Good afternoon and hi there! I’d just like to remind all of you who have managed to attract a special someone (or take a hostage, I’m not judging) that you have one week until our culture requires an external display of affection. I’m reliably informed that showing up to their place of employment in your birthday suit is not encouraged, and possibly illegal. Dinners, cards, chocolates, booze, and flowers are more socially acceptable. You have been warned.
Florida Man becomes officially oldest driver at 107. As long as he stays on the south side of Tampa Bay, good on him.
Another lawsuit win for Trump. I bet he’s getting tired of winning.
It turns out that testifying against your boss may be a career-limiting move.
I’m guessing Florida Man is the answer to this mystery, but other suspects include OMWC and French carnivores.
Matrix 4 next year
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/matrix-4-filming-set-photos-keanu-reeves-1202209081/
Wouldn’t that be Matrix 2?
Matrix 2 x 2
Matrix 2 x 2; The search for Eigenvector
Wachowski lost its mind a while ago and will wreck it. Guaranteed.
Almost like they are living in their own simulated reality?
Well, I don’t think they’re working together anymore. So… maybe only one of them is terrible?
I don’t think either one is stable.
Yeah I was referencing both of them being TG.
I don’t think stable is required for good directors…
Ok, how about not a total lunatic?
Mmmm, Carrie-Anne Moss.
The movie’s going to suck.
In tight leather, no less.
Fun fact: my sister in law did costume design for that movie.
That’s pretty cool
Tell her a giant “thank you” for Ms. Moss’ wardrobe on behalf of all cis-hetero-shitlord males.
^^This^^
And if she got to put a tape measure to Carrie Anne’s sweet body, we would be grateful for the details.
Valentine’s Day was my wife and my first real date. She made me dinner.
Go on…
Bow-chicka-bow-bow
Valentine’s Day 2011 my wife’s father passed away.
Valentine’s Day 2012 I was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.
Since then, we’ve pretty much passed on celebrating February 14th at our house. Mostly, we just hope the day goes by quietly.
Dinners, cards, chocolates, booze, and flowers are more socially acceptable.
Anyone else hate cards? You wasted $5 on meaningless words. A $5 gift card for coffee would have been more appreciated.
I guess unless it is handwritten. That’s kinda nice, but still, a face to face thanks is more than enough.
I read them, smile, and toss them in the trash.
My kids used to make them for me for my birthday and father’s day. I loved every one of them.
Otherwise, meh.
Buy packs of cards, so they come out to something like $0.50 apiece. Then handwrite a short note inside. Quick, cheap, and classy.
My wife loves cards. I dare not ever dispose of any she has given me.
Trader Joe’s has cards for a buck apiece. They’re mostly bland but there are no bad squirrel nuts or flatulence jokes inside either.
Write her a letter, or a poem if you can. Hallmark has a great scam going, and I appreciate it as a business, but seriously crappy doggerel on a cheesy $5 card just screams “I only got this out of social obligation” when you want to be proclaiming your love.
Buy a Thanksgiving card and write inside “I’m thankful to still be with you.” Shell lose her clothing faster than Charlie Brown on the mound.
“Tencent, the second largest company in China, allegedly listed figures for the coronavirus on Saturday showing 154,023 were infected and 24,589 dead ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7971401/Have-real-coronavirus-death-figures-
leaked-Chinese-conglomerate-lists-death-toll-24-589.html
Any thoughts about whether or not Mitt Romney (R-Utah) should run for the 2020 D nomination for President of the United States of America?
2024 Dem candidate.
His historic act of being the first US Senator in history to vote to remove a president of his own party will be almost five years old come election day of 2024.
He’d fare better than the others.
“better than the others” primary, general, or both?
General
The Dems are screwed in the primary. The inmates are running the asylum.
Someone is going to be the nominee. Maybe they should consider Don Blankenship, Don Grundmann, and/or Charles Kraut, the three running for the Constitution Party nomination.
I will buy all the popcorn when Mr, I’m a good Mormon, I swear! Ignore my soft socialist record as Governor! has to announce his new pro choice stance.
Romney is done and he knows it.
Eye of the beholder
“Another win just in. Nervous Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress sued me, thrown out. This one unanimous, in the D.C. Circuit,” he added later in a post to his Twitter account.
The lawmakers could seek review by the full bench of the D.C. Circuit or the Supreme Court, but it seems more likely that the battle over Trump’s private businesses’ receipts from foreign sources will continue through other cases currently pending at two other federal appeals courts.
Congressional Democrats who led the suit lamented the new ruling but stressed that it was not a stamp of approval for Trump’s actions.
“This dismaying decision adds to the already widespread fear that the checks on unbridled presidential power, corruption and self-enrichment have been seriously undermined,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). “But today’s decision was not a decision on the merits of our allegations.”
Dismay and dejection. Gloom, despair, agony.
Gloom, despair, agony on me
“power, corruption and self-enrichment”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t he the dude who falsely claimed to have fought in Vietnam?
Ding. Ding. Ding. Point to creech.
https://heavy.com/news/2017/02/richard-blumenthal-vietnam-service-did-lie-about-serving-in-military-donald-trump-quote-report/
the checks on unbridled presidential power, corruption and self-enrichment have been seriously undermined
I think they are pretty much unchanged. I don’t think any serious legal thinkers ever thought this had a chance, as it would pretty much prohibit any President from having any kind of business interest while in office. John Kerry, for example, would have had to divorce his wife to meet the standard the Dems were pushing.
Q? You need bail?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/tsa-agent-tricked-traveler
The TSA in a statement called the alleged behavior “unacceptable and an affront to the hardworking and committed members of our workforce.”
“And as soon as we find any hardworking and committed members of our workforce, we’ll be sure to lodge their complaints” the TSA failed to add.
