So we’re all supposed to wear masks now, not that it’s legally enforced here (bless Arizona). The issue is the Karens, and one place they’re tick on the ground is Trader Joe’s. My last time there, I was hectored by a gaggle of them for wanting to kill myself and everyone else. I don’t think they would have been amenable to a statistical argument, so I just smiled sweetly and asked to see their tits. This week, following orders like an obedient little Citizen, I fashioned a home-made mask following the instructions given on many government websites.
The fact that I fashioned it out of rubber bands, staples, and a sanitary napkin also did not endear me to the Karens. Ah well, there’s no pleasing some people.
Birthday highlights of the day include the Mother of the Blues; the Father of the Impenetrable; true Evil Incarnate; John Waters’s favorite filmmaker; a delightful sci-fi writer; one of my favorite authors, and recommended if you’re feeling suicidal; the Father of Harbor Place; arguably the funniest woman of the 20th century; and a woman who is characterized as dumb, conniving, and pure evil, which would make her consistent with Michelle Obama and Nancy Reagan.
If I duplicate stories, it’s because Spud and Digby vacuumed up the good ones and I’m past caring.
“Screw you guys, I’m going HOME.”
And apparently not everyone is aboard the train.
Someone is more optimistic than I am.
This would have made my sanitary napkin mask perfect.
If you apologize to screeching morons, you deserve whatever you get.
Old Guy Music is a chestnut, but people, this is going to happen again, and likely soon. It’s a pity that the people who made this song are now on the side of the State.
The “Father of Harbor Place” link is the same one as the author for suicidal people link.
Today is also the 80th birthday of music producer Giorgio Moroder. He also won three Oscars; the first was for the score to Midnight Express, presented by an embarrasingly drunk Dean Martin and the ever-hot Raquel Welch.
(The other two Oscars were for the songs “Flashdance… What a Feeling” and “Take My Breath Away”.)
Sweet. I’ll celebrate his birthday over all those losers Old Man posted.
Yeah, somehow I have a feeling Moroder is not OMWC’s idea of Old Guy Music.
You feel hate
you feel hate
you feel hate
you feel hate
you feel hate….
I feel love
I don’t feel any- oh no, there it is!
And another so I don’t waste the rush.
There it is.
Or is it there?
The Number 1 Song in Heaven https://youtu.be/WYHrKaxhLSY
love that album
Not my favorite Sparks, but it’s ok. I liked “The Chase” you posted above. Kinda makes me want to watch Midnight Express, but then… Midnight Express. Too heavy for a lazy Sunday.
So we’re all supposed to wear masks now, not that it’s legally enforced here (bless Arizona). – here it is not mandatory but I wear em anyway just in case
I am banned (by the wife) from doing the shopping because I wore my cold war era gas mask to costco
I wrapped an Orioles hoodie around my head, logo out, in a visit with Mrs. Pi a couple weekends ago to the Home Depot in Shrewsbury.
She has since selected something she finds more suitable.
a Yankees hoodie?
Is York County really big enough for two Glibs?
Probably not.
Fortunately I was just visiting from South of the Border.
Work has instituted a policy that everyone must wear some kind of mask. I told them if they could find me an N95 respirator I’d immediately take it to the nearest hospital, and that I wasn’t going to wear anything not rate to stop viruses and they could send me home if they wanted. That was a week ago. Since then I’ve worked about fifty hours on site. No mask. Fuck the morons in their home-made hazmat suits thinking that tying a rag over their face is doing anything effective against something as small as a virus.
I’m a long-time fan of the New York Times. Jeer if you want but I’ve long admired their reporting, their professionalism, their steady hand, their first draft of history, even if I don’t share the paper’s center-left political bent.
That’s nice.
Walter. Duranty.
their first draft of history
As if canaries read.
Never use the NYT to line the cage if you have a parrot.
their professionalism – that is the first thing that comes to mind
I hateTucker’s bow tie, and he had a serious bout of TDS early on, but he’s always seemed to me to be solid libertarian economist.
Morning OM,
“He once said he felt as though he was writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men”
So, an early Glib?
Jeff Tucker is truly an optimist and I hope he’s right but never “over estimate” the American public. I think some of the people, some of the time may be more accurate, until the school system destroys even that tiny spark of hope.
That’s the positive end of this: with more kids being home-schooled, perhaps they’ll get an increased awareness of the soul-crushing prison that school actually is.
Authoritarian Germans?
I’m shocked.
On Trump’s complaint: What did he think was going to happen?
I hope Kim isn’t dead. I will miss someone around that I can call ‘Porkchop’.
*Kudos to Hayeksplosives for her top shelf pun last night – someone asked who will get the throne now? Her answer “likely the next of Kim”
I did laugh
Oh, shut up Bernie. We already know you have no balls and will slobber all over the DNC knob at every opportunity.
In six months we will hardly remember any of this.
Well, Bernie has the Armenian vote locked in.
Hair cutters to the gulag.
Diseases in wild horses….so it’s a day of the week that ends in Y
OMWC, first put on your maxi-pad then pull the whole panty hose over your head and make sure the crotch is over the pad. Let the legs drape down like long, floppy bunny ears.
You might start a new fashion.
Suggests Confederate symbol. So, not a Confederate symbol.
As noted on this site many times, the only thing spreading faster than the Flu Manchu is the Stupid.
first put on your maxi-pad then pull the whole panty hose over your head and make sure the crotch is over the pad. Let the legs drape down like long, floppy bunny ears.
One of the scientists who works for me (a female) suggested a splash of ketchup on the pad.
Try this again
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20069567v2
if there is one fucking thing that can suddenly ruin my afternoon is looking for something in the house and not finding it. I cannot conceive where the fuck i could have put it and it makes me lose my mind.
Be glad you arent me. Car keys, wallet, glasses, that thing I just had two minutes ago….
I try to make a habit of putting certain things in certain places so I know where to look by reflex but occasionally…and by occasionally I mean five times per day. My wife is tired of hearing me wander around the house cursing.
Oh, and my goddamned flashlight that hasn’t turned up for over a month.
Isn’t it amazing that you find other things that have been forgotten? While I’m looking for the current “lost” item I find stuff that I’d forgotten that I’d even had. I save that to my memory and walk out of the garage, having forgotten why I even went out there .
Memory trick: If you go into a room to get something and forget why you went there in the first place, rather than try to remember go back to the room you were in when you decided to do that thing. It will pop right into your head.
I wish I had a trick for remembering where I put the screwdriver the last time I used it.
Which makes me think of something else.
Is it just me or when you are looking for a Phillips head screwdriver why can you only find flatheads, and vice versa?
What the hell is that?
Packing to move. Just found the passport I last used in 2016 and reported lost in 2018. Nuts.
Well, hopefully it’ll make applying for the new one a little easier if I get around to that this year.
This is why I have a half-dozen flashlights in various locations.
Nightstand, hanging by front door, cigar box, jacket pockets, bakers rack, etc.
and a tube of lube near each one?
EDC stuff goes to the same place everyday. A little cigar box that stays in the same spot. The only stuff that doesn’t go into the box is my pistol & extra mag. And my phone sits on a charger right next to the box.
the thing is that I put things in their place 99% of the time. which makes it worse for me when i cant find it.
