“You mean those are the people I spawned? Sorry!”
No sports, except to note that the NFL now understands a conference call with 32 people on it and none of them muting the mic is a terrible idea.
Novelist Charlotte Bronte was born on this day. She shares it with naturalist John Muir, British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, musician who is inexplicably still alive Iggy Pop, The Cure’s Robert Smith, hockey legend Ed Belfour, and that’s pretty much it for today. Not a very solid list at all.
Oh well, we’ve at least got…the links!
Riding into the sunset or riding in to save the day? Who the fuck knows.
Nobody knows what to believe with this story. NBC News’s Katy Tur went so far as to tweet he was brain dead, then she deleted it a few seconds later. SK intel are paying there’s nothing going on. And the rest of us are left to either wonder what’s happening in the hermit kingdom or to not really give a shit.
I’m sure this is really keeping people safe. I mean, a man alone in a park getting some exercise? Go get him, boys! ::SMDH::
So the administration gets this right and CBS still finds a way to report it incorrectly. Because it’s all about politics to them, rather than acknowledging its ok for the admin to nudge states to open some things back up and at the same time recommend people stay at home if they think they need to. It’s called freedom of choice, dumbasses.
“I swear, the CCP’s junk was this big and I still got it in there.”
Does anybody really give a fuck what this CCP toady has to say anymore? They got it wrong in December. They got it wrong in January. They got it wrong in February. They got it wrong in March. But now that Trump is saying we can/should reopen some things, suddenly this dipshit is the Oracle of Delphi? OK.
Top. Men. Hey, the general public has no reason to be at risk from the virus, which apparently can now be transmitted via radio waves.
I wonder how they’ll wave this away. It either adds evidence to support the “it’s been here for months” theory, which means the mortality rate is a lot lower than is being pushed, or it means it’s running rampant now but doesn’t have a very high mortality rate. Either way, it means the mortality rate is lower than we’re being told. But we still gotta keep everybody caged up for their own good.
And now the age of reptiles begins. There’s not much to this, it happens occasionally anyway. But I really needed to report something that wasn’t all doom and gloom, so this made the cut.
Still a great song, even if the video is goofy. I mean, why would you expect it not to be goofy?
Anyway, go have a great day. I’m gonna try to do the same.
I’m sure this is really keeping people safe. I mean, a man alone in a park getting some exercise? Go get him, boys! ::SMDH:: – it is good to fine the celebs so the peasants fell good.
so the peasants fell good
Tax
CattleTimberPure projection
::polite applause::
So is this the day the comments are back to normal?
I wonder how they’ll wave this away. It either adds evidence to support the “it’s been here for months” theory, which means the mortality rate is a lot lower than is being pushed, or it means it’s running rampant now but doesn’t have a very high mortality rate. Either way, it means the mortality rate is lower than we’re being told. But we still gotta keep everybody caged up for their own good. – I think the studies are not conclusive enough yet to withstand the might of the precautionary principle.
So is this the day the comments are back to normal?
Doesn’t seem so.
The comments seem pretty normal, but the website design isn’t what we expect.
“Normal” within context, I guess.
In these uncertain times….
Not even the precautionary principle can withstand the application of the precautionary principle.
Excellent point. Should we be relying on the precautionary principle? The precautionary principle says “no.”
Even the precautionary principle itself can’t stand up to its own might.
He should’ve been fine during the day. The virus mostly comes at night. Mostly.
Covid-19 theme song?
knew it
I was mostly going for this. Mostly.
I have been trying to get the kids to watch that series ever since the virus lockdown began.
It will be interesting to see if it scares the ever-loving crap out of them or bores them to tears.
The pace of movies today it’s not the same is it was even in 2000.
No kidding. I find most new “action” movies unwatchable.
I blame the Bourne/Taken movies for that. The bazillion edits/shaky cam during the fight scenes so you can’t see how shitty the stunts are is god-awful.
Saw the end of the “Bride over River Kwai” last night. I had seen it as a kid, and the ending really surprised me, and made me very upset. Watching it today and i think i might have to rewatch.
?
It’s the porn parody.
*Whistles Colonel Bogey March*
Was he out in nature spanking his monkey?
I wonder how they’ll wave this away
Only 5% of people have had it, so 95% haven’t and you’re still not safe.
Seriously, that’s how the northern California study was spun.
Somebody should have said “I assume all polling can now be ignored?”
I wonder how they’ll wave this away
With a dismissive hand gesture.
Top. Men. Hey, the general public has no reason to be at risk from the virus, which apparently can now be transmitted via radio waves. – fortunately, if it is one place in the US you can trust the process, it is Chicago. More transparency would be good, but I think in this case the benefit of the doubt can be given without much worry
Hey… you, over by dere, just take it easy!
West Texas oil futures hit $-37 yesterday.
If only you could drink the stuff.
On a more serious note, the scuttlebutt is that the Trump administration is going to buy oil for the SPR while it is still in the ground. Basically, they’re going to start buying futures themselves.
Why the hell not, the Fed is already buying junk bonds. Just fucking do it, we’re all socialists now.
*takes another drink*
June contracts are still over $20. This was as much a glitch as anything, as it was just the May contracts on the last day they were available. But it’s still some weird shit.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Frac tanks to go sell so they can be repurposed for storage. (Sold three yesterday, gonna sell more today)
Everyone is betting on a bailout. We should find out this week.
If they don’t organize a rescue of sorts, the financial markets fallout is going to be massive. It’s taken a lot of hard work to get us in a situation this fucked up.
The Feds should have the ability to store it if the futures prices don’t shoot up before delivery date, so it wouldn’t be the worst thing for them to get paid to take it. Might reduce the deficit a bit.
That’s the thing. They’re not even talking about physically storing it. They’re just buying rights to unpumped oil, most likely at an inflated price.
Might reduce the deficit a bit.
Surely you jest, sir.
For the antibodies test, although it makes me feel better about it all, I’m curious what the rate of false positives is on those things. I did notice how quickly the 100,000 number from Chefarzt Acton has disappeared since we’re still at under 500 deaths.
Let’s assume the false positive rate is 30%. That still means a substantially larger percentage of the population has had/has it and didn’t/doesn’t require medical care. It’s still very good news, as long as people want it to be.
If false positive rate is 30%, then 5% testing postive would mean that -25% actual had it.
I think you mean a false positive rate of about 1.5% (30% of the 5%).
I only counted positive tests as being capable of testing positive, so I assumed everyone understood it was 30% of the 5% that tested positive.
If I worded it poorly, I apologize.
But if we use your math and have an infection rate of -25%, then it doesn’t exist and we can all go back to work!
What sloopy meant is the false discovery rate. And yes, it can be 30%.
What you said… is not mathematically valid in any form. You can’t add or subtract arbitrary percentages (that’s what percentage points are for), and the 30% is already relative to the 5% so dividing it again produces a number that’s not meaningful.
For the record, the false positive rate is relative to the number of false positives and true negatives. That can also be 30% in this case, but if so it would imply a very high false negative rate.
I am far more concerned about the number of people that never get diagnosed and counted. That number I suspect will be considerable and would have shown that the original doom models which counted just people tested were idiotic things to use to make decisions. Then again, is anyone surprised our expert class – the ones you know that keep telling us that the planet only has a decade or so before it turns into water world or burns up – keeps producing models that always induce panic and decisions that rob us of freedoms and the ability to economically prosper? I think this is something I have not heard enough people point out yet.
Yes, my subtraction was a joke. My point was that if there were 95% negatives in reality and a 30% false positive rate, then the positive rate would show up as …. does real math …. 33.5%.
5% real positives (assuming no false negatives) and 28.5% false positives (30% of 95%).
The real problem is that tests with even a 1% false positive rate can overwhelm real positives if the real positives are about .1% or something.
If the false positive rate is high compared to the real positives, the test is meaningless.
A false positive rate of 1% next to a true positive proportion of 0.1% would give a false discovery rate of 90% which I think people understand better intuitively. Of course, the same is true for false negatives, but I don’t know what the equivalent rate is called. False non-discovery rate, maybe?
That still means a substantially larger percentage of the population has had/has it and didn’t/doesn’t require medical care.
Yes. Also, if they can determine without doubt that it has been here since Dec, (I can no longer find the article that stated that) the models become worthless since it has been making it’s way through the population for months with no real strain on the medical facilities. Why would we assume it would now overrun them? The vast majority of people do not even know they have it. Protecting the elderly seems the only sensible reaction to this imho.
There’s a part of me that really hopes we find out that this has been spread around, and had a lower fatality rate then a standard flu. Then there’s impeachments and a big backlash.
And while we’re hoping for things, can I get a winning lottery ticket, a pony, and an earlier dispatch from the internet company? Storms over the past several days have apparently caused… issues. ~25% packet loss, meaning trying to remote desktop into a system over a VPN is an exercise in futility, earliest dispatch when I called in ~90 minutes ago is Thursday morning.
Then there’s impeachments and a big backlash.
The media will prevent that
Impeachment is for drummed up charges. Actual violations of civil liberties on a massive scale are just good governance.
Moody’s is cutting ratings on about $22B of collateralized loan obligations, about 20% of that market.
Deflation baby, it’s still coming.
Count on the Fed to try to inflate it away. We’re all dead in the long run, so who fucking cares?
Checked for baseball birthdays. Best by WAR was Hardy Richardson, who stopped playing in 1892. Second best was Ken Caminiti. Woof, today is short on birthdays, isnt it.
Yep. When I’m forced to call Ed Belfour a legend and have no baseball named at all, we’ve hit rock bottom.
FWIW, Belfour was on his best behaviour with the neighbors; little kids worshiped him.
He lived in a boring cul-de-sac house worth about 250k 2000USD off MacArthur inside 635 but far enough north that everyone could see the July 4 fireworks up at Vista Ridge.
He’s clearly a freak of a sort or two, but I have a soft sport for Manitoba. My guess is he had decent parents who are as baffled as the rest of us by his excursions.
Anthony Quinn was born on this day in 1915.
Now is the time when we dance!
Supposedly Quinn had a broken bone in his foot at the time of filming, which is why his “dance” is more of a shuffle than a real dance.
And you should see director Cacoyannis’ later The Day the Fish Came Out, which is interestingly bizarre. And has a very young Candice Bergen.
+1 Auda Abu Tayi
He understood the value of hard currency!
Kem Caminiti died in a crack house that is on the same block as the firehouse i work at in da Bronx.
Good morning, Sloopy!
The birthday list is automatically awesome when Robert Smith is involved.
And yes, goofy video.
Another excellent song.
Yep. It’s gonna be a Cure day today!
Have a great day, y’all!
? Love that one.
“Close to Me” is my least favorite Cure song. There, I said it.
The Get Up Kids’ cover of that is spectacular. Terrific. I grew up with that version because they were my older bro’s fave band as he was in bands and I grew up watching him practice and perform and play CDs. I’m sure if I grew up with The Cure my opinion would be different.
As a drummer myself (as well as my bro, who led me that way): TGUKs drummer fucking nails that shit. Solid, tight, and meaningful without ever being over the top. That’s hard to do. It fucking really is.
