I just counted. Since I started writing this blog, I've written 31 posts about mass shootings and murders. This will be the 32nd. It won't be the last. Hell, there were so many blog posts on mass shootings I had to create a tag for it; another mass shooting.
The first was in August of 2012, the Sikh temple mass murder in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Remember that one? Probably not. Seven dead; eight counting the shooter. The shooter generally isn't included in the butcher's bill, because he's not an innocent victim.
You know who else isn't innocent? Republicans. Republican governors, Republican state legislators, Republicans in Congress. They may not be actively guilty, but they sure as fuck aren't innocent. Now, I'm not saying these people are okay with routine sporadic mass murders, I'm saying…
Wait. No, I AM saying Republican lawmakers are okay with routine sporadic mass murders. And hey, let's also include Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema as being okay with routine sporadic mass murders. If these people weren't okay with it, they'd have done something to prevent it. At the very least, if they weren't okay will mass shootings, they'd have done something to reduce the body count.
But they haven't. They haven't done a goddamned thing. And they won't. We know they won't. So yeah, Republican lawmakers (and a pair of asshole Democrats) are okay with routine sporadic mass murders. They won't admit that, of course. Because that would make them sociopathic monsters.
Wait. They ARE sociopathic. They may not be actual monsters, but clearly they meet the diagnostic criteria for being sociopaths. They have a weak and limited capacity to feel empathy and remorse. Some of them may, it's true, be sincere when they mouth the phrase 'thoughts and prayers'. But they don't feel enough empathy or remorse to actually do anything constructive about it. So fuck them and their thoughts and prayers.
I don't know how many people have died in Uvalde, Texas. First they reported it was two kids. Then ten. Now I think the butcher's bill is 21, mostly kids. Oh, and the shooter shot his grammy too, though she didn't die. Well, not yet. The body count may go up; it so often does. Second grade, third grade, fourth grade kids. Eight, nine, ten-year-old kids. Shot dead.
Here's another horrible thing: we're not hearing about wounded kids. We're not seeing pictures of ambulances pulling up to hospital trauma centers. We're not hearing about kids in surgery. That suggests the victims weren't just shot, but were shot to a degree that there was no point in transporting them to an emergency room.
There are…wait. There were just under 600 kids enrolled in that school. So about 3% of the student body were killed today.
I wrote that last night. Couldn't finish it. Didn't want to finish it.
This morning we're learning the names of the victims. Last night they were just generic victims. Today we'll find out more about them. We'll see photos of them, we'll hear from their friends and family members and teachers. Politicians (including Republicans) will mourn them in public. They'll offer the usual thoughts, the usual prayers, and they'll say we must never forget them.
But we will. Oh, their families will remember them. So will their friends. And the kids who saw them gunned down, they'll never be able to escape those memories. But for the rest of us, in a few days they'll just be included in the roll call of generic mass murder victims.
It's tragic. It really is gut-shattering massively fucking tragic. And the tragedy will be compounded by the fact that nothing will change. Nothing will chance because Republican lawmakers (and a couple of asshole Democrats) are okay with routine sporadic mass murder. They're basically okay with a few hundred kids being shot to death every year.
So are the people who vote for them.
Yesterday was the 144th day of the year. There have been at least 212 mass shootings in 2022 so far. Republicans and Republican voters are okay with that.
EDITORIAL NOTE: By the way, SCOTUS will be handing down a ruling on gun rights in the next few weeks. It's almost certain they'll make it easier for more people to carry more guns in more places. We can thank Republicans for that too.
This is US. We have lost all traces of our humanity.
Bring on the asteroid. Bring on the alien overlords. Bring on the AI singularity that wipes us all out. Let's hope the cockroaches make a better go of this thing called civilization than we have.
Except for the daily UNFs that are already queued up) I'm going to hold off posting any more pictures of pretty men until I can process this. It seems…I don't even have a word for it. I have no words for anything I'm feeling right now.
And since Ben is a school administrator, don't think for a moment I don't worry about him when he leaves for work every. damn. day.
As I told him this morning, if something happens to him at least I know he will have died protecting his kiddos…
SS head Heinrich Himmler was convinced that abortion was the primary reason for the falling birthrate, and in 1935 he decided to strike back.
He decided to make abortions of racially "pure" children less appealing by offering an alternative to their mothers. Women who could prove that their unborn child would fit Nazi racial purity standards could give birth to the child in secret, comfortable facilities.But there was a catch: Once the babies were born, they had to be relinquished to the SS.
