Pretty much no sports news today. Crap.
Still smokin’, Kylie!
British king George I was born on this day. He shares it with versatile athlete Jim Thorpe, blues guitarist T-Bone Walker, legendary boxing trainer Lou Duva, basketball great Jerry West, civil rights activist and widower Betty Shabazz, former mayor and recent nutcase Rudy Guiliani, “the empress of soul” Gladys Knight, rocker John Fogerty, doctor Patch Adams, baseball player Kirk Gibson, FYC’s Roland Gift, lovely sprite Kylie Minogue, and notorious water-drinker Marco Rubio.
That list was not so great. Oh well, on to…the links!
Minnesota: Wild!
Things are getting interesting now. Not even sure the four murderers getting arrested would slow down this train. Too much pent-up anger and energy from the lockdowns have exacerbated things. Waiting on rooftop Koreans to complete the scene. And speaking of Los Angeles, they’re getting in on it too.
Donald Trump expected to issue executive order today that will undermine the First Amendment. Way to go, you stupid asshole. You are in a perfect position to gut FISA, and you’re focusing on your spat with Twitter rather than just leaving the platform and watching their traffic fall.
Idiot grandma- and grandpa-killer
“Oh woe is me!” Listen, dick: they’re not abusing you just because they’re not giving you an open checkbook. Your budget was fucked before the Corona hit. Stop trying to use it as an excuse and start cutting your spending.
China has given up all pretense of respecting Hong Kong. It’s almost as if they are begging anybody in the world to defy their oppression. And somebody will eventually take the bait.
Wait, what? Why do they have any right at all to confiscate this man’s property when they have no evidence whatsoever that he’s committed a crime? Fucking goons.
Some Vegas casinos set to reopen next week. Hooray!
Yeah, no shit. What’s next? You gonna tell me businesses are closing down as well?
Poor little Andy!
Oh, boo-hoo. You big, giant pussy. This has happened for centuries in this country. It’s called protesting. And as an elected official, you should understand that its a fundamental right. Just like Trump should understand the way it applies to media outlets. You’re both idiots.
Here’s a great song for you! Go enjoy it.
Auction day today, friends. Wish me luck. And have a great day yourselves.
There was SUPPOSED to be a NASCAR race at Charlotte, NC, last night, but some bitch named Bertha spoiled everything.
Also….dare I say it? First??
mornin’
Hey Tres!
Shoulda been the seagull GIF.
There was supposed to be one in northern New Hampshire this Saturday, but Big Government won.
“You are in a perfect position to gut FISA, and you’re focusing on your spat with Twitter rather than just leaving the platform and watching their traffic fall.”
No shit. If he dropped and went to Gab, Twitter would be practically begging for him to come back.
Just like if he loses the election, CNN will secretly be apoplectic.
I know nothing of such issues, but Tucker Carlson said these platforms have special exemptions from libel lawsuits because they do not edit content. Since they’ve started to do so, wouldn’t the easiest thing, or at least most fair, be to take away their exemption?
There’s no statutory exemption. Once they start acting as a publisher they’re subject to some forms of lawsuits as any publisher would be. There’s no official exemption someone would have to remove. Their actions dictate whether the court views them as a publisher of curated content or a platform.
That’s not how Section 230 works. It was set up specifically to *allow* them to curate content.
They didn’t edit the Trump tweets, they added more speech, which is a gigantic difference.
You do *not* want Section 230 to go away. With no Section 230 every site, even ones like Glibs, would likely die. And the largest ones that could handle what was to come would ban even more content than they do now.
The concept of Section 230 is good, but I don’t think Twitter, etc. have met the “good faith” requirement for quite some time. Double standards and good faith don’t coexist, IMO.
I’m personally not a fan of the good faith requirement either.
It’s a private platform. You want to post on it, you follow their rules. You don’t want to follow their rules, you go to another platform. That’s the way this stuff’s supposed to work.
(Then again, I also think that Trump needs Twitter more than Twitter needs Trump, so I’m a bit off of some of y’alls beliefs here)
^this^
At least the first half of it. I think twitter needs trump as much as he needs
thema platform to communicate directly.And yet I think that what Twitter and YouTube are doing right now is a PERFECT example of what happens when we start trying to enforce “good faith”. They “legal” up and do things like “Hey this content disagrees with the [CDC|EPA|NCAA|SPLC|etc etc etc], so we are removing it”. You will never get a Judge to say they curated in bad faith if they, say, purged anything that disagrees with the EPA’s current “consensus opinion” on Climate Change.
The sooner people like Cruz and Trump realize that it is completely within these companies’ rights to be mendacious twats, then the sooner it becomes a “feature” that people shop on. As said above, Trump could easily leave and watch twitter fall over. But instead he is ensuring that Twitter stays a player in this game forever.
Unfortunately you would have to create your own entire internet, from the protocols on up, from scratch in order to launch a competing service. Instead of a government regulated public utility, the internet is an oligopolistic walled garden. The effect is the same. When the ISPs, domain registrars, web hosts, cloud providers, protocol and software maintainers, advertising networks, search providers, and content publishers all share the same political agenda the only redeeming feature to differentiate it from a government utility is that it’s sort of kind of optional. Then again, nobody was forced to subscribe to Ma Bell either.
There is very little evidence that what you say is true.
1) Competition is out there. It won’t win overnight. It took a decade to unseat Blockbuster. Remember the 90s when everyone fretted about how their near-monopoly on rental distribution allowed them to demand the “Blockbuster Cut” on videos? Remember in the 50s – the 90s when everyone fretted about the big Network News’ monopoly on information? We have already seen Netflix stumbling here, btw. And what was their tactic? To try and get government regulation to force their competitors to give them free bandwidth.
2) If you want to handicap that competition, keep calling for government regulation. YouTube has already shown what they will do to fend off regulation. They are pulling dissenting voices and saying “Sorry they disagree with the WHO”. Imagine what will happen next time Taiwan tries to blow the lid off of COVID-22 and YouTube is pulling that content because it disagrees with China and the WHO.
3) Ma Bell was a state-enforced monopoly. If you want to solve for that, decrease the government regulations that prevent competition. Companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook benefit HUGELY from post-2000 regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley that make it extremely difficult for small companies to go public. And so, instead of going public they have to sell out to the big companies already out there.
My mistake then, I must have imagined it when Microsoft, AWS, GoDaddy, and Comcast all worked collectively to shut down 8chan, Dailystormer, arm-twist Gab.ai into deleting content, etc.
Google has enjoyed greater than 80% market share in web advertising for a decade and a half. Facebook’s share takes up nearly the entire rest of the market, and that split has been relatively stable for just about a decade on the nose. The durability of the market power of these companies is already 2-3x longer than the web 1.0 companies to which we are always assured they are analogous. Can you name me which companies are a serious threat to either Google or Facebook’s ad networks? I think you’re probably confusing what business these companies are actually in if you genuinely believe there is any serious competition in that space.
Also please take note that I am not calling for government regulation. You are calling for the preservation of a legal privilege granted 25 years ago by congress to solve for a potential but unrealized legal ambiguity as it regards internet publishing. I don’t care that much whether 230 stays or goes because I don’t share your concern that the world will end without it. Courts are capable of handling nuisance suits, using and establishing precedents to deal with the application of the law as they do in every other regard. If they fuck it up too badly then address that problem if/when it arises. Perhaps a new theory of liability actually is necessary, and we must treat the internet as a completely different medium than every other one that has come before it. But then again, maybe not.
I also think it has contributed in ways you won’t acknowledge to consolidation and market power in internet publishing in the same way as the other government interventions you name. Just because you like it doesn’t make it any less of a market intervention.
I’m inclined to call bullshit on the whole “on noes! section 230 means no more internet!” thing considering the entire rest of the Communications Decency Act was eviscerated by the courts for being blatantly unconstitutional and the internet was chugging along with a million decentralized communities on usenet and other BBS systems for well over a decade before it was passed in ’96. It was a solution in search of a problem from the outset. If it had become a problem and court rulings were inconsistent as to the application of libel law vis-a-vis internet-based companies as compared to their brick and mortar publishing peers, the supremes could have had their say, and then congress could have written a law to address the actual issue. If 230 were repealed, that could still happen.
“It was a solution in search of a problem from the outset”
Section 230 was specifically made in response to several court cases working through the system, where State and local governments were trying to hold platforms responsible for user-generated content. Far from being a solution in search of a problem, there were many cases working their way through the court system at the time. EFF has a pretty good list of them- everything from ISPs being sued for hosting websites, to dating platforms being held accountable for the truth of the profiles put online.
There are thousands if not millions of people invested in making every single bit of our speech politically costly. Unfortunately for them, they have to contend with the First Amendment. This leaves them with Cancel Culture, and deplatforming. The same people who have weaseled their way into the controls of de-platforming at YouTube will merely weasel their way into the controls of whatever government alphabet soup is put in charge of enforcing de-platforming. If you want an example of what it will look like, there are scores of “free speech” offices at Universities to see.
IIRC the targets of the prosecutions at that time were the ISPs that were simply providing the communications infrastructure or server farm hosting.
Functionally, there is a difference between those guys and a company that provides a dedicated content hosting environment and curates it.
I’m not saying that 230 shouldn’t cover them, but there is a a large difference there. I’m fairly split on this issue when it comes to Youtube, Facebook, Twitter et al… I think they’ve been given a huge pass of sorts. It’s their site, but I do think they’re committing fraud.
Right, the latter half of that statement is the important part. Rather than let that process take place and see what court precedents were created by applying the law as it had existed for 200 years, congress passed a colossal bowl of fuck of a bill, 99% of which the courts dismantled, and we were left with section 230 as the lone survivor. I’d have been curious to see how those cases would have shaken out, myself. I’ll bet you we probably would have ended up no worse off than handing out special dispensation to internet publishers and trading one content oligopoly for another.
I haven’t traded anything, and the last thing I would have wanted was the fate of Internet speech being in the hands of Justice Kennedy and whichever Nazgul won him over.