I have this moments when my brain gets distracted by something else and I just put the thing somewhere else.
My worse distraction issues come when I have to take something with me leaving home. It happens when I have things on my mind is that i put ti down to tie my shoes and in those 15 seconds i forget to pick it up again.
Stuff that has to go out the door with me, I either hang on the doorknob or put it on the ground in front of the door so that I will literally trip over it on the way out.
My wife and I have had a few knock down drag outs about that exact thing. I set something important in a conspicuous place, she moves it, I forget it.
The part that gets me ragey is that she doesn’t actually put the thing away. She moves it to an inconspicuous place where clutter collects…. The clutter collects there because we’ve forgotten about it all… Because it’s not out in a conspicuous places.
*gets a drink to reduce blood pressure*
A few months ago I was thinking about “A place for everything and everything in its place” and I realized that nobody actually ever emphasizes the “a place for everything” part.
So since, I’ve tried to evaluate a thing and mindfully give it a home. If I can’t do that, I evaluate how needed it is. If I’ve got clutter piling up in a place, that’s stuff I don’t need or rarely need. Whether I toss it depends on how easily/quickly/inexpensively I can get a replacement if I need one again.
I have a desk which I bought because it is almost a copy of the desk I had in my room growing up. I had tried to keep all my daily stuff on top but for some reason my wife always moves other stuff in front of it so it is out of reach. It has become more of a storage place for long term important stuff – but I still need someplace for my wallet, keys, change purse, sunglasses, etc… She doesn’t like the place I do put those items but leaves me little choice.
I don’t touch my husband’s areas. (Heh, I mean, yeah I DO, but not the areas we are speaking of.) I also don’t mess with my kids’ stuff even if they make a mess nor do I go in their rooms*. I tell them to put their stuff in their rooms and close the door.
My mom used to straighten my dad’s desk and try to sort and file and whatnot. He hated that. He liked the way I did it, which was to pile all his papers on one side and put the bits and pieces in places I thought would be intuitive for him. Desk still got cleaned, and I understand why he wanted his papers stacked willy nilly. When I do that for myself, it’s because I need those papers, but forgot where they were and I need to go through them one by one to find out where I am in whatever work I’m doing.
The house is cluttered as a result, but we just don’t touch each other’s stuff around here.
Forgot the *
*It’s because we have the luxury of space so that I don’t have to see the messes their rooms are in. When we move, most likely to a place with a lot less space, I’ll be able to see their messes and clean, especially with XY, curb his hoarding a bit. They hate it when I purge their stuff (haven’t done it for years, though), but they are noticeably calmer and more organized for a while after I do.
Large house = I don’t have to see their messes, so I don’t care.
Small house = I will be able to see their messes and it will drive me batshit insane.
Welcome, now you know what you will face in the future but at that time you won’t care if you do find it.
/Experienced loser of things
The picture of Kent State is a reminder of the past, could be the present and may well be the future. Let’s hope that Tucker is right and I’m wrong. In this case I won’t mind being wrong.
People don’t rebel because they have too much to lose. If they succeed in completely crushing the economy to get rid of OrangeBadMan that will change.
I certainly hope they relent before it gets to that point.
This. They have a few weeks more of apocalypse larping before this whole thing goes from really bad freak event to the beginning of an era of suffering.
Every day and week from here on out will be progressively more turbulent until they fully open the economy back up. I stand by my prediction that any state still substantially restricted by memorial day will see violence.
The hangover from all this spending is going to be horrendous. Even if we opened up tomorrow, the damage has been done.
Don’t say hangover.
I had three. Now I’m back on coffee. *Finger taps temple*
You are likely saving lots of money from cutting entertainment. Feels good, doesn’t it? Regret not having saved more to prepare for these days? This will change dramatically. Those mattresses are going to get stuffed with cash in the coming year or two. It’s all fine: savings leads to investment, provided people have an ironclad promise that nothing like the monstrous destruction of the last month will ever occur again.
Take a seat, Shirley. I’ve got something to tell you.
Universities in Michigan are already saying no fall classes. These people are nuts.
It looks like that ghoul they have for a governor is using her power punitively against the revolting peasants.
Do they really want to let people live in the real world for too long? Students will start wondering why the fuck they went to college.
Universities are starting to look awfully unessential
But at least for now, 5 out of 4 women will not be raped.
Lakewood (Ohio, small suburb known for large leftist voting blocs) has announced they’re staying shut down through May, and have started cancelling events in June.
if there is one fucking thing that can suddenly ruin my afternoon is looking for something in the house and not finding it. I cannot conceive where the fuck i could have put it and it makes me lose my mind.
You have gremlins in Transylvania, too?
Today seems like a good day for some take out bbq.
https://m.facebook.com/meatwagonbbq/
Mmm…smokey…
Land of the free
San Diego County police say three people protesting beach closures were arrested in Encinitas, California, on Saturday for violating health orders. The arrests occurred hours after the county announced plans to roll back beach restrictions and the city of Encinitas signaled its intention to reopen city beaches.
Protester Crista Anne Curtis, of Encinitas’ Cardiff-by-the-Sea community, said she was aware the beaches were scheduled to reopen, but disagreed with the restrictions planned during the phased reopening, such as prohibitions against sun bathing and face covering requirements.
“I’m either free or I’m not,” Curtis told USA TODAY on Saturday. Curtis was not one of the protesters who was arrested.
Curtis — who has attended previous protests, was at Saturday’s protest and plans to protest again in the future — says the arrests and citations occurred after some protesters ventured off the sidewalk near the beach and into the beach’s sand. Officials estimated dozens of protesters were in attendance.
I think you have your answer, Crista Ann..
The ambulance chasers are missing a huge opportunity here. Hopefully they will wake up soon.
Ambulance chasers aren’t well equipped to bring first amendment cases. Different lawyers do that.
San Diego County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately return USA TODAY’s request for comment. A release says several protesters sat on the beach, were given multiple opportunities to comply with police instructions and were arrested after refusing to cooperate.
OBEY
RESISTANCE IS FATAL
I’ve seen a couple articles about this but – surprisingly! – no picture of the offending mask.
Yeah, I was looking for the picture, too.
Apologizing when you weren’t doing anything wrong – bad idea.
“I was wearing a patriotic mask patterned after the American flag.” Better narrative. Make them find a fucking picture of the mask.
here you go.
Not what I’d call much resemblance to the Stars & Bars. But the hysterics always need something to shriek over.
Really, what else could it be? Red with a blue bar with white stars, If it was a democrat wearing a red mask and you could see half of a gold hammer and sickle would you give them the same benefit of the doubt?
Yup. That is definitely gules, a saltire azure bordured argent with stars of the third.
exactly, thanks for putting it in the proper vexillological terms.
Umm … white stars on a blue bar with thin white border with solid red outside that on both sides? That’s a Confederate battle flag mask he’s wearing.
He’s hosed.
“I’m just a huge Dukes of Hazzard fan!”
Not only do I drink to much whiskey in the quarantine, after the glib hangout I bought some more. Two bottles, and neither from the proper country . I blame straffinrun.
Get back to me after you try it.
Oh I will trust me. Also will also blame you if the rye is bad.
I wouldn’t rye to you..