The SS would then educate them, indoctrinate them in Nazi ideology, and give them to elite families to raise.
Madison Cawthorne would probably be the chosen sperm donor
WARNING: What follows is a whole lot of crazy. You may lose a few brain cells by the time you get to the end of this and need to start drinking heavily after wading through this cesspool of st00pid.
Oh yeah, after several months of boring repetition of the same old Q-Anon garbage, the right is alive again. This is, of course, because their uber-hero and Godlike strongman, Vlad what-was-his-name has proven to be the paper tiger that all wingnuts thought Biden was. They never had a problem supporting a corrupt, murderous tyrant, as we all know, but that doesn't extend to supporting a corrupt, murderous loser tyrant, and seeing as how there is not a tyrant in the world that seems ready to step into the shoes that they thought Putin was wearing, they are having to think fast to salvage a world wide crusade that anyone can see has run out of gas before it got out of the driveway (or out of Donbas oblast, anyway.) And here is (a small part of) the result.
I must begin by noting that I have been growing ever more lax about giving proper credit to the cretins who wrote the following. It is all the product of the same hive mind, so until this guy shows up to fight the battle for himself, there's no point in naming the myriad individual zombies spouting his nonsense. And after all, in the end, the hive queen was surprisingly easy to defeat, just like a certain Russian guy I am sure you can think of.
The Devil King- notice the peculiar resemblance to Joe Biden.
"P.A.N.I.C. Mode! The Initial Strike Will Be Fast, Sudden, Swift & Soon! Patriots Are in Full Control – Epic, Must Watch!"
Just like Vlad. Fast, Sudden, Swift, Soon, and a colossal failure, i.e. their specialty.
"There is a mass transfer of Judeo-American armored vehicles from Germany to Poland."
"Judeo-American armored vehicles?" The M1A3 Bagel? The sinister anti-tank weapon, the hardened matzo ball?"
"Checkmate: On Tues. 15 March Joe Biden and 12 other Americans were sanctioned by Russia. That means every account they had was put on hold with no movement of money going anywhere – ever."
Yeah, you count on that, buddy. Being sanctioned by Russia these days is like being challenged to an IQ faceoff by Marsha Blackburn. Likely a criminal abuse against the mentally disabled.
"Every sanctioned account on the US Treasury controlled Central Banks daisy-chain are put on hold. The spigot is shut tight and not a drip is allowed to travel anywhere. Every account with an individual's name attached is put "on hold" whether corporate, savings, on or off ledger. There can be no movement of money going anywhere when there are sanctions. No payments, no outgoing or incoming money. No new accounts established with the sanctioned person's name. Nothing having anything to do with banking. Credit cards are frozen. Everything goes into the deep freeze."
Yeah, that's the way it works, right. Glad you have such a brilliant understanding of the world economic system. P.S.- have you noticed that your credit card doesn't work any more? No? Me either.
"This Fall the Deep State planned to release dangerous pathogens on the general public – a plan disrupted by the Russian Army when it found 30 US Inc. run bio-weapon labs in the Nazi controlled Ukraine"
Or maybe more:
"The 336 Bio-weapon Labs discovered by the Russian Army were found to be set up by Obama"
30 or 360 or whatever. Actually, of course, they found zero, but why quibble?
"99% of the images shown in the media about the war in Ukraine are fake. They use made-up actors, fake scenarios, computer graphics and hate speech against Putin and Russians"
I saw a lot of the same people that were at the Parkland shooting, I think.
"The letter Z was the symbol of the Russian Army's mandate to liberate the Ukrainian people from their Zionist Khazarian Mafia Nazi government."
Sure it is. As Green Eagle has pointed out before, the adoption of the Z is because most neo-Nazis are too stupid to even draw a swastika right, so they are settling for half of one.
"Ukraine War: Russia's deadline passes with Ukraine refusing to lay down arms and surrender Mariupol"
Green Eagle's deadline has also passed, and the French government has refused to surrender Versailles for him to use as a vacation house. Trouble is coming now.
"The Russian large landing ship "Orsk," accompanied by the naval forces of the Black Sea Fleet, entered and unloaded military equipment in the port of Berdyansk. Ukrainian troops that were based in Berdyansk – thousands and thousands of soldiers and sailors – surrendered the port without a fight, leaving the entire infrastructure of the port intact."
Russian ship unloading military equipment at Berdyansk:
Another spectacular success of the unstoppable Russian war machine.
"Shrink wrapping and torturing starving women and children around trees in Ukraine. This is happening frequently in Ukraine to those speaking against the Ukrainian Nazi Government."
