Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a beautiful morning it is except for those of you in LA County. Why do ya’ll put up with that place?
Republicans win in a special election in WI, and most likely in CA. CA democrats currently busy counting how many ballots they need to find, accidentally hidden somewhere.
Judge in Flynn’s case allows group of former Watergate special prosecutors to submit an amicus brief.
Rand Paul having it out with Fauci.
At this point, you just have to laugh. Mainstream corporate journalism is long dead.
This old lady is pissed off, but she has some lovely hair.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Good Morning, Banjos.
I am so tired of this shit.
Mornin’
How sad is it that I’m happy about a local paper doing an article listing establishments that are planning on opening their patios on Friday.
#metoo
Rand Paul having it out with Fauci. – peas shooters at twenty paces?
Scalpels, with their hands tied together.
Saw a tweet by some libtard the other day saying Paul should defer to Fauci because Fauci was a doctor… The brutal reply telling the moron that Paul was a doctor too was well deserved, but wouldn’t make a difference with people that think socialism is the answer to the universe not caring about the the shit the left’s cult does.
is an eye doctor a real doctor though? Next you’ll tell me a dentist or a dermatologist is a doctor
He graduated from Med school, so yes. He is a real doctor who specializes in the eye. He is an ophthalmologist (MD) not an optometrist.
Although both are too hard to spell.
Yes, they do surgery and everything. Actually a really tough specialty to get in too.
Hope you aint telling me urologists are doctors… bunch of hacks.
Dominatrices are doctors too.. Harsh love doctors…
I would hope that your urologist isn’t doing any hacking…
Do you have doctors in Transylvania or did the locals burn them out of their castle laboratories?
What was the most amazing and depressing to me was watching the follow up twitter threads after that. Liberals had every reason under the sun why Paul is not a REAL doctor. He isn’t board certified, you see. Well, he is certified by a board that he made. And he never got his bachelors degree, so kind of a fake lawyer, right? Obviously, dad bought him into med school, right?
Nothing gets discussed on twitter. It is just a bunch of monkeys throwing poo at the reader.
Either way, don’t med students take more general courses like every other discipline does? Despite his specialty I am sure he has a better than average understanding of infectious disease.
Huh…can you point those liberals to Nevada so they can push out our Chief Medical Officer who…wait for it…isn’t board certified or even licensed to practice in the United State, let alone the State.
Mornin’ Banjos
Mornin’
“except for those of you in LA County”
This is getting so insane, I almost feel bad for the people in Hollywood.
Well, not this asshole:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8313823/Hollywood-star-Robert-Niro-reignites-feud-Donald-Trump.html
Is it really a feud? Did Donald ever say anything?
Donald is known for his restrain and avoiding shit flingi
I also seem to recall what has infuriated a lot of the hollywood types was that he was ignoring them and engaging with the propagandists instead.
What if you just go for a weekend?
Although she is just adorable
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8314715/Emma-Roberts-wears-face-mask-steps-Snoopy-T-shirt.html
that’s not Snoopy.
Yeah, it’s not really yellow either. Although I suppose if you are restricted to primaries yellow is close enough.
She has her Auntie’s legs.
Snoopy is the patriarchy.
Reporting nowadays reminds me of getting yelled at in basic training – “If you can’t do the small things right, like make a bed or fold a t-shirt, what makes you think we can trust you with a rifle?”
Only 3 more months until they can go outside. I mean until ‘Oh noes, 2nd wave coming, needz moar lock down!’.
This old lady is pissed off, but she has some lovely hair.
“The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most,” the shock jock continued. “The people who are voting for Trump for the most part … he wouldn’t even let them in a fucking hotel. He’d be disgusted by them. Go to Mar-a-Lago, see if there are any people who look like you. I’m talking to you in the audience.”
I don’t think shock jock applies for some time now.
The Trump era is such a bizarre time. Leftists are boring and lame, conservatives are edgy shitlords. I’d have laughed in your face if you had told me this was going to happen 5 years ago.
I think it’s just the pendulum swinging back. It’s a symptom of the fact that Leftists have complete control over mainstream culture; you can’t be The Man and rebelliously fight The Man simultaneously. 60’s radicals were going against traditional American culture and gained a mystique of being edgy and anti-establishment. They are the establishment now. So yesterday’s rebels have become today’s intolerable moral scolds.
No one is more conservative about social security than a liberal. Once you win, you have to start conserving your victory – and that puts you on the defensive.
My wife showed me 1959s Gidget. Holy Moly that movie wouldn’t fly today. A story about a 16 year old girl’s quest to lose her virginity to a grown man to impress her friends with her mom’s blessing.
Yet “Romeo and Juliet” remains one of the favored plays for high schoolers to perform. Street violence, and teen age sex aided and abetted by a clergy man, suicide? What’s not to like.
The amount of so called comedians who went PC or apologized for their past is sad.
And Stern is a classic example. He gave Hillary Fucking Clinton a tongue-bath not long ago all while denying everything that made him popular in the first place.
He (and the flock of idiots pretending to be edgy but are nothing but leftist douches) did the same for Obama. These people are sellouts at best. They pretended they were doing comedy by producing shit that actually was ass-kissing gone wild masquerading as roasting, and thought the people wouldn’t notice. Sure the average liberal moron didn’t but real people saw that they were full of it. Now they produce idiocy that borders on displays of hysterical mental disorder, and think they are being funny, because that’s the only sort of mental stupidity that the liberal morons can and demand to consume.
edgy shitlords
my vote is for boring and lame all around
the would-be Bellaire badasses are hiding behind the lines, waiting for their checks same as the rest instead of leading any charges
Absolutely! When 2016 happened, that was the last straw for me. It became obvious that this is all a dream sequence, and I’m going to wake up next to Suzanne Pleshette any day now. It is just too absurd. Trump was just the final wink and nod to the audience that it is all a joke.
I’ve said it repeatedly, but it bears repeating, because you all will wink out of existence soon, just like Daryl, and his other brother Daryl. So be forewarned…. if I ever figure out how to wake up, all this goes away to the sound of a pre-recorded laugh track.
Or maybe it’s all a computer simulation…
Computer! Arch! …..
