Stripe -- the payment processor for Substack -- has informed me this morning that they have concerns about the site, and they're preparing to pause payments. Interesting.
EDITED TO ADD: After a long discussion, fixed. Problem solved.
So, am I correct in understanding that their concerns were only of an administrative or technical nature? You weren't obliged to sign any oaths of allegiance or of at least some kind of implicit understanding as to agreement with some sort of vaguely stated set of seemingly innocuous principles in order to be restored to their good graces? They dropped no hints that you might do well to make some form of modest offering at one or more temples of idolatry? Except, of course, for Mammon, that being more or less generally understood . . . ;)
It's almost as though White Dudes for Harris know, somewhere in the back of their minds, that one day they may need to sneak an underage girl across the state line.
Stop your criminal hate speech! Scott Weiner and The Groomer Project are victims of discrimination against Minor Attracted Persons. California is utopia, definitely not a cancer destroying the rest of the country.
Watched the commercial, which was bad enough, but the fearmongering in the comments was truly appalling. Like they actually believe conservatives will set up road blocks and pull people over and arrest women for resisting motherhood. And totally ignore the evils, that you nicely outlined in your post, that their laws allow. That there can be people who truly seem to be so diametrically opposed to reality is frightening.
The thing is that lies don't conduce to good art. Remember the absurdly bad Dem ad from about a month ago, the one in which sweaty, creepy, effete looking men, terrible actors all ( or maybe not ) were supposed to be portraying the kind of Dimmesdale - like scolds, censors, and female circumcizers the Left wants people to believe conservatives are?
It didn't last long because it was so stupidly, artlessly made.
One of my favorite commercials ever showcased the cable guy with his fully laden tool belt swaggering down the runway to hoots and cheers from the female observers. Bring it back please.
While the rest of the ne'er-do-wells call the operator demanding the number for 911 because some super duper ultra maga racist science deniers are going to kill them all when they return.
We have people over here so ignorant that they try to call '911' in emergencies.
Our such number is '112' (used to be '90 000' when we had rotary phones since you could feel your way to '0' and '9'), has been for 20+ years at least now.
But they've heard '911' in rap songs and movies and TV-series, and are so stultifyingly less-than-intelligent they can't understand why it doesn't work.
I've seen clips of Adidas-warriors (nickname for MENA-origin gangsters) arguing with Swedish police about not being "read their rights".
Somedays, it's hard not to think eugenics was a good idea.
At this point we should take federalism a step further and create city-states that can't infect the rest of the state they are in. Let Portland be as weird as they want, but leave the rest of the state alone.
Then at least the question will be "Why are you sneaking your kids into Portland?"
My son was a hot shot in Oregon and his family lived in Bend. It’s Portland-lite. There would need to be a circuitous border line if part of Oregon wants to join Idaho. I actually think some have drawn that line.
Anybody trying to leave metro Atlanta for the rest of Georgia should be forced to show papers to get outside the perimeter. Wall my once fair city off like the freaking Thunderdome.
Likewise there should be barbed wire around the Texas Triangle. Leave DFW/Houston/San Antonio to their own batshit, strip-mall, feeder road, gangbanger, chain store, apartment-block devices.
For anyone interested in a sharp-eyed, satirical look at where we might be heading, how we will have gotten there, and how we might start to pull ourselves out of the mess, I recommend Walker Percy's 1971 novel "Love In The Ruins." Set in a future U.S.A. that has descended into varying degrees of balkanization, anarchy, and guerilla warfare, its protagonist, Dr. Tom More, has invented a device called the Ontological Lapsometer with which he proposes to diagnose humanity's ills . . .
One of my favorite novels! The Satan character is hilarious. It's eerie that in "heavy sodium" he foresaw to an extent the advent of SSRIs, but not so eerie if you reckon with the probability that he subscribed to all of the psychiatric journals, and would have been aware fifteen years before it appeared that pharmaceutical researchers were trying to come up with the relatively "clean" antidepressant which Prozac is.
