Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it always is as Trump turned the Daytona 500 into one of his political rallies. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not for the politicization of everything, I’m just very pro-trolling.
Meanwhile, this guy still can’t stop the crazies from taking over his rallies.
Don’t worry, here comes Bloomberg to save the Democrats, he has a way of speaking to the common man. Let’s see if his $400 million in ad spending overcomes all his questionable past videos.
Biden’s China connections under closer scrutiny.
Never forget, these dumb cunts think they’re intellectually superior to you.
Attention Dallas/Ft. Worth Glibs! There will be a meetup for all local gang members & well-wishers this coming Saturday, 2/22/20, at 6:00 pm at J. Gilligan’s Bar & Grill in Arlington. It’s a very central location, so as to be equally inconvenient to attendees from either side of the metroplex. Come see all your favorite Glibs, such as Sir Digby, Mark Hamill*, Gojira, and many more!
I’m almost never in a position to be able to post during the afternoon, so if someone can re-post this notice in the afternoon links, it would be much appreciated.
*Mark Hamill may not appear
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
DeBlasio and Sanders, on the same stage? What a draw.
In Nevada, no less. Could Bernie not get someone who was local? I can’t imagine the mayor of NYC plays big in Nevada.
Meanwhile, this guy still stop the crazies from taking over his rallies.
Did Q send this nutjob to the Sanders rally?
Our Q, or Q Anon?
*pats aluminum foil hat*
Nobody needs all those different types of boobs.
Speak for yourself.
Whip me, browbeat me, make me write bad checks.
Mark Hamill!!!!
…
Oh, never mind.
I hear he’s to (Je)die form
*for. Damn laggy airline internets.
Your packets are being quarantined for 14 days.
At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture, now it’s 2 percent in the United States.
We can fix that.
Ban industrial farming!
Job creation!!!
What a Great Leap Forward! Practically a cultural revolution, one might say.
^Look at Ms. Glamor Shot there, working it for the camera.
Leave me the fuck out of this.
“Frankly, you know, I feel kind of snookered, because I took him seriously,” Toobin said, recalling the many times Avenatti was invited onto CNN”
Go fuck yourself. The guy had red flags all over, but you ignored it because he made you feel right. Don’t blame him for your failure to maintain rationality.
He’s the sleazier, less moral real world version of Saul Goodman and, you’re right, it was plain for all to see if they just looked. Bias confirmation is a hell of a blindfold.
As Dave Smith pointed out, Avenatti’s rise wasn’t a one-off thing, people in media seem to have well below average common sense BS detectors and are constantly putting questionable figures forward, for example they loved “Beto”, and normal people everywhere were wholly unimpressed.
Greta is another.
They keep getting snookered. They want to be deceived.
Meanwhile, they seem their BS detector is working perfectly with Trump.
Makes me wonder.
I tend to go with the ‘if a leftist screams it, it’s likely wrong’ angle.
It really makes you fully understand how remarkably dumb the dumb party is allowing these fucking idiots to outsmart them for so long. I remember my whole adult life being told what a brilliant political strategist Pelosi was, that the Clinton machine was difficult to beat, and how it’s impossible to overcome the leftist media. And yet Trump does it with incredible ease.
They had an agenda – protect the left, especially the Obama legacy, which involved hiding the corruption and criminality of these people from the general populous – and they were willing to use anyone, no matter how fucking obvious the bullshit being peddled was, to do that. These people are not dumb: they are fucking evil. They KNEW Avennati was a lying cunt, because EVERY-FUCKING-ONE knew the accusations against Kavenaugh were bullshit made up to just hang a weight around his neck and force team red idiots to cave (as they have done in the past). Trump told them all to go fuck a hamster wrapped in duct tape, and they did.
If this was the only incident of their malfeasance, I would have been willing to give them a pass and just consider them dumb (and not dumb and evil like I do now), but there were scores of these incidents. This is an attempt to act as if they actually self police. They picked the least damaging and unimportant case of them helping sell lies to grandstand on. Do not give them a fucking pass on this. If they really want to have people take them seriously, come out, admit how corrupt and evil Obama’s admin was, admit your complicity in not just hiding this, but helping Obama do what they did, and then resign and go fucking code.
“…below average common sense BS detectors …”
Well, when you look at the ‘product’ they spew 24/7 it’s easy to imagine that they lose any ability to determine fact from BS.
No kidding. When you’re up to your knees in your own do do, it’s hard to smell someone else’s.
Toobin couldn’t see through what the average person saw?
What a towel and a tool.
And a fool.
I was watching and laughing at Trump’s pre-race flyover and laps. He’s figured out who his people are and how to get to them directly without the media.
And this is why he is hated so much by them: he has basically found a way to go around the gatekeepers that have constantly protected team blue’s criminal and vile ways, and for that they despise him and want to destroy him.
Now all he needs to do is stop shaving for the couple of months before the election.
Sort of look like this guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USGrant-standing-postbellum.jpg
I immediately thought of this guy.
I was thinking of this beloved Civil War general
I haven’t checked out the news yet. Are they claiming that the limo wasn’t NASCAR legal yet?
Chanting “4 more years!” because that’s how long a NASCAR race feels.
Not if you have imbibed the required amount of beer and/or need a nap.
Yeah, I realize it takes a lot of skill and all but watching cars drive in a circle sucks.
I assume it’s like baseball – a social event with something going on in the background to entertain you when the conversation lags.
A social event where you can’t hear anything.
Like an NBA game, just tune in near the end.
Do you know how much hate I get for shitting on basketball, saying this.
Agree. Saturday there was a college game on tv that took about 17 minutes to play the last 3 minutes on the clock.
Lead kept going back and forth, numerous fouls and time outs, etc. But still not as bad as those games were the outcome is obvious but each coach insists on prolonging the outcome. It almost looks like someone is trying to cover a spread or something even though they know they’ve won or lost.
“Watch a year or two of dreadful Bulls teams getting up to 20 point leads in the first half, to lose by 10-12.”
is my reply to those types.
Basketball is not as boring as baseball.
Why tune in at all?
The All Star game had an interesting twist. They didn’t use a clock at the end. First to 157 wins. Actually made the last 5 minutes enjoyable.
That was a good change – the NHL should do that too – first to __ goals wins.
Day 1. Have a good day glibs.
Good luck.
We’re all counting on him.
Though I’ve never flown a plane, I’d volunteer to land one in an emergency, as long as I got to make airplane references the whole time.
Technically, a lot of them are Zero Hour! references.
Pictured. Ted S’
https://youtu.be/ucdZHR75iCM
You got this!
Best of luck dude. You got this.
Flying lessons?
Yup, but on a plane with four engines. It’s a completely different kind of flying, entirely.
Altogether.
Always remember Macho Grande.
?
“Biden’s China connections under closer scrutiny.
That’s where he caught the cocainavirus
Bloomberg continued: “Now comes the information economy and the information economy is fundamentally different because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter. It’s not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn, and so the challenge of society of finding jobs for these people, who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing. But the thing that is the most important, that will stop them from setting up a guillotine someday, is the dignity of a job”
Shorter version: “What you do is easy. What I do is hard. Have some cake.”
Essentially. People like this don’t realize the complexity of our economy. I haven’t got a clue how a damned cell tower is made, let alone how it works. It’s the lack of empathy and curiosity that leads them to think that they can control the economy.
I took it the other way. He’s saying everything is becoming too complex for idiots like say ~25% of people to manage. That is not so different from what Herrnstein and Murray were saying in their book The Bell Curve (not to mention millions of others). Lots of people think robots or whatever will replace too many jobs and people won’t find work. Now, in all of history up to this point, that hasn’t happened (just the opposite in fact), but I think it is at least a potential concern.
