Unattended Baggage Episode #164: Even our irony has become ironic
Unattended Baggage Show Notes
9/17/2022
Episode #164: Even our irony has become ironic
Adrian pleasures Zelensky for Reddit karma while Alex slips Desantis the tongue, our self-aggrandizing continues as we’re proven right about COVID among other things, Slava Ukraini, taxes are the price we pay for a free society, and you’re telling me well-funded libertarians are the cause of all our problems?
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Hour 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-164-hour-72115434
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Libertarianism is the cause of all the world's problems
Alex Jones and Steven Crowder agree with Michael Moore’s definition of capitalism
More news from the pages of The Cassandra Trigger
Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at massive scale
“Agents from the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, another Department of Homeland Security agency, have run facial recognition searches on millions of Americans’ driver’s license photos. They have tapped private databases of people’s financial and utility records to learn where they live. And they have gleaned location data from license-plate reader databases that can be used to track where people drive.”
Slava Ukraini
Putin survives assasintation attempt on motorcade
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putins-limo-attacked-assassination-27993499
Putin's soldiers 'are categorically refusing to deploy to the front lines due to distrust of high command and mounting Russian death toll'
Russia stops deploying new troops to Ukraine after entire units refuse deployment orders
https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/russia-stops-deploying-fresh-fighters-into-ukraine.html
Putin's Key Man in the Arctic Found Dead After Falling Overboard
https://www.newsweek.com/putins-key-man-artic-found-dead-after-falling-overboard-1742218
A list of oligarchs and Putin critics found dead since Ukraine war
https://russiavsworld.org/a-list-of-oligarchs-and-putin-critics-found-dead-since-ukraine-war/
Russian propaganda now telling citizens they’re fighting US & NATO troops in Ukraine, making excuses for losses
(Reference only: In russian, not for airplay)
'Cosmic' and 'phantom' UFOs are all over Ukraine's skies, government report claims
https://www.livescience.com/ukraine-ufo-uap-report
China & US lay the political groundwork for war over Taiwan
Xi to Putin: ‘We are ready to team up with our Russian colleagues’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/xi-to-putin-team-up
U.S.-Taiwan bill sails through Senate panel despite White House misgivings
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/taiwan-bill-clears-senate-panel-00056769
Biden Laptop story
The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-laptop-investigation.html
More COVID conspiracy theories looking accurate after all
Lancet Report Claiming COVID Could Have Come From U.S. Lab Met With Uproar
https://news.yahoo.com/lancet-report-claiming-covid-could-132931783.html
How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969
The programmers of our reality expand simulation boundary
NASA Solves the Mystery of Why Voyager 1 Was Sending Random Data
https://www.pcmag.com/news/voyager-1-starts-sending-nasa-random-data-nobody-knows-why-yet
Guns
Visa joins Mastercard, AmEx in specifically labeling gun store sales
https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/visa-joins-mastercard-amex-in-specifically-labeling-gun-store-sales/
Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to categorize gun store sales separately
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/visa-mastercard-amex-categorize-gun-store-sales-separately
Taxes are the cost for a free society
Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2021 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined
New Industry
Take Your Fries and Leave
Cop says the real part out loud
Good News
Pieper Lewis fundraiser raises full restitution amount less than 24 hours after sentencing
https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-teen-pieper-lewis-go-fund-me-restitution/41210628
DeSantis moving the illegals
Unexpected arrival: 50 migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard, DeSantis takes credit
Terrorists win again
National strike threats loom as labor unions become more emboldened
Federalism is great
Here's what Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks about a proposed nationwide 15-week abortion ban
Inflation example
Larry Kudlow: This inflation scourge has given average working folks a 3.4% wage cut over the past year
Adrian loves the BidenCoin
Biden White House just put out a framework on regulating crypto — here’s what’s in it
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/16/heres-whats-in-biden-framework-to-regulate-crypto.html