I attended the Rally to Reopen NH on May 2nd, 2020. grrizzly planned to join me. I arrived later than I wanted to. grrizzly and I planned to meet at the rally by noon. He was already there when I arrived. Being a Saturday, the State House was closed and empty.
A quick summary of my impressions: The only law enforcement presence I saw was a New Hampshire Fish and Game officer driving past the State House as I arrived. There were several men openly carrying AR variants. I saw both men and women openly carrying pistols. I’m certain I was not the only person with a pistol concealed on his/her person. Hence why I say this is the safest place in New Hampshire.
There were more people attending this rally than the last rally. I’d say attendance was above 400 this time where last time was between 200 and 300. There were fewer Trump signs and more signs oriented towards religious freedom. The mix of speakers was a little different this time. I did not have as good of a vantage point this time as I did last time.
Friday, May 1st, Chris Sununu announced an extension of his stay-at-home order and some modifications to the order. The stay-at-home order is extended to May 31st. Here are a few of the modifications.
- Campgrounds will be allowed to reopen immediately but with restrictions such as they can only serve New Hampshire residents unless the campground is a private members only campground, in which case the campground can serve any member.
- Golf courses may reopen on May 11th but with restrictions.
- Barbers and salons are allowed to open on May 11th with restrictions on the number of customers they may serve at once, the services they may provide, and how they provide the services.
- Restaurants will be allowed to reopen on May 18th but for outdoor dining only and with restrictions on group sizes, table spacing, and other restrictions.
- Drive-in movie theaters are allowed to open on May 11th, but with restrictions on capacity.
- Hospitals can provide elective, time sensitive procedures starting on May 4th.
For more details, other openings, and other restrictions on the above that I didn’t list, see this article. Trigger warning: Auto-play video.
I was not certain how Sununu’s announcement would affect the rally. I saw posts from the rally organizers that not only was the rally going on as planned, but they thought it was more necessary than before.
I listened to an hour of the first of the public comments period for the NH Reopening Task Force. My impression is most of the callers were concerned about how they would work with the restrictions and that some businesses should be able to open earlier.
I have noted more skepticism and push back against the shutdown on the New Hampshire subreddit than there was a week or two ago. However, I still say the New Hampshire subreddit is mostly behind Sununu and what he is doing. I noted that comments on the Reopen NH facebook page still run about 50/50. Half opposed, half in support.
After I parked on a Concord city street, I fed the meter because Concord enforces their meters on Saturday. Parking enforcement is “essential”. I walked over to the State House. I arrived at the State House between 12:20 PM and 12:30 PM. I noticed that the signs reminding people of the governor’s prohibition on public gatherings larger than ten people were back. They had not been torn down unlike the last time. I ignored them.
Fuck off slaver!
Approaching the rally
I found grrizzly. We shook hands.
Crowd views
More crowd views
I was wearing a face covering for reasons I won’t got into publicly but have nothing to do with Lil Rona.
I took pictures with my phone and tried taking notes on my phone. I gave up taking notes because it was a sunny day. The sun washed out the screen. Some of my pictures are garbage thanks to my not being able to see the phone screen well.
Sununu’s order prohibiting public gatherings of ten or more people is what closed churches. I wonder if this sign holder is trying to encourage the Manchester Bishop to defy Sununu.
New England Independence guy is back.
I could not hear the speakers all that well because of the honking from the cars driving by and some didn’t speak into the microphone. According to grrizzly, the speaker as I arrived was a pastor. Eventually grrizzly and I moved closer to the speakers. Then I could hear them better but still not well.
Here is a summary from memory of the speakers. I could hear about half the speakers for the time I was there.
One speaker encouraged business owners to open their businesses in defiance of the governors orders. He reminded the crowd that the Founders would never ask the government permission to open a business and they rebelled over a minor tax on tea.
The speaker encouraging business owners to open in defiance of the lockdown orders
Carla Gericke, a candidate for state senate, spoke. She spoke at the last rally, and was the speaker comparing the number of unemployed with the population of some municipalities in New Hampshire. At this rally, she spoke about contact tracing. She encouraged the crowd to refuse to take part in contact tracing as it will be used to track your every movement.
After Carla Gericke spoke, I saw her talking with a guy who carried a sign reading “WE ARE ALL ESSENTIAL EXCEPT POLITICIANS.” She asked if she could pose for a picture with him. When he find out she was running for office, he said, “It’s nothing personal.” She didn’t care. They posed for some pictures.
The least blurry picture of the “We Are All Essential Except Politicians” sign.
There was at least one counter protestor. grrizzly said he saw a guy with a sign showing a toilet who stood behind the speakers. Some folks with flags moved between that guy and the speakers. Later I saw a guy in a costume carrying a scythe with “SCIENCE” on the blade. I don’t know if it was the same guy.
The counterprotestor, I think.
Another speaker runs a facility management business on the Seacoast. He said his business is “essential” under Sununu’s order, but many of the businesses he serves are on the “non-essential” list. This devastated his revenue. He says he can only last a few more weeks before he is out of business.
A guy from the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence was working the crowd. He handed out flyers. I took one.
A lawyer got up to speak. The only things I remember from his speech was that it touched on some legal rights and that fear is worse than the virus. He also talked about wondering why more of his fellow lawyers aren’t on the side of people that want an end to Sununu’s orders.
