A million years ago, I was helping a friend and it required me to drive his father's car from a repair shop to his home. On the way I got pulled over by a cop, which quickly turned into a gang of cops, guns drawn and very excited.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1714765703327150441

They had me turn off the car and drop the keys out the window and then keep my hands out the window as they approached the car. They cuffed me and threw me on the ground. At no point did I think to resist or give them any attitude.

There are two questions that come up with these riots. The obvious one is why are these people rioting? The media always points to some incident like a shooting, but how is a riot going to remedy that? What is the riot supposed to accomplish? The other question is why is it always nonwhites rioting? In the US, it is always blacks who go on a rampage. We are seeing this in Europe. The people rioting are the swarthy imports, not the natives. Why are whites not rioting?

I have made the point a few times that Ron DeSantis is the blue pill option. His fans want to go back to some point in the past where normies could pretend to debate lefties over economics. They find Trump icky and gross and they really hate the culture war. You see it in this DeSantis plan. Instead of exacting vengeance on the bastards who have done so much damage over the last decade, he will unilaterally disarm on day one. That is what he is planning to do when he says end the weaponization of the DOJ.

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The images and reports coming in from the long awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive are telling an interesting story. The plan seems to be for a concentrated attack on certain areas of the Russian defenses. The last 48-hours have seen waves of attacks with armor and infantry. So far the Ukrainians are having little success entering the screening line, which is the outer perimeter of the defensive structures. Russian defenses are layered. It is defense in depth to conserve resources and force the attacker to risk men and material to overcome each line.

The flaw in this or any offensive by Ukraine is what would follow success. If we assume the plan here is to concentrate their forces at what they think is a weak point and then break through the Russian lines, then what happens?

https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1666736806140825600

The Russians still have tens of thousands of men in range of the Ukrainian force. The Russians have air power, missiles and drones they can bring to bear on those Ukrainian formations. How can Ukraine hold the ground, much less supply these forces?

You cannot help but notice that the Ukraine supporters on Twitter are quite stupid. One reason is they are just sock accounts run from boiler room operations, often in Asia. They pay people to operate sock accounts pushing the message of the day. There is nothing new about this. Back in the 2016 election I was made aware of a shop in NoVa tasked with filling up the comment sections of conservative platforms with Jeb Bush material. Outsourcing this stuff to India is typical clown world.

These bottom feeders follow the same pattern, suggesting there is an actual script for them to follow or maybe they are trained this way. They always follow the exact same formula.

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666218604960907264

First they write the hit piece and have that approved by their handlers. Then they send these e-mails to the target and people associated with the target, which always say they are just asking for comment.

If you comment, they make up fake quotes and put those in the copy.

I have suspected for a while now that things are much worse in Ukraine than is being told. Zelensky has been finding every excuse to be out of the country. Zaluzhny and Syrsky have been MIA. Budanov has suddenly disappeared. On the battlefield, we see Ukraine conducting terrorist operations inside Russia. They have also launched a fake insurrection in Belvogrod, an area with no military value. None of this makes sense militarily.

Last night the Russians reportedly hit a Patriot system in or around Kiev. As is always the case, there is a lot of bullshit flying, but the video of the strike looks like a Patriot system in action and it looks like it was hit by a Russian missile. People with knowledge of the Patriot system are wondering why the Ukrainians would have used the system as it appears they did, which allowed the Russians to locate the launcher and hit it with a hypersonic missile.

Everyone posting about Jordan Neeley's criminal record should be banned from the internet. This is basic civics. The Marine did not know about this record, so it had no role in his decision to act. In court, if we still had the rule of law and fair trials for white people, the only thing that would matter is if the Marine took reasonable actions to protect himself and others during this altercation.

One of the underdiscussed aspects of the Ukraine terror activity is that it is happening outside official circles. The Kagan cult consults with military and security people in Ukraine about these ideas. The only admin people with direct knowledge are fellow cult members. Once they decide on a plan, the Ukrainians put together what they can, but they lack the technical skills and resources to do it all. The Kagan cult makes calls to their friends in Black Cube, Constellis (formerly Blackwater) and other private military/security companies.

Words like racism, sexism, homerphobism, transphobism and so on are just novel ways of saying immoral or forbidden. This is why it is absurd for Scott Adams to do the DR3 stuff.

https://twitter.com/c_vinchenzo/status/1653774386200035328

It is simply impossible for the NYTimes or any of the other priests of the new religion to be haram. By definition they are halal as they get to decide what is and what is not haram.

Every regime, regardless of its nature, must worry about two things, the peasant revolt, and the palace coup. That means much of what the regime does is keep the peasants disorganized and dependent on the status quo, while making sure no one in the regime is getting any ideas. As peasants, we tend to focus on the first part whenever the regime starts cracking heads over speech or assembly. It makes sense as it is the part of this process we can easily see. It also makes us feel like we are playing a significant role in whatever is happening.

The trouble with these various arguments is they never bother to examine why the neocons have a Russian obsession. It is as if it is no one is allowed to mention what should be rather obvious at this point.

https://twitter.com/TOOEdit/status/1648701306343931904

Of course, that leads to uncomfortable questions about why they obsess over Russia and even more uncomfortable answers, but it is like leaving race out of the crime discussion.

What gets missed in the Bud Light story is why this company is willing to engage with this material so flamboyantly. AB InBev has half the US beer market and Molson Coors has about a quarter. Both would like to grow through acquisition and that means getting regulatory approval. Since they also control large swaths of the supply chain for making, producing, and distributing beer, they are always interacting with government regulators. Their biggest customer is the government.