I don’t get what end game you are pushing for here. Let’s say you hold platforms legally liable for the content of their users. Now any time someone harasses, or trolls, or lies on a BBS, Comment board, or Social media feed, that company is liable for the damages. In fact the User will never be held liable, it will just be the platform since they have the deep pockets. We know the law won’t go after the users, so much as they go after the platform (c.f. Backpages). And the civil suits will go after the platforms.
What have you earned for yourself here? It is a place where only the giant companies who can afford to solve moderation with armies of moderators or technology will survive. Would a small newspaper take a chance with their comment section? Of course not, they’d dump it. Think of all the BS stories that get traded on every site- including ones that seem accurate and later appear false. If a platform isn’t constantly scraping and removing those, they are liable. And of course this assumes that you can come up with a reasonable interpretation of “True” vs “False” that wouldn’t require a small company bankrupting itself.
So maybe instead, you require a company to do “content neutral” moderation. Think about what that would mean for a site like this one. The founders here have been known to kick trolls off of here. I think they generally do it from a good place, but there is no way you could consider it completely neutral. They will give the benefit of the doubt to some people who just get worked up a little and ban others who are less agreeable. And frankly I think it works to create a unique community. But that cultivation of a community also means that the owners would be liable for any false story on here. Any insult could be a source of harassment.
I think there is a role for immunity for content-neutral platforms. I think the hard part is defining what that would actually mean in the current environment, and whether Twitter and Facebook actually are sufficiently content-neutral to qualify for immunity.
To my mind the immunity is a privilege that we granted to allow the social benefits of wide-open internet zones. Do the big social media players still qualify as sufficiently content-neutral? And can we really count on a market which is heavily controlled by a handful of coordinating, if not interlocking, companies to provide wide-open spaces if the big socials no longer act that way?
I don’t think there is an easy answer anywhere in this. Allowing de facto control of the internet by oligopolies that coordinate not just with each other, but with a political party and thus, by extension, with the governmetn that party has a significant degree of control over, doesn’t sound very “freedom of expression” to me. Revoking a privilege isn’t inherently unlibertarian, either. But what is the least bad setup? Maybe what we have, but I have reservations. Giving a privilege to big companies that coordinate with politicians sounds pretty crony to me.
I don’t think there is an easy answer anywhere in this. Allowing de facto control of the internet by oligopolies that coordinate not just with each other, but with a political party and thus, by extension, with the governmetn that party has a significant degree of control over, doesn’t sound very “freedom of expression” to me.
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This is, to me, the result of the cultural death of liberal values.
The American Left used to champion free speech and freedom of expression. The American Right was mostly interested in stopping flag burning and pornography. Maybe on occasion they’d demand commies be driven from the airwaves or the newspapers. Because commie speech was supporting the enemy in time of war.
There was a cultural belief shared across the spectrum in political free speech. No one would argue that anyone’s political opinions deserved to get them fired, kicked out of college, hounded in public. That was insane. It was against American values. Not Republican or Democrat values, but American values.
The American Left of 2020, which controls the bureaucrats, the media, and the tech companies, rejects free speech as a value. They have done this with the rationalization of “hate speech is not free speech” and they have chosen to define hate speech as anything that offends some leftist, somewhere. They are, quite literally, declaring that anyone to the right of John McCain or Mitt Rommney is an actual Nazi/white supremacist/terrorist, so you can censor their speech.
We have come a long way from the ACLU fighting for the rights of Nazis to march through Skokie. It’s an entirely different American Left. I’d argue they recognize that they can’t win out in a free market of ideas, so they need to censor their opponents. They see this as a war for democracy and tolerance, and they see speech as a weapon.
This is a result of the Gramscian march through the institutions. I don’t see how you fix it. You’ve got kids who have been told since they were 6 years old that you don’t have the right to hurt someone’s feelings, and now those kids are in charge of these tech companies. They literally do not believe in free speech. They don’t think free speech is good. You can’t convince them, anymore than you can convince a commie that private property is moral, or an Islamic fundamentalist that the Jews aren’t to be killed ASAP. It’s part of who they are.
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They captured the public education system and the institutions of higher learning.
We are now reaping the harvest.
My problem is with the shadowbanning and kicking off Alex Jones but letting Farrakhan tweet anti-Semitic shit, not whatever they did to Trump’s tweet. I should have known that what I heard on cable news wasn’t the full story.
Farrakhan was banned at the same time Jones was. It’s a bit weird, because his account is still up, but he hasn’t posted since May 2019, the same time he was banned along with Jones.
The thing about the tech companies now, I mean Facebook/Twitter/Google, etc, combined with the MSM, are so large now that they’re a monopoly and they’ve gone so far left that they will support the likes of the murderous CCP, but will stomp on any conservative/libertarian, or just anyone that dares question their narrative.
Apparently nothing can be done through private enterprise, no one can compete with them, that much is clear.
Something has to be doe about this. We can discuss what a solution should be, but this is getting out of control.
It does appear from what I’ve read that their behavior has removed any protection they would have under 230.
I don’t want government to regulate these entities, because that is just a means to create a whole new series of problems, but I am totally for their protective status to be removed when they engage in this sort of politically motivated targeting. It is time we remove their status as websites (you can’t sue them for people’s posts) and treat them as the publishers they are (you can sue them for things people post) since they have chosen to be political in their policing of content.Either they let everyone post and they don’;t police or fact check, and they keep their status as content providers and the legal protection that comes with that, or they are treated as publishers, and we can sue the fuck out of them for playing partisan politics.
Things are getting interesting now.
I have no sympathy for looting/rioting. You can demonstrate and protest, but this is not how it is done.
Someone was shot dead, too. Details are sketchy, of course.
Elder said police have a suspect in custody and that the incident is being investigated as a homicide.
Here’s part of the problem. They have someone in custody for this yet the cops who murdered that guy are still walking free. Maybe arresting the guy would quell some of this unrest.
They wanted instant justice…no such thing in our system. The riots were going to happen whether they hung the shitbag cops in the town square or not. Rioting is just opportunists taking advantage of a peaceful, well-justified protest. I would like it if they at least waited for justice to be served before they went right to stealing from their local community.
If it was limited to the police stations and the like, I could at least understand it. Going after private companies burns up lots of sympathy.
burns up lots
I have none. Zero. They are criminals and should be prosecuted as such. And the sad thing is that this is counter-productive. We could stop the rioting and race-baiting and have a real discussion about the abuses in policing. But, no, these dumb fucks have to behave this way.
And this is my gripe with this. These morons have undermined their own cause by using this horrible incident to break the law themselves. Rioting, whether to destroy property or to just plain loot, is not the response of people that actually want a solution or justice, IMO. Fucking idiots.
Riots will always, inevitably, attract looters.
There is no unified ‘they’ in action, no singular purpose shared across all participants. That has to be taken into account, difficult though it makes any analysis — whether for posturing, meme-building, or assigning responsibility.
Is there anyone announcing that he’s looting for justice?
I’m hard-pressed to understand the conflation of these groups.
Some, I assume, are good people.
Destroying police cars? I’m good with that – legitimate target for their anger and direct connection to the incident at hand.
Looting a Target, burning down an AutoZone? Yeah, no.
Destroying community property that you helped pay for and will have to help pay for replacing seems a little counter-productive to me.
You actually think the looters pay taxes?
Even if they did, they might not know it. I have no idea how my dollars are spent because the pathways to this, that, and some other thing are so convoluted they’re impossible to follow.
School bond = higher taxes to pay the debt. Consumer tax? Property tax? Both? The property tax statement says what gets apportioned where but consumer taxes don’t.
Target = tax breaks to build. There is no direct connection between what I pay in taxes to the subsidy of Target even if I knew Target was being subsidized.
Poor people don’t pay attention to this shit. They just know the phrase “don’t pay their fair share.”
What in the official and public reactions over the last 5, 10, or more years leads you to believe we can “have a discussion about abuses in policing”? There have been ample opportunities, but discussions either don’t start or are co-opted by other agendas or ar disregarded because the discussion isn’t being held precisely as this or that group would prefer. At this point, riots are inevitable; there are echoes of the Viet Nam War protests in all of this.
CPUSA and SDS are still around?
I have no sympathy for looting/rioting because it is indiscriminate and hurts people with no fault. Like Nephilium if the cop house was burned it would be different.
I’d have sympathy if they were looting the police station and city hall. I have none for those who loot private businesses who were in no way involved.
This
Nothing’s changed, same old shit. Cops kill, rioters take it out on that dude over there.
Don’t forget the part where piping up to suggest that maybe burning down Sports Authority after cleaning out the Jordan’s is a bad way to effect change makes you a Klansman.
New Kicks!
I didn’t look up the actual statute…please tell me Congress didn’t give the Executive the ability to change a statute by @#$%ing E.O.?!!!!
Worked for Obama and the DREAMers
Right next to the FYTW clause there’s the “L’état, c’est moi” clause.
Get with the program Swiss!
Doesn’t he have a pen and a phone? I thought that was a precedent.
Wrong President…
I can’t wait to see how pissed Mika will be!
#OwnTheLibs
#2020
He’s fucking up, bigly, Don but there is no way in hell that you can defend what the Dems are trying to pull off.
He’s definitely pulling an Obama *and* the Dems are reprehensible. In this case I’m 100% on board with Don’s “fuck both sides”.
However, I don’t think he’s fucking up; this is red meat for his base and it also plays up his “I’m the underdog and the victim! Look at all these people aligned against me!” I think this helps him in the election.
Of course taking on FISA would be better for the country and a zillion times more moral, but voters don’t give a shit about that. Ask a rando on the street what FISA is and they’ll think it’s a Middle Eastern dish.
Afghanistan? What, we’re still there?
However, I don’t think he’s fucking up;
I assume you mean politically rather than on principle.
Correct.
Sir:
I am not a Democrat.
best wishes
I know that, Don. I respect your opinions.
that’s kind; maybe I’m snippy this morning
I’m never going to give any president a pass on anything. Trump is routinely excused on this site, but I’ll be throwing my vote away: LP, “present”, writing in my dog, anything other than vote for him.