I had a 400 lei voucher for that retailer, the Chita was 234 and I had to use the rest for something
Smooth. You said you like more bite, so drink it neat.
how else would I drink it at 43%? I generally add the half teaspoon of water to 48% and above…
Wait, the damn Romanians get Chita??? Fuck you Beam Suntory!
Re Germany. If we keep things closed of course there’s going to be a black market forming. It’s amazing how a virus exposes how pathetic we’re being run by politicians.
You’re not suggesting that people will start working in the underground economy, are you?
That’s against the law!
*strolls by whistling innocently*
In contrast to invented crisis’, real ones expose the wild incompetence of our political class. In the end all they know how to do is prohibit. They make real crisis’ exponentially worse.
‘”Have had a lot of prominent Democrats write me, many in the past few minutes, say they think this Larry King video is damaging for Joe Biden, and bolsters Tara Reade’s credibility,” Sanders backer Shaun King tweeted after the clip resurfaced. “But that they think speaking about it will help Trump so they won’t say anything.”‘
Which illustrates the moral bankruptcy of “The Greater Good”.
It aint called ‘derangement’ for. nothing.
Sanders really cheesed it by dropping out too early. His not being in the race gives the Dem machine carte blanche to just choose a ready replacement without giving him any consideration.
He’s doing this weird half-assed dropout thing where he’s no longer campaigning but he can still receive delegates at the DNC convention. I’m not sure what that strategy is all about. Had he stayed in the race totally and hammered home Biden’s obvious cognitive decline he very well may have forced the Dems to give him the nomination. But he didn’t, because Sanders is a pussy.
Er, I forgot to add he’s still on the state ballots, last I checked.
Sanders is a grifter who is easily bought off.
But to be honest, at least IMHO, Sanders would lose to Trump in a landslide. Not only will the dems not let Sanders get the nomination, the voters will not turn out to vote for him. Something about him being an admitted socialist. You can’t do that, you have to be a socialist and lie about it, like the rest of the democrats.
“….gives the Dem machine carte blanche to just choose a ready replacement without giving him any consideration.”
Or the voters any consideration. This may be by design. I am still not going to be surprised if The Hildebeast gets chosen.
I still think it’s ultimately going to be her or Cuomo. Running Biden seems stupid at this point and the Dems have shown themselves to be as ruthless as they need to be in the pursuit of political power so bye bye Joe.
If they were smart, they would use the sexual assault he committed as the reason. You can’t do what they did to Kavanaugh and then paper over Biden’s rapeyness without looking like a world class hypocrite. If they would just be principled this one time… Instead they’ll whitewash the allegations, and then get rid of him anyway. They still don’t get that not owning 100% of the media anymore means some people will see exactly what they’re doing.
Dude, Clinton borked an intern in the Oval Office and the dem constituents didn’t care. There’s no reason for them to dump Biden, he gets a pass because he has a D by his name.
How bad was all the other Dem’s oppo research to miss this? Or did they all think Joe might be the guy so we better not damage him, and hope somehow the R’s will be too stupid to use it. I really shouldn’t be surprised by the incompetence of pols but did none of them actually want the nomination?
Theyre all still operating in the pre-Trump focus group testing model, and I’m guessing that attacking Joe’s cognitive decline polls as “ageist” across a significant portion of their voting base.
Biden will get the same votes Hillary did. Basically, Hillary is Biden in a pantsuit.
Corona Shut Up Social Justice Warriors | Andrew Schulz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ZiFWAw7Kw
While i find Schulz funny, he still don’t understand the economy
LOL
Have some rambling gibberish
But the New Deal programs stemmed from bold visions that could be implemented by political leaders, he cautioned. “In our fragmented body politic, it would take an extraordinary politician to do what is necessary.”
This is why a debate is starting among policy thinkers about the components needed for recovery and reform: so that leaders can feel empowered to take action.
Emanuel sees two needed chapters — one to provide immediate aid and a second with more lasting change.
“We need another bill to jump start the economy,” Emanuel said. He says it should be followed by investments in infrastructure to improve online connectivity so that learning, medicine and work can get through stay-at-home orders.
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Any attempt at updating a New Deal will reflect ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans.
Framing this divide is a simple choice: Is it better to establish a government firewall that can protect the economy during future downturns? Or should the tax code and regulations be re-engineered so that private companies and individuals can more easily adapt to pandemics?
Heather Boushey, president of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, says allowing government aid to automatically increase as the economy began to fall would have been one of “our best defenses so that the coronavirus recession does not turn into a full-scale economic depression.”
“Responding to the crisis without also making our economy more resilient against future shocks would be a mistake,” she said. Automatic triggers for expanded jobless benefits, increased medical aid and new construction spending would ease the pain of a downturn and speed recovery.
AP thumbsucker disguised as a “news” story about how we need to implement a new New Deal in the wake of PlagueMania.
tl;dr- Never let a crisis go to waste. We have our standard pre-existing socialist wish list, here’s a chance cram it up America’s ass. Because JUSTICE.
Wow thats a lot of bullshit
The only thing we need to jump-start the economy is for power-mad politicians to all get Covid and die.
Get voluntary money for government-run redistribution of wealth.
Gang Of Masked Bandits Steals Another $500 Billion From Your Grandchildren
The Bee
While a
cotton bandanascreen door may not work the same asan N95 maska solid door in blocking thetransmission of the virusflow of floodwater into your home, something is better than nothing, according to theCDCidiots we want you to obey.Thank you for this, I literally laughed out loud.
Needs more snow
we could really use some rain around here, there was no snow at all this year and no significant rain since like september.
“Never before has the 42-year-old cabin been buried in snow.”
Damn you global warming!
Pff, that’s easy. Global warming causes increased precipitation, including snowfall if it hasn’t warmed enough to be above freezing. Those cabin owners should have legal standing to sue ExxonMobil.
As it turns out, the roof is damaged from the heavy weight.
Is there a reason they didn’t build an A frame?
Looking at the pictures and the statement at the end of the article about moving it to where they get less snow, I would say the cabin was covered by drifting snow. That would also be why the snow is so hard.
so in the end who won the NFL draft?
Cal by three in overtime.
New England! Solved their desperate need for a kicker while ignoring drafting a QB at all.
I had in my android recommendations a grade article but in that one almost very team got an A so that was not helpful.
I wonder if George RR Martin is happy.
The Giants did okay, so probably.
how bout the Jets?
Everybody played. No one officially kept score. Just like Left-run youth sports.
The Raiders got the most WRs. I’t like Al Davis came back to life for a draft.
Well good on Biden on the Armenian genocide thing although that’s a promise that’ll be tossed in the wastebasket pretty damn quick when the Turks threaten to open their borders and close our airbases.
I’d be far more impressed if he apologized for the Obama administration’s botched Arab Spring involvement. Countless thousands dead, millions displaced, billions of dollars wasted.
What was/is his position on Libya I wonder?
“Libya? What’s that?”
He still calls it the Barbary Coast and has vowed to fight the corsairs.
Whatever his handlers tell him it is.
“Libby, I remember her, her hair smelled so good” Joe said while his hand drifted towards his crotch.
He may find himself butting heads with the militant something wing of the party over that.
He’s just carrying on the tradition.
America’s version of how many times can you sucker the Armenian vote!
Open borders is a Euro problem.
