Still no sports (unless you count the White House briefings).
That’s how a head of state rolls.
British actor John Gielgud was born on this day. He shares it with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, “Papa Doc” Duvalier, actor Rod Steiger, country legend Loretta Lynn, good cop Frank Serpico, lovely actress Julie Christie, gambling legend and onetime baseball player Pete Rose, biochemist Greg Winter, baseball HOFer Greg Maddux, and the lovely Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Right, on too…the links!
Running?
Justin Amash is looking closely at a presidential run. It will be interesting to see how he pulls it off under the current circumstances.
RAT WARS! They’re being hit almost as hard as women and minorities with this Coronavirus.
Won’t somebody think of the Karens? Man, journalists sure have a lot of free time do a deep dive into meaningless shit.
That as must-see TV
The White House briefing yesterday was insane(ly funny). I guess when Trump’s had enough, he’s had enough. CNN and MSNBC cut away once they realized he as trying to control the narrative they’d so meticulously crafted. Because playing their own words and then refuting them just isn’t acceptable.
Chicago Public Schools fails students even when they aren’t forced to go to classes. Biiiiig surprise there!
What the state takes away, the market provides. Lol, good for her!
Hopefully there will be many more of these lawsuits. And not just from pot shops, but from every market sector.
Look at this little fascist. I guess families are screwed should they need to go somewhere together.
Well, I tried to brighten the news a bit. I don’t know if I was completely successful, but I tried.
Enjoy this! And then have a great day.
Guess he pulled the short straw in the Libertarian Party’s “which failed Republican politician gets to run this year” contest.
Heh. I’m curious to see who gets the nomination. LP wants someone “serious”, I.e not the guy who Tom Woods is pushing.
Jim Gray (Gary Johnson’s 2012 running mate) is in there somewhere, I read.
Hornberger would get votes for his name alone.
Sure, I’m not trying to disparage him. I’m just saying that swaths of the LNC are going to oppose him because he is supported by Woods. But who do they have to counter?
Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to draft Hunter Biden.
Hornberger is a real guy? I thought that was just (D) party female code for Gropin’ Joe Biden. TIL at Glibs…
He has been around the party forever, running for Prez but stepping back for the “real” guys. I think he should get the shot. Worst case situation is Badnarik 2.
YES, HORNBERGER
Justin Amash is looking closely at a presidential run. It will be interesting to see how he pulls it off under the current circumstances. – needs some publicity or some campaign money? cause otherwise why? TO make a statement? I suppose…
Free munnies!
To lose.
It was hilarious…I’ve never watched so many press conferences before. Might as well change his name to Don Exotic. (I still don’t plan on watching Tiger King, the memes are enough)
Been having trouble commenting here. It just keeps loading and then when it does finish it says “duplicate comment”. The squirrels have total power!
F5 works on Chrome.
I like firefox though…
So Karens are also rats? In good news, there were protests in Columbus again. In work news, I’m not sure if there’s a usual after-Easter lull, or if everyone’s just gone into hunker mode.
Rat, snitch,…checks out. Too bad they aren’t cannibalizing each other yet.
Postal plant ran one shift today. Nice for me in the short-term, not so great going forward. Tomorrow will probably be nutso after the long weekend (digits crossed).
It was inevitable that the universal meme for busybodies and snitches would be shut down on unrelated grounds. It’s not about sexism, it’s about shutting down legitimate pushback.
That’s what the pushback against the pushback is always about. How about we just call them snitchy bitches?
They just got tired of being called Mrs. Grundy.
We could call them Nazi collaborators.
I’ve been thinking of just posting pics of collaborators in response to Karens but that could also be seen as sexist since the most instantly recognizable images are female collaborators with shaved heads.
True. The pictures of the slumped bodies of the male collaborators can be harder to understand.
Stukach. Or I guess the plural would be stukachi.
The TL;DR version of that piece: “Won’t somebody think of the cuntes?”
legit chuckle
Won’t somebody think of the Karens? Man, journalists sure have a lot of free time do a deep dive into meaningless shit. – duplicate link. I assume it is a guardian article from some white feminist who does not like losing oppressed points in this wild intersectional world of ours?
That article was funny. “I’m NOT an angry, stereotype!!!”
“I’m NOT an angry Stereotype! I wan’t to speak to your Manager, RIGHT NOW!!!!!”
Is there a male equivalent? I saw a reddit thread and none of the names made sense to me.
Maybe something like Melvin.
Me and Lady Z actually had a discussion about this last night. She was miffed that it seems to be a gendered phenomenon, but after I thought about it for a bit, I came up with a working hypothesis.
A “Karen” is really just a modern form of female bullying, using the traditional female axis of asserting dominance; i.e. social power. A male bully is more inclined to use physical power to the same ends. So the male equivalent is simply a “bully.”
I don’t know if that’s right, but it sounds right to me at least.
It seems plausible
. I was toying with an idea for an article that focused on the inroads progressivism made before and after the 19th amendment, focusing on cultural norms of women and men at the time, and how those impacted the acceleration nanny state, as an alternative to the hypothesis of it being driven by a feminine inbuilt biological predisposition toward authoritarianism.
“an urban rodentologist”
A Karenologist? Poly Sci major? Antifa? Inquiring minds need to know?
*Richard Attenborough Voice* “The Female seems disturbed and the Male displays his man-bun as a consequence. Clearly the Female knows who rules the roost in this habitat…”
Don’t you mean David? Richard was the actor.
Now I want to watch 10 Rillington Place again.
Sooory! That film gave me nightmares for years. I was always the one hiding the crime. Make of that what you will.
Please Stand By.
You have assumed control?
Attention: all planets of the Solar Feseration
Attention: all planets of the Solar Federation….
Oh we are, we are
Can I sit?
*waits for the image of the flapping American flag to appear through the static*
My glibbed brain read that as fapping.
…sounds about right.
It’s a clip of Towlie giving The Flag a Dutch Rudder.
I always liked this one.
I have more tabs open than an 80’s Weight Watchers meeting.
*narrows gaze*
Gud’un, Straffy!
The rats ate Karen? Sweet.
On top of the fine they’ll probably you charge with assaulting a law enforcement officer for breathing in their vicinity.
Judge Guerra added to the order that no more than two adults per vehicle will be allowed in the county. A fine up to $1,000 will also be issued if violated. – see, this is why polygamy does not work
What if you have a disabled adult child in addition to your spouse?
What if your adult child doesn’t have a drivers license?
What if you just don’t give a fuck what some retarded judge has to say about it?
Never mind that there is no functional difference between three people in a car and three people living in the same apartment.
We talked about this earlier.
Most people are incapable of seeing the big picture. Once you put a policy in place, servicing the policy becomes the objective.
I have seen it in the workplace many times. Entire processes grow up to accomplish a goal that is no longer relevant.
You want to know why a top-level CEO gets paid so much? Because they are people who can set an agenda independent of the existing procedures, processes and bureaucracy. That is also why a good COO o get spayed a lot. As do top level managers.
There have been many times when I saved another department thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a week simply by documenting their business process and explaining to them that they are spending a lot of time doing something that does not accomplish anything.
Politics stand this entire process on its head. When you put an elected person in charge, competence becomes irrelevant. The thing that becomes relevant is being charismatic, personable, and being able to Garner support from people who have no knowledge of the workings of the business.
“That is also why a good COO o get spayed a lot.”
Is it worth yer balls for a C-suite job?!
That is also why a good COO o get spayed a lot. As do top level managers.
As their power gets neutered the company tends to grow.
HA!
I have heard that eunuch programmers are in demand.
Ive heard that a Python is a requirement nowadays
It’s not part of the standard package.
I no shit had a CMO try to impress the engineering team that his product manager girlfriend totally knew what programming because she knew Eunuch.
I think he knew Eunuch.
I warned my Company nearly 30 years ago that they were treading dangerous ground, making changes for changes’ sake. They became enamored of the the new comptroller’s ideas, left their core business model in the dust and were bankrupt in three years. Hundreds out of work and everything that the patriarch had built up from nothing just a fart in the wind. I loved working there and I loved the people that I had the privilege to represent in the boardroom. It was a really cool, niche company that grew too fast.
Yup. It doesnt take much effort to destroy.
Worse, the destructor walks through his devastation to applause, until the last moment when it is already too late.
I don’t know how it works in your state but in mine, lawmaking is left to legislatures.
County judges here have some leeway when it comes to things, but these current orders waaaaay overstep it.
Of course, they control the docketing of their courts as well, so they can just schedule a challenge to the order for sometime in late August.
Can they control the schedule of their tarring and feathering?
Hopefully not.
Fortunately only a couple of these judges have gone full power-hungry. And I have a feeling Abbott may give them a swift kick in the balls later this week.
Czech women relieved from traditional Easter whipping ritual due to COVID-19 lockdown
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/europe-top-stories/czech-women-relieved-from-traditional-easter-whipping-ritual-due-to-covid-19-lockdown/ar-BB12AcZq?li=BBKxOeh&ocid=spartanntp
Young men have been asked to leave their whips at home this Easter as the Czech Republic’s COVID-19 lockdown leads to the suspension of a controversial Easter tradition.
Predominantly observed in rural communities on Easter Monday, young men go door-to-door and lightly whip women’s legs and buttocks with a switch, or pomlázka, made of willow rods and decorated with colourful ribbons. The pagan ritual, accompanied by a song relating to women’s eggs, is seen in folklore as a practice to ensure young women’s fertility and health.
Goddamnit
test
C-
orvid. Run!
STEVE SMITH FILL IN FOR FERTILITY PRACTICE!
STEVE NOT PRACTICE, STEVE EXECUTE!
The Dyngus Day festivities were held… online.
So apparently using the F5 trick makes the comment work better, but it posts where you posted the last comment not as a new thread. At least for me on firefox
Now Dyngus Day is “controversial”?
OFFS LOL.
I guess “Maypoles” are right out then.
one more time
I think I need an error to start a new thread
How do you people start new threads? I am well stuck in place
Hmm, public whipping. Sounds sexy.
Have I mentioned I like the Czech republic?
I have absolutely no clue where a judge gets the legal authority to issue a general order like that. Judges are in the dispute resolution business, not the handing down diktats business.
Texas (and Kentucky) use the title judge for a role more akin to head County Commissioner.
I thought they used it in the biblical sense.
I was just pointing out the oddity because RC seemed not to have encountered it. Maybe I was vague about it. Both Kentucky and Texas have an office titled judge which is the chief County Executive officer. In Kentucky it is Judge Executive in Texas it is a hybrid role including both executive and judicial functions called County Judge. In the US this is an unusual blending of functions, as we split the judicial role off from the executive, but traditionally they were united (hence the term court meaning both a place of dispute resolution and the officers working directly with the sovereign.