At some point I saw a guy walking around wearing a Plague Doctor mask. I did not take a picture of him.
The last speaker was a Catholic priest. He is the parish priest for a church in New Hampshire. I do not remember his name and I thought he was introduced as the parish priest for a Concord area church. I did a little digging but could not find a parish in the Concord area which showed him as a priest at that parish. He talked about religious freedom and how the orders have trampled on religious freedom. He mentioned something about how the gathering was illegal. He considered us all part of his flock, and if the police showed up to arrest anyone, he’d be first in line to be arrested. I will keep an eye out to see if any Catholic priest in New Hampshire starts holding Mass again in defiance of Sununu’s orders.
Blurry picture of the last speaker
After the last speaker, the organizers asked the crowd to go over to the State House and gather on the steps so we could get pictures of the crowd along with the petitions the organizers plan to give to Chris Sununu. The organizer also mentioned that there is a similar rally upcoming at the Massachusetts State House in Boston. I thought he said Sunday the 3rd, but the only information I can find about an upcoming rally in Massachusetts is for this one on the 4th of May.
On the way over, some folks posed with the signs reminding folks that the gathering violates the governor’s orders and is a misdemeanor. I thought about ripping down the signs but decided not to as people seemed to be enjoying posing with the signs. I took some pictures of people posing with the signs.
That muzzle discipline means I’m shooting myself in the foot about my claim of the safest place in New Hampshire.
At the State House, people flooded the steps. There were chants of “USA USA” and “LIVE FREE OR DIE” plus others.
The crowd broke up. grrizzly and I left. No one had messed with his motorcycle.
I think despite the growing discontent over Sununu’s orders, that it is still too small to matter. Sununu has been talking with governors of neighboring states (Charlie Baker of MA, Janet Mills of ME, Phil Scott of VT). I and others have noticed that many of his orders have matched exactly what Charlie Baker ordered with the only difference being Sununu’s order was a day or two later.
Rick Ganley: So you’re obviously coordinating with the governors of Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine, I imagine, because you want open up at the same time. What would it look like?
Chris Sununu: So we’re all sharing ideas on both timing and the business sectors that we’re looking at. So, for example, I think everybody agrees that we’d like to see hospitals, and outpatient surgeries and some of the initial steps of getting hospitals and health care going again. And hopefully, you know, that’ll be done sooner than later. I think everyone agrees that they’re more equipped to do that, to maintain testing and [personal protective equipment], supplies and things of that nature.
There’s also some simpler things that we can do, I think. Things like barbershops or salons, where again you have a whole new guidance, but you’re only letting maybe a few people in at a time. You’re doing everything by reservation. You’re still helping supply them with [personal protective equipment], things of that nature. Our economy is more open than other states. So, for example, Vermont has already taken steps to to loosen things up over there. But really they’re kind of catching up to where we already are, specifically around construction and a few other areas. You know, they had a real epidemic issue with New Yorkers.
He is not going to deviate. Will he change if discontent grows big enough? Maybe. He is up for re-election this year.
I will keep an eye out to see if any Catholic priest in New Hampshire starts holding Mass again in defiance of Sununu’s orders.
I have kept an eye out, and so far I have seen nothing about Catholic priests in New Hampshire holding Masses.
That muzzle discipline means I’m shooting myself in the foot about my claim of the safest place in New Hampshire.
I took a few pictures of that guy. I picked this one because when I was sorting my pictures, I didn’t see my thumb in the picture. Now, on the article, I see part of my hand. Shit.
I noticed that muzzle discipline, too. It was as bad as in Israel where IDF members carry their rifles everywhere and then in buses and trains the muzzles point at you all the time.
That guy? It’s 2020, who still uses quad rails? ?
Tacticool assholes without muzzle discipline
The four guys in the first picture did a decent job whenever they were in my eyesight.
I find that display of armament to be counter productive, at least for now. Their presence makes the discussion and media attention about them and not about the shutdowns and its impact on everyone else.
Of course, they want the attention.
I sometimes wonder why there has been no law enforcement presence at either of the Rallies to Reopen NH, excepting the Fish and Game officer driving by for the second rally. Everyone there is guilty of a misdemeanor according to the signs posted around the State House.
Sure, the State House is empty as it is a Saturday.
There are lots of gun owners in New Hampshire.
Sununu also might not be the piece of shit I think he is. The State Police are responsible for the State House grounds, though there were also no Concord police patrolling the area.
I agree with you Scruffy. It detracts from the message. It also makes the normies uncomfortable with the protesters.
While I do agree there can be a balance, possibly, let’s face facts: No one in the MSM is going to be comfortable with any non-LE firearms at all. If they can see them, it’s bad, no matter what.
And, if there had been anything to encourage concealed carry (yeah; just go with it), that would be problematic for them, too. That there are people out in the world that like, own, and carry firearms is a problem for the most in the media. At this point, the OCers aren’t losing much.
If your names began with “a” and ended with “mash”, some libertarians would be howling for your blood right about now.
If your names began with “a” and ended with “mash”, some libertarians would be howling for your blood right about now.
No one gives a damn about that tweet.
Do you really think Amash is more libertarian than Hornberger, by whatever standard you want to measure? Isn’t that the important question?
