dustbin of history, the better for us all.

[R Mac]

The best thing for this board is for him to fuck off altogether.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Georgia governor’s race is a Trump-Pence proxy war.

Well, we have no choice now. We have to admit Georgia into NATO.

[Overt]

/golf clap

[Fist of Etiquette]

China’s zero-COVID strategy is creating unrest among the people.

Ultra-MAGA strikes again.

[Don't look at me!]

And by unrest, they mean starvation.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

That’s just temporary.

[mad.casual]

1. It’s not happening.
2. It’s happening but it’s transient or significant. <- You are here.
3. It's totally happening but we expected this, get used to it for the greater good.
4. It totally happened, way worse and more destructively than we anticipated, but we need to forget the past and move forward.

🙂

[Fist of Etiquette]

Satellite footage shows mass graves in Ukraine.

Why is Ukraine hiding them that we have to go to the satellites?

[Mother's Lament]

Maybe they’re like those Native mass graves that they found up in Canada last year, that after countless media stories and homilies about Canadian evil from Trudeau, turned out to not actually exist.

[The Encogitationer]

‘Cept they do exist, both here in the States and in The Great White North, M’Lady. Do you think that mere say-so is better than Forensic Archaeology?

US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far
https://apnews.com/article/religion-education-native-americans-cbd724ae4e423c788089ef98cec4315a

[Truthfulness]

There is no evidence that the graves are from some evil conspiracy. That’s where you failed.

[Truthfulness]

Case in point:
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/canada-s-trudeau-fans-the-flame-of-blame

[Ra's al Gore]

https://twitter.com/TalkMullins/status/1524807128552185857

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA!???? Woman illegally stuffs Dropbox with 30-40 ballots on Oct 19th, 2020. Video obtained from the County itself. This is irrefutable evidence of a crime! Georgia Democrats and Republicans have both chosen to cover it up.

[JesseAz]

Cleanest election ever. Ballot harvesting isn’t real.

[Cronut]

According to Wikipedia, Biden won by GA 11,779 votes.

Widespread fraud not required to fake fewer than 12,000 votes.

[creech]

Biden also won because he had the fortune to run against a human lightning rod. Then, to compound things, the rod runs off at the mouth and costs the GOP at least one Senate seat. Anyone observing Biden’s “campaign” could charitably believe that fraud had to have been involved (how does he get more black votes than Obama?) yet his opponent had something to do with it too.

[Mother's Lament]

That rod running off at the mouth was the main reason the voters supported it. Trump got more votes in 2020 than any previous presidential candidate.

[Nardz]

He increased the votes he received by 20%.
The talking point that Trump’s extreme unpopularity caused his loss is irrational, ignorant, and shameless shilling for a corrupt establishment.

[Cronut]

Biden also won because he had the benefit of a cabal of leftist activists who worked behind the scenes to “fortify” the election.

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

Joe Biden has been a mediocrity his entire career. There’s zero way, even against Donald Trump, that he got more votes than Barack Obama without “assistance.”

Especially since, as noted above, Trump expanded his vote share by 20% AND chipped singnificantly into voter demographics that democrats needed to win.

There’s enough “there” there to warrant a real, serious investigation into how one of the most lackluster, medicre, uninspiring candidates managed to grab more votes than the first black POTUS.

[Nelson]

There have been literally hundreds of serious investigations, headed by pro-Trump Republicans as well as.moderates and Democrats, that have all found the exact same thing: nothing. Because Trump got beaten fair and square.

[Azathoth!!]

There have been literally hundreds of serious investigations,

And we’re having this discussion because ANOTHER one turned up actual evidence of the cheating that the left bragged about committing in the article about ‘fortifying’ the election.

And it will be ignored because the right refuses to hit back.

They’re wanting the left to go ‘okay, you got us’ but the left won’t do that. They don’t care how many have to die to keep them in power–just so long as they have power.

[(Redacted)]

True. It makes sense that Trump would gain votes. While it makes zero sense that a senile, elderly white man with a checkered (I use that term charitably). record on racial issues, that was called out during primary season, would receive a historical number of votes from a racial equity obsessed constituency.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

The election wasn’t close and Joe Biden is president – Obama

[(Redacted)]

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor – Obama

[Nelson]

Except Biden, of course. So second most in history.

A motivated and participatory voter population is a good thing for democracy.

[R Mac]

Don’t know what “previous” means?

[Mother's Lament]

It’s another of Shrike’s socks.