..
Computer! End program! ….
…
Nuthin’….
Nope, must be a dream sequence. I just gotta wait around for my morning with Suzanne…….. or else JR will get get shot, and Patrick Duffy is going to walk out of my shower.
If this is a dream sequence, we need a lot more bikini models and fewer annoying dipshits.
That’s why I’m sure it is a comedy.
Like Chris Farley in a “Schmidt’s Gay” commercial, my dream sequence keeps delivering the opposite of what I’m hoping for, just for comedic effect.
Here’s the reference, for those who weren’t around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOSejS1SSY
unfortunately they’ve replaced the original music…. it was much better with Van Halen’s “Beautiful Girls” , but I suppose that caused copyright issues.
Yeah, erm, to each his own…
I remember the latter portion of the 60’s and all of everything since then. 2016 turned the world upside down. FBI good? What the everlovin’ fuck? My people are socialists and labor intensive. I sucked at that teat for twenty years. My Grandparents went through abuse you couldn’t imagine but seeing this turned on its head is mind-boggling. I want a return to some semblance of normalcy before I kick away from the float for the last time.
I had not thought about Stern in years and really didn’t know he was still working. Didn’t he pretend to be a “libertarian” at one point. While Trump is certainly no libertarian, his opposition is even further from it.
Howard can’t stand Trump because they are both obnoxious, self-absorbed New Yorkers.
Stern has a really thin skin and it drove him nuts whenever O&A mocked him.
That is an AWESOME clip.
“I don’t think shock jock applies for some time now.”
That old lady with the hair sold out a long time ago. And he used to be big buddies with Trump until it became inconvenient. Ignore him and those like him.
I think the “buddies with Trump” is a function of how the game is played. The public face of entertainment is mutual ass-kissing. I saw this most obviously with Penn Jillette, because he wears it on his sleeve.
When they were both entertainers, there was an understanding. Trump would say “These guys are great… terrific!” and Penn would say nice things about Trump. It is a bargain – I’ll promote your book, and you promote my show. Tit for Tat.
Then Trump became a politician. And Penn didn’t agree with his candidacy and said so in fairly gentle terms at first. So Trump rips him a new one, tit-for-tat. “Their show is failing… ” And the gloves are off. Penn publicly hates Trump. Tit for Tat.
You could say none of it is real… but I tend to believe the hate more than the love, because the love is self-serving while the hate serves no purpose other than vengeance or simply being honest about disliking someone. Or maybe people really blow hot and cold like that, rationalizing it as “I finally see the real you!” to explain their switch.
This explains in a hazelnut shell why my only friends are you people.
Festus is the best… Truly fantastic.
Paternally speaking, yes
I suspect that deep down Howard wanted/dreamed to do what Donald did (rally a cult of personality to give him political power) and that really grinds on him.
He tried to run as a Libertarian mayoral candidate for New York in 1994. Of course…
I suspect that he mourns the demise of “Fart-Man” as a cultural touch stone. Howard Stern is asshoe!
Well, being an asshole is his schtick. He’s so good at it, he became it.
Not, imnsho, that that required much of a shift.
I heard John Barron on the radio say that Stern was totes cool
In January 2019, Stern ridiculed the president’s plans to construct a U.S.-Mexico border wall, referring to it as a political stunt to whip up support from “morons.”
“You’re talking about building a massive wall across this country on the southern border. It’s a tremendous amount of property and a tremendous amount of area to cover,” said Stern. “You’re not going to get a whole wall for $5 billion. If you really want a wall, it’s probably going to cost you some trillions of dollars.”
Healthcare though, will be free.
It sounds extra-funny as the congress whips up another $3 trillion package…
Apparently the goal is to make the Weimar Republic look like pikers.
With 76 percent of precincts reporting and approximately 143,000 ballots counted, Garcia was leading Democrat Christy Smith 55.9 percent to 44.1 percent.
Looks like it’s going to be a bumper crop this spring for the ol’ ballot harvest.
It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes.
You better believe they took this lesson to heart.
That’s insurmountable.
Think so? Didn’t Cong. Rohrabacher lose in 2018 by about 10% after leading when the “in person” votes were counted?
It is suspected that Cal. Democrats go through the mail in ballots and toss out many of those coming from known registered Republicans.
They don’t even have to blatantly cheat that way any more. In any election- especially an off election- only a fraction of the potential populace votes. With the new ballot harvesting rules in California, if you know where the poor democrats are, you just go to their home, and pick up a ballot from them.
Here in Orange County, I had 3 visits by volunteers looking for my wife (because she is a registered independent). All three volunteers were from the republican candidate urging her to vote. Meanwhile, my neighbor had one visit from the democrat’s volunteer, who picked up their ballots and took it in.
The GOP was playing the 2016 ground game, and the democrats were playing the 2018 ground game. And there are a lot more dem voters than there are GOP voters, even here in OC. How often are we told that the Kids are going to change the vote if only they get off their asses on election day? Well they don’t have to do that any more. As long as the democrats know which basement those kids are living in, they can get their vote.
“Hold my cocktail.” – Dem operatives
“That’s insurmountable.”
I don’t know, I saw Hillary pull that off more than a couple times in the 2016 dem primaries against the Bern.
“With 76 percent of precincts reporting and approximately 143,000 ballots counted, Garcia was leading Democrat Christy Smith 55.9 percent to 44.1 percent.
But, California routinely counts large numbers of votes after election day. An unknown number of ballots remained uncounted and Los Angeles County, where most of them are located, was not expected to update its tally again until Friday.“
They’re not even trying to hide the fact that they are cheating.
Are amicus breifs common in trial courts? I’m not surprised that this are happening to try to prolong the abuse of Flynn.
They’re flailing about, elbows akimbo.
They are quite unusual in this kind of proceeding. Sullivan is off his rocker (which was obvious from his earlier treason comments about Flynn).
Perusing the headlines (many of which run, “[Insert governor] will decide when/if to do X”), I am moved to wonder what happened to all those valiant anti-monarchists recently bleating about President Cartoon Villain’s high-handed autocratic my-way-or-the-highway act.
I guess I just don’t understand.