Faux news reports this and the pictures are of a concourse. This is not the standard I expect! Can we get a Dairy Mail link for this?
We will be at the lawyer’s, signing the papers. Is that romantic enough?
What papers?
Bankruptcy.
Okay. I was worried new issues came up.
There is life after bankruptcy. It takes a decade, but it can work out just fine.
A friend of mine filed about 2002 or 2003, he is in a great place now.
And if you want to hear a rant, ask him about the Alternative Minimum Tax.
We were discussing the AMT the other day in a long-dead thread. I think it was Spud who said he was a victim.
This tax season it wont be too bad, but a couple of years where the wife and I both did very well, we gort crushed by thw AMT.
I got ass raped by the AMT.
With 1,000 barbed penises.
Quicker if you don’t require financing.
Thanks. 🙂
I am at once very ashamed that I’m bailing on my debts but also relieved that I’m getting the monkey off my back.
“getting the monkey off my back.” See avatar.
I threw my wife out 20 years ago. She got half. In order to keep my house, I had to mortgage half of its value (we owned it free and clear). I also got stuck with all of the marital debt because I told her that as long as the agreement drawn up by her lawyer allowed me to keep the house, I’d sign it. Why is divorce so expensive? Because it’s worth it.
Anyway, there was no way I could pay both the mortgage and everything else by myself and I ended up filing Chapter 11 reorganization. Had to live poor for five years but once the process was over, I was debt free and have been for many many years now. I own my house, have hundreds of thousands in the bank and have a credit score just under 800.
The second best decision I have ever made was filing for bankruptcy. The BEST decision I ever made was throwing out the succubus.
. “Why is divorce so expensive? Because it’s worth it”.
I had few assets or liabilities but ended up paying alimony anyway, even with full custody. Worth every penny…
Who said there are no happy endings? Good on ya, EAP!
Embrace the shame! It’s the only thing that’ll keep you from digging yourself another hole.
We were never in a position to declare bankruptcy (most of the debt was student loans), but the thing that most keeps us on the financially healthy path is the shame of at one time having just short of $1M in debt and future interest hanging over our heads.
Bankruptcy is only as good as the plan that comes after it.
It’s not Motley Crue but it will do.
https://youtu.be/j0oX1ueMfsQ
Thanks. I like Aerosmith, too. In fact, I was playing them in the early 80s after their star had blinkered a little, before Run DMC lit them up again. My classmates had no idea who they were.
Of course, they didn’t know “Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room” was a cover, either.
Be ashamed. As Trashy says below that is what can keep you on the straight and narrow afterwards. I am honest about my own BK because I want to keep that shame in mind forever. I defaulted on 3 agreements I had made. I will always have that on my conscience, but I will not make those errors again because I am ashamed of it.
As above, so below. Ok I can’t read the threading indents.
Well, I can’t NOT be ashamed.
If we ever win the lottery (and by now everyone should know that it is quite possible Mr. Mojeaux could do that if we ever actually bought any tickets), we will repay it all.
Bankruptcy exists to give people a way out. It isn’t all that easy to qualify, but the point is to let people start over. Don’t feel bad for using it.
I filed November 2010. If you are responsible about things and careful it gets better within 5 years. It is humiliating and you will feel shame at various points as you face your own errors, but when it is over and you are discharged it really is a fresh start and if you use it as a learning experience and really learn the lessons it can be a bit of a rebirth. Debt is not a good thing. Consumer debt is absolutely your enemy.
Celebrate Black Day in April.
Going OT early, but I posted this on the dead thread:
Kite question: I now live 20 minutes from the beach and I think my 4 year old would like flying a kite. A good recommendation for a beginner, since her Father knows nothing about it either (I may have one twice as a kid)?
I, too, have told my children to go fly a kite on occasion.
If you live near a beach, buy the cheap-o one at Walmart and mess around with it for a while.
My plan was to go cheap, but I was hoping for something that would actually work too.
We’ve had fine luck with them on the Florida beaches. They’ll probably only survive so many hard landings, but our garage is far more lethal to kites than crashes by my data.
Okay, works for me.
There you go. And they’re cheap enough you can throw it away when you’re done and not feel obligated to fix it because it will break.
I have a Jimmy Newtron kite you can borrow. Works fine if there’s a decent wind.
“but other suspects include OMWC and French carnivores.”
Was OMWC in central Florida when these events occurred?
Something seems not kosher with this.
Neither split hooves nor chews cud
Friday Funbags gives you simulated mammalian lordosis.
http://archive.li/rCD84
Too many heavily inked individuals.
Camo cast and little black outfit makes an interesting combo though.
#23 Sundress season is just a few short months away…
That’s WAY too old for OMWC.
Late link (h/t Grand Moff Serious Man) — SMOD outpolling Trump among NH Dems and independents.
EDIT: Now with AKSHUAL link
Moderates most pro-SMOD. Libertarian moment?
LOL
Greetings from somewhere over flyover country at 33,000 feet.
I’m traveling with a bunch of lung impaired slot machine pullers that don’t know how to cover their cough.
“It’s emphazema, not Corona” *hacks out lung.*
The local casinos are full of these folks. I’m thinking an oxygen bottle exchange would be a great way to start a small business inside the casino. Next to a cigarette machine. The smokers are supposed stay in a restricted area but apparently can’t read well either. Even with the ventilation systems my clothes smell the next day and I’m only there for a couple hours to eat and only a couple times a year for the crab leg special.
Is it the same in Vegas?
Not as old and decrepit usually, but yes, the casinos are a Mecca for unhealthy folk.
Kind of. The air handling stuff in the better casinos is waaaaaaay better than Mille Lacs. I was sitting at the bar a couple seats down from a dude smoking a cigar and I could barely tell.
” I was sitting at the bar a couple seats down from a dude smoking a cigar and I could barely tell.”