But I’m not a Democrat. I’m not voting for Biden. I’m not carrying water for Biden by pointing out (repeatedly, but only upon his daily demonstration) that Trump is unhinged and unworthy.
And I don’t think that conservatives who have their reasons for voting for Trump should be bothered by my observations about how broken and unprincipled he is; they should stick to their guns and their calculations. That said, we routinely read here that at least he pisses off the right people; I think there should be a counterweight to such an annoying rationalization.
Nobody should get a pass. Trump makes mistakes just like anyone else and should be called out for them. You vote how you want, that’s one of the few indications that we are still the most free of any of the countries.
What Bacon said.
“*sizzle*”?
at least he pisses off the right people
To be clear, Ive said that more than a few times around here and I have no intention of getting off my ass on election day. Voting against an attempted coup isn’t effective. Voting for an unprincipled hack isn’t desirable.
I don’t argue here. I listen and learn like a virginal junkie at his first NA meeting, I know when I’m over-matched. I cop to being the dumbest Glib.
THIS is why I will be voting for orange man. We are already doomed, but if there is no effort to make the lives of those involved in this miserable and Obama’s legacy is not fixed from being “scandal-free” to “the most corrupt administration possibly ever”, we are going to lose the republic a lot faster.
Wouldn’t be changing the statute, rather how the departments apply the regulation no?
The effigy story is a real nut-punch.
We’ve lost the plot.
Assasianation by Effigy? So he’ll be killed by the wicker-man?
Our politicians are emotionally retarded.
I’d like to see a few politicians weeded out via “Wicker Man”. Pace, Preet.
It’s a giant kewpie doll.
“We are heartbroken by the death of George Floyd and the pain it is causing our community. We decided to close our Lake Street store earlier today and worked to ensure all of our team members were accounted for and safe. Our focus will remain on our team members’ safety and helping our community heal. Until further notice, our store will remain closed.”
I find this to be a pretty cucked statement. It is completely possible to condemn both police abuse as well as pointless thievery that has nothing to do with protest.
Yeah, I can understand them vandalizing the police station – and actually expected to see much more damage there. But looting the adjacent businesses is not a good look.
Nothing has changed since 1967 – https://youtu.be/girnJH7tvpM
Their best move would be to close permanently. Of course, then they’d be accused of refusing to open stores in minority-majority areas. They can’t win. This statement was made to placate the mob and at the same time signal to their employees that they care about them.
absolutely
I’ve always loved Dayton Hudson: Target was always the warmest and sanest retailer, an excellent value proposition that struck me so differently from the dime stores of my childhood. I held a block of their stock once upon a time and just sympathized with the firm.
Imagine having one of your stores looted in your corporation’s home town.
I don’t believe the looters represent anything; they don’t stand for MPS or the black community or any community. As I always assert: most people are good, and good people standing on principle are the backbone of civilization. That’s why unprincipled persons should be resisted, cited, and shunned. Those big screens: everybody knows you stole it, but is everybody coming over to watch the game on it with you anyway?
MSP
* adjusts meds, drinks more covfefe *
That’s the burger. I grew up in a town that worked on a seasonal basis. Nobody gave a shit about drawing UI when times got tough. These folk don’t even have the “cream” months. They’ve been sucking at the teat for generations.
but, teats are where cream comes from, your analosimiphor confuses me.
Mornin’ Sloopy.
Good morning to you as well!
Donald Trump expected to issue executive order today that will undermine the First Amendment.
But would it? If they are violating their own tos’s and/or acting as publishers should they not be subject to the same regulation? (this is not to comment on the regulation of publishers, just to say it should be applied equally.)
Agreed. I’m opposed to unique status for these platforms – most (Twitter in-particular) have demonstrated a desire to wade into politics/free discourse.
I am so old school, that I still want statutes amended by …. the Legislature!
how’s that working out for you?
Poorly.
*grabs musket
But it seems that the statute is not being changed, the companies have changed their behavior and therefor their definition under said statute.
And an EO makes that so? Not a judicial determination under the statute, or the statute being amended to define the current conduct as in violation?
If they change their behavior they could by definition fall under the statute and an E.O. could simply acknowledge that change? I’ll have to see the text, assuming he goes through with it.
You just need to “slow-jam” the pen and phone procedure so that it looks cool. Kinda like vaccinating a toddler. “Look! A Birdie!”
This sounds like Citizens United. Corporations can have a public stance on political opinions. I think Twitter’s actions are despicable and anti-liberal (lights winston signal), but I’m not going to say that they should be under the threat of libel cases.
From a quick read, it looks like they’re going after the section 230 protections for the social media sites. There’s an argument to be made that because they’re not applying the rules equally, they’re acting as editors for the content being posted by the users. The real answer is to drop the social media sites, and let them become echo chambers.
Exactly. I use Twatters for my side biz, and i have no issues. I think its an awful platform, but it seems to work for some biz purposes. Other than that this site is the only social media that i like. Everyone who is anyone knows that the social media giants are just Organs of the state, but putting them further under the thumb of the state seems like an awful idea.
This is one of those “It sounded like a good idea When we thought we’d be in charge for forever” things that will bite the Right come 2025. Or 2021.
The best response to this nonsense is for people to STOP USING THE FUCKING PLATFORM. Trump can lead by example and drop out.
Twitter would either become DU’s chat room, or it would be like Reddit r/worldpolitics.
Worldpolitics was getting so heavily censored by left-wing mods that users eventually rebelled and now it’s just a bunch of memes and porn.
Correct. The best defense is a good offense. Stop using Twitter. Switch to Gab or whatever and go to town. It’s no different than Fox vs MSNBC. Just two echo chambers arguing over stupid shit.
Executive orders regarding how the agencies “execute” the laws are legitimate. I have not read the law, so I have no idea what it says, nor have I read any EO, so I don’t know what Trump means to do. Hell, I don’t think Trump knows what he means to do. Given how laws are written and the deference to agencies promulgating regulations, any attempt to straighten this out is useless.
Gab has their own stupid policies. Also, who is to say what would happen if they got as big as Twitter?
Then some freedom loving entrepreneur could start another version. Or just stop paying attention. IDK. The whole argument is rather tedious IMO.
now it’s just a bunch of memes and porn
“Just”?
Social media platforms have been Ministries of Truth for sometime now. They have censored or pigeonholed many conservatives as well as the nutters and radicals. The “but it’s a private company” is a tired excuse for them limiting our right to free speech. If they truly want to be platforms where all people can communicate then they should stop with their agenda driven censorship campaign.
They have censored or pigeonholed many conservatives
Removing someone from your platform/labeling their content isn’t “censoring” in a practical sense. There’s myriad other platforms out there, as well as the ability to create one’s own competing site.
This is a slippery slope.
Trump needs to tell Twitter to fuck off and then delete his account or simply use it to retweet all of the content he posts on a competing site. His ardent followers and haters will move with him and twitter will be left with a smaller audience and a bunch of advertisers who are pissed at the decreased traffic.
I’ve deleted twitter a long time ago. That said, there are no realistic alternatives…Gab has already been labeled as racist(don’t know if true or just to keep them small). I agree it is a slippery slope, sloopy(that should be a band name). I steer towards freedom though. Censorship is bad imo, I want to see all the shitbags for what they really are, I want to know what people really think and not have to rely on the State or a Corporate censor to decide for me whether someone’s communications are a threat to my liberty or well being. We should all be smart enough to figure out who to listen to and not listen to, not let some agenda driven censor decide for us.
Oh weep for Sunday’s Child…
There are two fundamentally conflicting and individually misplaced notions of how the Internet should behave.
1. That there should be freedom of speech everywhere.
2. That everything should be free at the point of use.
The first is off base, as there have been moderators on various forums since the earliest days of the Internet. Originally it was the universities and institutions that were allowed to connect, later it was BBS administrators and ISPs, nowadays it’s website owners and delegated committees (e.g. each subreddit can designate its own moderators, though reddit’s site-wide rules still apply) with the occasional interference from infrastructure providers (e.g., Cloudflare taking Stormfront offline).
The second is also off base, as of course there are paywalls for some sites today (though they also use tricks to still show up in Google searches), ISP services cost money (though ISPs have been reduced to dumb IP pipes of late), and all of the electricity and hardware that makes the Internet work behind the scenes isn’t free either, not to mention people’s time.
Twitter is an implausible combination of these two not-quite-right ideas. There is no cost to you for Tweeting and there is no cost to you for reading Tweets, but Twitter is still a company and still expects to make money. Moreover, the company has positioned itself as an increasingly curated forum for a while now. It isn’t even quite right to call it a private company, as the company is publicly traded. But it is a company and its first job is to make money. It has been focused, from the first day Jack Dorsey decided he was eventually going to go public, not on providing freedom of speech to its users but on making money off its users.
The only extent to which Twitter is liable for some misrepresentation would be the extent to which they lie about or obfuscate their true purposes. However, I don’t think they do that quite as much as people misread what Twitter is really about. Twitter is a platform, it is just not a completely open platform, and there is nothing in the law saying that the “protections” of a platform require it to be open. The problem is that people developed the unrealistic expectation that they could have a free and open platform that is also a publicly traded company run ultimately by a large consortium of pension funds whose only interest is making as much money as possible.
The real question to be asking is not why Twitter censors, but why Twitter’s shareholders want it to censor.
The way I view it is that the TOS is a contract. The gov’t can enforce contracts.
Frankly, it’s about time that TOS’s are used to do something besides ream the user.
Good Luck and Fortune, Sloop! May your endeavors be paramount and most pleasing!
Solly. Pletty lacist…
“Recent” nutcase. LOL
‘”It’s understandable given what’s happening. It would be strange if you didn’t feel anxious and depressed,’ Oquendo said. ‘This virus is not like a hurricane or earthquake or even terrorist attack. It’s not something you can see or touch, and yet the fear of it is everywhere.'”
Golly gee willikers! I wonder if that could have anything at all to do with the 24/7 panic-mongering? Also, y’know it just might be possible, now bear with me, that being locked up at home with no job, no leisure activities and no access to social engagement can make people a little blue. We definitely need more study. I smell an eight figure Federal grant!