Those governors have the good old immuni-D after their name.
Except in OH, it’s immuni-DeWine. I think he has a RINOvirus.
I’m sure my local rags will be comparing him to the devil in time for the next election. Of course, it’s not like the D candidate will be much better.
/throws his vote away.
In Ohio, a Republican is just a lesser form of Democrat.
It’s not just Ohio.
Fatty Hogan has a fatal case of the RINOvirus.
Some of them have “R” by their name.
And yet the majority continues to tolerate this. “Land if the free and home of the brave” my ass. Land of the subjects and home of the sheep.
“Once upon a time, in a land far, far away”… I have read that fairy tale, too…
Well, if they believe that 2 million people will die horrible deaths if they don’t keep the restrictions in place, maybe that’s a rational response.
But I was out this weekend here in Sunny South Florida…. a far, far left stronghold filled with New York refugees. People have pretty much had it with the lockdown, even in this place with close ties to New York. They were flooding neighboring counties looking for open restaurants and beaches…. anything to get out again. Imagine how much stronger that push is for those who have not worked in two months.
Of course, the problem is that everywhere except New York successfully stopped the virus before it exploded in the population – so they are still ripe for a rapid expansion of the virus. For most every location outside of NY City, we’ve succeeded in delaying the spread of the virus at great cost.. but doing nothing to prevent that exponential spread should things re-open. Nice Chinese finger trap we’ve stuck our dicks in….
if they believe that 2 million people will die horrible deaths
They may just as well believe in The Rapture.
People believed a space ship on a comet was going to pick them up, so they drank poison. People are not all that bright when you put them in groups.
I don’t know, if the CDC death count keeps increasing at the current rate, all 300 something million of us will be dead by August.
I am
Spartacusa covid19 death.“But I was out this weekend here in Sunny South Florida…. a far, far left stronghold filled with New York refugees. People have pretty much had it with the lockdown, even in this place with close ties to New York.”
Never under estimate the power of cognitive dissonance. Many of these people will happily cheer the lockdowns even as they flaunt them. Most liberals understand that the draconian laws are there for the rubes who lack any self control. When they go out for a stroll against government recommendations, it is because THEY know how to moderate and social distance. They can bend the rules a little because those super restrictive rules are over bearing for the rubes.
” they are still ripe for a rapid expansion of the virus.”
Cases don’t matter. ICU beds matter. Also, if it acts like a coronavirus, by end of June it will be largely gone.
That is very typical of coronaviruses, is my understanding, but I think there are exceptions (MERS?). Haven’t bothered to track it down.
As far as hospital capacity goes, our peak was 22 confirmed and around 30ish waiting for test results (all went to COVID units). We had 3 units set up for COVID, including our ICUs and one converted one unit to a COVID ICU unit (our units are around 20 – 30 beds each). We currently have one COVID unit. We never got to half of our potential capacity for ICU patients. My hospital has over 500 beds, BTW.
President Cartoon Villain’s high-handed autocratic my-way-or-the-highway act.
They want a dictator but it has to be their dictator. Plus, deep down inside, they must realize that Trump is mostly bluster in that regard. But, you know, Orange Man Bad.
That I believe is the worst part to them – he is an ineffectual Top.Man. — very bad for the Top.Man brand!
Only if if if if if if if if if if if umm uhhh ummm if if if if if he was a umm uhh great umm orator like his predecessor maybe he could be their Kang.
Is it just me or does Howard Stern look exactly like Fauci in a wig?
Q (((confirms))) that Jews hate Italians.
After what the merchant of Venice did I can’t blame them.
Since the left made it illegal to be funny, they’re all just angry all of the time.
CA democrats currently busy counting how many ballots they need to find, accidentally hidden somewhere.
‘Democracy’ means Democrats have to win. It’s right in the name!
The gang, adopting the sobriquet “Watergate Prosecutors,” asked permission from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to allow them to intervene in the Flynn case so they can – to put it bluntly – tell his honor how to think and what to do.
And they have standing to interject themselves in this case?
It’s the FYTW clause. It’s all good, because orangemanbad.
They are not actually a party to the case. You don’t need standing to file a an amicus brief.
From below:
Powell also pointed out that Sullivan rejected 24 previous attempts by parties to intervene in the Flynn case. In one of his prior refusals, the judge made this declarative statement: “The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure do not provide for intervention by third parties in criminal cases. Options exist for a private citizen to express his views about matters of public interest, but the Court’s docket is not an available option.”
That’s different, they weren’t going to say things Sullivan wanted to hear.
It reminds me of the case last week wherein Ruthie & the Supremes smacked down the Ninth Circuit for, if I understand correctly, soliciting amicus briefs from third parties all on one side of the case. In that case, the Niners even suggested what the amicus briefs should address.
In this case, it sure seems as if the judge wants someone to give him an excuse not to allow the Flynn case to be dropped.
I can’t imagine the pressure Sullivan is under. He’s literally at the center of what could turn out to be the end of the DOJ and FBI as we know it. His entire world revolves around that structure and everyone he knows traffics in it.
The Ninth is a bunch of partisan hacks and should just be shut down.
Soliciting amicus briefs is not a good thing.
“And they have standing to interject themselves in this case?”
Fuck standing. They MUST save Obama’s legacy and prevent any kind of vindication of crazy orange man’s claims that the criminality of the Obama’s administration made Nixon look like a saint.
That’s the real crux of the matter. This release of documents puts names to what we already knew. The deflection of “assertions made by a bunch of right-wing conspiracy theorists” is about as threadbare as it gets now, and they are starting to fear that there might be actual consequences for their actions. Even Obama finally has his name tossed in the mix.
So they all come out and counter-attack with a desperation of the damned. And the focus is on discrediting Barr so that their team can have a fig leaf to hide behind as they are publicly exposed. Their only hope is to paint the eventual indictments as the actions of a banana republic dictator …. continuing the longstanding tradition of projection among their ilk.
Yep.
“Their only hope is to paint the eventual indictments as the actions of a banana republic dictator ….”
So the guy that did the heaviest lifting to turn this country into a banana republic vis a vis the law now wants to accuse his successor of being the one doing it, huh?