That would not have been at the Linq.
I’m not staying there again.
The Wynn.
That’s my hotel of choice in Vegas.
In this case, someone else was paying for the room so…
Have you been to Sinatra’s over at the Encore?
It’s worth it just for the wait service that picks up your crumbs before they even hit the floor.
I’ve not. Happily, instead of going to Vegas multiple times every year, I go only rarely now. I will definitely check that out next time, though. Thanks!
Mmm. Le Cirque.
Been nice knowing you. You’re sure to have the Coronavirus now.
I’ll be out there in April.
The old chain smoking bingo ladies were sure to get me eventually.
*nods in solemn agreement*
Another 50s burlesque thing?
Gah! They ran a burlesque fundraiser of some sort here and I think the “dancers” fulfilled every stereotype. Maybe they were same chain-smoking bingo ladies what done in Neph.
“Burlesque” is French for “fat strippers”
and “Burlives” is French for ‘fat snowmen’
?
yep
Yep, hosted by John Waters. All part of Viva Las Vegas. There’s also pinups, classic cars, and a couple of bands…
Mini-Mike paying influencers to boost his brand.
Trump did some similar things, including paying for followers on his social media channels.
“Mike’s really great! He’s the candidate most likely to bring on the big igloo!”
“I Like Mike! He can stop and frisk me anytime.”
“so ALL Americans feel heard & respected.”
Including “deplorables” who vote for President Donald J. Trump? Firearm owners? People who want to keep their health care? People who do not believe in apocalyptic manmade global warming? People who do not want the New York Citification of the country?
THAT explains why Michael Douglas is shilling for Bloomberg on local radio
Kirk must already be rolling in his grave.
Wasn’t he a big ole Lefty?
Yes, see The China Syndrome.
Yup, wasn’t he one of the big names who crossed the Hollywood blockade against the communists?
He claimed that he broke the blacklist by naming Dalton Trumbo as the screenwriter for Spartacus, but the director later said that Kirk overstated his importance to that.
Something along those lines.
…the electable candidate who can rise above the fray, work across the aisle so ALL Americans feel heard & respected.
What la-la-land people actually believe that any such candidate exists? Who buys this stuff?
People who think the political “center” is a morally justified position.
Which always strikes me as funny, since the fascists occupied the center of the the political spectrum in their day.
But even the centrists don’t want ALL Americans feel heard and respected. It’s immoral NOT to shun far right white supremacists, racists, sexists, xenophobes and Nazis.
I didn’t say they believed it, just that they bought it.
Mike Bloomberg BUYS this, or is trying to.
The two sides no longer start from the same axioms. There is no bridging this divide. If your axioms include equity you are correct to come to different conclusions than me, and I am correct, based on my axioms, to believe you will bring evil.
New Glib revenue stream?
$150 bucks, same as downtown.
“When you leave somebody, try to make it that they’re saying, ‘I’m glad that I met that person.
When I leave all I hear is, “I thought that SOB was never gonna leave”. Makes me feel like I’ve accomplished my mission and made people happier.
“Now I’m going to do something for you that you can’t do for yourself and leave.”
“Act like a tree and get the hell out of here.”
Don’t you want to feel safe?
“Virginians are demanding real action to combat gun violence — today, legislators proved they are listening. I’m grateful to my colleagues in the House of Delegates for passing our commonsense gun safety legislation. Make no mistake: these measures will save lives,” Northam previously told CNN.
The bill passed the public safety committee in a party-line vote of 12 Democrats to nine Republicans, but not before opposition to the measure was voiced by pro-gun Virginia residents and groups.
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Gun safety advocates, however, hailed the advancement of the bill as a “needed step towards banning weapons of war” in the state.
“These weapons — assault-style semi-automatic rifles and pistols, along with high capacity magazines — have no place on our streets,” Vice President of Policy at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Christian Heyne said at the hearing.
“The bottom line is this: no civilians should have to ever intervene to prevent their fellow human beings from being massacred while out for a movie, dancing, checking out a favorite band, worshipping, getting an education, or just walking down a crowded street,” Heyne added.
Wut? There are chickens (the feathered, egg-laying kind) who could come up with a more logical argument than that.
“The bill passed the public safety committee”
“logical”
As long as the bill passes both houses and Governor Blackface signs it, they do not need “logical”.
How many counties are “sanctuaries” who will refuse to enforce it?
Gun safety advocates, however, hailed the advancement of the bill as a “needed step towards banning weapons of war” in the state.
So much for sic semper tyrannis.
If we ban war, the world will know peace.
Why do you hate gun safety?
Huh, I’m all for gun safety.
#1 Treat all guns as if they are always loaded. …
#2 Never let the muzzle cover anything that you are not willing to destroy. …
#3 Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have made the decision to shoot. …
#4 Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it.
“The bottom line is this: no civilians should have to ever intervene to prevent their fellow human beings from being massacred while out for a movie, dancing, checking out a favorite band, worshipping, getting an education, or just walking down a crowded street,” Heyne added.
Yeah, no shit they shouldn’t have to, you simpering idiot. Alas, criminals sometimes do not obey the law. Crazy thought, I know.
Good sense, innocence, cripplin’ mankind
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view
That is the most sixties thing ever.
No with even more “Baa Baa Baa Baaaa”! From K-Tel!
The bottom line is this: no civilians
should have to everwill be permitted to intervene to prevent their fellow human beings from being massacredIf the bodies pile up while the cops are waiting for SWAT to get the donut crumbs off their tacticool vests or for the shooter to off himself, so be it.
Molon labia!
That was inspired!
The old dude with the sweet ride actually seems like a great guy.
“If you wake up in the morning, get out of bed,” he said.