I’m by no means an expert in artificial intelligence, but the little I’ve done around it has me convinced that there are two camps. The quiet technicians who put together and manage models to make specific aspects of production automated, and the futurists who talk to journalists and say we are 20 years away from automating people out of a job.
The futurists also like to talk about a “post scarcity economy”. I’m not going to say you should ignore them, but whenever someone says that, I will classify what they say as noise.
This
The futurists are generally bloviating idiots who sell books by invoking the fear of middle-aged persons who realize they are generally past the point of learning a new career.
And it’s not just “past the point of learning a new career”. Most people who have worked for a few decades already know that even if it took no more than a magic incantation to make them into a coder – they know they would be starting out at the bottom and they know that they simply don’t have enough career glide path (ie: years before they would prefer to retire) left to work their way back up to any level of income to make the change worth it.
I have a buddy who was a marketing executive in Europe who ended up coming back to the US for his wife’s career. Turns out marketing is so different in Europe that he couldn’t even get a starting position in the US. After busting his butt in a couple sales positions he followed his heart into paramedics and in his mid-50’s is working his way into healthcare management. He had to scrimp by for years while he re-trained and held a number of grunt positions.
The idea of “learn to code” only works OK if you can get a 15 to 20 year reset on your life.
Tell me about it…
and I can code….
The quiet technicians who put together and manage models to make specific aspects of production automated, and the futurists who talk to journalists and say we are 20 years away from automating people out of a job.
Ayup.
/somebody who works with those AI technicians on a daily basis
You also have two camps between those that think AI will produce a general super AI, and those that understand that humans never really use logic to come to conclusions but more often than not make some incredible leaps of faith, then justify it with logic, which is why we can figure things out. AIs can learn from massive amounts of data, but what they learn will be what their users program them to actually learn (and that might not really be what the humans intended either). They can become really really good at specific tasks, because computers will always beat humans at looking up data and computations. That super intelligent AI that takes over the world is a pipe dream however, because unless we figure out how to create a human brain for a computer (with all the inherent biases and faults of the human psyche), we will never be able to get an AI that can think like a human does.
The industrial revolution didn’t put everyone out of work, it drastically raised quality of life and created many more jobs for former buggy whip makers. All evidence points to technological advancement being beneficial to the economy as a whole, the job market and people’s everyday lives.
I can’t tell if people are adding on to what I said or think I feel differently, but that is what I meant by “Now, in all of history up to this point, that hasn’t happened (just the opposite in fact)”.
So yeah, agree 100%, past experience shows this is unliekly, but I also don’t believe that the past trajectory is a perfect indication of the future, so it is something worth considering at least.
I agree with you, just piling on to Bloomy’s stupidity and condescension.
The “problem” is that while that is true, there are always some displaced workers who fall thru the cracks and cant make the shift to the new jobs.
While it is bad for them, their kids and especially their grandkids are better off. So, IF you value that, it is still a good deal. If you are childless and/or don’t care about sacrificing for the future generation, it may not be such a good deal.
The “problem” is that while that is true, there are always some displaced workers who fall thru the cracks and cant make the shift to the new jobs.
Plus lots of people who, while they can get back on their feet, are knocked down pretty hard by the creative destruction of the market. Socialism didn’t just become popular out of the blue, it became popular because the rapid pace of technological advance has many casualties. It may be a utilitarian good, but many people won’t see that on an individual level.
Look, everybody has twitter, wikipedia, google, and youtube. We’re all experts now.
Uh-huh, you think the dignity of a job is going to make someone happy while you lord over them. Yeah, that’ll make you immune to the guillotine, oh, for sure.
Yeah. I think a lot of the people (based on personal experience) who are pro-Bernie, or pro-bernie-like policies have jobs, but not the respect they think they deserve.
No doubt there are a lot of basement dwellers too, but that hasn’t been my experience IRL.
Entitlement is a helluva drug.
Work will make you free!
/Somebody 75 years ago
You got that from Talib didn’t you?
The less you know about something, the easier it looks to do.
I doubt Bloomberg has grown anything aside from his ego his whole life.
He is a successful businessman, which is more than you can truly say for Trump.
I meant in regards to farming. I’m no farmer myself, but I grew up in the culture. My grandfather raised cattle, and a good deal of my friends were farmboys. Agriculture isn’t as simple as dig hole, drop seed, grow, feed animal, kill. Aside from it being mindlessly labor intensive and monotonous, you usually need at least some fairly complex wide ranging skills from carpentry, mechanical aptitude, basic computer skills for the machinery used today, proficiency in power tools, chemical and nutrient applications, ect, ect.
Around these parts the farmers practically have to be chemists to maintain healthy soil. Just putting a seed in the ground doesn’t work.
Yes, to get the kinds of yields that require only 2% of the population to be farmers you have be very smart with your farm.
That’s why some farmers don’t make the cut. Well until the gov’t crop insurance payment shows up.
And have some veterinary knowledge, horticultural knowledge, be an amuetur meteorologist…people far removed from the day to day life involved in farming tend to have this Dust Bowl Era view of farmers being little more than sentient drones willing small tractors and large beasts of burden to do little more than plow the earth, then pray for rain.
And finance and IT. My commodities professor would point out over and over that a farmer not using tools to hedge their risk wasn’t just not exposed to commodities, but was essentially 100% at the mercy of the market. Our textbook came from John Deere if I remember correctly.
Basically I’m saying successfully operating farms only employ idiots for the most menial of tasks, like any other business.
Who’s the leader of the free World, and who’s still short?
He is a successful businessman, which is more than you can truly say for Trump.
He is a more successful businessman than Trump. Trump turned hundreds of millions into billions, while Bloomberg turned basically nothing into tens of billions. If he wasn’t such an authoritarian asshole Bloomberg would be kind of an inspiration.
Perfect women don’t exi…
^^^
Word.
Sloopy is a lucky man.
Starting today’s birthday list…both Michael Jordan and Larry the Cable Guy turn 57 today.
He’s an expert in the energy sector and private equity. Truly, these people are elites.
Elites listen to experts, no matter how wrong they have been.
Went to the same schools – must be smart!
Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market
If not, that is one hell of a coincidence.
Boffins know things.
I prefer the Dry Fish Market, m’self.
Something about this definitely smells fishy.
Trying to net yourself a narrow gaze?
People keep carping on these conspiracy theories.
They’ll fall for it – hook, line and sinker.
Only the bottom feeders.
Commonly known as suckers.
Cod you have some better puns ?
I know, we needs something that tips the scales!
He’s an expert in the energy sector and private equity. Truly, these people are elites.
A guy that smart, maybe we should send him out into the countryside, to work on a farm. You know, to boost crop yields.
Way to keep Asheville weird.
YS, OH is just as weird – hippie dippie Progtopia.
Patchouli City, NC
Their homegrown hippie dippie, high dollar Whole Foods knockoff grocery store, Earth Fare, just announced it’s closing all of its stores.
Earth Fare was sometimes decent for their loss leader sales ($5 Beef Tenderloin steaks/lobster tails; etc.).
I don’t think I ever went in when I wasn’t stopping in specifically to stock up on the sale item.
The one in our town had flies in the deli section. We also bought some “organic” ground beef from there that had some extra rancid organics in it.
“extra rancid organics”
AKA fecal matter?
Mammary Monday is on topic!
http://archive.li/Jl5du
Thanks crazy Berniebotz!
“7:23 am”
*squints suspiciously*
Topless protestors in the links. I think it counts as on topic.
Point conceded.
The Gaze doesn’t even take President’s day off? Why do you hate America Swiss?
Get back to me on Näfelser Fahrt.
Geez, if Martha Washington had looked like these, George wouldn’t have left Mt. Vernon and America would still be obsessed with the doings of the Royal Family.
“America would still be obsessed with the doings of the Royal Family.”