Closed airbases is a win. If it gets them kicked out of NATO, double win.
^ This guy gets it.
“The thing is that you can’t take away everyone’s rights, put a whole people under house arrest, and abolish the rule of law without generating a response to that in the future.”
North Korea would like a word in private…
That is overall historically ignorant
An agency spokesperson told the New York Daily News that the center was notified of “30 cases of possible exposure to disinfectants between 9 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Friday.” That’s compared to 13 cases over the same time period last year.
The models predict a hockey stick based on exponential growth.
I am calling bullshit on that.
Ever walk into smell disinfectant? Exposed!
When Slutty Sunday is outlawed, only outlaws will be sluts on Sunday.
http://archive.li/vidL1
I want a better look of 8’s face
Whoomp/whoot there it is.
Also good googly moogly, them things is juicy.
27 looks petty. I choose all of them who don’t have tattoos.
wait. except 35 cause guns are bad
19. The box of donuts was the clincher.
And 34. Glasses and a booty
Diversity. Inclusion. Acceptance.
Seventy-one percent of single Democratic Party voters said they are very unlikely to even consider dating a person who voted for Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, a new survey finds.
The Pew Research Center study revealed the country’s widening partisan divide has bled into Americans’ dating habits, with 45 percent of Democrats or left-leaning voters outright declaring they “definitely would not” pursue a relationship with a Trump voter. That share is more than double the 19 percent of Republicans or right-leaning respondents who said they “definitely would not” date someone who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. And based purely on party lines, 43 percent of Democrats said they would not likely date anyone who is a Republican, compared to just 24 percent of Republicans who said the same of their liberal counterparts.
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Just shy of three-quarters (74 percent) of GOP-leaning voters said they would either consider dating a Democrat or they already have in the past. But that share falls to 51 percent when the question is changed to whether or not they would enter a relationship with someone who voted for Clinton in the last presidential election.
Previous surveys of American voters conducted during the Trump era have shown that political differences have impacted people’s views on very personal levels. Seventy-five percent of Democrats surveyed last September said Republicans are more “close-minded” than fellow Democratic voters, while two-thirds of Republicans said Democrats are “unpatriotic.”
Party of intellectualism and rationality. If you don’t agree with us 100%, GTFO.
Good. I prefer none of these people breeding.
So, fewer chances for my kids to inadvertently stick it in crazy? Win.
Well, most people who talk about politics before even going on a date, won’t be dating anyone.
No one told these people how the real world works. It’s good they won’t be procreating.
Poll finds Democrats hate make-up sex.
Seventy-five percent of Democrats surveyed last September said Republicans are more “close-minded” than fellow Democratic voters
WHYCOME THEM NO LUV HONOR AND OBEY SCIENCE EXPURTZ?
https://datingtips.match.com/jehovahs-witness-dating-rules-13197145.html
If you want to reopen society, name the person you want to die. *Post that keeps popping up on FB*
Adam Schiff.
If you want society to remain closed, name the person you want to commit suicide after losing his job.
Lefties never think things through.
Already happened. A friend’s son (early 20s). Wonderful kid. Childhood sweetheart dumped him about 6 months back. Fucking tragedy.
He worked on music festivals. I will never stop believing that if he was busy working hard on some staging crew right now then he wouldn’t have done it.
That sucks. A man, especially that age, needs a hammer or a good woman, take away both… bad news.
Jesus just one? That is tough
Can I name more than one?
Just keep replying with “You”.
Really, one death seems like a small price to pay for reopening the economy. Maybe we should have a lottery.
Crossed my mind. Instead I replied that any risk that is allowed could be attacked with the same logic. The answer from a Karen? “Difference is Corona can kill others and not just you!” *Whoosh*
So can an auto accident.
Clearly she supports lowering the speed limit to 5 mph. Or making driving illegal.
Guess we have to stop making cars then, because people kill other people by the thousands in cars every year. Karen will have to get a bus pass to get her kids to soccer practice.
There was a recent post on my facebook feed by someone explaining very carefully that the objective of the current lockdown is not to reduce the overall number of people who get the virus, but to slow the rate of spread so that hospitals are not overwhelmed. I pointed out that Florida deployed eight field hospitals that have never been used, and in fact they are being taken away. I asked why, in cases where the available evidence is that hospitals will *not* be overwhelmed, the economy should not be allowed to reopen. Answer: “OMG YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE!!”
It’s not even moving goalposts anymore. There are no goalposts. It’s just about waiting patiently at home until public health officials–the same people who say we should be terrified of third hand smoke–say it’s ok to go outside again.
It’s just about waiting patiently at home until public health officials–the same people who say we should be terrified of third hand smoke–say it’s ok to go outside again.
This. So very much this. There is zero intellectual curiosity in some circles. “Daddy Gubmint said so” is enough to get them to knuckle under. 20 years of “memorize and recite” in school conditions the brain to just accept what the authority says and parrot their propaganda lines unthinking.
Speaking of school.
DO YOU HAVE A DEGREE?!? ARE YOU AN EXPERT?!??! NO!
SO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STAY AT HOME UNTIL YOU’RE TOLD OTHERWISE PEASANT!!!!!!
Just one?
Tres Sr. is 80 and smokes 2 packs a day. Granted, Ill miss the old fucker when the time comes, its not going to be long.
So sacrifice my dad to save my 401(K) ? Yup.
And he would agree.
A new way to say ‘If it saves just one life…’ Can be applied to stepping outside, but in this case that is the (almost) literal meaning. Now lets change the words economy/society/normal with ‘ability to put food on the table’ or ‘purpose for living’ and see these arguments crumble.
Gretchen Whitmer.
Sorry, RBG, but if I’m not getting anything else out of this apocalypse, I want Trump to get one more SCOTUS pick, just for the lulz.
“So we’re all supposed to wear masks now”
You are violating the non-aggression principle each time you enter a public space without a mask.
Libertarian moment?
A couple doctors talk about the shelter in place orders and why they need to be lifted, and a whole host of other Covid19 related issues. I don’t think these guys are going to be employed after this but this is a very good talk (about one hour but worth it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5GDPCUUBEE
They also make the claim that the hospital’s administration is pressuring them to list coved as cause of death.
Thanks, I’ll watch it later.
“I don’t think these guys are going to be employed after this”
Apparently they are the owners of their clinics.
I suppose they could make their propaganda more transparent, but it would be difficult.
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1254078046417620992
That is remarkable.
*Falls out of chair*
Anyone in Lansing except both houses of legislature that voted to curb her power. What a bunch of hacks.
So that’s how you get 5K replies to one tweet. Been wondering how to do that.
She’s like a god, hell she’s like God. All knowing, all loving, self-sustaining…
OFFS.
“quick to give a hug”
Social distancing is for the little people.
“or share a dirty joke.“
Female privilege, anyone.
Well, no wonder they can’t find anyone, they’re restricted to stay at home…
Had he stayed in the race totally and hammered home Biden’s obvious cognitive decline he very well may have forced the Dems to give him the nomination. But he didn’t, because Sanders is a pussy.
Let’s not discount the possibility Sanders knows perfectly well it’s much better for him to snipe from the sidelines than to actually allow himself to be put in a position of accountability. Being mayor of Burlington was bad enough.
