As I go out and about in defiance of the Cower In Place orders, I’m seeing more and more people, and they look pissed. Traffic is returning to normal levels, the Karens don’t hassle me, and the indignation from the Left at people figuring out that they’re being had has reached an almost ultrasonic pitch. The stock market is coming back about as quickly as we predicted, and we’re running out of seniors with intense co-morbidities, which helps the stats. Wait, did I say that out loud? Well, the stats are really helped out if this one holds up, what with the denominator in the rate calculations getting so much bigger.
Birthdays abound with some real notables, not the least of which is my favorite mixologist; an actual great (((economist))); an old school civil liberties advocate; and a prolific Tweeter whom I will always think of as Max Renn.
And with that, we now look at the news.
Isn’t it funny that all the models are wrong but wrong in the same direction?
Because shoveling a trillion bucks into a firepit wasn’t enough. Let’s do it again!
The mayor of Phoenix is a cunte, but she’s at least a consistent cunte.
Wasn’t this a PornHub channel?
Old Guy Music is Junior Brown because, well, you can never have too much Junior Brown. And this is perfect for those with short attention spans.
If we run out of seniors, I’m gonna need to find a new fetish.
ewwwwww….
OMWC can help you with that one.
Just give it some time.
From the NYT piece:
Notice that it’s “stay-at-home orders,” not “curfews, seed bans, and intrastate travel restrictions,” and that the only people protesting same are “right-wing.”
Almost as if the Times has a narrative they want to push… (I know, I know).
“Why do you hate HOME???”
“right-wing”
They should be careful throwing that around. A lot of people might start embracing it.
The Guardian was blathering about “Nazis” but apparently couldn’t find a picture showing any.
The have plenty of pictures of the governors.
*They
Look fat… It was literally Nazi Germany. What are you some kind of lying dog faced pony soldier?
Need more testing and contact tracing – and then what? If testing numbers are high does that mean nothing reopens? Antibody testing – if you test negative does that mean no work for you?
The WHO is out there spouting off that antibodies do not necessarily imply resistance. Technically true, but unlikely. The media has seized onto it because they appear to want the economy to fully crater.
If you even have the antibodies,does that mean you can’t get/spread mutant strains? This shit isn’t ever ending.
At some point, a disease of this nature was going to arise. We’re not really any different than any other animal population other than being able to medicate.
Do we return to the pre-Industrial times because of it or do we carry on and live with the consequences? I know my answer.
Your right to blow your corona ends when it enters my nasal passages. Microbiology is a violation of the NAP.
OMG! All the bees are dying. We’re gonna starve! Global cooling, global warming, climate change!
Those didn’t work so a new crisis had to arise.
There will be more after CV. Governments need fear. Take a look at Biden (if you can handle it, I see so many of my friends when I look at Joe. He’s not just sleepy, although naps should be encouraged)
Libertarians are salivating over the prospect of having a sitting member of Congress at the top of their ticket.
Should have went with “juicing” or “squirting”. Or just go with “dry heaving”.
We are?
Well, if it were Massie, maybe, but not Amash.
Massie for sure. Amash seems like a recycled version of Wyden.
Dry heaving. Libertarians are… annoyed that another Republican is trying to skydive in and use the LP ballot access to make a splash and then abandon ship 10 seconds after the election and never say anything remotely pro-freedom afterward. See also Bill Weld.
Libertarians may or may not be salivating, but Welch and The Jacket sure are.
I’m done with Amash. Plenty of opportunities for Libertarian moments in the past few years – they keep throwing ’em and he keeps missin’ ’em.
Hornberger fine, Amash no way.
Amash =/= Libertarian. If that’s to whom they’re referring.
It seemed to me the only time Amash was pro-liberty over the past year or so was when he could grandstand against bad orange man.
He’s been fairly consistent on 2A and markets, no?
His complete capitulation to the Deep State overrules that for me, in its entirety.
If President, he’d be talking about The Rule of Law as he enforced the gun control laws, because Rule of Law trumps liberty. He’d issue strongly worded statements about the importance of markets, while enforcing the thousands of pages of regulations, because Rule of Law.
If you are in favor of the current American legal system and body of laws, you’re not actually a fan of liberty. It’s basically in complete opposition to liberty.
If you’re not actually willing to restore legal authority to elected officials and to the citizens, stripping the permanent bureaucracy of its power, then you’e just a figurehead, you’re just the guy who they will blame when stuff goes wrong.
Well said.
I would take Amash over Trump any day.
Fight me
I would too, but not one single fucking team member will – red or blue.
Eh, the way he sold out to the Deep State coup attempt left a bad taste.
I want to extend him the benefit of the doubt that he was genuinely trying to curry good faith from across the aisle and establishing himself as an individual rather than a rank and file Republican. However, we all know that there is absolutely zero good faith to be curried from the other side of the aisle, and he was markedly naive to attempt this when he did, or was he? Long game? That’s irrelevant because anyone tarnished with the L word is forever going to be smeared and maligned as a stooge of “evil korporayshuns” and the Koch brother
s(evidently always by people who have apparently never paid any attention to what the Koch agenda was and is), etc. He’s destroyed himself but at least there’s a shred of honor in his individualism, if one is given to extending him just a little scrap of good faith under the ostensibly principled position of “always impeach everyone all the time”.The optics to many of us are that he “sided” with the coup, rather than outline his agreement on the point of impeachment on his own terms, but could it honestly be presented that way? All this and more after these messages.
It was blindingly obvious the case against Trump was utter bullshit. He signed on. That’s enough for me.
^^^^Same for me. Anyone who sided with Team Blue on that farce is politically dead to me. That was an attempted coup, full stop.
Why? Really, Amash has no more intention to burn it all down than Two Scoops does.
Letters to the Local Rag: If You Want To Golf or Shoot You’re Unfit For Society
The ones who complain about closures and gathering must be out and about and minding other peoples’ lives far too much.
The projection is strong here.
Always is.
I’m trying to get my head around the idea that people complaining about arbitrary closures of open spaces are “out and about and minding other peoples’ lives too much.” There’s somebody out there minding other people’s business, Karen, but it ain’t the golfers and shooters.