Have you read its sequel, The Thanatos Syndrome? He WAS prophetic in his idea of the sexual wretchedness which much of the population might descend to.
I think there is a lot of good sense in that idea. Limit states to 2-5 million people say, and when they get bigger they need to split into equal population states. Cities become their own states, maybe a few states if they are large enough, with their own administrations; no more NYC with just 3 councilors. Rural areas would be large geographically but lower population. Adjust the ratio of congressmen accordingly, and probably double the number of senators. Overall, it should result it much better local governance as cities are forced to pay for themselves and benefit from their own economies.
Yeah I was sorta joking...because I definitely fall short of my mother's standards. But those are pretty high...yet she still loves me...bless her heart!
I think that the Left just doesn't like normal families, and all that California stuff undermines them. Also Chris, a camping enthusiast is a man who pays good money to do what he griped about in the Army.
Enough of this crap. Is the prevalence of transsexualism and pedophilia so high now ? Or are we just being psychologically manipulated by sociopathic Marxists and their Rand Corporation consultants? Is the whole Blue state complex filled with sex predators and psychopaths? What kind of fucking weirdo wants to get undressed in a woman’s locker room while leering at the other occupants? A predator. What kind of 30 year old wants a 13 year old girlfriend? A weirdo. A predator. The adult male population of the Muslim Middle East. Most Democrat lawmakers?
If we’re going to have some states that are batshit crazy and others that aren’t, probably won’t last. There will be big conflict. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
I'm sure you're aware of the capacity of invective such as "weird" to hook itself securely into "the mass mind." It isn't just insulting, it can destroy a career.
As far as I know, it was Tiananmen Tim who first used it. And in his introductory speech a few days before the convention, he loosed his nasty reference to the "Vance and the sofa" lie.
I have considered him scum ever since. If that ticket wins, I will be unable to see the phenomenon as anything less than the judgment of God on us.
CARB has basically made energy policy for the country over the past two decades because auto manufacturers don’t want to make different cars just for California. CARB knows this and I imagine they very much like their power with little to no accountability.
When Kamala says “as California goes, so goes the nation”, she isn’t kidding- but I doubt it’s the winner of a slogan that she seems to think it is.
You’d be amazed at how many don’t know what carb is. Best part is it gives us Floridians one more chance to tell colliefornia to fuck right off.we build what we want, and drive em!
Well, they do have power over what goes into new cars. I drive a 2014 x5 for my brides comfort, a 90 daihatsu rocky for fun, and a 96 f350 diesel. But the things my friends build? Carbless. Or a middle finger to them. I’ll never own a newer car. Have no desire. I obviously work on them, or I couldn’t.
I think the appropriate term for the behavior of a grown man taking a younger girl somewhere to have her baby aborted should now be known as "Emhoff-ing", after how our wannabe first man took the paramour from his first marriage to have her baby by him aborted. They parallel act of a grown man taking an underage boy for an STD treatment that the boy received via sodomy with the man should be known as "Walz-ing" or since that sounds too much like a dance, "The Tim".
Funny when I saw that ad, I didn't really consider all of the missing information that would give a clear picture of the unfolding murder of an innocent child. I was offended Pro choice lobby pedaling the idea that a state trooper is going to sit at the state line to stop random vehicles to check and see if someone in the vehicle was seeking an abortion. Although back in the day, the PA State Troopers sat at the PA state line within clear eye sight of the premises of a Maryland establishment selling alcohol (legal limit 18) to PA residents (drinking age limit at the time was 21. Those Troopers sure did have an uncanny knack for identifying people bringing beer back into PA for their high school aged friends (not that I had any first hand knowledge of such tactics) . . .
You put your finger on it: we need a shared vision for what is healthy, decent family behavior, and we don't have one.
Except we do. We are sliding towards one definition of "healthy decent family" as articulated by Scott Weiner. It is the rainbow definition: there is only the spectrum of individual desires. Your telos is to find your spot on the spectrum, at any age, and you can change your mind at any time.