[DesigNate]

There’s no way Nelson is a shrike sock. He isn’t consistently retarded in every single post. Plus shrike has that tic about calling us peanuts that he will never escape from.

[(Redacted)]

Shrike is likely an escaped carnival freak that is obsessed with peanuts, and children’s rectums.

[R Mac]

Makes sense.

[Azathoth!!]

Biden also won because he had the fortune to run against a human lightning rod.

Except Biden didn’t win. If he’d won, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

[R Mac]

Tweet no longer exists. Now shush.

[Moonrocks]

Removed for Disinformation, I presume.

[Nelson]

LOL!

[DesigNate]

Page doesn’t exist.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Musk doesn’t own twitter yet.

[Fist of Etiquette]

North Korea is finally admitting that there is a COVID-19 outbreak within the country.

They should have locked down.

[Nelson]

They did. In the 1950s.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Yeah, Fist.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1524531031851909120

SMOKING GUN: Whistleblowers reveal the FBI has labeled dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division

[Moonrocks]

I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the Biden regime is at war with the American people.

[Don't look at me!]

It’s for your own good.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You skipped over “It’s not happening”.

[Hank Ferrous]

We’ve been there courtesy of the press and sociopolitical hacks pointedly omitting coverage of, or denying that it is troubling.

[Nardz]

It is not, and it isn’t just the Biden administration.

[Overt]

I called this out yesterday, but let’s remember: Several of the usual suspects in these comments- the same ones who currently insist that the DGB is a Right Wing fever dream- assured us that there was nothing to the DOJ letter. It was just directing the DOJ to have meetings, you see, and nothing else. And yet here we are, with a mother being interviewed by the FBI, merely for threatening a board that “we are coming for you”.

Remember that in a week they will be telling us how the next Biden Administration authoritarian effort is some Right Wing talking point.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Remember that in a week they will be telling us how the next Biden Administration authoritarian effort is some Right Wing talking point.

“Moral panic” seems to be the go-to favorite, followed closely by “pointless culture war issue.”

[Overt]

I really wish that some of these water-carriers would show even an ounce of contrition at how wrong they have been to defend this disgusting administration.

On vaccines, they repeatedly deflected from criticism about mandates by insisting that vaccinated people don’t catch or spread the virus, up until it was clear that this was wrong. So then they moved on to mushy-socialist nonsense about taking up hospital beds.

On CRT, they insisted CRT wasn’t happening in schools. Until even Reason is showing examples of actual curriculums being taught, and the NEA teachers’ union insisting that it must be taught in school.

The same is true with gender-bending queer theory. At first it was not happening in schools, and then it was just exposing kids to ideas until we start getting actual examples of teachers not just “bringing up” these topics, but teaching them as truth.

Now yet another of their “Nothing to see here” handwaving falls apart. We see that in fact when the NSBA asked the DOJ to investigate parents like terrorists and the DOJ said “We’re on it”, it actually wasn’t just to hold some meetings. They really are sending the FBI to talk to parents to intimidate them from exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

They don’t even bother to defend their statements any more. They just pretend they never said them in the first place, and instead freak out about the “reaction” or try to change the subject.

How long before they are proven wrong on the DBG as well? Two weeks? Two Months?

YES, lefties, the Biden Administration *really* is that bad. The Democratic party *really* is falling into pure authoritarianism, where they believe government appointed experts ought to decide what is allowed to be spoken, taught or consumed. If you don’t turn to your peers that you endlessly defend, and tell them to knock it the fuck off, you are going to find yourself in a dystopia before long.

[R Mac]

Lying Jeffy lies. It’s what he does.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The same is true with gender-bending queer theory. At first it was not happening in schools, and then it was just exposing kids to ideas until we start getting actual examples of teachers not just “bringing up” these topics, but teaching them as truth.

It wasn’t widely reported, but apparently an art teacher at a middle school up in Wellington, Colorado has been recruiting kids to a tranny-conversion seminar–run by an incredibly fat dyke activist and supported by one of the school board members–disguised as an “art event” that flat-out tells kids who just happen to be going through puberty that, if they feel “uncomfortable” or “different” in their body, it means they’re transgender, AND encouraged the kids to lie to their parents about what the event was actually about.

Daily Fail had a pretty decent write-up on it, and of course the local shitstain Denver media has been radio silent on the whole thing.

