Tomorrow’s just another day, and I don’t believe in Time
For months now, anybody who has had the temerity to point out the obvious, observable fact that the 2020 presidential election was a fraud has been drummed out of polite society, canceled by social media platforms, and “de-platformed” by service providers. Your humble narrator has been an un-person for years, having been in the vanguard of pointing out that the 2016 presidential election was a scam and a hoax also, so none of this comes as a surprise to me.
What, on the other hand, does come as a surprise to me is the fact that the election defrauders are already openly admitting that they rigged the election, in such stodgy, establishment rags as Time magazine, no less:
“Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.
Oh, did I say they rigged the election? Slip of the tongue. What I meant to say is that they fortified the election, which may or may not be a thing. I know how to fortify a phalanx in Civilization, and I know that Cap’n Crunch is fortified with actual nutrients in addition to the sugar and powdered rat intestines, but what does it mean to fortify an election? Apparently it has something to do with ensuring that the “proper outcome” isn’t influenced by annoying things like the “proper” candidate getting absolutely crushed nationwide, while that “improper” Orange Man gets a record number of votes. So, really, what needed “fortifying” was Usurper Joe’s lacklustre ballot-box performance, and fortify that they certainly did.
Those with no particular historical knowledge are shocked — shocked! — by the admission that the Holy Sacred Elections could possibly be a corrupt game. Yet corrupt presidential elections are nothing new, even here in the United States — the elections of 1824, 1960, and 2000 were obviously fraudulent in one way or another, to say nothing of every election from 1860 to 1880. Even those of us who are old hands at this, however, will probably be startled by the sheer brazenness of this particular steal, and the openness with which Molly Ball — who is, incidentally, the biographer of Nancy Pelosi — admits to it. Read that Time article, strip the spin from it, and marvel at what is being openly admitted.
Then come back and tell me I’m a horrible conspiracy theorist.
More brutal! More honest!
In somewhat lighter news, John Kerry, who is Usurper Joe’s “climate czar” (obviously the most Orwellian position so far, unless the New York Times succeeds in its bid to install a “reality czar” to supervise all information), who was recently awarded a special medal for being such a great Hero of Might and Magic and also Climate Justice, was called out over his penchant for flying everywhere in his own private jet to hob-nob with other rich, powerful people. Naturally, he got a bit shirty about that:
Icelandic reporter Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson confronted Kerry at the event over his choice of transportation, asking: “I understand that you came here with a private jet. Is that an environmental way to travel?”
Kerry responded by claiming that it was the only way. “If you offset your carbon — it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle,” Kerry said.
“I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States,” he added, referring to the multilateral climate agreement signed while he was secretary of state under President Obama.
“I’ve been involved with this fight for years. I negotiated with [Chinese] President Xi to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris. And, I believe, the time it takes me to get somewhere, I can’t sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people and get things done,” Kerry said.
Private jets are the only choice for people like John Kerry. He has places to be! Things to do! He doesn’t have time to wait like the hoi polloi. Flying commercial? Ridiculous! Maybe if you little people were more enlightened you’d realise that jetting around the world “to win the battle on climate change” is a sensible thing to do, but going to visit your family or carrying on with some horrible private business that just improves people’s lives is evil, wasteful vanity. You just don’t understand because you don’t have to get things done, like Important Man John Kerry.
smh
Where would the internet be without acronyms? And more to the point: how would millennials cope with the difficult challenge of texting their idiot friends? We’d have to write actual real words, like cavemen! Nobody wants that!
[T]he station said the director of the arts department wrote in a memo that “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.”
“The use of so many acronyms within the educational field often times tends to alienate those who may not speak English to understand those acronyms [much sic],” department Director Sam Bass told KGO.
People who don’t speak English — such as, evidently, department director Sam Bass — are supremely whited by your incessant cries of “LF1M SM GY,” and don’t you forget it.
The setup here is that the San Francisco public school system’s arts department has for years been known as “VAPA,” which evidently stands for “visual and performing arts department.” People are just beginning to wake up to the fact that this is obviously racist, however, and changing it. What do you suppose the new name will be?
Bass told the station that “it’s a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are.”