And at the very end he lays down the cymbals and gently cranks it up to exactly where it should be. It also helps that the bassist is his brother. That’s a good place to be in order to create. Especially the closed hi-hat at 3:08.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukcDTCRerIk
I do like the drumming in this.
Then you should also like the drumming on a song called “Footloose” by Kenny Loggins.
I like Robert Smith’s taste in 80s music.
Now with Lynx!!
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-cure-robert-smith-favourite-1980-songs-playlist/?fbclid=IwAR0zfpP5uU7dlrvU_Xh3olwl_uzev2f4bgxFBWxJBj0AueC21-hoHX8210o
Except for the inclusion of Bananarama and Yoko Ono, that ‘s a decent list.
Katy Tur
Would.
Rebel likes ’em petite and dumb.
This may be of interest.
You’d stick it in something Keith Olbermann stuck it in for three years?
That’s more dangerous than Flash Gordon putting his arm in that stump.
My kids really don’t understand why I love that movie.
Strange kids.
It is painfully 80s
Mental illness runs in the family.
You mean CNN or the Kims? Both?
If infections are this vastly underreported, then the mortality rate of COVID-19 is substantially lower than current estimates.
*runs in circles, screaming*
Dangerous to your political career, certainly.
But really?
I don’t see this hurting any politician as long as people aren’t actually rioting.
The weather has been relatively horrible here during the lockdown. It was in the 20s overnight and is snowing at my place again right now. If it gets into the 60s, there will be riots if things don’t open.
It’s clear, the lockdown is causing Catastrophic Global Cooling.
We need people out there burnign fuel and generating greenhouse gasses to keep from freezing!
More like this shit:
““You absolutely love to see it,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted just after 2:30 p.m. on Monday. “This along with record low interest rates means it’s the right time for a worker-led mass investment of green infrastructure to save our planet.””
Yeah, crash the fucking economy, and then magically fix it with green energy schemes and scams that enriches some well connected team blue politicians and their buddies, cause that’s what is gonna get the economy back roaring…
Let them eat photovoltaic panels.
That’s cause all the corn, rice, potatoes and other eddible products not consumed by the masters is being used to make “green fuels”
This is the coldest April I can remember for many years.
Tom Brady was cited for working out in a closed Tampa park
It’s one thing to have to often take Trump’s side, now I have to take T. Brady’s side…
Another bridge too far, indeed.
I at least hope there was some Tom Brady sadface when he got ticketed.
What’s next, the Yankees announce they’re going to defy the state and play ball in the Bronx?
It’s CNN, they’ve already updated the story to say sighted and not cited.
IKR?
“now I have to take T. Brady’s side”
He was practicing with deflated balls? Does that help?
Notice that now that he isn’t playing Robin to Belichick’s Batman, he almost immediately gets caught cheating (and gets punished too)?
Virginia Gov Northam has said we can’t think about reopening until the number of positive tests declines for fourteen straight days, orders more testing.
The problem with this is that we’re measuring the number of positive tests which is not a good proxy for the number of infections in the population. The only people who are currently getting tested are the symptomatic everywhere, and all person in certain state-run institutions (ie, jails). So by manipulating tests administered he can keep manipulating the numbers indefinitely.
What we need is more, better information on the large number of people who test positive but are asymptomatic.
Oops, universal testing is in certain institutions, not all of which are state run.
The agenda is to keep the economy in the worst possible shape so they can get rid of orange man in November. After that happens and they finally remove this thorn in their side, they will root through the wreckage and split the spoils for the democrats back in power, then go back to abusing the power of government and fucking over anyone and everyone that gets in their way like the heady days of the Obama administration….
It is a two-fer. Not only will the destroyed economy rid them of Trump, but it will also give them the opportunity to “take extreme measures” to save us all from this Great Depression.
What saved us from the last Great Depression? A New Deal. This time around we’ll be told the Green New Deal is exactly what we need to save our economy (and souls).
These people want to go back to that heady days of the middle ages where the nobility lorded it over the serfs and the serfs didn’t rock the boat or they would get it.
The Plague fixed that good and hard.
This time around we’ll be told the Green New Deal
And a Great Green Depression!
Don’t worry. When China starts the war it has been planning, we will suddenly magically use that to fix the economy. It will be just like WWII!
They should be basing it on the hospitalization rate instead.
I’m beginning to switch from “Northam is principled but misguided” to “Northam is a piece of shit”
There is something I find very off-putting about his demeanor/voice/etc. Plus he is a tyrant.
Agreed. But without random antibody tests you have no idea the actual infection rate so the hospitalization rate is not accurate. The hospitalization rate now is the rate of people who need med care if they show symptoms. In a county near me 95% of those tested with symptoms are negative. They have had 80 positive cases (and never report recovered) and 3 people hospitalized right now.
You’re only now beginning to switch?
So, if they hit 11 or 12 consecutive days of decline, Northam is gonna order a bunch more testing to pop the numbers up for one day?
No, his threshold is lower. We had three good days and then he ordered more tests.
I’m guessing if he can’t juice the numbers enough at some point, goalposts will be moved.
Well, if the model predicts there SHOULD be more tests, then obviously our tests are defective and the lockdown needs to be maintained until we can figure out the problem with why the tests aren’t detecting enough cases.
It’s like you don’t even science, brah.
Science!
It would be interesting to see what the positive testing rate is, though. In the US we have pretty much been running a 20% positive rate for tests since the beginning. So in Virginia, even if they call up new tests, the question is whether all those tests will reveal something higher or lower than 20%.
Remove NY from your numbers.
We have been locked in at 10% positive tests, and that’s people who fit the testing requirements – symptoms or contact tracing.
What we need is more, better information on the large number of people who test positive but are asymptomatic.
You’re assuming that gov’nuh kkklansman would be swayed by reason and rationality. He’s only swayed by vanity and power lust.
IHME has VA peaking at 24 deaths per day in a few days. If it hit that peak and held there every single day of the rest of the year, that would result in ~6400 commie cough deaths by Jan 1 2021. That would represent 9% of all deaths in VA this year.
This outbreak is not really impacting VA all that hard, but he’s driving the rhetoric harder and harder. I think that’s on purpose, driven by spite directed at a state that mostly hates him, and exceedingly dangerous if he doesn’t take the foot off the gas pedal.
Whatever happened to Mr. Lizard anyway?
Eaten by a larger lizard?
He’s in my back yard.
Can you still afford to feed him?
He’s being re-molded to assume Biden’s form.
Strange how he disappeared right after the Florida Fish & Game announced their No Season, No Limit policy for iguanas…..
Preach on your holiness!
Poor Kim Jong Un, as the great philosopher Billy Joel likes to say only the good die young.
Karma – when you have absolute rule over a nation of starving dirt poor peasants, and die young of cardiovascular disease from being morbidly obese.
Wasn’t gout called “The Kings Disease” or something like that?
We don’t know for a fact that he’s dead yet.
“only the good die young.”
Which explains why Billy Joel will live to be 120.
Ditto Betty White.
(I have a feeling she’d have a good laugh at that.)
Billy Joel is the Lawn Guyland version of Jimmy Buffet. You know every single song by heart, you loved them as a kid, and you never, ever, ever want to hear him sing again.
I like how how the US numbers keep getting reported without mentioning half the numbers are due to NY in articles CV shaming states that aren’t NY. Last week they were shaming SD when they had 6 deaths (now 7) for not destroying it’s states economy. I guess when your ideology is to make everyone poor, that fits.
DeWine is working on a plan to keep us all safe man! Don’t you want to be safe?
/now please ignore that the state still hasn’t even gotten close to catching up on the unemployment claims
Still no deaths in Central OH since 4/6. That’s an entire 2 week quaranteen period. Only 19 total deaths for 7 counties 2M pops or less than 1 per 100K pops. Why is anything closed here?
14 deaths in Cuyahoga county since Friday, for a total of 56. On a call with my coworkers yesterday they’re surprised Ohio may be opening up starting on May 1st. Because. People. May. Die.
I pointed out that we’ve had less then 500 deaths in the state, and some counties have had less then 3 confirmed cases. They’ve gone all in on the panic.
Here in Orange County, with Disney Land, 3.2 Million people, we have 1700 cases of Covid. 128 people are in the hospital, 42 of those in the ICU. 33 People are dead. So for every 10 dead, there are 999,990 people sitting in their house, watching the economy fall down.
But other than that……
Leadership
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said at a press conference Monday that she and senior members of her staff would take a pay cut as the state tightens its budget during the coronavirus outbreak.
Whitmer told reporters that she would take a pay cut of 10 percent for the duration of the pandemic, while senior members of her staff would take a 5 percent pay reduction.
“I’m going to lead by example,” she said. “I know that times are tough and that we as a state are going to be confronting a tough budget as a result of the economic shutdown.”
What a lovely gesture. You have bankrupted thousands of your subjects, and now you’re worried about the effect of that on the state budget. Just squeeze the tax cattle harder.
I’m guessing that is how she mentally revises the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence.
Or the “we” is a royal we.
All Governers and their staff should go without pay until they open every business back up.
But then how would they live….
/ oblivious staff member
See, that’s just insulting. 5%? 10%?
Odds are they will get it anyway as back pay or some such when nobody is paying attention.
They should all be required to live solely on unemployment income. That would almost be fair.
The WHO’s Deceiver-General
Yeah, he’s an evil douchebag.
So no wonder he’s a hero of the left.
Almost comically so. I wouldn’t believe his story if I saw it in a movie.
Where are the usual assholes that demand everyone and their grandmother be dragged in front of a court in The Hague for crimes against humanity? This guy and the ChiComms just did just that, for real, but instead they are too busy trying to pin this shit on bad orange man, and then, simply because their priority is to take back power to prevent people from knowing how corrupt and criminal the Obama years were. It’s not a coincidence/accident that these people claiming to be trying to help the disenfranchised and the unfortunate would prefer to burn down the world to get back power rather than not be the ones with it…
As far as I can tell, the purpose of the UN is to spread disease (and rape). This guy might just be their most successful leader yet.
(until they put STEVE SMITH in charge of their peacekeeping operations, anyway)
Dude, celebrities just raised money for the WHO.
They’re either ignorant, useful idiots or evil. Or all.
I vote for all.
Apparently the latest lockdowner panic is about “Coronavirus orphans.” Sounds like an opportunity for Glibs…
Someone alert jesse.in.mb… Adorphan, Inc. needs to capitalize on this!
Uh. The average age of the dead is in the 70s isn’t it? Are these orphans all in their 40s-50s?
Average age of deaths is 81 in Massachusetts.
60% of Democrats Blame Trump More Than China for Coronavirus
Everything is political.
How more than single digit percentages of any demographic can possibly believe that is depressing beyond limit.
The media’s agitprop machine still works far too well.
I’m curious what they think Trump should have “done”. Halt all international flights on Jan. 31, not just China? I’m sure that would have gone down well.
This I’ve heard was: he should have tested more and issued a nation wide stay at home order.
So he should have told the FDA to pound sand earlier and assumed statewide police powers to the nation.
So prosperous we were that we cried to orangeman to save us from the slightest panic.
This I’ve heard was: he should have tested more and issued a nation wide stay at home order.”
