Well, my wife and kids just left to go to the beach. So that’s freaking excellent. Everyone will be in a better mood. Especially after I drink a margarita while they’re gone. Seriously, though. I’m preparing for a return to normalcy. I paid my bills, cut my hair, trimmed my beard, and started exercising again. Our long dark nightmare is… coming to a close, at least here. If they’d just open the gyms, I could live my life again.
The Dean of the U of Illinois Business School seems to have accurately analyzed and mitigated one of the more substantial risks to their business model. So that must be the exception of the “he who can’t do, teaches; and he who can’t teach administers”.
The Secretary of the Senate rejects Tara Reade document request by Biden.
Clarence Thomas asks a question!
I’m glad to know that the question of how to rave in a pandemic has now been answered by technology. Don’t see a place for the whippits cannister, though.
Oh hell, why not, we’ll throw down some old electronic music.
Well, better that, than Skeletor.
Why are He-Man’s nipples so close together?
That is weird.
He’s a blue blood.
Because when he’s wearing his . . . top thingy, his nipples aren’t visible. When he doesn’t have it on, they had to decide whether its weirder to have no nipples, or nipples that look cross-eyed.
They went with the latter, apparently.
Bad implants.
His eyes are up here.
HE-MAN HAD BRUSH WITH STEVE SMITH. NEVER THE SAME AFTER, AND BY BRUSH MEAN…
Mencken has a sad.
But Taft says it worked for me!
“In response to Biden’s request on Friday, the Archives said it did not possess the records the former vice president said it did and that the documents in question were instead maintained by the Senate. But Senate rules suggest that those documents are maintained by the General Services Administration, which, in turn, said the records are at the National Archives.”
spiderman.jpg
I can’t decide if this is merely epic incompetence across multiple agencies, or a conspiracy to avoid disclosing the damn complaint (if it exists).
Wouldn’t it be easier to just fish it out of the files and trash it?
I don’t know why the perp didn’t just stuff the records in his pants like a normal person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Berger#Unauthorized_removal_and_destruction_of_classified_material
Biden knew they would not produce any documents. It’s like the lawyer’s adage to never ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.
“Famously quiet Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday asked questions during the court’s remote oral arguments, marking just his third time speaking during the sessions in over a decade.
Thomas asked the questions via audio teleconferencing in a case on whether Booking.com could trademark its namesake.”
Maybe he is just shy in person?
Maybe he claimed to have “video problems” and used a stand-in so he wouldn’t have to attend another boring meeting. But he forgot to tell the stand-in to never ask a question.
Something something super easy to do because all black people look the same something something.
You can bet he was surfing porn in the background.
That was Bork
“Los Angeles creative studio Production Club has described the outfit, which comprises an airtight suit and helmet, as the “future of human interaction.””
I’m tired of this new normal horseshit.
Stop being such a hidebound reactionary and embrace Current Year!
I’ve gotten to the point where I get visceral disgust when I hear “new normal”, “in these trying times” or “practice social distancing”.
SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THE PROPAGANDA
I was afraid that I would be unable to keep my mouth shut during our annual HOA meeting–on Zoom–yesterday. Fortunately people stuck to real issues. However, immediately after the meeting’s end they started a social on our lawn wearing face coverings. I wisely decided not to join them.
One I hear in Vegas is Make the new normal a better normal….I jabbed pencils in my ears.
It works much better if you jab the pencils in their ears. With a mallet.
That’s just the new normal.
#metoo
Same. “New normal” my ass. It won’t be my normal.
We are all in this together.
You are loved.
You are safe and protected. (Someone in my neighborhood is writing this in chalk all over the sidewalks for some reason)
Listen to the data.
Follow the science.
Listen to the mockingbird
Sittin’ on a frozen turd.
Nice pussy.
If someone has to call something ‘new normal’ they’re trying to sell you horseshit. If it is new it isn’t. normal.
I thought “normal” was a word that was a sin to use.
Tara Reade was great in Along in the Dark.
WTF? I meant Alone in the Dark
I am in awe of that insurance policy decision.
It’s one thing to hate the bad orange man, but quite another to figure out what he’s likely to do and then act on it.
Somebody did a risk assessment and decided it was worth transferring some of the risk to an insurer. Bravo.
Now please have that person do a cost-benefit of lock-downs.
Makeitso makeitso makeitso makeitso plzplzplz makeitso.
Like Wimbledon.
Wimbledon paid pandemic insurance for almost 20 years. Now it’s getting $141 million
I think lots of big events must carry similar insurance policies. It was the old normal.
Not to downplay Dear Alma Mater’s decision – but they have been heavily dependent on Chinese students coming in and paying full freight for a number of years now. They risk transferred a bit of a major source of income. It was a smart move, but not unforseeable.
I’ve studied international student inflows and outflows for almost 15 years. Like any market, it is cyclical. I remember a white paper from ETS where they charted enrollment from OPEC countries to the price of oil. The correlation was almost r = 1.
My institution’s solution was to expand to underserved markets like North Africa, Rwanda, Botswana, other rising economies, and Gen 1.5 students. I think that’s a more sustainable strategy.
Always with the racist papers. :-p
I read that as “undeserved market” in Rwanda. You Know Who Else….
Brett, I hope you trained your kids, in case they are approached by the Man and told to disperse, to shove his ass right into the water.