I know math is also a white supremacist oppression system and that, but I’m reasonably sure “SFUSD Arts Department” has more square footage devoted to acronyms than does “VAPA.”
The comedy twist being, of course, that I am 100% in favour of fighting back against the ridiculous over-acronymisation trend that has so captured the popular imagination, but not because of imaginary fairy stories about “oppression.” The other comedy twist is that I’m pretty sure “those who may not speak English” won’t be helped by the change to “SFUSD Arts Department,” guy. That may very well still be English.
While we’re getting schooled
This is a thing:
In case you thought it was absurd and illegal enough for college campuses to provide tiny, designated “zones” where free speech would be permitted, now they need to pre-screen and approve your speech before you’re “free” to make it, after which point your authorisation to speech that particular thing is free for two weeks.
But, no, seriously. Keep telling me I’m an awful conspiracy nut.
And speaking of nuts
You might want to avoid following the links in this one; they lead to Vice, which is potty-mouth central, and some of the images are less than family-friendly.
In October of last year, security researchers found that the manufacturer of an Internet of Things chastity cage—a sex toy that users put around their penis to prevent erections that is used in the BDSM community and can be unlocked remotely—had left an API exposed, giving malicious hackers a chance to take control of the devices. That’s exactly what happened, according to a security researcher who obtained screenshots of conversations between the hacker and several victims, and according to victims interviewed by Motherboard.
A victim who asked to be identified only as Robert said that he received a message from a hacker demanding a payment of 0.02 Bitcoin (around $750 today) to unlock the device. He realized his cage was definitely “locked,” and he “could not gain access to it.”
Okay, obviously, the first thing I have to point out is that overexposure to politically-correct pronoun-o-mania has obviously rotted your brains, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai. “… [T]hat users put around their penis?” If I were an eighth-grade English teacher, I’d put a big red line on that and kick your paper back to you for revision. Shame on your editor for not doing the same.
The second thing I have to point out is that nobody’s actually called “Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai.” Pick a realistic pen name like mine, guy.
The third thing I have to point out is that “Bicchierai” should be the name for the Amazon version of the most overrated Planescape race.
I think that’s it, then. We’re done here, yes? If you expected me to address the article, well, we’ve done all this before. Apparently nobody learned anything in the meantime.
Next they came for my uterus, and still I did not speak out
I get in trouble when I talk about things like this, but it’s weird and it was last week, so I think it fits:
This study concluded that transwomen (biological males) have the “desire to have physiologic experiences unique to cisgender women, such as menstruation and gestation, as well as potentially having a physiologically functioning transplanted vagina.”
Also, the authors found that transgender women “may expect the ability to menstruate to enhance satisfaction with their desired gender and uterus transplant and anticipate improvements in perceptions of their femininity.” Those surveyed also cited that potentially having a functional vagina transplanted might also enhance sexual function and quality of life.
The study was rather less specific on the question of whether or not these men also desire a pony, and an ice cream sundae, and a dirtbike, and a Red Ryder BB gun, and…
Here, in a prestigious medical journal, the authors use phrases such as “categorized as female at birth,” which in scientific terms, means when a baby is born and has XX chromosomes, she is a little girl baby. She isn’t categorized as female; she IS female. In the same way, when a baby is born with XY, he isn’t categorized as male, he IS male.
At least they’ve backed off from the outrageously false “assigned at birth” to the only misleading “categorized at birth.” Or maybe that’s not a good thing, since it could lead to more people swallowing this foolishness.
Of course, in this study, the transgender women reported that “the potential benefits of uterus transplant outweigh the significant risks with which it is associated and may improve quality of life, happiness, and dysphoric symptoms, while enhancing feelings of femininity.”
It goes without saying that none of the men who were consulted have ever had a uterine transplant, and have no doubt unduly rosy ideas about the airy-fairy “benefits” and no clear conception of the real, actual risks. In fact, nobody has a clear conception of the risks, since there have only been seventy uterine transplants performed in total, and not one of those was implanted in a man. But since when do we allow truth to get in the way of some good, old-fashioned social justice wish listing? What kind of prestigious medical journal would make a rookie mistake like that?
Presented without comment
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States
That guy’s still the goods.