Right. And pointing out there were no tests to run because the CDC was pissing away billions of tax payer dollars peddling green bullshit, womenz suffrage, and other pet political peeves while ignoring their main mission m – by direct order from the leftists running the country – and that like the leftists do with AGW, they used a highly flawed model to make catastrophic predictions in order to frighten people into letting them fuck us over, will quickly result in accusations of you being evil and wanting to kill people for not swallowing the cockmeat sammich these fuckers demanded we all gobble up.
Fuck them.
While luminaries such as Cuomo and Deblasio were busy lecturing us about racism?
Don’t forget Pelosi and Schumer along with a slew of other political opportunists members of team blue.
Pelosi and Deblasio were in Chinatown. Telling people to come down and EAT IN CHINATOWN! If you don’t come down and EAT IN CHINATOWN, you are a racyst, racy, racialist. SO come on down and EAT IN CHINATOWN. Now, all my local Chinese places are closed and all I want is some scallion pancakes and shrimp toast. ARGHHH!!!! I’m getting stir crazy, this needs to end.
LAYCIST!
Wonder no more
Lockdown everything but the borders.
Why Does Cinema Ignore Climate Change?
Asking the real questions.
So, they forget such climate change movies as Waterworld and the Day After Tomorrow?
Or, it could just be that as a plot element, your religious doctrine sucks at entertaining people.
Not. A. Reply. This is madness!
Why do I have the urge to kick Pat down a well?
Crack open a book once in a while. There are piles and piles of climate-change dystopia books out there.
Something, something, Blade Runner.
Venom “…earth will be uninhabitable in 1-2 generations” UNINHABITABLE
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, goldblum’s rant at the end brings in climate change. the volcano plot point might have been because of climate change too, I forget.
The new Godzilla. Aquaman? I didn’t really pay much attention to that one.
Pretty sure I could find 50 more examples if I spent half an hour scrolling around on my firetv.
I’m curious what they think Trump should have “done”.
Step down from office. Pence appoints Pelosi as vp and also steps down from office. President Pelosi appoints Hillary as vp, then steps down. Then all would be right with the world.
It doesn’t matter what he did or didn’t do, it was always going to be Trump’s fault because everything’s Trump’s fault to them. It’s an utter derangement on a massive scale.
What’s with football players thinking that can flaunt the law. Murders for hire, drugs and now Brady exercising in a park?
Reminds me of the Drew Carey bit about running stops signs in the rain…so that the cops have to stand in it to give him the ticket. “I earned the money, I am going to enjoy it.”
Can you tell from the picture why this woman has a thing for chandeliers and not dudes?
“Higher intelligence” has some really strange outcomes.
…um, satire site.
Oh… like CNN and MSNBC, got it.
Weird, since the home page is full of straight news.
Isn’t Disrn run by the Babylon Bee founder?
Suspicious…
What is “straight news”?
That’s news that isn’t as gay as the shit the other places do?
I meant “non-satire”.
When we got to the party, everybody was jumping for joy.
Joy was hanging from the chandelier.
“Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us,” Tedros told reporters from WHO headquarters in Geneva. “Let’s prevent this tragedy. It’s a virus that many people still don’t understand.”
It is a respiratory illness that is dangerous to those that are elderly or have other conditions. Those people should take extra precautions.
Trust us.
Yeah… That’s worked out so well in the past…
Trust us.
What’s this goo in my mouth?
It’s got more than 12 essential vitamins and minerals, and we are only trying to help the ladies get their minimum daily requirement..
I dunno, but that’s definitely rain on your leg.
THIS IS A COMMERCIAL FOR BIKES???
https://twitter.com/tamagushii/status/1251894698634952706
I thought that tamagushii was the fad that came after pogs but before Gameboys.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Fasuto. Ajairu. Shappu.
I thought Tamagushii was an egg watch.
What’s with football players thinking that can flaunt the law. Murders for hire, drugs and now Brady exercising in a park?
“This is a PUBLIC PARK! You can’t be in here.”
Titty Tuesday has curves that can’t be flattened by lockdowns.
http://archive.li/lHSgq
14% are inked. So if you’d had a collection of 86 you could have been ink-free.
15 and both 20s are invited to my doom bunker in these trying times.
Howard Schultz is on Squawk pushing a program to “save every single restaurant” via a Federal program that provides backing for the banks.
If infections are this vastly underreported, then the mortality rate of COVID-19 is substantially lower than current estimates.
But we needed to tank the economy anyway, just in case.
Once the testing ramps up, MSM will be screeching non-stop about the “increase” in cases with zero context so they can ramp up the panic porn even more. When I see the non-stop CV/Orange Man headlines at CNN, I can’t help but think about the brainwashing scene from Clockwork Orange.
There is no “Just in case”.
The agenda here is to specifically tank the economy, because otherwise these people will have to put up with another 4 years of orange man in the WH. This shows you that they would rather burn it all down and destroy everyone else than lose power. I guess the desperate need to prevent people from finding out how corrupt and criminal the Obama bureaucracy and admin were simple overrides any feelings of empathy and humanity.
Shit, I talked to a lib acquaintance yesterday that got laid off, and the idiot couldn’t see the connection between him losing his job and what these fuckers are doing using this thing. Mark my word: if they manage to take back power we will never find out how bad this corona virus really was, because it would be detrimental to their hold on power…
Let’s test the hypothesis
A state prison has become a hot spot of the COVID-19 outbreak in Ohio, with at least 1,828 confirmed cases among inmates — accounting for the majority of cases in Marion County, which leads Ohio in the reported infections. Ohio officials say an aggressive testing program is responsible for the large number.
The large cluster of cases was found through mass testing of everyone at the Marion Correctional Institution; 109 staff members were also positive. No COVID-19 deaths have been reported at the prison.
“Because we are testing everyone — including those who are not showing symptoms — we are getting positive test results on individuals who otherwise would have never been tested because they were asymptomatic,” the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says.
It might not be representative, but it’s a sample.
Cue class action lawyers.
Any idea on the total size of the prison population. We may have another data point in the degree of susceptibility.
I’m much too lazy to RTFA. Who’s on deck in the Hermit Kingdom? Another genocidal maniac, I presume.
Looks like his sister.
That’s not good. The woman is always the most evil.
Rudyard had something to say about this.
NK can get a female president before the US. And you say that America is free…
Now I understand the origin story
As bad as things are there they can certainly get worse. At least he was open to some lessening of tensions if only for pragmatic reasons. Who knows though, maybe his sister is a genuine sweetheart.
Nobody knows. It could be his sister (The one our media fawned over during the Olympics a couple years ago). Could be some regent until one of his kids come of age. Could devolve into chaos and lead to reunification.
Probably some bastard kid that’s been in hiding for years. Does he even have any “official” kids?
Howard Schultz is on Squawk pushing a program to “save every single restaurant” via a Federal program that provides backing for the banks.
Yes. More debt will save the mom and pops.
The restaurant scene here in Myrtle Beach is going to be interesting when this is over. We’ll have like 3 steakhouses, some fast food, 89 pancake houses and a bunch of taco trucks.
Symone D. Sanders✔
@SymoneDSanders
Let’s talk about how unacceptable it is that this administration has run out of money for small business loans.
It is the president and his administration’s job to make sure all Americans are taken care of during this time. Leadership starts at the TOP.
Someone needs a remedial course in US Gov’t 101.
These people are the product of 50 plus years of marxists dumbing down education to specifically create people that think government should be the one that saves them from anything and everything.
Pretty much, and because they lack critical thinking skills they’ll make the same mistakes over and over again which would be fine with me if we weren’t along for the ride too.
Just make republicans illegal already!
She’s so proud of her ignorance she tweeted it for everyone to admire.
Her book is called ‘No, you shut up!’
That’s all you need to know.
The Get Up Kids’ cover of that is spectacular. Terrific. I grew up with that version because they were my older bro’s fave band as he was in bands and I grew up watching him practice and perform and play CDs. I’m sure if I grew up with The Cure my opinion would be different.
As a drummer myself (as well as my bro, who led me that way): TGUKs drummer fucking nails that shit. Solid, tight, and meaningful without ever being over the top. That’s hard to do. It fucking really is.
And at the very end he lays down the cymbals and gently cranks it up to exactly where it should be. It also helps that the bassist is his brother. That’s a good place to be in order to create. Especially the closed hi-hat at 3:08.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukcDTCRerIk
Thank you for the media rant. I really believe this is the only story in politics anymore. Without a functioning 4th estate, it is almost impossible to have an informed debate…. And therefore all political discussion is crippled.
The propaganda machine thinks they are controlling the debate… But what they really are doing is making people turn to places like Blaze Media as the credible alternative. When Conservative Treehouse has more credibility than the New York Times, we have a real problem.
Feel free to start sending stormtroopers into Illinois.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-senate-democrats-seek-massive-federal-bailout-for-state-going-far-beyond-coronavirus-impact-wirepoints/
I’m to the point where I want government-sector employee pension funds not to be bailed out, with them literally starving and living under bridges.
Why do you hate heroes?
This was completely predictable.
Seriously.
They have been on the edge of implosion for more than a decade. I’m surprised they didn’t hold a rooftop celebration when the trillion dollars bailouts started.
When this began, I predicted that every mismanaged POS city/state/pension fund would be right at the front of the line angling for a bailout that nobody in their right mind would give them at any other time.
There are almost no differences in social cognition between adult men and women
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1252210131607138305
Yeah, sure. That’s why I am always thinking about getting into her pants while she is thinking about getting into my wallet…
^
There are virtually no differences between men and women in this nebulous, subjective, utterly nonsensical paradigm we created for the sole purpose of demonstrating that there are virtually no differences between men and women in this nebulous, subjective, utterly nonsensical paradigm we created.
Alternately, there is no difference between the sexes because both are completely unable to do either of those things. 0% vs 0%
The variable they should have measured in addition was strength of belief in your ability to suss out the Intentions of others. Because I can guarantee there’s a gender-based difference on that one.
I don’t know what is meant by social cognition nor what differences were measured, so… Ok
Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia.
After arresting 20 princes on suspicions for planning a coup last month, MbS has now detained his aunt, an outspoken reformer who is the youngest of King Saud’s 108 children.
(Yes, Cordelia Fine, he really had 108 children)
https://twitter.com/DiegoVZ1599/status/1251986482799181826
Their family reunions must be pretty awkward.
As a man, he didn’t have any children. His harem did.
Princes, Twenty Princes who abhor you,
Well go behead now…..
/Spin Doctors
The propaganda machine thinks they are controlling the debate… But what they really are doing is making people turn to places like Blaze Media as the credible alternative. When Conservative Treehouse has more credibility than the New York Times, we have a real problem.
Don’t forget the Washington Post, Daily Diary of the Deep State.
This should be done anyway.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is weighing whether to let oil refineries skip on adding ethanol to their fuels, a move being requested by governors in oil-rich states who say the industry can’t afford the expense of blending in biofuels as oil prices plummet.
Oil prices hit a new low Friday amid a number of administration efforts to ease financial pressure on the industry. Ethanol producers, however, say they have likewise been affected as the economy tanks due to the coronavirus.