At this point, the buffer dump thing little kids who have been trapped with the same people is an effective deterrent. Kids see an adult they don’t know, and relate all the things they’ve thought about in order, without breathing, for about five minutes straight. Cops would just roll on. “Okay, kid, great, gotta go see about an emergency, wanna see the sirens? K, bye!”
“Cuomo’s statewide shut down order is in place until May 15 but after then, different regions across the state will be able to reopen so long as they have met certain criteria. It includes having 14 day declines in hospitalizations and deaths, having 30 percent of hospital beds and ICU beds free, doing sufficient testing and having enough tracers to track down anyone who may have come into contact with the virus.
New York City meets three of the seven requirements and is held up by the lack of free hospital beds (it has 26 percent rather than 30 percent free), its persistent hospitalization rate, lack of free ICU beds (21 percent as opposed to 30 percent) and the fact there are not enough tracers.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8285485/Lack-hospital-beds-tracers-keeping-New-York-City-closed.html
How is there a lack of beds?
Because the moment they take the boot off our throats they know we’ll do stupid things like go to the beach and drive the infection rate up 3000%, and then they’ll need those beds.
,
What’s normal for May?
Active infection testing is pretty pointless for anything other than treating somebody. To my knowledge, there is no longer a testing shortage or any magnitude for symptomatic people.
Contact tracing is utterly pointless with a droplet/airborne transmissable disease at this stage.
Does that 14 day decline require a decline every single day for 14 days? Or is that an average decline over 14 days? Because the data I’ve looked at shows real low death totals on weekends and then higher death totals on weekdays because of when the deaths are reported.
I believe our idiot governor has required 14 consecutive days of declining cases/deaths.
Sooo … never opening up due to way data stacks?
Sounds more power mad than idiot.
WE HAVE A WINNER!
He was referring to the daily count, not the cumulative count.
So, we can have 13 consecutive days of decline in a row, and if we have one more death or case on day 14, you reset the timer.
As others have noted, there are reporting lags on the weekend, so you are pretty much guaranteed to have an uptick once a week, regardless.
He’s an idiot.
I convinced my wife to not book any dogs on Wednesday so we can get out of the house and go down to Lake Mojave and enjoy the water. Since its only annual pass holders that can get in, hoping the day-trippers that tend to trash the place are far and few between. I actually enjoy Willow Beach, AZ to the lake, but kids complain the water is too cold and its a rocky beach.
Gonna take some brats, some watermelon, some beer, and enjoy the water.
The Californians went home so we have our park back, no trash, no crowds
Yusef knew what I was talking about. Good. I’ve met some really awesome people at Cottonwood Cove that are just trying to enjoy the water…share food (Hawaiians share food and Mexicans share their beer). But when you can’t bother to clean up after yourself, get the fuck out.
Come down here, we can bbq and enjoy the River,
“I convinced my wife to not book any dogs on Wednesday”
Is her name Doganno?
cut my hair
Yourself? That was always permitted during the lockdown.
I just didn’t bother until now.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/amash-on-planned-presidential-run-millions-of-americans-want-someone-who-will-respect-our-constitution-defend-our-rights
You guys forgot the best part of that Amash interview:
He’s be easy to fight, he only punches right.
But this pandemic-proof air-tight outfit called the Micrashell Futuresuit could allow people to safely gather in nightclubs – and even allow the wearer to vape and have a drink.
I think this will impede some of the fun involved in clubbing.
“Elon Musk lists two Bel Air homes for a combined $39.5million after vowing to sell his material possessions in bizarre Twitter rant that triggered a stock sell-off on Friday”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8285605/Elon-Musk-lists-two-Bel-Air-homes-combined-39-5million-Twitter-rant.html
Musk has been growing on me lately with the antilockdown stuff and deliberately crashing his company’s own stock and all. I don’t know if he just has bad impulse control, he’s shithouse rat crazy, or he has some kind of plan but it is interesting.
He is one weird dude.
If this is some kinda anit-materialism thing, i think you’re supposed to give the stuff away….
Why would anyone buy two houses in the same town? I understand having homes in different places, but two places in a ten mile radius?
Rent one out?
So you can bore tunnels in between them, obviously.
One for him and one for his kids and their nanny, I assume.
If I was an unmarried billionaire with kids, there would absolutely be an Awesome Kid Friendly Mansion and an Adults Only Mansion.
I went to the grocery store today. I actually wondered if Sununu issued an order requiring masks. I could count on one hand the number of people, including me, who weren’t wearing masks.
My plague doctor mask arrived today so I’ll be ready for malicious compliance if Sununu issues such an order. The mask sits on my glasses, putting extra pressure on them and my face, but it does fit over my glasses and will work.
Do they fog up? Maybe I should get one.
The mask has a mesh for the eyes, not lenses. I didn’t notice any fogging of my glasses, though I did not wear the mask that long. I just wore it long enough to make sure it would fit over my glasses and get the mask adjusted on my head.
“And to see if I could still chop up body parts with it on.” – DEG aka Ted Bundy
Alternatively, you could wear a Klan robe like that guy in California.
I’m not as cool as this guy
I should bookmark that video. Whenever I search for it, this is always the first hit on youtube.
In actuality, none of the employees who were asked bothered to look to see if the records where there. That’s just what they tell people to get them to go away.
Whatever do you mean? (Goes to the back end of the store to see if an item is in stock for a customer, wanders to restroom to vape for a few minutes before returning with a shrug and an “I’m sorry.”)