ZARDOZ has the answer for that person.
Complaining about forced confinement – red flag law! Check.
After I move….will still be about the same distance from my richmond gun ranges, but may need to find a friend with a larger back yard too.
If you want a car are you really fit to drive?
::golf clap::
If you aren’t happy about what you see, stay home
Huh?
Mind your own and your family’s business and keep your own distance.
This can, and usually is done at both golf courses and gun ranges. Stop progjecting.
we are not the quarantine police.
Stated as you complain about people who do not wish to quarantine.
The nastiest breed of projecting little Karen/eunuch man Karen.
We are in this together, like it or not.
You will do what I say, and you will do it with a smile on your face, prole!
Letters to the Local Rag: Comeytose
…ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic
Um, no, exactly the opposite, grey lady. Just not the kind of leadership you’d like to see.
So the lake by my mom’s house is experiencing immigration issues. Back in the day, good Romanian ducks were the main water fowl. Now, some goddamn new comers seem to be out-breeding the natives. I seen these thins years ago when I first visited a mountain lake near Munich, but there were none round these parts until 4-5 years ago.
Based on a thorough internet search, I discovered the are not even ducks at all. they are these fuckers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_coot
They are everywhere. And no, the problem is not that their black. They are just not native. Also at least ducks you can eat. Can you even eat a coot? Who knows? No one ever done it.
they’re black goddamnit. This website need, after the comments start working, a 20 second edit window
New York times was wrong even in 1938
You can eat a cooter, so you can no doubt eat a coot. Try one, tell us how it is. Probably taste like chicken.
Probably the Eurasian coot (Fulica atra). If they taste anything like the very similar American coot (Fulica americana) then you might as well just take a handful of mud from the lake bottom and eat that.
If you eat a coot, you’ll probably give the world a new pandemic.
That bird has flown
At least you don’t have the Hate birds
Coot are disgusting, stinky creatures. If I were starving, maybe I would eat one. Maybe.
Pie – we have ‘Merican coots here around the two small lakes in our development… Lots of them. I thought they were cormorants at first, but no – coots. I wouldn’t recommend eating them – or cormorant, either (which I did have in China. No bueno.)
Plenty of species geographical ranges change over relatively short periods of time as climate fluctuates and changes occur to habitats. Are they considered an introduced species in Transylvania or did they colonize naturally?
Are you going full waterfowl-nationalist? Theys destroying muh native duck cultures! It’ll be coot Shariah law next! Over my dead body! Duck power!
Just want to thank the Glibs for being a please if mental refugee during all of this nonsense. My family just closed on our new house in Lansing when our cunte in chief in Michigan locked it down. The worst part… I can’t buy any furniture, flooring, paint or gardening stuff. You know, all the things you do when you but a new house.
I can’t buy any furniture, flooring, paint or gardening stuff. – well this is the moment to discover the meaninglessness of material things. Do you really need furniture?
If I don’t have furniture, what will I force my orphans to carry around?
Seriously, it’s like he wants everyone’s grandma to die.
Feel free to sacrifice my grandparents.
I just want Social Security to be solvent for a few extra years.
Pie asked me to stay and he told me to sit anywhere,
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn’t a chair
That reminds me of that film about the miserable, boring people in Japan, which is of course based on a miserable, boring book I never read, which is named after that humdrum strum.
Welcome to the neighborhood!
Danke
Making seed sales illegal in springtime (well, here it is time to plant, not sure about Michigan) in a year which has already had food shortages is fucking commie shit.
The canonical ‘safe date’ for planting in mid-Michigan is Memorial Day. Damaging frost is possible up to that date.
With care and adequate protection, planting outdoors is reasonable at or about May 1. This sounds absurd, but we’re still getting overnight lows in the mid 20s.
Snow yesterday, BBQ today. It’s the Michigan way.
Yeah I figured it would be later than here in the deep South, but warm season plants like tomatoes and peppers need to be started indoors in trays weeks before being planted out. I guess you can get seeds online, but this will affect people’s food gardening.
OT: Any Glibs out there have a decent home network setup? I’ve got a local fiber company building in my neighborhood offering 1 Gig symmetrical and want to have my new house wired up before it gets to me. I’m thinking about going with entirely Ubiquiti, but not sure if it is worth the cost.
Fuck off Tulpa?
Yes. Fuck off Tulpa.
Thanks, I didn’t want to have to do that myself. It would have been awkward.
I also add my heartfelt “Fuck off, Tulpa!”, YAD.
Welcome. Enjoy lying on the floor of your new home… I hope there are at least some carpeted spaces.
(Having been in the military, my family has had to ‘camp in‘ more than once. It can be fun.)
Fuck right off Tulpa!
(But let me know if you want to be included in the MN/ND/IA/WI/MT/MI/AZ/VA/OH Honey Harvest mail list! We’re kind of a big deal…)
Oh, and TN!
So, Hobbit got bumped?
Whoops!
And NM!
Thanks! If we don’t make it to Alaska this summer then we plan on making the HH.
I’d love to be added! Thanks!
Shoot me an email at: minnetundra AT gmail dot com!
E-mail sent. Thx!
I didn’t know there was a mailing list! I’d like to be on it, too!
Of course! My email is right up there ^!
Please add me.
moriah at moriahjovan dot com
You’re in!
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Yay! I’m official!!
I have figured out the secret to getting text not to look fuzzy in Pshop after making a jpg. Do the text in Illustrator first and vectorize it. Do not rasterize text. Just. Don’t. Do. It.
I know, all you graphic designers are laughing at me right now. How could I have gone all these years without knowing it?
Naw, I suspected, then I tried it, and it’s so much fucking work I just ignored it. But now I can’t anymore because the fuzziness of my book titles on my website is getting to me.
Also, for clients and their captions for their photos (because reasons, I make the captions part of the image), it would take a helluva lot of retyping and ain’t nobody got time for that, especially when there are 350 photos.
Fuck a duck.
Copulate a coot?