In a letter to the EPA sent earlier this week, five governors from oil-producing states said their refineries should be off the hook from meeting legal requirements to add ethanol to their products, arguing the oil industry is in too dire of financial straits to do so.
Sure the financial issue. The more important thing is that ethanol is bad for your car and even things that are made to run on it don’t do well with it.
Blending ethanol into our gasoline saves the environment. And by “the environment” we mean “corn farmers”.
Yeah, those poor corn farmers need their subsidies or they will all starve!
At least the oil guys are simply asking for a cessation to a stupid rule.
If you can’t bend ethanol into your fuel to make a shittier fuel, then you shouldn’t be in business.
Ethanol ruins engines. It eats through engine parts like acid. – Illinoisan
I thought there are plenty of environmentalists who no longer support ethanol
I don’t know much about this issue – but like most issues, I’m pretty sure it’s being driven by politics rather than what they claim it is.
Right thing to do, wrong reasons. But whatever…
Such a good idea, it has to be mandatory!
Happy birthday Robert Smith. Although there’s a recent concert airing lately, and he’s looking pretty worse for wear.
Today is the day Prince died. I think they are doing some sort of tribute concert. I hope Lou Reed was invited.
About 2 weeks ago Mrs. TOK commented that none of the commercials on TV mentioned The Corona. Now every one of them does. Every. Single. One.
Just talked to my big sis yesterday. Both my sisters are nurse practitioners, and are both furloughed. Big sis works in a hospital stroke unit. Apparently people are opting to have their strokes and heart attacks at home for fear of The Corona.
*sigh*
I can live with the weirdo WP template as long as I don’t have to keep hitting STOP REFRESH and then REFRESH again.
Happy barfday to me.
I do not see an end to this home arrest. Although I’m going out when I damn well please, the astronomical number of things I CAN’T do because I am NOT ALLOWED is utterly soul-destroying, not because a country has put its citizens on home arrest but because we’re fucking AMERICANS and our country did this to me. LemonGrenade may be pissed off to the highest levels of piss’divity, but I am just sad. We’re all just starving peasants scraping in the soil for our nobles’ feasts.
Everybody’s touchy. Everybody’s pissy. Nobody is making eye contact or acting like “we’re all in this together.” We’re not. When your livelihood is suddenly gone over NOTHING–and people who are well off are saying, “I offered to be furloughed so others can keep their jobs” and “I believe the models”–from a self-identified “conservative,” I just don’t know what to say to that except present sound arguments, which I do not have the time or emotional wherewithal to do. It makes me ill.
Fortunately, I know both sides of my family are taking this whole thing not seriously at all (including my 75yo mother and 71yo aunt) and also getting pissy about being confined. You just can’t lock up two very independent and strong-willed old women and expect not to have some pushback. Or what pushback is possible for them. Going and protesting is not it.
And of course the response to the protestors is “they’re a bunch of right-wing gun nuts”. Of course it is. Of course.
Lastly, I am having an existential crisis on where to put the comma or period when a non-dialog quotation mark is involved. Common sense says and always has said it should go on the OUTSIDE of a quotation mark if it’s not part of the quote (e.g., “…right-wing gun nuts”.), but my English teacher drilled it into me that all commas and periods go INSIDE regardless of reason (e.g., “…right-wing gun nuts.”). I want to change to outside. I really do. But I am traumatized by my upbringing and I wince every time I do it. The struggle is real, man. HM, please come therapize me.
Happy Birthday, MJ!
DItto.
???
Happy Birthday!
I can live with the weirdo WP template as long as I don’t have to keep hitting STOP REFRESH and then REFRESH again.
Of the two, the template is worse. It hurts my eyes, the refresh is just annoying.
What is the cost to move from wordpress to something stable?
As soon as I get some downtime, I’m moving my blogs to ClassicPress.
I have that same struggle with the ending quotation mark. It was also drilled into me in school that the punctuation should be inside. But at some point I started putting it on the outside because it just looks better to me. Hopefully another enlightened glib can set us both straight.
To me it doesn’t look “good” OR proper, but it DOES look like it makes sense, which is where my crisis comes in.
Where do you put your punctuation when you make airquotes?
I write more code than prose. It’s affected where I put punctuation.
this.punctuate();
Happy Birthday!
I can’t provide any cake, but remember, you english teacher was just a tyrant, and you are no longer under the boot of that class.
There’s also been a lot of “Hurrrrrrrrrrrr Darwin Awards, let them all die! Deny them health care for the rest of their lives! They get what they deserve!”
Yes, because going outside during a viral outbreak with a lower fatality rate than the fucking flu is not only a guaranteed death sentence, but even if it weren’t, society should kill you anyway for failing to sufficiently genuflect to the ruling class.
Fuck this shit in every possible way. If I can get off this house before the market completely crashes as a result of this shit I am going to sell and and put it into some acreage even if I have to put a travel trailer or shipping container on it to live in.
Since I was planning on walking away from my house anyway, this is a nonstarter for me, but if I’d been struggling to pay the mortgage for the last 6 months like I have been for the 14 years before it, I’d be burning this fucker to the ground.
Of course the media is casting the protests as extreemist nuts. Remember the last time the right organized in protests after a recession?
The politicization of absolutely everything is destroying this country. And it’s entirely by design.
Happy Birthday!
I hope your CV death risk didn’t jump up suddenly because you moved from one demographic band to another.
I can help, “Language is descriptive, not prescriptive.” The location of the comma and period should be the one that more accurately describes the situation.
It’s not that you’re wrong because you are totally right. It’s that I wince when I do it.
Oh, I just remembered: My English teacher made the point that it wasn’t what she was taught, but that X PTB (whoever that was) had decreed they all go inside the quote regardless, so she felt obliged to teach it that way.
Of course, that was also when X PTB did away with the Oxford comma, but somehow she kept teaching that.
I don’t put stock in the opinions of people who write manuals of style.
Happy birthday, Mo!
Thanks, all!
I have hated my last 2 birthdays so I am happy about the fact that I am now not wincing at the “5” in front.
I’m not quite dreading the “6” yet.
Obligatory silliness: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3kyn9Es4HoY
I’ll just go ahead and do this to myself –
^(^
(*)
Cute!
Reminds me of the time I was doing my cousin’s wedding cakes. My brother had pet gerbils at the time and he came in the kitchen with a gerbil on his shoulder to watch. Gerbil fell on the table and skedaddled right over the frosted, but undecorated cake. Mom, gma, brother, and I were scrambling. There were tiny little gerbil prints in the frosting. Once we got the gerbil back in his cage, we were howling. We knew it was bad and wrong and evil but we laughed anyway.
My cousin still doesn’t know that happened.
Happy birthday Mo!
Happy Birthday, Mojeaux! Don’t worry about that first 5, it’ll be replaced soon enough anyway.
I’ve just learned to stop wincing at the “6”. Happy Birthday, lass!
Happy Happy, sweet Mojo!
Happy Birthday!
Lastly, I am having an existential crisis on where to put the comma or period when a non-dialog quotation mark is involved.
Definitely outside. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
It took me years to overcome my early brainwashing, but you have to be strong.
Save the children
When the federal government announced it would distribute nearly $6.3 billion to colleges to give to students in need, the aid was met with fanfare.
The Education Department said April 9 the coronavirus money was on its way. For nearly every student, the money still hasn’t arrived.
Whoever is at fault, the effect is clear. Students across the country don’t have access to emergency funds that could help them, and some of them don’t even know the money is supposed to be available to them.
That was the case for Alyssa Weeley, 22. She is in her final year studying photography at the University of South Carolina, and the last few weeks have felt precarious. She normally works two part-time jobs, one at a local vintage thrift store and the other as a manager of a photography lab at the university.
She hasn’t been able to work at either for roughly two months, and she worries about her ability to buy groceries. She is behind on her April rent, though her landlord is giving her more time to pay. She has applied for unemployment, but hasn’t heard anything yet. Her tax refund has yet to arrive, and she wasn’t eligible for the stimulus checks made available through the CARES Act. She also said she was looking to receive some aid from the university tied to her job, but she hasn’t seen that money either.
It’s the government’s job to break your legs and then maybe eventually find a broken crutch for you to lean on. We do it together.
“She is in her final year studying photography”
You know what probably would have worked a lot better? If she had, after graduating HS, gone to work for a local photographer as their apprentice.
But… but… muh well-rounded, gen-ed requirements!1!
I have a lot of anger at our government. I think one of my biggest flare points is when I think about plumbers, retail peons, factory workers, and all the other hardworking people who didn’t want to go to college and/or didn’t have the chance to go to college (the majority of the country) being taxed or having their savings inflated away so that Sally Liberal Arts Degree doesn’t have to include student loan payments in her monthly budget. I find it deeply immoral, it reminds me of how in feudal days the aristocracy was exempt from taxation.
Yep, it’s highly corrosive and 100% vote buying.
In Feudal days that exemption was justified because the aristocrat was obligated to raise,train, arm, and support a military force. If Sally Liberal Arts degree wants her loan forgiven she needs to pony up a fire team!
as an apprentice.
The Soviet Union could not produce enough food for its own people, despite having both the territory and the ability to do so if the people were just properly motivated, because of ideological rigid shit like this. The people in power preferred privation, starvation, and death over admitting their ideologically motivated stupidity was destructive and kills.
Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
I don’t think any of them were worried about ideology. They simply had power and weren’t going to give it up if they could help it.
Well my wife and her friends are sure interested in Kim’s health.
For the most part, they all think that this is a bunch of bunk and he’s going to keep on truckin’ for years to come.
Personally, I’d be pissed if the reunification happens while I’m locked down and can’t get over there. That is going to be some giant party. Those soju-sucking heathens are going to lose their fucking minds if NK collapses. They won’t realize for at least a year how much it will cost them to absorb those northern hillbillies.
Is it even possible to absorb that much Juche?
I mean the toxic shock alone would kill the country.
One thing I’ve learned in the last 27 years is never bet against Korean stubbornness.
Somehow they will unite and it will be a complete clusterfuck, but they will muddle through. And yeah, they will more likely blame any troubles with reunification on Japan instead of the Kim family, but that is normal for them.
“FAHK YOU COWR AND CHIKEN!”
+1 Southpark
I think they, or at least the SK gov, has it in the back of their mind.
The real poison pill is when someone raised in that devilish concoction becomes the Korean President in 25 years.
Angela Merkel comes to mind.
I was shocked to learn that Merkel was born in Hamburg, West Germany in 1954. The family moved to East Germany when she was an infant. Interesting that some people could still move between the two parts of Germany at the time.
I didn’t know that, either. I guess her parents were commies, too. Everyone in their right mind was moving in the opposite direction.
Actually, her father was a Lutheran pastor and got a position in the East. Presumably the Lutheran church was not divided between East and West.
There were still protests in East Germany as late as 1953. I think the Soviets were unprepared for the task of actually ruling their empire, thinking instead that their presence would foster proletarian revolutions and they wouldn’t need such a heavy hand. Their own propaganda had said that the white factions west of Kiev had only maintained power through the machinations of monarchs, aristocrats, and capitalists. All of those factions were now dead, and yet the people were not embracing the Soviet system as readily as they should have. Indeed, many were fleeing it.