You are right. We dance around it, but healthy societies do not tolerate homosexuality. The door we opened to let homoseuals out of the closet turned out to be the lid to Pandora's Box.
As a former Californian who gratefully and happily and deliberately left the state four years ago, I feel viscerally your call that it is a sick organ that must be healed.
I don’t see a way to do that in its current configuration. The coastal areas wield too much influence and are too full of regular every day folk actively participating in the malignancy. (I moved away from the mothership - SF Bay area - because what is happening in the schools is intolerable.)
There was an idea a few years ago (which I believe originated within the state) to divide California into three states, the boundaries of which would have shaved the coast into a long thin slice and divided the bulk of the interior into north/south regions of the “State of Jefferson” to the north and an agricultural state to the south, with each of the three states getting new national representation (two senators, new House reps) and new state governments. To me, this would be the only hope - to diminish the power of the coastal elites which imho is from whence the bulk of the malignant ideas (and so-called “representatives”) originate and propagate. (They know it, too, which is why it hasn’t happened and is unlikely to happen, but one can always hope . . . )
Wow, what a disgusting ad. Meanwhile, abortions are up like 20% since the overturning of Roe. That should have the ghouls celebrating, right? When did abortion go from "safe, legal and rare" to becoming a sacrament? By the way, anybody that does not admit that it is murder needs to review the Scott Peterson case, convicted of a double murder for killing his pregnant wife Laci. Right here in CA of all places. I'm not saying it should be banned, that genie is never going back in the bottle, just be honest and call it what it is. And Scott Weiner represents all that is wrong with our formerly great state. He needs to move back to NJ and leave us alone.
Yes, worthwhile. I wouldn’t normally want to rehash such a sad event but I wanted to see if I’d missed some information 22 years ago ( the importance of ‘the other woman’ Amber really came out here, she’s a hero) Also wanted to honor the memory of Laci & Connor by watching.
Stripe -- the payment processor for Substack -- has informed me this morning that they have concerns about the site, and they're preparing to pause payments. Interesting.
EDITED TO ADD: After a long discussion, fixed. Problem solved.
Hmmm. I'm thinking it's just a matter of time.
Common Sense Crimes
Too much free speech. Can’t have that. You might wake people up from their hypnosis.
When you’re over the target, you take the flak.
So, am I correct in understanding that their concerns were only of an administrative or technical nature? You weren't obliged to sign any oaths of allegiance or of at least some kind of implicit understanding as to agreement with some sort of vaguely stated set of seemingly innocuous principles in order to be restored to their good graces? They dropped no hints that you might do well to make some form of modest offering at one or more temples of idolatry? Except, of course, for Mammon, that being more or less generally understood . . . ;)
They indicated that their security system wasn't sure I really have a connection to this Substack page that I'm using to collect subscription revenue.
Oh, well of course. That makes perfect sense. Nothing to see here then.
The tyranny creeps in, on little cat feet.
I suspect it will start like this, but escalate to more overt methods given time.
It's almost as though White Dudes for Harris know, somewhere in the back of their minds, that one day they may need to sneak an underage girl across the state line.
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
LIKE!
Stop your criminal hate speech! Scott Weiner and The Groomer Project are victims of discrimination against Minor Attracted Persons. California is utopia, definitely not a cancer destroying the rest of the country.
Have another cup of kool-aid, Yuri!
Let’s unattach it from the rest of the country.
Watched the commercial, which was bad enough, but the fearmongering in the comments was truly appalling. Like they actually believe conservatives will set up road blocks and pull people over and arrest women for resisting motherhood. And totally ignore the evils, that you nicely outlined in your post, that their laws allow. That there can be people who truly seem to be so diametrically opposed to reality is frightening.