Because of course it is. They're just lucky Zelensky is not having them freeze dried, for use later.
But wait! There's more!
"The Market Report for Tues. 15 March indicated extreme fear of a Market Crash very soon"
Wishful thinking on the part of a political party that has now descended to the point of openly working for the destruction of our government.
"Charlie Ward, head of the Global Currency Reset Redemption Committee: ―This week watch out for the Global financial collapse and for the Queen not with us anymore"
That was last week. How did that work out, Charlie?
"China, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Iran, Japan, Iraq and Venezuela were suspected to have switched over to their own gold/ asset-backed currencies – it just hasn't been announced yet."
No, but they are "suspected" of it. Suspected by whom? Who knows?
And then there's COVID…
And lest you think they've abandoned their Covid lies, just because their fascist world is crumbling right in front of them:
"People continue to be misled, in my opinion, about certain sicknesses, including CONvid-1984, by believing it is a contagious disease. First, SARS-C0V-2 has NEVER been proven to exist and it has NEVER been isolated. Second, many of the symptoms that people have experienced are known to come from electro-magnetic radiation. In a brief video, with evidence you will not see in the Mockingbird media, you will witness what 5G is doing and has done to life on earth. I'll let the viewer make their own decision as to whether this is the culprit of the alleged CONVIDs or not."
"Covid Vaccines contained Graphene Oxide that when combined with 5G waves could be used to control humans"
"Vaccine Passports were designed to track your personal information and record conversations and emails"
How a small piece of paper can record conversations escapes me, but those lie-berals are so evil that anything is possible.
"Those who have vaccine passports and decide not use the next Vaccines or Boosters will face fines, media restrictions, while all collection of your data will be sent to Authorization Outlets for criminal prosecution."
According to whom? Who knows.
"Bio-Weapon Gene Edited Mosquitoes to be released on Florida"
Well, at least one Dr. Evil level plot I can get behind. As long as they can make sure that the mosquitoes do not make it past Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. After all, any editing of the genes of these Southern crackers has to be an improvement, am I right here?
"Widespread Contamination Of The Food Supply With Graphene Oxide To Create Zombies?"
Well, at least it might solve Vladimir Putin's troop shortage problems.
And now, today's special Bill Gates section:
"As we speak, the madman, Bill Gates, is working feverishly on the development of a "vaccine" — that's what he calls a bioweapon — that will infect people like a disease and with the same effect. Gates has gone utterly off his rocker and needs to be arrested and taken off the street as soon as possible."
"I personally believe that Bill Gates III is criminally insane and needs to be apprehended and restrained and hospitalized under psychiatric examination as a Public Danger. He was already responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands of innocent people throughout Africa and India before he successfully launched the Covid-19 pandemic and sought to profit himself by selling bioweapons redefined as "vaccines". This behavior is deeply psychotic and this murderer needs to be arrested and prosecuted without further ado."
"(Bill and) and all others who have knowingly participated in and promoted these events to profit themselves and their political agendas via inflicting genocide and unlawful conversion of the victims into Genetically Modified Organism (GMOs)— which is already illegal and unlawful in this country, no matter what the Territorial United States Supreme Court may opine."
Bill, like George Soros, has committed the one unforgivable crime a billionaire can commit: spending his money to try to help anyone but himself and his fellow billionaires. So he needs to be demonized as a James Bond-level villain, while real evil monsters like the Kochs, the Waltons, the Mercers et. al. are deified as saints of capitalism for the act of never once thinking of anyone on earth but themselves. That, by the way, is Soros' real crime- the Jewish thing is just icing on the cake.
And now, the Supply Chain:
"Another Evergreen ship stuck – this time in Baltimore's Chesapeake Bay – on the March anniversary of the Evergreen Ship that blocked the Suez Canal. Evergreen was jointly owned by the Clintons and Walmart. Last year thousands of children were found dead and rescued from the Evergreen ship blocking the Suez Canal which also contained weapons of Mass Destruction."
The Clintons and Walmart. Right.
"Mother Theresa was a man, Mossad Agent and father of ―Dr. Death Fauci. Theresa ran a Child Sex Trafficking Ring out of the Vatican"
Fauci was doomed from the beginning, being the child of Mother Teresa and all. Although, as the above idiot has spelled her name Theresa, maybe he is talking about a completely different mother, perhaps my wife's mother, who was named Theresa, and was such a clever Mossad agent that we never suspected she was an international spy, or that she ran a world wide sex trafficking ring from her home in New Jersey, until I read the above. It all makes so much sense, now.