[Hank Ferrous]

Too busy to concern themselves with civil liberties and individual liberties because there are perceived threats to women’s bodily autonomy and freedom. There could be looming nuclear war (in fact before the leaked Dobbs/Alito opinion there was much caterwauling about just that), and the focus of the ignorant would be on themselves. Or taxes on diapers. Or any other of dozens of demands that ‘they’ insist are about equality and if one points out flaws in the ‘logic,’ fall back to the tired misogyny canard.

[Don't look at me!]

No longer “transitory “ I guess.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/age-of-inflation-in-us-will-last-much-longer-than-pandemic-spike?srnd=premium

[Mother's Lament]

It’s Not Real
It’s Russian Disinfo
It’s Real But Doesn’t Matter
It Matters But Not Very Much
The New Normal and It’s A Good Thing <– YOU ARE HERE
This is Old News
Shut Up Racist

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

“Musk had recently indicated that if he does acquire Twitter, he will rescind the permanent ban of former President Donald Trump.”

Then why the fuck do we even have a Disinformation Governance Board?

[Mother's Lament]

The government will have to step in where the private sector failed.

[Nelson]

Because the First Amendment is so 2016. I mean, do we really need to have it any more? Don’t you think we can just trust the government to accept dissent?

On a related topic … [phone rings] Hello? Yes, that’s me. Why is DHS call … But I haven’t even posted it yet, so how do you … But sarcasm is … Why would I want to … Uh-huh … Uh-huh … Uh-huh … [writes notes] … Yes, I understand. You win.

Hey, guys? Ignore my posts about the Disinformation Board. It is an excellent idea. It is run by good and viruous people who … [checks notes] have the best interests of all loyal Americans in their hearts. We should totally support this … [checks notes again] patriotic effort to protect Americans from hearing things that aren’t good for them.

Now please excuse me while I go throw up.

[(Redacted)]

Yet you are a democrat…….

[Ra's al Gore]

How Zuckerberg Used a Tax-Exempt Foundation to Help Biden Fix the 2020 Election
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/how-zuckerberg-used-tax-exempt-foundation-help-david-horowitz-and-john-perazzo/

The existence of such a regulation is meaningless, however, if it is not enforced. Consequently, this ban on campaign activities by “charitable” organizations didn’t daunt Facebook billionaire and Democrat Party patron Mark Zuckerberg and his wife when they plotted a massive campaign to swing the 2020 presidential election in favor of the Democrat, Joe Biden. The Facebook couple donated $419.5 million to two leftwing tax-exempt foundations with the intention of tipping the result to Biden by launching “get-out-the-vote” campaigns focused on Democrat precincts in battleground states.

A rarely mentioned fact about the 2020 election is that Biden eked out a victory by perhaps the narrowest margin in history — .027% of the 159 million votes cast. This was a margin easily created by a strategic influx of campaign cash coupled with orders to spend the money on massive numbers of paper ballots, which could be harvested from “drop boxes,” which, as Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary 2000 Mules shows, were repeatedly stuffed by Democrat operatives in the middle of the night.

All these millions of Zuckerberg dollars, underwritten by American taxpayers, drew no attention from I.R.S. Commissioner Charles Rettig or the I.R.S. investigating teams whose responsibility it was to see that taxpayer supported operations like the Zuckerberg “charities” were not intervening in American election campaigns with the idea of shaping their outcomes.

In 2020, the Zuckerbergs donated $69.5 million to the tax-exempt Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), whose founder was formerly a director of the leftwing People For the American Way, and $350 million to the “Safe Elections” Project of the tax-exempt Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). The title “Safe Elections” refers to the cover for Zuckerberg’s fraudulent operation, which he presented as an effort to protect voters from COVID-19. The three founders of CTCL were former co-workers at the Democrat-aligning New Organizing Institute. The conduit Zuckerberg used to funnel his $419.5 million to CEIR and CTCL was yet another tax-exempt nonprofit, the California-based Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation supports get-out-the-vote campaigns for the Democratic Party.

On receiving Zuckerberg’s funds, CEIR and CTCL distributed the money, in the form of “COVID-19 response” grants of varying amounts, to election administrators in some 2,500 municipalities in 49 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. The alleged purpose of these grants, according to CTCL, was to help create conditions where Americans could vote as safely as possible in the midst of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. This could have been accomplished by renting football stadiums and other sports arenas that would provide enough space for “social distancing” and would have been a worthy tax-exempt objective, if it had been the actual purpose of the project. But it wasn’t.