From the tabloids and trash TV, it sure looks like a lot of America still is.
At least there isn’t a booming business selling Americans dish towels with pictures of the Kardashians on them.
…There isn’t, is there? Never mind, I don’t want to know.
https://www.etsy.com/market/kardashians?page=4
People like this don’t realize the complexity of our economy. I haven’t got a clue how a damned cell tower is made, let alone how it works.
Seriously. How in the fuck can Amazon get what I order to me in two weeks, much less in two days?
How does the Post Office sort and route and deliver all that mail? I have clue as to how those systems work.
One works better than the other. AZ vs PO
One works For the other, you mean,
“Bloomberg is an oligarch spending his play money to buy the White House”
Demons better start buying ice skates because Bernie’s campaign just said something I agree with.
Strikethrough “buy the White House”, add “lose spectacularly to Donald Trump”.
Some of my lefty friends on Derpbook are losing their shit over Bloomberg. I won’t bore you with all the details but they believe the media stopped covering Warren, because she is a woman, thus causing her polls to tank (nice confusion of cause and effect) while supporting Bloomberg and/or Biden and/or Sanders because they’re white men.
The people looking at this shit show and doing anything but laughing at the pile of stupid pretending to be better than that dunce orange man gives new value to the term stupid fucks. What is hilarious is that these rubes actually want the machine to enforce the bullshit they peddle to hurt the other side on their own. Laughable.
I happen to agree with Bernie on a number of the problems; his solutions are where we part.
Not a fan of camps and killing the Kullaks & Wreckers?
Good way to put it.
He’s still a national treasure.
How the fuck does teh internet chop my comments up and send them whirring trough the aether and put them back together at Glib HQ?
If I were in charge, we’d be back to using tin cans and string to communicate.
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
*pops open a can of Faygo*
Swiss is a Juggalo?
A clown posse cultie?
I’m not sure, but something seems to have gone wrong with yours because they never get put in the right spot. *shrugs*
[golf clap]
How the fuck does teh internet chop my comments up and send them whirring trough the aether and put them back together at Glib HQ?
Even crazier, for most of their journey your comments aren’t whirring through the aether but are transmitted as pulses of either electricity or light along long strings of either copper or glass enclosed in little plastic tubes in the dirt. How they get chopped up and put back together I do not know.
So I wanna ask a question in case anyone knows anything about it (I am not asking for myself though).
How difficult is a surgery to donate part of one’s liver? Are there any long term consequences or does it fully heal? Is there risk besides standard surgery risk?
DO IT!
Join me…
Again not me…
I BET IT IS.
Donor4Lyfe!
Also, in case anyone knows: if the recipient lost original liver due to heavy alcoholism, but will not drink again after transplant, will the prior alcoholism affect things?
I doubt it. The liver is pretty much the only organ (except for maybe skin) that can regenerate itself. So, if the donor gives one lobe, it will grow back and the lobe will grow into a full liver in the recipient. Standard surgical risks along with the fact that the recipient will have to take anti-rejection medicine for life.
Also, in cases like this, I think it’s pretty standard for the recipient to undergo pretty thorough psychological evaluation to make sure he’s serious about giving up booze since they don’t want to “waste” liver on someone who’s just going to trash it again.
make sure he’s serious about giving up booze – well has been in rehab a couple of time and fell off the wagon each time so it is not guaranteed, although maybe surgery changes things.
Quit being so judgemental about the drinking. This is Glibs! We are very much a liver and let liver place.
*narrows gaze*
Not to be a spoilsporter but my real life bro died from cirrhosis after not drinking for 40 years. There are other body malfunctions that may occur, such as diabetes and macular degeneration (in my bro’s case). We just don’t know.
I quit about the same time and so far haven’t had any liver related problems.
Not a doc but these guys are:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/transplant/programs/liver/living_donor/what_to_expect.html
Looks to be a fairly serious surgery and recovery process.
I thought you had already donated your liver to Dionysus.
Whoever is donating it, gift them some fava beans and a good chianti.
I doubt it will come to that, I was just curious
I think boobs out for Bernie should be a thing. I hope it catches on.
Um… not with the types that go to his rallies, thankee.
I thought he was popular with the “stupid college student with a history of making bad decisions and daddy issues” demographic.
^^^This. There are probably more hot chicks in the Bernie camp than any other Dem candidate.
You forgot the part about them being unwashed and smelling like patchouli. I am a brave man, but not that brave..
Let’s see you say that after Chuck Schumer endorses Bernie.
Paging Barfman, Barfman to comment #23!
Truly…Barfman is a Hero For Our Time.
That’s one way to keep Hillary from ever endorsing Bernie.
Paging Barfman, Barfman to comment #23(b)!
Am I the only one surprised that the women involved in this were all relatively good looking? Those ain’t no bernie bros.
Sucks for him that his self proclaimed ‘biggest supporters’ keep trying to fuck him over. Hah.
They might be fellow travelers in a loose sense, but if they were his biggest supporters they’d shut up and let him get his message out, not try to shoehorn theirs in.
…and make him a sammich.
Somewhere, James Weeks nods tearfully.
Am I the only one surprised that the women involved in this were all relatively good looking? Those ain’t no bernie bros.
But they do explain why the Bernie Bros exist (at least some of them, no doubt).
BOOBS
OUTFOR BERNIE… vs Dicks Out For Harambe.
/Cage Match
I think I saw a documentary on that.
…on PornHub.
Just more toxic femininity. Whip your dick out and you’re some kind of creepy who should be on a list. Flash those boobs and you’re a hero to all mankind.
Well…. yeah.
Bloomberg should read ‘I, Pencil’.
And then take a pencil and shove it up his ass.
Call the artificial inseminator to do the job
If we can get this to happen I would prefer he substitute the pencil with a grenade – minus the pin.
Awfully bold of a muppet with a hand up his ass to suggest others need things up their ass.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
That’s enough.
Both of you.
Also….
Takes one to know one.
Unpossible. Everybody knows that evil kkkapitalists destroy the environment for fun and and the free markkket is not capable of producing better solutions than central planning.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/emissions_accomplished__trump_wins_on_fracking.html#.XkgSkJ9YGnw.twitter
Solutions not centrally planned do not count.
And don’t forget the need to transfer huge sums of American taxpayer money to a bunch of shit-hole countries.
And team blue people (paging Biden!/Clinton/Obama)
Was the sex not good enough, or too good?
https://deadline.com/2020/02/amie-harwick-famed-therapist-who-appeared-in-the-doc-addicted-to-sexting-murdered-in-hollywood-1202861234/
Impressed that Drew Carey was able to hit that and then be smart enough to walk away.
An M.A. does not entitle you to call yourself Dr.
I love when any of the Dems talk about how it will be impossible for any of them to lose to Donald Trump. Just another dig at Hillary.
I thought they were just shaking their fists at reality.
Dammit darkies, just shut up and listen to your betters at the NYT!
https://freebeacon.com/issues/new-1776-project-aims-to-counter-lethal-narrative-of-1619-project/
The White Man’s Burden is ever so heavy.
ding ding ding
Isn’t that the only reason an entity like the NYT would actually pretend these sorts of rewrites of history are actually anything but a travesty?
Drama at a Bernie rally
Usually socialists are not such cucks.
They have to get in power first before they start liquidating people.
Mobocracy
More than 1,110 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican as well as Democratic administrations posted a statement Sunday calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign.
“Mr. Barr’s actions in doing the President’s personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. Those actions, and the damage they have done to the Department of Justice’s reputation for integrity and the rule of law, require Mr. Barr to resign. But because we have little expectation he will do so, it falls to the Department’s career officials to take appropriate action to uphold their oaths of office and defend nonpartisan, apolitical justice,” the officials wrote in a statement.
Nobody ever told them elections have consequences, I guess.