^^^This. He still has his cult following and he gets to play the victim of how he’s been screwed over not once, but twice by the DNC (partially true). Now he can control and shape his “movement” without actually having to do any hard work or deliver any results.
I think he’s basically done politically. And probably physically, too.
Although, at this point, he’s in much better shape mentally than Biden is.
I can see Bernie get on stage with Orange Hitler and getting on his best angry socialist and hanging in there OK.
But Biden? They’ll never let him on stage with bad orange man, it would be a complete disaster. And I don’t think that is going to go very well for the democrats.
Devs was an excellent show – it has received the much desired Crusty stamp of approval.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-PEIR-YmQQ
Don’t click that link.
‘Don’t click that link.’
Why post link?
‘Don’t click that link.’
Why post link?
The HM challenge eh?
YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO
*clicks*
Eh, maybe I should have listened…
Seems OK to me.
Coronavirus Cabin Fever: Crowds Flock To Central Park Even As Social Distancing Enforcement Remains In Effect
FREEDOM
People don’t like being caged up. Shocker. Maybe they’ll have a different perspective on the drug war now. Maybe not.
Beaches across the nation are packed as people ignore social distancing to sunbathe and relax on the sand as governors’ pleas to stay at home fall on deaf ears
Hey flyover country, our dudes rock – now the ball is in your court.
‘If I duplicate stories, it’s because Spud and Digby vacuumed up the good ones and I’m past caring.’
“Turnabout is fair play.’ ? Your link about NASA ignoring Northwest Baltimore got duplicated this weekend.
Unlike many of these write ins, this one actually seems semi-believable… and pathetic.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/11479978/like-sex-worker/
Hmmm, Latvian and drug addict? Can Latvian be cured?
/Hasn’t so far in my family
“I like a sex worker but she’s a drug addict, should I forget about her?”
Yes.
I was so desperate, I watched part of that Jay and Silent Bob excrescence. Sad. Pathetic.
A few nights ago, I watched Sucker Punch. That was a weird movie.
Jamie Chung alone made Sucker Punch worth a vidy.
It was okay. Pretty dark, which I generally like, and I thought the fantasy sequences were well done. Didn’t hate the cover on the soundtrack either. And I always thought the dark haired guy does a good job of playing a smarmy fucker in what I’ve seen him in.
Yankees legend Mickey Mantle ‘was so drunk he threw up’ while performing sex act on Hollywood screen siren Angie Dickinson, new book claims
Legend.
Classy dude.
ok this was sort of funny
https://twitter.com/causticbob/status/1254374575246360577
Au contraire, the g-spot is very real.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/interactive/a32037401/g-spot-not-real/
The female orgasm, now that’s the myth.
“Believe us and not your lying eyes”
SOP for the left.
Not a myth. Ask any divorce court judge who has seen it.
This is just fucking great. Heroes. *Drugs from ass?*
https://twitter.com/ActivistPost/status/1253783946485211137
WTF, seriously? There is no other crime in Texas?
We must fight the scourge of hairdressing.
Florida government follows glibertarians.com lead. Website down attempt solve problems too many filing unemployment.
“has been the slowest in the nation to process unemployment claims.”
orlandosentinel .com/ coronavirus/ jobs-economy/ os-bz-coronavirus-unemployment-down-20200424-rkfx423ag5hs5j6u6be6tzclwi-story .html
tampabay .com/ news/ health/ 2020/ 04/ 24/ floridas-unemployment-site-is-down-until-monday-workers-protest-online/
Today, in wage slavery
Royal Rose is reopening her Colorado tattoo studio next week after closing a month ago, not because she wants to but because the bills are piling up and she says she has no choice.
“I would stay home if the government encouraged that, but they’re not, they’re saying ‘Hey, the best thing to do is go back to work, even though it might be risky,’” said Rose, 39, sitting inside her salon in a wood-sided building on a leafy street in the farming and oil town of Greeley.
Colorado is among the first wave of U.S. states beginning an experiment to reopen economies without the testing and contact-tracing infrastructure health experts say is needed to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus, with lives in the balance.
“I feel like we are like test dummies that they’re learning off of,” said Mary Ramirez, a Greeley hair salon owner who will not be reopening next week as she believes, like Rose, there is insufficient safety guidance and planning.
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An influential University of Washington model often used by the White House for COVID-19 projections says the earliest Colorado should reopen is May 25-31, and only then if it has sufficient capacity to test for the virus and contain future outbreaks. It says Colorado already has the second highest death rate in the West after Washington state.
With Colorado yet to record a sustained decline in cases, the governor says he sees “calculated risks” in reopening. He and other governors want to get economies rolling after the virus put 26.5 million Americans out of work and decimated states’ income from taxes.
No risk existed in this nation prior to February. Now, suddenly, the slightest misstep will result in slow agonizing death.
“not because she wants to but because the bills are piling up and she says she has no choice.”
That’s kinda what happens when you need money.
I’m up to a half dozen stores in Travis county where I’ve walked, maskless as always, past a big sign saying the local government said masks were mandatory. No one in the stores has said a peep about me not wearing a mask. One of the stores, a donut taco place, put up a big plastic shield by the counter and now their workers aren’t wearing face masks, presumably against the orders that were issued.
In austin, I’ve been forced to wear a bandana entering the supermarket (heb), but can pull it down throughout the store. Otherwise, no business has hassled me.
Birx is on Meet the Press. She was “very struck” by the fact that the plague is distributed differently in different places.
She an expert.
“We need to ensure plague parity!”
Left mobilizes against plague inequality!
You’re joking, but it’s not far from the actual truth.
The best way to have flyover states get up to NY’s numbers is to open things up, duh.
“Ensure others are conforming to the guidelines.”
Be a Karen.
“Experts” worry huh? Well jeez that’s serious! Sooper serious! Like, totes really, really bad!
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Experts-worry-quarantine-fatigue-is-starting-15226487.php
How long did you assholes spend in school to figure out that people don’t like being incarcerated?
If their apocalyptic predictions had come true people would be self-quarantining voluntarily. Their predictions have not come true and it looks like the whole thing was a panic induced by models that were wildly wrong. It isn’t fatigue setting in, it is realization.
This old bat talks like a teenaged girl. Sexy. Impressive.
Essentially, what you’re saying is it’s too soon to free the prisoners?
Forgetting that cattle that don’t feed can’t be taxed very successfully.
Florida government follows glibertarians lead. Website down attempt solve problems too many filing unemployment.
“has been the slowest in the nation to process unemployment claims.”
slash coronavirus slash jobs-economy slash os-bz-coronavirus-unemployment-down-20200424-rkfx423ag5hs5j6u6be6tzclwi-story dot html @ orlandosentinel
slash news slash health slash 2020 slash 04 slash 24 slash floridas-unemployment-site-is-down-until-monday-workers-protest-online slash @ tampabay
Florida’s unemployment by DEO. Superheroes to the rescue?
slash wiki slash D.E.O. @ arrow dot fandom dot 1st syllable of comet
How to Protect Civil Liberties in a Pandemic
Fuck you poor people – the Libertarian way!