These people are not just despicable criminals: they are evil.
They went to a British agent who collected a pile of disinformation from Russian FSB agents and used that to target the Republican nominee…. for working with Russian agents, which they knew to be a lie.
And that’s just from the stuff that has been publicly acknowledged. They don’t call it “the big lie” for nothing!
I’m just amazed at how desperately the rank and file holds on to their blinders, frantically looking away every time the reality of the situation gets pushed in front of them?
The problem with being a liberal is that you are so invested and steeped in that shit that it takes on religious meaning. Admitting you are wrong or that what you believe is pure bullshit is a soul shattering problem for these people. They will never go there, because it would mean admitting they are fucking idiots. So they will keep doubling down on the stupid because they HAVE to maintain their illusion of superiority. It’s a fucking cult of stupid.
One of these days they’re going to get so desperate that they will try to use the climate to force everyone to comply with all of their crazy ideas.
continuing the longstanding tradition of projection among their ilk.
Yup.
That is part of the problem with the DOJ filing – they have tried to absolve the previous prosecutorial team from their misconduct. Sullivan may inadvertently highlight that, which would be doubly ironic – prosecutorial AND judicial misconduct!
Oh, prosecutorial misconduct was already proven by the fact that this asshat judge didn’t shut this shitshow down a long time ago when the government refused to provide documentation the defense asked for (repeatedly).
I’m telling you, there’s something going on with Flynn that we don’t know about yet. For some reason the left seem to be terrified of letting this guy talk.
I just don’t think we’ll see it. The whole russiagate thing has put me in the “Americans love them some political prisoners” side of things, and i don’t know if that is going to change.
Hyper you may not see this but here is the answer to your question.
Flynn knows where all the bodies are that were buried by the Lightbringers administration.
So many illegal unmaskings by Obama’s circle and illegal leaks of some of that info.
People are going to jail over this.
The stage has been set over the last 3 years.
Only harm can come from prosecutions if the judiciary isn’t put in place first that will rule based on law rather than partisanship like the 9th mentioned above.
I think I remember that McConnel and Trump have almost brought balance to the 9th as it is.
Remember Roberts Obama care ruling ?
Roberts was blackmailed due to info discovered via one of these ummaskings.
Other examples exist but I’m typing on a phone.
The evidence is out there for those willing to spend the time looking.
CA Dems just know how many ballots they need to harvest now.
Right now the benefits are small cause CA is gonna go blue, but in a few years, they can force other states where it matters to adopt this (claiming it worked fine in CA), and then the real fun will begin!
“Democratic Virginia Rep. Don Beyer, who is not a doctor, called Paul “wrong,” “ignorant,” and “dangerous.” Ronald Klain, an adviser for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, twisted the senator’s words and snarked, “I can’t believe I live in a country where the nation’s leading infectious disease expert has to explain to a Senator that we ‘really out to be very careful … when it comes to children.'”
OFFS!
Rand is the senator the left loves to hate. Compare with Amash. Proof that the paulista brand of libertarianism is too extreme and false.
Never mind all of the data shows that it hardly even affects kids.
But there was that one child who died somewhere. We can never be too careful.
The media is running with “THE KIDS ARE DYING” full-tilt now. A pure appeal to emotion that has no rational basis.
Without appeals to emotion, and often real horrible false appeals, these people would NEVER get sane and thinking people to go along with them. They need panic and crisis to get their way.
“They need panic and crisis to get their way.”
Did you know we’re also having a climate crisis, and an assault on science crisis and an assault on women crisis and a toxic masculinity crisis?
Why do you want people to die? There’s a crisis! The new normal!
Every case that they can find. Which is about 1 every 4 days or so…. worldwide. They really dig to find “young person with no pre-existing conditions” stories anywhere they can. So my wife keeps pushing “some kid in Bucharest died of Covid-19!!” stories in front of me.
If the story isn’t “73 elementary school kids in Grand Rapids Michigan all died of Covid-19”, you really don’t have a story that breaks the “it isn’t that dangerous for the young” narrative. Flu kills a lot of kids every year. Norovirus sends a half million people to the ER in the US every year. If “deaths among children” doesn’t eclipse those numbers, you aren’t doing this “for the children”.
Context and rationality? You don’t sound like a good fit for the American Pravda.
… when it comes to children
Back in the very beginning when it became apparent that the Chicom flu was almost no threat at all to children my first reaction was that at least in this case I wouldn’t be hearing about why we have to do XXX “for the children” – but quickly I came to my senses and realized they were going to go there eventually because it is part of their human BIOS. It’s one of those tools they just have to use even if it has no bearing.
The Republicans need to start arguing that if you support the lockdowns, you supports terrorists and are against the troops.
Can you even imagine just how dumb the children are now with no public school teaching for months?
After we get rid of bad orange man and it’s safe for the children to return to school again, they’re going to be so dumb that we’ll need trillions of dollars for the schools to re-educate them.
called Paul “wrong,” “ignorant,” and “dangerous.”
“Shut up!”, she explained.
Is the state or the Feds that prosecute voter fraud? If it’s the Feds, I don’t understand why Trump isn’t cracking down on the type of nonsense we see in CA. For it to be so routine that ballots just trickle in for days and days that the reporter nonchalantly says “well, we won’t get a handle on the *real* results until Friday” is ludicrous. I would think it that demanding chain of custody on all these magic ballots would neatly fall within existing law and would not require any action by the legislature.
Though IANAL so I’m prepared to be pathetically wrong on all counts.
I think CA let’s you mail in your ballot on election day, and still have it counted.
Nobody prosecutes voter fraud.
Admitting it happens would make it easier for team blue to deligitimize team red winners, and make it hard for team blue winners to claim they have a unanimous mandate to sentence America and its people to the socialist hell they want to enact to make sure they keep power permanently.
…and be sure to fill out your census card, properly and promptly so you can be identi, ooops, counted and we can redistrict you to a blue neighborhood.
I refuse to do this. Not just because I don’t want to help the fucking commie state I live in get a higher body count with which to fuck over the people that don’t vote for a living in this country, but precisely because of what you pointed out Four.
