Dec 192021
 

One of the more tiresome conspiracy theories of recent years says something along the lines of “the political leadership class are a bunch of vampiric pedos, running vast trafficking rings and performing Satanic rituals.” There is no need to bump up the perceived evils of socialists, authoritarians, grifters, pervs, collectivists, commies and the other degenerate genetic defectives who populate the halls of power… the banal realities are awful enough to negate any excuse to keep the majority of them in power.

So a day or two ago a video started making the rounds seeming to show Gropey Joe getting kinda handsy with a little boy who secretly slips him a vial full of what looks like blood. Turns out the video is doctored; the original video is from July 2021 and shows Biden giving the kid something, probably a face mask (*why* he does that is unclear since the kid is already wearing a mask). Sure, a kid handing blood to a man who looks about 15 minutes in a Hollywood studio makeup chair from a starring role on “What We Do In The Shadows” is creepy… but as propaganda, it’s not necessary. The original video is creepy enough. Any other context an old man pressing this much child flesh would result in a media freakout, and perhaps deservedly so. Witness the compare/contrast between the doctored video and the original, with minimal but appropriate commentary:

 Posted by at 11:25 pm
Dec 192021
 

US Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut did not just attend a Communist award ceremony, he gave a speech there and handed out an award.

Blumenthal Speaks at Communist Party Awards Ceremony

Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, presented certificates of special recognition from the Senate to three winners of the “Amistad Award,” given annually by the Connecticut People’s World Committee, an affiliate of the Communist Party USA and the Marxist People’s World news site.

Once the news started coming out that Blumenthal was giving aid, comfort and awards to Communists, he tried the old “I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find Communism going on in here” bit.

U.S. Sen. Blumenthal says would not have attended New Haven awards ceremony if he knew it was tied to Communist Party

Go ahead and speculate about just how likely it is that he ended up at a Communist party affair without knowing it was a Communist party affair. He’s a freakin’ US Senator. Either he’s lying (and thus knew that he was aiding the Communists) and should be ejected from the Senate, or he’s a monumental dumbass and somehow he and his *entire* staff including security detail missed that little detail, and should be ejected from the Senate.

Imagine the response if a Republican Senator gave out at award at a US Nazi party ceremony.

 

And as it traditional for Communist sympathizers, Blumenthal is strikingly rich. This is from 2012, so imagine what he’s worth today after nearly a decades worth of additional grasping and graft:

Blumenthal at high end of Senate millionaires’ club

Blumenthal’s 2011 financial disclosure forms filed this week show the senator with an average net worth of $112 million, up from the previous year, when the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics estimated his average net worth at $73 million.

Perhaps Richard Blumenthal should be examined by the FBI for links (financial and otherwise) to Communist China. Maybe he and Eric Swalwell could share a deportation flight to Beijing. Maybe the US could trade them for Peng Shuai or Jack Ma, either of whom would bring far more benefit to America than Communist sympathizers and other traitors.

 Posted by at 11:23 am
Dec 182021
 

There is a hopeful belief that mankind is forever pushing forward. But history has shown that to not be the case: civilizations rise, they achieve great things (or not) and then they fall. If history was a nice smooth upwards-trending curve, the descendants of Greeks like Archimedes and Eratosthenes would right now be crossing the gulf between the stars or perhaps exploring higher dimensions many centuries post-Singularity. But golden age Greece fell, Rome fell, Byzantium fell, Persia, the Inca, the Aztecs, the Mongols, the Chinese Empire, the Japanese empire… everybody eventually falls or gets steamrolled.

Behold:

Demi Lovato Sings To Ghosts To Help Them Overcome Trauma Caused By Sexism

Lovato has been exploring their interest in supernatural life in recent docuseries Unidentified With Demi Lovato.  

Where are Penn & teller when you need them?

The fact that this sort of thing gets *anything* but mockery is as big an indictment of our society as the easy acceptance of nonsense fairy tales like “the wage gap” and “hands up don’t shoot” and socialism and astrology. We are dumb.

 Posted by at 2:34 pm
Dec 172021
 

A recent gang shooting in San Juan, Puerto Rico left six dead. While this sounds like your average night in Chicago or Detroit, the uncensored video (in the tweet below, because this is a family-friendly blog) video shows that the description “a hail of gunfire” doesn’t quite do it justice. The people who wanted the other people dead wanted them *really* dead. As in “the writers of Marvel comics will have a hard time bringing these guys back” sort of dead.

A discussion of the event with a whole lot of blurring is in the YouTube video below:

I can only assume that the drug trade was involved in some way. And as bad as this incident was… imagine it transported to the streets of some American city that has just defunded the police. Note that the hit squad here used fully automatic weapons (most armed with high-cyclic rate pistols, likely Glocks, while the probable leader had a gold-plated AK-47), which are just as illegal in PR as they are in the US. So… yeah, another gun control success story.

 Posted by at 9:45 pm
Dec 162021
 

Another progressivism success story. The chaos and havoc and human despair brought about (and at this point it can hardly be said “unintentionally”) by far leftist policies has opened a door for innovation. In this case, the many, MANY piles of human waste littering the streets of the formerly respected city of San Franciso has resulted in a shiny new interactive and zoomable map of the city, showing you where to NOT go, where to NOT shop, not live, not employ, not invest. Where to *leave.*

San Francisco Poop Map

Color me stunned that is seems to be circling United Nations Plaza.

 Posted by at 10:12 pm
Dec 162021
 

As a followup to the large-scale Tirpitz model, if you want a 1/20 scale X-15A-2, these folks can hook you up:

North American X-15A-2

It looks nice, it’s certainly detailed (I haven’t rivet-counted to assure that it’s *accurately* detailed). It’s just… a little pricey.

If they sell out, I might reconsider my abandoned 1/24 X-20 Dyna Soar…

 Posted by at 1:30 pm