“The coronavirus crisis will last longer than intense lockdowns are sustainable”
Public health dooshbagz say “hold my beer…”
I am not spending all my dam vacation days this year in my house
“…But many conscientious civil libertarians simply don’t see temporary shutdowns during a pandemic as inherently tyrannical or even unreasonable”
This would be the same conscientious civil libertarians who vote for politicians that want to tax the rich and outlaw hate speech?
Is the credibility of you and the other SCIENTISTS heroically rescuing the plebs from this horrific danger being undermined by President Cartoon Villain?
‘THE MAO’Y AWARDS: Who’s got your vote as top corona-dictator?’
See nominees in multiple categories @
slash theblaze-tv slash the-maoy-awards-whos-got-your-vote-as-top-corona-dictator @ glennbeck
I won’t respond to any questions about why this chart exists. But, now that it does…
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1254136103440920577
‘THE MAO’Y AWARDS: Who’s got your vote as top corona-dictator?’
See nominees multiple categories
slash theblaze-tv slash the-maoy-awards-whos-got-your-vote-as-top-corona-dictator
@ glennbeck
The new schtick of posting completely nonfunctional linklike strings of characters is . . . interesting.
I …. Yeah.
Posting links proper characters not working since site back from hiatus
Entire comment containing link not posted
Hoped link-link close enough Glibertariat reading posted comments
Ha! Dude, either I’m already too stoned or you’re not passing the Turing Test right now.
*giggles*
Does it matter if Donation Not Taxation computer or human?
Is Trigger Hippie computer or human?
See also: The Late P Brooks on April 26, 2020 at 10:15 am
New Jersey governor is on.
He seems trustworthy.
“He seems trustworthy.”
Hey Brooks, I’ve got a hot deal on some oceanfront land in Nevada to sell you.
I shall be grooming my body as if though Ima bout 2 slang dis d at some fresh smoke.
Peace.
The FDA has all but abandoned their oversight duty! We’re all gonna die!
The governors of Colorado and Georgia announced nearly identical plans to loosen cower in place. Can you tell from The Washington Post’s reaction which governor is an openly homosexual Democrat and which is an openly Christian Republican?
TRIGGER WARNING: The Washington Post
“Gov. Jared Polis outlined a plan to ease statewide stay-at-home and nonessential business closures Monday. All nonessential retailers may soon offer curbside delivery and can fully reopen, at half-staff capacity and with protective measures. Offices and personal services can do the same in May. Schools, universities, gyms remain closed, along with indoor restaurant and bar service.”
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s move Monday to lift restrictions on a wide range of businesses, one of the most aggressive moves yet to reignite commercial activity in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, put his state at the center of a deepening national battle over whether Americans are ready to risk exacerbating the public health crisis to revive the shattered economy.”
slash health slash us-states-represent-patchwork-as-they-mull-economic-restarts slash 2020 slash 04 slash 22 slash 30af906c-8502-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story dot HaTaMaLa
slash politics slash gov-brian-kemp-sets-georgia-on-aggressive-course-to-reopen-putting-his-state-at-center-of-deepening-national-debate slash 2020 slash 04 slash 21 slash 36545638-8372-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story dot HaTaMaLa
Two things I find annoying in any porn:
1) When anyone involved leaves on their socks
2) When the man (always the man) leaves his watch on
Why would the director allow either one of those to happen?
When the man (always the man) leaves his watch on
Wouldn’t want him to get too handsy
I cant find the clip but in a 70’s movie Jane Fonda is getting humped and she reaches around the man’s head and looks at her watch.
Wait ’til she reaches over for the smokes and lights one up.
I remember the scene but not the movie.
Not that Hanoi Jane playing a prostitute is that much of a stretch.
I want to say that’s in Klute, but I’m not certain.
The movie was “Klute”. And yeah, it isn’t that much of a stretch.
My brother (USAF VN vet) always has said she was just type-cast in Klute.
Thank you for being one of the few people on the planet to use the word “typecast” correctly.
Klute?
More like Klunte, amirite?
What’s odd about that?
2) It could be his fit-bit.
In the 80’s there was porn with guys wearing two watches, one on each wrist.
You gotta time those orgasms just right for the camera.
Gang Of Masked Bandits Steals Another $500 Billion From Your Grandchildren
babylonbee dot comet slash news slash masked-bandits-steal-another-500-billion-from-your-grandkids
The Bee
Truth
Glad you liked it.
If only the Ministry of Plenty had total control of the economy, we could control and direct health care perfectly.
I don’t know who this retard is, but he makes Chicken Little sound positively laid back. We are fucking DOOOOOOMED.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you lovely creatures!
Thanks for the Tucker article. I think I agree with him. People are really pissed off.
This was the money quote:
I went to visit a buddy yesterday. We hung out in his shop and had a few beers. It felt like a normal Saturday.
Fuck the Karens and the slavers. I’m ready for normal life again.
CSNY is a tough one for me. I want to hate them because Young is a total douche, but holy shit did they make some good music.
This rolled around after your selection. Sweet.
I hope each of you has a fantastic day!
Party on Tundra!
Trillions aren’t nearly enough!
Noted scientist Andrea Mitchell is outraged by Birx’s refusal to condemn Public Enemy Number One’s deranged comments about sunlight in the strongest terms.
Remember that brave Cali judge that issued the injunction vis a vis requiring background checks for ammo purchases? Already been shot down:
https://www.nssf.org/u-s-circuit-court-stays-preliminary-injunction-of-californias-prop-63-ammunition-background-check-laws/
It’s amazing how fast these farging corksuckers can move when they’re looking to advance their pet causes.
Hope buyers chose overnight shipping for that brief moment.
The ninth is a cesspool.
Trump cant gut the 9th circus fast enough.
Preaching to the choir but it always irks me how, when they get a court case to go their way and strike down a restriction they don’t like that restriction is null and void until something different happens (if it ever does). But when it comes to restrictions against things they don’t like a federal court ruling against that restriction changes nothing until further review at a higher court. I can’t think of a single time what a gun ban being struck down resulted in immediate relief for those it infringed on.
Squirrels are now hiding comments. Nice.
And here’s an online course warning female students to stay away from handsome foreign male teachers cuz they can be spies and lure you into giving them national security secrets.5]
https://twitter.com/tony_zy/status/1253831525373743107
evil whiteys luring innocent Chinese girls
You shouldn’t mess with me
I’ll ruin everything you are
You know, I’ll give you television
I’ll give you eyes of blue
I’ll give you men’s who want to rule the world
And when I get excited
My little China girl says
Oh baby, just you shut your mouth
Written about Iggy Pop’s girlfriend at the time, who was Vietnamese.
‘Vietnam Girl’ doesn’t have quite the same ring.
“evil whiteys luring innocent Chinese girls”
I think I found my purpose in life
Meanwhile…
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/us-intelligence-chinese-student-espionage/index.html
Mmmm…honeypots…
So I just need to tell Chinese co-eds that I work for the CIA?
Why limit it to Chinese ones?
yellow fever?
Now that blabbering ninny Stephanie Ruhle is on. When will we step up to the plate and spend what’s necessary?
When get money voluntarily to pay for it. Donation not taxation.
When she shows us the goods.
The governors of Colorado and Georgia announced nearly identical plans to loosen cower in place. Can you tell from The Washington Post’s reaction which governor is an openly homosexual Democrat and which is an openly Christian Republican?