Neither CEIT nor CTCL had ever before experienced anything even remotely resembling the size of the cash influx they received from Zuckerberg for the 2020 election cycle. For example, over the course of the entire prior history of CTCL – a small, unremarkable organization founded in 2012 – its yearly revenues from contributions and grants had never once exceeded $2.84 million. That high-water mark represented a mere eight-tenths-of-one-percent of the astronomical sum donated by Zuckerberg in 2020.

Despite their self-professed “non-partisanship,” CEIR and CTCL allocated their Zuckerberg-provided funds in a highly partisan manner, which conformed to the election strategies followed by Democrat operatives across the country to make election fraud easier. The goal of Zuckerberg and the two organizations was to pump massive sums of money into voter-mobilization initiatives in specific cities and counties that had traditionally voted for Democrats, so as to maximize the likelihood that large numbers of Democrat voters in those places would cast ballots in the 2020 elections. Meanwhile, places that traditionally had voted Republican received far less money — or in some cases no money at all. The CEIR and CTCL campaigns were highly targeted efforts to boost voter turnout in Democrat districts to a degree that would be substantial enough to overcome whatever level of voter turnout Republican districts in the same states might experience.

[JesseAz]

Many of these paid activists also tied the staff and dollars for election officials to illegal rule changes for the election. The dollars were conditional.

[Overt]

While I do not think 2000 Mules was persuasive, there is no doubt that this initiative disproportionately favored blue districts over red districts. And it disproportionately did so in swing states. Even *if* you believe there was no actual fraud- that every ballot delivered was the god’s honest reflection of an american citizen’s will, this should *still* be considered a terrible breach of American trust.

One of the biggest foundations of the electoral system is equal treatment between districts. Democrats have been going to court for YEARS insisting that elections were unfair because certain districts did not have enough resources to conduct elections. And now they have flipped the script. In 5 cities in all america, they poured tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to get every single voter they could find to deliver a ballot. But everywhere else in the country, voters were left confused and confounded as their precinct tried to cope with changing legal challenges and health directives.

Flip this around. If it had been Red districts that were receiving massive funding to go out and gather ballots from a majority republican populace, while inner cities were left to stand in lines, the usual suspects would have been apoplectic.

Believe what you want about the fraud- I still have not seen evidence that there was widespread fraud that could tip an election. And that is the problem. Even *if* we rule out fraud, if we don’t mandate that these private players fund state precincts equally, instead of targeting specific Likely-to-be-blue voters in heavily blue districts, this will continue to happen.

[JesseAz]

Why do you think it wasn’t persuasive? Honestly curious. The harvester from Yuma, Arizona is now working with authorities under immunity to show how spread it was there. There is no question mail in ballots surged, there are videos of people dropping off many ballots, etc.

Michigan just had a conviction on a guy claiming ballots he dropped off were given to him by citizens. The citizens testified they never met the man and their addresses were wrong.

So there is a lot of evidence the things in 2000 makes happened. We still don’t know how big.

[Overt]

“Why do you think it wasn’t persuasive?”

2000 Mules uses a bunch of not-even-correlation to imply causation, and sprinkles in a few specific examples of potentially illegal activity to try and prove a broad trend. The entire case is that they have identified “thousands” of mules based on geo-fencing. They never prove that these people are actually mules.

The only thing that the geo-fencing data proves is that there were people who regularly traveled to non-profit offices and ballot boxes. I have experience with geo-fencing, and their case is plausible. They show examples of the suspect behavior and one is very persuasive. But as many critics have pointed out, it is also possible to net false positives in your population if you design your regions incorrectly. One deeply persuasive example is not an indictment of the entire population. (Again, their claim is that there were thousands of these harvesters- enough to swing an election.)

I) The best way to confirm the hypothesis would be to sample a set of these “suspect geo-fence IDs” and then compare them to video footage. I know this ID was at ballot box A at 9am, Box B at 12pm, and C at 1am. Do I see the same person stuffing ballots at this time? How many of my random sample set can be confirmed in the same manner?

II) If I cannot get ubiquitous video data, then I am left to doing the opposite. Can I use video to identify an example of one person stuffing ballots at multiple places and then mine my geo-fence data to identify which cell phone this was? Can I then compare it to others to uncover more examples?