There is no voter fraud. It’s just another attempt by the Rethuglicans to outlaw colored people voting.
Ballot harvesting is perfectly legal and normal in california, where done mostly by democrats, but practically a hate crime in north carolina, where it is done by republicans, so…I guess it depends. Draw your own conclusions.
These idiots have it exactly backwards.
The burden of proof is on those who want to shut everything down, not the other way around.
The initial reaction to the virus was to prevent an overload on medical capacity and I supported that at the time for that reason. An overload that never materialized except for a week or two in NYC, an outlier case. Since then, the goalposts have been constantly shifting.
It was a mistake on my part to support any sort of shutdown/quarantine because it was used as an excuse by the powers that be to seize total control. Lesson learned.
bah, that was supposed to be a reply to CP
“Since then, the goalposts have been constantly shifting.”
Now I know how Cody Parkey feels.
Well, you looked at it as an engineer trying to solve a problem.
Honestly, I wasn’t thinking about the powers that be seizing total control because I never would have believed that they would knowingly destroy the economy. Politicians are most generally concerned about that. “It’s the economy, stupid.”
What struck me as odd, is that it was the opposite of what is normally done to keep a disease from spreading — quarantine the sick, not isolating the healthy.
“The burden of proof is on those who want to shut everything down, not the other way around. ”
True.
That was the first thing I noticed. There were efforts to trace and isolate the cruise ship cases… .but no such efforts outside of those cases. And then a group decision was made… not by one person, but by a mob. I watched it in real time here in Florida. A teacher tested positive. Suddenly the Teacher’s Union demanded a shutdown of the schools. Then one county announced they were suspending all extracurricular activities. Then another cancelled all travel. And then one said they were closing down after spring break. Then another said they were closing down a week earlier. Then they shut down restaurants and bars…
All this happened in 24 hours. By the end of the second day, everyone was shut down. Within a week, even the parks and beaches were closed.
Nobody ever discussed anything. It was just a mob mentality – nobody wanted to be the “you didn’t do anything” outlier… so they ratcheted it up, fast.
Yeah, on the subject of the cruise ship cases. Did not infect even 20% of the people on board the ship, even with asymptomatic being half (and supposedly contagious for an unknown but presumed lengthy period). Same with the aircraft carrier.
I am a touch suspicious of claims about how super contagious this is.
Facts are now surfacing that this thing escaped the Wuhan bio weapons lab back in October of last year. The Chinese let people travel out of China while locking the province down. I am willing to bet money that this stuff was doing the global rounds back in January. I had this real weird cold back in February where I had a low fever and a dry cough that wouldn’t stop. Had to go to the doctor for a prescription cough suppressant cause my throat started bleeding. My doctor’s office called me up recently and told me they would like to test me for antibodies to COVID as soon as the state starts that program up, cause they suspect I already had this shit. Then they called back up and told me that program was scrapped because the governor ordered that to not be done.
Don’t fuck with the narrative with real information!
“Then they called back up and told me that program was scrapped because the governor ordered that to not be done.”
WTF?
That’s how I reacted as well Spud. I suspect there is some politicking involved on not wanting to know this shit just yet. My state is also looking for a Fed bailout is my guess..
I remember people on this site saying way back in January, “they’ll tell us it’s just to flatten the curve, but then they’ll say they ‘fear a re-emergence’ and keep everything shut down”.
Glibs fucking called it.
Is something that obvious really calling it?
Dunno… Most people I know who follow “reputable” news sources like CNN, NYT, and WaPo thought it was a ridiculous “conspiracy theory” and that our wise leaders would surely lift the lockdown as soon as the risk of overloading the hospitals had passed.
… As an aside, I never understood why “that’s a conspiracy theory” was used as a counter-argument to anything. Conspiracies DO happen, so I’m not seeing why labeling something as such means that it’s automatically false.
Yeah. What they really mean is “Fringe, unpopular” belief. But saying “Conspiracy” also allow them to imply that you are crazy. But Conspiracys happen all the time. As Dave Smith says the official story of 9-11 is itself a theory about a conspiracy. I’m pretty fervent in believing that History is often shoved by minorities, and conspiracies are a large part of that. That doesn’t mean things can’t be coincidental, it just means that things can be conspiratorial.
Just wait until September when they tell us that we must all be under house arrest Again until Spring 2021, because 2ND SURGE COMING!
Mornin’ Banjos! It’s just past six AM in the second-most-manly of timezones, and for some bizarre reason I’m awake.
Glad to see the special election results — mebbe the Dems will be slightly less insane going forward?
it is actually 1:16 AM in the second-most-manly of timezones
I’m pretty sure ASEAN Common Time is the manliest time zone. Womanliest too….
With 25% of the world’s population, it is the most everything time zone.
mebbe the Dems will be slightly less insane going forward?
No, the message they always take is that they just need to PROG HARDER!!
“PROG HARDER!!”
Also: VOTE FRAUD HARDER!!
Republicans look at them and say “don’t you know anything about suppressing the vote of the other side?”
Mornin’
Speaking of old ladies, last night I watched Seinfeld new netflix special. Found it weak. Very weak. Bland, dated and unfunny. A friend who a bigger fan disagreed with me and told me I like my humor to edgy. Which is not true, but it does need to have a bit of an edge.
What we both have notices is that in his first bits it looks like he’s trying to do something george carlin like, but fails miserably. After he goes back to his shtick, which no longer works. For me at least. I did not even finish the thing.
Haven’t watched the special, because based on the trailer, I saw it live when Seinfeld came to town. I enjoyed it at the time, and the Sucks/Great bit does remind me of Carlin.
Googling afterwards it got a good review in the guardian, which I am not surprised.
there is also this
A mean-spirited, cynical Jerry Seinfeld is not what we need right now
https://forward.com/culture/446162/a-mean-spirited-cynical-jerry-seinfeld-is-not-what-we-need-right-now/
lol if that bland shit is mean spirited …
Safe humor is not humor, Pie. If I wanted little kid jokes I would go look at little kid comedy. In today’s PC world, the speech police has made sure humor is dead. Ask Chappel how they came after him for refusing to sell out to the woke crowd.