I guess feel free to include Vermin Supreme in the comparison list too.
There’s also the longer term affect of normalizing the sight of weapons at protests. The more protests that happen with zero incidents, where guns are visible, the more normalized that will become. Can’t always be on defense. if we can get that, we can decide where to go next.
Just figure out a way to not look like a douche while you’re doing it.
+1
Fuck the normies. As near as I can tell, at least half support the lockdown.
If we adopt a position of “do nothing that alarms the normies”, we might as well put ourselves in the cattlecars now.
Sorry I was unable to arrange to meet you guys.
Next time maybe. There is still no requirement for masks in grocery stores in NH.
“Campgrounds will be allowed to reopen immediately but with restrictions such as they can only serve New Hampshire residents unless the campground is a private members only campground, in which case the campground can serve any member.”
Why would it matter which state they are from? He also doesn’t seem to understand how tourism works.
Sununu has said he’s worried about Massachusetts residents coming up as Massachusetts has a lot more cases than New Hampshire.
I also have seen and heard lots of complaints about folks from Massachusetts coming up here. The normal “We hate Massholes” schtick turned into “DON’T BRING LIL RONA UP HERE!”
And yet you invited grrizzly to come up and pollute our fair land with his Cambridge Cooties.
Unforgivable.
You should have built the wall, if you really cared.
I’m still waiting for Mass. to pay for it!
And yet you invited grrizzly to come up and pollute our fair land with his Cambridge Cooties.
And…. just between us…. he wasn’t the only person in Massachusetts I told about the rally.
Thot Thursday is all that matters.
http://archive.li/Qu4t6
Lots of budding instagram models.
#8 looks fun.
Superb set.
15 is why I need a catamaran.
Mis-matched tactical gear is such a fashion faux pas. I can’t even.
My armor still hasn’t shipped. ?
How about your legor?
Boo.
Hit them in they eye with a chocolate reaper.
Glad to see you posted this, now to actually read it…
“I found grrizzly. We shook hands.”
My God. My God.
“I was wearing a face covering for reasons I won’t got into publicly but have nothing to do with Lil Rona.”
DEG is Batman.
My God.
DEG is Batman.
No.
Look, Batman is denying he is Batman.
The hero we need.
Just say it, DEG. None of us is Vicki Vale. We can handle it.
Unless DEG is Vicki Vale….
I’m not Vicki Vale either but I like the results of a Google image search for Vicki Vale.
Good for the “Live Free or Die” state!!
I wonder if Mark Steyn was there?
Right, he lives in NH now. I didn’t even think to scan the crowd for him. I don’t remember seeing anyone that looked like him.
Also, props to the guy with the pitchfork.
He might be carrying too…
It wouldn’t surprise me.
I was carrying concealed, and I doubt I was the only one.
You were not.
Macaulay Culkin has “crazy, erotic sex” with Kathy Bates in the new season of American Horror Story
WTF?
I already have PTSD from seeing ‘About Schmidt‘ in the movie theater.
I already have PTSD from seeing ‘About Schmidt‘ in a theater.
I have PTSD from seeing ‘About Schmidt’ in a theater.
http://www.simbasible.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/3_Fotor.jpg
MC obviously knows how to party
Just because you only get non-erotic sex doesn’t mean you have to insult him.
[spoiler]
AHS has a scene with Neil Patrick Harris fucking Sarah Paulson playing a conjoined twin with two heads.
It truly is a horror story. It’s right there in the name.
Thumbs up, Deg!
Thanks!
The 6 bottles of booze I ordered from PA on Monday are scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. We’ll see if they managed to get it right. I tried many times to get out to their website, and Monday I finally got through.
Good luck.
I saw a nanobrewery I like in Bucks County will now ship to anywhere in PA. Dammit. I don’t live down there anymore.
Which nanobrewery?
Free Will in Perkasie.
How about Willy, you know what I’m saying?
Good thread:
“I cannot overstate how much better off we would be had the government simply done nothing over the past 60 days
Receipts! Thread 1/X”
https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1258550670623305728
That is excellent.
If Amash had tweeted that, he might be on the good list again.
Campgrounds will be allowed to reopen immediately but with restrictions such as they can only serve New Hampshire residents unless the campground is a private members only campground, in which case the campground can serve any member.
Word on the street here is the Fish and Feathers Gestapo were running plates in the parking lots of the boat ramps at the lake and leaving tickets on vehicles not from that county. I have not confirmed this but it is the county that is biggest asshole towards “outsiders” on the western slope. There have been lawsuits filed.
Thanks for the right up DEG.
Fish and Feathers Gestapo were running plates in the parking lots of the boat ramps at the lake and leaving tickets on vehicles not from that county.
Assholes.
Thanks for the right up DEG.
You’re welcome!
That’s about padding their revenue more than anything else.
Ya, I don’t know. It is the County Health Director who closed the county to non residents, not that she has that authority, but I don’t know how a state agency can enforce that. From what I hear she is a real peach.
That supposedly happened in a neighboring county. Somehow I self edited that tidbit out of that comment
A doctor on Tucker just finished talking about how idiotic all the talk about tests and contact tracing as a requesit for reopening is. It only makes sense in an emerging epidemic, months later it’s worthless.