In Texas, it’s more related to the Spanish/Mexican alcalde. Pretty neat stuff historically speaking.
Young Julie Christie is on the “list”. Good Heavens she was stunning.
ETA – That is the best Police song.
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Virtual remote learning sessions are for students only. Parents, family members, etc. should not participate in the sessions.
Don’t want others to see what horseshit you’re doling out, eh?
This.
If a school sent me that I’d take the kids out immediately. As it Is my wife stopped doing their school stuff and teaching them on our own.
They don’t want parents helping their kids with schoolwork? What kind of idiotic shit is that?*
*I’d return the laptop and tell them to take a flying leap if they sent something like that to me. Not that I’d accept their laptop in the first place.
Chicago Public Schools fails students even when they aren’t forced to go to classes.
Maybe Bill Gates should get involved with this instead of funding fucked up models that helped destroy the economy.
I guess low-income people of non-color are on their own.
White people can’t be poor, just being white is already equivalent to earning $50k/yr.
No, they don’t get the actual cash, but it still counts.
I think I finally have them posted properly. That was frustrating to say the least. Especially since they were on time.
Thanks, Sloop. From 92 to 98, was there a better pitcher than Maddux?
Probably not, since Pedro Martinez peaked later.
You bastard, beat me to it. I blame a 504 bad gateway. Been getting a lot of those the last few days.
Pedro was a cool guy. When he played in Montreal and even when he visited the city while he was in Boston (which was apparently often enough because he loved it), he was very approachable. I even gave him a high five as he sat chilling on (in?) a sidewalk cafe downtown back in the day.
Nope. But from 97 to 03 Pedro Martinez was, IMHO, just as good.
This guy gets it.
I had an older fart once tell me Pedro in his prime was the closest thing he’s ever seen to a right-handed Sandy Koufax.
Maddux did it without the velocity that Pedro had.
But watching Maddux work in his prime was a thing of beauty that I havent seen before or after. I think the Pedro=Sandy comparison is probably pretty good.
Now off to see what baseball-reference thinks are the best comps.
Maddux:
Similar Pitchers
Don Sutton (862.7) *
Tim Keefe (853.9) *
Warren Spahn (853.6) *
Fergie Jenkins (836.5) *
Tom Seaver (833.9) *
Roger Clemens (831.0)
Kid Nichols (828.4) *
Gaylord Perry (826.7) *
Pete Alexander (826.5) *
Bert Blyleven (809.3) *
* – Signifies Hall of Famer
^^^That is a damn fine list and with no one over 900, it makes the player unique. And that list spans all of baseball history. Tim Keefe and Kid Nichols along with Clemens ? That is…odd.
Most Similar by Ages
Kirtley Baker (981.2) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mark Gubicza (979.7) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Storm Davis (978.4) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dan Petry (975.3) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mike Witt (972.7) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dennis Eckersley (975.4) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dennis Eckersley (969.5) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Denny McLain (971.6) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave McNally (945.9) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave McNally (944.9) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tom Seaver (935.8) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Juan Marichal (944.3) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Juan Marichal (949.5) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Juan Marichal (940.8) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Juan Marichal (935.3) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tom Seaver (904.3) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tom Seaver (887.3) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tom Seaver (871.5) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Fergie Jenkins (871.5) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tom Seaver (867.9) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Sutton (866.8) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Sutton (871.8) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* – Signifies Hall of Famer
Martinez:
Similar Pitchers
Justin Verlander (904.4)
Zack Greinke (878.0)
Roy Halladay (874.1) *
Curt Schilling (870.0)
Bob Caruthers (860.2)
Tim Hudson (852.1)
Whitey Ford (851.5) *
Dwight Gooden (851.1)
Max Scherzer (850.9)
Jon Lester (847.2)
* – Signifies Hall of Famer
^^^A much moe typical list. Not many HoFers, yet, but lots of guys who will be. Pedro was a trendsetter, it is like he was the model for the great pitchers of this era, doing it 20 years earlier. Maddux, on the other hand, was a throwback to a previous era.
Most Similar by Ages
David Palmer (985.6) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Charlie Kerfeld (965.9) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Larry Demery (952.8) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jake Peavy (980.7) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Kevin Appier (959.8) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roger Clemens (950.6) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roger Clemens (957.1) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Clayton Kershaw (949.4) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Clayton Kershaw (938.0) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Clayton Kershaw (952.6) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Clayton Kershaw (952.2) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roger Clemens (913.6) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roger Clemens (887.8) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roger Clemens (889.8) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Justin Verlander (890.0) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Justin Verlander (896.8) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Randy Johnson (883.9) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* – Signifies Hall of Famer
and Koufax for completion:
Similar Pitchers
Clayton Kershaw (912.9)
Max Scherzer (906.8)
Ron Guidry (905.8)
Jack Coombs (885.1)
David Price (878.8)
Johan Santana (875.2)
Jon Lester (874.5)
Adam Wainwright (873.5)
Cole Hamels (873.3)
Roy Oswalt (862.0)
Koufax doesnt have any real comparables. Most of those guys are still active, so won’t be comparable by the time they finish their career. Guidry is the best one. Great peak, very short career.
I am so glad that I got to see both Maddux’s and Pedro’s careers. They did it different ways, but man, they were both witches at their best. I forget who said it, but a player once quipped that “you could catch Maddux with a teacup.” And it wasn’t meant as an insult.
The most dominant game I ever saw pitched was Pedro’s near-perfect against the Yankees – and that was a fucking lineup, too. It was after David Cohn had pitched his perfect game earlier that season, IIRC, and Cohn said Pedro’s game was more dominant than his perfect game. It was. One gork single over the first-base side and then he dominated whoever came up next.
The thing that always killed me watching Maddux was that it looked like he was throwing a goddamn wiffle ball. That ball had insane movement when he wanted it to – and then he’d freeze guys looking at an 89 mph fastball on the black because they were just baffled by what he’d thrown before. No one set up hitters better than Greg Maddux. No one.
Some other HOFer, whose name I cannot recall, said that Maddox had a mind like a computer. If you ever got lucky enough to hit a homer off Maddux, you could be certain that you would never see that pitch again the rest of your career.
‘The thing that always killed me watching Maddux was that it looked like he was throwing a goddamn wiffle ball. That ball had insane movement when he wanted it to – and then he’d freeze guys looking at an 89 mph fastball on the black because they were just baffled by what he’d thrown before. No one set up hitters better than Greg Maddux. No one.’
So much this. What was even more impressive to me was how he could expand the strike zone incrementally through the course of a game. I swear, when he was at his best all four corners of the strike zone grew and inch or two from the first to the sixth. The best “painter” pitching I’ve ever seen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html
If you are going to lie to yourself and rationalize…. Go big, or go home!
From the interview:
Why was Kavanaugh treated differently?
Kavanaugh was already in a public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh’s status as a Supreme Court justice was in question because of a very serious allegation. And when I say in a public way, I don’t mean in the public way of Tara Reade’s. If you ask the average person in America, they didn’t know about the Tara Reade case. So I thought in that case, if The New York Times was going to introduce this to readers, we needed to introduce it with some reporting and perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very different situation. It was a live, ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment moment.
OFFS
That is some seriously weak shit right there.
That is just special pleading (as most rationalization is, but it’s particularly naked). It’s so wrong im not sure it’s even worth detailing what is wrong.
Yeah, don’t bother, it’s either an out and out lie or it’s delusion.
More and more I find myself using curse words to dismiss these arguments out of hand because they are so lazily mendacious that I don’t want to waste time on them.
It’s like arguing with a moody teenager.
Everybody knows a confirmation hearing is a bigger political story than a presidential election. It’s a
scientificjournalistic fact!It was just a different news judgment moment.
What the fuck is a “news judgment movement”? And do you need toilet paper or a bidet when you finally excrete it onto the front page (or page 21 in the case of the Biden-Reade story)?
Oops. I read that as “movement”. You know, because the NYT is shit.
It was “a different news judgment moment”, because one was a Republican and one is a Democrat, and the Democrat is on their team while the Republican is the opposition.
I wish they would just have the honesty to say it.
On Easter Sunday of all days, certainly a big news day.
So they’re saying Biden is NOT in a public forum in a large way?
They must have been so proud to type that idiocy.
Do you think that, in your heart, you’re reluctant to promote a story that would hurt Joe Biden and get Donald Trump re-elected?
I can’t make that calculation. I won’t. I won’t let my head or my heart go there. I think once you start making those kinds of calculations, you are not a journalist anymore. You’re some sort of political actor.
The self-denial is impressive.
It reminds me of drug addiction. These journalists are like the junkie who keeps refusing to acknowledge his habit. If they keep denying the reality, they can continue shooting up smack without remorse.
Note: I hold heroin junkies in higher esteem than journalists.
Hey, I’m just chipping!
This is saying that they didn’t feel they should report on it because they had not yet reported on it. Les Journalistes a la lanterne!
Judging by the photo evidence, Tara was pretty hot back in the before times. Not that I’d FINGERBANG anybody without their consent but Come on, Man! I’m Joe fucking Biden!
What is it that dies in darkness again?
Ask not for Whom the Lampost Stands. It Stands for Thee!
High dudgeon
To a watching world, the absence of a fair, affordable US healthcare system, the cut-throat contest between American states for scarce medical supplies, the disproportionate death toll among ethnic minorities, chaotic social distancing rules, and a lack of centralised coordination are reminiscent of a poor, developing country, not the most powerful, influential nation on earth.
That’s a title the US appears on course to lose – a fall from grace that may prove irreversible. The domestic debacle unleashed by the pandemic, and global perceptions of American selfishness and incompetence, could change everything. According to Walt, Trump has presided over “a failure of character unparalleled in US history”.
Do Americans realise how far their country’s moral as well as financial stock has fallen? Perhaps at this time of extreme stress, it seems not to matter. But it will matter later on – for them and for the future international balance of power.
Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister, said he hoped the crisis would force a fundamental US rethink about “whether the ‘America first’ model really works”. The Trump administration’s response had been too slow, he said. “Hollowing out international connections comes at a high price,” Maas warned.
Is there nothing President Cartoon Villain cannot undo?
“Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister, said he hoped the crisis would force a fundamental US rethink about “whether the ‘America first’ model really works”.”
And he’s not American so he’s certainly unbiased. If the US started to intervene and dictate more they would be mad. Because the US government is supposed to transfer wealth from America to them I guess.
Oh noes!! The world lecturing us about morals is a new thing we have not experienced before!
Dude, your country exterminated 6 million Jews. You may want to sit out the discussion about governmental morality and be glad we didn’t let the Red Army hang every single one of your ancestors from a lamppost.
das ist richtig
“ The ‘Karen’ meme is everywhere – and it has become mired in sexism”
by Hadley Freeman
Fuck off Karen
We should start a “Hadley” meme meaning journalists who banally spin everything into identity politics.