It’s gotta be better than listening to two or threes on the scale talking about how they got their tube packed the previous night. *Shudders at some female comics today*
Powell also pointed out that Sullivan rejected 24 previous attempts by parties to intervene in the Flynn case. In one of his prior refusals, the judge made this declarative statement: “The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure do not provide for intervention by third parties in criminal cases. Options exist for a private citizen to express his views about matters of public interest, but the Court’s docket is not an available option.”
Principals over principles.
He is part of the machine that wanted to railroad Flynn to protect Obama, his weaponized deep state, and to prevent orange man from actually running the country as those that voted for him expect unimpeded by the left’s power cabal. People better understand that this is a fight the left intends to win, because they want to make sure nobody but one of them ever again holds power. We let them win at our own peril.
That shit is what’s going to make me vote for Trump this time around (unless he does something extremely terrible between now and November, and it would have to be REALLY terrible).
The Deep Staters and media operatives who tried to take Trump down must not be validated, and him losing the election would be exactly that. Not only that, but it would be great if Trump would continue to push to get them investigated and exposed. Maybe he won’t do that or be successful at it, but it’s a chance.
I used to vote LP as a protest vote, but the sickeningly corrupt shit they’ve pulled against Trump sealed the deal for me. He’s the one who stands the best chance of breaking the system and having more people see it for what it is.
Another former Watergate prosecutor is Jill Wine-Banks, an MSNBC legal analyst who has a propensity to channel Nixon’s ghost at every turn. Earlier this year, she told Salon that “Trump is more dangerous than Nixon” and should be criminally indicted. On MSNBC, she declared that Trump is more of an “existential threat to democracy than Nixon.”
I suppose this person is correct, just not how she means. Trump is indeed a threat to Democracy.
For all the Nixon concern, you would think that they would be concerned about what Obama and Biden knew. Seeing as that was the big Revelation this week.
This. Throwing around their “Watergate” credentials makes me think maybe that was nothing except a political hatchet job too.
My limited knowledge of Watergate is that Nixon was tangentially related to a burglary. I imagine there were probably other shenanigans, as I suspect there are in every admin. But they got him for something that is kindof “meh” by comparison to what we know about Barry’s admin.
Nixon mostly went down because of the attempted cover up & obstruction of justice post-break in.
Based on my reading of a number of books, I’m pretty confident that Nixon didn’t order the break in nor have any prior knowledge (although I would argue he created an atmosphere that encouraged it).
And, yes, other politicians did the same – and worse- but Nixon did a lot of bad.
Nixon’s wet dream was to weaponize the federal bureaucracy (FBI and IRS) to do his bidding.
Obama accomplished it.
Up until J. Edgar Hoover died, Nixon was tight with the FBI and DOJ. But with Hoover gone, the bureaucracy was off its leash, which eventually contributed to Nixon’s downfall. It is worth remembering that, regardless of Nixon’s own culpability, it was a disgruntled bureaucrat acting like a jilted lover that brought him down.
It looks more and more like the Lightbringer makes Nixon look like a boyscout.
I love how the guy who was duly elected is the threat to democracy, and not the lunatics trying to overturn the results of that election.
“Trump is more dangerous than Nixon”
Say that to a Cambodian or Laotion.
Did he put the Laotions in the basket?
I Khan’t believe you went there.
Saw my typo and thought, no way that is gonna slide on by unnoticed.
I bet your Rouge faced.
And his skin is so smooth.
*you’re
sheesh
Khmer, I’ve got something to tell you
These puns are just Laosy
It’s just one Hmong many.
Debate is dead. Higher ed poisoned it a while ago and social media put a knife thru its heart. It’s all virtue signaling and jockeying for the most victimhood points now.
DON’T TOUCH FAUCI.
FAUCI DOESN’T LIKE MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
FAUCI WOULD LIKE TO GET TO KNOW ELAINE.
That’s pretty rich coming from Stern.
IKR?
Progjection.
I did not catch the whole thing, but yesterday on the Bozeman teevee news, they were doing a story about some sort of lockdown protest, and they said they asked for a comment from governor Bullock’s office. It was some vapid nonsense about SCIENCE and DATA.
I want somebody to ask that cunte in a debate to define “SCIENCE”.
The analogy I always use for the Leftist view of science:
1. Dietitians agree that refined sugar is bad for you.
2. Sugar should therefore be made into a schedule 1 controlled substance with prison time for anyone who is caught possessing, consuming, producing, or selling sugar.
3. Anyone who disagrees is anti-science.
Nailed it. Science says X. Therefore we must do Y. Anyone opposed to Y is a denier of X. Even if they say they believe X but think Y does not follow.
#OneLessGun on the streets of #CrownHeights today thanks to our Response Officers who arrested two males last night in possession of this illegal firearm. Despite the effects of the pandemic citywide, gun arrests have increased as we continue our practice of precision policing.
https://twitter.com/NYPD77Pct/status/1259829682985488384
that needs a real ivory handle
“Did you pull over his stagecoach? Was there a showdown at the #CrownHeights corral? Did you get him for cattle rustling?”
LOL
A single-action, 22 caliber, six-shot revolver… copy of a peacemaker. I wonder if they impounded his horse too.
Was he squirrel hunting?
John Wayne hardest hit. No one needs 6 bullets in the clip either…
Well, I assume you know that most people the single action Army revolver (the historically correct versions at least) with only five chambers loaded to have the hammer down on an empty cylinder.
I wonder if the government clearly showing disdain for one of the rights of the people is legal.
I was enjoying this video yesterday. The guy’s ecstatic reaction to 2.9 million background checks in April and 12 million ytd was great. “Freedom delivery” systems are flying off the shelves.
Putting the cartridge in front of the barrel was so retarded.
That’s what it looks like when it comes flying out the end!
I love the cartridge in front of the muzzle, as if the entire thing is shot out when you pull the trigger.
Only 28%?
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/stunning-28-democrats-say-biden-will-be-replaced-ultimate-democratic
He’s declining so fast that I just don’t see how it’s possible for him to keep going. They’re trying to drag out the Kung Flu as long as possible, but there’s no way in hell they can keep this going all the way until November, at least outside of Phthalo Blue enclaves. Eventually he’s going to have to emerge and interact with people again and he’s so pathetic that no amount of interference run by the Dem/Op/Media is going to save him.