“It’s nonpartisan and apolitical when we use the government as a cudgel to force our political opponents into submission, but it’s petty vindictiveness and authoritarianism when they the tables are turned.”
I don’t recall these assholes speaking up when Lynch passed on prosecuting Clinton for obvious crimes.
Fuck all of them.
^^ this
They really need to just keep fucking off.
Since the AG works for the President, isn’t he pretty much supposed to do his boss’s bidding, within the confines of the law?
I find value on their being some independence in the way Justice is executed. But that’s not what is at issue here anyway. The DoJ pukes, FBI and the Democrats want to make it seem like asking for a lighter sentence than 7-9 years for Stone is some kind of travesty of Justice. What they want is facially unjust.
In other words this is just more political posturing. No one can honestly say that the sentence previously requested by the FBI was just. But they can twist it to make it look like Trump is abusing the Justice system.
So the fact that they get a bunch of protectors who are members of both parties to sign up saying this is horrible is irrelevant. They are equal partisans to prosecutorial overreach. Wake me up when you get defense layers on board.
The thing I’ve heard many many times over the years is that after Nixon the AG’s unofficial, yet primary job is to cover the president’s ass while they do unconstitutional shit behind the scenes when possible, and to legitimize it when not.
So if that is indeed the case, I don’t think Barr has done anything extraordinary. And given the antics that led to this, he was probably in the right.
“Those actions, and the damage they have done to the Department of Justice’s reputation for integrity and the rule of law, ”
Certainly it wasn’t the whole FISA fraud and Senior leadership trying to perform a coup that did that
Andrew McCabe and Loretta Lynch Threatened the NY Field Office of the FBI
Read the whole thing if you still think the DOJ has a shred of credibility – should fix it for you.
Burn Down the DOJ and Start Over
It doesn’t seem fixable as is.
Emphasis added. That is why nobody gives a shit about the former federal prosecutors complaining about Barr. Their history indicates that peons get fucked and the connected get off.
DOJ shouldn’t exist. Fuck you cut taxes.
You mean the constitution doesn’t give the federal government police power?
Oh, wait, I forgot about the FYTW clause.
Most of this column is on the money, but I think he’s deluded:
Emphasis mine. Nope. Barr is another swamp creature. This guy is so close to learning, but gets tripped up on a specific case.
Barr is another swamp creature.
This became obvious when he decided to give McCabe a pass.
Just wait for the next IG report, WTF, they’ll hang ’em all yet! 😉
I love the reasoning provided that claims they gave McCabe a pass so they can turn him state witness against the other cuntes involved. Not how these crooks usually do that work.
From what I’m hearing, they did not give McCabe a pass, they couldn’t get a grand jury in DC to indict. DC needs to be taken apart. Eliminate departments, cut others down, then move departments to places where the rats would never want to move to like South Dakota.
https://youtu.be/UoTU7A7dp6k?t=511
What did S. Dakota ever do to you?
Couldn’t get, or didn’t try?
But of course a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich if they wanted to, so this is still the equivalent of giving him a pass.
It’s DC.
‘Eliminate departments, cut others down, then move departments to places where the rats would never want to move to like South Dakota.’
This story still makes me chuckle:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/453193-scientists-flee-usda-as-research-agencies-move-to-kansas-city-area
Agreed. This is like trying to salvage a gangrene infested leg instead of simply amputating the fucking thing so the body can go bak to having a chance.
A bit of Deja Vu there buddy….
(I’d say hugs to you, but not now that I know your position on them. A quick fist-bump then?
Have meant to say that I admire your pluck / tenacity / continued sense of humor.)
Did not intend it to be anything of the sort Yusef.
You want wishy washy justice? I got your wishy washy justice right here!
This penile crime happened on Shorter Ave?
*snort
So who’s ready for another caucus debacle?
/TW: Politico
I assume the “new” system is:
1. Write numbers on piece of paper, mail those in as redundancy.
2. Email/phone to HQ to report numbers.
3. HQ adds up numbers for immediate reporting then finalizes with pieces of paper in a few days when they arrive.
That’s crazy talk:
Anyone want to guess that the permissions on the Google form are set up so anyone with the link can access and update it?
Time to go sign up to be a volunteer, eh.
Google forms are submission only and include a field showing the user name of the person submitting the info. Its a webform and each submission turns into a row in the spreadsheet. Even if you flood it with spoofed submissions, all they need to do is filter the user name field. Sadly.
Some volunteers who will help run caucuses at precinct locations said they have not been trained on iPads that the party purchased to enter and transmit vote counts.
Never owned one, but the five minutes I’ve used an iPad wasn’t so challenging.
I’ve seen users get confused by a ringing telephone before…
“Bernie, I’m your biggest supporter, and I’m here to ask you to stop pumping up the dairy industry and to stop pumping up animal agriculture,” she said. “I believe in you…” she continued, before the mic suddenly went dead and security moved toward her.
Power to the tatas.
Bernie could have won in a walkaway if he had shouted that while honking the naked hooters. Where is Al Franken when you need him?
You just described Biden’s path to victory?
I’m here to ask you to stop pumping up the dairy industry and to stop pumping up animal agriculture
Not to worry, sweetie. Bernie will put a stop to every industry.
Range report:
As a prerequisite to getting RO training, I shot some USPSA stages, and based on the last 182228 times that classifier has been shot, I barely made it into the “garbage shooter” class, narrowly avoiding the “give up, go home, sell all your guns class.”
IDPA scoring is based on time + penalities, so since you know basically how long it takes you to acquire and take a shot, you can decide to “make up” bad shots.
USPSA scoring is based on scoring rate or “how fast can you accumulate points,” so that background knowledge is much less useful, and basically speeed > all. Except, USPSA penalties are horrifically punitive. There was a bonus target that I shot for maximum points, but I foot-faulted on one of the shots that eliminates all the points I earned, increasing the time I took for no gain. Had I not been perfectly accurate, it would have been negative points.
UCS — the guy who own Saratoga Weapons and did the work on your rail was there. He didn’t do so well.
Honestly, I don’t know that I’ll ever score well with any movement-heavy classifier. I won’t even run with scissors and you want me to run with a loaded gun? Are you insane?
Yay! OT bobbs!
*on-topic
a so-called “red flag” bill that would allow courts to order temporary gun seizures for up to a year
Violates multiple constitutional provisions, not that anyone cares.
?
For pointing out flaws in the red flag law
The constitution says whatever nine aging lawyers want it to say.
Because FYTW.
What would a President need to up the Nazgul to fifteen, and then fill the six new vacancies with “young trans person”-approved justices?
Here is a terrific example of a commie throwing their toys over the SC, complete with stating that Kavanaugh was “multiply and credibly accused of sexual assault” (trigger warning: Guardian!). To be sure!
Somebody doesn’t know what “credibly” means.
“It’s, like, when you put something on your credit card.”
Government Officials Seize Veteran’s Guns in Mistaken Identification In Red Flag Law Execution
Feature or bug?
feature
I like how the Fox video is titled “The unintended consequences of red flag laws”. REALLY??!? Unintended? They even have Fox carrying water for them.
“…temporary gun seizures for up to a year…”
DAFUQ? Dafug iz that?
So some anonymous person calls in to report that ‘Billy is a bad boy who shouldn’t have guns’ – and it’s going to take a year to figure out what the situation is? This should be something like a house on fire – nothing to equivocate about, either he’s straight up dangerous to anybody in the same zip code or some anonymous person just doesn’t like the color of Billy’s pick-up.
And don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining with this “temporary gun seizure” BS. Once the wheels start to grind you know that a confiscated gun will never be handed back to the lawful owner. That doesn’t even happen on TV cop dramas.
Step one of a plan that allows them to confiscate everyone’s guns indefinitely…
It was ok when WE did it because intentions.