It’s not even that. I’ve been through the rigamaroll where the gov employee tells me i have to do X thing before i can help them, and if they would just check the damn system they would see that i had done X. But no. It is far easier to shoo people away than be helpful.
Mammary Monday presents the most attractive sweat glands you’ll ever see.
http://archive.li/yFfg2
jumbo shrimp. Awfully good. Civil war. Working vacation. Electronic music.
This. Anyone who likes New Order is a freak!
What about without the electronics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc
A great Biden ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuZl475skY&feature=emb_logo
Love it!
FYI. Don’t read the comments on the Thomas article.
Three Russian doctors have recently fallen out of windows…The incident with Nepomnyashchaya follows a spate of mysterious deaths by falling out of windows among Russian journalists in recent years.
It would sure be a shame if our journalists started falling out of windows.
Yeah, they probably already have the windows barred. *has sad
It would put us in precipitous territory.
Already there. I view 90% of what I see in the media as nothing except enemy propaganda.
90%? Check out Mr. Optimist over here.
Sometimes the weather forecasts and traffic reports are accurate.
They are mysterious.
No mystery. It’s cheaper than renting a helicopter.
By the way, Suth, thanks for posting that young girl’s songs on YouTube. What a talent!
I’m defenestrating this conspiracy theory.
Now I’m imagining Trump as Longshanks and Fauci as Philip.
I so Prague of you Q!
Los Angeles creative studio Production Club has described the outfit, which comprises an airtight suit and helmet, as the “future of human interaction.”
Let me the fuck off. I don’t wanna ride this ride anymore.
I’m starting to root for the virus.
As long as I get to be Charlton Heston in The Omega Man…
This sounds awesome, actually.
If it comes with a built in catheter you could party non-stop all night!
*twerks
boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants
I think you mean jeans and pants.
Nah, bro. Bootz and Pantz.
IDK… I think I was a beta tester and it wasn’t as fun as advertised.
Does it have a built in Fleshlight?
Demolition Man already predicted this.
N.J. facing ‘fiscal disaster’ that’s just weeks away from coronavirus pandemic, Murphy says
Liar – the crisis is from the lockdown that you won’t end.
Lear. To. Code.
I noticed that the StarLedger no longer allows comments.
And good luck getting unemployment benefits on the state’s broken down system.
or learn
Murphy has previously warned of “historic” public worker layoffs without federal assistance.
Yup. Being in lockdown and unable to work is important for everyone. But making sure all the Gov employees get paid is more important. Remember that as long as you are a private citizen, you will always be second class to the politicians and bureaucrats.
You are merely the tax cattle who pick up the tab while your bettors do the very important work of bleeding you out.
When they eventually allow the businesses that survived to reopen, they’ll immediately crush them with massive tax hikes.
Ah so Joiseyians are as smart as Canadians…
Murphy will just blame Christie.
In actuality, none of the employees who were asked bothered to look to see if the records where there. That’s just what they tell people to get them to go away.
Been there. They’ll just blurt out the first thing that comes into their heads to get you out of their office.
It’s like all those big companies that got the freebie fed loans. Lots of them said they’ll return the money, I bet very few will. I also bet no journalist will bother to find out.
I got tickled by this one bitch complaining that she couldn’t comply with the terms of her loan due to her mayor’s interference.
Okay, but: why did you apply for a loan when you didn’t know whether you could meet its terms? Is this how you run everything in your “business?”
1 stall for time
2 blurt out non sequitur
3 ??
4 profit !
Technology once used to combat ISIS propaganda is enlisted by Democratic group to counter Trump’s coronavirus messaging
They still cant figure out why they lost.
We didn’t lose, we strategically withdrew. /establishment-assholes
The group, Defeat Disinfo, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president’s claims on social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country — in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president.
Hahah. I think that’s called a Troll Farm.
Paying users… how about fifty cents per post. I’m sure McChrystal would love to be leading an army again.
That’s 1% of the population. Sounds like a botnet.
Oh, so McChrystal has been rehabilitated to the good graces of the Democratic establishment?
Being a partisan Democrat will do wonders for your reputation among partisan Democrat…
McChrystal was the general who didn’t have the sense not to run his suck in front of a Rolling Stone reporter.
Sigh… Dave Greenfield, who played keyboard for The Stranglers has succumbed to the ChiComPox. Shut Up has been my ringtone since that became a possibility. However, I think Toiler On The Sea highlights the keyboards to a greater degree.
Not Toilet on the Sea?
Tank!
Move along. Nothing to see, here.
Costco, Kroger and other grocery chains are rationing the amount of meat customers can buy at one time as processing at U.S. meat plants has slowed down or stopped completely because of the coronavirus.
Costco, a chain known for letting customers buy in bulk, is limiting purchases to three items per member of beef, pork and poultry products.
Kroger said its meat purchase limits will apply to select stores.
“At Kroger, we feel good about our ability to maintain a broad assortment of meat and seafood for our customers because we purchase protein from a diverse network of suppliers,” a Kroger spokesperson told FOX Business. “There is plenty of protein in the supply chain; however, some processors are experiencing challenges. At this time, we’ve added purchase limits only on ground beef and fresh pork.”
Something something carefully laid plan.
Scared people do dumb things and people scare easily.
Fortunately around here store stocks are back to normal.
My favorite meats are possum and coon so I’m good.
No armadillo?
I fear leprosy way more than than the corona.
What did the leper say to the prostitute?
Keep the tip.
Did you hear about the leprotic prostitute?