The threshold for polling significance is 54%, the fraction of Republicans who believe in ghosts.
Here comes…..smashed door down with axe…..HILLARY!
/Johnny Carson intro. song.
There is no hard and fast cure for any Coronavid. These cuntes are talking out of their nether regions for political gain. It is the most shameful exercise of pandering in my life time. I’m ashamed to be a citizen of America’s Hat.
“Mornin’ Banjos!”
Mornin’
Man… remember when we joked about this shit?
Perfect!
Good question.
https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/1260524491148591104
Relevant to yesterday’s discussion of street fights.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/teen-linked-to-beating-of-15-year-old-girl-shot-dead/
I didn’t see the part last night where the guy came back with a 2×4; that changes things a bit. I consider myself much more of a lover than a fighter and make it a policy to not get into fights with random idiots on the street. But it does bring up a question: how far do you go in a street fight? My approach has been “don’t get in a street fight unless you’re prepared to kill the other person” in which case the situation has escalated to life or death self-defense. It’s why I carry everywhere I go and also why I’ve obviously never been in that situation.
Absent that, do you beat the other person unconscious? Into a coma? At what point do you stop? Also: the story above seems like some street justice so, live by the sword, die by the sword I suppose.
you’re prepared
Exactly. I’m amazed at how many gun haters don’t realize the calculation and preparation that EDC requires. I’m more likely to avoid tricky situations because I know I won’t lose if it escalates, so I certainly don’t want anything to get started.
Yep. I don’t even use the horn in traffic so I can’t be construed as having contributed to escalating a situation. In VA, you lose your right to stand your ground and have a duty to retreat if you contribute to escalating. I imagine it’s so you can’t egg someone on while carrying concealed and shoot em dead once they push back, which we’ve seen some people do and then bizarrely claim Stand Your Ground protection.
That’s why I think the shooting in Georgia(?) with the ex-cop and his son is clear cut. They escalated the situation and didn’t retreat as required. No racial angle, just a POS ex-cop who thought he could still escalate a situation with immunity for his actions.
You stop when the dude say’s “No Mas” or some reasonable facsimile. Some dude, a friend roughed up my girlfriend at a party that I was hosting. She was being terrible to him for backing into her car. He put hands on her and I let him have it. Later on we’re sitting next to one another and calmly speaking and the guy tried to bite my package off. Yeah, I beat the shit out of him. His brothers came back the next day and put me in the hospital. Four on one ain’t fair. I still bear the scar from the bite. New Years Eve 1988! Woo-Hoooo! I’ll never forget the people running from the house into the snow nor my kittens lapping up the blood.
Yeah, I was in many a street/bar brawl during my late teens and early-mid twenties and the general rule of thumb was to stop fighting once the other guy stops fighting back. Kind of an unspoken, unwritten rule in my area. Of course, you always run the risk of engaging with a complete psycho who won’t stop until one of you is dead. So yeah, fighting is dumb and I was lucky to never be jailed or seriously hurt while doing it.
Ass Wednesday refuses to be locked down!
http://archive.li/wPvrc
And a bonus:
http://archive.li/7IkLg/618e5748f6e58a89d82cd151971cde3f16a44836.jpg
I’d buy that for a shekel (or 30)
Fairly safe to say that the greatest rock band of all time discussion is USUALLY between The Stones, The Beatles and Led Zep- so what is the greatest AMERICAN rock band of all time?- I know what I think
https://twitter.com/HankAzaria/status/1260190209985167360
This guy just wants to see the world burn.
Counting Crows. Lol.
Imma go with Velvet Underground and Katrina and the Waves.
Katrina Leskanich is ‘murican, bit i think the rest of The Waves are limeys.
Yep. Much like The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pretenders who, if we include lead singer only bands, would both be great choices.
Of course, we could always steal The Band from the Canadians too.
First, fuck him for killing Apu based on SJW drivel.
Two, Spinal Tap.
Are we talking greatest catalog or most transformative? If most transformative I’d say Nirvana even if their actual music is mediocre.
Never gave it much thought, but it seems to me that America has produced the most influential individual artists, while England produced influential groups. You have John Lee Hooker, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, etc. All those individuals shaped the music world in an incredible fashion. That being said, if we have to talk bands…
This one may not really count, but how about Hasil Adkins? It’s a bit of a cheat, since he’s a solo artist…on the other hand he was also a one man band that would inspire Psychobilly rock. (The story, or so it is said, is that growing up and listening to records he assumed that all the parts were done by a single person playing all the instruments at the same time.)
Alright, that was cheap.
Van Halen: Although not a favorite, it’s hard to deny the influence of that incredible synergy between Eddie and David. They are also, sadly, responsible for hair metal.
Metallica: Ugh. Hate them, but modern metal can’t exist without them.
Guns and Roses: The last gasp of metal as a mainstream music form, but what a way to go out.
CCR: What if we made music that sucks, but you kind of enjoy? That’s CCR. I don’t turn them off when it comes on, and that’s a bit like enjoying them. Big influence, however.
The Ramones: There were punk bands before them, and many bands after that were better, but those four mopes from Queens changed a music industry that had gone stale.
White Stripes: If rock ever comes back (and the genre is dead, dead, dead) it will be from kids finding an old White Stripes album.
and the genre is dead, dead, dead
Do you mean in the sense that it’s not represented on top forty radio? The Raconteurs had a #1 album just last year and I’d wager there were others by Rock bands, There are plenty of old rockers still selling out stadiums and a lot of young bands making rock music. Sure you may not hear the songs on 104.7 HITS but the genre is far from dead.
Oh, not saying there arent some great acts out there…it’s just that it doesn’t resonate with the kids. You don’t hear .odernrock blaring from car radios. It’s not played at parties. Like jazz, rock is now the domain of us gray hairs.
I don’t have hair. And the answer to the question is Cheap Trick.
No one mentioned The Byrds yet. Interesting.
I saw Hasil Adkins once. It was great.
Aerosmith.