Commenting error, one more try
New York times was wrong even in 1938
https://twitter.com/OldTakesExposed/status/1251206068144877570
also from the thread
(1923) Bathing just a fad.
(1943) TVs #JustAFad
Electricity #JustAFad (per JP Morgan’s dad)
Here’s one for Derpetologist, or whoever it was collecting fake Bee-type headlines:
‘LeBron James Ends Charity Work After Accidentally Helping White People’
@KSuellington yesterday evening:
“This is my favorite by them, really just Evan on his own. He’s so fucked up in this but still plays it perfectly.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFeKYCEGSUw
I wasn’t even ALIVE then…but I’ll take it! And thanks, egould for thinking of me!
Was a long day of teaching but I’m finally off. Late Saturday eve and tomorrow off. Good lord my school is full of shit on its own and The People’s Response to the Virus in Korea is Making Things Worse, but thankfully those six days of work are now over. I’ll take the victories I can. New meds have been helping. We’ll see how they develop.
So glad you’re seeing some improvement with the new meds!
Good to hear, Evan, but not to worry, one day you too will be 2 Evans old. We still need today’s Evan though.
I turn 33 in 10 days. That is a lovely number for someone in my state and….pretty magical in its own way as is!
Full disclosure: I don’t care for my own birthday. I don’t consider surviving to a Certain Date to be much of an accomplishment. The true MVP of that day should be handed to mom. She did all the work.
Also fun: I was taken to laser tag/arcade area for a birthday when I was 11 or so. My friends and baseball team/both in attendance. We had a cookie cake, which I strongly approve of. I don’t care for normal cake or see its appeal. It’s…just not good.
Slices were passed around until everyone had one. Everyone but me. I was upset at the time but didn’t say anything. No one else did either. Birthday boy didn’t get cake. I still don’t *care,* but I do remember it. How could that have happened?! EH. Plenty of folk have things plenty worse off and that will always be true. Then and now and forever. But I have a distinct memory of that event. I still find it curious. Seems very much an odd mistake for my parents to have made. Meh. I still played well, and that’s by far more important!
“I don’t consider surviving to a Certain Date to be much of an accomplishment.”
But it *is* an excellent excuse to get a blow job.
You’re offering to give Evan a blowjob?
I figure that duty would fall to his girlfriend, but if she’s unwilling the guy really should get something.
Hi Evan.
If you like that one you should listen to the whole album. Not a throw away on it.
Stay well, brother.
No idea how to post from a text message but in my old work group text someone just posted a facebook pic of a Navy master chief in full dress blues standing in the surf at emerald isle while the cops yell at him from the beach.
Apparently they opened the beach up after 3 hours of that.
#respect
master chief – a shit cook?
ship cook goddamnit
Well, maybe he’s a shit cook too. It would explain why he’s o oh preparing military food.
This is not the work of a cook
https://youtu.be/W3L5tWudRCs
It’s always a cook.
Tommy Lee is the man
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LE21qQHlOLQ
No, just senior enlisted E-9
Someone said SEAL, but I cant tell from the pic.
If the guy’s white, it’s not Seal.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1251335127331942401
Tell us, O wise microbiologist, if you manage to stay 6 feet from strangers at the beach, which everyone does anyway, then who gives a shit?
HARHARHAR!!! Oh jeez Bette, you’re so wise and brilliant! You sure showed those Deplorables with your cutting wit and amazing Twatter takedowns!!
Fuck off you washed up fag hag.
I wonder if Andrew Gillum (D) had won the election instead if Trump’s buddy and was sitting in the governor’s mansion instead of doing meth with gay hookers in South Beach*, would she have tweeted the same thing? No, I don’t really wonder that.
*Yes, really happened.
Based on my experience, the Karens think that 6 feet is actually 20 feet
Evidently this virus is magic. You can’t get it at the grocery store, but can everywhere else. Also, if you stay isolated at home, you immediately get the virus as soon as someone else leaves their home. Abandon all hope!
https://youtu.be/0p_1QSUsbsM
What a hateful person. Her idiot fans too.
This amuses me: https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/these-men-snuck-into-six-flags-safari-during-coronavirus-lockdown-stay-out-cops-warn.html
They’re not lion down anymore!
They were monkeying around in there, weren’t they?
Vox announces pay cuts and furloughs.
What a tragedy.
Silicone Saturday has some peaks you definitely don’t want to flatten.
http://archive.li/4NgNh
9 19 n 60
I’m surprised by your choice of 9; I would think she seems much too top heavy for you.
15, 29, 39
Dang.
and we’re running out of seniors with intense co-morbidities, which helps the stats.
Here, Polis addressed this yesterday. Yes, after 100 outbreaks in assisted living facilities where half the state wide death count comes from, this genius decided to address it yesterday. That is right, yesterday.
Only just now? Jeez…
Well those people probably aren’t gonna vote for him, so why would he give a shit?
If it were ravaging hip Millennial office buildings in Downtown Denver, it’d be a different story.
Actually, they’re more likely to vote for him, being dementia-addled nursing home residents who can have their ballots harvested.
I’m in GA, so we’ve got a house-arrest order from the governor. The town nearby has a really nice running trail that I use about every other day. On the way back home last night, I stopped by the WalMart to pick up another 4 gallons of milk (’cause that’s only a 3 day supply) and 2 quarts of ice cream, since Mrs. Tree made peach cobbler. 2 observations:
1) the “people of WalMart” thing is alive and well on a small-town Friday night under house arrest, only now it’s wearing a mask
2) census looked pretty much identical to a normal night – the deplorables of are done with this thing
The big positive from last night, though, is that IHME threw in the towel on Georgia. After several weeks of faking the model, they submitted to the inevitable last night and went from “there’s still a giant peak 17 days out” to “it happened 10 days ago”. They’re still using reporting days for actuals, though, not actual death date, so I think they mis-stated the peak by a few days. But still, the obstacle that was “the model” has fallen.
The IHME model, which was better than the London model by an order of magnitude (literally) was still 4X too high. Funny how the models all err in the same direction.
But their latest update for AZ put our peak a few days ago. I’m waiting for me CEO to ask if we can reopen elective surgeries without Imperator Ducey’s gracious permission. I will tell her I am unconcerned with potential penalties.