His business was falling off.
there’s still a leprosy hospital at Carville AFAIK: Suthen can’t be more than 200 miles away!
Never had possum. Racoon tastes like greasy roast beef.
That’s a good description of the raccoon taste and possum tastes kind of like pork (I’ve had bits of it in a stew once, not terrible but not great) but I’m also kidding. As long as the stores have pasta, olive oil, and garlic I’ll be just fine.
I don’t kid about meats.
*sizzles off in flying pan
You boil the coon first and skim off the extra fat. Then place coon in a baking dish with sauce of choice. Raccoon can be quite good but I cant bring myself to kill one any more. They are smart, clever creatures and quite charming. I would rather have one as a pet than eat it.
Gah. The little (or not so little) raccoon bastards get in my equipment and trash it. I make sure they understand that my business is a raccoon death camp.
They’re also a reservoir for rabies, at least in eastern states.
Yes.
They are cute little suckers. So are rabbits, squirrels and quail. Yum.
There was a Staff Sergeant in my unit from TN. He taught us how to hunt squirrels and raccoons using blank rounds and cleaning rods shoved down the barrels of our M16A2s. We would all bring soup accouterments to the field (taters, onions, spices, etc.) and have a big stew up. Truth be told, I’m not a fan of wee game but, at 18 years old, it was a fun way to spend those boring field exercise days.
))) I ((( don’t eat mammals with claws.
It’s not ((( the plan ))), but it works for me.
There is an alternate universe out there where we got a plague from some shit rednecks eat and hillbillies are getting jumped in Chinatown.
We don’t live in that universe.
Sure, and you’ll deny that Salmonella doesn’t exist too huh.
That’s a pretty damn alternate ‘alternate universe’ if it has hillbillies in Chinatown.
“Hillbillies in Chinatown”
Good album title.
I fully expect to see that plot in movies and TV in the not so distant future. Though the rednecks will also be Sovereign Citizens, AKA “libertarians.”
If the rednecks are eating it, I’m pretty sure the Chinese are too.
I like that world: in it, there’s the Rape of Berkeley, the Navajo invented gunpowder, I’m a billionaire with a dozen concubines who spend all day smoking heroin with me, and no one in China can touch me for patent infringement.
Here in Vegas, Smith’s is the Kroger brand supermarket, imposing limits on protein has begun already.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/smiths-stores-in-southern-nevada-limiting-purchases-of-chicken-fresh-pork/article_57f2eff0-8be4-11ea-ad07-2ff15ca43565.html
Safeway is our other big supermarket supplier out here, so I am assuming they won’t be far behind.
Butcher was limiting to 10lbs of any one item and ground beef was already up $2/lb.
I got chicken breasts at 1.47/lb this past week. I got me 10lbs (10 breasts about) so that is about 40 nights of food since I divide them up already into quarters.
err…math – 10 nights of food…never mind..i need a drink.
How long before the price control AGs start stamping their feet about food costs? Better empty shelves and meat cases than “gouging”.
Locals already clamored when the price I referenced above, which is a sale price, went back to the normalish price of 2.99/lb for chicken breast.
I find this thread interesting. I have no idea what the food I buy costs.
Were they out of thighs?
Local Kroger has already been doing this with chicken and pork, for at least the past week. No limit on beef last time I went.
NBC 7 San Diego
@nbcsandiego
May 1
WATCH: Large crowds gathered in Huntington Beach to protest the closure of Orange County beaches — which Gov. Gavin Newsom closed because of large crowds at area beaches.
https://twitter.com/nbcsandiego/status/1256311846123917313?s=20
Swallwel: IT IS TIME TO NUKE THEM MEIN NEWSOM!
Don’t venture into the replies…. lol
Too Late:
These are the people who were pissing pants about Trump rounding up the gays.
I have an idea, how bout i keep working at my job and you fuck off with the “Get an essential job” bulshit.
Look, i have no qualms about personal sacrifice for people you love and care about. But what you are talking about is not being “CIVILIZED” its called being a docile subject of a ruling class that doesn’t give a shit about you.
The ruling class divide is highlighted by Top.Men. that aren’t going without haircuts or stage makeup and can’t be bothered to wear masks in public or at their need conferences despite pushing those for everyone else.
“It’s called being CIVILIZED.”
Suck my dick.
Shorter Jorge Hoyo: “I’m willing to stay home, so everyone else should be forced to!”
“While the lockdowns began as a public health measure, their continued extension appears to have more to do with power than safety”
https://pjmedia.com/columns/tyler-o-neil/2020/05/04/whats-the-real-story-behind-continuing-lockdowns-n387883
What was your first clue?
From the linked article:
Other than as propaganda, I fail to see how delaying a lockdown has long-term costs. If anything, it brings infections forward, so most of the costs are actually short-term and will wash out over time (provided the health care system isn’t overwhelmed, which it wasn’t).
I also fail to see ho the benefits in delaying a lockdown are only in the short-term. The economic cost of the lockdown are mostly incurred in proportion to how long it is. So the benefits are only short-term if a late-adoptd lockdown is as long as other, earlier-adopted lockdowns. That certainly remains to be seen.
Exactly. That’s why the researchers are clowns.
I’m still bothered that there was seemingly no debate about what businesses are essential and what’s not.
They really think that their judgement as to essential is more reliable than a line of customers, with cash in hand, wishing to do commerce.
^This X 1000^
Every business is essential. You can tell because they are in business.