The thing is that lies don't conduce to good art. Remember the absurdly bad Dem ad from about a month ago, the one in which sweaty, creepy, effete looking men, terrible actors all ( or maybe not ) were supposed to be portraying the kind of Dimmesdale - like scolds, censors, and female circumcizers the Left wants people to believe conservatives are?
It didn't last long because it was so stupidly, artlessly made.
The creepy sex talk thing? Barfing at the fading memory.
One of my favorite commercials ever showcased the cable guy with his fully laden tool belt swaggering down the runway to hoots and cheers from the female observers. Bring it back please.
The comments were similar enough to think a script was being followed.
Exactly my thoughts! All bots, all the time. Or paid stooges.
agree
100% majority were "if I didn't live in _____ I'd vote for Kamala. What is happening in America?"
You said it!
My friends in Cali have to drive to Reno to buy ammunition. Just sayin'
"But officer, my 1911 is hungry."
While the rest of the ne'er-do-wells call the operator demanding the number for 911 because some super duper ultra maga racist science deniers are going to kill them all when they return.
Homer level stupid.
Raising the stakes:
We have people over here so ignorant that they try to call '911' in emergencies.
Our such number is '112' (used to be '90 000' when we had rotary phones since you could feel your way to '0' and '9'), has been for 20+ years at least now.
But they've heard '911' in rap songs and movies and TV-series, and are so stultifyingly less-than-intelligent they can't understand why it doesn't work.
I've seen clips of Adidas-warriors (nickname for MENA-origin gangsters) arguing with Swedish police about not being "read their rights".
Somedays, it's hard not to think eugenics was a good idea.
lol, like
😂
I think Kameler won't sieze guns. She will use executive orders to severely restrict ammunition.
Both.
Ammo first.
Richard, exactly who would do the seizing? Remember, the military's oath is to the Constitution, not to the President.
At this point we should take federalism a step further and create city-states that can't infect the rest of the state they are in. Let Portland be as weird as they want, but leave the rest of the state alone.
Then at least the question will be "Why are you sneaking your kids into Portland?"
Let a Greater Idaho blossom.
My son was a hot shot in Oregon and his family lived in Bend. It’s Portland-lite. There would need to be a circuitous border line if part of Oregon wants to join Idaho. I actually think some have drawn that line.
Yep, which might be why my red county, Linn, west of Bend, has not signed on.
And then get ready for the ensuing dance party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n_Tg8iHwZ8
Probably too many Californians there now to save Idaho….
Anybody trying to leave metro Atlanta for the rest of Georgia should be forced to show papers to get outside the perimeter. Wall my once fair city off like the freaking Thunderdome.
Likewise there should be barbed wire around the Texas Triangle. Leave DFW/Houston/San Antonio to their own batshit, strip-mall, feeder road, gangbanger, chain store, apartment-block devices.
Thought we were smart moving forty miles out from Midtown 12 years ago: Ha! We’re surrounded.
For anyone interested in a sharp-eyed, satirical look at where we might be heading, how we will have gotten there, and how we might start to pull ourselves out of the mess, I recommend Walker Percy's 1971 novel "Love In The Ruins." Set in a future U.S.A. that has descended into varying degrees of balkanization, anarchy, and guerilla warfare, its protagonist, Dr. Tom More, has invented a device called the Ontological Lapsometer with which he proposes to diagnose humanity's ills . . .
One of my favorite novels! The Satan character is hilarious. It's eerie that in "heavy sodium" he foresaw to an extent the advent of SSRIs, but not so eerie if you reckon with the probability that he subscribed to all of the psychiatric journals, and would have been aware fifteen years before it appeared that pharmaceutical researchers were trying to come up with the relatively "clean" antidepressant which Prozac is.
Have you read its sequel, The Thanatos Syndrome? He WAS prophetic in his idea of the sexual wretchedness which much of the population might descend to.
The gamer in me immediately thought this:
"What if the pregnant woman lies across the state line? Then what?"
and
"What if she lies on top of the state line, but along it - which jurisdiction applies then?"
I'm certain there's legal precedence for such ideas.
