Category: rope-selling capitalists

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Because we’ve seen firsthand how well it works for them.

Jerry Reinsdorf, of course, plays both sides of the field. And Justin Ishbia is a flat-out rope-selling capitalist.

Keep digging.

Cancer Starts Out as Localized Cells

Tradition HOA bans firearms in common areas, sparking debate and pushback from Port St. Lucie official – The new rule applies to everyone, including concealed carry permit holders, and covers parks, trails, and public gathering spaces in the Port St. Lucie community. [More]

The police chief says he won’t enforce it as a criminal action but I imagine if it resulted in a trespassing charge they’d have to get involved.

It sounds like the HOA has its share of idiots besides the ones on the board. I’m talking YOU, Tomasz.

And I’m reminded of Witless and Titless.

[Via Jess]

America’s Pastime?

Last Friday night at Camden Yards, the Baltimore Orioles had a Tupac Shakur bobblehead night. You remember Tupac? The notorious “gangsta” rapper who was killed in a 1996 drive-by in Las Vegas? Yes, that Tupac, whose life involved gangs, guns, killing, and hard time for sexual abuse. So much for family-friendly nights at the old ballpark. Wholesomeness doesn’t put butts in seats like honoring a dead thug — not in gang-plagued Baltimore, anyway. [More]

At what point are people who go for this sort of manipulation going to realize they’re being used, and by whom?

Oh, look: He donates to Chuck Schumer!

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Carlyle Group. Figures.

[Via bondmen]

Rope-Selling Capitalists

They’ll just flee to another state when Democrat taxes get too high and continue on. Until the day they find they can’t.

Ozymandias

Ted Turner dies aged 87: Billionaire founded CNN and was married to Jane Fonda [More]

That ain’t the craziest thing he did:

[S]ome, like CNN founder Ted Turner, see an increase in military suicides as “good” because, as he told Piers Morgan (naturally), that will somehow pave the way for a more enlightened United Nations world policeman…

Mark 8:36 comes to mind… as does a favorite poem.

[Via Michael G]

Tales of the Bizarro World

Far Left Anti-Billionaire Group Linked to Bernie Sanders Endorses Billionaire Tom Steyer for Governor of California [More]

The issue never really matters– those are just hooks to bring in disgruntled pawns. The cause célèbre always takes a back seat to the greater goal of conquest through subversion.

When that’s won, the useful idiots will get what’s coming to them.

One Percenter Steyer, of course, wants you disarmed.

He sure is keeping his security measures close to the vest.

[Via Michael G]

Lies of Commission and Omission

A recent news headline declared, “11,500 shootings occurred within 500 yards of US schools last year.” The obvious implication is that American school children are under daily fire on school campuses nationwide. But, as with most gun control narratives in national media written by reporters who mostly don’t understand the basics of firearms or criminal gun use, that narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny. The first glaring red flag in this story is that Hearst Television Data Visualization Journalist Susie Webb and the WCVB Get the Facts Data Team built their agenda-driven narrative by relying on gun control advocacy site The Trace’s “School-Adjacent Shootings” dataset, which tracks Gun Violence Archive (GVA) incidents that fell within 500 yards of a K-12 school. Even that dataset warns that each row is a shooting-to-school match and must be deduplicated before anyone totals up the incidents, deaths or injuries. However, that was not done before Webb and WVTM’s story went live on several news outlets, on social media, on Hearst Television’s YouTube channel and was even—unsurprisingly—picked up by MSN. [More]

You don’t hate the DSM enough.

Lyft Off

‘I felt a gun in my ribs’: Milwaukee Lyft driver carjacked by passengers [More]

But…but…but RULES…

Having had to work my share of low-end jobs in my life when things took a downturn, I confess to a special hatred for parasites who vicitmize working people trying to make ends meet, and a special contempt for employers who put them in harms way knowing full well the risks.

[Via Michael G]

The Safety Dance

Missiles hit Dubai. Influencer still claims it’s safer than US cities
Influencer Mike Babayan says he still feels safe in Dubai as missiles strike the region. [More]

Google AI…? What say you?

Many freedoms protected in the U.S. are illegal in Dubai, UAE, due to strict conservative laws and autocratic governance. Key restrictions include prohibitions on criticizing the government, public displays of affection, LGBTQ+ rights, independent media, public protests, and certain expressions of religion. Violating these can lead to fines, imprisonment, or deportation. U.S. Department of State (.gov)

Not that I’m saying AI is GIGO curated leftist opinion or anything, but it avoided something. I said “avoided” instead of “forgot,” because it knows:

Dubai has extremely strict gun laws under UAE Federal Law No. 17 of 2019, making private firearm ownership difficult and heavily regulated. Licenses are required for purchasing or possessing weapons, with illegal possession resulting in severe penalties like imprisonment and deportation. Ownership is limited to specific purposes like sport or hunting, requiring strict licensing.

Mr. Franklin…? (And yes, I’m aware of original context.)

Maybe the wrong people are “influencers.”

Still, he has a point about cities and the dangerous oppressiveness of Democrat rule.