But they do not do this. They *say* they have correlated video with the cell phone data, but they crucially do not show it when that would be *the* piece of visual evidence that seals their case. How damning would it be to have that map of a cell phone going from box to box, put beside 2 – 4 time-synced surveillance videos showing the same person stuffing ballots at the same time the geo-fence data shows they are there? It would be the type of mic-drop moment that shuts up every critic…and yet they didn’t bother to include this crucial visual.

Not only do they not link Geo-Fence data to video data, they decline to actually back up their claims that the same people were stuffing ballots in multiple places. Again- this is the type of red flag that you show in your “Expose”. But they don’t. They don’t show a single instance of a person going to multiple ballot boxes in a day. The best evidence was provided by that tweet from D’Souza today showing a guy going twice to the same ballot box, which is a different problem (if still concerning).

Now, it could be that they are just incompetent video editors, and forgot to show the ample evidence that validates their accusations, but I think it is more likely that they didn’t show that evidence because, uh, they don’t have it. Either way, they failed to prove their case.

As you know, I was deeply skeptical of people like Sullum claiming “Nothing to see here!” shortly after the election. But if True The Vote really had the evidence, they ought to publish it- not insist they’ve got it and release something else. The easiest thing to do is to post their alleged petabytes of data (or the sample they selected) and their alleged video data. But absent that, if you are going to put out an accusatory video, show the god damn evidence.

“The harvester from Yuma, Arizona is now working with authorities under immunity to show how spread it was there. ”

If that yields results, then that will be evidence I want to see.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Even *if* you believe there was no actual fraud- that every ballot delivered was the god’s honest reflection of an american citizen’s will, this should *still* be considered a terrible breach of American trust.

No widespread breach of American trust.

[Nardz]

Simple statistical analysis proves your position untenable and irrational.

[Overt]

I welcome you to explain these simple statistics to me.

[DesigNate]

That’s the beauty though, it didn’t have to be widespread.

Take Georgia for example, it was only like 11 or 12 thousand votes that decided that race.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1525091218652377089

Normal people: It takes too long to charge electric cars for them to be useful on long drives.

Democrats: How about if we bring back Carter’s gas lines so filling up at the pump takes four hours, give or take a few fistfights? Problem solved!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Equity!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

“The Pro-Choice Caucus in the House circulated new talking points to Democrats on Thursday, recommending different language about abortion.”

Instead of “abortion” say “joy box freedom restoration”.

[Mother's Lament]

With the happy fun vacuum chopper.

[Nelson]

LOL! I love your sense of humor. It’s dark, but funny.

[Ra's al Gore]

Operation Ukraine boxes baby formula to send overseas
https://www.wtva.com/operation-ukraine-boxes-baby-formula-to-send-overseas/image_1258d5aa-9e6f-11ec-a2a7-ab7a0df17619.html

[JimboJr]

“This framing seems to be the work of progressive activists who decided that choice “ignores the lived realities of people, especially Black people and people of color.””

That’s because they are no longer pro-choice, and no longer for “safe, legal, rare” (which is the position that is actually popular among most of the country).

They are now pro-abortion. They are pro- “no personal responsibility”. They want drive through govt funded abortions

Its going to be entertaining watching them implode over this.

Also: “Black people and people of color”? Doesn’t the second cover the first?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Technically speaking, black is the absence of detectable light of any color. White is the summation of all colors.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Now do paint

[creech]

So now I can claim to be “a person of color?”

[Moonrocks]

You always could, just look at Shaun King. It’s a little-known loophole to the original sin of White Supremacy.

[Square = Circle]

You always could, just look at Shaun King.

Hey, now – he’s pretty sure he’s related to a black guy.

[Super Scary]

“Also: “Black people and people of color”? Doesn’t the second cover the first?”

African Americans have been promoted above the other non-white races as *the* oppressed, so they have to be mentioned first and then they can include the others in whatever is being discussed. It’s for the same reason “black” was granted a capital letter while all the other colors have to wallow in their non-capital states.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Also: “Black people and people of color”? Doesn’t the second cover the first?

No. Literally no. Black people are almost like a nation unto themselves. People of color are other vaguely defined minorities.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

For instance, the Church of England is now talking about teaching “black theology”. Literally no one knows what that is. What is “black theology”? There’s Japanese theology, there’s Islamic or Jewish theology. But no one quite knows what “black theology” is. Yet they’ll be teaching it.

[Mother's Lament]

Bog-standard leftist talking points that most Black Baptist churches would find to be blasphemous and anathema.