The comments in Gallego’s tweet. Ooof. Another politician that uses the ‘we follow the science’ line. So why are you there if you’re gonna let medical bureaucrats dictate things? The world is divided between ‘pant shitters who won’t move until they’re told to because they buy into the ‘I fucking love science’ trope and ‘the rest who understand the risks and seriousness but aren’t letting this run amok on our sanity’.
yes
The ideological rot goes very deep.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-researcher-pandemic-genocide-blacks-nih
I bet she’s just a dream to work with.
Ok Hadley
Jesus Fricken Murphy.
That was fucking outrageous.
OK, sweetums. We’ll give POCs first access to experimental drugs. You realize that means we will be testing them on POCs, right?.
I bet she’s a blast at parties.
Lead NIH coronavirus researcher suggested pandemic could be ‘genocide’, said doctors would let blacks die
Planned Parenthood?
I’m old enough to remember speculation about why the virus isn’t hitting the continent of Africa hard at all.
“Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, to “check” their “privilege.””
She doesn’t even congratulate the man in being black but acquiring privilege.
That just means he’s “acting white”.
For the record, even in the people’s republic of VA, still kinda tough to tell what’s really going on (my personal experiences only).
A bunch of places I’d like to hit up are closed obviously, but not a single issue at any walmart or Lowes I’ve visited (other than occasional shortages of a few items). See lots of folks walking around my neighborhood every day that the weather is nice.
Driving over a hundred and fifty miles each day on county/state roads and haven’t seen anyone pulled over or checkpoints (even after work gave us “permission slips” to show).
Looked at multiple houses with my realtor, multiple trips to my storage unit, auto repair appts, etc.
Done a few more other types of appts online, but pretty simple overall.
Now the constant rescheduling of reserve drills is starting to get irritating.
Among other things, a pretty good indication that one size does NOT fit all – but no indication yet that these lessons are being learned by those who need to.
In Suffolk, all the open places seem normal, except for mask wearing and all the restaurants are carry out and delivery.
But the “non-essential” places are closed and I need a haircut.
I’m not an expert on US constitutional law or geography, but I’m pretty sure that’s not your jurisdiction, sweetheart.
I just met with Mayor and she assured me that I have the tightest pants in all of the land…
Outstanding musical selection, OMWC! (Yes , I’m alive. Wifey simmered down and I hid her collection of rusty implements)
::cancels wake::
Save the date.
Do we really need an actual body to have a wake?
Just a shorn toe nail will do in our custom.
Aw, heck no! ::reinstates wake::
Speaking of excuses to drink, it’s always 2 o’clock somewhere!
no
Yusef! How nice to see your shadow!
Yusef, I answered your question last night.
Nevertheless, the 502 errors persisted.
Well I’ve already had some “Boris should have locked us down weeks before he did” talk from a lefty friend today, along with “instead of trying to pretend the government hadn’t spent the last ten years vandalising the NHS”. Madeleine Kearns has pretty good piece up at NRO recently (she’s not quite accurate on the clapping every day AFAIK – it’s just been Thursdays?), but she gets to the heart of the issue. One thing she doesn’t touch on is how much the NHS staff seem to be used as a human propaganda shield, with anyone who questions the narrative or has some genuinely good ideas about healthcare that don’t fit the doctrine of this religion being accused of hating the workers themselves. The talking points are tiresome to begin with; “so you don’t want nurses to get a pay rise?!”, “Tory scum cheered when they blocked nurses pay increase!”, “Tory’s are selling the NHS to Trump!”, “Women and minorities hardest hit!”, “Tories are starving the NHS!”, etc.
I suppose that Boris Johnson and the rest of the absurdly statist, authoritarian and socialist “Conservative” government here should have had magical foresight into knowing what to do, and I suppose all the “vandalizing” and “starving” of the NHS is somehow demonstrable beyond all doubt when statistics are presented honestly in the most comprehensive
context, and when good faith is extended to those who wish to argue otherwise?George Will is right when he identifies the main difference between European and American conservatism being that the Old World sort is about maintaining “established institutions, orders, and hierarchies”, and so it is plainly clear to me that this side of the Atlantic, there really is no hope left for genuinely classical liberal philosophy and policy. No good faith to extend to true enlightenment values.
PS – the Madeleine Kearns piece.
“Boris should have locked us down weeks before he did”
You mean, by cutting off travel from Europe? How very . . . Brexit.
It was a joy pointing out that Germany had shut down it’s borders with the rest of the EU. Seems to have worked for them too.
The whole claim that the NHS was “starved” is a statistical farce to begin with. NHS funding increased by unsustainable levels during the non-recession years of 1999 to 2007, specifically by 0.22 percentage points of GDP per year, starting from a baseline of 4.69% of GDP in 1998, which was already above the 10-year average of 4.5% of GDP. It shot up to 7.59% of GDP in 2009 when GDP bottomed out during the recession. It has remained at over 7% of GDP since then, even though UK GDP has more than recovered from the recession. Yes, it has declined as a percentage of GDP slightly since 2009, but that’s because GDP has recovered rapidly not because of funding cuts.
For the first two decades of its existence, the NHS was funded below 4% of GDP, for the next two decades below 5% of GDP, and now it is crying poverty despite getting over 7% of GDP for its most recent decade of existence.
It’s kind of sad that the “rebellions” against Kung Flu lockdowns are being made political, but I guess we live in a time in which everything is political; literally everything. However, to that end, I think the house arrest has fired up Trump’s base and may end up backfiring on the Dem/Op/Media Complex. Since those fighting for restoring normalcy, economic prosperity and freedom come off looking a lot better, IMO, than joyless, scolding Karens who have become associated with the Dems.
I don’t really buy into the 34DD chess theory, but I think Trump has excellent instincts when it comes to public opinion and media exposure and I think he’s playing this perfectly. Two weeks ago I thought his reelection was DOA, now I think its likelihood is rising again.