Hadleys gonna Hadley….nah
Don’t be a Hadley….hrm
Whatever Hadley….nope
I dunno maybe I am not good as this. it must be because of the sexism.
i tried..comments were eaten. wonder if Hadley also pondered on the Ok Boomer…nah, not Hadley enough.
Hmm.. Hadley’d It!
“Trying” to control the narrative? He grabbed the wheel and steered the narrative right up their collective ass. Even Fauci is showing signs of being fed up with their bullshit.
He should. Despite being a 30 some odd year veteran of Washington political circles, he has let the Press beat him into opposition quotes a few times.
I thought the narrative is Fauci is fed up with Trump?
Wake me up when he’s fired.
President Trump on Monday used the White House briefing room to lash out at critics of his response to the coronavirus outbreak, rattling off a litany of grievances about press coverage and airing a reel of cable news footage that portrayed his actions in a positive light.
What a dope. Doesn’t he understand those briefings are only held for the purpose of making HIM look bad?
They are so very proud of themselves for their new strategy! They’ve been doing this for the last few days, cutting away and claiming that Trump is lying so they cannot in good conscience air it.
MSNBC gets a major bonus for cutting off Trump because he is calling them out on their lies and mischaracterization, smash cut to them putting up an expert who claims that Trump is engaging in the biggest disinformation campaign since Vietnam.
He should just boot outfits that do that out of the press pool. Either show it or don’t but don’t slice and dice it in real time for maximum effect, that’s just not cricket.
Justin Amash is looking closely at a presidential run.
Cuomo/Amash 2020?
Trump hasn’t provided enough hyperventilators.
Something something Amash is a Chinese virus unleashed on the US something something.
It’s a little late to be starting a Presidential campaign, isn’t it?
Oh, he’s running for 2024.
For who, the LP? He’ll never ever get the Republican or Democratic nomination.
Obey was, not kidding, the name of our congress critter when I was a kid. Yard signs with “Obey” all over the place during election season.
Poor Sloopy…the link says independent run.
If you can’t comment on links you haven’t read then what’s the point?
I never thought he was trying to get the LP nomination.
Right, I am saying the answer was in the link you provided.
Perot announced on 2/20/1992, so he is only a little late.
Perot announced for 2024 in 1992?
I guess he needed to get it rolling early.
Fascist to the left of me, Karen’s to the right. Here I am fucked due to minor Kung flu.
^^^
This is how you flame someone in an editorial
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/13/adam-schiff-and-his-impeachment-fairies-go-full-wu/
“Impeachment fairies”!! LOL
Asked where the video came from, Trump said it was produced in the White House in the hours before the briefing.
The admission of the apparent blurring of White House business with campaign promotion promptly drew the attention of ethics watchdogs.
“So our tax dollars and the presidential mansion we own are now being used to broadcast campaign ads?” tweeted Walter Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics.
Thank Heaven nobody in Congress uses their office as a platform from which to campaign.
That’s different, I suppose.
I saw a CNN chyron that said (paraphrased) “Trump uses taxpayer money to produce propaganda video.” Ah, so now they’re concerned about taxpayer money.
Tard Tuesday: Withered Hags Are Hot
Good chance to work on his draw.
Trump is so juvenile and stupid amirite?
…
LMAO PICTURES OF NANCY PELOSI! I AM MASTER TROLL!
Imma file that under shit that ain’t really happening.
This. Social media is rife with people posting about shit that never happened anywhere except their imagination. SAVAGE!
This. Social media is rife with shit that never happened except in people’s imaginations. SAVAGE!
In non-wu news…
The true scandal is how Trump handles covid. Anything else is in the past.
Now … one last try
Tard Tuesday: We’ll Just Call You Starvin’ Marvin
Before I click, lemme guess….DU?
Too easy, you don’t find that kind of retardation just anywhere.
Emptying the asylums was a mistake.
“Totally agree.
We need to carefully plan a way back. Look to the countries that are successfully navigating the way, and emulate their tactics. Widespread testing. Antibody testing. Masks required to enter stores and workplaces. Extend social distancing tools. Tracking and tracing cases and spread. It can be done, but it has to be planned and extensive.”
These people are straight up certifiable illiberal and ignorant mental cases.
“…I know many who are suffering with the economic shutdown but our loved one’s lives are much more important than money.”
So why aren’t you doing your bit and suffering too you piece of shit? Did he consider what real thinkers who truly care are concerned in terms of social consequences? They conclude: Domestic violence, obesity, suicide, broken marriages/divorce (I can just hear the response to this one: Then the marriage wasn’t strong in the first place! This ties in nicely with their ‘you don’t deserve to be in business if you can’t pay a living wage), bankruptcies etc.
Evil. These people are EVIL. So when they spew venom about how much they hate Trump they’re actually projecting their hate of humans as a whole. They couldn’t care less about ‘saving lives’.
Wonder what this clown does for a living – if anything.
our loved one’s lives are much more important than money.
And if your loved ones have no money because State tyrants won’t let them work?
It was hilarious…I’ve never watched so many press conferences before. Might as well change his name to Don Exotic. (I still don’t plan on watching Tiger King, the memes are enough)
Dooo eeeet.
I’m glad to see they’re at least talking about it. Need action though.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/task-force-meeting-to-discuss-reopening-ohios-economy-april-14-2020
The White House briefing yesterday was insane(ly funny).
And Jim Acosta is concerned.
Acosta said, “I have to tell you, that is the biggest meltdown I have ever seen from a President of the United States in my career. I don’t think a reasonable person could watch what we just saw over the last hour and conclude that the president is in control. He sounds like he is out of control. He was ranting and raving for the better part of the last hour during that news conference. As John King was just saying, he’s claiming he has authorities that he doesn’t have.”
Having not had the opportunity to watch the relevant part of the briefing I feel confident eonough to tell you to eat shit, Jim.
Trump did claim to have authority he doesn’t have. States rights are now in vouge on the left.
50D chess
Ironically, the Governors are exercising control they don’t have – Cuomo was complaining “we don’t have a King” but just this week said he had authority over NYC related to opening, schools, resources, etc.
There is only One Lord of the Rings and he does not share his power
Yeah we’re in a moment where there is no liberty friendly side. It’s all authoritarian squabling.
Only if you have no idea what is going on – par for the course for a journalist, especially one with TDS. The POTUS has the authority to issue a National Emergency (which he did on March 10/11) so the POTUS can rescind it at the discretion of the office. Governors can do similar emergency orders in their states. If the POTUS rescinds the National Emergency, that doesn’t cancel any individual governor’s declarations for his/her state.
So the journalists got a hold of his Twitter?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249712404260421633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/APWestRegion/status/1249927525805023234
The idea that civil liberties are being violated is just fringe.
I’ve been wondering if Trump was referring to the 50 state emergency declaration. That or some other authority Congress granted him may give him additional authority he didn’t have before.
Whether that is constitutional I doubt it but there might be something to what Trump said, and not something Trump just made up.
Who would ever listen to this guy? GOP Rep. Massie Warns US is ‘Weeks Away, Not Months,’ From Food Shortages
During the interview, Massie raised concerns about the fact that while there is livestock, farms have no where to send them because meat processing plants have shut down because of the virus. “You have people running the government that have no clue about how the economy works and how their food gets to the table,” Massie said.
Massie explained that six of the largest processing plants are shut down.
“I’m afraid you’re going to see … cattle and hogs being euthanized or incinerated and buried while we have shortages at the supermarket. And you talk about civil unrest when you start seeing that. And it’s all because of the brittle food supply chain,” he said.
The Kentucky representative said that he has also introduced a bill to help prevent a shortage.
Food shortages in a centrally planned police state? Well I’ll be damned.
If we declare Supermarkets Super-essential we can turn it around.
If true, shit’s about to get real yo.
It’s true. It all has to do with FDA regulations. Supply chains for wholesalers are different than those for retailers under the current scheme. So the supply chains for processors who send meat to distributors that supply restaurants can’t just start sending them to grocery stores.
Massie wants the rules changed so this can happen and those plants can start back to work and can send the meat to grocery stores.
If we keep closing factories every time someone sneezes we are truly fucked.
Speaking of that…
Some steak houses are selling the dry aged beef they’ve got in stock so people can cook it at home.
I’ll be in my bunk.
“We’d like to show you notifications for the latest news and updates.”
*immediately closes tab*
If they are going to euthanize cattle and hogs I can find a place for a couple of each. I will even come pick them up.
This
Boating accidents.
Are you building an ark?
*does the sign of the cross from forehead across chest and grabs crotch gangsta style*
Yes, yes I am.
It worked for FDR.
Great story animal.
Looks like squirrels have eaten my post about the Glibs poker game this Wednesday night. Let me try it again.
If you don’t already have it, download the free PokerStars software from http://www.pokerstars.net
Open the main poker lobby, then click on the Home Games tab
Click the ‘Join a Poker Club’ button
Enter my Club ID number: 3465229
Enter my Invitation Code: fuckofftupla
The first game will be held on Wednesday, at 9pm Eastern. I’ll set up a separate discord room for us to use voice while we play.
Register early. Also, send me an email at bampowgal at g m ail.com with your glib name and what name you’re registered to on Pokerstars.
First game we’ll do honor system. it’s a 20 dollar buy in. Keep track, and be sure to send that twenty to the winner’s paypal after the game.
If we make this regular, we’ll work out a better system going forward.
Did the Bandit deliver the beer?
Good morning, Sloopy!
The pot-shop lawsuits make me happy. Every tin-pot dictator who declared any business ‘non-essential’ should pay a price.
Amash is bizarre. He appears to have shot himself in the dick for no gain whatsoever. Well done, Justin.
I liked the Police, but that song was really the beginning of the end. Sting got free rein to let his pretentious douchebag flag fly and he took full advantage of it.
From a more innocent time.
Have a great day, everyone. You fucking well earned it!
Is that from Everyone Stares? I like that movie (Copeland’s documentary).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492968
Not sure. It was in the sidebar of Sloop’s contribution.
Thanks for the link, though! It looks like a fun doc!
So I closed the website and reopened instead of refreshing. Let’s see
The Difference A Year Can Make
https://street-hooker.com/2020/04/13/the-difference-a-year-can-make/
The story of a british former drug addict former sex worker. While probably nothing of particular note, I wonder what healthcare options would be available to such people in libertopia. And how fully decriminalised drugs / sexwork / etc would influence thing. Charities? Churches? Drug free brothels offering accommodation and a counseling in exchange for work?
All that people were willing to provide?
well obviously, but how much would that be? I would think society would be richer and some people more inclined to charity… I assume it depends on how “morally strict” the society would be…
Why would someone with a trade (sex worker) need charity? You don’t think there will be people wanting to pay for sex in Libertopia?