[mad.casual]

Again, when people started talking about Obama and The Black Church, my upbringing and broad cultural awareness strongly suggested that the latter referred to Satan-worship. When Paine referred to George as “Albion’s fiery prince” he wasn’t saying he looked like Justin Trudeau.

[Nelson]

“They are now pro-abortion. They are pro- “no personal responsibility”.”

Neither of those things are true. The first assumes pro-choice is only supported by people who personally don’t have any oroblem with abortion, which is and always has been demonstrably false. And the second is a judgemental, self-righteous, based-in-ignorance generalization/demonization by those who want to pretend that only bad people need abortions for bad reasons.

But honesty was abandoned by the anti-abortionists decades ago, so it shouldn’t be a surprise.

[DesigNate]

Wait, you think Democratic activist represent the bulk of the pro-choice movement?

[JimboJr]

Ya im not anti-abortion, im for reasonable 1st trimester restrictions.

Try again.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

“Black feminists and feminists of color have pointed out the this isn’t the case: the legal right to choose to have an abortion does not always mean someone can actually get an abortion.”

Does this mean that not getting a beach house in Malibu, a 6 week vacation to Monaco, or a new Cadillac Escalade with rims is also sexist and racist?

[JimboJr]

Also was looking at the numbers recently and its actually worse than I thought (if you are a black person that would prefer to be alive)

In the last 2 decades the numbers for white vs black abortion (overall numbers, not percentage) have almost evened out. Black women, despite being only 15% of the female population got as much or more abortions than white women.

Not only can you not make the argument that this is just some sort of luxury good that the whites get, because black people are clearly getting WAY more (in terms of percentage) than whites…but it honestly approaches some kind of scary eugenics.

The side that histrionically throws around the term “genocide” must be completely not paying attention. The black population has essentially been decimated and kept down due to this policy. I mean 15% of the population is getting AS MANY abortions as the group that makes up >50% of the country. How is that not akin to actual genocide?

[Mother's Lament]

A lot of black people have been saying that.

When the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the Black Codes, the KKK, segregation, redlining, race-based eugenics, etc., spends terrific effort putting abortion clinics in every black neighborhood and telling them what a good thing it is, you can forgive them for being suspicious.

[Jim Logajan]

Live births per 1000 women per year in 2020 was 59.2 for black women and 53.2 for white women. Source:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db418.pdf

So despite the larger abortion rate among black women, there is no “genocide” going on with black women. (An odd term to use for a voluntary procedure.) Black women are obviously getting pregnant at a higher rate than white women simply because they aren’t using contraceptives. Find out why that is and what is needed to change that and the issue wouldn’t come up re “genocide”.

[Mother's Lament]

“So despite the larger abortion rate among black women, there is no “genocide” going on with black women.”

“We’re killin’ every black rat we see, but they breed so fast we’re not affectin’ the numbers none, so it ain’t genocide”

An uptick in the worldwide Jewish birth rate in the 1940s wouldn’t mean that the holocaust wasn’t a genocide.
I can’t understand how you could remotely think that your disgusting argument was a rebuttal.

[Jim Logajan]

The stats indicate black women are using abortion over contraceptives as a means of birth control. Are they being forced to prefer one over the other, and if so, who is engaging in the force?

Genocide involves the use of force. Jews weren’t persuaded by words to march into concentration camps – they were forced.

I cannot help it if you are disgusted by my recital of stats – that’s your emotional problem to sort out in your mind.

[Mother's Lament]

Genocide involves the use of force

What bullshit, a complete and utter ahistorical fallacy.

The Young Turks initial pogroms on the Armenians demonstrated that. Sultan Abdul Hamid had earned a lot of global opprobrium for his attacks on the Armenians. The Young Turks who overthrew him wanted to Turkify the whole Ottoman Empire, but didn’t want to lose initial external support over it. So they started with eugenics and ended up with a full on genocide.

The Nazi’s too started with abortion programs under Aktion T4 long before they moved into full bore genocide.

Bigots have always resorted to trickery, astroturfing and incitement when they don’t have the authority and capability or worried about public perceptions.

[Davy C]

So those fetuses aren’t forced into the abortion?

[JimboJr]

ya, maybe rerun your logic and try again. This was a pathetic attempt at rebuttal and doesn’t even merit tearing apart.

[Jim Logajan]

I’ve posted the source of the stats that show black women are giving birth at a greater rate than white women. That is sufficient to debunk the claim of genocide.