And the people advocating for the lockdown will lament that the only shops around any more are the big chains.
Hobby Lobby is essential, dammit.
(Especially when masks run short and you need to make your own, but Walmart’s fabric and elastic are nonexistent.)
El Oh El.
https://disrn.com/news/comedy-break-come-enjoy-some-quality-quarantine-memes
Boomer.
Gather ’round and let me tell you about the ’70s, the time before AIDS…
You know how much condoms used to cost?
In the sidebar was this heartwarming story: Missourians who “snitched” on lockdown rulebreakers fear retaliation after information leaks online
It’s enough to restore some of your faith in humanity.
You decided to wield the government force for the terror of your neighbors, don’t be surprised that they might hate you.
It would take actual retaliation to restore any of my faith in humanity.
Don’t be a rat.
“‘I’m not only worried about COVID, I’m worried about someone showing up at my door, showing up at my workplace, or me getting fired for doing what is right,’ one tipster said.”
Cue the world’s tiniest violin.
Now I know where my dad gets his facebook memes.
However I approve of any meme referencing the Ministry of Silly Walks.
I think I’m going to watch reruns of The Love Boat just to make my kids freak out.
“People actually got on those things?”
Freak them out with this.
Or this.
One more freak-out for the kids
Negative interest rates are coming.
Savers be fucked.
My mattress is hungry.
“Topless medical worker blows off steam in Times Square”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1257334867752345608
https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/topless-medical-worker-blows-off-steam-in-times-square/
OK?
Finally, someone that should be seen naked.
Strippers are medical workers now?
Now we’re talkin’.
Mindbogglingly lethal
373 employees and contract workers at Triumph Foods in Buchanan County, Missouri, have tested positive for coronavirus. All of them were asymptomatic, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
The state of Missouri has reported 8,386 cases and 352 deaths statewide as of Sunday night, according to the Health Department Website.
Triumph, a pork processing plant, is located in St. Joseph, on the border of Missouri and Kansas.
It is just one of dozens of meat packing plants and food processing facilities across the country that have seen outbreaks of the virus, forcing shutdowns and sparking concerns of possible food shortages.
——–
Lab results indicate that 17% of those tested are positive for the virus, Campbell said.
How is this not good news?
It doesn’t support the idea this worse than Ebola, small pox, and cyanide rolled into one.
17% positive w/no symptoms?
IOW a representative sample of the population.
17% with a current active infection would be pretty unusual, I think. Hard to say, since we aren’t doing tests of asymptomatic people (at all, or at least in any volume).
17% with antibodies from a past infection would be pretty typical, at least as far as current testing shows.
Brown young buck licks ginger pussy
interspecies erotica?
+ Kinky Kelly
Aww, that was cute but I think your fellow sexual deviants will be disappointed.
The husband was obviously filming. Great cuck vid.
Ummmmm….*hovers over link*….I have been tricked into clicking your links before…..
Awww, fuck it. *clicks link*
Very cute.
Have I ever mentioned that I dated a girl who had a pet deer? It lived in the house and slept in the bed with her.
She also hunted barefoot. Talk about country girl…
Nice rack?
Unimagineable devastation!!!!1!!!1
Dogs and cats living together!
My toilet after Mexican night?
“Anti-lockdown “movement”: Powered by racism
These protests aren’t really about public health policy or the virus — they’re a display of white identity politics
On Sunday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, appeared on CNN and declared that the protests against stay-at-home orders that plagued her state capital, as well as numerous others, “depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country,” pointing to the regular appearance of swastikas, nooses, Nazi slogans and the American swastika, also known as the Confederate battle flag. (We can safely assume that the usual excuse of “Southern pride” used to defend the Rebel flag doesn’t apply in Michigan or Ohio or Illinois, states where thousands of young men fought and died for the Union.)
Conservatives cried foul at Whitmer’s words, of course, but there’s little point in denying it. We all have eyes and ears, and no one is mistaking the protesters for people who would flinch if they heard a friend casually use the n-word in conversation.
The question isn’t whether white identity politics and racism are fueling the protests. The real question is why. Racism isn’t some kind of magical force that shields your body from the coronavirus. Even Donald “Inject Bleach” Trump hasn’t been fool enough to suggest you can defeat the virus by wrapping yourself in the Confederate flag. Yet there’s no denying that there’s a direct correlation between racist attitudes and the belief that the coronavirus is an overblown hoax and the lockdowns are the result of a widespread leftist conspiracy.
That isn’t just true of the protesters, either. The most prominent voices in media and politics who are egging them on and denouncing stay-at-home orders also happen to be the people who are doing their utmost to mainstream white nationalist ideology.”
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/04/anti-lockdown-movement-powered-by-racism/
“There’s no doubt in my mind, either, that the protests are fueled by the fact that the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately affecting people of color and ravaging urban areas that have long been demonized by right wing media and Trump. While no one has stupid enough to suggest that white skin somehow shields you from the virus (at least not so far), a lot of rural and suburban white people who oppose the shutdowns are viewing it through a racialized lens. This is gently being referred to as the “urban-rural divide” on the issue, but should be understood as white conservatives who resenting having to give up their haircuts and dinners out at Chili’s to protect the health of people living in racially diverse cities.
Of course, what’s really happening is pretty much the opposite: The lockdowns are likely keeping the virus from spreading further into rural and suburban America (though the numbers in those areas are noticeably beginning to rise, despite the media’s focus on New York and other large cities). With Republican governors in many states beginning to ease restrictions to demonstrate their fealty to Trump, there’s a not-small chance that the relative safety that white people living in less dense areas currently experience will evaporate.