Federalism. . . that's what we were promised about the EU. What we got is undescribable.
Luckily, we're catching up with you at an astonishing rate.
Father God, PLEASE save us all!
I think there is a lot of good sense in that idea. Limit states to 2-5 million people say, and when they get bigger they need to split into equal population states. Cities become their own states, maybe a few states if they are large enough, with their own administrations; no more NYC with just 3 councilors. Rural areas would be large geographically but lower population. Adjust the ratio of congressmen accordingly, and probably double the number of senators. Overall, it should result it much better local governance as cities are forced to pay for themselves and benefit from their own economies.
Thank you! I wrote about it last year!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/ancient-problems-require-ancient
I did too! (well, in 2022)
https://dochammer.substack.com/p/the-usa-as-an-accidental-empire
spooooky :D We should hang out.
I would love this to happen in Milwaukee and Madison, WI.
A better idea is to have the electoral college within States so that 2-3 counties don't decide the whole State.
You describe WA’s problem to a T. King County is the dysfunctional libtard tail wagging the rest of the state.
All Oregon cities are full of loons.
This is how it ends in CA....which is exactly what I sent my friends/family during the initial 15 days to slow spread:
"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death".
That's coming from a "backslider"....but it was true.
Perhaps that's what has to happen before people truly wake up.
I agree Chris...Continue the good fight in CA.
Jesus loves backsliders Ryan😊Thanks for the scripture. We’re all sinners saved by grace.
Yeah I was sorta joking...because I definitely fall short of my mother's standards. But those are pretty high...yet she still loves me...bless her heart!
Lolol.
I think that the Left just doesn't like normal families, and all that California stuff undermines them. Also Chris, a camping enthusiast is a man who pays good money to do what he griped about in the Army.
Favorite bumper sticker, seen in a parking lot at Mount Rainier National Park: "Go camping! Spend a fortune to live like a homeless person."
Love the sticker
Lol
Enough of this crap. Is the prevalence of transsexualism and pedophilia so high now ? Or are we just being psychologically manipulated by sociopathic Marxists and their Rand Corporation consultants? Is the whole Blue state complex filled with sex predators and psychopaths? What kind of fucking weirdo wants to get undressed in a woman’s locker room while leering at the other occupants? A predator. What kind of 30 year old wants a 13 year old girlfriend? A weirdo. A predator. The adult male population of the Muslim Middle East. Most Democrat lawmakers?
If we’re going to have some states that are batshit crazy and others that aren’t, probably won’t last. There will be big conflict. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Trump/Vance 2024
And they called Vance weird. Because wanting to restore America’s manufacturing base is just so strange.
Yeah and he's a white successful family man.
So incredibly weird!...:]
Gotta use the word, "weird," because "white, successful, family man," are all curse words in their mini minds.
I'm sure you're aware of the capacity of invective such as "weird" to hook itself securely into "the mass mind." It isn't just insulting, it can destroy a career.
As far as I know, it was Tiananmen Tim who first used it. And in his introductory speech a few days before the convention, he loosed his nasty reference to the "Vance and the sofa" lie.
I have considered him scum ever since. If that ticket wins, I will be unable to see the phenomenon as anything less than the judgment of God on us.
I agree about God's judgement on us. I pray for him to have mercy on us and to awaken the idiots.
The country is self segregating. Another 10-20 years and we will have a literal divide between states.
Feels that way. A little more every day.
Astute observation.
I'm for it, if we don't have to continue to pay for their idiocy.
CARB has basically made energy policy for the country over the past two decades because auto manufacturers don’t want to make different cars just for California. CARB knows this and I imagine they very much like their power with little to no accountability.
When Kamala says “as California goes, so goes the nation”, she isn’t kidding- but I doubt it’s the winner of a slogan that she seems to think it is.
You’d be amazed at how many don’t know what carb is. Best part is it gives us Floridians one more chance to tell colliefornia to fuck right off.we build what we want, and drive em!