In any case, if it saves just one life (read: if it helps defeat BadOrangeMan in November), it all will have been worth it.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he has a message for “our friends” in Congress: “Stop abusing New York. Stop abusing New Jersey. Stop abusing Massachusetts and Illinois and Michigan and Pennsylvania.”
“Stop abusing the states who bore the brunt of the COVID virus, through no fault of their own,” he said.
Oh, fuck off. The response and effects thereof are your fault and your fault only. Stop trying to use other less-bad states as scapegoats and trying to get them to bail you out.
Apparently, only those states have suffered. Keep talking Cuomo – that narrative isn’t going to play well.
“Oh woe is me!” Listen, dick: they’re not abusing you just because they’re not giving you an open checkbook. Your budget was fucked before the Corona hit. Stop trying to use it as an excuse and start cutting your spending. – I don’t get it if democrats say their states pay more how about cut federal taxes and size of federal government and leave more money in the states?
Stop posturing and make this happen dammit!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/05/27/report-pentagon-will-present-timelines-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-to-trump-n433642
The US will send a naval blockade to Hong Kong to secure it from the mainland aggression, just as soon as we can get enough PPE, life preservers, batteries, computer components, and pharmaceutical drugs sourced from the mainland.
I actually think what State did is very interesting – essentially, saying that since the ChiComs have revoked Hong Kong’s special status, then our special exemptions for Hong Kong are being Revoked as well.
I’m hoping this becomes our foreign policy going forward: Just tell oppressed people they’re no longer going to get treated a special way by us…until they’re free again. Maybe it’ll get them off their asses and they’ll stand up to the oppressors.
Hong Kongers (is that the correct term?) seem to be doing so. I just wish our arms manufacturers would start selling to anyone there who wants to order a gun or ten.
Greetings, General Ripper!
who wants to order a gun or ten
1-10 $$$
11-50 $$
50+ $
Thot Thursday serves up some sideways vaginas that would have HM drooling.
http://archive.li/a6y2E
Q I have concluded you lack sympathy. You like these big boobed girls who end up having back problems and the poor thing fall pray to quacks like chiropractors.
Here is an example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyyP2CJIZc4
Also I blame someone here who a while ago, linked some chiropractor for youtube randomly recommending this to me.
Would (the patient not the chiropractor).
I kept waiting for the cloths to come off and the sex to start but this was just a sad 16 minute tease!
Shame on you Pie. No rub & tug!
I’m not into S&M, but I would like #3 to hurt me.
My aesthetic preferences and racial stereotypes simply can’t compute Asian women with huge asses. That said, 31 could expose me to a novel coronavirus, IYKWIM.
Asian women can be BBWs, and thus have ample T&A.
I speak from experience.
Some even come in John sizes…
Day-yam. That whole gallery rocks.
You might want to avoid using the racist “sideways” phrase – might be offputting to newbies to this site.
Ask these guys
Woof, the lone comment
meme shared by leftarded fb friend comparing peaceful armed protests to current rioting
Some of you said the armed protests were a bad look. I thought so too, at first. Couldn’t disagree more now. First, it’s their right. Second, it worked: they were treated relatively deferentially. Third, everyone can see how peaceful they were compared to these rioting idiots. Fourth, and perhaps most important, one cannot let the left dictate the terms of the debate. The only people “offended” by the weapons were the establishment/left, who have been using fake outrage to dominate their opposition for decades, and such complaints can be safely ignored forever.
Yeah, I used to cringe seeing armed protesters not because I oppose that but 1) I always expect the media to portray that as poorly as possible and 2) too often they seem to be more “Mall Ninja” than “dude who’s probably been down range” (for the same optics). But now that it happens more often I’m glad to see it becoming, if not accepted, something close to normal.
Yes, and especially since you know now that if you are protesting a governor and call them a Nazi by painting a swastika on their face, you will be called the Nazi. There is no good faith. Imagine how much the current rioters might get if they had organized an armed protest outside the police station.
always expect the media to portray that as poorly as possible
Remember the AR armed guy that showed up to a protest against Obama that happened to be a nerdy black guy but was shown zoomed in so they could push the “armed, white, racist wannabe lynchers” narrative?
a nerdy black guy
nerdy black = infected by white tricknology
Yakub strikes again…
I still do cringe, and for exactly the same reasons.
But, I do have to admit that the VA Lobby Day rally went off without a hitch, despite the presence of a lot of zero-training cosplayers. I was expecting at least one accidental discharge, probably more like three or four. We ended up with zero.
If you weren’t such a racist honky you’d realize that standing on the steps of a public building with a fully legal gun in your hands is exactly the same thing as destroying pubic and private property and engaging in violence with your fellow protestors and cops.
First, it’s their right.
The guy from “Bearing Arms” acknowledged this while thinking it was a bad tactic. Kinda disappointing. These could be used to re-normalize the sight of firearms in public.
Ehh. I think you’re at best 50/50 on re-normalizing versus scaring people off.
Suzy S. Soccer-Mom already has a negative perception of things like protests and demonstrations. So now you’re mixing up guns with something she already dislikes.
If you want to re-normalize public perception of guns, a better way is probably to get your office mates together and organize an after-work range trip.
I like those odds. And why not do both?
Yeah, I could see my participation would go there. Given my age; obviously retired level (probably wouldn’t GAF about any outcome), physically fit, craggy face, gear is tactical without being tacti-cool – mostly old school… race would matter less than my standard resting-psycho-face.
So… the companion joke to my favorite Cleveland picture has now come to pass.
Cleveland’s Fourth of July fireworks rescheduled for September
Haaaaahahahahahahaha
Even if we assume that the drug dog actually alerted based on its training, this means nothing. “Without some form of an exception for innocent owners, the potential breadth of forfeiture actions for illegal proceeds would be breathtaking indeed. It has been estimated that nearly every United States bill in circulation–some $230 billion worth–carries trace amounts of cocaine” – Bennis v. Michigan, 517 US 1163 (1996) (Stevens, dissenting)
Of course, somehow this allowable under the FYTW clause.
The dog alerts when the handler wants it to alert. It’s that simple.
I really don’t care if the dog validly alerted or not. Even IF the dog alerted there’s something really wrong that the government can steal nearly $140,000 from someone because the cash might have come into contact with drugs once.
Sure. The sad thing is, they will seize the cash regardless of any link to drugs or crime. Just having a lot of cash on hand is enough for them to justify seizing it.
DUNPHYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
It’s straight up legalized highway robbery.
In a just world, those cops would be branded outlaws and people would be free to do to them as they wish.
I, for the record, am completely fine with rioting except for the damage and looting to private stores. It’s the only fucking language the government will understand.
Yeah i’m trying to coherently form an opinion around this. Maybe its that i’m sympathetic in a “Well What do the authorities expect when you keep oppresing people and letting the kings men get away with murder”. Not in a “They Rioters are justified” way, but that in a very real sense, this was going to happen because the government treats the people like cattle to be murdered with impunity. There is no justice in this world, and such a large injustice is bound to beget more injustices in response. That doesn’t mean im not sympathetic to the rioters in some sense.
I think of the fighting in communities between patriots and loyalists during the revolution. There was a lot of immoral, and injustices that happened, and i don’t think they were justified. But i can’t help but be sympathetic to the patriots.
Nothing changes when people are peaceful. We’ve been through this time and time again. If violence is the only language the government will understand… go violence.
Then direct your violence against the enemy and not erstwhile allies.
Trump could take that advice as well.
The problem is with the notion that the rioters form any sort of unity. Riots attract opportunistic looters.
There are many motives in play here; it is a mistake to assume or assert that every rioter came with the intention to loot.
The riots are pretty much inevitable at this point. Riots make looting pretty much inevitable as well. This is one of the dilemmas of the breakdown of civil society — there are many breakdowns, they intersect and interact. The very picture of an uncontrolled and uncontrollable breakdown.
But that’s pretty much the genie in the bottle the dot.gov decided to un-cork. A decidedly ugly outcome for an ugly action. Somebody has to get their house in order and that finger isn’t pointed at the rioters.
IDK. The nonviolent protesters got some movement on the lockdowns. Maybe not as quickly or completely as some of would like, but it was accomplished without injury (personal or economic).
It’s mostly a stupid fucking dog and pony show. The rioters don’t give a fuck about rights any more than the cops do, they just want to fuck some shit up and get their Fuck Whitey boner stroked. If they gave a fuck about the issue of police brutality and violence they’d be out there doing this every time the cops manhandle somebody. Or maybe even when their entire state is put on house arrest at the whim of the governor and mayors with a god complex. As long as it keeps being dealt with as a race issue instead of a systemic problem with police departments in a no-longer-free country behaving like jackboot thugs it’s worthless.
Looters are basically the Free Shit Army – the “base” most of the politicians had been pandering to in order to gain and hold office. You set up shop in FreeShitArmy-stan, looting is a foreseeable consequence.
“except for the damage and looting to private stores”
It’s not just immoral, it’s the worst possible thing any of them could do strategically. It destroys any possible sympathy they’d get from the normies and has the opposite effect of the one desired. The State becomes much more likely to crack down with the support of the masses rather than spurring change toward a less intrusive State.
I believe it’s largely because they’ve been told for decades that they deserve monetary compensation. They shouldn’t have to work for it because they’ve been discriminated against. And it’s the government that’s telling them this. So why would they go after the government that gives them free shit and tells them they deserve more? Go after the evil white/asian business owners that keep them from getting their free shit.
There was a video on twitter of two rednecks with guns standing out in front of a tobacco shop, guarding it from looters. The comments had lots of “Bootlickers guarding the capitalists!!!” type bullshit.
Yeah, the dude who owns a fucking smoke shop is a real KKKKAPTIALIST OPRESSOR
The “fuck capitalists because they are as big a problem as the cops” mindset is alive and well.
https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1265791117959798785?s=21
“So why would they go after the government that gives them free shit”
Especially since government gives them free shit by looting – they just call it “fair share of taxes”.
I, for the record, am completely fine with rioting except for the damage and looting to private stores.