But if that happens, don’t expect right-wingers who oppose the lockdowns to apologize for not taking this seriously. They’ll just pivot to blaming cities and people of color for “spreading” the virus, even though those are the people and places who have most firmly supported the measures meant to contain the virus in the first place. The American right, like their feckless orange-skinned leader, will never accept blame for their failures, even as the corpses pile up. “
Remember when people were actually stupid enough to suggest that high-melanin skin did, though?
Wait, what?
You don’t remember early on there was a myth going around to explain the, then, low rates of infection in Africa that black people have some sort of immunity or resistance to coronavirus?
I must have missed that.
I remember that, people were also speculating that the lower infection rates were due to antimalarials.
There were even Vox-style ‘fact checks’ against it.
I’m not cra…
Ok. Yes, I am. But not this way.
I would have figured that it was bureaucracies so incompetent or unconcerned that nobody was counting.
That’s much more likely. See also early Russian figures.
Oh I remember. It even made it to SNL. By today’s standards SNL has blood on its hands for spreading that rumor.
What’s an SNL?
I think it was a racist ploy by the NBA to keep going on though….
i was thinking “Man, that is one deranged, hate-filled person.” So I click through and, yep:
Amanda Marcotte.
Mandy!!! I’m glad she hasn’t drowned in a tub of Ben
Fucking ampersand escape.
Ben and Jerry’s. I enjoy her particular brand of derp. It puts a smile on my face.
If you don’t like what the other side is doing just accuse them of racism and wash, rinse, repeat.
the American swastika, also known as the Confederate battle flag
Wait, what?
The rest of it seems like one assumed conclusion after another.
Also: I have yet to see any pictures of swastikas at the protest. Not saying they don’t exist, but if they did, don’t you think Salon, HuffPo, et. al. would be showing them ringed in neon lights 24/7?
I saw one but it was being used as an insult in comparing a governor to you know who. Not the best look but they weren’t glorifying it.
It’s know that only Nazi’s know what Nazi’s look like, and so anyone calling someone a nazi, must be one too.
Look, calling Republicans Nazis is just Reasoned Discourse Practiced by the Most Discerning and Eloquent Thoughtful Citizens.
Calling Democrats Nazis is treasonous hate speech and an incitement of violence, that’s just an objective fact.
Shorter Salon: EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS RACIST
That could actually apply to pretty much everything on the site.
Conservatives cried foul at Whitmer’s words, of course, but there’s little point in denying it. We all have eyes and ears, and no one is mistaking the protesters for people who would flinch if they heard a friend casually use the n-word in conversation.
I’ve only met one group of people who….
Liberty is white nationalism.
The marching orders have been sent out and the protestors must be called racists.
We must be intolerant to the intolerant….
We must be intolerant to those that disagree with us…
FIFY.
**managing editor standing in front of white board**
“Okay you keyboard monkeys! Get out there and call something racist today!”
Nazi slogans
Pretty sure I saw that the pic of the protestor with the “Work Will Set You Free” sign was photoshopped. And when the photoshop was put next to the original, badly photoshopped, at that.
There was one in English that was photoshopped. There was another one in German that was not, but the person with the German poster likely was a troll.
Here you go: Fake News, in the flesh.
Here’s what I don’t understand. Trump has made it clear, time and time again, that he supports the idea of lockdowns, yet the anti-lockdown rallies are full of MAGA hats, Trump flags, and THANK GOD 4 TRUMP BEST PREZIDANT! #QANONE signs.
Do these people actually know what Trump stands for? Do they even care?
No, and no.
Trump’s handling of this, from the massive spending to the resistance to lifting the lockdowns, has been a big disappointment to me.
What did you expect from a Democrat that time warped in from 1990?
More sexual harassment?
Selling state secrets to the Chinese?
A spate of mysterious deaths?
Marriage to an eldritch horror with her own designs on power?
A little of both. They are tired of the usual( and Trump is a protest vote.
Well he supports lifting them sooner rather than later.
When has politics and other hot button issues ever been about facts instead of emotion and hating the other?
“Do they even care?”
Certainly not. This is the logical conclusion of TEAM politics.
If anything in this fucked up reality in which we live should be free of politics, it’s people’s desire to work and move freely. But even that can’t avoid being politicized. The lines have been drawn: generous, kind, goodthinking progressives support indefinite lockdown; evil, hate-filled, Nazi, Trumpistas support people working.
It’s pathetic, yet entirely predictable.
Sometimes I feel like this guy.
I thought Grays had bigger eyes?
Sorry but the Politicization of Everything was the inevitable result of classical liberalism. And much of that was based in hatred of the aristocracy, the church and of the peasantry.
Waiting for team politics to invade breakfast cereal choices…
*begins popping popcorn*
I’m waiting for team politics to invade biking marathons…oh wait…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France#Origins
Count Chocula is obviously the choice of hard-working, salt-of-the-Earth, good-hearted Republicans and Grape Nuts are for elitist, godless, Communist Democrats.
Q.E.D. motherfucker.
Clearly wrong as malted grains are manna from heaven.
So Trump is a True Republican after all. I mean Republicans have always been about How Big Government is Bad but politically inexpedient to do anything about it and this coronavirus pandemic is a clear cause of political expedience demanding Things Get Done.