Your safety doesn’t trump mine!
“Military not accepting new recruits who’ve recovered from COVID-19”
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/496519-military-might-not-accept-new-recruits-whove-recovered-from-covid-19
This is a really bad hot-take on the policy.
The actual policy is that if you were hospitalized for COVID, you must be medically reviewed by the Doctors and go through the waiver process.
Just like if you had childhood asthma.
Finally saw that Arbery shooting video. Couldn’t come to a conclusion either way without knowing why those guys were out there in the first place.
This seems to be a fair breakdown, TW even though this has nothing to do with Trump it’s by a Never Trumper Cuck, so parse it accordingly.
That breaks down the legal aspect of “citizen’s arrest” and I’d agree that the pick up truck guys didn’t have the right to do it in this circumstance. The problem for me is when Arbery runs around the truck, we lose sight of him. Did he rush at the guy with the gun? Also: McMichael told police that there had been “several break-ins in the neighborhood and … the suspect was caught on surveillance video.”. Was Arbery on video committing a crime in the past or was he simply on video in the area?
So far, the only thing I’m fairly confident of is that shooter and his buddies were overly aggressive in their attempt to stop Arbery. That alone enough to convict them of murder? No idea, yet. *IANAL
Well, Daddy there used to be a cop in the prosecutor’s office. That may very well be their GOOJF card.
“There was at least one counter protestor.”
That one I find odd, because the media has assured me that all these demonstrations are an equal mix of protesters and counter protesters. Maybe NH is different. Then again, I wonder what so many people who want to be locked down forever, are doing outside running around and exposing themselves to commie flu.
I’m also surprised there weren’t more.
I was expecting more.
I wanted to be in Concord before noon in case of counter protesters screwing up traffic. Getting there before noon didn’t happen, and there really weren’t many counter protestors.
Dude, I was being sarcastic. Let’s just face it, the only counter protesters outside of the one lone guy you saw, don’t exist, they were invented by the media.
I guess I need a tune-up for my sarcasm detector.
In all seriousness, I thought there would be more. Lots of my coworkers think the lockdowns are good, and I still see a good number of folks on-line bashing the protests or any thought of reopening.
Nice! I’m just sorry the same “fuck you” attitude isn’t more prominent in Minnesota. I think I’ve talked to maybe 3 people out of hundreds who think the shutdowns are all theater.
Can you guys go outside yet, I mean without freezing to death or getting eaten alive by mosquitoes?
No skeeters yet, the gnats are keeping them away.
It has been 50 degrees daily for the past week. That is t-shirt weather!
Still a few piles of snow at the airport, but considering those piles showed up on airport radar in the middle of winter…
Yeah, I get it. When I first moved to MD from northern Indiana, I would see people walking down the street when it was in the 40s in March, wrapped up head to toe in parkas. Seriously. I never even got a winter coat out of my packed up stuff because I didn’t need it. I was thinking ‘What in the fuck? If it’s 40 degrees in Indiana, people are wearing shorts and t-shirts! I would just be wearing a long sleeve shirt’.
But damn, I hate cold weather. The weeks where it doesn’t get above single digit temperatures and not being able to garden until mid may and it hard frosting the first week of Oct, fuck that shit. Never again. When I move, it will be further south.
Thanks!
There are businesses in MN opening up in defiance of the governor’s order. There’s been one protest already in Minnesoda, or was it two?
Add 1 more
Yer a good nut, Fourscore.
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1258433834728558597
OK, which one of you did this?
I dunno…but ? it
Covid superhero
The full video.
The Tipsy Bartender is my new hero.
Take a backseat, Jerry Seinfeld!
Ya, that shit got me 48 hours in the clink in the County I mentioned above. Except it was in a garbage can and you just dipped your solo cup in it and drank. Simpler times with no viruses except herpes and aids.
AKA Purple Jesus, or Hairy Buffalo, or Jungle Juice,..
Drink until you see whatever you happen to be calling the beverage.
Wtf? Are rules for women’s basketball really, really different?
Best Comment: “And the fan goes wild!!!”
Is it possible the white team lined up to shoot Free Throws at the wrong end and the refs said nothing? That doesn’t seem right, but that is what I am going with.
I am a painfully punctual person, so thing being late… well, they bother me.
Especially when I stayed up to receive the delivery.
But nnnooo, the driver went back to the depot. I thought they were supposed to know how many boxes the driver can deliver in a day.
I thought they were supposed to know how many boxes the driver can deliver in a day.
Okay Winston.
It’s their whole business.
Entire.
Whole.
I think that’s UCS’s way of being kind.
At that point I was very close to saying very unkind things, being short on sleep, and quite possibly not having eaten since noon (still can’t remember, so I erred on the side of not eating more). Now I’ve gotten some sleep, gotten my delivery, and am working on breakfast.
Thug life
https://twitter.com/my3monkees/status/1257057863823917057?s=21
Peelian policing is dead.
Shit is way out of hand.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/05/07/go-already-2/
So the Turdeau wants to eliminate oil and gas. I mean once the Albertans are either on the dole or working for Liberal crony green capitalists they will vote for them.
I’m perfectly fine with Turdeau… did I misspell that?, trying to survive a winter in Canada without oil. I hope it’s broadcast live. I mean I don’t watch TV, but I’ll watch that. Go Justin, much woke, many brave!