[mad.casual]

Not, in any way, nearly enough to make up the difference or offset the overall losses absolutely or proportionally.

[mad.casual]

The black population has essentially been decimated and kept down due to this policy. I mean 15% of the population is getting AS MANY abortions as the group that makes up >50% of the country. How is that not akin to actual genocide?

Especially in the background of overall falling birth rates. You could argue that, with rising birth rates, the ‘genus’ subject to ‘genocide’ would still survive or even thrive, just not thrive as much; but with overall falling birthrates, the minority ‘genus’ is guaranteed to reach zero first.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

“China’s zero-COVID strategy is creating unrest among the people.”

Good luck, people.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

“The baby formula shortage is making life difficult for many mothers across Americ”

Thank god the dads don’t have to worry about feeding their babies

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Not in proud, Black urban culture they don’t.

[Nemo Aequalis]

Such a shame about Twitter. I was looking forward to this.

[Mother's Lament]

Zyklon “B”en Garrison up to his old tricks.

[Moonrocks]

That Muskat chimera is cursed.

[Eeyore]

No way the fake bot/spam accounts on Twitter account for less than 5% of accounts.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://twitter.com/wef/status/1525098797046669313

The President of Ukraine,
@ZelenskyyUa
, will join our Annual Meeting virtually as the war continues to devastate his country. Watch his special address on our website and across social media. http://

[Mother's Lament]

It’s like in the middle of the a bear attack meeting with the circling vultures. They might not have your best interests at heart, champ.

[Cronut]

“This framing seems to be the work of progressive activists who decided that choice ‘ignores the lived realities of people, especially Black people and people of color.'”

This framing is because “choice” doesn’t poll like it used to.

Most people will support “choice” when it doesn’t involve unlimited baby-killing up to the moment of birth.

[Moonrocks]

This framing is because “choice” doesn’t poll like it used to.

I wonder how much of that comes from the “choice” crowd pushing for forced vaccination just a couple months earlier?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

A lot. You don’t have to be anti abortion to relish in the wailing coming from these hypocrites now.

[JimboJr]

I think they are going to have a rug pull moment when Roe gets shot down and they see people are actually very on board with reasonable restrictions and not at all on board with no restriction abortion.

They are banking on people being on their side because most people right now dont want Roe shot down as they think it will mean the end of abortion. Once they actually realize their state is just limiting it to first trimester (which will be the case in the majority of states I suspect) they are going to see people are actually just fine with that. The rest of the world is already there, anyways.

[Overt]

Even these claims that “a majority of americans favor *some* level of abortion” are based on polling that is highly subject to interpretation of the question, as well as preference cascades.

Remember that over a period of a few years, americans went from being generally in favor of Gay Marriage bans to being overwhelmingly against them. This preference cascade was a massive shift over a short time because it turned out that it really wasn’t an issue that a lot of people wanted to fight about once it was removed from the culture wars.

I think we will find that abortion is the same. Generally the public is willing to tolerate them for early pregnancy, and that includes many, many democrats who previously kept their mouths shut out of party loyalty.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Remember that over a period of a few years, americans went from being generally in favor of Gay Marriage bans to being overwhelmingly against them. This preference cascade was a massive shift over a short time because it turned out that it really wasn’t an issue that a lot of people wanted to fight about once it was removed from the culture wars.

And if you notice, they’re running the exact same playbook–they’re pushing the “majority of people support abortion” line to try and get a preference cascade going for abortion-on-demand, as opposed to the nuanced view that most people actually hold.

I think we will find that abortion is the same. Generally the public is willing to tolerate them for early pregnancy, and that includes many, many democrats who previously kept their mouths shut out of party loyalty.

Except abortion and Roe has basically been the litmus test for nearly every Supreme Court justice that’s been nominated since Bork. The fact that Senators still have to ask about it 50 years after Roe shows that the issue as a culture war touchstone is far from settled.

[I, Woodchipper]

Europe has only one country that allows abortion after week 15 or so. Those women there are living in a handmaid’s tale nightmare!

[Ali Akbar Alexander]

Elon Musk Says His Acquisition of Twitter Is ‘On Hold’

{LOL… Shakes head} Wow… you know why today I’m just not feeling it as a gay, Black man who is GOP Proud? I’ll tell you why. Because Elon Musk told me to buy TWTR at 50 and now it’s at 40. Oh well… I guess I’ll have to go out on the speaking tour again and remind the KKK how the real racists are liberals who want to put me, Caitlin, Milo and Honorary Gay Black Man, Dear Leader, on a plantation with Jesse Jackson. Fuck that libturd!