*clear case*
*I mean Republicans have always been a this since around Eisenhower’s time*
Let me explain. Trump supporters aren’t supporting Trump. They are supporting values that Trump has a spotty record of supporting.
They couldn’t give a gnat’s fart who is actually in the Whitehouse.
“pointing to the regular appearance of swastikas, nooses, Nazi slogans and the American swastika, also known as the Confederate battle flag.”
False flags all. It’s so obvious because wherever there is an ant-govrnment protest, they show up like clockwork.
It’s cute that you think that’s “old electronic music”. This is old electronic music. Sure to cheer up even the grumpiest.
I was expecting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1hRNLlYpg
I was expecting something even earlier.
Not this?
Thumbs up.
I was expecting this
Double thumbs up!!
I’d have posted a link to the complete Apocalypse if one had shown up. Still the most frightening piece of music I’ve heard, especially for a child of the 50s and 60s.
I don’t care for anything Subotnick did, nor Oram for that matter. But de gustibus and all that.
New Order, however, is emphatically not ‘old electronic music’. Sheesh.
Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie and host of A-listers scrap in viral online fight video
Not clicking unless it involves g-strings and a 55-gallon drum of lube.
There are a few wearing yoga pants and a few wearing short shorts. The only two even vaguely amusing parts were one involving flinging horse manure and another where the woman though better of using an unopened wine bottle as a weapon.
You made the correct choice. I chose poorly.
Scarlett and Margot have plenty of hot pics up on Instagram.
I saw Margot Robbie up close at the Tarzan premier. Spectacular.
http://archive.li/kC0q3/385c1c949e68476c840561a4cb8465633acab266.jpg
NSFW.
So they just ripped off the stuntperson video from a month ago?
Mr Splosives has embarked on a run to the butcher.
Yesterday he got a shot of Fireball unofficially as he waited for takeout at the golf club.
I welcome the new network of doers, makers, and sellers.
Hey HE, missed your reply earlier. Glad to hear you are doing better! I last recalled you talking about going in for testing.
Yeah, it was negative for COVID. Got a nice free swabbing of my prefrontal lobe to go with it.
I have bronchitis, sinusitis, and asthma. No fun, but nothing new and should be ok in a few more days.
That’s good. I have asthma as well. Mines not too bad but respiratory issues do a number on me too.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/05/04/execute-order-66-trump-campaigns-star-wars-day-ad-is-hilarious-n387980
How is it that the old guy teetotaling POTUS has the best meme game.
That is the best one yet:) lol.
Thrilled to see some governors getting sued over this bullshitgovernors getting sued over this bullshit
Knew I should have just typed the html in straight.
I like to get wasted first.
I’m still trying to rehydrate and recover from the weekend before I start drinking again.
I hear here ya. I drank beer all day Saturday and was paying for it yesterday.
The restrictions aren’t temporary until they are lifted.
Every single one of the governors that decided they had the unilateral power to decide who was allowed to continue earning a living or not should be tarred, feathered, and then run out the state on a rail.
Instead of an oath to defend the constitution, let’s make the prospective inductees have to pass a US Constitution pop quiz.
Endorsed!
You know who else used temporary powers to rule indefinitely?
Palpatine?
When will get the humans clones that will father Rey?
Good question. Or statement.
Hillary ?
Jeebus?
My dogs?
Wait….I know this one….
About fucking time. I got into a row with the wife when my response to her telling me he decided to close bars and restaurants was, “What a fucking idiot.” I’m always proven wrong, but I hope to God that as time passes and more information comes out every one of these assholes shutting down the economy and imposing house arrest on everyone get what’s coming to them.
And just to be clear, I mean electorally and socially, not ballistically, hemp ropenly, or in any other criminal way.
I’m happy to keep my options open, personally.
I’m glad to see that U of Illinois had some foreword thinkers. They didn’t predict the future; they just recognized that they had a lot of eggs in the Chinese student basket in Engineering and other colleges.
So, recognizing the risk if all Chinese students left, they chose 3 not unrealistic one: trade war, student visa withdrawal, and pandemic.
It’s wise of any person or group to diversify.
This is the stuff that makes me want to invest in USA made chips and software. We are way too beholden to other countries for those critical items.
HM Alert!
Had this shared with me today.
Since it’s May the Fourth, I wasn’t sure if the image was Anakin Skywalker, or every lefty on my Derpbook feed as Florida reopens its beaches.
https://www.aier.org/article/it-is-not-our-ignorance-that-will-kill-us-but-our-arrogance/
Well these days only one seems to be a concern.
Also notice the assumption that educated, healthy, wealthy people living in homes with jobs will all think the same and agree with the “social reformers” on anything and everything now and forever.
Understatement of the past two millennia. And look at the fruits that modern liberalism is bearing right now…
Don’t tell Salon about the CDC’s update high priority testing criteria includes
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-criteria.html
Yeah, it’s the race/ethnicity that’s the differentiator, not the comorbidities or socioeconomic status. Also note that they’ve got both kinds of
musicswarthy people, Latinos and Hispanics.I used to work with a Cuban born engineer who’d been raised in the USA by Cuban parents who made sure he knew what Cuba has become.
I congratulated him on being selected for a Who’s Who in engineers under 40 yrs list. He rolled his eyes and said that he wasn’t the “right” kind of Latino to sit on their panel.
Who’s Who in engineers under 40 yrs list
That’s not a scam publication?