There are such people now but it did not seem enough for her or other basically homeless sex workers…
Yeah, because her customers are always under threat of being tossed in jail or being publicly shamed by the government if they voluntarily engage in a transaction with her.
well I did consider in the original comment that decrim would change thing.
There is no liberal media bias in which news stories political journalists choose to cover
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/eaay9344
Using a unique combination of a large-scale survey of political journalists, data from journalists’ Twitter networks, election returns, a large-scale correspondence experiment, and a conjoint survey experiment, we show definitively that the media exhibits no bias against conservatives (or liberals for that matter) in what news that they choose to cover. This shows that journalists’ individual ideological leanings have unexpectedly little effect on the vitally important, but, up to this point, unexplored, early stage of political news generation.
Using these unique combinations of things sure is bias free
goddamnit
It’s anecdotal but the “stroll” I need to drive trough every night seems to have shut down.
Hmm. Posted how to get in to the Glib poker game tomorrow night. Looks like none of my posts from the past two threads went through.
This will be my last go at getting this info out.
download Pokerstars. Choose “join a poker club”
The club is 3465229. The pw is “fuckofftulpa”
Tourney is tomorrow night at 9pm eastern.
I really hope this gets posted. Damned squirrels.
well I won’t make it at that time but have fun.
Damn, I have a exam review session to lead then. Maybe next time.
I tried to sign up for the club, but it said the club ID and/or password were not correct.
I’m interested in joining the game, but want to be sure it’ll work before downloading.
RAT WARS!
Gordon Ramsey hardest hit (worldwide shortage of walkins for him to criticize).
93-year-old woman gets hefty Coors Light delivery after viral plea for more beer
So they sent her Coors but when does she get her beer?
Are you complaining about shipments of potable water now? There’s no pleasing you people.
Hey, it’s watery but it counts as beer.
The replay officials have buzzed down….and the ruling is…OVERRULED, it is not beer!
It’s the beer you serve to the hired help. 3rd running of the grain.
Nah, the ABV level is the same, but 3rd runnings have more flavor than light beer. And a higher FG. Which is one and the same.
Well, I tried to brighten the news a bit. I don’t know if I was completely successful, but I tried.
Worked for me Sloop. Thanks for the links. *This comment is a switch to Safari browser commenting test.*
Damn. I forgot how to use tags.
Jersey Man makes his stand against this insanity – at Wawa of course.
“He also allegedly threatened a customer in the store that he was going to hit him with a pipe.”
His arrest may have more to do with this than his refusal to wear a mask.
Let us give old edge a try
Edge seems to not post the comment, but it gives no error and it posts
Poor Fredo had another roid-rage incident. “I hate my day job that I get handsomely paid for WAH!”
*chuckle*
He’s so unfortunate that he was forced to be a handsomely paid shill.
“I don’t value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.”
Interesting since you engage in that on a daily basis.
“That matters to me more than making millions of dollars a year … because I’ve saved my money and I don’t need it anymore,” he said.
How nice for you.
Fredo is asshole.
Know what I think? I’m no Viennese brioche or psychiatrist or anything like that but that reads like someone with a guilty conscience.
He keeps calling Trump ‘full of shit’ but he’s actually projecting.
I’ve given up arguing. I’m just retrenching and waiting for the next assault.
350 thousand people in our part of the Province. 26 cases. No deaths. Nearly every case confined to a nursing home. You do the math because I’m too pissed off to bother.
“ Cuomo said his battle with COVID-19 has made him rethink his values and question his position as a public figure.”
I’m sure we’ll see him doing a societally useful job like stocking grocery shelves or hanging off the back of a garbage truck in no time.
Oh come on, he’d fuck up both those jobs, and you know it.
I said it upthread and I’ll say it again. Les journalistes a la lanterne.
Word(s) of the Day: “As Drunk as Chloé”
A thread on Chloé
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1249771881206624257
*insert Guardian article about how “Drunk Chloe” is misogynistic and racist*
I know many who are suffering with the economic shutdown but our loved one’s lives are much more important than money.
Comrade Stalin will fix all this. We’ll all live lives of peaceful contentment, once we’re rid of the Tsar and his lackeys.
This is a husband who will wear his “I was right” hat for a lifetime.
I need one of those.
Awful, but glad they are alive.
I’ve seen pictures of the steel shelters after a tornado as essentially the only thing standing.
A group of marijuana dispensaries have sued Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker over his decision to shutdown recreational pot operations in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
My experience with potheads suggests that marijuana slows everything down.
“What does a yellow light mean?”
“It’s charging”
During the interview, Massie raised concerns about the fact that while there is livestock, farms have no where to send them because meat processing plants have shut down because of the virus. “You have people running the government that have no clue about how the economy works and how their food gets to the table,” Massie said.
He’s not wrong.
He’s 100% right. But it isn’t just the people in government.
There are many meat processing plants here and I had a doc tell me the other day that they need to close because social distancing doesn’t work in these places.
I asked her if she were ready to slaughter dinner in her garage. She said that the stores are re-stocked and that there is plenty of food. I tapped out.
People really don’t understand the magic of the market.
That’s just indicates a lack of integrative thinking, maybe finding a new doc is in order.
Most peoples’ (including many very accomplished professionals) understanding of electricity is that it comes from an outlet.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is very real and very dangerous.
There’s also the Goldratt Theory of Constraints at play here. Specialists have a tendency to over-optimize their small portion of the system while ignoring the rest of it, leading to ignored bottlenecks.
Yes, which is why I’m so angry about so-called non-essential businesses. With the exception of the State, there is quite literally nothing that isn’t an essential part of the system. You can’t just remove part and expect it to keep going.
Where did you get your avatar?
Harrison Ford was kind enough to pose for me.
JK, I shopped it.
Do you have a request?
The shading is really nicely done, so convincing that theyre both under the same lighting.
Thanks, I got lucky on the mask image.
Yeh and it’s coming from doctors. They may be smart but they’re capable of being fools and ignorant too.
I had a doctor friend tell me, ‘I’ll be fine’ after I told him I can’t go more than two months in shutdown for the business without incurring substantial debt or worse. I’m in a labour intensive industry.
REALLY pissed me off.
Like I said, stop listening to medical bureaucrats. Of course they’re gonna advocate a complete shut down.
“No, what you’re really saying is that YOU’LL be fine, you narcissistic moron!”
Exactly.
i try to keep my distance with him but we have this King Arthur/Mordred relationship going.
But his presumptuous arrogance is grating.
*face-palm*
She said that the stores are re-stocked
And when that supply dries up?…
I think the elites don’t get this because they typically go on this pipeline from ritzy private schools to Ivy League universities to cushy careers in media/government/academia and never see first-hand how all this shit gets made. I’ve talked to people who are puzzling themselves over “why these companies don’t just make more food”. Like they just have a fucking Star Trek replicator in there and can crank out as much food as they want and they’re just not doing it.
Sometimes I think the populace would be a little smarter if everyone worked in a factory for a year just so some of them might realize that goods and services don’t just come out of a magical portal.
According to the order, all persons over the age of 5 are required to wear some form of covering over their nose and mouth at all times when entering a building such as a grocery store, pharmacy or convenience store. A person can be fined up to $1,000.
I wonder how they would take it if I sneezed into the citation and gave it back.
Would it surprise anyone if the people who call for a complete shutdown probably think Greta is a hero?
No, because their names begin with “Greta”. The Karen meme ain’t going anywhere until the pants-shitting stops.
An unfortunate bout of sincerity on my part, I apologize:
Question, especially for lawglibs,
Obviously Trump has no authority to close or reopen “the economy.” However, if he were to say to however many of the TLAs are supposed to deal with this sort of thing “that governor over there is violating his citizen’s 1A rights to peaceably assemble. Arrest him.” And then some federal marshals and a tactical team show up at a governor’s mansion, would that be legitimate?
Why not? Ever hear of that champion of freedom named Abe Lincoln?
That is a good question. But I am one of those uneducated rubes who ackshoely believed that horse shit about ‘we hold these truths to be self evident………..and is why we create governments’. I think that ship left the barn.
His best move might be to emulate the Fed crackdown on the states to impose the 55mph speed limit. No federal funds, especially no bailout or support money, for states that do not open all businesses for business.
Since the constitution does not give the federal government police power, it would not be legitimate.
A guy tries to play real-life GTA in San Francisco and gets wasted.
Someone bought him drinks? / only read the comment
The other kind of “Wasted”. Never played GTA I take it?
The police then tried to subdue the suspect, including tasing his butt twice but to no avail. [insert Benny Hill music] The suspect then got into a police car and took off, which led to a chase.
I was curious as to how a californian could get way with exercising the freedom to bear arms like that.
off-duty police officer
Well i guess the public is just lucky that the criminal was unlucky enough to try this on one of the kings men.
‘I’m Young, Healthy, And I Exercise Five Times A Week—And COVID-19 Came For Me Anyway’
Oops, wrong link, here it is: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/m-young-healthy-exercise-five-110000734.html
All those things do not make one guaranteed immune from colds, just improves chances.
I’m 45 years old and originally from Australia – that aint young
I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, and I’m vegan. – vegan don’t make you healthy
My lifestyle didn’t protect me from the novel coronavirus like I thought it would – why would you think that?
” and I’m vegan.”
Wouldn’t surprise me if that is the problem – too much exercise for the limited amount of nutrition. I’ve met vegans who exercise frequently and some look like skeletons.
My first serious girlfriend was a vegan. She was either sick or tired 100% of the time. No exceptions.
And healthy people catch the flu and die from it every year.
“I got sick and recovered, pay attention to me!”
States have a pulse? Must be that we’re returning to the Articles of Confederation
/ahistorical idiot
Well you see the Constitution removed the states as sovreigns and just became administrative units of the whole Nation.
I mean, we never should have left. The Anti-Federalists were right on the money.
Statistics – how does it work?
Speaking of food shortages-
I went to Albertson’s yesterday. They have gone Total Covid Control. There now ppears to be an “In” door and an “Out” door, with one way markers in the isles. Also a Maximum shoppers limit, fortunately not being enforced. I only needed a couple of things, and I just ignored it all. Fuck Albertson’s.
Also- I have been seeing signs about “Limit 2 per shopper per trip”. That sounds nice, but what if you have a large family with multiple hungry kids? Will they give you an amended ration card?
Most American kids are overfat. Give em less.
It’s all pandemic theater. They’re doing their best to accommodate people without running afoul of the authorities. The limits are to discourage the panic shoppers, they probably won’t enforce them unless you are going crazy with the amount you buy.