Suddenly being faced with evidence of lie, Biden immediately started rationalizing. “What happened was all the unaccompanied children were coming across the border,” he said. “We tried to get them out, we kept them safe, and get them out of the detention center… run by Homeland Security and get them into communities as quickly as we can.”
So, Biden went from claiming he didn’t put kids in cages to saying the cages were there to keep the kids safe. It’s funny how one’s tune changes when actually challenged with the facts. But that didn’t stop Biden from trying to say the situations were completely different.
“You know you’re not telling the truth here about the comparison of the two things,” Biden replied. “Look how quickly we got them out and got them back to families, look at how … we sought the relatives here, we sought to get them into safe communities. We sought to get them out of the control of Homeland Security to get them safe.”
Get them safe? The Washington Post “The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers.” Under Obama and Biden, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the HHS Department, “failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations.”
That was painful to watch. All you have to say to the reporter is, “Well, what would you do with those kids?”
The problem he has is that they used to be less insane abut this shit before orange man made them all go fucking nuts. They are now against what they did only because they want to accuse orange man of being for it and doing exactly what they did (that whole projection thing). If orange man came out tomorrow and said he was against cancer, these cuntes would all scream at him that cancer was god’s gift to humanity.
“Well, what would you do with those kids?”
Well, sure, but reporters are good at saying they aren’t the ones being interviewed here and they aren’t the ones who are campaigning to change something.
Reporters need to continue pressing their questions .
This is surprising.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s sweeping gun, magazine, and suppressor ban was defeated in the state senate’s Judiciary Committee Monday morning in front of a crowd of gun owners and Second Amendment supporters. Four Democrats joined every Republican on the committee in rejecting HB961, which had narrowly advanced out of the House of Delegates just before a legislative deadline last week.
Committee chairman John Edwards joined fellow Democrats Chap Petersen, Creigh Deeds, Scott Surovell, and every Republican on the committee to send the bill to the Virginia Crime Commission for further study, which kills the bill’s chances for this legislative session.
Fuck I hate this contemptible fucktard.
“This weapons restriction is clearly constitutional,” claimed Levine, noting that in a challenge to a similar ban in Maryland, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that so-called assault weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment.
This prick need to take a long walk off of a short pier.
Fuck I hate this contemptible fucktard.
“This weapons restriction is clearly constitutional,” claimed Levine, noting that in a challenge to a similar ban in Maryland, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that so-called assault weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment.
This prick need to take a long walk off of a short pier.
The squirrels hate him too.
he 4th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that so-called assault weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment.
Which directly contradicts the 1939 Miller decision. I thought they were all about established precedent?
Only the righthink precedents. Wrongthink need not apply.
The key phrase.
Its just a stalling tactic until they can hoodwink the rubes.
I’m thinking it is more of an election year ploy. They looked at the amount of people protesting the bill in the various counties and didn’t want to rile them up for the election in 8 months.
That is what I was alluding to. I really suck at communicating.
Northam made an appearance in the overnight links.
Sweet. Eat shit, Coonman.
I am kind of enjoying the daily “remember when Bloomberg did this asshole thing” stories. They seem to be endless.
Yes. Hard to top the modern dance stuff though. Very cringe worthy.
Better boobs for Bernie footage
Might be NSFW for some. And what the hell are they dumping on their heads?
I assume red-tinted milk (substitute?), because milk is murder or something.
How do you manage to get booed for showing your titties?
If they’re cis-tits I think flaunting them like that may be considered cis-supremacist?
Need better tits.
It’s always a good morning when it’s a Banjos morning!
Why do leftists think their arguments are more persuasive with titties? Oh, wait…
Thanks for the zany lynx and for a terrific song! That album cover, though.
Make it a great day!
Afraid to ask, but is there a story behind that album cover?
I assume it was Jello being Jello.
I think it was anti-corruption or something. You know mocking the Black Hand.
They’re lining up attack the Democratic Socialist darling
Strategically speaking, a challenge to one of the most influential voices on the American left also could affect candidates in other, more marginal races. Within New York City, more than three dozen candidates promoting progressive, generational change are taking on congressional incumbents.
In her own district, enthusiasm among supporters for Ocasio-Cortez is unwavering. The Working Families party “knows Ocasio-Cortez will beat any challengers who might arise because she’s fighting tirelessly for her district and her agenda speaks to the people of Queens and the Bronx”, the group said in a statement to the Guardian.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s most coherent Democratic challenger to date is former longtime CNBC correspondent and anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Caruso-Cabrera, who published a book in 2011 called You Know I’m Right: More Prosperity, Less Government, is a skeptic of big government and a proponent of free markets.
Caruso-Cabrera is a relatively recent Democratic party member who registered her candidacy last week, appear to be preparing a more serious challenge as she seeks to take on Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign declined to comment on the challenge. But people close to the campaign said Caruso-Cabrera could be AOC’s most potent opponent at least from the Democratic side, even though she represents a radically different vision of the party.
“It’ll be interesting if she decides to hide her libertarian-conservative ideology,” one source said. “Certain conservatives are upset that AOC beat Crowley and over Amazon so there maybe certain Koch-type figures who have had some role in recruiting her. I don’t think [Caruso-Cabrera] is going to get young Democrats from around the country to work for her, but you could see young conservative activists in the district because they all spend so much time condemning her politics or lusting after her.”
“One of the most influential voices on the left” you say. Really?
Also, the Democratic Party needs to expel Cabruso. It’s not fair for her to hide her radical libertarianism behind an astroturf Koch-funded attempt to unseat a true American visionary.
I doubt she is amongst her peers, but yeah, she does influence people out there in the twittersphere. Funny, sad, you decide.
WTF is wrong with our society? Police and paramedics called to school when dumb kid’s tongue gets stuck to a metal pole.
Either a nice teacher should just have poured some warm water on the kids tongue (everyone knows that) or the PE teacher should have just yanked the kid off. A bit of missing skin from his tongue would have taught the kid a valuable lesson.
But cops and paramedics? WTF?
I guess the kid never saw “A Christmas Story”.
Where’s Flick?
Next he’ll shoot his eye out.
That’s our modern litigious society in a nutshell. Everything is now a crisis. I bet they will also punish the kids that now make fun of this idiot that had his tongue stuck to a frozen pole.
Procedures were followed.
Also, don’t think you should have skin on your tongue. Go see a doc Jimbo.
It should be cold enough up by him, he can just lick a flagpole to get rid of the skin.
Well what would you call whatever it is that covers your tongue?
saliva
Ahem:
But cops and paramedics? WTF?
They were bored because all crime has been solved.
That happened one year to a kid at a local outdoor rink. He decided, all bored probably, to stick his tongue on a metal fence poll. After some laughing at his expense, they got some warm water and poured it onto the tongue to melt it away from the poll. Done in a couple of minutes. No cops, doctors, paramedics….just a bunch of dumbass shinny hockey players.
So this is how you melt a Gallup poll.
“It’ll be interesting if she decides to hide her libertarian-conservative ideology,”
I’ve been interested in the rise of the socialist wing of the Democratic party. This is one thing I’ve found… Different. They clearly see labeling someone as not left a disqualifing trait. Not that the person is libertarian or conservative, but that the socialist leadership has seemed them so. Anyone who is not on board with AOC is not allowed in the club.
This is why AOC says that there is no left party in the US.
She should put her money where her mouth is and found one.
But then she can’t try to take over the working machinery of the party? See also what the “libertarian socialists” attempted in the LP.
Oh it’s obvious that her aim is take over the Dem party, because she knows that splitting the Dems in half would kill both halves. It makes her bloviating about it more humorous.
“Nothing Left to Cut” mixed with “Nothing is too good for bicyclists”
Millions spent on bike racks, still not finished
If I was a betting man, I’d also bet on the fact that even when these bike racks are completed, no one will use them.