I haven’t seen any protests in MD, or I would go to one.
But MD is a special place. I’ve heard it’s like the USA in miniature. That’s not exactly right.
The state is deep blue from a straight line down the West Bay from a few miles NE of Baltimore down to Annapolis, and then NW around the DC suburbs. There’s a little buffer zone to the east and west of Baltimore, but not much. The rest of the state, all of the South, the North, and especially the west are deep red.
Now I’ll explain why there are no protests. The people who live out in the sticks but are within driving distance of Baltimore, the ones who commute to the city to work, are not going to protest to get to commute back into that shithole. They’re just hunkered down for the moment, trying to ride this out. working from home.
Most of the people here getting truly screwed over, the lower income folk, are lifetime democrat voters living in the inner city, the worst parts. So I’m not sure what they are thinking. I’m locked in my house here.
Now the deep red parts of the state, it’s a really small state, but that’s most of the state geographically. But no one lives there. The east shore, the Western region, the southern bay? No one lives here. If you think that you’re driving through the Midwest, you know, like Indiana or Illinois, and you’re thinking it’s sparsely populated? That’s because you’ve never driven through Western Maryland. You can literally drive for 30-40 miles and never even see anything besides trees and hills. Not even a building, let alone a house. So yeah, no protests, because no one lives there.
There have been two protests – one recently and the other a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks. I’m not paying much attention I guess. Frederick, that doesn’t surprise me. The best places to live here (if I stay here another year), are most definitely Frederick and Carrol Counties. I mean in the places where there are actually people, lol.
You’re welcome!
I’ve spent about an hour or two every day (except for Sundays and the Rally to Reopen NH rally days) for the last three or four weeks looking for information about push back to the Lil Rona Panic. That’s how I know about the protests.
That’s great, DEG, thanks for doing that, I should start stepping up more to the plate myself instead of waiting for others to do it.
I send the information out to a mailing list I’m on. Maybe I should post here when I see news stories about a protest planned.
In fact, I’ll start now.
Protest Friday in Philly.
Rally Around Ohio scheduled for May 9th.
Thanks again, you’re doing great work!
Frederick is also the 2nd largest city in MD, so they do have an economy not linked to Baltimore, or Annapolis, or DC. They also probably the most and some of the best known restaurants in the state. So now, it really makes sense.
That’s where Flying Dog is based right?
/checks
Yes. Yes it is.
Frederick is one of the nicest cities (small cities) that you can ever visit. We love it there. The county is almost all rural, mountains directly to the west of the city, very scenic. It’s almost hard to believe it’s in the same state with Baltimore. But of course, the progs are starting to infest it and try to turn it into the hell they just fled.
But no one lives there. The east shore, the Western region, the southern bay? No one lives here. If you think that you’re driving through the Midwest, you know, like Indiana or Illinois, and you’re thinking it’s sparsely populated?
I’ve driven the Eastern Shores of Maryland while going to and from the Outer Banks.
Yeah. Empty.
There are one or two towns, but otherwise empty. Completely empty.
Wait until you drive through the West. Very pretty, no people. That’s why, what I was just saying before, that the state is so deep blue. All of the people live in that one sector of the state around Baltimore, DC, and Annapolis.
The reason that Fatty Hogan won, is because his wife is Korean and he’s pro-business, sort of. Howard County. They have a HUGE Korean population and they’re almost all business owners and skilled workers. You should listen to my Korean co-worker who lives there on this.
Hogan sucks, but he’s still not as bad as what that fuckstick O’malley’s handpicked successor would have been. Hogan actually started out pretty good, and then being completely surrounded by some of the most corrupt democrats in the country, I’m sure they pulled him aside and explained to him how to keep his cushy job. Then he gained 300 lbs, mostly in his fat hog jowel head.
Still, Hogan is the only thing keeping MD from not being as bad as VA at the moment.
I drove I-68 in western Maryland before. Pretty country. Steep hills too.
Yeah, it’s very pretty. Cumberland is a nice place to visit. You can ride their old railroad if you’re really bored, very scenic.
If I Need a Cop, I’m Not Calling Zuckerberg
Revenge of the Nerds, man.
I can’t get around the pop up on my phone. (Sad face)
Sorry!
Thanks for the write up DEG. I know Vegas has had some and I am thinking of going to the next one to document.
I know they have been running recall petitions for our Governor but they aren’t going anywhere.
NV just opened up (sort of) some things but it won’t be enough. I see post ’08 type depression for the valley
You’re welcome!
I saw a news blurb today about an attempt to recall Las Vegas’s mayor because she’s not taking the public health crisis seriously.
Yeah but her city council or at least most of them circled the wagons.
Looks like the NFL may have to open with only 10 players on a team, to keep to the maximum in a group.
Which position should be eliminated?
Quarter Back. Hike the ball and then just a big fight. They should also be allowed swords but not longer than two feet to make it sporting.
The Browns.
ding ding!
Tight End.
*Looks at ass in mirror*
It might be wide but it is tight.
Are they going to maintain 6 feet distance? So it’s all passing now? Air Coryell rises from the grave! And pass interference? Flags flying, touch down! The score is 316-240 at the half…
Maybe the Raiders knew when they chose 23 wide receivers in the first round of this years draft…
Reverse cowgirl. That one never made sense to me.