He’s been stringing along his fiance for 17 years. “Alright baby, if I live to be 100, we’ll get married”… 10 years later, “No, baby, I said if YOU live to be 100 we’ll get married”. Now he’s hoping for the big one before the end of March.
I hope I have game like that at 100.
You’re going to have a fiancé at 100?
Whatever floats your boat.
Metal Baby https://youtu.be/tsvUPxGg-QQ
Metal School
This might be their best song.
The whole album is excellent.
Staring at the board
Rock n Roll High School https://youtu.be/oz7KYUkdlvE
Time Bomb High School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhnd5drzTi8
Fuck School
Baby Metal should do a cover.
create original content “that tells us why Mike Bloomberg is the electable candidate who can rise above the fray, work across the aisle so ALL Americans feel heard & respected.”
How bout a black teenager, with his pockets pulled inside out and his hands on top of his head, surrounded by morbidly obese NYPD officers? Too subtle?
phys.org continues its decline into irrelevance.
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-multiple-eco-crises-trigger-collapse-scientists.html
Have one of them getting choked out for selling a cigarette.
I agree, Democrats winning the Presidency, House, Senate, and a majority of State legislatures and we face a catastrophe. And, in absolute sincerity, if the US goes, it will trigger a dark age that makes 476 to 800 AD look like a golden age.
And, in absolute sincerity, if the US goes, it will trigger a dark age that makes 476 to 800 AD look like a golden age.
So the Amish will inherit the earth.
I for one, look forward to our new pasty, bearded overlords.
I don’t.
Nu-smile TW, asshole!
That’s what they call the “Put something in my mouth” pose that all the wrong people are doing?
Nu-male smile is a thing.
In a real dark age the Amish are
serfsslave labor. The world can feed many more than 7 billion using modern techniques. It can’t feed half of that using pre industrial techniques. Modern techniques depend on a reliable global distribution, supply, and exchange network that exists largely because the US remains functional.So we are running out of fresh water and it’s going to rain more? Maybe Joe can set out his rain barrels.
Double duty as straight razor rusters.
partisan, anti-American leaker, adult fetus Vindman is off the White House NSC.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vindman-to-leave-nsc-after-trump-acquittal
if only there was a PM link about it.
@RepThomasMassie
I’d fire him. I listened to his testimony in the SCIF. He’s a leaker, not a whistleblower. Vindman was upset that @realDonaldTrump didn’t follow the script Vindman prepared for the phone call. Current Commander in Chief doesn’t take orders from a Lt. Col.!
“Donald begins his impeachment revenge: Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman FIRED and escorted out of the White House for testifying against the president, as Trump prepares to make his enemies pay”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7978379/Donald-Trump-begins-impeachment-revenge-pushing-Lt-Colonel-Alexander-Vindman-White-House.html
Revenge would be more akin to prosecuting them or having them droned.
Give him a battalion command. I want to see how before his own men shoot him.
Deploy Vindman and the top several hundred Pentagon officers to Afghanistan for a year.
Living on MREs and patrolling in the mountains might get him back to height/weight standard.
Aren’t MREs like 2500+ calories though?
If you can stomach them.
Between not eating all of the components and burning 5,000+ calories a day, it works out.
My dream scenario is Vindman gets demoted for his insubordination and disrespect during his congressional hearing, then gets chaptered for being a fat body.
Your dream fits well with the current top-trending hashtag on Twitter:
#VindmanDeservesBetter
Make him the military attache to our delegation to Somalia, appoint Romney Ambassador recall the staff and withdraw the marine guard.
This is the slowest coup d’état that I lived through: it’s already 3.5 years long. The first two lasted either three days or a few weeks.
I’m sorry America is such a shithole
“I apologize personally that they had a bad experience on the campaign. I really work hard to try and build a campaign and a work environment where it’s diverse and open and everyone is welcomed and celebrated and gets to bring their whole self to work every day,” Warren said. “But I’m also aware that racism and oppression have left a long legacy. And it creates a toxicity where people, power structures, people take advantage of other people — it’s something for which we have to be constantly vigilant and constantly determined to do better.”
She added: “I take responsibility for this and I’m working with my team to address these concerns.”
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
Now she’s even appropriating toxic masculinity culture!
“The floggings will continue until morale improves”
So Problematic.
“Whole self to work everyday”? She’s been in academe and government her entire life.
That stuck out to me too. “Bringing your whole self to work everyday” is the problem, as are the people who want to do that.
She is a vapid, dishonest, self absorbed cunt. I relish her pain as she loses this.
Note that she’s not firing the people that created the hostile environment. If she truly believes these women, why not?
U.S. House Democrats propose electric vehicle charging network
Democratic Representatives Andy Levin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released legislation dubbed the “EV Freedom Act” to create a network of high-speed charging stations within five years along the public roads of the national highway system in the United States at a U.S. Capitol press conference.
“This is the infrastructure bill that we need to be rallying around.” Ocasio-Cortez said. “A lot of naysayers will say, ‘They are trying to get rid of cars.’ Well, we’re not trying to get rid of cars. We’re trying to actually advance and improve our fleets… We have to go electric.”
Levin represents a suburban Detroit district that includes many autoworkers, while Ocasio-Cortez of New York helped unveil the “Green New Deal” earlier this year to transition the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels. The effort is backed by environmental groups and the United Auto Workers union.
Do electric vehicles (long term) really help the UAW?
There is literally no need for this, as Tesla has already done this, and I imagine they are not the only one to have installed such chargers.
It’s almost like the market will take care of the demand. Nah, that’s crazy.
Is three in the afternoon too early to go back to bed?
Not if you take someone with you.
Depends on who is waiting there.
The last 20th century small-l libertarian who was an LP presidential candidate was 2004. Choose to self-identify as a 20th century small-l libertarian. Then it is a political statement if you choose to take a NAP.