The now richer contractor that’s the buddy of the guy that funneled the tax payer money to the bike rack people however will be eternally grateful for the stupid people’s money?
Huh.
Expected that to be here.
We were downtown on Saturday. Gorgeous day and exactly zero bicyclists.
Especially not Jimbo.
THIEF!!!!
Exactly how much (((gold))) did you get for my bike?
Still too damned cold for me to be riding outdoors. I still see a lone cyclist about once a week riding here though.
That is an impressive fuckup even by Govt standards.
I know a dude who worked on a site where the were pouring some piers. They figured something was wrong when it was taking truck after truck to fill one of them. Seems they bored into the sewer line and commenced to fill it with a truck full of concrete. Ooops. Stuff like that usually falls back on the contractor though. Not the taxpayer.
Don’t they mark Utilities there? or is that a South west thing?
Oh they do, it is just they are rarely marked accurately. Especially sewers.
The deeper something is, the less accurate surface locating technologies are. Sewers are usually placed deepest, so this doesn’t surprise me.
Biden really does not want to win.
“When I’m the president, we’ll take them on, remove the immunity and allow those parents who are trying now to sue for the pain and mayhem they have caused,” Biden said on stage at the Tropicana casino-resort. The resort sits adjacent to the grounds where a gunman in 2017 unleashed a torrent of gunfire on a country music festival—an incident that only Biden referred to Saturday night.
Biden, after decrying “carnage in our streets” and the anguish of families whose loved ones were killed in gun violence, said he “will not rest until they’re able to sue the gun manufacturers and get a ban on assault weapons.”
Biden didn’t cite Sanders by name when referring to a 2005 federal law that shields gun makers from liability in most crimes, but said, “some of the people running for office voted for that exemption.”
I don’t see why this is even necessary.
I have told people repeatedly that there was a reason Obama picked him as his VP and then didn’t endorse his candidacy: these crooks knew he was stupid and irredeemable.
Because judges are too stupid to throw the cases out before it even goes to trial?
Because the law says only that gun manufacturers can’t be held liable for the actions of murderers using their products to commit crimes. It’s basically the equivalent of saying Ford can’t be sued because someone decided to use an F-350 to deliberately plow into a bunch of pedestrians. Except with the auto example it’s not necessary to have a specific law because judges are less insane when there isn’t a gun involved.
He’s in the say anything for a vote part of a failing campaign. Warren has been there for about 2 months.
And what a glorious morning it always is as Trump turned the Daytona 500 into one of his political rallies. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not for the politicization of everything, I’m just very pro-trolling.
FTA:
This is a funny tradition. I guess they do know who part of their base is. And it’s appropriate that it was started by the R’s Hollywood man. However much I may like him, I have to admit that Reagan did bring too much theatricality to the office.
Katie Hill✔
@KatieHill4CA
At a restaurant. Trump and a motorcade at the Daytona 500 comes on the TV. I literally don’t know whether to laugh or cry or scream or just sigh. All. We’re gonna go with all.
Calm down. And slip into something a little more comfortable.
They didn’t give McCabe a pass, they couldn’t get a grand jury in DC to indict.
Hmmmmm. I wonder when or if the foreperson will out themselves.
No comments from Tulip this morning? Did I miss them or did we damage her?
Unnhh
Blink twice if you need help.
Have to wait for the chloroform to wear off first.
Libertarian dating?
Doing the research.
According to a report by the New York Post, NYU Professor Amin Husain has been accused of leading the city-wide subway protest that took place on January 31. Hundreds of protesters stormed the subway system and damaged equipment and vandalized walls with messages promoting their cause.
NYU Professor Amin Husain, an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Experiment Humanities, urged his followers to “fuck shit up” during the protest. Husain is the co-founder of a group called Decolonize This Place, an activist group that played a significant role in the subway protests. At the end of the day, the protesters had done $100,000 in damage.
Even New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the protesters. “They claimed to be representing a cause but what they did did not help any cause,” de Blasio said during a press conference. “Vandalism does not help any cause, spewing bile at cops doesn’t help any cause.”
Because of course.
An adjunct. But I guess title inflation exists at NYU too.
He’s a douchebag. A cursory review of his resume would have revealed as such, but the universities are playing the part of the German elite/intelligentsia during the Red Army Faction days and hiding the equivalent of the Bader/Meinhoff gang inside their homes.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s sweeping gun, magazine, and suppressor ban was defeated in the state senate’s Judiciary Committee Monday morning in front of a crowd of gun owners and Second Amendment supporters.
Oh, noes, Intimidation! The wrong people are expressing their political opinions!
At a restaurant. Trump and a motorcade at the Daytona 500 comes on the TV. I literally don’t know whether to laugh or cry or scream or just sigh.
There, there.
*pats Katie Hill on butt*
NASCAR has definitely jumped the Shark, but there is no better example of America, the a stock car race, Beer, BBQ, Good looking people, a shitload of money, and very patriotic,
Pretty much sums up Trump
nice move. But I’ll be honest. If Obama did it, Republicans would be having an absolute cow today.
If NASCAR is the epitome of America, I want to leave.
Bye.
These people work hard and play harder, tickets aren’t cheap, Fuck yourself,
go to a race, then tell me that
Get off your high horse. When did I say it was trash or say people who like it are trash. I object to saying that watching NASCAR was the epitome of being American.
I’m the last person to even be On a horse, much less a High one, But you sound elitest as fuck, or just ignorant of the sport and culture that goes with it, is F1 better for you?
Whatever man. Im not nocking the sport. Id say the same about any. There is much more to being American than partying at your favorite sporting event. I like watching sports too, but things like liberty and family and Enterprise are what I think of as “American”. So Sue me for being an elitist, I don’t give a fuck.
NASCAR is the most unabashedly capitalist of sports. Fight me.
Ironically (?), the answer is actually European Football (yes, soccer).
Don’t watch. Do they wear sponsors’ name all over their uniforms, a la Little League?
Our favorite sponsor of a second-tier NASCAR team (currently Xfinity series) was Boudreaux’s Butt Paste.
That’s commercialism, which is not the same thing. Euro Soccer is far more market oriented than NASCAR
Or any of the major American team sports.
No, all major US teams are part of various cartels aka anti-market organizations.
Cartels are pro-market.
Come at me.
Euro soccer teams do indeed plaster sponsor names all over their jerseys, but the big thing is that they have no salary cap at all and the top clubs spend outrageous amounts of money far in excess of the also-rans.
There’s also no “draft” or any other attempts at “parity”. Which is why the same teams win every year – great if you like those teams, sucks if not….
It’s not like teams can’t break through. See Leicester, who went from nothing to winning the title a few years back, and are now fighting for top 4 every year. (Ed note: Top 4 is important because it gets you into the European Champions League, which is an amazing cash cow. Liverpool had about 100 million pounds in revenue for winning it last year).
Or Liverpool, who were about dead a decade ago. They were literally hours from going bankrupt when they were purchased by (a group led by current Red Sox owner) John Henry. They’re back to being the best team in the world.
And it’s not like teams can’t die off (Manchester United lol, but really clubs like Leeds and Portsmouth).
But yeah, the PL’s “Big 6” are referred to as such for a reason.
To be sure… the EPL is more competitive than a lot of the other European leagues. I’m not betting against the dynasties continuing in Germany, Italy, and France.
They do, a giant ad plastered on the chest and ads on the sleeves, but I am not sure why the marketing aspect of it the reason to push it toward “most capitalist.”
1. No salary caps
2. No reward for finishing last
3. Multiple competitions to compete in
4. Worldwide talent pool
5. Less corporate welfare for stadium building
Not only is there no reward for finishing last, there’s the huge punishment of relegation, which carries with it a severe drop in income.