But we have nowhere to go.
^^^bingo
Here’s a pic we can look forward to.
https://i.imgflip.com/3xiqc7.jpg
Question about that restaurant sign you posted a pic of:
Was that somebody having a joke or does someon (quite possibly me) not know how to romanize? Your kana ended in -no, not -ne.
Lastly, I am having an existential crisis on where to put the comma or period when a non-dialog quotation mark is involved. Common sense says and always has said it should go on the OUTSIDE of a quotation mark if it’s not part of the quote (e.g., “…right-wing gun nuts”.), but my English teacher drilled it into me that all commas and periods go INSIDE regardless of reason (e.g., “…right-wing gun nuts.”). I want to change to outside. I really do. But I am traumatized by my upbringing and I wince every time I do it. The struggle is real, man. HM, please come therapize me.
My completely made-up rule, which I follow inconsistently, is this:
If the quotation marks are the equivalent of italicizing, I put the period/comma on the outside.
viz- Sally says she’s an “empath”.
Sally says “She’s an empath.”
Shouldn’t the second one have a comma after “says”?
Ted’S signal lit.
My first reaction is yes.
My second reaction is, “How fast is the speaker in Brooksie’s head speaking?” In dialog, I punctuate as I want the reader to read it.
The loss of a comma does not imply fast speaking to me.
Trump. Landslide.
*sigh*
For the time being, all Gilmore’ing is WordPress-induced.
If it is a quote, nothing goes inside the quotation marks that isn’t part of the quote.
Not Chicago Manual, but I don’t care.
This. I don’t want to imply closure or finality where none exists.
Well, who wanted to count on the courts to help remove the lockdowns?
The judicial branch running cover for executive and judicial tyranny? Say it ain’t so!
“Emergency” is the goldent ticket for government when they get to Judges. Cast everything as an emergency, and courts will say “of course the founders could never have known the devastation of plague”
Because the founders fought a revolution in the middle of a smallpox epidemic.
I honestly cannot believe this ruling was based on anything more than the FYTW clause. Any law which would give the governor that authority would be clearly unconstitutional – and I doubt there is a law granting this authority.
Judge Algenon L. Marbley
Clinton appointee, former federal Dept of HHS lawyer.
Never a chance in hell he wouldn’t fabricate some kind of public health clause in the emanations and penumbras.
Just imagine if the second amendment had emanations and penumbras.
It does, but theyre the liberty killing kind
Zombie Korematsu and Schenck say “where’s our shocked faces at?”
I’m sorry. Shocked faces are non-essential.
It would just be utterly unacceptable for those judges to have to do more work right now. What do these lousy proles think, they have some kind of First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances? Poppycock.
Wanted? Yes.
Expected? No.
This wordpress weirdness sucks, but at least they haven’t banned us for thought crimes. Yet.
That’s what I tell myself.
They shut down the Cargill meat processing plant in Alberta that supplies a third of Canada’s beef but the CBC assured me last night that grocery stores would remain well-stocked. How’s that for some propaganda? They’re not even trying anymore. It sucks. Beef is my favorite protein source. Pork tastes off, chicken too. Damn you oral surgeon! Damn you to hell!
I don’t like pork much, except ham and bacon. Beef and chicken are my go-to and we just bought an extra freezer in the case of rising meat prices and filled it up. We’re good on beef and chicken (2 freezers) for the foreseeable future.
Oh don’t worry, pork is off the menu as well. At least here in the states. Smithfield Foods – a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group headquartered in Luohe, Henan, China – has shut down all of their US pork processing plants.
Eat more turkey?
Facebook removes posts promoting anti-quarantine protests
Looks like it’s all Kermit sipping tea memes again.
Well, there goes what’s left of the first amendment. If the governors can get away with this, it’s now a dead letter.
You people disliking pork….man, makes me shake my head.
Other than the miracle of bacon, my thinking about pork is the same as fish: it’s OK but why go there when beef or chicken exists. ?♂️
1) pulled pork
2) ribs
3) chicharrones
Chile verde.
Yeah, if you really wanna see how pork should be cooked, you avoid recipes from the Empire of the Semi-Funky Corn-fed White Folk.
“Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us,” Tedros told reporters from WHO headquarters in Geneva.”
‘You fucked up. You trusted us!’
Why is this shitstain Marxist commie still head of the WHO exactly?
Because China agressively lobbied for him.
No, seriously.
I’m sure drugs fell out of this guy’s ass right after the video conference, but I just saw it and laughed my ass off.
Oh, yeah. NSFW language.
I’m surprised there aren’t more of those moments.
I bet you the kid had a legit reason to walk in…
It was his turn to be on the computer watching donkey porn and that old dude was cock blocking em….
That’s how you do it!
FUCK OFF I AM ON LIVE TELLY!
So Brady can play in the park by himself but regular folk?
And officials can’t see why this will piss people off if they continue to crack down on them?
Shit, I’m irritated with the behavior of one of my neighbours. You think you’re better than the rest of us breaking all these stupid protocols?
But cops bussing up people but allowing stupid football players is fine?
Know what? Protest away and if you can tar and feather Patton Oswalt for kicks all the better.
You’re irritated because he’s breaking protocols?
Strangely enough yes. It’s long story though. There’s actually reason to it.
In a nutshell, because they’re hypocritical and insufferable.
I mean, Brady is a Trump voter. I highly doubt he is a Branch Covidian.
The wind sounds pretty strong today, let me check what it is…
sustained of 18mph, gusting to 33.
“Severe thunderstorms” in my forecast today.
Weather radar shows a storm front about to sweep through Albany. Probably part of the same system that will ran on you.
Well, I’m halfway through the UN Purple Book, but I’m also out of coffee.
Shouldn’t the second one have a comma after “says”?
Maybe.
Maybe there is hope for the kids after all.
dumping literally tons of sand into at least two area skateparks
Government is just the things we (attempt to) destroy together.
Over/under on when they use high explosives to destroy the park features?
It will be educational to see how far the governments will go to enforce their decrees in this environment.
Newsom is arrogant and stupid, but is he arrogant and stupid enough to fully destroy private property? And what will he do when people openly defy him?
And Ted Cruz isn’t my favorite cup of tea, but he is one of the few GOP’ers out there who does seem not entirely bad.
So the park is actually funded by an outside group, but The Man still feels OK about shutting it down.
Not just shut it down, but destroy it.
The thing with these takings is that the governments are doing it all under the auspicies of “police powers” and are generally free from having to compensate anyone for a loss due to the use of police powers….
“You should have done more to stop people from disobeying the government’s orders by using your property. The fact that you too were forbidden from spending time outside near other people to do anything about it is irrelevant. Not only can the government take your property without compensation, but we’re fining you for abetting lawlessness. Good day.
Tard Tuesday: Lamest Crisis Ever
Yeah, it would have been much better if we just did away with that annoying voting. It’s all so passe at this point anyway. Skip the part where people fill out the ballots, and just go straight to the government counting them.
I’m really looking forward to the day when commercials are run on TV lauding the heroic efforts of the people counting all the mail in ballots for being so brave and willing to handle ballots that could be contaminated with CV.
I’m sure the Democrats will run ads with the vote counters wearing scrubs (maybe precinct bosses will have white lab coats).
“If it wasn’t for these brave people, my grannie wouldn’t have her vote count (even though she died months ago)”
*her votes
At least 7 new coronavirus cases appear to be related to Wisconsin’s election,
7 people caught* a virus? Why, there’s an 8% chance that one of them might die!
BLOOD. ON. THEIR. HANDS.
*We’ll just jump right over the fact that there’s no way to attribute their infection to a single one of the many, many things each of them did during that week that could have infected them.
A popular youtuber upoads a video titled “Going to the Weed Research Lab in Colorado.” On 4/20.
It’s about tumbleweeds.
Let’s focus on what’s really important. Trump doesn’t like Morning Joke.
President Trump in an early morning tweet on Tuesday said he watched the opening of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and saw “hatred and contempt.”
“Watched the first 5 minutes of poorly rated Morning Psycho on MSDNC just to see if he is as ‘nuts’ as people are saying,” Trump said, apparently referring to co-host Joe Scarborough.
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Trump did not specify what sparked his tweet.
In a follow-up post, he said it is “amazing” that he was elected president “with such a totally corrupt and dishonest Lamestream Media going after me all day, and all night.”
“Either I’m really good, far better than the Fake News wants to admit, or they don’t have nearly the power as once thought!” he said.
“Trump did not specify what sparked his tweet.” Huh. It would be harder to find a Morning Joke segment NOT about “Bad Orange Man is Bad.”
And the nodders all cluck their tongues and agree.
I noticed a huge bump in traffic yesterday, and the masks were nearly gone. Lots of people out walking the neighborhood. People out front talking and watching the neighborhood kids play together. There was a long line of cars parked at the local park in the unofficial parking lot by the side of the road. Kind of felt like a turning point, like most of the fear is gone.
Miracle cure
If you’re looking for a remedy to your respiratory blues — as per a tweet by Alireza Nader — “pro-regime religious ‘expert’” Mehdi Sabili’s got you covered.
No need for a doctor visit — all you’ve gotta do is find a well-hydrated desert-dwelling even-toed ungulate.
And wait.
With a bucket.
According to Alireza’s tweet, a video featuring Mehdi tells those suffering from COVID-19 or other respiratory issues to treat their malady with good ol’ camel urine.
You want me to hydrate with filtered camels? No way!
That boy ain’t right….
You’ll probably get MERs as a result, since camels are the reservoir for that particular coronavirus strain.
I thought about just posting this tomorrow in place of the links, but I figured I’d just post it here because it’s one of the funniest twitter threads I’ve ever seen. (Some is NSFW, but most is ok):
https://twitter.com/icy_rapture/status/1251968519228416000?s=21
Of course there’s a funky chicken fetish.
“just like you’re eating a chicken fajita”. LMAO
I heard “chicken feed”
Cheesy pickup lines exist cause they work…
My favorite is the one the pizza delivery guy uses “I like to watch”….
Tard Tuesday: LITERALLY HITLER
TLDR: I want to keep the economy closed for the good of the economy.
That’s someone who’s not well. If you can’t find balance and think this way, you’re off.
He has turned, open up the country, into a political rally. This will kill his own people and he knows it, he does not care. Trump supports churches opening back up. The churches his people go too. That is pure evil.
urging people to #resist bad government is pure evil….
Trump had one rally in March. Biden had nine or ten.
I’ll just leave this here:
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1251621524928253952/photo/1
Won’t someone please think of the poor actors?!?!
I still remember the tone deaf interview during the NBA players strike. One of the players said something to the effect of: You have to understand, we’re not all rich. Some of us only make $200,000 a year.
Latrell Sprewell once said something about “I have to feed my family”. The comment came immediately after he rejected a 3 yr/$21M contract offer.
I’m all about getting every nickel the market will bear, but it doesn’t get more tone-deaf than that.
LOL
Young residents in California responded to the government’s extreme social distancing enforcement action by grabbing a few shovels, buckets, and booms and turning at least one sand-filled skatepark into a park for both skating and dirt biking.