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
It helps when there’s a live girl instead of Dolly.
O face.
the hell you say…
All but Patrick Mahomes and Tyreek Hill.
Where’s the swastikas and nooses? There’s supposed to be swastikas and nooses.
DEG, being a shitlord and all, photoshopped them all out.
We’re bad protestors here in New Hampshire.
Right. I was promised Nazis!
Love this.
https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1258190565667155968
Yes. That was the biggest slap down I have seen throughout this insanity.
I read you are going to give us drunk fucks a tour of part of Tokyo Saturday?
I could but I gotta work until 1:30 pm Tokyo time Sunday. It’ll be a bit late for most of y’all.
1:30? That is like an hour and a half from happy hour. Just have a drink.
Chris Sununu tweet. I think the LPNH or anyone challenging Sununu has a great opportunity here if they borrow from Trump’s Pelosi enjoying ice cream ad, but I don’t see it happening.
It’s a great ad. I still won’t vote for him, but my hat’s off to whoever put that thing together.
Christ, what an asshole. At least he let us know he got chocolate chip ice cream.
Number six will shock you!
There’s a glitch in the matrix.
https://youtu.be/j-urfohXAOo?t=2311
That’s great.
The trashy extrication from the land of guvnuh kkklansman has been set for the 21st. Two weeks until I no longer have to pay state income tax!
Excellent!!!!
You’re going to become Florida man?
No, Texas man.
Oh, sorry, dude! But congrats! You escaped Panem! Woohoo!
??
Will this be in my neck of the woods, or, one of those ‘other places’…::sniff::
All signs point to Mckinney, Plano, or Frisco. My office is around the DNT and 121, and we’re looking east of there.
Welcome to really high property taxes though.
My property taxes went up when I moved from Dallas to DC. The tax percentage may have gone down, but I had to pay 2x as much to buy a worse house, so the property taxes ended up being higher.
Excellent!
Mazel tov!
You lucky, lucky bastard.
wrecker!
I sometimes envy how USans so easily change living place. I mean many Romanians left Romania due to poverty and stuff, but most of them had a tough time doing it and were long nostalgic for home. You lot don’t seem that way.
Not all Yanks. I’d be nostalgic too.
Big country, common language, culture more alike than different – it’s easier here. Trashy’s move would be like you moving to Glasgow or Madrid – a total culture change vs. just giving up… I dunno what, in return for good BBQ.
As an aside, an old co-worker – Radu – was from Romania and is one of those “I’m never, ever going back and you can’t make me” sort of immigrants. Awesome dude – took up flying as a hobby and bought his own plane.
just giving up… I dunno what
Fresh crabs, mountains, access to decent beaches, and a temperate enough summer to go outside in July.
in return for good BBQ.
And a governor not itching to take my guns away and a higher proportion of non-assholes in the city.
I’ve lived in what I consider to be 10 different areas of the US as an adult. And, yes, much more alike than different. I’ve found great things to love about all of them.
Since my 18th trip around the Sun started I’ve lived for a minimum of 6 consecutive months in : Southern AZ, GA, WA, ROK, GA, NC, Germany, AZ, Saudi/Kuwait, AZ, MT, Southern CA, NC, PA, Iraq, MO (KC area), NYC, Iraq, NYC, Central CA, HI
Even Iraq had some good things to say about it- if you ignore the flying chunks of metal and molten copper.
Now that’s just quibbling over details. What’s a little shrapnel between friends?
I’ve found that I’m a flyover yokel through and through. I hated my time living in Palo Alto. Didn’t really love it here in Northern VA, but didn’t hate it. Like you said, some things to like in every place.
I grew up in the Midwest and liked it there. I liked Dallas well enough, with a few reservations (weather being the top of the remaining list).
Anyone know what that green and blue flag represents?
Terf rights?
I wondered that too.
I figured it had something to do with Tomorrow People.
No idea. I poked around with some Google searches and searches of Flags of the World and I found nothing.
Cool link bro
Thanks for the write up DEG. It’s really interesting to see what is happening in other places.
You’re welcome!
I’ve never been to Madison and I don’t like protests, but if this doesn’t end when our union sucking gov said it would (after labor day) expect the Wisconsin Hat to be making the news rounds.
Ha a pitchfork! They do have them in America!
Mornin’ glibs and glibettes
Oh, we got the best! Yuuuge! You’re gonna love ’em.
Pie, here is the answer to your question about the Earl Thomas tweet you linked to.
well I sort of figured that was it 🙂
I googled his name just to see what sport he played
Thanks DEG. Sounds like a hell of a party!
You’re welcome! It was a good day. We’ll see if there is another. Based on the tweets I see on the ReopenNH twitter feed like this one about Raimonda allowing the Rhode Island cower-in-place order to end on Saturday, I think either Sununu is going to move things up or there will be another rally. Stay tuned!
http://archive.li/GPPYz/72efaca1d78b71857a97129aff05d7ac1e2afc9b.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/d4ww8/00e61fc2735e65a09bd692382953a7a24aaf1206.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/UZTgi/73bb09ae40a7229c574970a39f02a0ede7de6436.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/dLNsM/f82aa3f12fce1861e245ae1575325195cf65fce4.jpg
NSFW.
meh…
*Toni Tennille voice from The Wall* “Wanna take a baaaath?”