We’ll also keep pretending like the whole country is impacted equally and that half the cases and deaths aren’t isolated to NY and NJ.
Here’s the thing that gets me. CNN is deriding any Governer who starts to let up the boot even slightly. Going on about the deaths there will be. Are they not paying attention? Do they want a shooting war? Do they think a civil war is going to give them the DNC president they so desperately crave? I don’t get it.
They don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon, either.
I believe it’s possible for them to be in a sufficient bubble that they believe we peasants aren’t really upset much.
Unless that governor is in Colorado.
Huh. Its evening. Just woke up. Made the mistake this morning of watching the new Star Wars today. Decided to take some notes. Got drunk and angry, passed out and here we are.
Jesus. What a crap fest of a movie.
Example from the first ten minutes. Emo kid from last movie goes to where the emperor is thanks to a magic pyramid. Palpatine shows his might by raising from the ground hundreds of thousands of Star Destroyers. Thing is, the guy hes trying to impress? Hes down in a dark cave with Palpatine. He cant see the dramatic reveal. Who the fuck was Palpatine trying to impress with the reveal?
Rest of the shit show is to find a macguffin that will lead them to a second macguffin that will get the story moving.
I wound up with 8 pages of angry notes before booze pushed me over the edge. I should turn it into an article.
Perfect timing with your critique. I was just asking myself whether to bother catching up on all the “new” Star Wars.
Do you like gratuitous cameos from actors who you remember from your childhood?
How do you feel about pandering?
Want something new instead? We got some great new characters. One is Rey. She’s like a young girl who is the very bestest at everything you need. She can fly a spaceship. Battle people with lightsabers. She’s always right, and always unhappy. What does she want as a character? What drives her? Well, we don’t know. What, do you hate women or something?
Then there’s Poe. He’s a hotshot, I don’t follow the rules, kind of swashbuckler, except he’s really boring and his whole story arc is learning that he really should follow the rules if they’re told to him from a wise woman.
There’s rose, who is a chubby asian broad who….well, I don’t really know what she does. In the third movie they basicly have her character go off somewhere so she’s not part of the plot.
Oh, we also have Flynn. He’s a former storm trooper who rebeled. I bet he’s a brooding and haunted character, fighting an inner battle of nature vs nurture. Nope. Turns out he’s a wise cracking, happy go lucky guy who has the character trait of “oh. He’s the black guy”.
The first was a rehash of the original star wars, minus the pacing and style. The next one undid everything from the original movies, and turned Luke into a hobo who sips blue milk from space cow tits.
The third undoes everything from the second movie, tosses in a main villain from the original movies to replace the previous bad guys, and is an even stupider version of the first movie.
On the other hand, you do get some classical cinema moments. Did you like it when Ed Wood was making Plan 9 from outer space and his lead actor, Bela Lugosi died? Boy, wait until you see JJ Abrams reuse footage of a dead Carrie Fisher for the third movie.
Oh my. That’s pretty bad.
I will go back to my world where only 4-6 exist (and where I’ve tweaked the dialog in #6).
I grew up on Original Star Wars. Not going to spoil it by pretending the new things are anything but projects made by cinema students.
I got buzzed and operated heavy machinery this evening.
No broken water lines, so that’s good.
Did you manage to get the bodies buried?
Shallow, but sufficient
You need a swamp, with gators. Or a pig ? farm.
Carnivorous deer will have to do.
“#BREAKING: Joint statement by the Israeli Ministery of Defense and the Israel Institute for Biological Research: A significant breakthrough has been achieved in finding an antidote to the Corona virus that attacks the virus and can neutralize it in the sick body”
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1257401383474597889
Lysol?
Direct injection of Manischevitz and gefilte fish.
So the left are still boycotting Israel right?
I hope this is true!!
Please, please let this be handled properly and scientifically, completely divorced from the politics!
And if anyone doesn’t want the (((cure))) or the (((vaccine))), they can opt out.
I am still waiting for my fusion powered flying car.
Those that get the antidote can have a nice symbol to wear indicating they had the antidote? Say a yellow star?
Why do these faggots keep sucking my dick.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nypd-officers-say-coronavirus-social-distancing-policing-needs-to-end
Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action.
Tell it to the Chinese “volunteers”.
So if a cop is telling a civilian to go down and give him a blowjob, nobody has the right to interfere?
Why do you love criminals?
Where did I say I love the cops?
Sheesh. I was trying to make a Korean War joke.
If I might offer another perspective… cops are piddling away what little public trust they still have by zealously enforcing social distancing, and so, for their own good, they need to be told to knock that shit off.
I didn’t feel too well all day, measured the temperature and it was 36.9C (98.4F), which is unusually high for me. But after the walk the temperature dropped to 36.1C (97F). That’s much more normal. It’s healthy not to sit at home all day. Now it’s really rare to see pedestrians without masks on the streets.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/ap/ap-business/background-checks-for-firearms-remain-high-amid-pandemic/article_db000f02-3e6e-5e3c-960c-7322e9613d41.html
USA! USA! USA!
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California moving to LiveCon Level 2: https://newsthud.com/gavin-newsom-caves-will-reopen-california-this-week-and-empower-local-officials/
I guess he was worried people were starting to pay attention.
Lololol! Governor Newsom is a hoot!
He’s now in his evil lair plotting how he can enlarge the “modifications” loophole to stage a power grab.
Well the State holiday is tomorrow. There should be a pinata banging ceremony…
https://mobile.twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1257031573024567296