Circling the drain
Ford announced Friday it will replace the president of its auto unit, three days after it announced a disappointing earnings outlook and financial results, sinking its stock.
The company replaced Joe Hinrichs, a 19-year Ford veteran who previously worked at General Motors. Jim Farley will assume the role of chief operating officer of the company, reporting to CEO Jim Hackett. He previously served as president of new businesses, technology and strategy.
“Jim Farley is the right person to take on this important new role,” Hackett said, adding that it’s important that Ford accelerate its move to electric and autonomous driving vehicles.
“We’re just not destroying this company fast enough!”
They’re looking to become a zombie corporation feeding on government goodies
All the auto manufacturers are going electric. It’s just too damn difficult to pass current and future emissions requirements. There will come a day when a big manufacturer will announce they’re no longer making internal combustion engines at all. I predict within a decade.
I wonder if going electric kills the tuner/mod/gear head community. I guess you can reflash computers, but it’s not as sexy and tearing apart an engine.
Oh I don’t know about that. The electric motors have an amazing amount of torque that you can play with.
But good luck getting past the proprietary software protections.
I’m not saying electric motors are bad, just how much tinkering can you do. No intake, no exhaust, no fuel injection. You’re left with body kits, suspension, paint, wheels. That’s about it.
As long as I can install candy crush on my vehicle, it’s cool.
So about the same for 90% of the poseurs out there…
You dissing my obscenely large wing on my otherwise stock Civic, brah ?!?
*hides smirk* Perish the thought!
There will come a day when a big manufacturer will announce they’re no longer making internal combustion engines at all.
It’s already happened. Studenbaker, Nash, Hudson, AMC…
I was just at a friend’s house and he was riding his new electric Harley Davidson. Yup. I couldn’t fucking believe it.
Battery technology has improved so much that we can have things like drones and electric Harleys, but I think there is something unique, cool, and sexy about the internal combustion engine, right down to the throaty growl, brake stands, and that brief instant between throttle and response.
Plus, jet engines crush batteries and they’re not going anywhere, at least not in my lifetime.
So HE was the guy who bought it!
Seriously, I think they are considering killing it already.
Can you hear it?
Reminder: news types almost uniformly regard themselves as utterly brilliant, and certainly much more intelligent than you dumb yokels.
Sadly, they are probably right. The average person is incredibly stupid.
No dumber than Katy Tur, though. Not a chance.
Katy Tur was also the moron who said on the air that George Washington was “a native son of New York”.
You think the average person knows where Washington was born?
Washington DC, of course.
It’s pronounced “WashingTOWN” /illiterate pedant off
Also ignores that at 52-48 they were 19 votes short of convicting him, not 3.
Fucking Cheerocracy! How does it work?
https://twitter.com/_RickSmoove/status/1225548067216248835
wonder what she look like from the front
*HM intensifies*
Her Father must be so proud.
“This is the infrastructure bill that we need to be rallying around.” Ocasio-Cortez said. “A lot of naysayers will say, ‘They are trying to get rid of cars.’ Well, we’re not trying to get rid of cars. We’re trying to actually advance and improve our fleets… We have to go electric.”
I ask again: how much energy, in megagigawatts, are currently used by the current internal combustion fleet in this country?
Gasoline accounts for about 1.3 billion megawatt hours anually.
1.23 gigawatts.
+1 Mr Fusion
One point twenty one.
There is a huge difference between building better cars and attracting buyers as Tesla is doing, and mandating it from the top down as a means of centralized control over the core aspects of people’s lives, as AOC advocates.
Deploy Vindman and the top several hundred Pentagon officers to Afghanistan for a year.
Issue each of them a single ten round magazine for their assault rifles.
I am aware of a great story where something like this actually happened when Al Gray was the CG of 2nd MarDiv. Real events at GitMo formed the basis for “A Few Good Men.” Unlike in the movie, however, when Gray got wind of some of the nonsense going on down there, he took a trip down, held a Battalion formation and relieved the Bn Commander on the spot in formation. My friend, who was right there, close to Gray, said that his exact words were something akin to: “You’re fucking fired. You will never work in my Marine Corps again. Now get out of my site.”
THEN, he ordered every Staff NCO and officer into the base theater and started asking pointed questions, chief among which was people’s overseas control dates: the OCD used to be used as a manpower tool to ensure that everyone was “carrying their fair share” of the deployments. My buddy said that he saw several people get asked by General Gray “When was the last time you were deployed?” and if there was any hesitation, his response was something to the effect of, “it’s been too fucking long if you can’t remember.” Then he would turn to his aide and tell him to “correct that.”
A lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth as REMFs started to find out what it’s like to be on the “pointy tip” of the spear.
Gasoline accounts for about 1.3 billion megawatt hours anually.
Ramping up electricity production to cover that should be a piece of cake. . should be a piece of cake, then.
*Thanks for enacting my labor
You’re going to have to pedal harder.
Enough to earn say 15 million credits?
Gasoline accounts for about 1.3 billion megawatt hours anually.
So, only 220,000 windmills. And the US already has 54,000!
1.3 billion megawatts is 1.3 petawatts which is about the annual electric usage of India or roughly 1/3 US electric power consumption. That seems low for gasoline, but maybe.
This is why energy production should be a private sector affair (and largely is, but probably in an overly-regulated market).
People would be buying electricity. Producers would have incentives to increase production and/or raise prices. New sources of energy would be brought on line until an equilibrium is reached…. exactly the way that oil production technology improved until fracking was a viable technology, bringing vast reserves into production.
“New sources of energy would be brought on line until an equilibrium is reached…. exactly the way that oil production technology improved until fracking was a viable technology, bringing vast reserves into production.”
Except the politicians who want to force electric vehicles on us are dead set against any new technology that would provide the additional required electricity. Wind and solar won’t do it, absent rationing.
Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/07/orangutan-offers-save-mans-life-thinking-fallen-snake-filled-water-12197173/
STEVE SMITH ALSO OFFERS HAND
That’s an incredibly touching video to me. I don’t know why, but I feel like he should have taken the hand, even if just to acknowledge the kindness. You can always go back to fighting snakes.
“You can always go back to fighting snakes.”
You’d never say that to Samuel L Jackson.
I feel ya, brah, but orangutans are ridiculously strong. Maybe he helps the dude out the river. Or maybe he tears his arms out his sockets.
I would have gone for something more base and profane but you do you, FM.
Maybe I feel such sympathy because I’m built like one: short, squat, hairy, and arms slightly too long.
(Ideal for deadlifting, though!)
HAWT!
I agree with Ozy. That is very touching.
Yup.
Cool as hell.
“Right turn Clyde!”
Too bad I still can’t operate my fingers properly. I’ll blame the computer.
You’re going to have to pedal harder.
“They all laughed when I sat down at my perpetual motion machine.”
Not biting the hand that feeds them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/facebook-and-twitter-decline-pelosi-request-to-delete-trump-video.html
Now do The Daily Show and its many imitators and descendants.
Grassy knoll!
This occurred to me earlier, so I’m gonna point it out one more time. Here is the conspiracy, laid out by the actual conspirators in the New York Times on March 3, 2017.
Examine this lede in light of what you know now:
None of this is true, except that the leakers are bragging about their efforts to bring Trump down before he takes office. Sound like a backup plan in motion?
How about this:
For those who have not followed it: the “sources” were FBI and CIA agents who were trying to set up low level Trump advisers. That is all. All of the stuff about “intercepting communications inside the Kremlin” was a lie. It was all about lying about someone who was working with the CIA to spy on Russians in order to make it look like he was spying for the Russians.
The NYT has since publicly admitted – no, not admitted.. bragged? Simply stated? – that it was their mission from the time Trump was announced as the nominee to “get Trump”, primarily using the Russia story as the foundation of that campaign. A story that we know to be a lie. So the NYT not following up on this story makes sense.
But where is the rest of the media? This story is a flaming red flag. It screams of treason. Of a failure to peacefully transfer power. Of abusing the powers of government to protect personal power and harm political enemies. And not one news outlet followed up on it.
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that this is by far, not even close, the biggest scandal in American history. That this whole thing was a frame job, a set up, to simultaneously cover up the crimes of the Obama administration, the DNC, and Hillary Clinton.
Anyone who hasn’t figured this out by now, never will.
And everybody, with the best case scenario of a few fall guys, will walk away scot free, many keeping the positions they used to perpetrate the scandal.
Proggies always project and divert. Their current obsession with “democracy” should be taken as its exact opposite: that they have no intention whatsoever of ever letting something as picayune as an election stand in their way. They are probably going to have to suck it in November, but I have no doubt that their efforts to seize and hold power, in the own words “By Any Means Necessary”, will continue.
Anybody who votes for them is a damn fool.
For me, this is why Trump has to win in 2020.
If he isn’t, there is zero chance that any of this will be exposed and there will be no repercussions for any of the bad actors. Even with his reelection, the odds aren’t great.
Trump has to win because the other side are legitimate communists. No other reason.
This is what scares me. These economic ignoramuses jiggering the economy to fit their notion of what is right and then getting confused as to why their theories haven’t produced the expected results. We know how to create a wealthy society. Anyone who says differently is the true science denier.
And the enemy.
They are very eager to make it so Trump holds the record for best economy in US history, by replacing the imperfect system we have with something far worse. If I wasn’t an American I would find that funny.
Great comment. And, in the now deeply ingrained words of our current president and reality show in chief – Sad!
I will absolutely vote for the Cheeto-in-Chief in November, words which I would have pointed at and laughed if someone had ever told me they would be coming from me.
It’s completely insane; and I cannot believe that Trump is the accidental hero who happened to be the monkey wrench chucked into the democrats’ “demographic inevitability” that would keep them in power in perpetuity.
They may win eventually, but given what I’ve witnessed in the 2016 and follow-on, he really is the firewall between the dems and power right now. It’s amazing because by policy preference, Trump is a moderate democrat, but his enemies have made him into the best republican in my lifetime, probably, by judicial appointments alone.
^^^That
Yes
And for God’s sake, STOP SPENDING
Congress does the budget, Bro. I know, I know, but still – that is specifically assigned to those 435 assholes in the House and the other 100 chuckleheads in the Senate.
Yeah… I know.
But Trump ain’t helping.
Like I said, he’s a moderate dem by preference, but here we are.
If the press is to be believed, he’s about to. Apparently the next budget is all about spending.
I’d settle for slowing growth of government to less than the growth of the private sector.
Amen, Ozymandias.
There are a lot of us. You can probably find over 1,000 comments here and at Reason from me stating that Trump is an idiot, will never get a single vote, is running as a joke… followed by another 1,000 saying “stop making me defend this guy”. And finally – I’m all in. It is down to whatever Trump really is behind all of his surface histrionics, and complete and utter destruction at the hands of people who have absolutely no understanding of what America stands for.
The last 3 years have made it clear where the imperative lies. They are coming for me and mine. Time to fight back.
This.
Trump is a middle finger to those who would destroy me and my way of life. While I’d love for it to be a pristinely clean middle finger, I don’t really care all that much that the finger has some dirt under the nail.
https://twitter.com/Gokanaru/status/1225638760609529856
que?
HM is not even here, and yet his presence is felt.
*puke*
That’s one of his fetishes.
His fetish is named Legion, for they are many.
What?
Why???
Wasn’t someone here opining the other day that elections are decided by GOTV efforts rather than swing voters?