Maher agrees with you
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/maher-blasts-media-for-running-panic-porn-during-the-virus-outbreak
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
The same asshole that wished for a recession in order to get rid of Bad Orange Man. Fuck him, even if the words he is currently using form into a more correct opinion.
Basically, like they always do, the Dem/Op/Media complex is letting their hate and TDS get the best of them and are overplaying their hand.
Wow, is it broken watch o’clock again?
That’s spot on. Early in the pandemic I went back to the major news sites (I’d stayed away for years). 75% of the headlines were opinions. I don’t give a fuck about how you feel, just tell me what’s going on.
There is a reason Trump called out a few specific states for “liberation”, including a plug for support for 2A in VA. These are current swing-states.
If VA is a swing state in the upcoming election, Trump will likely win in a landslide.
Libertarians view Amash as potential 2020 game changer for party
How? The party has a history of nominating faux-libertarians.
I don’t think DeWine would have announce May 1 to start the reopening process without the protest. By putting a date out there, he probably avoided them getting a lot uglier. He’s not going to be able to move too slow though. I’m interested to see what the SCOTUS has to say about some of the lawsuits regarding the shutdowns.
I’m sure SCOTUS will dribble out a narrow opinion on a peripheral lockdown issue in a couple of years. Maybe.
They’re going to say that nobody has standing.
So can we finally impeach Trump for train now what he had fomented rebellion in ur
The states?
Treason*
You don’t like the Trump-train?
the whistle goes “Yuuu-Yuuuuuuuge!”
His stark departure from the more bipartisan tone of his announcement on Thursday night suggested Mr. Trump was ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic, and choosing instead to divide the country by playing to his political base.
He used the public/government forum to provide official leadership and his private Twatter account to lash out politically? Well knock me down with a feather.
News you can use.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/sexperts-share-tips-sex-big-21887392
Just the tips?
Coronavirus in Florida: 700th death confirmed, but model now predicts fewer fatalities
I suppose the number of flu deaths is in the negative at this point.
Didn’t I mention at some point in the past that I dated the mayor of Phoenix in high school?
If not, I dated the mayor of Phoenix in high school.
She put out ?
Which mayor?
Kate Widland; now using her Hispanic ex-husband’s last name for political reasons.
Regrettably, I only got to third base; I really wish I would have hung around to get it in all the way since she’s a semi-prominent politico. Puffy nipples.
According to the Wiki, she could be back on the market…..”While attending Harvard, Kate met Ruben Gallego at a charity auction following the September 11 attacks. They moved to Phoenix in 2004, and married in 2010. The couple announced their divorce in 2016, prior to the birth of their child.”
No thanks. She was nice 20 years ago and all, now she’s really leaned into being a (((Dem))) and a graduate of Haaaaaahvahd so being around her is likely intolerable.
Gov’t is there to take care of you. Except when they can’t.
Dayton VA requests homemade masks for veteran patients
(that was supposed to be at the bottom)
If a teacher can get fired and brought up on charges for dating a student, I don’t think the mayor should be allowed to.
Question: if a landlord offers sex in exchange for rent that a tenant can’t pay, and both parties agree, where’s the problem?
By definition, landlord = shitlord./prog
If it is a cougar prowling a young stud she is showing how empowered a woman she is.
If it is a fat, bald, creeper after a young cutie, it is evil patriarchy at it’s worst.
Especially if that tenant is a young, hot Annette Bening
“Landlord coercion has always been a reality, but we’ve never seen anything like this,” Jabola-Carolus said.
Yes, I do believe there is an entire pr0n genre based on this premise.
Smash is the last Hope of the LP establishment.
Also the 15% threshold is obviously there to ensure the two parties total control.
If he does somehow end up with the LP nod I’ll probably have to hold my nose and vote for Trump.
LP establishment
Wretched hive of scum and villainy.
If anyone hasn’t seen it yet I highly recommend watching the SoHo Forum debate between Dave Smith and Nick Sarwark here
That’s why leon said “Smash is the last hope”
The newest life saving technique for corona patients is flipping them on their stomach.
Really? We’re on lockdown for that scary of a virus?
I’m starting to think some riots are going to happen if these fucksticks keep the lockdown in place.
Michael malice had an interesting question:
Would you rather 9 random Dem senators or 9 random members of the media establishment were placed on the Supreme Court.
Would there be an effective difference?
At least WFB offered a telephone directory as one of the options.
Option 3: SMOD.
The Santa Clara County study is a mixed bag. Yes, much higher rates of infection but under 5% of the total population on the high end. If that low, there’s still a long way to go.
It might also be possible that this isn’t as dreadfully contagious as was thought; after all, what have the models been right about so far?
The Kung Flu models have been about as accurate as the climate models. Ironically, both sets of models recommend the same course of action: destroy the economy.
Would you rather 9 random Dem senators or 9 random members of the media establishment were placed on the Supreme Court.
How could you tell?
Would.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/17/motorcyclist-lost-leg-horror-crash-becomes-model-inspire-amputees-show-off-stumps-12565270/
3 word cringeworthies — lick my stump.
Although I still prefer “discrete dwarf rentals.”
To Q’s post about that nutcase researcher (who in my opinion should be fired).
This poses a dilemma for progressives. They’ve taken to loving Dr. Fauci who has become some sort of cult hero to them for some reason for merely being the head of the CDC. Take Ann Curry:
https://twitter.com/AnnCurry/status/1249711022019088384
“Ann Curry
@AnnCurry
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Apr 13
Fauci is saving lives, as he has over many years, despite ridicule, heartbreak and death threats, knowing that protecting people in a pandemic is bigger than politics. That is enough to call him a hero.”
They’re so spectacular shallow it degrades into sloppy sophistry. And these are the damn media gatekeepers!
But here’s the thing. You could be right in concluding the only reason why she says this (and insufferably repeats it is less about ‘loving’ science and more about hating Orange Man Bad.
Now comes this black researcher spewing conspiracy theories which quite frankly should indeed bring into question whether she’s fit for the job.
Curry and her ilk have some kind of problem to crack. People like her have created a faux-principled matrix built on race and not principles. So does she go with the science here? Or does she side with the color of the skin?