The point is that you can’t ever control where the riot is going to go.
Nor who participates nor what motives are in play.
Whitmer refuses to release nursing home and assisted care Covid data.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/05/27/editorial-michigan-must-release-nursing-home-virus-data/5261264002/
Speaking of places where a few riots are needed.
But on Tuesday, Beshear also laid some blame for the violent imagery on Republican lawmakers in his state, whom he accused of contributing to the increasingly tense atmosphere at anti-lockdown protests.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe the problem is YOU?
the increasingly tense atmosphere at anti-lockdown protests
Entirely predictable. I’m only surprised at the level of restraint on the protestors’ part. I figured they would have become violent by now.
On the Twitter/Trump front, I’m surprised that they are taking this route.
The way to stop this nonsense would be to go after them on campaign contribution violations.
I’m not sure of the particulars, but I’ll bet that if you dug around enough, you’d find that there is coordination with the DNC and campaigns via the “Outside fact checkers” that facebook uses, as well as consulting companies such as “The Groundwork”. The Democrats have had no problem with going after unconventional versions of “campaign contributions”, no reason why the Republican administration shouldn’t do the same.
The value of “nuh-uhn… here’s a democrat counterpoint to what he said” as a political advertisement is really high. Just this one tweet might have been worth millions to the DNC if they were forced to pay for it as promoted content.
The fact that their counterpoint is untrue is really just a side-issue at that point.
If the Glibertarians can’t chip in to put up a billboard supporting SugarFree as the Libertarian presidential candidate, without registering as a PAC and disclosing our finances, I don’t see why Biden’s supporters at Facebook get to offer up tens of millions of dollars in advertising support without reporting it to the FEC and registering as a PAC.
They had literally hundreds of paid employees working full time directly for the Obama campaign on social media issues in 2012. it was an unambiguous in-kind contribution. Not only did nobody give a fuck, Obama was lauded for how hip and cool he was for so adeptly using social media in his campaign.
SLD on campaign finance laws, of course. As ever, it’s the double standard.
Everybody conveniently forgot that Facebook gave the 2012 Obama campaign complete access to their entire database of voters. Then they screamed bloody murder when Cambridge Analytica harvested voter data.
The only thing that Cambridge Analytica did wrong was not pay Facebook for the data, which Facebook would have happily sold to them.
I need to borrow that avatar for a second like a cup of sugar from the neighbor, Pat.
SUGARFREE2024
“It’s Sizzling!”
I’m pretty sure SF is on board with the same “see how quickly they can impeach me” platform as I have been pushing.
We must never take risks. Ever. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/6-most-dangerous-kitchen-tools-212903683.html
I have personally been campaigning to cut down all the trees lest a child may try to climb one and hurt themselves
You’re not the Lorax? You don’t speak for the trees?
They left off one of the most dangerous items. The Microplane grater. I love mine, but they will take parts of your nails/fingers off with no remorse. Mandolines are perfectly safe, if you use the hand guard (stop trying to emulate the chefs on TV who don’t use them).
I use a cut resistant glove. Almost chain mail. That works well.
I’ve got the cut resistant gloves from Microplane as well. They’re good for one mistake.
And honestly, the most dangerous item in most kitchens is dull kitchen knives.
. . . the most dangerous item in most kitchens is dull kitchen knives.
^^THIS. A family member of a friend of mine absolutely refuses to sharpen his kitchen knives because “I’m afraid the kids will cut themselves with them.” Nice guy, but utter moron on this issue.
I am appalled at the number of people who don’t ever sharpen their kitchen knives. And no, the honing rod does not sharpen the knife. It just straightens whatever edge you have on there.
Every few months, Mrs. Dean’s kitchen knives get taken to the garage and sharpened on the belt grinder (18 degree edges). After, I have bald patches on my left arm from making sure they are shaving sharp.
I can’t get the knack of sharpening knives. Never mind the numerous videos, tutorials, infographics, and whetstones (I’m not getting an angle grinder to do it), I still can’t manage to do it. Oh, and forget serrated knives.
The last guy I paid to do it didn’t do a very good job at all.
A belt grinder ruins the temper. Mojeaux your easiest and best bet is a ceramic sharpening rod. Cheap and very effective.
I never could either, using whetstones. I got one of these.
Spendy, but probably as fool-proof as it comes. Will also sharpen scissors, serrated knives, tools, etc.
If you’re grinding so hard that you heat the steel to temper-ruining temps, you’re sharpening wrong.
A belt grinder ruins the temper.
Not the one I got, which is purpose-made for knife sharpening and has adjustable speeds and angles.
Besides, the smiths on FiF all use belt grinders to shape and sharpen their knives, except for the final polish on the edge. I think it depends on the grinder.
Now, angle grinders will ruin any knife. The concave edge they put on is weak, and they will definitely ruin the temper as well if not used very carefully indeed.
Sharpening (really, honing) rods can help a knife lose its edge slower, but they can’t set an angle or really set the edge, as far as I know. They are very useful between actual sharpenings.
A belt grinder made for knives is great but not something a novice can do. I rarely need to re-profile my edge unless I get a huge gouge. Most often what I use is my strop paddle with green then red compound. I like mirror edges. And if you posted a work sharp in the high end knife groups they would tar and feather you. It’s a great way to eat metal, that’s about it.
That just sounds like something more interested in purity tests than the craft.
BTW my Grandpa used a belt grinder on his tools. Most of them are nubs now. Works but imo shortens a knife’s life span.
Libertarians have nothing on purity tests like the high end knife community.
And if you posted a work sharp in the high end knife groups they would tar and feather you.
I’m sure they would.
Knives are tools. I don’t buy hundred dollar knives for daily use. The worksharp belt grinder does an excellent job of putting a really good edge on my knives. After the first session of reprofiling the edges, it takes 3 or 4 passes per side of light grit/pressure to sharpen unless something very unfortunate has happened, and then it takes more of a medium grit to repair the edge. It will take years, and years, before I can imagine needing to replace one because its been ground down.
I’m sure the more manual methods work fine and are better for the knives, but I could never get the handle of them, and I tried several different kinds of tools and guides. It works, and not just on knives, which is nice.
The shadow Uncivilservant casts is long indeed.
How about a bread lame? https://www.amazon.com/Bread-Lame-Scoring-Sourdough-Slasher/dp/B07PRJKG5H/red
I use a Havalon skinning knife. The blade is a replaceable scalpel blade normally used by surgeons
Yeah, it’s sharp.
My problem with the mandolin is washing the thing. Mine has a rotating set of julienne blades of varying widths – so when you are washing it there are razor sharp blades sticking out on both sides of the very awkward apparatus that has a tendency to flop and pivot as you move it around. I have never sliced off a finger making au-gratin potatoes, but I have nicked a finger once or twice when the weight suddenly shifted because it is all hinged together and slippery with soap.
Oh, and as a dad…. yeah, mandolins are scary. My 4th grader has no problem…. but my middle schooler wants to come behind and play with it after we are done with it…. so he’s in there slicing stuff unsupervised…. so a carrot, then maybe an onion…. .then an eraser, a water bottle…. luckily he hasn’t thought to slice up his little sister’s barbies yet…. I’m not sure how we managed to avoid a hospital trip so far. Smart kid… but dang, that middle school judgement….
You can’t buy the middle schooler a set of authentic Ginsu knives? They can cut through a shoe!
OFFS.
With a side of cardboard.
Brings back childhood memories.
If only the pre-grated stuff wasn’t made from the floor sweepings of most large manufacturers of boring cheeses.
“How to stay safe: Stick to recipes that say “oven fried” or “shallow fried” or leave the deep fryer in the box. Check out your air fryer instead.”
Fuck off.
Anarchists are upset anarchy doesn’t work the way they think it should. More at 11.
https://twitter.com/FormidableTrap/status/1265929405051723779
I would qualify this with commie anarchists
“Indigenous Anarchist Federation”
So they’re advocating for a return to the tribal system? As I recall, they would kill each other over minor possessions pretty regularly.
Nonsense. Violence was invented by whites. Whiteness is violence.
This reminds me. Y’all see that “historian” on Twitter the other day that was saying that rape didn’t exist among indigenous tribes before the white man came along?
The myth of the noble savage (which is what the “violence was invented by whites” thing is) is so incredibly racist.
Racist and a massive lie.
Of course it’s a massive lie (which is why I referred to it as a myth).
I got my BA in history 20 years ago. I fear studying for the same degree today would look very different.
I think the curriculum says “The west is evil and everything bad is the fault of white males.” Saved you another $250,000
Ask the Pawnee about the Cherokee. Or any other tribe about another. Hell let’s go back to the Stone Age and witness the first rock upside the head because TokTok took too much of the Mastodon rib for his share. Humanity has been violent for a looooonnng time, it is the reason we rule the world. It is also something I hope we can grow out of but who knows…maybe we will need it in space too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9V0bOB8sXQ
I’m still annoyed that they changed the tag line.
The term “grimdark” came from the old tag line.
You and me both. Also, I hate the Necrons (skeletons in SPACE!) more than I hate the Tau (Japanime in SPACE!), but it’s nice to see the Sisters get a little action.
After reading a number of books about different North American indigenous tribes and their practices (other than the large settled cultures like those of Mezoamerica) I came to understand that the casual violence they visited on any outsider who crossed their path – 1) mutilate/torture/kill all adult males, 2) gang rape then enslave any adult females who survived the interview process, 3) adopt and raise any prepubescent children as your own – as a method to ensure that nobody would be found on your claimed territory unless they had good reason to know they could defeat you in battle. The harsher your actions, the less often you would have to defend your territory.
In junior high art class when we were doing a unit on African art, the teacher said one day, “And in the old days in Africa, you could travel anywhere and even if you didn’t speak the language or belong to the tribe, they would welcome you into the village and give you food and a place to stay if you needed it.”
Interesting characterization…
“The president has gone on this jihad against mail-in voting that is, to me, bizarre, but also dangerous and irresponsible and really quite insidious,” Hayes said on his primetime show. “Now, traditionally, vote-by-mail has not been a particularly divisive or partisan issue. Utah uses it. Oregon uses it. The president of the United States used it. Republican campaigns tend to encourage it among people.”