Not in my case. The national-chain grocery store has limit of 2 signs up for eggs, beef, bread, and bunch of other stuff. There had been limit of 2 signs up for the milk but those were finally gone last time I went and plenty of milk. I grabbed my normal shopping run of 4 gallons.
Manager took them from me at the register and explained there’s a limit of 2. My pointing out there were no signs fell on deaf ears. She also didn’t care that I have 3 kids that go through 7 gallons/week. I have to hit 3 different stores in one trip to get enough milk for the week.
That’s why I said “probably”, there’s always your over-zealous enforcers out there. And some stores might be struggling with shortages more than others.
How the stores have handled this (both of their own initiative and under government threat) have proven that policy has absolutely no connection whatsoever to stated goals.
Remember that we are supposed to be socially distancing, and yet… stores are cutting hours and limiting purchases. That means you have to go to the store more often and you have to spend your time there around more people.
Exactly. Just like security theater has little to do with security.
“Andrew Cuomo calls Donald Trump ‘schizophrenic’ for claiming ‘total authority’ to re-open the U.S. and threatens a lawsuit if president orders New Yorkers back to work saying ‘George Washington was president, not King Washington'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8217495/Andrew-Cuomo-calls-Donald-Trump-schizophrenic-claiming-total-authority-open-U-S.html
5D Go Fish?
He’s already on record praising Trump on some things. He needs to tow the lion if he wants to get that nod.
Titty Tuesday is anything but fake news.
http://archive.li/5oxxV
21…
Are you saying none of those are fake?
13 and 19
Now that is how you negotiate.
A it’s easy to get good deals when the people sitting across the table from you are unaccountable apparatchiks who are spending other people’s money.
And the union and pols are on the same team, opposed to the people who pay their salaries.
This is why (although the opposite) George Meany opposed pubsec unions.
Les enseignantes a la lanterne.
I’m going to run out of lampposts before this ends.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8216869/Demi-Rose-gets-spiritual-poses-bikini-lockdown.html
She’d break the lamppost.
As a public figure, Cuomo said, he has to tolerate other people’s opinions of him — and it’s just not worth it to him anymore.
“I don’t think it’s worth it to me because I don’t think I mean enough, I don’t think I matter enough, I don’t think I can really change anything, so then what am I really doing?”
“I’m basically being perceived as successful in a system that I don’t value,” he continued. “I’m seen as being good at being on TV and advocating for different positions … but I don’t know if I value those things, certainly not as much as I value being able to live my life on my own terms.”
When the biker confronted him, Cuomo said, he’d wanted to respond, getting heated when he detailed how the guy “didn’t know the rules” and how he’d made sure to take social-distancing measures.
But “here I am in an almost powerless position against this ass—- because I’m a celebrity and he’s allowed to say whatever he wants to me.”
Being a full time professional liar really takes it out of you, eh, Fredo? And those peasants, calling you out on your lies. It makes one’s blood boil.
He’s smart.
Crazy how objective attractiveness is just what two dudes thought about the participants, but sometimes that’s just science, baby!
https://twitter.com/itsbirdemic/status/1249749346914009089
Objectively attractive
“CIA ‘warns its workforce of potentially fatal side-effects’ of Malaria drug that was hailed by Donald Trump as a ‘game changer’ in the battle against Covid-19
CIA employees have been privately warned against taking an anti-malaria drug hailed by Donald Trump as a ‘game changer’ in the war on coronavirus.
Sudden death is one of the suspected side effects of hydroxychloroquine, according to the intelligence agency in a memo to its workforce posted online.
Despite a lack of medical evidence, the President has heavily promoted the drug as a possible treatment for Covid-19, which has killed 23,675 and infected 588,421 in the United States.
But amid positive noises surrounding the drug emerging from the daily White House press briefings, Langley made its concern clear.
Hydroxychloroquine is ‘not recommended to be used by patients except by medical professionals prescribing it as part of ongoing investigation studies,’ according to the advice seen by the Washington Post.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216659/CIA-warns-workforce-potentially-dangerous-effects-Malaria-drug.html
Is Wapo making shit up again, or is this the deep state taking a jab at Trump?
Both.
I don’t understand why there are no clearer conclusions about Hydroxychloroquine after all these months. We should know by now if it works
It’s become politically charged and no amount of clinical evidence will convince the “only double blind studies are valid and useful” crowd..that’s why.
Who oddly have a large overlap with the “Global warming is settled science, no matter what the data says” crowd.
“after all these months. ”
Try 60+ years. The WHO may be managed by morons, but the drug has been on their list of essential medicines for decades.
Look, i’m totally fine with the CIA being out of commision due to the ‘VID
Hydroxychloroquine is ‘not recommended to be used by patients except by medical professionals
Who the fuck said otherwise? It’s a prescription drug. Unless your doctor is writing it for you, you’re not taking it.
Hey, that FUD isn’t going to spread itself.
That would make sense, but you left off the other half:
Hydroxychloroquine is ‘not recommended to be used by patients except by medical professionals prescribing it as part of ongoing investigation studies
That excludes virtually all doctors from writing a prescription except for the handful of investigators in a sanctioned trial study.
So, what they’re saying is they, as spooks, are better equipped to make these decisions than actual doctors.
Makes sense.
Pretty much, though makes perfect sense when you look at decisions through the TDS lens
I think the CIA is admitting that its employees can’t read dosing instructions or side-effect lists.
So they’re no longer giving it to CIA spooks who are doing deep state shit in Central America?
My guess is yes they are. I guarantee the CIA requires its employees who work in malaria zones to take hydroxychloroquine or another anti-malarial.
I’d bet money you’re correct. But hey let’s not let logic and facts get in the way of a good narrative.
According to Wiki, which I actually trust for this sort of thing, hydroxychloroquine only causes heart trouble in overdose. This drug has been around since the ’50s; any serious adverse effects are very well known. This is a shame, disgusting and purely partisan attack on a drug for no other reason except ORANGEMANBAD.
I linked to it below as well, but the CDC also did a study on choroquine in 2005 as a treatment for SARS (also a coronavirus).
Why are we paying for CDC studies if we are going to ignore them?
So wait, now I’m *not* supposed to eat this aquarium cleaner, like Trump told me to?
‘not recommended to be used by patients except by medical professionals prescribing it as part of ongoing investigation studies,’
As with any drug that requires a prescription. . . Trump did not tell anyone to start popping pills at random and/or imbibe fish tank cleaner.
I learned a new word
Interoception
Description
Interoception is contemporarily defined as the sense of the internal state of the body. This can be both conscious and non-conscious.
If you had asked,. I would have assumed it is what you use an interocitor for
“A McDonald’s restaurant in China has allegedly banned black people from entering the store out of fears that they might be coronavirus carriers.
A video recently circulating online showed a customer holding a sign that read: ‘We’ve been informed from now on black people are not allowed to enter the restaurant.’ The store is believed to be located in the southern Chinese city Guangzhou.
The footage sparked uproar online after the fast-food chain was accused of fuelling the rising xenophobia, particularly towards African nationals, in the country.
McDonald‘s said the notice ‘is not representative of our inclusive values’. The US fast-food giant has temporarily closed the branch, according to a statement.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216965/McDonalds-China-bans-black-people-entering-fears-coronavirus.html
There are black people in China?
Side-effect of the Belt and Road initiative.
Correct, they’re the new African colonial bosses.
Coal dust
“see, it’s comin right off…”
Favorite sign ever was a store in Okinawa that said “We welcome you jungle brothers. Even though you sometimes steal”
For a week it was like a tourist attraction, with all the Marines showing up to take pictures in front of it (dark and light greens all thought it was funny as shit). Then the store owner finally took it down and the fun was over.
Cartman’sWinston’s mom says there are a lot of black people in China.Just the Wakandan delegation and some NBA stars.
Healthcare continues to be overwhelmed by the emptiness.
I’m starting to get the feeling that this summer is really gonna suck economically. I mean REALLY suck.
If it is only this summer that would be astoundingly good news.
This is a moment in history when we took the entire populace and focused them on one thing. Statists for decades will point to this as such a great moment of unification across the country and evidence that we can overcome if we all work together.
They will ignore the poverty that was created.
They might, but I doubt the rest of us will.
The people who matter will ignore the poverty they created. As to what the people who don’t matter think, well, who cares? They don’t matter.
Yep – Nobody is getting their bread and butter tests – cholesterol, Vitamin D, paps, lipid panels, blood sugar, derm tissue samples, drug screens for new employees…
Those corona tests can only be done on a few machines in a few of their labs.
Private healthcare struggling during a government mandated shutdown will be used as proof that the healthcare system needs to be run by the government.
“Walter Shaub
@waltshaub
·
Apr 12
The Post Office survived 245 years, a revolution, an empire striking back, a civil war, a world war, a depression, a 2nd world war, a cold war and all the rest. If it dies now, it’ll be one more piece of America destroyed by Trump — likely because he’s afraid of mail-in voting.”
And it will survive your dumbass comments too.
He left out the challenge from Spooner’s American Mail Letter Company. Which the post office shut down by enforcing their monopoly.
“Survived” is an interesting word to use for an organization that can’t exist without federal funding.
What do any of those things have to do with the history of the Postal Service?
Asshole obviously never interacted with the Chicago Post Office. Which makes Michelle Obama an ever dumber piece of shit.
A it’s easy to get good deals when the people sitting across the table from you are unaccountable apparatchiks who are spending other people’s money.
WINNER!
You laugh, but I’m employed by a company that is sucking hard at the public educational teat and that attitude is funding my beer purchases. Yay, unaccountable apparatchiks!
It is all about the safety! Or maybe not.
Nice police work there Lou. It is like cops and prosecutors will use any new law for things it wasn’t intended for. Who’d a thunk?
were sometimes “mean-spirited” in their policing of the executive orders.
Trust me, they are always that way. Cops are the same kids that would spit in your food when you looked at them the wrong way at the restaurant.
Ha ha?
Cuomo’s little temper tantrum is the most Fredo moment ever. Hilarious.
“South Dakota governor STILL refuses to give stay-at-home order despite becoming one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots – but says it will be the first state to trial experimental drug lauded by Trump”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216237/South-Dakotas-governor-resists-giving-stay-home-order-state-coronavirus-hot-spot.html
How could a state with the population of South Dakota be one of the nation’s largest hotspots?
Does it even have any cases?
868 cases with 6 deaths. Fucking NYC Part 2.
Have they started the mass graves yet?
No, they can’t dig through the permafrost.
buffalo turd crematorium then.
Almost 1k, but still far away from becoming a hotspot.
868 cases. out of 884K people.
Notice that they don’t go after other states without Stay At Home Orders…
JFC Now we are really just making shit up.
Yeah, yesterday out Emergency Management staff made a big deal about how not a single patient that has been admitted to GSMC with the virus has left the hospital alive. They all either died or are still on ventilators. All nine of them.