When the Nazis give you sand, build a sand castle.
Honestly, if Trump were removed tomorrow, my anxiety level would drop 100%. My fear of the virus, economic ruin would drop. It is clear, Trump is the problem, the number one threat to our country, our lives.<
TRUMP IS TEH GOBLIN KING!!!11
Even if we were to reopen all the insane asylums and build twice as many more, there wouldn’t be enough space to fit all of the crazies today.
Sadly, we would be the institutionalized crazies–for wrongthink.
True. We are, after all, the source of the greatest health crisis of all: unacceptable belief in freedom leading to spontaneous outbursts of making decisions not approved and permitted by our betters.
How can a person go back and read this and not realize they have a serious mental problem? They really believe that EVERYTHING Trump does is wrong. Every single thing. And if Trump changes his mind, this person has to change his own mind, too, because Trump is always wrong.
That person is a puppet on a string and doesn’t even realize it. It’s sad really.
Can’t change your mind if you don’t have one.
This person has more than one problem.
Tard Tuesday: Almost Too Dumb To Mock
Good idea. Let’s start with government spending.
Hahahahaha….
A forum populated by communists who’ve been hitting the bong and want to write miniature manifestos. I’ll pass.
That is some prime retardation there. I’m surprised it didn’t end with “Did someone say ‘Who wants cake?”.
Don’t have any. They already ate it.
Hopefully the writer will be part of the reduction.
Enh, “food” is overrated anyway.
The planet is going to become uninhabitable if we don’t all start eating an exclusive diet of soy-based imitation insects.
OK geniuses, hand over those smartphones. That will be your part of the reduction.
Must be them trying out a new marsist selling point. “30% less GDP and 100% more bodies and camps!”
Look, living in a hut and eating nothing but gruel is fine. It’s natural!
Subsistence living is the tits.
Grapes of Wrath FTW!
Now that energy is cheap, it’s time to transition to expensive energy.
Perfect time to switch supply when demand is low.
/Economics major
Is this the point at which she brags about her bachelor’s in economics again? baaahahahaha
Boston University should sue to prevent her from listing herself as an alumna.
You’re assuming that BU didn’t teach her that shit.
“New advances in tennis shoe manufacturing has led to a glut in the tennis shoe market, resulting in widespread bankruptcies and layoffs. Now more than ever we must discuss transition away from tennis shoes to wearing braided grass slippers.”
I mean, what?
Fossil fuels are in long-term structural decline.
It is?
Trump had one rally in March. Biden had nine or ten.
Trump “endangered” thousands!
Biden endangered dozens.
Well, I admit you have a point there.
Reliable source.
Brian Stelter✔
@brianstelter
Compiling a list for tonight’s @ReliableSources newsletter… what are the best examples of creativity you’ve seen from the media and tech worlds this month? Creative solutions to virus-induced problems?
I would compliment your creative deception and misinformation, but it is not really creative.
“Woman’s fake breasts saved her life when silicone implant stopped a bullet headed for her heart”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8240569/Fake-breasts-saved-womans-life-gunshot-Silicone-implant-deflected-bullet-away-heart.html
If it only saves one life….
Hmmmm…. Kevlar Brest implants….
This is truly news you can use.
Cuomo emerges from quarantine…
Forget that he’s been out getting in fights with bicyclists and whatnot.
It’s peak CNN. They’re not even trying to be credible anymore.
I seriously doubt he even had the ‘Rona.
And I looked, and behold an olive-drab horse.
I know everyone has been obsessed with the COVID-19 farce, so you might have missed the late Friday night info drops from the usual deep state sources admitting that the weaponized Obama admin’s three letter bureaucratic agencies ran a sting opp on one of Trump’s people. These people, under direction from Obama and the Clinton machine, didn’t just spy on the Trump campaign, but ran an active operation to try and entrap some of his people so they could use the ensuing scandalous news to help the efforts to rig the election to favor Clinton. No wonder they are desperate to hide how fucking nasty and criminal they were and need to get rid of orange man…
Desperate is the right term. Every news Outlet on television, in print and on the web is pushing to discredit any investigation or even comment on the Russia scandal
The made up “Russia scandal” was completely and totally caused by the necessity to provide cover for the actions of the Obama administration’s weaponized bureaucracy which they set loose on team blue and Obama/Clinton personal enemies. It’s all made up shit to hide the criminal behavior. And man did they abuse power on a scale that would give Dick Nixon a fucking boner. The funny thing is that Mueller, which supposedly was charged with finding Russian meddling into the 2016 election went along with a scheme concocted by the Clinton machine in cooperation with their Ukrainian and Russian partners (look up Skulkovo and the Uranium deal the Clintons made).
It is also funny (well, not really) that the same people shilling about a totally manufacture Russia threat not only are actively defending the ChiComm machine because team blue (and to a great extent even team red) are owned by the CCP and their money, but bury how dangerous what China is doing is to the world. Wish I could say this surprises me, but this is par for the course for people that have spend decades defending the most horrific things inflicted on humanity because of the fact that they don’t like that their desire to force changes on the laws of economics of human nature result in mass death and misery.
After watching Mueller’s performance in Congress, it seems apparent that he has seriously lost a step since leaving public life. That would be a good alternate explanation for the way his investigation went.
You are welcome to that belief, except that I am certain Mueller didn’t run any part of that investigation: he was a front man to lend that desperate attempt to reverse the results of an election they had thought rigged in favor of Clinton a veneer of legitimacy. Mueller was picked on purpose, because they knew he was mentally not there anymore. That shitshow was run by a bunch of partisan Clinton/Obama hacks that knew from the start there was neither any Russian collusion nor any other crime than the ones committed by the Obama administration’s weaponized bureaucracy (which many of them were participants in), and the goal was to drag that investigation out as long as possible until they could manufacture a situation where bad orange man was removed from office. Barr replacing that asshat Sessions whom could not come close to that whole affair without allowing these hacks to claim obstruction, ended their efforts and produced that shill of a report that contravened centuries of law claiming that you were innocent unless the state could prove you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
That was kinda the point about Mueller… he’s supposedly a pro’s pro, so how could he let his bureau be abused like this? Well, because he put his name on the front door and took the hand-picked Clinton team and let them run the thing in his name.
It was the perfect setup – unassailablely credentialed old codger who is mostly checked out as a cover for a deeply partisan set of lawyers who ran what was essentially a campaign operation for HRC/DNC, only with the power of the state behind them.
To this day, nobody is seriously looking at the Clinton lawyers on team Mueller. He provided impenetrable cover for them to do as they liked.
Any competent “investigation” into Russia and the collusion story would have quickly – meaning a week or 3 – been able to determine that there was no improper contact between Trump’s team and Russia (which Mueller’s investigation actually did determine, they just didn’t quit). And at that point any competent “investigation” would have turned its eye on the Obama administration, asking “why”? And they very quickly should have been able to establish an espionage action against the RNC presidential nominee and later the President Elect and even the President. By the summer of 2017 a true independent counsel office would have been doing a deep dive into the FBI and the CIA and State Department instead of doing extortionist prosecutions against Trump campaign officials that they already knew had not done anything wrong with respect to Russia and the campaign.
Well even better, our good AG is demanding the continuation of this surveillance authority. The Trump Admin isn’t so much a reality show, as a soap opera, with lots of sub-plots and cross-currents. Actually, it almost a Soap reboot.
Who is the one who can snap his fingers and disappear like Bert?
I would rather know which one was the hawt wife that needed some action..
Unfortunately, that is Bill Barr….
You were hoping for the first lady or daughter…. But nope. You get Barr.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
snap his fingers and disappear like Bert
Whoever is Press Secretary?
genius!
Barr has made it pretty clear that the reason for his investigations is to restore trust in the IC so that they can retain these powers. It is at least marginally better than what most others would have done, which is to do nothing about the abuses but demand (and due to a pliant Congress, get) an extension of the powers anyway.
Nice try, but fuck you IC.
I just finished Permanent Record (Snowden’s book). The sad thing is, the govt just wanted to do what the tech corporations are doing – record every possible detail of your life, without you having much say in the matter.
I don’t think they have much to worry about. I’m pretty sure the DOJ investigation is a sham. They already have plenty to start indicting people, but I haven’t seen a single indictment. The lawyer who actually falsified evidence for the FISA warrants is, as far as I know, still working, and hasn’t been disciplined, disbarred or indicted. If they are playing us for fools, what would they do different?
I was hoping that they were just waiting for an opening in the media so it has a chance of getting some airtime. That’s what I get for hoping.
“Dammit. Site of Janis Joplin’s first paid gig, and an Austin institution since 1933.”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1252605935622619136
“Threadgill’s Old No. 1 Closes Permanently
Pandemic closes a part of Austin history”
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2020-04-20/threadgills-old-no-1-closes-permanently/
Not so bad in and of itself, but I’m sue there are plenty of stories like these across the country.
Sure, what could go wrong?
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to take its toll on the U.S. economy, a new survey from the National Restaurant Association lays out how dire the situation is for the industry. More than two-thirds of the restaurant workforce, or 8 million employees, have lost their jobs as shelter-in-place orders and mandatory closures have severely impacted the industry’s ability to conduct business.
What’s more, 60% of restaurant owners say that existing federal relief programs, including the CARES Act, which allocated some $350 billion in relief for small businesses under the Paycheck Protection Program, won’t be enough to keep employees on payroll during the downturn.
Restaurants reported $30 billion in losses in March, a projected $50 billion in losses in April, and are teeing up for a $240 billion Covid-19-related loss nationwide by the end of the year. Prior to Covid-19, the industry had been projecting $899 billion in sales this year, with 15.6 million employees, the association said.
In a letter to Congress sent Monday, the group is asking lawmakers to provide targeted relief for the sector, as it says four in 10 restaurants have closed their doors, some with no hope of reopening. Part of its “Blueprint for Recovery” includes a $240 billion Restaurant and Foodservice Industry Recovery Fund.
Maybe the government should just nationalize all those restaurants and make those cooks and waitresses and bartenders federal employees. Then the could join AFSCME.
They needn’t worry, we’re going to need more soup kitchen cooks.
$15 an hour guaranteed.
Customers will pay based on their identity. Colored non-binaries eat for free.
Equality based meals, all the gruel will taste the same every day.
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Welcome to the new normal.
The Bee is one of the few sane things left.
*applause*
Case in point
https://babylonbee.com/news/more-homeschoolers-arriving-at-college-woefully-unprepared-for-gender-studies
I’m not going to lie. Kim Yo-jong, despite a five head and never stick it in the batshit insane, totally would.
Gustave obviously needs a lot of implicit danger to get it up.
And a history of bad decision making.
The threat of being shot by an anti-aircraft gun is too thrilling to ignore.
Just start writing her some love letters. Next thing you know, you’ll get the invite and you two can be pals and more. Don’t worry, after you get tired of her, you won’t get disappeared or anything.
So…there’s a chance?…
I owe you an apology for yesterday. No good reason for snapping like an asshole.
You won’t get disappeared, instead you will appear on pornhub in an amateur 3-way with her and Dennis Rodman
Go on…
Will there be a ton of screaming and STEVE SMITH references from Rodman?