And now this news flash from Truth Social, Donald Trump's almost inconceivably successful (sarcasm, in case you can't tell the difference between truth and comedy any more) new social media startup:
Truth Social: "BREAKING‼️ SOMETHING BIG IS COMING.
DONALD TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN ARE GOING LIVE!
People, the time has come! Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are coming back stronger than ever and they are going to talk about Ukraine's CABAL, the 2020 elections, the WORLD WAR III, Ukraine's BIOCHEMICAL WEAPONS, Truth Social, and Biden RIGHT HERE ON TRUTH SOCIAL'S OFFICIAL PROFILE!
Be ready people."
We are ready. I've got three bottles of cheap bourbon in my desk already. No need for a glass- it's going straight down the gullet.
"Nazi Hunting is official. Special Forces are hunting and executing Pedos worldwide. On the Killing Lists: Satanists and Pedo Zionist aka Nazis – nowhere to hide as Special Ops are tracking you live"
Zionists aka Nazis. Well, there you go. An understanding of world history absolutely unparalleled in modern times.
"Spring Full Worm Moon Intel! Things Are Moving Quickly"
Huh? That "intel" comes from someone whose credentials to speak out on politics are as follows:
"I am a Legal Assistant, Gospel Singer/ Songwriter Musician and love horses. My Uncle Mat served in 3 World Wars!"
And here, I only knew about two. Oh right, there's the secret one against the Reptilians.
"Situation Update: Today's Studio Fake White House Set! Fake Ukraine War! Fake Crisis Actors! Fake Politicians! Swift Gone! Elite Prisoners Take To GITMO! DEW-Created Japan Earthquake! – We The People News"
Fake! Fake!! FAKE!!!!! There, I guess that proves that.
"Are we still supposed to be worshiping Zelensky today or is something else going to be the distraction from our economy being destroyed by Joe Biden."
Oh, grow up.
"Situation Update: Joe Biden To Be Assassinated!!"
If they can. That's their plan. Don't kid yourself.
"US elections on November 3, 2020 were won by President Donald Trump in all 50 states. The Deep State tried to fake them and the Media reported that Joe B. he has won them over. BUT! The official ballot was electronic watermarked, which the counterfeiters were unaware of. So every vote cast for President Trump was recorded on a quantum server and the fate of each ballot is known. On January 20, 2021 at 12:00 noon the United States was taken over by a military government led by Secretary of Military General Christopher Miller and Commander-inChief, the lawfully elected President Donald Trump."
We've heard all of this so many times that the only thing I want to mention here is how the word "quantum" has become a magic talisman to the wingnuts, signifying some mysterious way they are outfoxing the left in some Trumpian game of 15 dimensional chess. It's sort of like their recent use of the word "hypersonic" to refer to largely fictional weapons that the US is just too stupid to defeat. And it goes on and on:
"The role of the fake Joe Biden was being played by three different actors. His entire "crew" was a cast selected by President Trump's team. The White House and Capitol and all federal buildings in Washington have been empty and closed as of January 20, 2021."
"Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the US Army is President Trump!"
"President Vladimir Putin was currently shattering the last remnants of the New World Order in an operation called Z."
"Putin and Trump were allies and collaborators."
Well, at least that's for fucking sure.
"We have another clean up – Taiwan. There, the work will be done by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and this operation will begin at any moment."
Right wingers are for any dictator with the gumption to invade a small country and beat the crap out of them.
"The White Hats who were fighting Globalism and the New World Order were headed by Q (JFK Jr.), President and Melania Trump (Q+), China‟s Xi Jinping (who, with help of the White Hats, was ousting the Chinese Communist Party), Russia‟s Putin (who, with the help of the White Hats was ousting the Russian Communist Party), Ben Salman of Saudia Arabia, Modi of India, Jong of North Korea, Bolsonaro of Brazil and Orban of Hungary."
All the subhuman dictators on earth, and the Republicans are cheering them on.
"I bet many of you still believe the Media that the United States has a new government headed by the deceased 3 years ago Joe Biden."
No, we do not believe that. We believe the United States has the same old government it has had since 1783 (with the possible exception of 2016-2020,) headed by the very much alive Joe Biden, who is showing every day what a real President is.
"Russia and the United States have been allies in all wars so far. It's all just propaganda from the last remnants of globalism."
All wars? The Mexican war? The Spanish American war? The Russo-Japanese war of 1905? Iraq? The invasion of Georgia? Syria? Yup, and anyone who denies this is a deep state liar.