Really? We have not lost a single Commie Cougher who made it to our ICU. We have discharged a number of them, in fact.
Clearly the other hospital is holding their patients hostage.
Actually, the Smithfield processing plant is the “hotspot” not the entire state.
Chinese
Analytics of Flintstones episodes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32045438
Nothing left to cut
You laugh
I’M NOT LAUGHING.
I’m sure this will soon be spun as a victory for Obama which is fine as long as it means that proggies allow effective treatments for sick people.
Fucking says something about the efficiency of the CDC though that they actually ran a study on choroquine in 2005, but didn’t seem to remember it when all this shit hit the fan. I’m sure there internal search engine would have found that study earlier if it hadn’t also found so many anti-gun papers.
I was linked to that study back in January over at that bastion of scientific evidence known as ZeroHedge. The CDC was certainly very aware of it.
Exactly. But the fact that Trump mentioned it killed its credibility among the TDS crowd.
I wonder if TDS counts as an existing health condition for C19 deaths.
Much of the federal bureaucracy was hollowed out during the Obama years. Paradoxically though it may seem since Obama was “rah rah big government”, it was hit by a triple whammy of promoting sycophancy (Lois Lerner is just the one who got caught), wanting to get paid to do nothing (see also: pro-union bias at the NLRB and the massive uptick in “disability” claims in the economy at large), and favoring younger (read: cheaper) workers without bothering to have somebody experienced stick around and train them (the root cause tracing back to the explosion of student loan programs and the mentality that old = conservative = dangerous).
Now, being a libertarian, my only real complaint about all of this is that at no point did this hollowed out bureaucracy get the drastic cuts it now richly deserves (the theater of “sesquestration” notwithstanding). They all got their usual baseline+COLA+fudge factor increases in the end. This is part of why I find the Niskanen types insufferable. They all love Obama, because they claim to want “good government” above all else, but Obama was an empty suit whose few ideas were generally bad ones for the cause of “good government”. They love to hold up examples of old school successes but their savior wouldn’t have been fit to put the pens in the breast pocket of a 1960’s NASA administrator.
NASA is probably one of the better branches of gov’t, as far as efficiency is concerned. Repurposing Voyager to look at Uranus and Neptune by re-writing 25 year old code was actually an impressive feat.
Of course, now they’re all about global warming Climate Change.
Just like the CDC’s recommendation to wear masks from 2007. Not one single media has picked up the publicly available document and pointed out their lying ways in the last several months.
“US flexes its military strength with ‘elephant walk’ of B-52 bombers and drones in Guam after China takes advantage of US aircraft carrier being crippled by coronavirus
The United States put on a show of force with an ‘elephant walk’ of bombers on its Air Force base in Guam after China threatened Taiwan with an aircraft carrier and strike group over the weekend.
On Monday, the Andersen Air Force Base, which is about 1,800 miles east of China, flexed its military strength with at least a dozen aircraft from the US Navy and Air Force.
An elephant walk is a procession of military aircraft taxiing close in formation right before a minimum interval takeoff.
The elephant walk came just days after China sent an aircraft carrier and fighter jets close to Taiwan.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the Liaoning, China’s first operational aircraft carrier, and five accompanying warships passed first through the Miyako Strait, located between Japan’s islands of Miyako and Okinawa, to the northeast of Taiwan, on Saturday.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8215863/US-puts-force-elephant-walk-B-52-bombers-Guam.html
That doesn’t sound like a good PR move for China, when half the world is already pissed off at them.
Ahh. The world goes on. Its refreshing to see that not everyone has let Coronavirus shake them from their objectives.
I’d say they’ve got cause and effect mixed up.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/does-liberalism-cause-mental-illness.php
Ordinarily I wouldn’t link to something like this, but every few months there’s some “study” proving that non-progs are intolerant, stupid and driven by fear so turn about is fair play.
A claim of ‘mental illness’ appears to be quite fashionable among the wokesters. LOOKITMEEEEEEEEE!
Jess Phillips, the shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding
I wonder what’s her opinion on clitoridectomy.
If Karen is out, let’s just go to #InoffiziellerMitarbeite and #IM.
How about Brownshirt?
That works too.
Corned beef just came out of the pressure cooker.
I have to decide on what to do with it besides cutting off a slice each time I walk past.
Put a nice brown mustard on it you savage.
Some mustard and horseradish, yeah
Are you trying to cover up the flavor of the delicious corned beef?
Complement. The word is “complement”.
That’s like complementing a person by saying they’re beautiful in a burka
You obviously already have pumpernickel, gruyere and sauerkraut, right?
In these trying times, I’ve run out of kraut.
I have to decide on what to do with it besides cutting off a slice each time I walk past.
Up Next: vertical rotisserie
I always use the glaze my mother made.
2 Tblsp. butter
1 Tblsp. prepared mustard
1/3 C. brown sugar
1/6 C. ketchup
2 Tblsp. water
1 Tblsp. rum
dash of ginger
dash of clove
dash of nutmeg
Melt butter in saucepan; add remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour sauce over corned beef. Bake in 350° oven for 30 minutes, basting several times.
S. I. M. P. Squirrels in my pants.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1249912800497020931
Q Special
https://twitter.com/_rooof_/status/1249631087984328704
My eyes, they burn
That right there was totally unnecessary.
Click the next one it is better.
I literally gagged.
*blink blink blink*
*uncontrollable vomiting*
try this
https://twitter.com/Sabrinanichol/status/1249783705952010240
Better.
Somebody, somewhere just discovered a new, very specific fetish.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1249771069059325953
To be fair, more impressive then the tshirt wall thing.
Wife showed me that one the other day. Turns out that there’s a “undress while doing a handstand” challenge going around on social media.
People have too much time on their hands – put the country back to work.
Another
StateCOVID casualty.The XFL filed for bankruptcy on Monday, likely spelling the end of the second iteration of the league.
The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware estimates the organization has between $10,000,001 and $50 million in both assets and liabilities. Former coaches Bob Stoops and Marc Trestman are among the creditors with the largest unsecured claims.
The WWE-backed XFL cancelled the rest of its return season last month because of the coronavirus pandemic. It suspended operations and laid off its employees Friday.
The league said Monday in an emailed statement that it wasn’t insulated “from the harsh economic impacts and uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 crisis.”
“This is a heartbreaking time for many, including our passionate fans, players and staff, and we are thankful to them, our television partners, and the many Americans who rallied to the XFL for the love of football,” the league said.
Well that sucks.
Yes. As someone who isn’t a basketball or hockey fan, the XFL was a nice thing to have in the early part of the year.
The shit starts to happen. 10% pay cut starting June 1.
That sucks. This is the kind of shit that happens when you crater the entire economy.
but we saved one life! do you not like you parents?!?
My parents started self-quarantine in January because my Mom is paranoid. And right, this time.
They’re dead*! What do I care?
*not really
That would be my reply. My parents have been gone for years and I just buried my m-i-l a while back. Nobody’s going to guilt trip me on this.
Yep. My parents are still alive and well, but my grandfather just passed in January.
Does anyone really think we can survive till June like this?
We’re already in trouble. Another month and things will get out of hand.
Manufacturing gets furloughs; engineering and professionals get salary cuts. If the lockdown continues, I expect the company will starting getting rid of engineers and professionals too.
I wasn’t planning to retire at 63, but it looks more likely every day.
Saw in the late night links about nursing home deaths. I’ve noticed similar things in my state. The state has been trying to keep a lid on it imo but at least half the deaths (mid double digits out of a 4M population) are in assisted living.
I didn’t see any late night links, but there’s this: Virginia has experienced nearly 100 coronavirus outbreaks, the majority of them in long-term care facilities, according to new data from the state health department.
It is a huge fuck up they are all trying to cover up. I have only seen one article (last week) that listed the old folks homes deaths. Although, I imagine every flu season flu empties a bunch of assisted living facilities beds. It is like sick old people die or something. Using those deaths to pad the stats is what is going on now I think. There does not need to be a positive test to attribute the death to covid. It just has to be associated symptoms or I am sure in a home that has had positive tests. They are changing their numbers upward now. I did find a site that has screen shots of the daily state stats so there will need to be some good explanations of why they changed. Not that any journalist will probably ask those questions but I remain optimistic some good has to come of this bull shit and that good might involve citizens, state and county bureaucrats, politicians and
wood chippersstrongly worded letters to the editor.21st century Robber Baron
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Tuesday it terminated two employees, who criticized the working conditions at the e-commerce giant’s warehouses in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, for “repeatedly violating internal policies”.
The termination of Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, who worked as user-experience designers in Seattle, came in a couple of weeks after the company fired another employee Christian Smalls for raising health and safety concerns for people laboring through the outbreak.
The Seattle-based firm has been facing public scrutiny over safety and working conditions of warehouse, delivery and retail gig workers in the United States after cases of COVID-19 were reported in some of its facilities. Amazon workers have also protested in other countries.
Amazon said it supported “every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions, but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies.”
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Last month, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the city’s Human Rights Commission to open an investigation to look into Christian Smalls’ allegations.
Five Democratic lawmakers also wrote a letter to the company last week questioning the allegations.
Those morons should tread lightly. Amazon is a major reason people are not rioting in the streets yet.
who worked as user-experience designers
So are those the fucksticks responsible for the shittiness of every single piece of amazon software?
Which means they’re probably WFH and don’t know shit about what’s going on in the distribution centers.
OFFS
Very considerate of them to put themselves on the “Fire These People First” list.
What a grandstanding turd.
Look, they just want to sit at home and get paid to do nothing while all of life’s essentials get magically supplied by someone else. Who? Who knows. The government, probably. Made with its magic but as yet unrevealed thing-making machines and distributed by its vast but hitherto unknown civilian logistics system.
They can’t even manage to send out the ‘free money’ within 3 weeks, even though they have a system already in place to send tax refunds, that is operating right now and which has everyone’s payment information. Imagine how long your food delivery will take.
A normal person might ask important questions like, how are we supposed to administer all of these government programs when everybody is being sent home, but questions like that are beyond the ken of congresspeople.
It’s morons all the way down. If the cops keep pushing ordinary average people, they’re going to discover how thin their blue line is.
The Karen National Liberation Army is the military branch of the Karen National Union, which campaigns for the self-determination of the Karen people of Myanmar. The KNLA has been fighting the Burmese government since 1949
I think the COVID-19 did what all your insightful and persuasive articles and arguments failed to achieve.
I’m a believer.
AnCap is the right answer.
Welcome Brother.
Now get off my lawn.
AnCap is the right answer – not of the arguments against have changed really…
Which of the major houses do you plan on pledging fealty to?
Paulistas or get Ded!
Starting my own, of course.