Let’s just say Gustave will be in the middle of that sandwich. I expect Kim has an epic collection of pegging rigs.
Dude, there’s supposed to be some hot to go with the crazy.
Yellow fever induced encephalitis.
Power is reputed to be an aphrodisiac.
Don’t forget the intestinal parasites.
Some entrepreneurs, such as Barry O’Donovan of Kilkenny House in Cranford, New Jersey, said they are “exasperated” by the process, and hearing that big companies accessed funding is maddening.
O’Donovan was seeking a $159,000 loan from his bank, Santander, and said he doesn’t even know if his application was processed. His bank’s manager was unclear, and O’Donovan was told the fund had run dry. He is operating at 70% loss and has gone from a staff of 30 to 9, leading him to make tough decisions regarding layoffs.
“I had to lay off my manager, and some have left because they are making more on unemployment than they are working for me,” O’Donovan said. “The little guy got shafted in this process and got nothing. I am at a loss for words.”
How about “FUCK OFF, SLAVER!”?
Tard Tuesday: I hope this woman is just trying to get views and doesn’t really have this fragile of a constitution.
https://youtu.be/FVhhrR1aERU
15 minutes of selfie ranting?
She’s obviously a catch for any single guys out there.
RHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Pay attention to me! I wanna be a victim too!
Wow.
Wooooooooaaaaaaaawwwwwwww……
Words fail. Even anomatopoeia ia inadequate.
There are a lot of broken people out there.
Adult toddlers everywhere.
Open everything back up for business, but leave the public schools closed forever, bring back child labor, we don’t need any more adult infants to take care of.
So, the commenting glitch is the same as yesterday. But now we got the crappy gray and more gray styling back. Is that just the Glib version of ‘Someone has to do something!?’.
The Fed will bail us out eventually.
Of course, right think will be guaranteed and the correct WHO funding will be extracted quarterly.
Well I think I’ve finally hit my tipping point. I’m a pretty extreme introvert so my life hasn’t actually changed much in day to day aside from having wife and kids at home. I knew deep in my head and my heart that our liberty was mostly a smokescreen, but this just brought it to the top. I’ve been mostly optimistic that this craziness was unsustainable because people would not tolerate the nonsense very long. But after seeing that no matter what new information comes out the government just doubles down. After seeing people protesting get labeled as terrorists and the politicians saying it aren’t laughed out of town (or tarred and feathered). After seeing the ridiculous “plan” coming from the whitehouse and some governors that is based on complete nonsense and is obviously not achievable for several months. Add in that the longer this goes the more likely people really start seeing hardship. I mean true hardship, not just being stuck at home and not going out to eat or getting low on toilet paper. When we start getting actual food shortages, etc. shit will go haywire fast.
I fear this may effectively be the end of the republic we’ve mostly joked about around here. I know that sounds hyperbolic and I would love to be wrong, but I think this may be the last straw in a country that has had these issues bubbling under the surface for a while. Can anyone offer some analysis or perspective to talk me down? I’m a pretty even keeled person with a perspective that we’ve been through worse and been ok, but fuck, this doesn’t have the feel of something we come out of without massive changes to our way of life.
Well, there definitely are elements who feel that way. Bernie Sanders and AOC and their fellow Travelers explicitly talk in those terms. So it isn’t exactly in the same to think they might want to take advantage of the moment to do exactly that.
Can anyone offer some analysis or perspective to talk me down?
The republic has been dead for at least 100 years, so this is just a particularly “Boot on face” episode of our imperial regime?
Does that help?
“people would not tolerate the nonsense very long”
They haven’t, yet. The natives are getting restless.
I’m a bit more optimistic than you. What we’re really seeing is the same tyrant wannabes who’ve been around, trying to do what they do and seize a a crisis to give themselves more power over the serfs. The mask has slipped a little more.
We’ll survive this. No one can say how much damage has been done, but liberty will continue to limps slowly along on life support for some time to come. There hasn’t been much left of the Constitution since the Clinton admin years, anyway.
I understand that a month isn’t really that long, but when protesters are treated that way, how long before they take the next step? I thought the governors would see that and realize the gravity of the situation. Even if they couldn’t (wouldn’t) explicitly admit they fucked up they would start moving pretty quickly to open things up. But they’re not. Most of these reopening plans won’t do anything for another month at least. That’s an eternity at this point. They’re playing both sides, and they’re playing with fire. Unfortunately it won’t be they who get burned, its the rest of us.
“But they’re not.”
For one thing, they’re chickenshit politicians who are afraid that if they open up, the media and the left will come down on them. On the other hand, the lefty ones are so desperate to get rid of Trump that they will risk it all to do so.
My guess is that it’s going to come back to bite most of them hard for not opening up sooner, but TDS, as has been well demonstrated, is powerful stuff and make a victim completely devoid of reason.
I think the electoral calculus is this:
No Democrat will vote based on the lockdown being unjustified and going on too long. Their base is rock solid and whipped into a frenzy.
Some law and order Republicans will support the lockdowns, because it came down from Their Masters, and could vote based on the narrative that it should have been earlier, harder, and longer. Probably not a lot, but in a 50/50 electorate, it doesn’t take many.
The fabled suburban soccer mom swing vote will go hard for “safety” and be pro-lockdown. Who do you those Karens are, anyway? More votes supporting the lockdown.
IOW, I see little chance any of the tinpot authoritarians losing office over this. And the Dem play to retake power by crashing the economy has a decent chance of succeeding.
Meh… what matters is Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvanian and Michigan. Everything else is pretty much decided, and accounted for by both sides.
I’m pretty sure of two things:
1. We are in a recession, and will be in November.
2. No President has ever been re-elected during a recession.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results, but whoever the Dems put on the ballot has a good chance of winning. Now, a Dem President is mostly the figurehead for the administrative state, but if the Dems hold the Presidency and the House, a Republican Senate has a very poor record of not going along. And if the Dems take all three, well, aim the car at the cliff and stomp on the accelerator.
Can anyone offer some analysis or perspective to talk me down?
No.
1. The president didn’t cause the recession.
2. In some recent polls, 60% of people blame China for the virus.
3. The dems will continue to carry China’s water, no matter who the candidate is and Trump will continue to blame China.
The dems are not helping their cause by behaving the way they are now, they’re digging a deeper hole.
Trump will win re-election and the dems may very well lose the house.
Trump has broken the mold before, true.
My prediction is that a few months before the election, Trump’s going to pivot to a direct message to the black community. He’ll be extremely forthright, explain all the economic benefits that had been going before the panic attack, explain what he’s trying to do for the whole country, directly attack the Donks for taking them for granted for years, and ask for support. It will be about Family and Future.
The media will try to make it a Ross Perot “you people” moment. And that will backfire spectacularly. And his plan will mostly work, with levels of support nobody would have predicted.
I think Trump sees this, I mean, I think I see the way Trump sees this and will play it, and I think he’s right.
The Dems will continue to carry China’s water while a majority of people will rightfully blame China for the current situation.
The Dems will continue to support open borders, while wanting to lock Americans in their homes. I don’t think this, for obvious reason, is a winning formula right now. It was not a winning formula before, but it’s a fool’s errand now.
A whole lot of the Deplorables have been wishing and pretending (for their whole lives, actually) that there isn’t REALLY a hard-core Kulturkrieg being waged against them. And with impeachment and the current panic, more and more of them have figured out that there truly is. And enough of them will move into the “open war” mindset that your point #2 won’t dominate this time.
I kinda hope the power-mad keep pushing it. It will open up full justification for retiring them with extreme prejudice.
Was looking up how many countries had changed their constitutions in their history (looking at you france) and this came up:
https://www.thoughtco.com/ways-to-change-the-us-constitution-4115574
I don’t know if you give it credit for being realist or not….
They missed the most important one of all:
Administrative actions by government bureaucrats
I mean, that’s been happening since the damn thing was signed, so I’d say it’s pretty realistic.
I mean, for the tenure of that president sure, but it has no binding on the country if someone else joins
He also hated the constitution so…
ummmmmmmm
I have an idea. Instead of using debt to hide the cost, levy a tax on the people who think what the governors are doing is right, and pay it out not only to those hurt by the lockdown, but also pay it out to everybody who thinks the lockdown should end. If, after all, the economy is so unimportant, then surely you can put your money where your mouth is.
This would all be over before the end of the week.
I’ve been saying it for weeks now: none of the government employees have seen a missed check yet. Cut the fucking teachers to half pay, they’ll be marching on the Capitol tomorrow with all the deplorables.
Yesterday we were driving past a state park with the driveways barricaded and all the warning signs up. My wife asked who put those up? All our State Rangers – the day before their paid vacations started.
(there were a number of fishermen who walked around the gates and seemed to be enjoying themselves)
Yeah I just had to bite my tongue. One of the Office Progs just came in, bleating as usual about Trump, and asked how I was doing. My wifes workplaces is “non essential”, so she had to go back to retail, which was already a paycut, and now retail has her cut down to 20 hours a week. So I kind of related that, then asked how they were doing.
Her husband is a fucking bureaucrat, which I did not know before today, “working from home”, and of course no paycut. I like this lady, shes a nice lady, but shes fucking clueless. I was so pissed off, but its not her fault, and I didn’t want to unload on her, but goddamn its really fucking easy to talk about how important it is to shut down the fucking economy when your husband is making a fat government check to “work from home”.
I was giving her the benefit of the doubt until I learned that, and now I just straight up have her filed in the “Fuck you, you’re a parasite” file.
I agree. This is the late republic period, where ambitious politicians can just name themselves Dictator and nobody seriously opposes them. A Constitution (Roman, American, English, whatever) is only as good as the people who follow and defend it.
It’s over for us. Maybe we’ll make some sort of economic recovery during the 2nd half of the year. But all these politicians, bureaucrats, and cops who got a good taste of authoritarianism and really liked it will be back. They’ll be back when the virus comes back next winter, or when some other convenient excuse emerges. One of these days, a lot sooner than I would have thought a couple of months ago, people will start shooting back and then it won’t stop until more people are dead than any “experts” predicted.
“it won’t stop until more people are dead than any “experts” predicted”
It’s the one serious mistake they made. The left used to be all patience. But then came a couple of events that broke them and sent them over the edge, off the rails and they seem to have forgotten that they didn’t get everyone’s guns first. .
1. Obama was elected and they declared a thousand year progtopia.
2. After a couple trashings where democrats lost Congress, Trump was elected president.
That’s why this will not end nicely. I see the USA splitting up into 2 or more aligned groups of states. People are just too far separated now and the middle ground is gone. The right being tolerant enough to mostly leave the left alone, but the left want total iron fisted control and the other side has most of the weapons and a willingness to use them if it comes down to that. It won’t end well, and the USA surviving as the 50 states for the long run, there’s just no way. We’ll limp along for a while and then the left will just get so nasty that civil war is inevitable. They’re so stupid that they think crashing the economy won’t be the catalyst for a real civil war instead of just sniping at each other on the internet.
I see the USA splitting up into 2 or more aligned groups of states.