And I’ll just throw this out there, Aston Villa is sponsored by an Asian gambling company.
Half of the premier league’s clubs are sponsored by foreign gambling companies.
Ask Man City about that.
I think capitalism still frowns upon fraud.
What fraud? Sure, according to the FFP rules it is technically fraud, but disobeying a stupid rule should be applauded, not penalized.
What is more free market than an owner pumping as much capital into his company as he wants in order for it to succeed?
I get why they want FFP rules, but injection of capital should be unlimited.
Man City went from freaking 3rd tier to PL Champions in no time flat. Yes, it took ungodly amounts of oil money to do it, but so what?
I believe the conspiracy theory that FFP is by the big boys to make sure no one rises to challenge them.
I don’t fully understand FFP but it isn’t more about balancing the books? Man City proves that injecting capital IS unlimited. It sounds to me like the owner didn’t inject enough to cover their bills.
That’s the conspiracy theory. It doesn’t hold a lot of weight.
Man City were already punished for FFP a few years ago. This was as much for outright lying to UEFA as it was another breach of FFP.
It sounds to me like the owner didn’t inject enough to cover their bills.
He injected enough, he just lied about the source, because there is a limit (I want to say 30MM pounds per year). Basically, he said that the sponsorship was X when it was really a small fraction of X and the rest came from him.
Ah, interesting.
What is more free market than an owner pumping as much capital into his company as he wants in order for it to succeed?
In any event, they can still do so to win the PL, Carabao (already their prized cup), and FA cup.
In any event, they can still do so to win the PL, Carabao (already their prized cup), and FA cup.
Considering the PL is considering piling on a points penalty and other penalties, maybe not. And apparently the PL FFP is in some ways stricter (I havent figured that one out yet).
Eh, fuck Man City.
^this…..
“We Do Cows”
https://www.agweek.com/business/agriculture/4401378-where-we-do-cows-slogan-came
ABS (bull semen company) near Madison, WI always has a quality sign by the Interstate.
http://archive.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/its-all-bull-abs-global-needs-new-puns–but-keep-it-clean-b99234134z1-252561931.html/
I drive by that sign all the time when I go back to my hometown or off hunting in NoDak.
My kids all giggle for miles when they see it.
If Obama did it, Republicans would be having an absolute cow today.
OMG how much did WE spend on HIS cheap theatrics and ego stroking????!!!
+ Mom jeans….
I don’t know. Does that answer your question?
I have a theory. Trump likes to go to Mar a Lago at least in part because he doesn’t have to defer to the Secret Service “security analysts” quite as much as he does if he goes to an event like Daytona. He seems like a pretty gregarious guy, and being sealed up in the “obligatory” security bubble probably chafes him.
I also get the feeling he’d prefer to have them as far on the background as possible. I also get the feeling that despite his loud, over the top personality he isn’t hated by them like Hillary was reported to be. Trump doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy to tease and verbally torment the people who protect them like she allegedly did. He probably just makes them feel uncomfortable with his brain farts from time to time.
*Trump gazes out windows of the Oval Office, seeing the snow packed landscape some Winter’s Day. Looks over at Agent Williams*
“Kitty litter!”
“I,..um,…I’m sorry, Mr. President?”
“My driver, Chuck, helluva guy, said poor people use kitty litter for traction under their tires when the driveway has snow on it. So do they buy an extra bag, one for the driveway, one for the cat, or how does that work? Wait, how would you know? you’re not poor enough. I pay my people too well. Top dollar. Now way you know. How much am I paying you anyway?”
“Sir, you don’t personally pay us…”
“I could, you know. You do a good job. I’ll see about getting you a raise.”
“I,…uh,…thank you, sir?”
Trump pretty notoriously has an “on-demand” personality, i.e. he’s whatever he feel he needs to be in the moment to get what he wants. He’s a salesman.
Wow, you must be the ubiquitous Source, familiar with the President’s thinking that the news always uses.
I was the source of the Trump Encourages Gorillas to Beat Each Other on Nature Programs story.
e probably just makes them feel uncomfortable with his brain farts from time to time.
And he has a tendency to jump out of the car to shake firemen’s hands. Shit like that probably drives the secret service crazy.
NASCAR is the most unabashedly capitalist of sports. Fight me.
Spend some time at tech inspection and get back to us.
NASCAR (and IndyCar) does not exactly reward innovation or any other rejection of the collective good, as perceived by those issuing directives from On High.
DuPont, Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, Menards, Lowes, Home Depot, Burger King, Taco Bell, King Taco,
Nope, not capitalist at all
Do other sports reject advertising?
We’ll get back to you after this Taco Bell play of the game!
MLS used to have the “Hot Pockets Half-Time Report”. Cracked me up every time.
Agreed, in that respect. They could stand quite a bit less uniformity on the technical side. Get back to their roots and in general stop being the Calvinball of motor sports.
Managed to pass as a normie for 3 hours and have now been inducted into a (rapidly expanding) outdoor gun range. Woot. Now I just need to wait 6 months for the three weeks where it’s warm enough to actually want to go to an outdoor gun range before winter starts again in August.
Been sick as fuck all last week. One kid had strep. The rest of us get tested and come back negative, but we are all clearly sick. We all get better in about a half a week. none of us got strep. WTF?
I had to skip going to the gym for almost a week last week because I refuse to spread the plague. But I start to climb the walls when that happens. Glad to be back today, even if I felt like shit and my numbers were shit.
A whole degree different? Golly Mikey, what does that mean to you? Because in my native language, that is implying its not very big different at all. But maybe I didn’t get the same fancy schooling as you. I wasted all my time on math and science and stupid shit like that.
Here is some Heavy Metal Music about Conan, for you Monday morning
I Am the epitome of a Nascar fan, though I quit watching,
White trash
The thing I don’t get is, if you want to watch a pack of people turn left at high speed, don’t you get enough of that from observing how Republicans act after every election?
Zing!
Ps – most appropriate avatar/name combo for post
Get this man a rimshot!
Consider that stolen.
NASCAR is f$£&ing awesome. Plus, I recall visiting an excellent bar that had the cheapest beer ever during races… and ballgames, and football games (in ‘Murica, where such dreams are realized).
*celebratory burnout*
My step-dad and his buddies all take a couple motorhomes to 12 HOURS OF SEBRING every year. I tagged along once when I was 15 or 16, it was crazy.
The last race I watched was years ago. I went to a Hooters pro cup race. It was the tits.
Rally is superior to all other forms of racing.
Agreed. Although, motorcycle ice racing comes a pretty close second.
Let’s fight
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2019/09/08/naked-on-the-run-a-new-craze-for-racing-in-the-nude/#2b4182ac6f01
Sounds ummm……………Floppy. I much prefer drinking and volley ball as a nude beach activity.
Agreed. I tried to get into Nascar once upon a time because all the guys at the marina I worked at were nuts about it and had pools every week. Don’t remember the buy in. I have even been to a race in Dallas. It was impressive, but I just never got into it.
I never really paid much attention to NASCAR, until one time and ex-GF and I tried the indoor carts here:
https://gofullthrottle.com/
10 laps indoor, at 40 mph, on smooth-finish concrete gave me an appreciation for what they do. Not that I’ll spend an afternoon watching a race, but I can appreciate it.
My dad (huge racing fan) told me one time about all these special workouts that the drivers do, mainly neck exercises to stop them from getting whiplash.
There’s no doubt a physical aspect to it.
Just from those silly carts, I had bruises all over from the 5-point restraint
Ya, those are super fun. I have been to https://www.k1speed.com/phoenix-location.html and we had a blast.
It’s the same damn story all over again.