An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter
tldr: Elections are decided by firing up the base rather than appealing to (nearly) non-existent swing voters. But let’s jump to the 2020 predictions:
Talk about alternate reality….
Eh she’s not totally wrong. Turnout is key. Getting the base excited is the key to winning, because if your base is excited not only do they show up to vote, they talk about how awesome their lizard is, way better than the other lizard, they donate, they volunteer. You can’t win without your base being energized.
Like, if every Trump voter in Virginia had voted for Ed Gillespie for governor, then Gillespie would have crushed Northam by over 200,000 votes. But Gillespie, like all milquetoast Republicans, was so fucking convinced there were these giant chunks of “centrist independent moderates” that would jump in the boat if he steered it just so. He distanced himself from the Trump voters, so they went straight home on Tuesday night.
Nobody is going to stay home if Sanders or Buttercup doesn’t pander hard enough with their VP pick.
Yeah I’m not sure how much a VP choice affects things, although there’s an argument to be made that for the Democrats it’s going to basically be a rule that someone on the ticket has to check a diversity box, going forward.
Political campaigns love to push crossover voters as the deciding factor, and they do matter of course. But there’s really not that many people, as a whole, who genuinely switch back and forth from Dem to Rep based on the candidate or what have you. Some people come to the bar every Saturday, some come sporadically, but once they’re at the bar, most people order the same drink.
Every political campaign should be energizing the base, getting them excited. The Democrats had Obama, who was absolutely beloved by their voters, so they actually came out and voted for him. Hillary did not excite them. By contrast, no one was excited for Mitt, but they loved them some Trump.
True. Though my mom was one of them.
My mom is one of them, too. Granted, she votes against all of the incumbents. I’ve stopped talking with her about it because it’s anyeurism inducing. Love her to death, but the nightly news and the anxiety meds have done a number on her brain.
VP pick is critical because all the front-runners are older than God.
Booty-gag will be Bernie’s VP pick. You heard it here first.
Betcha dollar they cockblock Bernie
I think they’re screwed, because Biden is done. Who are they going to go with, Klobuchar?
I agree that they’re going to try and cockblock Bernie, but I don’t know that they have the horsepower this time around.
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I won’t predict who. But I’ll bet $50 donation to the sight that Bernie is not the nominee. and another $50 that Trump is reelected.
LOL – WUT?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I seriously think whoever wrote that has lost their mind. I read the article and I’m calling bullshit. She got lucky on one election and now she’s selling something the left wants to hear: that they’re a “lock” for 2020 (yet again!). These people never fucking learn because they can’t.
IT’S HAPPENING
Stacey Abrams is the key to 2020, bruh. It’s so obvious.
Who?
The rightful governor of Georgia
who is shaped like her namesake tank.
That’s just mean! An Abrahams tank is a thing of beauty.
What about swinger voters?
They only cost nineteen dollars and ninety-five.
Same as downtown.
One of the all-time great commercial jingles
https://youtu.be/Z43tyvpK8us
That was me, and it has been the case for a long time.
Voter turnout in 2016 was low across the board, which is why the polls were so long. A lot of likely democrat voters sat on their hands because Hillary sucked. Similarly, a lot of likely republican voters sat on their hands because Trump sucked.
2020 is shaping up to be a high turnout election. Drama abounds, Trump is a polarizing figure, and both bases are riled up. Usually high turnout favors the Republicans because it offsets the democrat vote fraud machines that operate every election cycle. However, there are a lot of people out there that simply don’t like Trump personally.
Based on Iowa, its gonna be lower turnout than 2016.
I’d be hesitant to read too much into Iowa. The Democrat lineup is not very inspiring. However, don’t underestimate the power of TDS to make people hold their noses and vote for the idiot with a D after their name.
That said, I’d happily eat my words if this turns into another contest where most people sit it out.
I was playing cautious this time because I was right last time against all odds and I wanted to preserve that. But Im now all in. Trump wins this time, and gets more EC votes than last time. Book mark it and mock me if I’m wrong.
I’m afraid that there’s a large contingent of low information voters who hear nothing but “Orange Man Bad” from the usual sources, and will come out of the woodwork to thwart the reelection of Cheeto Hitler in the same way they came out of the woodwork to elect Obama.
I thought the same, but the State of the Union showed me that Trump has the natural instincts of Clinton (Bill not Hillary)
More votes were cast in 2016 than were cast in 2012. Doesn’t seem like a case of low turnout. Tons of people went third party because both candidates were appalling.
2016 was roughly a 55.5% turnout
2012 was roughly a 57.5% turnout
That said, methinks that the “low turnout 2016” meme is more wishful thinking from the left than actual truth.
FYI: the range of turnout seems to bounce from the low 50s to low 60s.
He built a wall, and Mexico is paying for it.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/02/07/jorge-ramos-mexico-allow-central-american-caravans-pass-way-america/
I’m happy to hear that. Coming from Jorge Ramos, it makes me twice as happy.
Those neo-nazi white supremists they found in VA just before the rally…. Feds. Shocking, right?
https://needtoknow.news/2020/01/leader-of-the-militant-neo-nazi-group-exposed-as-intelligence-contractor-who-may-also-be-a-federal-agent/
And if one of those entrapped people carried out a terrorist attack?
I think that would have been classified as a success.
Our son just called from the high school parking lot, he can’t drive home because all the roads are blocked by police. Not far away a SWAT team is cordoning off a house, apparently a hostage situation with some guy with a rifle as the instigator (according to our local NextDoor.) Big news for our sleepy little suburban town. You can hear sirens nonstop although this is happening 5-6 miles from our home.
And here come the police helicopters!
That’s the black UN choppers.
The boogaloo is on.
Local police, assisted by special enforcement elements from neighboring towns, are dealing with an unfolding standoff with a man believed armed with a shotgun on Hall Drive.
