Brian Mankin

Sarcasm, skepticism and cynicism are my super-powers

[ℳ𝒜𝒢𝒜_𝒳_𝒯𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝒟𝒶𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝒩𝑒𝓌𝓈🇺🇸 @MAGA_X_Times]

🥹 I’ve never been more empathetic or compelled to give someone on social media and sympathetic hug, I share some of this young ladies frustration, I’ve had my Epson printer for five years give or take, I will give a generous estimate of 200 copies I have pushed through it ?? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just three days ago I had some paperwork I wanted to get to a friend and I decided to use the scanner for the first time, well that ended in failure because the printer was not connected to Wi-Fi 😳

That is a head scratcher for me, how have I been sending documents from my iPad to the computer for printing all this time ??

I thought no problem I just looked up my Wi-Fi ID and password on my iPad, I entered wi-Fi ID and my password ❌ so for good measure I tried it again and just in case I made a mistake ❌ so I took a picture of the document with my phone and sent it that way, so basically I have a printer in name only, I checked YouTube where to look for the password on the printer ❌

I have to keep the paper cartridge full once it gets halfway through the Stack it won’t print I getneeds paper” 😡 I researched the probleon on YouTube it said clean the rollers ❌

I tried after Market ink cartridges operating to save a couple of bucks ❌

I guess I will consider myself lucky that I don’t have a Hewlett-Packard 😬

Just out of curiosity are all printers this hateful ??

[Brian Mankin @_BrianMankin_]

@Laura_Audrey12 @MAGA_X_Times It's cheaper for now. Just wait. The cost will go up and up. And once it's a subscription service - they can turn off printing for anyone who says or does anything they don't like.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Sen. Bernie Moreno asks Dr. Fauci to turn and look at rows of people in attendance who were persecuted for refusing to toe the line on draconian masks, social distancing, harmful vaccines, and wet market propaganda.

He refused to turn and acknowledge them.

"All you have to do is look up from your lawyers and look at the people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we know now to be the truth. You can't even look at them?"

[The DarkHorse Podcast @thedarkhorsepod]

Investigative journalist Sonia Elijah breaks down how we were sold the lockdowns during Covid.

Bret Weinstein reacts: "the hard part is... it is much easier, especially from a position of power, to confuse the public with things that seem scientific than it is to unconfuse them by talking them through how the magic trick is done.

Right?

So we're just at a fundamental disadvantage because, you know, explaining why a model isn't good is difficult.

Explaining that the model said we're going to have this many deaths... you need to understand that when somebody says model... your skepticism should go through the roof."

[Brian Mankin @_BrianMankin_]

Why would anyone give out insulin for free to anonymous unverified strangers on a street corner? It’s obvious it will be abused in this case.

Free insulin for financially challenged diabetics is arguably a public good. But uncontrolled free insulin for anonymous strangers when the potential for abuse is known and documented is clearly the opposite.

The original analogy only works as a pure thought experiment. Once you introduce realistic distribution and foreseeable misuse, the provider’s ongoing choices matter. The same applies to the nets: mass free handouts aren’t tightly controlled. When a non-trivial number get repurposed for fishing or other uses and the same low-friction model continues, shared responsibility becomes a fair question — even if the overall health benefit is still large.

[Brian Mankin @_BrianMankin_]

@Mondo_Circus @jayplemons That argument holds less weight when they continue to give out the nets once they understand how they will misused.

[Brian Mankin @_BrianMankin_]

@Xcvsss184064 @but_cyclists @seanpaulday The bike in the video is a Lime bike.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

We don’t have a functional academy, or press, or an intelligence apparatus working for the public. Every story must be understood in that context.

[Brian Mankin @_BrianMankin_]

@PaulBla27121221 @seanpaulday Here's a radical idea. Why don't we let people make their own choices? We are supposed to be a free people, after all.

[Brian Mankin @_BrianMankin_]

@bc7653 @seanpaulday Well if that's your opinion, that's surely good enough for everyone else.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A council banned its own county's meat and dairy to cut food miles, then served flown-in pomegranate.

Oxfordshire County Council voted it through in 2021, on a motion from Green councillor Ian Middleton, for the health of our planet and our people. All catered council events, entirely plant-based. No beef from the county's fields. No milk from the county's cows. Nothing that had ever met a farmer.

The photos of the inaugural vegan lunch, posted by the man who proposed it, showed melon, mango, kiwi and pomegranate.

Pomegranate. In Oxfordshire. In a county so drenched in dairy you could raise a heifer in the car park, the planet was saved with a fruit that has never once ripened within nine hundred miles of Banbury.

The council later admitted it also serves imported oranges and bananas, since there have been occasions, particularly in the winter months, when food has been sourced from further afield.

Further afield. In winter. There is a cow eight miles away, standing in the December drizzle, producing milk, and the answer arrived by aeroplane.