There is a difference between absentee voting and what Dems are pushing, you cunte.
I wonder why nobody is asking “why are the democrats pushing this so hard?” It seems to be a logical question, moreso than the response of the republicans.
They are looking to distribute ballots for the general election broadly to all voters months in advance. And that doesn’t raise any red flags for anyone?
They are passionate about doing so as well. A major change to how an election is going to work, without any discussion, no input from the legislature… just a governor’s say-so? None of that raises any concerns? No? We aren’t even going to debate it? Just do it your way, no discussion?
“why are the democrats pushing this so hard?”
Goodness of their hearts?
“But, this is now a health issue. We talk about saving lives, testing; the livelihood, the economy; and the life of our democracy, vote-by-mail,” Pelosi said. “Now, people have to choose between their health and their vote. That shouldn’t be the case. We should always be removing obstacles of participation to the vote.”
People died so we could vote in a representative government but you can’t risk a cold/flu to cast a ballot? Send absentee ballots to the same people who already get them and anyone who is at greater risk to the virus (implementing stringent tracking and custody documentation of said ballots). Everyone else needs to get their asses to the damned polls.
My biggest problem is that this change is too late in the game. There are 5 months left until the election. Most of the 50 states are not set up to handle all-mail voting. Nothing and no one in U.S. federal or state governments is capable of effectively negotiating such a rapid change in process. Besides the couple of states that do all-mail voting normally, we’re looking at a giant clusterfuck. This is not just a question of fraud but also of competence and scale. If a state gets overwhelmed, then what?
Not to mention we just had a giant three-and-a-half-year-long drumbeat of “OMG our democracy is under attack” so now we’re just going to lie on our belly and open ourselves up to all sorts of potential attacks by upending everything at the last minute?
Disruption is a win for the Dems. If its’ a shitshow, its because Trump didn’t organize the election correctly (even though he doesn’t do that) and he did that because he doesn’t want a fair election! This is why not only does he need to be removed from office, but he needs to be prosecuted.
On that note, i think it is interesting that Biden has already threatened to prosecute people in the Trump Admin if he wins, but we can’t get a prosecution of any FBI agents for the coup.
Biden has already threatened to prosecute people in the Trump Admin if he wins
I find this believable because Dems are absolutely shameless in their quest for power right now, but do you have a link?
Not a promise to prosecute, but a promise to not Pardon Trump of any potential cirmes… which means he’s ok with prosecuting Trump. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/joe-biden-pledges-not-to-pardon-trump-260147
Mind you i think Trump should be Prosecuted. But i think Obama, Biden, HRC, Bush…
Most of the 50 states are not set up to handle all-mail voting.
Nonsense. Almost everyone has a car, and almost every car has a trunk. There’s plenty of infrastructure already in place to store those suddenly discoverable ballots.
Storing ballots in the trunk of your car is a privilege, not a right.
Look. The right to vote is the most sacred right that we have. No one should be deprived of it.
Oregon has fraud by mail. Funny how ballots show up at the last minute to reverse an election, which just happened in the recent primary. Mainstream leftist state senator that looks like an alien from They Live was beaten by union supported 38 year old state senator who promised not to do those meany audits that are part of the Secretary of State’s job.
I’m just surprised Zuckerturd didn’t burst into flames with his hypocritical but accurate take on it. The Facebook Arbiters of Truth have been working over time for a while now.
Zuck is basically betting that the twatter morons went too far, and he is making sure he is on the right side of this fight – at least officially through this announcement -so his money making scheme is not subjected to the same treatment. There are a lot more people ready to sue the gang of that pile of money. And lawyers have no problem making a case when it results in big payouts.
thicc?
https://twitter.com/PhDPhotographer/status/1265962181646049280
John asked me to post this link here for him.
WARNING: I didn’t follow the link myself and it COULD be traumatic….
Good morning, Sloopy!
The motherfuckers here lost me at property damage. The cops are shit, the ‘leadership’ is shit and the free-shit brigade is shit.
They fucking wrecked a perfectly good city. Fuckers.
*shakes it off*
Great song choice this morning. Mick jones said that was his favorite. Good enough for Mick, good enough for me.
Best of luck with the auction. I hope you knock it out of the park.
Years of being fed “White supremacy!” and what did we think would happen when given the opportunity? It’s not theft of private property if the white man stole it from you.
This
The government brainwashed them into believing it isn’t the government that’s killing them, it’s that evil business owner down the street.
Just noticed you basically said the same thing upthread. You let shit like that fester for years and this is what you get.
No clue as to what the Los Angeles connection is.
It seems that maybe the race-baiters are out in force, looking to push an advantage.
The political strategists at the DNC and the NYT decided that their pivot after impeachment failed was going to be toward race. The NYT did their part with the 1619 project.
Now, helpful idiots in Ga have stoked the fire. CNN has my wife convinced that the Ga dudes are Klansmen. Now this Minnesota thing happens…. And the narrative is that police are murdering black people. I heard that over and over last night…. did they miss the fact that the Ga guys were not police?
Anyway, for me the outrage in both cases is the system that protects “theirs”, more than the fact that you have an idiot or two (Ga) or a sociopath (MN) that end up killing someone. That, I can file under the heading of “one crazy dude doing crazy dude stuff” or “one evil asshole”.
But when the DA’s office declines to prosecute, or when the boss comes out and says “they were affecting an arrest when they noticed he was having a medical issue”, that’s a much bigger problem than “one crazy dude”.
But if you pull out the “racist” card, then the chance to fix any of this is gone. Because if you think “racist cop” is the reason, what’s the fix? Anti-racism training? Hire only minorities? Really – if “racism” is the problem, then there is no fix. We just have an issue to complain about and campaign against.
The issues about excessive immunity, prosecutors never holding police accountable, other officers covering for the bad acts of their peers, the war on drugs putting police in conflict with our basic rights, militarization of the police, no-knock warrants, knock-and-announce warrants that are “announce” in name only….. none of that gets addressed.
Everything gets shoved back into the “cops are racist” bucket. Now white guy getting shot by crazy cop doesn’t count, black cop killing someone’s dog doesn’t count, prosecuting a homeless guy for “resisting arrest” when the cop had no reason to affect an arrest in the first place doesn’t count….. Only black people who get hurt count. And even if they were the ones instigating violence, it was racist anyway…. And then you’ve lost everyone except the race-baiting crowd.
There’s no accountability. Until there’s accountability, nothing will change.
In other words, nothing is going to change because the lack of accountability goes all the way up the chain and is firmly embedded in the law.
Sounds like a great issue for LP Jo Jorgensen to run on. Not that only a few will actually then vote Libertarian, but the LP’s future, if any, depends on being firmly and visibly on the side of justice.
The LA one is opportunity…most of the video is all white college kids it looks like.
The “racist cops” narrative is also stupid because in a vast majority of police shootings, the person is being shot by an officer of the same race.
One of the Altar Boys had a bunch of his buddies over last night for a bon fire and some smart talking. The Floyd thing came up for about 15 minutes. Half of them hadn’t even heard of it and the rest all said that it was fucked up.
But 15 miles away, there wasn’t a peep of protest out here in our shitlord suburbs. I didn’t even realize the bastards were looting.
Nice. Way to kill your support out in the suburbs. Of course, I think that is almost exactly what the “leadership” wants. The last thing they want is for everyone to agree and implement meaningful reforms. Where is the money in that?
Yeah, I wasn’t aware until a buddy texted me.
From Oregon.
Why is anyone surprised at the riots and looting? It’s happened plenty of times before in numerous places. Remember the Summer of 1967,Minneapolis included? Rodney King? Freddie Gray?
It’s customary now.
Texas bar owner bans customers with masks
The owner of an Elgin, Texas, bar has posted a notice barring any customers wearing masks.
“Due to our concern for our citizens, if they feel the need to wear a mask, then they should probably stay home until it’s safe,” the notice outside the Liberty Tree Tavern reads, according to a local NBC affiliate.
The city, which had just more than 10,000 residents in 2018, has recorded 52 cases of the coronavirus during the pandemic.
Cheapskate did not want to buy straws
Drinking a beer thru a straww?
I think you’d get your ass kicked for doing that, man.
*tunes to channel 9*
+2 chicks a the same time
Smith told the outlet he was continuing to abide by social distancing guidelines. The notice disallowing masks says the bar will be at 25 percent occupancy and asks parties to keep six feet apart.
“I think that’s a risk. I think that’s foolish,” Ross Owens, a resident of Elgin, told the outlet. “They’re taking chances they don’t need to take, especially if they’re in public service.”
Ok, Karen. And it ain’t a “public service”. It is a private service.
“I think….”
Yeah. Nobody gives a shit what you think.
Well, Ross, you can easily deal with this by not patronizing his bar. Problem solved.
Good.
The notice disallowing masks says the bar will be at 25 percent occupancy and asks parties to keep six feet apart.
Making roofies a three point shot.
This is funny.
I’m sure this is an opinion that fell out of my ass with some drugs, but….
Has anyone tried pointing out to the usual suspects, that allowing businesses to refuse service to unmasked people is problematic according to their rules?
Should a company be forced to seat a black customer who wasn’t wearing a mask at the lunch counter? Or bake a cake for an unmasked gay couple?
Their rules are whatever they say they are at the time.
In some states, its still illegal to go about in public wearing a mask. Old anti-Klan laws…
I’m still wondering how restaurants in Mpls will handle the requirement that people need to wear masks at all times with the act of eating.
Exactly. Stay home.
These people then go out and yell at people for not wearing a mask.
Gah! I was stuck in a room last night with 15 true believers for two hours because of a toxic scare. I’m surprised that I still have functioning lips! You guy’s are Pikers! Postal workers are as Bernie as you can get.
Donald Trump expected to issue executive order today that will undermine the First Amendment. Way to go, you stupid asshole. You are in a perfect position to gut FISA, and you’re focusing on your spat with Twitter rather than just leaving the platform and watching their traffic fall.