They’ll do whatever happens to be politically expedient at a given moment, then change on a dime to another position when that one becomes politically expedient. Principles are wholly alien to them, everything is Team sports and politics.
What presents a bigger challenge to them IMO, is that if Fauci is their new idolatrous icon, did not BADORANGEMAN put him in charge? Would that not indicate that, at least in some small degree, BADORANGEMAN is not, in fact, the absolute embodiment of evil they have been saying he is for 3.5 years?
They don’t care about contradictions in logic.
Not only that, what happens when and if Fauci stands by Trump full stop?
Nah. Fauci is a long time Deep Stater. Trump inherited him.
It’s just proof critical theory and postmodernism have infected and ruined everything. The universities are largely to blame. If we want to take it further, federal student loan guarantees are to blame because they created a surplus of available tuition dollars that the universities were motivated to hoover up by offering bullshit degrees and creating departments full of pseudo-intellectuals.
She may be a great researcher, but her politics will drive her to Lysenkoism.
Public face of the CDC. He’s the head of one of the subunits at CDC.
Kmele Foster’s Fifth Column has an interesting take on phenotype as risk factor. Unfortunately, you have to muddle through Michael Moynihan’s endless babbling and cosmo-signaling with Matt Welch audibly nodding approval to listen.
They always cut off Kmele when he speaks, which makes it incredibly frustrating to listen to since he’s head and shoulders the most intelligent and clearest thinker in the bunch.
I’m too lazy to link to it, but there’s a “think piece” on NBC’s website which is a collection of quotes from Republicans talking about Obama’s executive overreach, in the past. “Whattaboutism” through and through. Obama actually ramming new regulations into effect with his magic pen and phone were just a great man doing the country’s business, and whining about it was partisan hackery of the lowest sort.
Trump, on the other hand, tweeting “liberate Michigan” is a total usurpation of federalism and the Constitution, and only a craven monarchist would dare say otherwise.
Fucking context- how does it work?
OT: Are there any Glibs with decent home network setups? I’m looking to get mine setup and am thinking about using all Ubiquiti products, but I can’t decide if that is the best option for performance/cost.
I think my set-up is fine, but my needs aren’t that demanding. Ubiquiti makes a ton of different products.
I have Ubiquiti access points, a POE switch, and edgerouter, and a few Ubiquiti security cameras. The system is easy to configure, flexible, and has all the advanced features you could want for a home network. You can get an edgerouter and a couple of APs to start out cheaply enough.
This poses a dilemma for progressives. They’ve taken to loving Dr. Fauci who has become some sort of cult hero to them for some reason for merely being the head of the CDC. Take Ann Curry:
Cultists need High Priests.
“Joey Fingers”, “Sundown Joe”, LOL.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/386879.php
Maybe starting to send up trial balloons about how to kneecap him and anoint someone else?
Tom Woods had a good podcast about Trump and the governor’s. It’s interesting that the left only uses the 10th amendment when it allows them to be more tyrranical
Power is the end, not the means.
And libertarians are usually averse to power.
They don’t care about 1A or 2A.
Yes, the left uses the 10th amendment when it suits their purposes and ignore it when it doesn’t. I suppose that is interesting to some, but not to me.
I think someone mentioned here the possibility of this happening.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/battle-lines-drawn-texas-opts-for-liberty-while-washington-state-makes-liberty-illegal/
To wit: Team Blue states keeping everything shut down purely in the spirit of ORANGEMANBAD and thus doing further damage to their economies whereas Team Red states will open up sooner. Team Red states will likely experience some uptick in infections and get raked across the coals by the Dem/Op/Media complex for it, collapsing Team Blue states will be praised as putting people before EVIL PROFITZ. And the exodus from Team Blue states will accelerate.
Kind of my idea, only with Machiavellian Trump (stop laughing) orchestrating it.
As if the folks instituting house arrest aren’t playing politics with this.
Same strange pattern up here. The red Liberals are calling to keep things shut down whereas Quebec – led by a pro-business populist party – is agitating to open up.
And the exodus from Team Blue states will accelerate. – thus turning red states blue which is the plan all along
Humpty Dumpty School of Rhetoric
Pandemic response should be based on sound science and medical consensus, backed up legislation needed to ease the damage caused by an economic shutdown. It should not be led by partisan or financial interests in the state’s — or nation’s — capital.
While Wednesday’s protests were ostensibly aimed at what organizers call “excessive” quarantine rules, some of the protestors may have been more motivated by politics than a nuanced disagreement of the science or even the economic costs of the additional restrictions
Yeah, okay, we get it. Anybody who disagrees with you is a big stoopid ignorant meanie and loves President Cartoon Villain.
IFLS so damn much I caught syphilis from it!
Sorry, Einstein fans, another example of an uncredited woman behind the scenes:
While Albert Einstein is celebrated as perhaps the best physicist of the 20th century, one question about his career remains: How much did his first wife contribute to his groundbreaking science? Mileva Marić Einstein was a brilliant scientist, but nobody has been able to credit her with any specific part of her husband’s work. Still, their letters and numerous testimonies presented in the books dedicated to her(1-5) provide substantial evidence on how they collaborated from the time they met in 1896 up to their separation in 1914.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-forgotten-life-of-einstein-s-first-wife?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Hence, how you get a Corbett.
I don’t think this is much of a revelation. Do I think women maybe got shafted to some degree over the years, probably. There have been great composers like Fanny Mendelssohn who perhaps could be more popular. On the flip side, Shelly, Nightengale and Wollstonecraft do occupy large spaces in the popular conscience. Same with Marie Curie and Marie Pasteur.
But this thing of insufferably needing to ‘see?’ in order to flip the script is wholly anti-intellectual and foolish in my view.
The Kung Flu models have been about as accurate as the climate models. Ironically, both sets of models recommend the same course of action: destroy the economy.
No kidding. In a sane world, the overwhelming response would have been, “Okay, Chicken Little.” And we would all have gone on with out lives. The effect would have been real, but civilization would have survived. This way, I’m not so optimistic.