*drops gloves and pinky swears non-fealty
It’s the correct perspective, but, like a republic, it won’t work.
I’ve yet to see an argument that any system “Will Work”. So I stick with AnCap.
I’m working on that damn article. I swear! (admittedly the problem is that every time I start seriously working on it I get depressed because the inescapable conclusion seems to be no system or lack of system can work for long)
People are inherently… well, if not evil, at least corrupted. You can’t build heaven with little devils.
Before I forget. I heard on American Thought Leaders that a German paper is reporting that the 3M mask fiasco that alleged Trump was trying to prevent masks from leaving the country may have in fact been fabricated by Russia.
Now we have to consider the angle Russia may also look to prey on all the pant shitting.
Why would russia want to make their puppet look bad?
So the models got updated yesterday, and our “Peak Day” keeps getting pushed out, which is consistent with a flattening curve. thing is that the curve is pretty flat already…. so can we declare victory and go home?
The reaction by (some) Americans to the “Russia hacked our election” narrative did far more damage than any actual actions by Russians or others.
AnCap is the right answer.
FUCK THE GOVERNMENT
BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT FUCKS YOU
Be sure to use protection. You know where it’s been.
And be sure to go through decontamination procedures afterwards…
Wonderful. Now do VD.
Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android
T
/giggles.
*buys more aluminum foil*
Somebody here warned about this coming, I think.
The system will also alert people who download them to whether they were in close contact with an infected person.
I’m sure this is the only way it will be used, and would never be abused by law enforcement.
Does anyone know how long this virus can survive on things such as mail? Does it need to be exposed to air, or will it “die” even if envelopes are stacked on top of each other?
It will last as long as it needs to so you will stay at home, citizen.
They say 3 days, for what it’s worth.
The FAA is sitting on all of their incoming mail for 72 hours just to be sure.
So they’re accelerating the mail processing flow.
In other words you won’t knotice a difference.
knotice
The K is silent
I believe it’s 24 hours detectable on a paper surface in that somewhat flawed study. I’d give it 48-72 hours to air dry + cushion.
If you have (or can get) IPA/rubbing alcohol and a sprayer, you could lightly mist or wipe down the outside first, particularly if it’s cardboard that can hold up to moisture.
13-year-old ‘Commander’ led hate group linked to Las Vegas synagogue attack plan
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/13-year-old-commander-led-hate-group-linked-to-las-vegas-synagogue-attack-plan-2006181/
From the article:
“The Anti-Defamation League has described Feuerkrieg Division as a group that advocates for a race war and promotes some of the most extreme views of the white supremacist movement. Formed in 2018, it had roughly 30 members who conducted most of their activities over the internet”
How many people on this website post at least one comment a week? I know the ADL has more employees than this ZOMG NAZI HATE GROUP.
30 random people on the Internet, at least one of whom is a literal teenage troll.
“Division has been part of a growing wing of the white supremacist movement that embraces ” accelerationism,” a fringe philosophy that promotes mass violence to fuel society’s collapse”
Uh isn’t acceleration-ism just an old school commie revolutionary thing?
ADL is admant that anyone who even thinks about making a Joke that makes Right wingers laugh is certainly a white supremacist. Isn’t there an entire swath of the left that is all about race and class war?
30 random people on the Internet, at least one of whom is a literal teenage troll.
And the other 29 are undercover Fed agents.
The ADL is just yet another organization co-opted by leftists.
Hell, the entire Reform Jewish religion has been skinsuited at this point.
ADL is still in the process of being skinsuited, and you can see some of the tactics the broader leftist movement uses to further the skinsuiting, like making national news about 30 idiots on the internet.
When was they ADL ever a respectable organization?
Heh. Yesterday was the first day in forty-odd years that I actually missed a spot shaving my face. What in the fuck?
Can’t miss if you don’t shave.
maybe after forty years you should try a new razor blade
I decided to stop shaving until this whole stay at home thing is over.
Do Medical Masks Work?
Good article. Even better conclusion.
That’s gold stuff right there.
Looks like King Zero is (reluctantly) gonna endorse Senile Joe today.
I doubt it’s going to move the needle much considering that Biden’s campaign has been based on Obama nostalgia from day one.
Socialists are useless without guns.
Not at all. They can always serve as bad examples.
That picture says it all. 4th grade teacher, and what is up on the wall behind her? shapes, colors, 1-10 counting visualized. FOURTH GRADE.
Look, it’s college’s job to teach people how to read words longer than 5 letters and how to do arithmetic.
It’s because of the lack of funding.
In 4th grade, in bumfuck county PA, I was enrolled in a two-person gifted math class where me and the other kid got to spend all our time fucking around with BASIC and LOGO on an Apple IIe as soon as we could pass the quiz for the week’s unit.
Stay Classy, Chicago.
If we are shutting down the economy how come the spoofed number telemarketers are still operating! I suppose endless calls about the ‘warranty’ on my 10 year old Toyota must be essential.
They can make the crank calls from home?
Apparently Kyle Larson said a naughty word.
Naughty words are mandatory in esports. I don’t believe ventrilo, teamspeak, or discord function without at certain number of slurs per second.
So… Is there anyone who is not getting the 5XX errors and timeouts?
We’re all equal, Comrade…
SP said she didn’t get them so I am assuming it is only some of us. It is a minor annoyance so I am not going to bitch or they might cancel my membership.
I just want to know what I’m doing wrong. if someone isn’t having it happen i want to know what they are doing.
I get it on every single comment. I had assumed everyone was also experiencing that.
#metoo
I tried clearing this site’s cookies, cache, and local storage as a possible solution – didn’t work.
“It will last as long as it needs to so you will stay at home, citizen.”
I am staying at home. I know everyone is angry with the government shutting everything down. I am too. That doesn’t mean the virus isn’t real or that some people don’t need to take precautions.
I don’t think anyone here faults you or others in your situation for staying home. It’s the orders, and the bureaucratic insistence on form over function, that have us furious.
the bureaucratic insistence on form over function, that have us furious.
This. It’s gone complete Cargo Cult. Outside in nature? Fined for not social distancing. Working in your Garden? Fined for not social distancing. Going for a drive in your car and not meeting anyone? Fined for not social distancing. What they have done is put everyone under house arrest.
Even people under house arrest can go in their own yards.
^^^This. That and the ABSURD mission creep. Prohibiting sales of “nonessential items”? Banning people from wilderness campsites? 18 month “rolling lockdowns”? It’s a combination of intentional destruction and pure sadism.
Sorry. I’m in Michigan.
How are you doing today CP?
Yeah, same here. My father-in-law is in every category of disadvantage for this particular virus – life-long smoker, chronically compromised lung function, 80 lbs overweight, approaching 80, and blood type A. He lives next door and I can’t escape being in close proximity to him a few times a week. I don’t have much reason to be out in the crowds so I would prefer to avoid any chance of being the vector through which my F-I-L gets this virus.
Yes, my 82 year old MIL wouldn’t have much of a chance, so I’ve not set foot in her house since this began.
Poor woman is really damn lonely, though. My wife’s sisters are debating how they could safely visit, but since I’m out in the world more, my wife, kids and I decided to just stay away.
My grandma, great aunt, and great uncle are all in the vulnerable category. Late-80s/early-90s, smokers, not in the best of health. They’ve been calling every few days, probably out of sheer boredom.
Wife and I were floating the idea of visiting them in June to let them meet the kiddo and to announce the pregnancy in person, but scrapped that idea when all this shit started migrating toward the fan blades.
More Minnesota Madness.
Perhaps some of you remember when The Body was elected here. Some enterprising souls created t-shirts and bumper stickers that said; “My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor”.
I think it’s time to reprise this for Walz, but with a slight change in wording: “My Governor is More Craven Than Your Governor”.
What a useless cunt.
I am seeing more and more this point being made. So the orders were to “flatten the curve” (the curve that was never going to happen but at this point whatevs) and the curve has flattened and nobody is going to be over ran with patients. There is no longer a justification for any shutdowns. Now they are just being dicks.
Wes Craven?
“The FAA is sitting on all of their incoming mail for 72 hours just to be sure.”
Thanks, I’ve been doing at least that.
https://twitter.com/APWestRegion/status/1249927525805023234
The idea that civil liberties are being violated is just fringe.
3/5 of the First Amendment has been trampled on, but I guess those weren’t real civil liberties after all.
Look as long as the “press” is free, and by “press” they mean AP, then AP is ok with you not being able to celebrate Easter. I mean is freedom of religion even really important to a free society? (Had an actual Government Teacher ask that in High School, he seemed to think freedom of conscience was not important like free speech or free press.)
Do you have your speech permit,
ComradeCitizenProle?“he seemed to think freedom of conscience was not important like free speech or free press”
So he’d be right at home in the ISIS Caliphate then I guess.
The Institute for Justice podcast had a really nice line, paraphrasing here, about how justices are very good at protecting the rights that are important to justices.
Justices are the kind of people who write, speak, engage in political activities, and travel. They come down on those infringements like a hammer.
Justices are not the kind of people who open up businesses with an ethnic focus, run cheap motels, graze on public lands, or shoot guns. They are far more likely to tolerate infringements on those types of activities.
Secular urban leftists think of church as a sort of “Sunday morning activity” that’s not any more or less valuable than Sunday brunch or a visit to the farmers market. Some people go for a bike ride Sunday morning, some people go to church, if the bike ride is canceled, so is church.
Fuck the AP and fuck mainstream “journalists”. You will be singing a different tune when they start fining/imprisoning journalists for publishing the “wrong” things.
We have a special jail for journalists.
the comments are not much better
Naughty words are mandatory in esports. I don’t believe ventrilo, teamspeak, or discord function without at certain number of slurs per second.
I have no knowledge whatsoever about the details or context of Larson’s hate criminality, other than a whiny ESPN thing about how he has set race relations back to the 1600s.
If the drivers were miked up in a real race, you’d hear some real authentic frontier motherfucking, and don’t pretend you wouldn’t, little ESPN snowflake.
When I raided and fought in the arena in WoW the number of N words, homosexual slurs, slurs for Asians and (((them))) that got thrown around was pretty high. Including by gay Black men, Asians, and Jews. People use shock words in moments of irritation and stress, and they do so more when they are sitting in their room alone with a headset on because the social cues that engage your filters are not present.
There are plenty of bleeps from mic’d-up F1 drivers, and they’re supposed to be the classy ones.
“If we are shutting down the economy how come the spoofed number telemarketers are still operating!”
I’ve been getting way less of those. I don’t know if it’s kung flu, or the result of the crackdown the feds announce a couple months ago.
I’ve got zero since lockdown – I guess there is one tiny upside to the lockdown? Well, no, not really, because I’d probably be out and not receive them anyway otherwise.
I have received 3 so far this morning.