The incident began to unfold shortly after 2 p.m. Pacific Friday afternoon. Police established a cordon around a residence in the 200 block of Hall shortly after police in had attempted to stop a car with a man inside.
That car is believed to have driven to the residence on Hall Drive. A police special weapons team is currently moving into the area, police and media helicopters are overhead and attempts to establish communication with the individual are underway.
Neighbors report a heavy police presence in the area with a BearCat armored car and other assets deployed on scene.
“Bystanders report dozens of little cop stiffies in the vicinity.”
Another NextDoor post shows a photo from a neighboring town’s special police vehicle just arriving, a big white RV that on the side is painted “Mobile Police Command”.
The picture is too blurry to tell if it’s a GMC EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle.
Man. So glad I don’t leave the house no mo.
I didn’t want to say anything, but we’re kind of glad too.
Hey!
Keep your dog inside.
Oh boy! The local police have something fun to do!
Thinking the same thing. Which one of them will be responsible for bringing the Cinnabons?
Local PD assisted by the FBI and the Servants of Cthulhu attempt to destroy the Robot Sea Monsters.
That would be one of those Indiana rifles, wouldn’t it?
@Ozy: Not at my main work computer at the moment. Will respond later.
No worries, Moj! It’s a Friday afternoon and well past beer-thirty!
Boob jobs for everyone!
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/02/06/2-in-3-women-unhappy-with-breast-size-may-pose-health-risk/9551581027002/?sl=3
Babies babies babies! They all want babies but neglect the reality of what babies do to breasts. Now they want a do-over.
*Looks at wife’s chest*
*listens to sobbing toddler on the baby monitor*
*looks back at wife’s chest*
Yeah, not seeing anything to complain about on that front.
God bless the Hooter Fairie.
It’s a roller coaster ride.
They go up and down, but they never quite reach the height they started at?
OT:
We’re here in the far NW to visit my sister who is dying of cancer. One of Mom’s goofy friends dropped by with an article about using dog de-worming medicine as a cancer cure. It’s called Procur-c. There seem to be a lot of articles about this “miracle cure” on the intertubes but this is the first that I have ever heard of it. Anyone have any experience with it?
Deworming medicines are typically poisons. Sounds like a poor man’s attempt at chemo.
I’m sorry about your sister.
Not here, but sorry about you and your Sister, I’m close with mine, it must suck….
Sorry to hear, Hobbit. Don’t fall for quackery and I hope that she exits gracefully and with a modicum of dignity.
I’ve got nothing but prayers for your sister and you, dude.
Good luck.
Sorry to hear that, Hobbit.
Sorry to hear about that, hobbit! We’ll be thinking about and praying for you and your family.
Regarding the dewormer, unknown “miracle cures” get a healthy dose of skepticism from me. If the top 10 pharma companies pass on making and selling a highly lucrative drug, either its not highly lucrative, or there’s some complicating factor involved.
I’m guessing Scruffy has it right about it being a poor man’s chemo.
Wise Latino.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/02/07/venezuela-rounded-citgo-6-hours-juan-guaido-met-president-trump/
BOMB CARACAS
/Bolton’s mustache
I shot another 30 just now, keeping me #5 at My course for the year, practice practice, practice,
then practice some more,
It’s good to have a hobby! That’s pretty righteous, Bob.
and my course is 1.4 miles away, I played 3 disc practice from 2pm til 3:30, came home, pounded a beer, then shot my 30,
Tomorrow is,
18 holes
Walk Bella,
Lunch
18 holes
Beer
18 holes
if I can still walk by then
Damn! Look at you, All Big Man on
Campusthe Disc Golf Course!Here’s the secret, I play by the Rules, I don’t care how far you throw, if you’re OB, you take the penalty, no, you don’t throw 6 discs and then score the best shots, no the tee box isn’t that big. I don’t say a word, we aren’t in a tournament, so however you want to play, enjoy!
Practice like you play.
^^^ Spud gets it! Honorable score or don’t bother keeping score.
^this, I hope to play some tournaments this year, doing it “right” is a good thing, IMO
Cheat at golf, cheat at life. I used to shave a stroke or two when I was a kid but you have to live with yourself later and there is no escaping the cranium. Play it square and let the dust settle.
Can’t cheat yourself.
Don’t cross the Family.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/02/07/new-ambassador-to-the-eu-gordon-sondland-also-booted/
I thought the U.S. military had weight and fitness requirements to stay in. If that’s the case, Vindman should have been escorted out of the Army.
So many Fredos…
Anna Paulina Luna – I really hope she wins her congressional race and ends up in Congress.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Rra78hRME/
She’s purdy and she probably hates commies. Why can’t my candidates look like her? It’s probably because I used to touch myself at night, isn’t it?
Used to? I’m sorry.
I’m a married man. I don’t need to do that much, anymore…
That is some pretty fine pussy you got in your avatar.
He’s my best friend, and my screen-name. I..I mean he’s my avatar and my friend! My screen-friend and my best avatar! My best avatar and my screen name! Stop it! It’s all so confusing… *slaps Festus*
Sorry to hear about your broken arms, Festus
Cute
Would.
Isn’t Cubana kinda off the scales on the hot/crazy matrix? That’s if I’ve been reading the intertubes right.
It’s right in there with Puerto Rican.
HAWT
Yes. I dated one for a couple years. 90lbs of sexy hot crazyness. She was a uber SJW though. Sad.
I’d pull a lever for her.
Hopefully she’s joined in Congress by Catalina Lauf as well.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4n7uV4j2rx/
Oh… and Jessica Taylor too
https://twitter.com/JessicaTaylorAL/status/1225234061435686912
Top choice.
http://archive.li/ngIb0/ecd94e0486e590768b58fc1478d7a261331bc054.jpg
https://youtu.be/GH1ruMGpTVY