[Ali Akbar Alexander]

I also heard that Mr. Isherwell is moving to Florida. That’s another genius move, Peter! Then you can hang out with your new bud and honorary African-American, Dear Leader. God, you’re smart.

[JesseAz]

Terrible still shrike.

[Mother's Lament]

Shrike can’t meme

[OpenBordersLiberal-tarian]

How are American Socia1ist’s investments doing?

IIRC he bragged his portfolio had grown 30% since Biden’s inauguration — enabling him to dine at California’s $1,000-per-plate restaurants even more frequently. But that was months ago. Have they gone even higher?

#BestEconomyEver

[Mother's Lament]

Sorry Shrike. It turned out to be fake news.

Update (0750ET): Twitter shares are bouncing back now that Musk has clarified that the deal saga isn’t over yet: on the contrary, Musk just clarified that he is “still committed to the acquisition”.

How’d your new Ministry of Truth miss that?

[Super Scary]

I think the part of this poster that irks me the most is his insistence on claiming to be something that he is obviously not and that by claiming to be a gay black man, he thinks it somehow…gives him credence? I don’t understand the thought process at all. He even tried to drop a n-bomb at one point, but stopped doing that when called out about it.

[R Mac]

The part that irks me the most is that it’s sole purpose is to be a joke and it’s not funny.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Exactly. So lame on every level.

The name
The obvious claim
The alliance with other GOP outliers like Jenner and Milo
The misalignment with headlines
The Trump drop
All while being painfully un-funny

Sad

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

If the left loses this fight on abortion because they’re too busy debating gender pronouns, I will laugh until my sides hurt.

[I, Woodchipper]

they will lose the fight on abortion because they can’t help themselves from coming right out and saying they want to murder the baby as its coming out.

[JasonAZ]

Despite the ENBs of the world, and the rest of Reason’s editors, losing their marbles about the end of RvW, I’m not seeing the same outrage by normal, every day people. Very surprised, to be honest. Outside of the media and the crazy left, most normal people see abortion outside of the first trimester as immoral.

So, the proggies overplayed their outrage, and the protesting outside the SCOTUS homes made it even worse. I know Bill DeBlasio thinks the GOP is hurting their mid-term chances, but I don’t think this makes a difference either way. In fact, I think it makes GOP voters happy to see their party actually deliver on something they care about. Too bad that doesn’t happen for spending issues. GOP is nearly as bad as the Dems.

Unless, the GOP makes a real blunder with their messaging, which is always possible. GOP is the party of stupid for a reason.

[JimboJr]

“Despite the ENBs of the world, and the rest of Reason’s editors, losing their marbles about the end of RvW, I’m not seeing the same outrage by normal, every day people”

I have to agree. A couple of the more triggered lefties at work have piped up, but overall this has blown over way quicker than anything involving the COVID stuff. I was surprised myself to be honest. But I think its setting in that we will have most states with a post 1-trimester ban, and that’s probably in line with most people’s thinking on it. Almost no one’s life will be significantly impacted tbh

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

But I think its setting in that we will have most states with a post 1-trimester ban, and that’s probably in line with most people’s thinking on it. Almost no one’s life will be significantly impacted tbh

Eh, I’m not so sure on that. It may depend on how the court ruling goes, but I highly suspect nearly all blue states that haven’t already gone to abortion on demand like Colorado, New Mexico, and New York will do so rather quickly, while red and purple states will have restrictions ranging from “almost never” to “none past _____ weeks outside of rape, incest, or the life of the mother is in danger.”

If the purple states are smart, they’ll start pushing hard to convince Congress to make the morning after pill a true OTC contraceptive, as well.

[mad.casual]

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is “on hold” pending a review of the proportion of spam accounts on the site

Even if he is really committed to the buy, this is a great troll to get Twitter to release their actual spam account numbers.

[Mike Laursen]

Dumb: Californians not building desalination plant:

https://apnews.com/ad4fd9176850fd1c69cb330ac8841b92

[Jany]

Does anyone of you think that Elon is trying to make a stand and change everyone’s point of view on things?

He is a creative person who managed to attract new customers to his business, but will this affect his company?

Read this article to find out how he managed to convert customers to become faithful clients of his own business which made him wealthy.

https://minelead.io/how-to-attract-new-customers-and-boost-your-businesss-sales/