It’s the orders, and the bureaucratic insistence on form over function, that have us furious.
It’s all just Totemism Theater, now.
That, and OBEDIENCE training.
https://logonoid.com/images/obey-logo.png
So it seems the rationale for the shutdowns has completely shifted. When they started this it was about keeping the hospitals overwhelmed, and while I didn’t think that was warranted and thought the models were overestimating the potential deaths, at least that had some sort of logic behind it, especially if the models were anywhere close to correct. By now, it is obvious the models were wrong, not slightly, but by orders of magnitude. The rationale seems to have shifted to not packing hospitals to some nebulous goal of not exposing people to a virus that we are not going to have a vaccine for anytime in the next year, if at all. It’s time to get herd immunity in full swing.
“If you have (or can get) IPA/rubbing alcohol and a sprayer, you could lightly mist or wipe down the outside first, particularly if it’s cardboard that can hold up to moisture.”
Unfortunately, every time I’ve checked the stores they were out of it. Spray disinfectant too. Although I haven’t checked often.
I’m thinking the insides of envelopes such as bills are likely to be fairly clean since they are stuffed by machine.
I have no idea how well this thing travels from object to object — if you touch something contaminated then touch something else.
We use mentally handicapped people. They’re not exactly sanitary, but there’s a large supply of them and they work cheap.
Everything I said is entirely true.
We’ve been able to find Lysol spray and wipes on Saturday mornings at Meijer. Seems that’s the restock time here in the mitten. I was being flippant earlier, but I do understand where you’re coming from. Have had four relatives in their 70s (two in MI and two in FL) get the virus. All recovered, but one had to be hospitalized for a day and has o2 with him at home. My mom had another stent put in on Monday. Fortunately she’s in FL at a single family residence, so not stuck with lots of other people around.
Everclear and vodka work too. If it’s vodka maybe a double spray because it’s generally only forty percent alcohol. I bought a couple of 1.75s of Popov after this all started and I’m set.
If you are that worried about it, wear gloves to open, read whatever and then throw them away. Wash you hands, the shit aint airborne. I clean a testing center every Saturday and am not that worried about this stuff. I am also not taking care of an elderly parent so we are in different situations. I am not seeing my parents other than driveway conversations, phone calls and texting. I am also in the camp that half of us or more had this in Dec or Jan. Were I live we are a ski town hub and many people got sick as they did in CA. I had a cough that hurt my lungs but racked that up to the self destructive trait of being a chain smoker and didn’t think twice. I rarely get the flu. Two guys I work with were knocked on their ass with soemthing. It went away.
That AP tweet:
Some conservative politicians across the U.S. claim state government coronavirus restrictions trample civil liberties, reinforcing fringe beliefs that officials would use a national emergency to limit freedoms.
Sick burn, dood. Everybody knows rights are created and granted by the state and may be modified or rescinded as necessary. They teach that, not only at the Columbia School of Journalism, but Harvard and Yale.
What freedoms are limited? That pesky 1st amendment thingy was already passé.
“For those that rely on these more urban sources of nutrition, the change in climate as a result of the virus is forcing many members of the species to take extreme measures.”
After several readings, I have to say that it sounds like the virus causes climate change. What the Fuck?
“Urban sources of nutrition”? Like eating pigeons and rats?
Don’t forget the Soylet Green.
I’d guess “changes in their habitat” would be more accurate than “changes in climate,” but what do I know? I’m not a Science Journalist.
I see no other way to interpret it.
And yes, what the fuck?
IMF says the world will ‘very likely’ experience worst recession since the 1930s
The global economy will this year likely suffer the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday, as governments worldwide grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Washington-based organization now expects the global economy to contract by 3% in 2020. By contrast, in January it had forecast a global GDP (gross domestic product) expansion of 3.3% for this year.
“It is very likely that this year the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago,” Gita Gopinath, the IMF’s chief economist, said in the latest World Economic Outlook report.
My father will get to live through two depressions. I am envious.
This is a sad story:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/4/13/21219934/illinois-election-day-judge-poll-worker-death-covid-19-primary-coronvirus-burke-pritzker
TL/DR: City worker dies from the virus because Illinois officials couldn’t even entertain the idea of postponing the primary. This is basically a perfect illustration of how Illinois Democrats roll. My neighbor – an elderly, obese diabetic that does what could best be described as cheerleading for our insanely crooked alderman – was sending text messages just before the election offering to drive people to the polls while the pandemic was already going full steam. This city is going to be so royally fucked once this all starts to wind down.
Looks like King Zero is (reluctantly) gonna endorse Senile Joe today.
“Well, I was on the fence, but if the Ascended One says he’s okay, I’ll vote for him.”
*kneels, bows deeply toward Cape Cod*
Woah, Woah, Woah! Are you worshiping Obama in a Socially Distanced way?
“How are you doing today CP?”
I haven’t had any symptoms in over a week. So I’m thinking whatever I had is probably no longer contagious, but I’m still being extra careful about everything. Even if whatever I had wasn’t covid, I don’t want anyone catching the flu or something else from me either.
Even if whatever I have isn’t covid, I don’t want anyone catching the flu or something else from me either.
Agreed, I feel terrible, but not Covid, yet……
“Trump uses coronavirus briefing to fire back at critics”
I watched this yesterday. It was stunning. One woman was claiming that during the month of February, the Whitehouse did nothing. And when he told her they did, she was literally screaming and shaking her fists trying to get him to agree with her. And then thefe was the pathetic guy who wanted to know who produced the video; he would not except the answer, which was “people at the Whitehouse.”
I loves it when the President said, “the people in America are on to you now.”
I watched the first few minutes and was called away. Saw Fauci explain his Sunday remarks and a particularly nasty woman in the front row interrupted asking “did HE ask you to do this?” (HE being Trump), several additional interruptions from her and then asked if Fauci made the statements voluntarily to which he replied “don’t even – Fauci was clearly angry and upset when he left the podium.
Some journalists are dumb and believe the narrative. Most know what they are doing.
Watching it on youtube right now. Holy shit, he just kicked their asses into next week.
If they were capable of feeling any shame, they’d have resigned in disgrace.
“Urban sources of nutrition”? Like eating pigeons and rats?
I think they’re talking about the rats: so- pizza crusts and various other discarded street food remnants.
I’d guess “changes in their habitat” would be more accurate than “changes in climate,” but what do I know? I’m not a Science Journalist.
I’m going to name MY squirrel “Brooks.”
I don’t know why I didn’t catch that the first time.
Noice.
LOL
https://babylonbee.com/news/liberal-arts-degrees-renamed-non-essential-worker-degrees
Not going to bother to link to Slate, but this is the header for one of their current articles.
Trump Responds to Reports About His Incompetence by Flying Into a Self-Pitying Rage
Totally unbiased reporting.
I refuse to watch any of the press conferences, but it seems like the spin was generated for both sides.
Kinda reminds me how when Kavanaugh defended himself, he was cast as “Too emotional, and angry” for the bench.
The media is completely off the rails now.
If Trump pointing out their misreporting with citations is considered campaigning, then we’re way past any semblance of non-biased reporting.
Send them to Gitmo until we can figure out what’s going on.
https://babylonbee.com/news/plan-to-put-a-woman-on-the-moon-cancelled-after-they-find-out-how-cold-it-is-there
LOL
To break, if only for a moment, our focus on the Chicom virus and its effects I would like to hear if any other of my esteemed Glib cohorts have been trying to use this lock-down to engage in more physical training than might have been practical before. I wrote up the pull-up system which I had heard about and have been following and was hoping it might have been useful to at least a few people here.
I am still following the program and don’t feel any pains which had always been the problem with all the other attempts to see gains in my pull-ups before. I have also been doing a number of different kettlebell routines throughout the day as I find myself otherwise sedate – parenting or on my PC (mostly here).
Anybody have Glib-fit comments to contribute?
I’ve been less active, and eating more due to prolonged proximity to a well-stocked kitchen.
That’s been my problem too, This is why the kettlebells were moved from the place I had usually bee using them to a place on the floor next to my chair where I am most of the day. Every time I get that urge for a snack I pick up a kettlebell and do a set of one routine or another.
I’ve been using ammo cans as dumbbells; easy to adjust the weight.
I’ve been doing less as I’m still going into work and my gym is closed. I’ve started to lift weights in an approximation of the Starting Strength program. But I don’t have a squat rack and my squats are dumbbell lifts basically. I’ll have to try to figure out a way to increase the intensity.
My favorite meme on this.
87% of gym members don’t know their gym is closed.
Worry is conducive to fasting? Sorry, not so helpful, but earnest.
Only for some people.
For others, we tend to stress-eat.
I bookmarked your pull up system and do plan on getting back to pull ups so thanks for that post. Unfortunately I am not using this time to do more physical training. I am weak and pathetic. I keep telling myself I am going to and then today I made a wine spritzer before the sun came up, made a couple of carafes of coffee one after the other and did nothing but read and get more pissed off.
My advice – worth every cent you paid for it – do one perfect pull-up each day. If you can’t do one pull-up do one slow negative. Don’t worry about numbers, just ease in to get it into your routine first. Sometimes it is more about starting the habit than what you are accomplishing.
No, but I’ve been feeling guilty looking at my weights, if that helps.
I did pre-spend some of my stimulus money on a new bike. It’s a Sun Streamway step-through model. I like that the handlebars are higher; I was never a fan of the hunched-over posture that you’re forced to maintain on more conventional diamond-frame bikes. I plan on doing short rides around the local trails (maybe 10 miles) and riding to work when the weather is nice, so that’ll be some calories burned at least.
Other than that, I just go jogging and lift weights at home, so my fitness routine is largely unchanged.
“Everclear and vodka work too. If it’s vodka maybe a double spray because it’s generally only forty percent alcohol. I bought a couple of 1.75s of Popov after this all started and I’m set.”
The other thing I’ve considered is that most of the things listed are human safe. Which is why hand sanitizer isn’t made out of benzene. Although I’m thinking that plenty of organic solvents that you can get from paint stores, home depot, etc. would work with gloves and enough ventilation. I just haven’t found any good info about using acetone, toluene, etc. to kill viruses.
Acetone might melt your mail.
I’d steer clear of the organic solvents and whatnot, you can get booze can’t you? Hydrogen peroxide has also been found to kill other corona viruses and maybe you can get that. Full strength pine sol seems like it would be a good bet but I haven’t looked into that.
Wait, that was a joke. Fucking hell, I’ve got to get out of the house, this shit’s starting to kill my sense of humor.
I’m going to name MY squirrel “Brooks.”
Just remember to give the ol’ double-pump on your comment post, so the squirrel can’t intercept it.
https://babylonbee.com/news/define-relationship-talk-leaves-girl-confused
An on the Oblivious Boy front. Hahah.
Genius