I thought Trump said he would veto the bill to reauthorize FISA? And it was withdrawn from the House, as yet unpassed? A lot of his supporters are law and order types who may not like a full-frontal assault against FISA. We could be watching the standard old laser pointer where he directs everyone over here to Twitter, an easy target, while killing FISA in the background. I imagine that going waging all out war against FISA would unite the entire political class, military complex, Deep State, etc against him even more.
Not to say Trump is following Sun Tzu’s stratagems, but I would be quietly dismantling the Deep State unless I was sure my administration could withstand all-out war in a direct approach.
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Sure, I’m pretty good at handling a whip. I’m assuming that they are looking for authentic representations of the Black Experience?
Have some 17 year old girl shredding Beethoven.
If you didn’t feel like a total failure before you watched this, you will afterwards.
Someone’s been putting all that lockdown time to good use.
Check the upload date. 2016.
They’ve been so productive during the lockdown that they invented a time machine.
Personally, I think she made a deal with the Devil at the Crossroads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tXuYLc6rIg
I was born at the crossroads, but all I got was a fine and had to pick up all the garbage
Yesterday, I picked up a hog from a farmer/retired butcher combo in Minnesoda. I paid $110/half that had been slaughtered, gutted, skinned and chilled. He was also nice enough to chop the side into the three main sections so if fit nicely into my cooler.
The family and I took about 2 hours to process it into about 85lb of various chops/roasts/etc. The only point of acrimony came when the vacuum packer died about 2/3 of the way through. My wife was unwilling to admit defeat and go get a new one. I finally told her that if she didn’t go, I’d go buy one without a mask on.
We actually had a pretty good time doing it. We followed along with this video. The two Altar Boys thought it was super funny to continually slap the rump like the guy in the video. It probably helps that we have butchered a lot of deer in the past, so we sort of knew what we were doing. The nice thing was that with pork, you don’t have to worry about cutting all the fat off like you do with venison.
worry
deer and their glands
Anyone who tells me that they’ve tried venison and didn’t like it, I suspect that they were given venison that had the fat left on. Deer fat is tallowy(?) and tastes horrible. It isn’t like beef or pork fat that is nice and tasty.
So when we process our deer we spend gobs of time cutting all the fat off the deer as we debone the meat. Time consuming, but then the meat tastes great.
“Anyone who tells me that they’ve tried venison and didn’t like it, I suspect that they were given venison that had the fat left on. Deer fat is tallowy(?) and tastes horrible. It isn’t like beef or pork fat that is nice and tasty.”
^^^THIS^^^
We used to make sausage of the less desirable deer meet choices, and the trick to make it tasty was to not only make sure there was zero fat from the deer in it, but to add some pork or beef fat, along with some spices, to make the thing taste less gamy.
Deer has a coppery gamey taste to me. I like it in chili, sausages, and other masking recipes or just the tenderloin steaks and jerky. Now elk is freakin’ delicious…wish we had them in Illinois.
Good for you. Despite all the talk of meat shortages, the local farmers here are selling a lot of meat, but the problem is the local butchers can’t keep up with demand so there is a one or two month delay in getting it processed.
TOK . . .do you shop at Beef Mart?
Not usually. We pick up meat when it’s on sale at any of the local chain stores, but when we do major meat shopping we go to Lowery’s in Michigan.
I have a soft spot for beef mart. They would give us the chicken skins for free in college. We’d take them home and deep fry. Mmmm . . .such a healthy diet we had back then.
Good work, Holiness!
I finally told her that if she didn’t go, I’d go buy one without a mask on.
Perfect.
Nice, we have a bull that will be ready for either the freezer or to stud at the end of this summer. We’ll outsource the work though to slaughterhouse down the road for 50 cents/lb.
The roommate of my oldest Altar Boy comes from a real deal ranch in NoDak (near MikeS I think) and if I want beef, I think I can lean on him.
This pig thing grew from one of my buddies talking about it during a pontifidrinking session. Turned out that the farmer he was talking about had already sold all his pigs, so I thought that was the end of the dream. My wife liked the idea though, so I hit up CL and found a lot of farmers selling pigs. The guy I chose was a bit more expensive, but he was doing extra stuff like gutting/skinning and cooling the pig out. So it was worth it. We figured we were around $1.25/lb all finished.
I could be talked into doing it again. The next time would go faster by quite a bit because now that we know what we are doing (sort of) we could work in parallel. Yesterday we’d watch the video and then argue about how to do it to our pig.
Used to do this (get half a pig and half a cow twice a year) back in the day when I had more mouths to feed. These days I would need a year or more to just consume 1/2 of either of these tasty animals since it is mostly myself and my kid (and he would be doing the heavy lifting). I however consider this to be a good way to get more bang for your buck if you have lots of mouths to feed. Not to mention that you will have a lot more say into what happens to what you end up eating because of the shorter chain of custody.
Nice video, even if what he did to the belly is criminal. All that beautiful potential bacon or a slab of pork belly roasted up. Mmmm…. love his setup. I wish I had that much room with a nice table like that.
I bought a half hog one time but all the meat was too porky/gamey. (Yes I realize that it’s ironic that I’m stating this)
Any thoughts on the reason? Not cured long enough? Old pig?
Maybe you shouldn’t have played Deliverance with the pig first?
I didn’t play. *picks up banjo
WEEEEEH!
I will note a distinct difference in the coverage of a group of people who violently attacked an occupied police vehicle (protesters for justice) and the people who attended rallies for ending the covid lockdown (armed protesters, nazi propaganda, etc.)
That puts you solidly on the side of the cops. Ridiculous, but those are the rules.
Meanwhile, in Chicago…
Ten people were killed and at least 39 people wounded in shootings over the three-day weekend, according to police.
Brown called the violence “alarming, and “unacceptable” and lamented that the statewide stay-at-home order, in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, did not seem to impact the gunshots that echoed in historically high-crime neighborhoods.
“The stay-at-home order did little to prevent violence, particularly in the parts of the West and South side[s],” Brown said. “These incidents primarily involved disputes between rival gang factions, as well as clashes involving the sale of illegal drugs.”
Any protest that blares “God Bless the U.S.A” has decided to they are not to be taken seriously.
A favor: looking for a good, privacy first email service. Need not be free.
Recommendations?
Probably protonmail
Hushmail has kind of a dated interface.
I use protonmail and like it.
Same. Simple and protected as much as possible.
+1
Same here.
“Privacy first” with email is more or less meaningless. About 2% of people who use email have encryption on their end, and if you want to exchange emails with them they go in the clear. Protonmail leaks data (even with mail between encrypted clients subject lines and header data go in the clear), and complies with all relevant court orders (including secret ones), and that’s about the most privacy-centric commercial service available.
I’ve been using Runbox for over 15 years. Based in the Netherlands, IIRC. Good, reliable, cheap.
I use tutamail. Seems fine.
Bottom line ‘Anjoo’ is you fucked up. So now he’s just trying to save his ass.
Text from my wife, who works as a receptionist at a yacht staffing/chartering agency:
“I have just encountered someone whose real legal name is Desire Penis. I’m done.”
And the irony is that she’s a lesbian….
Can I ask where the agency is?
Wrap it up people, this planet is done.
My name is Richard Hurtz…
My friends call me “Big Dick”…
Big Dick Hurtz….
Future Lower Boner Problems
In the Marines, almost everyone knows everyone else by last names only. Generally only guys who are good friends go by first names. So there was a guy in our detachment in Yuma whose last name was Larger. Everyone called him “Dick B”. I thought it was just a joke – Dick B Larger, ha ha. Come to find out this guy’s parents actually named him Richard B. Larger.
Dad must have got one past mom, there.
I went to high school with a Richard Holder. All you can do is laugh and own it I guess.
There was a pianist on the local classical station named Dick Hertin. I have no fucking idea how the host could say that name with a straight
facevoice.Well now we know how she got her job.
When I was in high school my dad, his buddy and I were hunting in eastern MT for mulies. We stopped at a ranch to ask permission to hunt. The name on the mailbox was “Kuntz”. When we got to the ranchhouse, the husband, wife and a daughter were standing just outside. The wife and daughter were total smoke shows. The rancher made the Marlboro Man look like a NYC sissy boy. Big guy with that rangy look that you knew would be trouble if you ever tangled with him.
It was my dad’s turn to ask for permission, but I wanted a closer look at the daughter so I got out too. My dad said “Hello Mr Kooons” and the cowboy said “It is Cuntz”. He did add a ‘z’ at the end, but it was pretty much cunts. My dad didn’t crack a smile or giggle or anything. Just went on asking for permission. The guy told us we were fine to hunt and away we went.
About the time we hit the end of the driveway (which was at least 1/4 mile away from the ranch house, my dad’s buddy (who had heard all of this) looked over and deadpanned: “Those were sure some nice looking Kuntz” (with proper pronunciation) and I thought we were going to crash the car we were laughing so hard.
You could tell the rancher definitely had one of those “Boy Named Sue” upbringings.
There were a passel of Kochs where I grew up.
Pronounced “Cook”.
Looks like the Kuntz daughter did not marry wisely.
I think it is totally a wise connection, that is, unless she was a lesbian or he gay…
A kid in my high school had that last name. First name of Michael… he went by Mike.
Not even a joke. Just some cruel parents.
The owner/manager of an apartment complex I used to live in is named Mike Hawk.
I met a spritely little old Englishman one day whose last name was Bullcock.
My dad told a story about a dude who was mad at his wife when their daughter was born so he got to the birth certificate first and named her Felicia Anne Rachel Tatum.
Her initials were FART.
OK, since we are all asking others to enact labor for them, any good recommendations on vacuum packers? Our last one died yesterday and the replacement was an emergency purchase and I already don’t like it.
So any of you have any particular ones you like?
I have this one.
Good price, works well. May not be heavy duty enough.
I’ve got a basic FoodSaver, which works for me. I still haven’t used any of the attachments for it, just using it for sealing bags.
Added to cart.
Do i look like a Door to Door Vacuum Salesman?!?
Hahah. Remember those guys.
oh man……I was a door to door Kirby salesman for about 3 days one summer in college. Horrible, horrible experience.