Taxpayers in an Idaho county shell out $2.1 million after the Sheriff Department’s massive negligence caused the death of a prisoner. After an “independent” law enforcement investigation was done, that investigation was turned over to the Sheriff’s department in question who … sat on it for a few months until they started getting questions about it. They finally turned it over to the local DA … who doesn’t want to touch it because of the close work between the PD and the DA (you’re supposed to be independent, asshole), but is looking for another East Idaho DA to review and maybe lay charges.
I’ll give odds that they don’t find one until gosh darnit, we tried but it’s too late, the statute of limitations is expired. Shame, really.
Bill Barr doesn’t know the meaning of the word “justice”
Progressive prosecutors, coming off one of the biggest years in their movement’s short history, are looking to 2020 with hope of winning key district attorney offices around the nation and boosting their influence with an overhaul of the system from within.
Attorney General William Barr is standing in their way.
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In a response signed by about 40 reform-minded prosecutors from around in the country, the progressives said they “spend every day trying to make our communities safer and healthier.”
“We hold our jobs because our communities put us in them after we promised a different and smarter approach to justice, one grounded in evidence-based policies that lift people up while prioritizing the cases that cause real harm,” they wrote. “Sadly, we are perceived as a threat by some who are wedded to the status quo or, even worse, failed policies of past decades.”
They added: “This is the same attorney general who in the span of 24 hours attacked reform-minded, elected district attorneys for being soft on crime, while demanding his own federal prosecutors lighten the punishment for an ally of his boss. He touts the importance of the rule of law, yet undermines it in the same breath.”
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Especially notable was Chesa Boudin’s victory last year in San Francisco’s district attorney race. Boudin, a Rhodes Scholar whose parents took part in one of New York’s most notorious and deadly botched heists as members of the far left Weather Underground in 1981, pledged to end “mass incarceration” and cash bail while forming a unit to review wrongful convictions. Boudin, who took office last month, plans to move away from prosecuting minor quality-of-life crimes and instead focus on taking on corporations and prioritizing the most serious offenses.
Barr is just a law and order fetishist who hates poor people and doesn’t realize the damage done to society by kkkorporations and private ownership. He wants the enemies of freedom like Roger Stone to run rampant, trampling democracy and oppressing the poors. When will Barr round up all the bankers and toss them in the slammer?
It’s amazing how a group of people I largely agree with can make me despise them. It’s unique talent.
They’re explicitly calling for politicizing the law., when they’re supposed to be faithful executioners of it.
That’s social justice isn’t it? A law that applies differently to whomever the special case du jour is differently than it does to other groups? Basically it is a mechanism to allow some assholes to punish the successful and reword the mediocre under the veneer of some legitimate concern being addressed.
Rally is superior to all other forms of racing.
Close. But I have to go with MotoGP.
We can coexist.
Playing right now:
and tell yo’ hooodlum friends outside
you ain’t got time to take a ride!
Revolting Cocks – Beers, Steers & Queers (Drop Your Britches Mix /Take ‘Em Right Off Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLACKaR6kXY&feature=emb_logo
sometimes there be weird shit on youtube. I am not sure I rate this as music…
You’ve never heard of the Revolting Cocks before? Next, do Ministry or Lords of Acid.
Ministry before they went hXc (get your bubble gum out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFqVRepm6U
We all got together and agreed to pretend that Ministry was founded in 1986
Heh I still like “Revenge”.
I’m over here pretending crusty Al hung it up in 1990
It’s called internalized racism.
“AK Wright feels lucky that, as a doctoral student in feminist studies, she doesn’t have to worry about her dreadlocks prompting discrimination. But in a corporate environment, she thinks her hairstyle might draw more scrutiny.
“I feel like there’s always been an understanding that black hair, the way how it comes naturally, is not professional,” said Wright, 25, who attends the University of Minnesota. “And [a belief that] it’s unkempt and unclean … hair discrimination is just a part of the history of white supremacy.”
A measure before the Minnesota Legislature would ban discrimination based on hair textures and styles commonly associated with blacks, such as braids, locs and twists. The proposal follows the recent passage of laws banning hair discrimination in California, New Jersey and New York to send a message that blacks should not have to conform their hair to Eurocentric standards to be accepted in schools and workplaces.”
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-legislature-considers-banning-discrimination-based-on-hair-textures-styles/567840322/
Nobody cares about your hair unless it’s unkempt and smelly.
Looks “cyan” to me.
Uh… dreadlocks are, by definition, “unkempt and unclean”. That’s how one gets one’s hair to do that.
Dreadlocks come naturally? Wow I learned something new today.
No but you need the oils in your heart to help hold the shape. That and Gerry Curl. Having worked in an area with a large number of people with dreadlocks, they only wash their hair about once a week to maintain the appearance.
Dreadlocks come naturally? Wow I learned something new today.
Yup, just let your hair grow long and don’t groom it, you too will develop dreadlocks.
Yes. If I sleep without my hair being up, it will start matting after one night. It’s coarse and thick and long. At the height of my depression in the early 90s, I would go weeks because I didn’t care. Finally I couldn’t stand it a d went to the local beauty school for them to comb it out. Took HOURS and I paid … $5.
I’ve been led to believe that dreadlocks were in fashion in Scottish and Greek societies long before they became “black hair”.
She should be reprimanded for her culture appropriation.
I happen to agree with Bernie on a number of the problems; his solutions are where we part.
#METOO
Virginia lawmakers blink.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-assault-weapons-ban-fails-in-legislature
VA Dems to Bloomberg: “Send more money.”
Yay.
The proposal follows the recent passage of laws banning hair discrimination in California, New Jersey and New York to send a message that blacks should not have to conform their hair to Eurocentric standards to be accepted in schools and workplaces.
Mandatory conks for the colored folk is kkkorporate policy everywhere, these days. Everybody knows that.
Well, chicken is in the oven.
For whatever reason, the butcher sold me the most gigantic Q-approved chicken breasts. At least they did the butterfly cut and saved me the time.
chicken is not plant based food.
Sure it is. It’s corn-fed.
Chickens are not vegetarians.
Chickens love them some grubs and bugs. When we have backyard chickens and I toss a Junebug in the coop, things can get a little boisterous with the ladies.
But they are dumb enough to count as vegetables.
Also, why are you concerned if my food is plant-based?
Chickens have gotten much bigger. I only buy one breast for two of us because they average a pound apiece, where they used to be half a pound. I don’t like the trend just because of texture.
Buy from a farmer. Way smaller.
So, by your definition, corporate farms are not farms?
Let me clarify.
Buy from a farmer who allows the chickens to forage as they are wont to do. Better eggs, better eaters.
More expensive, but worth it.
Beware silicone implants, you… Them big tittied chickens are faking it!
Yeah they are ridiculous. We try to find 3-4lb fryers and I quarter them up. Cheaper and still fills up the belly
I miss the days when you could buy a large package of wings or drumsticks for next to nothing. Drumsticks still aren’t too bad, but wing prices went crazy.
Blame Buffalo.
Aldi… Whenever they’re clearing out stock, they’ll sell wings well under $1/lb. We buy 10-15 lbs and freeze it all.
You want entertaining racing? Non winged sprint cars, on dirt. It’s too bad USAC killed off the Silver Crown cars. Those guys on a mile dirt oval put on an impressive show.
Flat track motorcycle racing.
Flat track motorcycle racing.
I’ll accept it.
I watched those guys on the mile at the fairgrounds in Indianapolis. I always thought the technique would be subtle, ion terms of weight transfer, and moving around on the bike to set the slide. Nope. They’d come screaming down into the corner, and get up and jump on the seat to break the rear loose. Then get the foot down and saw away at the bars like mad.
Necro this thread but don’t want to shit on Animal’s. Went to Office Depot and Michael’s craft store (location is important, IMO). Saw 3 Trump 2020 stickers in the space ot maybe 20 cars and 10 minutes.
Landslide.