TRIGGER WARNING: The Washington Post
“Gov. Jared Polis outlined a plan to ease statewide stay-at-home and nonessential business closures Monday. All nonessential retailers may soon offer curbside delivery and can fully reopen, at half-staff capacity and with protective measures. Offices and personal services can do the same in May. Schools, universities, gyms remain closed, along with indoor restaurant and bar service.”
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s move Monday to lift restrictions on a wide range of businesses, one of the most aggressive moves yet to reignite commercial activity in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, put his state at the center of a deepening national battle over whether Americans are ready to risk exacerbating the public health crisis to revive the shattered economy.”
slash health slash us-states-represent-patchwork-as-they-mull-economic-restarts
slash 2020 slash 04 slash 22 slash 30af906c-8502-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111
_story dot High Temperature MateriaL
@ washingtonpost dot COMet
slash politics slash gov-brian-kemp-sets-georgia-on-aggressive-course-to-reopen-putting-his-state-at-center-of-deepening-national-debate
slash 2020 slash 04 slash 21 slash 36545638-8372-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7
_story dot High Temperature MateriaL
@ washingtonpost dot COMet
The governors of Colorado and Georgia announced nearly identical plans to loosen cower in place. Can you tell from The Washington Post’s reaction which governor is an openly homosexual Democrat and which is an openly Christian Republican?
TRIGGER WARNING: The Washington Post
“Gov. Jared Polis outlined a plan to ease statewide stay-at-home and nonessential business closures Monday. All nonessential retailers may soon offer curbside delivery and can fully reopen, at half-staff capacity and with protective measures. Offices and personal services can do the same in May. Schools, universities, gyms remain closed, along with indoor restaurant and bar service.”
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s move Monday to lift restrictions on a wide range of businesses, one of the most aggressive moves yet to reignite commercial activity in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, put his state at the center of a deepening national battle over whether Americans are ready to risk exacerbating the public health crisis to revive the shattered economy.”
You don’t have to go to Germany
https://www.activistpost.com/2020/04/cops-wage-elaborate-undercover-scheme-to-arrest-woman-for-giving-a-manicure-out-of-her-home.html
Although a clear violation of the NAP, Id like to see the ‘snitches get stitches’ maxim applied to these Karens.
Watching Meet the Press today is like watching a parade of terrified four year olds shrieking about the monsters in their closets. Where is the rational adult willing to soothe their fevered brows and calm their fears?
“There there. It’ll be okay, honey.”
Rational adult = murderer.
Rational adult is right between New Soviet Man and Homo economicus.
Watching Meet the Press – why?
I liked GT’s spin on it from last week or so….”Press the Meat”
Oh, goody. Stacy Abrams, professional Angry Black Woman is on.
She’s a scientist, apparently. I did not know that.
President Cartoon Villain is a poopyhead.
Political scientist is to science as…
(fill in the blank)
… sanitation engineer is to shit?
How the hell is she newsworthy?
She set the record for most sacks in a season.
I remember watching this video in 2009 and wow did the Onion nail it.
https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1254206158321192961
“Fernandez recommended using a Q-sized pair of nylon pantyhose to make breathing easier.”
So double D?
Scary
Betsy and Dick DeVos, and Dick’s two brothers, have spent decades donating to Republican causes.
Aside from a focus on anti-equality, the family has contributed to groups advocating small government and for electing more Republicans to office. According to Vanity Fair, Richard DeVos and his offspring have given “as much as $200m to the GOP” since the 1970s, championing Republican candidates nationally and in their home state of Michigan.
It was a Michigan organization that has landed DeVos in the news over the past two weeks. The Michigan Freedom Fund, which “fights to champion conservative policies on behalf of Michigan taxpayers” – including lower taxes – helped promote a rally in Michigan against the state’s stay-at-home order.
They hate equality. They want you to die.
Commie shitrag;DR
I am reading through that and thinking ‘yeah….yeah….good….’ and then I see it is The Guardian. They actually think those are bad things? Good Lord what brainwashed useful idiots.
Ha! Dude, either I’m already too stoned or you’re not passing the Turing Test right now.
*clicks, whirs, spews punchcards in all directions*
Does it matter if Donation Not Taxation computer or human?
Is Trigger Hippie computer or human?
Does it matter if Donation Not Taxation computer or human? Is Trigger Hippie computer or human?
I feel like this is a metaphor.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1253804389669765120
Hopefully a metaphor for the Branch Covidians dreams of a totalitarian lock-down state.
We used to hill climb on dirt bikes. It’s fun. Not 80 degree grades though. Lol.
Somehow, this tweet was further down the page.
Herr DeWine is supposed to announce his May 1st solution tomorrow for starting reopening Ohio. I left on his Twitter feed that government mandating of face masks would be a clear 1st amendment violation but I’m sure he doesn’t care.
Of course he and his ilk care. That is why they are doing it.
Problem: Dining rooms are closed, and our food doesn’t travel well
Solution: sell kits (tw: vertical video)
Freaking delicious and at $18/6 an amazing deal. Though I think I’m going to use the remaining ingredients in other dishes instead of making more crepes. I got the Italian sausage and roasted broccoli.
Adding an extra layer of nylon pantyhose to a DIY face mask improves protection, researchers say
And now, a public service message
Counterpoint: Burt Reynolds
Finally, Q links for the unicorns and bears! This site just keeps getting better and better!
Much hairy. Many hirsute.
Actually I am very skeptical of this wearing your underwear on the outside of your clothes business.
*if anyone gets the reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukr3Y3unFhg
*doesnt get*
OMG. Thanks for restoring a memory I wish I had forgotten.
Freshman year HS (all boys Catholic school). First day of gym class, we are lined up in front of the gym teacher, who announces “Jock check. Drop ’em”. One of a thousand reasons I believe that hell would be having to relive high school for all eternity. Fucking pervert
‘Jock check’.
Riiiiight.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088161/mediaviewer/rm1200594433
(As if anyone under 40 will remember what that was referencing!)
“Someone is more optimistic than I am.”
I keep thinking along the same lines. Call me more optimistic. Mabye, but either there is serious blowback over this, or we should just march obediently to the gulags and resign ourselves to serfdom, forever.
I’m sure experiences differ depending on your locality but just not seeing it. Most people buy into the narrative, a not insignificant amount of people are rolling they’re eyes and patiently waiting for things to go back to normal. I see very little rage outside of Glibs and the twitter-sphere.
IMO opinion it was a good test run of what they can get away with. They’ll dial it back for a while knowing they can alwats turn the pressure up to this level again and go further when they decide (and the media carries the water) for their next cause. My hope is they are dumb enough to try this with Climate Change……I’m not sure people will sit still for that.
I’m a glass half full type of person. Still, I don’t think they’ll ever be able to pull this off again, not in the lifetime of anyone alive today.
I’ve removed 18 squirrels from service this week from my bathroom window.
It seems I’ve found an inexhaustible source of fur hat material.
Now that’s a Plague hat!
Gloves. They make fantastic gloves with the fur on the inside. It is the only kind of glove that will actually keep your hands warm, fingers and all. And they are soft.
I think I only have seven squirrels on my entire wee acre. And that’s only util the oxytocin wears off and the pups get kicked off the property by their moms.