“When you stand in the Halls of Judgement it shall be deemed a suicide.”
that should read, “with our lives”
But you probably figured that out.
Whitmer, meanwhile, is pleading with Michiganders to stay the course. Complying with the governor’s strict shutdown orders, she says, is the quickest road to normal.
Unquestioning obedience is the bedrock on which this nation was founded. Why do you hate America?
Good morning Old Man!
The tide is turning. Yesterday Costco was full of people not giving a fuck. And smiling. Neighbors have been openly violating the SD mandates. And smiling.
There was a pretty good protest at the Governor’s mansion yesterday. Lots of pissed off people. Still smiling.
Amash isn’t a libertarian. Why don’t libertarians find a libertarian for once? Radical, yes, but worth a fucking try!
Junior is tremendous. Thanks for that.
I see a little light!
Have a wonderful day, people!
Aaand the wind-up monkeys persist in beating their little tin drums
On 28 March the Guardian exposed the missing six weeks lost as a result of Trump’s dithering and downplaying of the crisis when the virus first struck. Jeremy Konyndyk, another central figure in the US battle against Ebola, told the Guardian that the Trump administration’s initial response was “one of the greatest failures of basic governance and leadership in modern times”.
Now that the US is contemplating a shift into the second phase of the crisis – tentative reopening of the economy – scientists and public health officials are agreed that three pillars need to be put into place to manage the transition safely. They are: mass testing to identify those who are infected, contact tracing to isolate other people who may have caught Covid-19 from them, and personal protective equipment (PPE) to shield frontline healthcare workers from any flare-up.
A chorus of expert voices has also begun to be heard warning that those three essential pillars remain in critically short supply throughout the US. Less than a month after the Guardian’s exploration of the missing six weeks, the chilling recognition is dawning that the country is heading for a second massive failure of governance under Trump, this time on an even bigger scale.
Unless testing capability is dramatically ramped up and a giant army of health workers assembled to trace the contacts of those infected – right now – the consequences could be devastating.
I thought they wanted humanity to be wiped out. If President Cartoon Villain does it, it is by definition bad and wrong.
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1251254988669628421
I have no idea what that means.
Hunker down. The Nerd Riots are coming. Comicon has been cancelled.
That isn’t until July 23–26. The “curve” should be a pancake by then.
Riots require testosterone.
Nope, just a mask, bikelock and the desire to yell RHEEEEEEEE.
Rally to Reopen NH is today.
It’s snowing in New Hampshire. The roads where I live are wet. The snow is only sticking to grass, and even that is melting.
I will be at the rally. I’m waiting on a friend of mine to get here. As soon as he arrives, we’ll leave for Concord.
I’ll have a bandanna over my face for reasons not related to Lil Rona. If any Glibs head up to Concord, look for a really fucking ugly weird dude with a bandanna over his face and you’ll probably find me.
This sexy/weird looking dude is going to the Tallahassee one today. Probably wear a yellow safety vest, just for shits and giggles.
I’ll look for you in pictures! Best of luck today.
Wasn’t this a PornHub channel?
Yes, though that channel has more than “landlords” interacting with “tenants”. There are also “real estate agents” trying to “close” a “deal”.
Angela White had an amusing performance on a video for that channel where her “landlord” was planning to throw her out because of noise complaints from her neighbors.
Bringing in the big guns
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s team is speaking with former first lady Michelle Obama about winning her endorsement and having her play a role in his campaign, according to a report.
Former President Obama endorsed Biden last week soon after Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race and Biden emerged as the apparent Democratic nominee.
While the former president is still popular with his party, Michelle Obama’s star power among progressives may well eclipse her husband’s.
“We know what pretty much everyone in America does: Michelle Obama is probably the most beloved member of the Democratic Party and her support is a big deal,” a Biden aide told The Hill. “Any future announcement would reflect the incredible impact her voice has.”
If Michelle tells me to vote for Joe, you better believe I’m voting for Joe.
I. don’t. get. it.
If you want to keep your arms, it’s the way to go.
She’s the most powerful woman of color in America next to Oprah, of course he’s going to try to get her endorsement.
I’m wondering who the GOP equivalent of all these hacks the Dems bend the knee to every election. Sharpton, for example. Now the wookiee.
Obviously not Trump’s thing – but whose ring do they kiss in 2024?
Used to be Limbaugh.
Who are they kidding? They want her for VP. And when it happens, Hillary’s head explodes in 3…2…1…
Anybody else getting lots of “Invalid Date” messages where time and date of posting is normally displayed?
Man, this WordPress sh*t’s getting weird.
Speaking of imperious leaders
Food sector workers — from farmers to delivery drivers — will now be granted at least two weeks of paid sick leave, Gov. Gavin Newsom said during his daily briefing on Thursday.
“The people who grow our food, the people who pick our food, who pack our food, deliver our food, cook, serve and sell our food,” Newsom said, will be granted the supplemental pay if they contract COVID-19 or if quarantine orders inhibit them from going to work. The move, he said, will ensure these workers are supported and the state’s food supply chain stays safe.
What the everloving fuck?
How does that work, exactly? Is the State of California going to cover those paychecks, or has Newsom waved his magical sceptre and issued a royal edict compelling the owners of those businesses to pull money out of their asses?
Hey Mayor Dumbass…the model predicting doom was updated to show AZ peaked last week—12 fatalities on April 5.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/arizona
Which is great because on April 5th that same model predicted 40 deaths on April 26.
I saved all of the projections (they have a data download) from March 31 onward. The mean projected deaths for Arizona on April 16 was 27.111, with a range between 16 and 45. Actual count was 8.
Spain authorizes military planes to spray disinfectant over cities:
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/spain-authorizes-military-planes-spray-disinfectants-over-cities
It’s an interesting step to take but does that shit even work?
“Disinfectant” – yeah, that won’t backfire at all. What could possibly go wrong?
Cue the chemtrails conspiracy theorists in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
I suppose it depends on what the disinfectant is. If it actually does kill microbes I can’t help but assume it will kill bigger things while they’re at it.
Zyclon B?
James Woods two best movies are Cop (1988) and Salvador (1986).
This is known.