Then the Countryside Alliance checked, and found the vegan lunches cost the taxpayer more than the meals they replaced, and that the council could not say where any of the food came from. Not wouldn't. Couldn't. The authority lecturing a county of farmers about supply chains had lost track of its own.

The mango came four thousand miles to make a point about distance.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

Love this guy! How many cities are run like this?

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This is a great way to handle the Flock Camera issue.
We all should use this speech at our own city council and say we have decided to join Shepard safety 😁

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Planet Earth is 'still' in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age — an unbroken ice-age ecosystem that began roughly 34 million years ago with the glaciation of Antarctica.

Technically speaking, we are living through one of the colder periods in Earth’s geological history. How does that fit into 'global warming'?

For roughly 70–80% of the last half-billion years (the Phanerozoic Eon), Earth has existed in a 'hothouse' state, largely devoid of polar ice sheets but crammed with life. Almost 80% of the Earth was tropical rainforest pole to pole. Temperatures sat between 18°C and 25°C — all well above today's very modest 14°C to 15°C.

Human civilisation developed within the embrace of the Holocene warm interglacial - during an ice age. The primary drivers steering Earth between a deep freeze and warm interglacial over 2.58 million years were not atmospheric — they stemmed from orbital mechanics, specifically Milankovitch cycles (eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession).

While CO₂ forms a feedback loop in paleoclimate records, data shows it is orbital variations that pull the trigger on major ice-age transitions.

The modern climate debate often treats today's baseline of 15°C as an absolute planetary limit, set in stone. Yet it is a momentary snapshot of one fraction of Earth's deep history. Modern human infrastructure and agriculture are clearly optimised for the current climate conditions. But today is just a microsecond in geological or planetary terms.

Treating this fleeting era as the Earth's natural state wipes millions of years of geological reality off the table.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🔥Selective reporting yet again! Because it’s inconvenient for the climate change narrative. Notice there’s no mention of the land managers who warned about the wildfire in the Cairngorms.

The Park’s policies are explicitly guided by the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals! …. Of ‘rewilding’, less grazing, more woodland and scrub regeneration. Which means MORE fire fuel!

Its own wildfire plan admitted this would increase vegetation and fuel loads for years unless actively mitigated. They ignored that!

Gamekeepers warned it was becoming a tinderbox. They were ignored too.

The pen pushing Agenda 2030 ideologues chose not to listen.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨This is the Most Killer Video About NATO

Hypocrisy is at its best!!!

This is what mind control looks like.

Operation Mockingbird never ended.

The CIA controls the MSM.

The Conspiracy Theorists were right again.

🚨The BIGGEST THREAT in the WORLD is NATO.

‼️Never Forget that Vladimir Putin Was Only Asking About:

🔴Don’t expand NATO eastward
🔴Respecting Minsk agreements
🔴Keep Ukraine neutral.

We were told the Ukraine War is "Not About NATO," was "Never About NATO", and has "Nothing to do with NATO". Until now...

video by Matt Orfalea

"None of this justifies Russia’s invasion. It is however crucial to understand, as Stoltenberg just confirmed, that war in Ukraine is taking place on a long historical continuum of controversy over NATO expansion..."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson made £144 farming a thousand acres in his first year.

In year six he lost five thousand.

His own words to his land agent: dispiriting enough to clear a hundred and forty-four quid at the start, and here we are six years on, down five grand. The harvest had been projected at thirty-seven thousand profit. Weather and prices took it.

Now look at what that thousand acres has behind it that yours does not.

One of the best land agents in the country. A farm manager who has worked that ground since he was a teenager. A farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, bestselling books, more than a quarter of a million in subsidy across three years, and a television production paying for the entire thing to be filmed.

It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and the farming still loses money.

That figure should end every conversation about British agriculture, and it is the one number that never makes it onto a campaign graphic. Not the glyphosate. Not the pig housing. The margin.

Because everything people object to on a farm grows straight out of it. The field pushed to the very edge. The hedge that came out because the government paid to have it removed. The shed instead of the yard. The supermarket contract signed below cost because the alternative was no contract. Nobody intensified out of malice. They were priced into it over sixty years by a policy that decided cheap groceries mattered more than a countryside, and by a retail sector that kept the difference.

Britain now grows around sixty per cent of its own food. More than a third of British farmers are past sixty-five.

The man with the Amazon cheque cannot make a thousand acres pay.

The seventy-year-old with three hundred and no film crew is doing it anyway, and being told by people who have never sold a tonne of anything that he is the problem.

[Brian Mankin @_BrianMankin_]

@MartinKaliszcz2 @bold_verity It's easy to make claims without proof. But the truth is we don't know. And we don't have any reliable, unbiased, independent, non-political way to know.