I don’t know if we have any finance/economist Glibs, but I’m trying to wrap my head around the likely effects of blowing 6 TRILLION MUTHAFUCKIN DOLLARS in 2 months; money we don’t have by-the-by.
Anyone wanna take a stab?
The net effects will be to guarantee the fortunes of those least in need of assistance right now, deflation in the near future, stagflation in the long term.
IANAF/E, but I was watching Rand Paul’s smackdown earlier this morning and he said something along the lines of it’s pointless to give out money to people who are not going to spend it. He said, “There wasn’t a lack of money; there’s a lack of commerce.” Can’t spend money on things you can’t buy.
We’ve extended the crushing tax burden of debt out to the fifth and sixth generation? We’ve made negative interest rates inevitable? The facade of fiat currency is even more flimsy? Runaway inflation lurks around the corner?
/not an economist
Inflation. Lots of it.
I am, it is kind of hard to say, while what we are doing is bad, and will lead to problems, everyone else is doing far worse, effectively the dollar is the prettiest girl in the ugly room. What this means is inflation will be limited at first, assuming we open up soon, if we don’t we are looking at a total collapse as more and more businesses will be unable to return at all.
“Best looking turd in the punchbowl” is my preferred description of the US dollar.
“Tallest midget contest”
I think stagflation is too light a term. Right now, the numbers are meaningless. The state has shut down almost all commerce. So any numbers about the economy are BS and everyone knows it. No, the real reckoning comes when they lift the restrictions and a lot of the people chanting “stay the f*ck home” and wishing sickness and death on anyone questioning the prevailing narrative online discover there’s no job to go back to and that trillions of dollars of fake stimulus money are chasing a supply of goods limited drastically by the screwing over of supply chains.
We’ve just basically consumed two months of production. A lot of people are going to be in for a shock that they can’t consume at the same level as before they ate the seed corn. The pathetic part is they still won’t get it.
Good little girls and boys get a reward
State and local health officials plan to see more cases of the novel coronavirus as Montana moves toward reopening some businesses next week. But they said after a month under a stay-at-home order, Montana has earned the chance to begin easing restrictions.
Public Health Officer Matt Kelley said in a press conference Friday that people following social distancing guidelines put Gallatin County’s number of new cases of COVID-19 in decline. He said that effort was a sacrifice for shuttered businesses and people who found themselves suddenly unemployed.
Don’t abuse this special privilege, or it will be revoked. Your benevolent masters want you to be happy, but only if you appreciate the sacrifices they have made for you.
Do you get state-supplied conjugal visits?
I’m detecting enormous, unfathomable levels of public fury barely beneath the surface. It won’t stay beneath the surface for long.
I’ll believe it when incumbents are voted out of office in large numbers. In other words, never.
The majority is never going to be the agent for change. It always has and always will be a small but motivated minority.
I’m trying to wrap my head around the likely effects of blowing 6 TRILLION MUTHAFUCKIN DOLLARS in 2 months</em.
Don't forget the massive contraction in productivity.
I think the generally accepted term is "stagflation".
It seems I’ve found an inexhaustible source of fur hat material.
Make yourself a pair of fur bell bottom trousers.
Vodka, kaolin and morphine: my welcome drinks at The Spectator offices
After I’d partaken of this cocktail with Mary Wakefield, I had my first encounter with a speechless Boris Johnson
https://spectator.us/vodka-kaolin-morphine-welcome-drinks-spectator-offices/
Who the hell puts clay in their drink?
I’m assuming it’s Limey kaopectate.
That must be one hell of a drink if you have to add an anti-diarrhea agent to it.
Well, opiates relax smooth muscle tissue such as the colon. Which is why serious smack-addicts have a pretty steady diet of laxatives- they’ll get a blocked bowel otherwise. So the kaolin seems counter-intuitive.
Once during an oxycodone kick, I didnt shit for 4 days, despite eating 3 solid meals a day. When the time came it was something else. Ill never claim to know what a woman deals with during childbirth- but I may have an idea.
We’re also under mask requirements. I’ve been mulling getting this. But I’m afraid the irony would be lost on people.
Somehow, I don’t think that’s what you were *really* mulling getting.
A mask that doesn’t work?
Welcome back wdalasio, we missed you…..sorry, I mean fuck off.
The irony is certainly lost on me.
Thanks. I know it’s a pathetic excuse. But , the issue has mostly been acclimating myself to working from home. I’m used to posting at work and home as sort of downtime. Last month or so, I’ve been at home and slammed with work, so adjusting has been difficult.
Having actual paying work to do is a pretty pathetic excuse. You pay here will be docked
*chortles*
Try this: https://www.amazon.com/URBANSEASONS-Leather-Halloween-Cosplay-Costumes/dp/B085ZM162F/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=5KWM7HSKP3MB&dchild=1&keywords=plague%2Bdoctor%2Bmask&qid=1587915510&sprefix=Plague%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-2-spons&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzU01IUkdCTEg1TTdVJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTI1OTY4MUU4RzNJTVdLODVJUSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMzQ5NDc2M0xaQUc1Sk0xR0JWQyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU&th=1
Unforeseen consequences?
See! We can pay everyone a living wage and nobody will ever have to work again!! Utopian socialism FTW!!!
Something something foreseeable something NOT unintended…
Ahhhh! You beat me to the punch
Something something great minds something something. ; )
Something something not gonna have a job something something.
Something something foreseeable something something not unintended.
Ok, even before the federal gravy, how is he getting $300/week unemployment on wages of $350/week half time?
Most likely he is leaving out tips, or he sucks at his job so that is why unemployment appears so generous.
Plutocratz
According to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive thinktank, between 18 March and 22 April the wealth of America’s plutocrats grew 10.5%. After the last recession, it took over two years for total billionaire wealth to get back to the levels they enjoyed in 2007.
Huh. I wonder why they picked those particular data points, instead of, say, DJIA year-to-date change in value.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with forcing small businesses to close (and most likely go out of business), then declaring all the big businesses “essential”. But as always, more government is needed to fix the problems caused by more government.
“Heads we win, tails you lose,” said Chuck Collins, director of the program on inequality and the common good at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-author of the new report.
Collins said the pandemic had further exposed fault lines in the US body politic that have been widening the gap between the really rich and the rest over decades.
“The rules of the economy have been tipped in favor of asset owners against everyone else,” said Collins.
Kill the rich! That will make us all better off.
Only that’s not what they’re saying.
What they’re saying is that we’re all better off if we are all equally poor. Equal being the key word.
I’ve had this conversation with more than one progressive, and there’s no changing their mind.
The one I remember most is when I told the guy that even the lower middle class of Americans are better off than the richest kings of just a few centuries ago. But he insisted that point has no merit, all that matters is the gap between the richest and poorest.
So in effect, they’re saying we’re all better off if we’re all equal, even if that means we all go back to grubbing roots with sticks for subsistence. How anyone can be that stupid is beyond me, but a LOT of people are that stupid. Or you could substitute stupid with envy, same thing here.
Kim Jong Un is a vegetable? Does that make him the healthiest thing to eat in North Korea?
A FB friend just shared the SNL Whitmer sketch and lauded Michigan for having a “strong Governor, just like Ohio.”
I’m not up for this one. I just unfollowed for 30 days.