Needs that early 70’s muff wherein you part the bushes wearing a jungle hat like Arte Johnson.
My inflatable Battle Cat has a hole I need to patch, but it’ll be cool to see it inflated again after more than 30 years.
I can’t even, with all your euphemisms….
Clearly I’m talking about the penis pump my parents gave me when I was a kid.
Clearly…except for that flag of Sweden
So, do re-buy the birthday present I got scammed on from another vendor in China that I’ve bought from before and hope I get it, or pay double (at least) to try and get it from a ‘US’ vendor?
Oooh….well, I presume the US vendor ships from the US, which should be quicker. That alone makes me favor that option (presuming I’m correct).
It’s difficult for me to put a price on whatever factors you are considering–is it worth the higher cost to get it and be satisfied with it?
I’ve seen it before on ebay where the seller is in a ‘US’ vendor, but it still comes from China. And I prefer the ‘Buy Now’ option rather than the bid system, as I’ve seen that manipulated to try and extract a higher price. (I was 1 minute from a winning bid on something and then someone else outbid me. Seller comes back, ‘well, the winning bidder just contacted me and said it was his son using his account and withdrew. I can still sell it to you, if you match that bid’. Fuck you asshole)
That happened with my lightsaber, that just arrived–etsy store is listed in Latvia (better than China), but sent from HK….FML.
Well, you talked me into it. I just bought if for twice the price from a seller claiming to be in Michigan that says it will be here by the day after my birthday. Hopefully this will turn out better than other decisions I’ve made while drinking…
(I did transfer money to the account from another to hopefully make sure it doesn’t bounce when Amazon decides to charge my card for the PC parts)
Amazon still hasn’t run the charge for the big part of the order for my PC build that I I’ll be getting later than they first said. So now I have to watch my balance to make sure enough money is in there until they charge it. The good thing about debit cards VS checks is supposed to be how quickly it affects your balance so you don’t have charges floating around. I just got charged today by CafeePress for something I ordered for Diggy like a month ago. At least I hope that means Diggy be gonna git it soon. Fucking Rona!
Yeah, it’s on the way. It’ll be handed over to the PO by DHL at some point soon, I think.
Thanks for another on-the-ground report, DEG. I wish these were happening every other day in every state.
You’re welcome!
Every stay with a cower-in-place has had at least one protest. West Virginia was the last to get with the program.
I’m going to start posting links to information about planned protests around the country when I find out about them.
I won’t apologize
For acting outta line
You see the way I am
You leave any time you can cause
I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
Going berserk
Crazy! Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!
I don’t care what you fuckin’ do
I don’t care what you fuckin’ say
I’m so sick of everything
I just want to die!
https://youtu.be/302oEzSPCqE
Dude. Do you need an intervention?
Yes. I need an intervention… of PuNk RocK!!! https://youtu.be/Hk4UdUNexPg
I thought you guys were libertarians.
And, just how this blend is constituted, and when and how it ‘evolves’, we’ll tell you…when it suits our purposes.
It’s late and that’s a lot of words 😉
Thanks for the wall of text Winston.
Chaf ed gets the joke.
Wait, you mean I didn’t need to read it.
I sure as hell didn’t. I googled ‘communist describes libertarianism’ and copied the first thing I found.
Are you sure that wasn’t “Communist destroys libertarians with facts and logic!”
But…..I wanted to laugh!
So are they saying human cooperation equals government?
And citizenship is the highest virtue?
Would you like to know more?
no…I think I’ve had enough.
Verhoeven has a sad…that piece of commie shit.
These bugs keep flinging their shit at me!
” It is in failed states such as Somalia that libertarianism finds its fullest actual expression.”
If only that had been the first sentence it would have saved me some time.
In these turbulent times it is good to know as some things never change.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/05/07/rep-ilhan-omar-calls-the-dojs-dropping-of-its-case-against-michael-flynn-white-privilege-at-work/
I really need to stop clicking on these Twitchy links, linking to tweets that gang up on people doesn’t do anything but link tweets that gang up on people. It’s even more random than MSM bringing on ‘experts’ that agree with them.
Well, no–you don’t need Twitchy or Twitter to know Omar is an ambulatory piece of hyena shit.
Ding ding ding!
I’d like to run Salvador Dali’s fart-in-a-jar against her, in the next election.
Would be an improvement.
I ate a taco, now I’ll watch a documentary. I’ll blame Digby if the $100 I just spent on my replacement birthday gift doesn’t bring me joy. I hope all you late nighters join the Zoom tomorrow, because that’s where I’ll be.
Hey–same as dow-What the fuck am I saying?
Gudbuy t’ Jane. https://youtu.be/3yJdve68L3U
Hello t’Jane. https://youtu.be/n-JKydozBn4
My cherry album purchase in 1974. I was 9.
