So some conservative rich guy buys into a Lefty media organ, whereupon the Commies lose their shit.
Major Republican donor Paul Singer has just purchased a big stake in Twitter and is reportedly pondering changes, among them getting rid of the present CEO, Jack Dorsey, according to a report in The Guardian.
And:
God, I hope so.
Sucks when it happens to your side, dunnit? You totalitarian motherfuckers.
“Caring for the environment and animal welfare are laudable ends, but when pursuit of those ends jeopardizes the health, and in some cases the lives of human beings, then those objectives must be subordinated to the larger and more important goal of the improvement in the human condition.”
And if you disagree with that statement and are prepared to sacrifice the lives of your fellow human beings for your cause, then as far as I’m concerned you’ve lost the right for me to care about your survival. It’s as simple as that.
12 Monkeys was a fucking movie, not a how-to guide.
Here’s something so outside my range of interest that I had never even thought of it.
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg’s campaign to make people feel “flight shame” if they travel by plane has led to the reduction of bookings in her native Sweden. Now the U.S. airline industry is worried that the trend could take hold in this country.
“Flight shame”? Let’s talk about this for a moment.
Every day I take people to the airport — most are going away on business, while others are jetting off to places like Aruba, Hawaii and Europe for their dream vacation, or else are taking their kids to a Disney Vergnügungslager in California or Florida. Others are going to visit family in far-off cities or countries (in some cases family whom they’ve not seen for years), while others still are proud grandparents off to annoy their children and spoil the grandchildren to death (as is their duty).
Does this sound like a bunch of people who would be “shamed” into foregoing their flights, all because some adolescent twerp thinks they shouldn’t be doing them?
Now I can see a couple of cases where there might be some kind of pullback on travel: a corporation, for example, buys into the climate shame mantra, and as a form of virtue-signaling tells their employees to cut back — unless, of course, such an activity would have a serious impact on their bottom line, in which case… uh huh, you guessed it. (“Yeah, boss, XYZ MegaCorp has canceled their million-dollar account with us because they haven’t seen any of our reps in a year…”)
Tell me that wouldn’t set the stoat among the rabbits.
Another group who might be shamed into reducing their travel would be the International Backpack ‘N Sandals Set, who would otherwise be off to Explore Other Cultures And Enrich Their Lives, or do the eco-tourist thing [gag]. Quite frankly, this could only be A Good Thing in that normal people such as me would not have to sit for the following six hours next to someone who smells like a badger (and the male travelers of this ilk are even worse). Also, all those exotic eco-destinations would either go out of business (unemployment!) or have to raise their rates to compensate for the drop-off, making their business model affordable only to the extremely wealthy.
I can’t see Val d’Isère, Monaco or Kitzbühel losing much business, by the way: the rich always carve out exceptions for themselves; or else they just don’t care, nor do they buy into the eco-shaming, or both. (About now, Mr. Free Market’s ears should be burning.)
Returning to the article: it’s all very well for, say, Sweden to experience a drop-off in air travel — there are many other ways to get from Sweden to other countries in Europe — but then again, all those countries are only a couple hundred miles apart. However, the U.S. is not Scandinavia, nor even Europe: I have to drive a couple hundred miles just to get out of Texas, for instance, and further than that just to reach any other major city like Houston or San Antonio, still in Texas.
Finally, of course, we have the well-known hypocrisy of these holier-than-thou Greens, who think nothing of hopping on board a private Gulfstream just to attend a conference where they can scold other people for burning fossil fuels and destroyiiiiing the planet. Little Greta’s last scolding-trip to the New World, for instance, used more energy in total than a hundred and eighty families flying to Disney World for a week each*.
All that said: if this foolishness does come to pass, what would be the reaction of the airlines to a sudden (and perhaps permanent) drop in passenger count? We all know the answer to that: discounted fares and “bundled” vacation packages to attract those lost customers back — with the concomitant drop in their balance sheets’ profit lines.
And wait till Delta/American/United discover that eco-fuel costs three times more than avgas, with a similar effect on their precious bottom line.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
*I just made that figure up — kinda like the Greens do in all their Doomsday predictions.
Back when I was a young starving musician, I was driving the band’s van loaded with equipment back to our storage room after a long gig. At about 3am I ran into a police roadblock — a common enough occurrence in apartheid South Africa. The block was manned by a single cop who’d parked his SUV across the road and when he saw headlights approaching, would just turn on his flashers to cause the oncoming car to stop. So I did.
“Where are you going?”
“Back home — well, back to offload all the band equipment first, then home.”
“Open up the back.”
“Now open up the side door.”
“I can’t see anything; all that crap is blocking up the doors.”
