SOTI:
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range.
Tag: Evil Bastards
Quote Of The Day
I borrowed this expression from a Powerline article last week:
“Consistently wrong, but never in doubt.”
Hinderaker uses it to describe the Global Warming “scientists”, but it actually applies to all socialists.
Dire Consequences
…in this case, what happens when you elect a Socialist asshole vegan from New Jersey [some overlap] to Congress:
Sen. Cory Booker said in an interview published Tuesday that the continuation of meat-eating will destroy the planet.
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“We will destroy our planet unless we start figuring out a better way forward when it comes to our climate change and our environment,” he added.
Despite his apocalyptic claims, Mr. Booker cautioned that he doesn’t want to ban meat-eating or even preach to people.
Of course you don’t, you lying fuckwit. You’re a Socialist: your kind has a collective orgasm by banning stuff and preaching to people because — wait for it — you know better than we do what’s good for us (and in this case, the planet). And vegans are even worse.
Go choke on a celery stick, Spartacus, and the sooner the better.
Not Guilty
So the MAGA-inspired attack on that actor turns out to have been staged, for whatever (I don’t care which) reason. Predictably, when the thing was first publicized, the fucking Lefty media were all over it — right up until it was proven false. Then we got shit like the following, with the inevitable (and splendid) rejoinder:
Has anyone else noticed that every time one of us MAGA people has been accused of a hate crime, it turns out that the entire episode was either a put-up job (as above), a complete fabrication (e.g. “slashed hijab”), or self-inflicted with no witnesses (e.g. “hateful graffiti”)?
One would almost think that the Left was playing the whole thing to advance their various agenda… Reichstag fire, anyone?
Turning Round And Biting
It appears that the BritGov has a perennial shortage of men wanting to join their army. This led them, amid much merriment, to launch an ad campaign appealing to the Snowflake Generation — and apparently, to pretty much everyone’s surprise, it worked:
The controversial Army recruitment campaign aimed at ‘snowflakes’ led to an unprecedented wave of youngsters signing up, figures reveal.
Posters released on January 3 targeted ‘snowflakes, selfie addicts, class clowns, phone zombies and ‘me, me, millennials’ ‘ as part of a £1.5million campaign aimed at overturning negative stereotypes.
Critics said they patronised youngsters and the soldier used on the ‘snowflake’ poster threatened to quit.
But the Army said yesterday it had 9,700 applications in the first three weeks of January – a five-year high – compared to 5,437 the previous year.
Whether anyone would want more of said demographic in their army, or anywhere for that matter, is a topic for another time, but whatever.
What’s troubling is the way that the Brit Army supports its soldiers once they’ve joined. Try this little horror show (and you may want to put all guns and/or throwable objects out of reach before you read it):
How hero soldier won the Military Cross for unimaginable bravery in Iraq then years later was smeared as a war criminal by leeching lawyers
Disgusting. And I’m not just talking about the fucking lawyers.
P.S. Mind you, that’s not to say the U.S. doesn’t do the same thing. Fuckers.
Spamming Response
I am totally unsurprised by this situation:
Robocallers and spam callers are getting quite good at masking their identify. They do this partly by “spoofing” local numbers, making it seem like a legitimate local number is calling to increase the likelihood that you’ll answer. That’s the reason, according to Hiya, that around 9 percent of spam calls a month actually get answered by phone owners even though they don’t recognize the number calling.
Nine percent might not sound like much, until you consider the fact that 26.3 billion robocalls were made to American phones in 2018.
Result:
The nearly 50 percent of phone calls that go unanswered jumps way up to 76 percent of calls left unanswered — a little more than three out of every four — when the call comes from an unidentified or unfamiliar number.
In my case, that would be 100 percent. I never answer a call if the caller is unidentified (i.e. isn’t among my saved contacts). As a result, I always tell people to email their phone numbers to me first so I can add them to my contact list. Otherwise, their calls will be met with indifference.
Sucks, but that’s what happens when people use technology indiscriminately and unprompted.