Salvador is great. True Believer is one of my favorites.
Casino
Videodrome.
Diggstown
Good choices all, but I heartily recomend Cop, a nothing puts Wood’s manic nature on display better. Nor lets him showcase his intellegence without preening.
Good choices all, but I heartily recomend Cop, a nothing puts Woods’ manic nature on display better. Nor lets him showcase his intellegence without preening.
Insight
America’s small-business sector is burning. Congress sent a fire crew to rush in and bring its occupants to safety. But to ensure that Uncle Sam didn’t send more help than was needed, lawmakers put a tight cap on the number of engines authorities could dispatch to counter the blaze. This week, that limit was exceeded. And although everyone in Congress opposes letting small businesses burn alive — and believes the cap on firetrucks should be raised — they can’t agree on the precise terms of new mom-and-pop rescue legislation. Specifically, Democrats would like to take this opportunity to also dispatch more lifeboats to America’s shipwrecked states and cities, while Republicans would prefer to let them flail about in the water a bit longer. And for the moment, the GOP has decided to prioritize letting municipalities drown over saving small businesses.
Or, in more precise (and less figurative) terms: The Paycheck Protection Program — which provides small businesses that have been adversely impacted by the coronavirus crisis (i.e., just about all of them) with forgivable loans that they can use to cover payroll, rent, utilities, and other expenses — exhausted its $350 billion reserve this week, less than 14 days after the program took effect. Republicans want to raise the cap on the program by $250 billion. Democrats would like to do that too. But they also want to send another $150 billion in relief funds to states and cities, increase food stamp benefits, and send $100 billion in aid to hospitals and community health centers. And they don’t trust their Republican colleagues to approve such funding unless doing so is the price of getting businesses what they need.
New funding for state and local governments is especially critical. Since the U.S. federal government can print the world’s reserve currency, and borrow at near-zero interest rates, it can painlessly sustain government services — and stimulate consumer demand — through deficit spending. But states and cities can’t do any of those things. And yet, they are responsible for financing and implementing the bulk of public education, policing, pandemic response, and countless other core public-sector functions in the U.S. Right now, their costs are skyrocketing as need for health-care and state-based aid programs rises, while their sales and income tax revenues are cratering as commerce grinds to a halt. If the federal government does not use its money-printing power to sustain state governments’ budgets, then they will be forced to lay off public workers and make draconian cuts to service provision — measures that will deepen the present recession and delay future recovery.
Which would be terrible for Donald Trump.
On the bright side, this is bad for President Cartoon Villain. That’s got to worth something.
And, of course, once we’re finally rid of Stingy Orange Man, we can return to or previous program of unrestrained spending and government expansion. A little pain now, a big gain later.
Quelle horreur!
I love the way they throw out the word “painlessly” – after all, devaluing currency is totally painless to …some.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Don’t know if this counts, but bulky item pickup is suspended and I have bulky items!
I maintain I could cut 25% from the Tucson city budget and nobody would notice.
Except the useless bureaucrats fired from the closed departments, and the parasitic sycophants who feed off of those departments. Net impact on economy – positive. Recession – shortened. Future recovery – accelerated.
R C Dean for Imperator in 2020!
Already journalists across New Jersey are being furloughed and laid off. Entire newsrooms will close.
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Oh dear, you mean it didn’t occur to you that aiding and abetting the destruction of businesses across the state, might have a negative impact on YOUR business? Good luck finding contributors, you have bankrupted a good number of them.
#LearnToCode
“Who knew shutting down our advertisers would have any effect on us??”
British workers reject fruit-picking jobs as Romanians flown in
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/17/british-workers-reject-fruit-picking-jobs-as-romanians-flown-in-coronavirus
I thought they just flew under their own power in bat-form.
Question-
Does UV kill the coronabug? I have seen things in the past about using Ultra Violet light/radiation to sanitize/disinfect, including a story about a robot which goes into an unoccupied hospital room and blasts the shit out of it with some sort of high intensity UV light.
UV should kill most bugs if strong enough
I’m not qualified to answer that BUT, I did find this interesting piece at BBC Science: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light
It’s about three weeks old so I don’t know if there has been further research on sunlight. But I found the explanation of the three components of UV light really interesting.
Yes, it does, when applied in sufficient strength for sufficient time.
Yeah, we’ve got those robots. We got them for C. diff, which is much harder to kill, being a spore and not a pansy-ass virus protected by a layer of . . . fat.
Maybe we’re closer to herd immunity than we think?
Sobering why? Because your power bender is coming to an end? I don’t get why a result that shows the virus isn’t that bad would be sobering…oh, wait. Yeah. The power bender.
Why are these results always “sobering” or “concerning” or “alarming” to these people? Shouldn’t they be celebrating these results? I know every time I read another one of these stories, I’m grateful that so many people can become infected with minimal (or without any) symptoms. Infection doesn’t kill you — your immune system overreacting is what kills you.
You forgot “grim”.
Seems to be a serology test based on antibody presence based on the company’s page
https://www.biomedomics.com/products/infectious-disease/covid-19-rt/
And also runs into the problem that accurate serology testing has had:
Positive results may be due to past or present infection with non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strains, such as coronavirus HKU1, NL63, OC43, or 229E.
Anyone link to the Boston homeless shelter thing yet?
https://www.boston25news.com/news/cdc-reviewing-stunning-universal-testing-results-boston-homeless-shelter/Z253TFBO6RG4HCUAARBO4YWO64/
397 people tested, 146 positive for the virus – all asymptomatic
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20059618v1
Would like to see more about their methodology, like % that refused testing.
Well ok then.
Sixty-four of the participants tested positive – a “sobering” result, according to Thomas Ambrosino, Chelsea’s city manager.
Walking dead.
Thanks for that link, Raven Nation.
Good… *checks clock* afternoon, Glibs. My sleep pattern is really off.
Isn’t it strange that all of these studies that are testing for antibodies are coming out with an infection rate far higher than what we have been told? I really hope we can get some large roll out of these tests in the next couple weeks so that it becomes more and more obvious that shutting down the economy was a terrible overreaction.