“Yeah, we have a lot of equipment.”
“Unpack it.”
“Why?”
“I need to see that you’re not carrying anything illegal in there.”
“I’m not not carrying anything illegal.”
“Unpack it.”
“No.”
“What?”
“Look, be reasonable, can you? It’s three in the morning, I’ve been working since 5 yesterday afternoon, and I’ve still got two more hours’ work before I can get into bed.”
“Not my problem. Unpack the van, now.”
I lost it. “No. You want the van unpacked, you can fucking do it. I’ll sit here at the side of the road, and after you’ve discovered that I’m not carrying anything illegal, you can pack it all back again, and then I’ll go home.”
I think he was more surprised that I wasn’t going to obey his orders — probably the first time it had ever happened to him. He stared at me, I stared right back at him. (My kids call it my “hitman” look.)
After a moment or two, he sighed and said, “Just get back in your van, and fuck off.” (I think he figured out that he and I were alone on a deserted road in the middle of Fuck Nowhere, South Africa, and I was a LOT bigger than he was.)
So I got back in the van, and drove off. As I did so, I touched the Colt Combat Commander strapped to my hip (which he hadn’t discovered), looked back at him in the rearview mirror, and murmured to myself: “You don’t know it, sonny, but I just let you live.”
I was that angry.
I told y’all that story so we could talk about this one.
We all know about the asshole who teases a normally-placid dog until it snaps at him, then beats it or kills it because “it’s dangerous”.
Feel free to read this article, then this one, and tell me if you don’t know exactly how that dog feels.
I should point out that almost every single incident of law-abiding people turning around and killing government agents or officials has been because someone’s property has been destroyed, confiscated or otherwise appropriated.
So if government agencies persist in this nonsense, do not be surprised if in desperation, angry and helpless citizens start doing stupid stuff.
Note that I’m not talking about those assholes who go round assassinating cops in cold blood — they need killing more than their victims do. But at some point, a government official is going to fuck someone over because, in terms of Government Regulation #132-22-47, they can.
One day, the person they’re fucking with is going to snap, pull a gun and start shooting. And of course, it’ll all be his fault.
If you think this is unlikely, ask yourself why so many government agencies have started installing bullet-proof glass in front of their customer service counters. They know how people feel, and still they carry on doing it — because that’s what petty bureaucrats do when their actions are protected or even “justified” by some law or regulation.
The fucking government agencies (like those in the attached articles) need to start backing the fuck off before the shit really starts to fly.
Going back to my earlier observations about the fucking Marxists Social Democrats wanting to “unify the country”, we have this latest little contribution from one of the so-called “moderates” among the Democrat Clown Show:
Amy Klobuchar Says English Should Not Be Official Language of U.S.
Very few public statements by today’s politicians makes me want to pack a picnic lunch, grab my Mauser and head for a tall building in D.C., but this certainly ranks in the top five.
I remember once, in one of my more fevered rants passim, saying this about language in this country:
Nothing divides a populace quicker and more decisively than not being able to understand what the other guy is saying, especially if bi- or multilingualism is being mandated by law. It doesn’t work in Canada, it doesn’t work in Belgium, and it sure as hell never worked in South Africa. In fact, everywhere bilingualism is tried, it does nothing but cause friction, enmity and in some cases, violence.
As far as I’m concerned, when a politician running for public office makes such a suggestion, it should result in automatic disqualification by their parent party. And if that party refuses to do so, then it should face legal consequences.
I don’t care if Fernando Castro, Hua Li, Abu Hassam or any other escapees from the world’s shithole countries feel “left out” or “excluded” when they go to the DMV and can’t get anyone to talk to them, or who face incarceration because they couldn’t read the laws of this country. Learn the language — English — or GTFO.
Climate change could wipe out up to HALF of all plant and animal life on Earth by 2070 if temperatures keep increasing, study warns
The impact of ‘maximum temperatures’ is more important for species survival
Experts tracked species in hundreds of locations to see how they handle heat
If temperatures rise by 3.6F we would still lose 20 per cent of plants and animals
If they rise by more than that we could lose up to half of all plants and animals
Yeah, and IF temperatures rise by 200 degrees we’d all melt into one big bouillabaise. As always, beware the weasel words like “could” and “if” (also “and”, “the” and all the other words these assholes use when they’re trying to scare us into doing something stupid). And 2070, now?
The sad thing is that all this alarmism is affecting people — fortunately, just the ones who are fragile and easily conned.
People who suffer ‘eco-anxiety’ reveal their terror about the climate crisis is causing insomnia, depression and chest pain
I hope you all die from those symptoms because quite frankly, you’re all too fucking stupid to live.