The optimal outcome, but highly unlikely. If it does happen, I don’t see any way it happens peacefully. And if it ain’t peaceful, its going bloody. An extremely lethal army and tens of millions of armed citizens having a frank exchange of views will be . . . catastrophic.
The good news is – those who accept the boot willingly aren’t about to die to enforce it. So that cuts one side down significantly.
*hands Stillhunter a Hawaiian shirt
I’ll try, ahem…
{slaps Stillhunter in the face} Snap out of it, Man! Jefferson froze his balls off at Valley Forge! That black guy, Hamilton, led his men up the bluffs at Yorktown with only swords and slit British throats! We get some faggoty Chink flu and you turn into a driveling pussy!?! Was it over when the Japs had us surrounded at the Choisin Reservoir?! And it ain’t over now.
Seriously, go for a walk, Brother. Or a drive, if weather won’t allow. We Liberty lovers can occasionally let the moment overcome us. Yes, many of our countrymen are pussies. It is the inevitable result of the largesse bought by the incredible sacrifices of hard men and hard women who risked all for Freedom. Notwithstanding all of the idiocy around us, we still live in a time of incredible plenty. We all live better than most of the Kings, Presidents, and Monarchs of even 60 or 70 years ago. Seriously: instant communications (even visual, if we want) around the world for free, running hot and cold water, refrigeration, climate controlled living spaces to exactly the temperature we want, FREE PORN, all of the world’s information at our fingertips…
Yes, we are living during the end of the modern Roman Republic – except one that finally made individual human Liberty its cornerstone. The recognition of that loss is what hurts the most. Believe me, I was stupid enough to have bought all of the horseshit propaganda, risked my life for it, and watched a lot of good men and women die “defending Freedom” around the world. One of my best friends once joked to me, bitterly, while we were in the hinterlands of Afghanistan hunting for bin Laden, discussing this very subject: “What are we doing here? Seriously? Making the world safe for Obamacare?” He died in that shithole with a bullet in his head, far from the land he loved, and his wife and kids. Yet I get up and see a gorgeous sunrise this morning, see my wife’s smile and hear my kids laugh and know that there is joy to be had everywhere around me. I try to do that because he can’t. It’s all fine.
Be of good cheer; we have each other to know that we’re not alone. We live in a time of plenty. Do what you can and must to protect you and yours and find joy in the little things around you. An attitude of gratitude will go a LONG way towards curing anxiety. Read Viktor Frankl. Enjoy a nice cup of coffee. Don’t let the assholes get you down. Much love, Brother.
I would like slapped as well. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Bacon, if you ask nicely and turn around, I might even give you a spanking. ??
OH MY! – Sulu’s voice
I knew it!
Wise words, Ozy.
Thanks, Ozy.
Thanks I appreciate the attempt. Normally I keep all of that in perspective. I truly understand my life has been mostly free of any real hardship. But why are there so many who can’t appreciate it like I do and build on it rather than tearing it down? I guess there is just no stopping the human condition.
I think I should sit this one out. I am grumpy as hell this morning. Your optimism Ozy is badly needed but one minute of looking at the news has me wanting to build a guillotine.
We all live better than most of the Kings, Presidents, and Monarchs of even 60 or 70 years ago. Seriously: instant communications (even visual, if we want) around the world for free, running hot and cold water, refrigeration, climate controlled living spaces to exactly the temperature we want, FREE PORN, all of the world’s information at our fingertips…
Bread and circuses. We’ve become too fat and comfortable to be willing risk it in the name of freedom.
. I’m a pretty extreme introvert so my life hasn’t actually changed much in day to day aside from having wife and kids at home – I would think an extreme introvert would live alone in the mountains, not have wife and kids…
Well, if it were up to me I’d live in the mountains out west, but I’m at least as isolated as most mountain folk where I live now and have about 2 million acres of US federal/Canadian wilderness within a stone’s throw north of me.
Even extreme introverts need other people. We just want them to go away more often.
I don’t think liberty is dead.
It’s only mostly dead.
And as we know, mostly dead is still slightly alive.
We’re pretty wealthy, Stillhunter. If California hasn’t gone Mad Max yet, I think we’ll muddle on a little further.
A little more aggressive liberty proselytizing wouldn’t go amiss, either.
Hang in there, brother. You’ve got friends in weird places…
Again, appreciate it. But the discussion of prosperity is misguided, IMHO. If some of what’s happening continues on this track, any semblance of prosperity will be over very quickly. Are we really prosperous without liberty?
I told my kids something along the lines of the “Hunger Games” was likely sometime in the future. Hopefully that future isn’t closer than I thought.
I guess I still think we somehow muddle through this particular situation without civil war and horrific dystopian conditions for the short term, but it is coming at some point. Just a matter of time.
Man, I tried to find some antipodean backup on the sports birthdays but came up pretty empty. The only major one I could find was this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Hurley
Local radio station playing a campaign commercial for that horse-faced cunte Alice DeWine. Its her dad, the governor, shilling for his own daughter
/considers going Full-Elvis on bluetooth speaker
School district a couple towns over has decided that breakfast and lunch aren’t enough and they’re apparently flush with cash. They’re now adding dinner to the meals they’re serving. While kids aren’t even in school.
I argued with a commie friend about this. He’s been picking up lunch at his kids’ school, not because he needs it, but because they are producing a lot and he thinks if he goes and supports the “valuable” program it will stay active. His kids won’t eat the food (they already know it is prison food) so he eats it and then complains about it.
“…commie friend…”
Jumbo shrimp. Lead balloon. Civil war. Working vacation. Negative income.
I could go on….
Hey! They have successfully flown lead-foil ballons.
And ‘jumbo’ is a relative measure compared to other shrimp.
So…he thinks there’s so little demand for this food that he needs to take food he doesn’t need – and that no one in his house likes – lest they discontinue the program because not enough kids need it.
Right.
That is exactly his position. Oh, that and “the sanity we get from being out of the house for 10 minutes and seeing other people makes the trip worth it.”
vegan i hope
certainly not enabling bad parenting….
“Interesting that ActBlue raised an average donation of $30.38.
This would imply people are donating in uneven numbers, including pennies, which would be odd. OR it would indicate untraceable foreign donations and an exchange rate translation, which would be illegal.”
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1252453257080909824
Math is hard.
Why do you follow these twits?
https://twitter.com/ronnietshirts/status/1252366334446297088
I wonder who the blonde is?
probably old and fat right now.
Whoever she is, she’s 60 now.
58
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Copley
I stand corrected. Good detective work.
“BREAKING: Mayor de Blasio announces when #NYC finally reopens … there will be a ticker tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes for Health Care Workers and First Responders #nbc4ny”
https://twitter.com/Bogs4NY/status/1252597825973751810
The mayor of NYC is a giant retard.
He’s going to put the Babylon Bee out of business.
Since no one’s paying attention (and the ChiComs are counting on that), Hong Kong has been buttoned up. While the rest of the world is squabbling about Kung Flu, Beijing went an arrest-a-thon and pretty much strangled the life out of any pro-democracy activity there. Even if the Kung Flu was a naturally occurring disease from bat soup and not lab-created, they sure didn’t let a crisis go to waste. One country, two systems is basically dead at this point.
What would be even more bold, and right now actually wouldn’t surprise me, would be if China made a move at Taiwan. The US has severely weakened itself through this, it’s already torn apart by internal division that seems to get worse by the day and China’s international image has taken such a beating that maybe they figure it can’t get any worse. Either way, if they did go after Taiwan, I’m pretty sure the Western powers wouldn’t do jack shit. Japan and Korea would beg for help, but I don’t think the US (and definitely not Europe) would provide any.
Since no one’s paying attention – I am paying attention for all the good that does.
Yup, saw that and was not surprised that the CCP used this criminal global crisis they created to get rid of people that were in the way of their efforts to consolidate and hold onto their power.
I would think, say, a top-tier anti-aircraft system and thousand cruise missiles, some rigged for anti-ship, would solve that problem. The ChiComs have a very limited sealift capability, and ports in range that they wouldn’t want to see pounded into rubble if they opted for open war.
Also, an announcement that any aggression by the ChiComs would result in an offer of nuclear missiles to Japan and South Korea would help.
I have no doubt we *could* stop them. I just don’t think we would. The populace is far too war-weary and the country is so dysfunctional from internal division that I don’t think it’s capable of bold action anymore.
I said not long ago the biggest way to get China back for the commie cough is to recognize Taiwan and support Hong Kong. That and getting our $ and corporations out of China.
Taking all of Taiwan would be a bigger endeavor than they’re prepared for. Taking Kinmen County, on the other hand, would be very doable.
Paraphrasing Admiral Jervis, I’m not saying the ChiComms can’t come, I’m saying they can’t come by sea. I honestly don’t really see how you can invade an island nation in the nuclear age. Even if Taiwan has no nukes (and I think they do), that’s something that can be fixed really quick. If they want Taipei, it might cost them Shanghai and a half dozen other cities that are within F16 range of Taiwan.
Police rebut Whitmer on protest at capitol.
Whitmer has kept far more people out of the hospital than protestors ever could.
Shut up, deplorable! Didn’t you know the comme cough is the only thing people can die from right now!? After the crisis, people can die of other stuff again, but not right now! Governor’s orders!
He said, she said.
Beaumont Health said Tuesday it must temporarily lay off about 2,475 employees and permanently eliminate about 450 positions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mind you, this is the hospital that had a doctor go viral about being overwhelmed and has flooded my facebook (friends and relatives work for them) about how horrible the patient count was.
We needed a good look at what
government run healthcareMedicare for all would look like anyway.Okay Glib woodworkers, I have a question.
I am going to build a cabinet to house decorative boxes like this. For the innards, I intend to use a cross half-lap joint like this.
My question is this: Is there any reason these aren’t used more? They seem like strong joints but everywhere I go looking for DIY, they’re always using small pieces glued in or pocket-joined (hello, Kreg). This is strong and seems easy. Or is it just not that easy?
I don’t know the specific answer to your question, but, as a rule, if something looks easy in a craft you don’t already practice, expect it to be more difficult than you initially assessed.
As ever, there’s an Iron Law for that:
The less you know about something, the easier it looks.
It’s easy if you have a table saw. Otherwise the cuts can be tedious.
Hm. Do not have. I DID, but I sold it.
My table saw has a penchant for hurling pieces of wood across the room.
Just looking at it has me checking to see if I still have all my fingers. (I do).
Or a router.
I’d just Kreg it.
^This^
If you have to hand-cut the joints with a manual saw and you are not practiced it is difficult to get the cuts straight. If you have a table saw and a good chisel it is a snap.
I was thinking of something to write, just so you could yell at me for trying to help. But I changed my mind.
Awww, I’m sorry. 🙁
Hah, you fell for it!, lol.
No, I didn’t. I really feel bad.
I am not in the “don’t apologize” camp when clearly I was wrong.
“…musician who is inexplicably still alive Iggy Pop…”
Iggy Pop is a God. He kicked the drugs and stuff a while ago. I’ve seen him a few times in recent years and he rocks harder than ever.
The Deep State tightens its grip.
Pretty sure that’s not the way it works for private companies.
Rules need to be different for the government.