The California Air Resource Board. They have a lot more stealth power than anyone imagines. Hopefully you never need to hear from them.
Well, they do have power over what goes into new cars. I drive a 2014 x5 for my brides comfort, a 90 daihatsu rocky for fun, and a 96 f350 diesel. But the things my friends build? Carbless. Or a middle finger to them. I’ll never own a newer car. Have no desire. I obviously work on them, or I couldn’t.
No. People here, that know what that slogan means, hate California and our idiot politicians that go along with it, to be cool.
I think the appropriate term for the behavior of a grown man taking a younger girl somewhere to have her baby aborted should now be known as "Emhoff-ing", after how our wannabe first man took the paramour from his first marriage to have her baby by him aborted. They parallel act of a grown man taking an underage boy for an STD treatment that the boy received via sodomy with the man should be known as "Walz-ing" or since that sounds too much like a dance, "The Tim".
This would be funny if it wasn't so demonically depraved.
But you're probably right.
Funny when I saw that ad, I didn't really consider all of the missing information that would give a clear picture of the unfolding murder of an innocent child. I was offended Pro choice lobby pedaling the idea that a state trooper is going to sit at the state line to stop random vehicles to check and see if someone in the vehicle was seeking an abortion. Although back in the day, the PA State Troopers sat at the PA state line within clear eye sight of the premises of a Maryland establishment selling alcohol (legal limit 18) to PA residents (drinking age limit at the time was 21. Those Troopers sure did have an uncanny knack for identifying people bringing beer back into PA for their high school aged friends (not that I had any first hand knowledge of such tactics) . . .
You put your finger on it: we need a shared vision for what is healthy, decent family behavior, and we don't have one.
Except we do. We are sliding towards one definition of "healthy decent family" as articulated by Scott Weiner. It is the rainbow definition: there is only the spectrum of individual desires. Your telos is to find your spot on the spectrum, at any age, and you can change your mind at any time.
You are right. We dance around it, but healthy societies do not tolerate homosexuality. The door we opened to let homoseuals out of the closet turned out to be the lid to Pandora's Box.
As a former Californian who gratefully and happily and deliberately left the state four years ago, I feel viscerally your call that it is a sick organ that must be healed.
I don’t see a way to do that in its current configuration. The coastal areas wield too much influence and are too full of regular every day folk actively participating in the malignancy. (I moved away from the mothership - SF Bay area - because what is happening in the schools is intolerable.)
There was an idea a few years ago (which I believe originated within the state) to divide California into three states, the boundaries of which would have shaved the coast into a long thin slice and divided the bulk of the interior into north/south regions of the “State of Jefferson” to the north and an agricultural state to the south, with each of the three states getting new national representation (two senators, new House reps) and new state governments. To me, this would be the only hope - to diminish the power of the coastal elites which imho is from whence the bulk of the malignant ideas (and so-called “representatives”) originate and propagate. (They know it, too, which is why it hasn’t happened and is unlikely to happen, but one can always hope . . . )
Wow, what a disgusting ad. Meanwhile, abortions are up like 20% since the overturning of Roe. That should have the ghouls celebrating, right? When did abortion go from "safe, legal and rare" to becoming a sacrament? By the way, anybody that does not admit that it is murder needs to review the Scott Peterson case, convicted of a double murder for killing his pregnant wife Laci. Right here in CA of all places. I'm not saying it should be banned, that genie is never going back in the bottle, just be honest and call it what it is. And Scott Weiner represents all that is wrong with our formerly great state. He needs to move back to NJ and leave us alone.
Just watched the Lacy Petersen murder documentary on Netflix. It’s been 22 years.
Was it good? Thought about checking it out last night.
Yes, worthwhile. I wouldn’t normally want to rehash such a sad event but I wanted to see if I’d missed some information 22 years ago ( the importance of ‘the other woman’ Amber really came out here, she’s a hero) Also wanted to honor the memory of Laci & Connor by watching.