"Bulgarian political leaders are controlled by Soros, but they don't know he is gone and are following orders from the World Economic Forum in Davos via Brussels headquarters."
Whatever.
"This movie is going to end. The man who will appear in Bulgaria as a Military Minister is not such a man, but an actor from the People's Awakening Team. His actions have no legal value."
The People's Awakening Team. As far as I can tell from Google, the People's Awakening Team is a group founded in Alaska to promote sobriety among native people. A good cause, I must say, but I can't quite figure out what it has to do with Bulgaria. Well, they do say it's a movie, so maybe there is an explanation that makes more sense than anything we hear from the right these days. And as for movies:
"We are witnessing the most incredible movie in the history of mankind"
Snakes on a Plane? Where these jerks come from, that is probably in first release.
"Flynn can fry Mueller and 4 treasonous Presidents and take down the NWO agenda within America and at least the last 4 administrations. The Russia hoax is nothing more than to target Flynn, push him out of the Obama administration and to surpress the Gulen terrorist Network to be exposed."
The Obama administration? Have we entered a time warp?
"Situation Update: Operation Z! Trump Is President! JFK Jr. VP! End Of Petro Dollar! 3 Bidens! Pelosi AI! Ukraine MSM Footage 99% Fake! Putin Rescuing Children Underground! Taiwan Invasion Next! – We The People News"
Yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before.
"The world was very dependent on China for virtually everything from aluminum to food, to Goods, almost everything plastic, boxes that cover food, packaging for industries, electronic wires and computer parts and chips. And, China was about to pull the plug, the drastic affects of which were soon incoming. It was strongly advised to have at least 2-3 weeks worth of food, fuel, cash and essential items in storage for yourself and others around you not so awake as you."
Which the producers of that website will be perfectly willing to sell you, an a NOT AT ALL EXORBITANT markup.
"NASA confirms Dust-apocalypse heading to Americas"
In case you need something else to worry about.
"The Rodriquez and St. Germaine Trusts that fund NESARA/GESARA would be paid out overnight Tues. night into Wed. 23 March according to Bruce."
I.e. everybody would get all the income tax they had ever paid back, thanks to Donald Trump. Didn't happen. Surprised? The wingnuts are treated to this exact same prediction on a weekly basis. Funny that it never happens, and they never seem to notice having been lied to over and over again.
"On Tues. 22 March JFK Jr. posted ―I can't be silenced any more. In seven days from now, on 31st of March 2022, the whole world is going to see the hidden truth behind the toxic matrix. God bless America."
We'll see, JFK Jr. So far, your prediction rate is a great big fat 0%. Maybe that's because you are dead, maybe not.
"Russian Aerospace Bombs Biden‟s Villa in Ukraine"
Maybe that is why they are running out of bombs to send to real targets in Ukraine- They shot them all at fairy tale castles.
"Putin was playing a very important Chess move that has kicked off the rise of the Deep State War."
Must have been using that fifty dimensional chess board he got from Trump. It seems to work just as well for Putin as it did for Trump. Of course, it wasn't Trump's fault. How was he to know that Kim Jong Un had a 52 dimension chess board?
"Draconian Reptoids Shot Down!"
And? Happens every day. In wingnut world, anyway.
"Enough with Sanctions Already…China gave Joe Biden a reality check last week. Part of that revelation includes the foolishness of sanctions, if only Biden will listen."
The more sanctions work, the more "foolish" they are. Makes perfect sense. Just depends on which side you're rooting for.
"At the EU, several MPs castigated Justin Trudeau as a tyrannical pariah…Interestingly, this fact has been kept far away from Canadian and American news consumers."
The weakest liberal since Tony Blair—a tyrant. Better be careful, guys—you are going to be out of adjectives when someone like Bernie Sanders gets elected.
"Why all of a sudden did Ukraine become the center of the universe?"
Nuclear war. That's why, idiot.
"What, exactly, is the goal of America's and NATO's supply of arms and funds to Ukraine, and their unprecedented (and very costly to us — see oil prices and fertilizer shortages and resultant food shortages, as well as the damage to the dollar's status as reserve currency) sanctions against Russia? Are they trying to corner Putin and drive him out of office (or have him assassinated, as Lindsey Graham has stated)? It certainly seems that way."