What year?
would have been 1997 or 1998, I think.
You should have tried being the pizza delivery dude that had to make the line “I like to watch” work….
If you got the cash, a restaurant-targeted chamber model is a million times better than any consumer external sealers. That said, I have a consumer external sealer.
a vacuum chamber with a heatsealer strip inside seems like a DIY project one of y’all should have done already.
I’m tapping out. Fair shores and welcoming thighs to all of you misfit toys. You guys mean a lot to this old Canadian weirdo.
Me too, my homey from a different zoney.
Good night and don’t let the mooseknuckles bite.
Kylie’s birthday and no video? For shame.
https://youtu.be/5cYQfqwjMVY
Forget those guys, it’s the birthday of everyone’s favorite Glib
No, I think that would have been mentioned.
It isn’t my b-day!
Well it’s my mother’s birthday. And while she’s not a Glib, she very dry and cynical, so I’ll allow it.
It’s Winston’s mom’s birthday?
Happy birthday to this fictitious Glib…
while () {
print(“Happy B-day Tulpa!”);
sleep(86400);
}
Alright, started using the rest of my credits at the spin studio I was going to this winter. Let’s see how it works with the social distancing rules. I was going to suspend the subscription over the summer, but I’d like to see them stay open and survive. So here’s hoping weather predictions stay accurate, as I’ll schedule for the days when it’s supposed to storm.
Mrs. Dean’s gym recently reopened. They had around half of their members keep up their dues, and about half drop them.
They have a reopening deal going – a discount for new members. Its not available to people who dropped their membership and want to re-up. I liked it.
I got an email last week from my gym asking for feedback on how I feel about reopening. I wrote back and said open up. I’ll be first in line.
Yesterday they sent out an email saying that more than 80% of members responded that they are ready to return. They included a petition that I see is now up to nearly 22K.
I can’t hardly wait.
The one I went to automatically suspended all payments, and offered to allow people to keep paying them for additional rides (and guest passes) for when they opened back up. I was impressed that they also had a link included in the re-opening e-mail that allowed people to request to continue the suspension if they wanted.
I went to Orange Theory twice this week.
Not a single person wore a mask or gloves and I was pleased as this meant I didn’t have to.
Auction day today, friends. Wish me luck.
Good luck!
Holy fuck its raining. Havens seen one of these in 3 years. Also I have a small leak in the new roof over my balcony, but very small and its one helluva rain so overall okay.
Leak on the new roof? I’d be pretty pissed were that me.
yes I saw a few drops of water. What can ya do?
I guess the concept of a warrantee on the work is lacking?
you get a warranty when you get an invoice and paperwork.
Undead-Mexican labor, you get what you pay for.
Patch it. Leaks never get smaller by themselves.
I assume some silicone would do the trick but I am unsure of my ability to get on the roof.
lookit Mr. Entropy Only Goes One Direction over here.
maybe the leak has a lot of dissolved solids, and eventually builds a stalagmite tall enough to plug the leak, huh, what then Smart Guy?
Happy Birthday John Fogerty. Here’s the best song he ever wrote/recorded. https://youtu.be/VTjMIEPrFmw
Hey! That song also appears on my epic Spotify playlist Jangle Noise https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20QahoaMym4xptW1UNzNpk?si=1GTo6VQiQ6aBRLvdbWmb_g
12 hours and 48 minutes of jangly, noisy guitar from the 50’s to today. Rock n roll, psych, surf, punk, power pop, lo-fi, no-fi. Songs about girls, drugs, and just fucking off in general. Give it a listen and follow if you can dig it, baby.
I think that what the author of this prescient piece misses, is that this is all by design. The credentialed expert governing class truly believes the rules are for the peasants and not for them. After all, they are the important ones, and the others are basically deplorables.
Yeah, quelle surprise. Politicians are narcissistic and entitled? Knock me over with a feather.
I don’t think these governors said “Let’s implement draconian rules which we will then violate just to show who is really the boss”. I don’t think its conscious with them. Its just who they are.
And it’s working about as well as a planned economy.
I share Mr. Dean’s take on this.
Lead by example and noblesse oblige are dead concepts in the political world.
How did Robert McNamee become a leading tech “expert” commentator? He was just on Squawk Alley admonishing Facebook b/c they amplified hydroxychloroquine and “protestors storming state capitols”; he is concerned that all this misinformation will make it impossible for the populace to understand how to elect the right people.
Not sure if this has been linked here yet, or not. Not much posting time as of late…
THE VIRUS IS RACIST, CUZ WE SAID SO!
Looks like the vaunted CDC, you know, SCIENCE and all that, have failed to uphold the
sciencenarrative.“This level of callous indifference towards human life, particularly black, Asian, Latino and Native American lives is typical, unfortunately, for the Trump administration, but nevertheless unacceptable,” said Castro.
I am so tired of this “Trump hates non-Caucasians” narrative.
Maybe someone should ask the ChiComms why a virus that escaped their lab is so much more virulent and deadly for minorities, but blaming orange man is simpler for the group that already sold their soul to the CCP.
I thought looting pawn shops was currently more deadly for minorities?
See my comment below on the Twitter post on how to solve these problems we should be allowing people to just loot any local Targets as soon as they get angry at someone for some reason…
Free Shit Brigade
Sweet link, no time to read it but I’d just like to say that I love the first Star Trek movie. are they remaking it or something?
Wait, is that Trump’s CDC the same CDC that Trump has been ignoring the expertise of in the previous narrative?
Can we agree this is an astute observation?
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I haven’t shopped at Target in years. If they refuse to reopen that store, I will resume shopping at Target…
One of the Royals’ coaches (I think first base?) has the name Rusty Kuntz.
My people on my mom’s side, their last name was Dick (my great grandmother’s maiden name).
If my last name were Kuntz or Dick, I’d change it.
To Cunte or Cod?
/smile
I larfed.
There used to be a pitching coach named Dick Pole. My wife has an uncle named Dick Braine.
I remember there was a kid on my swim team whose last name was Cocke. Poor guy. His parents insisted it was pronounced “Cook”, the “Dr. Fronkenschteen” approach, and eventually they just changed the spelling to Cooke.
Remember the car racer Dick Trickle?
Yup
I remember him light a cigarette during a caution flag, in car camera, ESPN
He used a dash board cig lighter
When talking about funny baseball names Johnny Dickshot is the leader in the clubhouse but never seems to be that well known
And the Dow continues to rise today because everything is looking so rosy on the economic forefront….
The Dow has been gripped by insanity and is making no sense.
It is irrationally exuberant.
The markets have figured out that the virus presents infinitesimal danger to the labor force. Reopening is slow because politicians and panicked public want to save face for their insane overreaction. But the markets don’t care about irrational feelings. The Fed is back to QE 4evah. What’s not to like?
That’s not the problem.
25% failure rate on restaurants. Work from home becoming a new norm. The travel business is devastated from head to toe. Commercial real estate is getting nuked from orbit.
We haven’t yet come to grips with the reality of what the government did.
A bearish forecast can often look very reasonable and grounded in facts. Bullish forecasts, on the other hand, frequently appear based on wishful thinking. And yet they have been more right than wrong in the last 12 years. I have plenty of personal investment/speculation experience to say that. I agree with you about all the real economic damage. But I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if the post hoc rationalization will ignore the bad and focus exclusively on the good. It won’t be the first time.
And we’ve got a not insignificant portion of the public who are lockdown dead-enders and Coronavirus doomsday cultists.
If the coming financial calamity finally kills off the political/bureaucratic/academic parasite class it will be, well, not worth it, but a damn fine thing.
I’m guessing that there’s an assumption that there’s nowhere else to run. Any and all funny money better damned well be spent on something as holding onto it would be lunacy.
Yesterday I posted about the Clown Prince not wanting snitches. Some folks thought, “Well, that just means he already has snitches.” Yep
Did you catch that? “We usually hear about it one way or the other, I’ll say that.” Really? That’s not spooky or creepy or Orwellian sounding. But it got me thinking. The NH AG’s office has issued sealed secret online search warrants and hid them in thousands of pages of discovery.
NH closes flex medical sites set up for Lil Rona surge. There were never used.
All but four of the flex medical sites that were set up in New Hampshire to handle a potential surge in COVID-19 cases are being closed.
Gov. Chris Sununu said the need for the sites hasn’t materialized.
The state was bracing for a major impact from the coronavirus in March and the potential that hospitals could be overwhelmed. The flex sites were set up to provide a place where patients convalescing from coronavirus infections could be safely treated.
Now that the beds have gone unused and the front lines of the pandemic fight have shifted to long-term care facilities, the state is closing 10 of the 14 flex sites.
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2020/05/donald-trump-continues-to-claim-broad-presidential-powers-he-doesnt-have.html
AP story full of misstatements and outright lies.
He certainly has the power to force state governments to quit denying constitutional rights of their citizens. Ask Gov Wallace about that. Or Eisenhower that used active duty military to enforce Brown. Dallek is a mendacious piece of shit.
This story seems to be dishonestly framed to me. As far as I’m aware, Trump isn’t ordering anything to be opened. He’s saying that they can open if they wish to, that the states cannot forbid them from opening. Every story I’ve seen reads as if Trump is talking about sending cops out to force pastors to open their doors at gunpoint.
It’s the what’s not prohibited, is mandatory camp.
The slave and the slavemaster cannot understand the mind of a free man. It confuses and frightens them.
I think the slavemaster does, being a free man himself.
For the slave, though, prohibited/mandatory pretty much is their world. Sad to see so many with the mindset of slaves.
“I think the slavemaster does, being a free man himself.”
Yes, but he doesn’t think of deplorables as free men, but as slaves. He thinks of those pastors as slaves to be ordered closed by Benevolent Science Using Experts or ordered opened by Vicious Death Cult OrangeManBad.
It’s beyond his comprehension that someone can be free to open or close as they see fit.
Federalism matters when it allows the state governments to behave tyrannically.
I know this a dead thread, but no, the president does not have those powers. He has the power to run the government, not force states or individuals to do anything, period.