X-Feminist https://youtu.be/X8LitnrRF9U
Where Did She Come From https://youtu.be/JEv91wD9844
Knock Me Down https://youtu.be/D53C9tbO3ZQ
Vanilla Blue https://youtu.be/HCaVMlmjKH4
You’re not one of them
You’re pure
You’re something special
Yeah that’s for sure
You are my electric
Got a black jag for you
That’s why I call you
My sweet vanilla blue
Lost control again today
Well, there were some unexpected developements while I was sleeping with regards to the UPS guy. The box was delivered yesterday – at 11 at night. I almost shed my irritation until I looked and found they’d placed it so that it was impossible to open the front storm door without knocking the box down the steps, making me have to go out through the back door in order to get it.
Oh, good Lord… The delivery businesses reaaaaaly seem to be slipping here, recently.
Last time I had something delivered from UPS they left it in the drainage ditch near the bottom of the driveway. Couldn’t find it for days. Couldn’t do a complaint through UPS’ website either since I couldn’t find an Amazon seller’s phone number to use for the seller’s number.
I don’t usually find out the carrier until after it’s shipped, and for the most part there’s not a whole lot of difference between them with regards to reaching me. They have all blocked the storm door at one point or another, but this is the first time one has arrived in the middle of the night.
No one needs two doors.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/the-meaning-behind-dr-christine-fords-second-front-door.html
Ahem.
I don’t think UPS has started this shtik yet, but I’ve seen an Amazon commercial recently that strongly implied that their delivery drivers were joining the ever-increasing-because-our-standards-are-dropping-through-the-floor ranks of “heroes.”
They keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they think it means.
Wow, that’s a determined employee.
Or one looking to rack up overtime while regulations on drivers has been relaxed.
Naw, the thief returned it when he found it wasn’t something he could wear, eat or sell easily. You have high class thieves in your neighborhood, UCS. First class, nicest, bestest thieves.
Wifey orders tons of stuff from them and the delivery guys don’t even bother knocking on the door anymore. They just drop it wherever and skedaddle. Luckily we have a very protective little doggo.
Actually it was beef jerkey, carbonated caffiene and junk food.
A thief would have kept it.
Poetic justice if some oxy-head ingested all that. My brother was in rehab once and they had to literally hold a dude above the toilet because his shit was about two feet long and as big around as a sign post. Apparently the guy cried like a new birth mother when it finally passed.
I recall seeing some pretty poor muzzle discipline from the cops in London who strut about with ARs. They do it in train stations and major tourist spots, but the ones you can see are mostly for show. There’s always a van load ready to arrive on the scene just in time to kill a terrorist after they’ve already murdered people.
“I mean…it’s dangerous out there, Sir! We could get hacked to death!”
British special response unit
Emphasis on special.
🙂
Enjoy!
Oh, how far we’ve fallen as a civilization when British cops are forced to carry guns!/sarc
Asian pussy.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cat-cafe/clawing-back-normality-bangkok-cat-cafe-reopens-after-virus-shutdown-idUSKBN22K13R
Squirrels!
https://www.wfmz.com/news/cnn/clickable/squirrels-social-distance-eat-at-tiny-tables-cute/video_f72aadaf-e7a0-5a70-8d85-af63cb0b1ed6.html
Well, I’m up to 1,762 words, and the narrator is about to walk out and see Baranga proper.
I’m going to refrain from posting the entirety of the story in the comments so there will be something for people to read later.
I also plan to finish the vampire story, which is at 5,876 words right now.
Looking forward to both of ’em.
#metoo
Geez, it’s only in the low 50s here right now, and apparently it’s just going to get colder all day and night until the temp dips below freezing tomorrow morning. No Saturday morning back porch time for me. : (
If it’s still this dreary when my vacation starts on Tuesday, I’m going to be very annoyed. Or I’ll just go shopping at some bricks & mortar store or another, since that will FINALLY be allowed that day. Could get expensive.
Either the lockdown is causing catastrophic global cooling, or the greenies orchestrated the lockdown to prevent people from noticing the cooling.
Hey, I’m doing MY part to keep burning fossil fuels by commuting across town every day!
It’s still hitting the freezing point here at night but all the fatties are wearing shorts. It’s been a long, cruel Winter.
Close to freezing again today but radishes started popping up yesterday. Full moon last night and several more days/nights of cool/cold weather. I started splitting wood yesterday for some future winter, got the wood burning furnace on this morning.
A few more days change from my winter long underwear to my summer long underwear
https://nbc16.com/news/local/duck-minding-eggs-in-nest-on-patio-of-closed-eugene-bar-with-peacocks-help
Strangest apocalypse ever.
So…Oregon has free-range peacocks??
Don’t know if I mentioned it yesterday but I really dug the video you shared of the band! I’m not a great fan of the Dead but that song I like. My buddy had “Terrapin Station” on vinyl and I used to listen the hell out of that album. He lent it to me and I scratched it somehow. Still feel shitty about it after 35 years.
Thanks! That guy on the right playing guitar & singing lead is my hubby, and he FINALLY got Glibbed yesterday (after making a flaming exit from Facebook.) Keep an eye out for Tom Teriffic (misspelled on purpose) with a Yosemite Sam avatar- he’s the notorious Mr. GT – and be sure to say hello. And please – he IS a noob (and married to me, so thus deserving of sympathy.) Please be gentle! ; )
You know me better than that, GT!
I don’t want to infringe on Q’s territory, but damn!
https://lizkatz.com
Oh my word… Just think, in a different time-line I too could dress up in fetish wear and make bank provided I were young, female and smoking hot enough!
https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/