"to corner Putin and drive him out of office (or have him assassinated)"…Yeah, that is pretty much the program, I'd say. And it sounds pretty reasonable, given the alternative, which, if I need to remind you, is nuclear war. Let's see now- one dead dictator versus a hundred million dead innocent civilians- man, hard to pick which one of those is the better outcome. Of course, a hundred million innocent civilians cannot give Trump his $200 million Moscow hotel deal, so maybe that changes things. This jackass continues:
"When the other guy is effectively beaten but still needs to keep his dignity intact, offer him a gracious way out. You never know how much fight he might have left in him, or what desperate-stupid thing he might try if you insist on pushing him too hard."
A gracious way out for a genocidal mass murderer. Yeah, that has always worked. No gracious way out for the real monsters among us, however:
"Jim Jordan Says the House of Representatives Should Consider Impeaching Joe Biden"
For succeeding as a Democrat—an impeachable offense if ever there was one (see Clinton, Bill).
"Media Collusion to Ignore Hunter's Laptop Was Epitome of Election Tampering"
It was election tampering to refuse to trumpet Republican lies on a daily basis, and you see the result: a Democrat won a fair election, which we cannot have in this country if the right people are to remain in charge. It was not election tampering, on the other hand, for the press to ignore the clear evidence of Trump's treason.
"Trump's Cuba Policy Still Has Putin and His Proxies Squealing Like Pigs"
What Cuba policy? Mindless hatred? How could Putin be against that? Must be a story from the lying press.
"Hot Mic Catches School Board Member Asking to 'Set Marsha Blackburn on Fire'
So? What's your point? I think that might work. I know that it might violate several pollution regulations, but I'm sure her fellow Republicans will give them a pass on that.
"Trump to Hillary Clinton: I'm Suing the Hell Out of You for Peddling the Russian Collusion Hoax"
I.e. for saying anything bad about me during an election campaign. That's illegal, or it will be if I get back in office, and you better be ready for it.
It was just fine, of course, to portray Hillary as a tool of Satan who eats babies. That's just incisive political analysis, Republican style.
And there you go. The world through the ugliest kaleidoscope ever made.
Have any of these wingnuts been tested for tertiary syphilis? maybe mad cow disease?
I got to the office at my appointed 7:30 am arrival time. I logged into my email and was greeted by this:
From: training@tanium.com Sent: Monday, March 14, 2022 7:40 AM Subject: Tanium Training
Good morning,
There was a slight mix up with the start time for training today (daylight savings time for us, not for Arizona). Please join your MS Teams meeting as soon as you can.
Thank you, sorry for the confusion and have a wonderful training!
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This mandatory day-long online training was scheduled to begin at 8:00 am. But because these idiots apparently don't understand daylight savings time and screwed up, it actually started at 7. So I logged in 45 minutes late and was immediately lost.
I had no idea what this was actually for since the monotone trainer was droning on about how to encode searches for specific attributes in the inventory collection module. Perhaps if they'd actually started at 8 as was scheduled I would have heard more than "blah blah blah blah."
As it stands now, this seemed to involve all sorts of functions I will never be called upon to use in my job function.
By the time we got to the point in the training where we were supposed to begin the hands-on labs (none of which worked for me, of course), I was firmly of the belief that my organization's decision to abandon SCCM in favor of this piece of crap was definitely the result of one of those "hookers and blow" sales presentations and had very little to do with anyone actually thinking about why this would be a good thing.
I lasted another 30 minutes before giving up completely. Nothing was working and I was rapidly reaching my saturation point for this guy's voice. I downloaded the offline training materials intending to do this later and said fuck it. I'll deal with the repercussions of having bailed on this total waste of time if I need to—especially since it was the training company who fucked up and not me.
And then…then—after bailing—several hours later, I got this email:
From: Tanium Learning Center Sent: Monday, March 14, 2022 1:57 PM Subject: Tanium Training Complete (Survey & Certificate)
Mark,
Thank you for attending the Getting Started with Tanium training course. We hope the information and labs were informative and helpful.
Training Survey: Please provide any feedback, and help us improve our offerings by answering this short Training Survey [surveymonkey.com].
Certificate of Completion: Your certificate of completion for this course is available at https://learn.tanium.com [learn.tanium.com] under 'My Transcript'.
Congratulations!
Tanium Technical Enablement
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My certificate of completion?! Seriously?! But honestly, why does none of this surprise me?
The Republican wet dream. If this somehow passes, you think they're gonna stop at Texas? Or stop at women who have abortions?
Next up: existing while Gay. Existing while Trans. Existing while Black. Existing while Democrat. And once they're finished there they'll turn on their own with purity tests.
We've seen this movie before. It doesn't end well.
