December 19, 2022: Reader Tips

Reader Tips 63 Comments

Our Midwest friend, Charlie Berens, makes a repeat performance on this month’s Reader Tips. Tonight he talks about the 5 Stages of Christmas.

As we turn the final corner into the final chapter of the year, your favourite funny Christmas stories, or general news tips, are much appreciated.

63 Replies to “December 19, 2022: Reader Tips”

        1. Imagine Russia losing a major war while all those nuclear missiles just sit there unused.

          5. Yes … all those Brave, brave, radicalized Tali-Ukrainian goat herders holed up in their mountain caves … sheesh …

          6. No, all the brave fighters willing to put their lives on the line to protect their families, their homes, their way of living and to cleanse their country from the orc infestation.

          7. “Imagine Russia losing a major war while all those nuclear missiles just sit there unused.”

            Yet

      2. Russia has by far the worst GDP growth in the G20. -4 1% and -4.0%. Nobody else is negative in either of those quarters.

        Yes Russia is losing.

        1. They’re fudging their stats as is a norm in Orgimmar* their actual drop is probably much more severe. And it will only get worse, much worse. The sanctions are crippling them and their go around attempts either fail (like the new tanker fleet construction at home and in South Korea), or are very expensive and of inferior quality (something that typically isn’t factored into price index and even if it is it occurs with a considerable lag). They are grinding down to a halt and it begun to hit the middle class who got used to western toys. Good. The more hardship the better.

          *When you listen to people who analyze orc demographics you get a headache. For example their census is so fudged that when they sum up tables the figure reported for sum half the time does not match the actual sum of listed components.

          1. Their currency is nosediving to its worst level in several months. The price of oil is not doing well, but the real deal is interest rates. It may just be that J Powell does more damage to Russia than the sanctions. I digress, but expect a landslide of garbage governments and corporations and other organizations to go under. Sri Lanka was the opener. Ghana just defaulted on its external debt. Russia could end up in a pile of ‘non-performing assets’.

  3. CJ HOPKINS: The Year of the Gaslighter

    Emperor Elonicus to the rescue!

    If Elon Musk wasn’t actually appointed by the global-capitalist ruling classes to redirect the pent-up anger of “the Unvaccinated” demographic, and the “Systematically Censored and Demonized” demographic, and everyone else who opposed the New Normal into a balls-out left/right shit-slinging contest … well, they couldn’t have found anyone better for the job.

    https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-year-of-the-gaslighter?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=298057&post_id=91464428&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

  5. UN condemns Twitter’s decision to suspend journalists’ accounts as EU threatens sanctions

    “But Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts that he described as “basically assassination coordinates”.
    He provided no evidence for that claim.”

    I can’t see how this ends well for Musk. Most of the people who buy his cars are lefties and they read mostly left leaning media who will outright lie about him now that he bought Twitter. I know a guy with a Tesla. He loves his car but he is bothered by whatever it is the MSM is telling him that Musk is doing with Twitter. EV buyers have other options from around the world, e.g. Germany, Japan, Korea. Options that may be more reliable.

    https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/12/16/twitter-suspends-the-accounts-of-several-journalists-who-wrote-about-elon-musk#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20and%20the,whose%20accounts%20were%20taken%20down.

          1. Regardless of who he appoints to run the place, he still owns the company. He’s already done the heavy lifting.

    1. LOL. That actually makes sense, no need to train to tie shoes and look spiffy with leg wraps that have been issued to multiple units in lieu of socks.

    2. A nasty incident. This will spur the libranos on with their gun legislation. The shooter is in his 70’s. Mental illness.

    1. We get it: you hate foreign people. That doesn’t mean people aren’t going to read the story and note that there’s nothing in it about ‘diversity’.

      1. Pffft. I’ve drank more pints with new Canadians than you’ve had hot meals.
        Do the world a favor, make yourself well hung.

      2. “It’s wildly diverse, with 40 languages spoken at home and many racialized students.”

  11. A group of people in Brampton bought houses before interest rates shot up, and now they don’t qualify for their mortgages as their houses near completion.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-homebuyers-struggle-close-1.6685427

    I feel very sorry for people like this, in part because I feel they were given bad advice. But then there is this:

    “First-time homebuyer Gurcharan Rehal agreed in October 2021 to pay $1.959 million, plus $90,000 in upgrades, for a single-detached home that would house himself, his wife, their two children and his mother.”

    “We thought, if we live hand-to-mouth, we can still afford it,” Rehal, an Uber driver, told CBC News.

    An “Uber” driver bought a house for “$2 million” in “Brampton”, Ontario? Who let him do that?

    1. “We thought, if we live hand-to-mouth, we can still afford it,”

      Pretty much by definition that means you can’t afford it.

      If you have cash, keep it, perhaps in a CDO. The inflation tax will be small change compared to the buying opportunities coming up.

    1. ” A joke told in the comparatively small anti-conspiracy community about the conspiracy buffs’ belief that just about everyone was involved in the cover-up of the assassination has them lined up in front of God at the end of time asking him, “Tell us, God, who really killed President Kennedy?” When God replies, “Listen, I’m just going to tell you one time and one time only, and then I want you to forget about this matter—Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy and he acted alone,” the buffs, in terrible angst, nudge each other nervously and say, “This is a lot bigger than we thought.”

      Vincent Bugliosi

      Reclaiming History

      1. Sooke:

        I read his magnum opus a few years ago.
        I was always a lone shooter believer but with a couple doubts.
        Those were excised by this magnificent book; he successfully debunked every single popular conspiracy theory.
        If memory serves, 1400 pages and 1000 pages of notes and references on CD.

        The cover up is most likely of error, negligence, and incompetence. In my view that assasination was E A S Y to pull off.

        The CIA did not kill Kennedy. The alleged motive is just too weak. They were “involved” only in the sense that any American nutter going to Russia and returning and doing public protest would be on their radar.

  15. Moderna mRNA melanoma vaccine may be ‘the penicillin moment’ in cancer treatment, researchers say

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-15/world-first-melanoma-vaccine-may-be-the-penicillin-moment/101773886

    “Results of an early trial by Biotech company Moderna indicate the personalised treatment reduces the risk of recurrence or death from melanoma by 44 per cent, compared with results from its immunotherapy drug alone.”

    I love how this came out just as the political right goes full retard wrt mRNA vaccines. Now they can die off from all kinds of diseases with mRNA vaccine treatments.

  18. Christmas with a long dead brother-in-law was more of a 12 step process than 5 step. He did an experiment to see how much rotgut whiskey someone had to drink to die by 50. Conclusion – minimum of 26 ounces per day for at least 20 years. My mother-in-law wouldn’t let anyone else have a beer because we might encourage her baby to drink. Meanwhile her baby walked around with a coke can with the same explosive potential as a hand grenade. No need to do any further studies to confirm it. I had an uncle who did the same study only he did it with gallon jugs of Australian port with similar results. Man had a gizzard of steel.

    1. There is still time for those parents to rectify the situation.
      It may take time but an eye for an eye.

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