One more thought on Covid. I am not Catholic but have considerable respect for the Catholic faith. I have an old friend who is Catholic and our conversations down through the years have included religion from time to time. I think there is something to be said for the idea that forgiveness requires penance. I am not hearing any of these people talk about that and they do not to me look penitent.
"Let's declare a pandemic amnesty"?! No, let's not. Isn't a huge part of the underlying problem that created this fiasco the lack of accountability? I.e., the immunity from lawsuits granted to pushers of vaccines (manufacturers, medicos, governmentos...)? That liability shield seems to be the only truly effective immunity involved here.
And "We need to forgive one another...." Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. What do you mean "we", paleface? It wasn't *my* side coercing *you* into playing Russian Roulette, imposing a "no jab, no job" dilemma, barring your entry into stores, restaurants, having total strangers intruding on your medical privacy....
Musk is a lot fun, kind of like Trump is. I think Mush (like Trump) is a classical liberal, but I've only read about them and have never known one, so I'm not sure.
Anyway, Musk is treating twitter much as I would a new hobby. He's not doing this to make money and has probably already written off his $44 billion. He finds it interesting, engaging, challenging and best of all, he encourages the rest of us to not only follow him, but to join in show.
I't will be a great adventure; I've heard he's instituting a new feature re: the blue check mark -- twitter will charge $20 per month if you want one. Elitism is going to cost cash from now on.
Otherwise, it just doesn't make financial sense, especially at the premium price he paid and given an indeterminate number of true subscribers. We all would like to think it is about free speech but we all are idealistic and hopeful, too. Well, the rich aren't like you and me (they got that way because they aren't) and time will tell.
I don't have time for Twitter so I am glad you do. That tweet about buying the FBI.... Wow, best thing I've seen in a long time, made me LOL. And, of course, preaching to the choir on everything else.
Regarding Musk, I'll repeat something I said in 2016 to an old friend who was licking his chops over everything that would change under Trump. "They won't go quietly, if they can be made to go at all." I did not, of course, foresee Russiagate, but I expected serious resistance.
Musk will shrink Twitter's bloated payroll, and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people. I doubt he will make it profitable. I expect an advertiser boycott. The Left's attitude towards Twitter is like be something like "If I can't have you no one will." (That may their attitude towards the whole country, but that is for another time.)
I am quite willing to hang the perpetrators of Covid from meat hooks with piano wire if it can be proved that we funded some sort of science project in Wuhan and I don't think there needs to be a trial. (If that story about people cooking up a more lethal strain is true then they get the same treatment.)
Musk to buy the FBI from the Clintons! I about fell out of my chair on that one.
Another reckoning long overdue is a major reform of the biased, lazy, gluttonous, entitled civil service whose bureaucrats feed at the public trough without fear of reprisal for their sloth. But that won't happen until a Republican is sitting in the WH. It isn't often that they are held to account, but I did enjoy reading where four IRS agents were indicted for fraud recently. They seemed to be in offices in Memphis, TN and in Mississippi. Make that 87,004 new IRS hires, LOL.
Many of us were never in the dark about covid.
One more thought on Covid. I am not Catholic but have considerable respect for the Catholic faith. I have an old friend who is Catholic and our conversations down through the years have included religion from time to time. I think there is something to be said for the idea that forgiveness requires penance. I am not hearing any of these people talk about that and they do not to me look penitent.
Thanks for saying that. You and your friend are right.
"Let's declare a pandemic amnesty"?! No, let's not. Isn't a huge part of the underlying problem that created this fiasco the lack of accountability? I.e., the immunity from lawsuits granted to pushers of vaccines (manufacturers, medicos, governmentos...)? That liability shield seems to be the only truly effective immunity involved here.
And "We need to forgive one another...." Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. What do you mean "we", paleface? It wasn't *my* side coercing *you* into playing Russian Roulette, imposing a "no jab, no job" dilemma, barring your entry into stores, restaurants, having total strangers intruding on your medical privacy....
Musk is a lot fun, kind of like Trump is. I think Mush (like Trump) is a classical liberal, but I've only read about them and have never known one, so I'm not sure.
Anyway, Musk is treating twitter much as I would a new hobby. He's not doing this to make money and has probably already written off his $44 billion. He finds it interesting, engaging, challenging and best of all, he encourages the rest of us to not only follow him, but to join in show.
I't will be a great adventure; I've heard he's instituting a new feature re: the blue check mark -- twitter will charge $20 per month if you want one. Elitism is going to cost cash from now on.
This is where I think Musk is going with the Twitter acquisition:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/05/elon-musks-twitter-plans-may-take-inspiration-from-chinese-super-apps.html
Otherwise, it just doesn't make financial sense, especially at the premium price he paid and given an indeterminate number of true subscribers. We all would like to think it is about free speech but we all are idealistic and hopeful, too. Well, the rich aren't like you and me (they got that way because they aren't) and time will tell.
Interesting. Seems plausible.
One App to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
I hope it won't end up being all that bad... but thanks for the reference. It is a good one to keep in mind.
Since when does the party that aggressively mistreated the other party get to decide that all should be forgotten?
Does anybody have any insight or further information about the jailing of Catherine and Gregg of True the Vote and the Konnech investigation?
I don't have time for Twitter so I am glad you do. That tweet about buying the FBI.... Wow, best thing I've seen in a long time, made me LOL. And, of course, preaching to the choir on everything else.
I can assure you I LOLed.
No, I'm not. Perhaps I'll need to reconsider.
Regarding Musk, I'll repeat something I said in 2016 to an old friend who was licking his chops over everything that would change under Trump. "They won't go quietly, if they can be made to go at all." I did not, of course, foresee Russiagate, but I expected serious resistance.
Musk will shrink Twitter's bloated payroll, and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people. I doubt he will make it profitable. I expect an advertiser boycott. The Left's attitude towards Twitter is like be something like "If I can't have you no one will." (That may their attitude towards the whole country, but that is for another time.)
I am quite willing to hang the perpetrators of Covid from meat hooks with piano wire if it can be proved that we funded some sort of science project in Wuhan and I don't think there needs to be a trial. (If that story about people cooking up a more lethal strain is true then they get the same treatment.)
Musk to buy the FBI from the Clintons! I about fell out of my chair on that one.
Another reckoning long overdue is a major reform of the biased, lazy, gluttonous, entitled civil service whose bureaucrats feed at the public trough without fear of reprisal for their sloth. But that won't happen until a Republican is sitting in the WH. It isn't often that they are held to account, but I did enjoy reading where four IRS agents were indicted for fraud recently. They seemed to be in offices in Memphis, TN and in Mississippi. Make that 87,004 new IRS hires, LOL.