Kiss
No one mentioning the Beach Boys? The Beatles seemed to think they were pretty important. How about the Doors?
As far as bands from that era? Personal preferences aside, the most influential would be:
Velvet Underground
The Grateful Dead
The Doors
Creedence Clearwater Revival
My personal choice would be Velvet Underground.
Also, hi! I haven’t posted in over 2 years but I’ve been lurking since the lockdown to keep my sanity.
I don’t know for sure if Chuck Todd and his crew based their story on the deceptive takes of Rupar, TPM and others (which is why I put “may have” in the headline) but I would be willing to bet money they did, because this happens a lot more than people realize.
Which is still bad because you only have to watch the next five seconds of the interview to get the proper context. IOW it is journalistic malpractice at best. My personal opinion is that he was lying. He is a shitty actor that did an over the top performance to try to sell the lie.
California is closing down the year. Europe’s lockdown lasted two months and California is shutting down? What am I missing?
What’s going on?
https://www.yardbarker.com/college_football/articles/california_state_university_campuses_to_remain_closed_through_fall_semester_putting_college_football_in_jeopardy/s1_12680_31974650?utm_source=mb&utm_medium=email&mb_edition=20200513&mb_loc=left_h
The fact that they are trying to force orange man to despair and order the fed to bail CA (and other blue states near bankruptcy for decades of inept and criminal tax and double spend policies) out, is what’s going on.
The Pac-12 has been irrelevant for a while. They can close and nothing is in jeopardy. TCU has already asked to take USC’s place in the game vs Alabama.
Tres wept.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11589333/chloe-ferry-weight-loss-trolls/
don’t look like she’s a stranger to surgery
I could work with it, but the over-inflated DSLs on her face are off-putting to me.
here’s a case of an oldtakesexposed tweet in which I have no ideea who the people are by the pic seems to be baseball related
https://twitter.com/OldTakesExposed/status/1260270116421410817
Time to pull the plug on Fauci. This fucken motherfucker has been changing his story since the beginning and now he’s on this ‘the virus will make the decision for us’ kick.
Kick his sorry ass to the curb.
I believe Neil Ferguson is looking for a job
Vivid already signed Ferguson to their new MILF Cuck series.
Either he’s hanging on to his job and sees being hyper-precautionary as a way to do this or he’s hiding something.
Congress HAS to grill him.
When you say stuff like has the last few days this is serious. ‘You will likely be homeschooling your kids in the fall’ is not a statement to ignore.
Is he suggesting the economy be continue to be shut down? If it’s so important for humanity, then he MUST forego his salary, no?
Ah….but I’m getting the feeling this ain’t about Corona per se anymore….I smell a rat.
Brix at least seems to recognize how badly they misjudged and that it’s a scam now.
“There Is Nothing from the CDC I Can Trust!” – Dr. Birx Tells Off CDC Director, Claims COVID-19 Mortality Rate Inflated By as Much as 25%!
Fauci is a fame whore little bitch. He’ll say anything to keep getting the media deepthroat.
probably should run for president
He’s not the expert we need, but the expert we deserve.
Fauci likes the limelight. If this Kabuki ends, he loses his stage.
Not just the media stage. Someone might start asking why he’s been the head of NIAID for the past 36 years.
Progress?
UK economy posts sharpest monthly decline on record as coronavirus lockdowns begin to take toll
U.K. GDP (gross domestic product) contracted by 5.8% month-on-month in March, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday, as lockdown measures began to hammer economic activity in the country.
This may be the first mainstream thing I have seen which explicitly names the lockdown as the cause of the economic collapse, instead of vaguely blaming it on the plague.
Want to know why the economy is a smoking ruin? The government intentionally flew it into the side of a skyscraper.
UK economy posts sharpest monthly decline on record as coronavirus lockdowns begin to take toll – you aint seen nothin yet
USA unemployment: 14%
Canada: 13%
In ONE month.
And degenerates like Fauci keep pushing lockdowns. To me? Criminal behaviour. They’re no better than the mad scientists in the comic book who want to burn down the world to save it.
Cant’s stand that little prick now.
Greatest increases of COVID deaths projected in Republican states
Vote team blue and we’ll protect you from COVID. Just don’t look at New York… Or New Jersey… Or pretty much every large Democrat city.
According to a Yahoo Finance analysis of the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) coronavirus death toll model, – right… another one of those
“I don’t hate Donald,” he added. “I hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence.”
Attacking the voters is an interesting strategy.
It sure worked for Hillary!
My suspicion about Stern is that he’s a coward and a sell out. I left maybe a 10% opening in case I was wrong and until this gem….
“The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most,” the shock jock continued. “The people who are voting for Trump for the most part … he wouldn’t even let them in a fucking hotel. He’d be disgusted by them. Go to Mar-a-Lago, see if there are any people who look like you. I’m talking to you in the audience.”
“I don’t hate Donald,” he added. “I hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence.”
Boy do I smell the projection all the way up here.
This from a guy who made a fortune basically off smut and humour that appealed, so it can be argued, to the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR.
Yeh, I bet Howard you fucken delinquent you let us low lives into YOUR house.
Go fuck yourself you arrogant cocksuckjng prick. You and that gang over there.
My suspicion about Stern is that he’s a coward and a sell out. – I think this is more than just a suspicion
He’s the kind of has-been that he used to mock mercilessly early in his career.
^^^THIS^^^
He used to lay into that other jock he so envied constantly for the very behavior he has now exhibited here. And I bet he don’t give a shit if you call him out, cause he already cashed in. He will of course pretend to be mad at being accused of being a sellout, but that’s cause he still hopes to fucking make a lot more money of the morons that still think he is edgy.
He’s a complete douche. I’m actually pissed I used to listen to him back in the day now. He’s a user. Doesn’t he piss on Imus? He pisses on a lot of guys but he’s the turncoat coward.
Coward Stern.
Right. Too self-absorbed to hate anybody and too busy to deal in such trivialities as revenge. He thinks about it enough to hit back, which doesn’t take a lot of thought. They’re out to get him, he knows that, he releases trollish zingers for his personal amusement and goes on.
His problem is he hires shitty advisors and listens to them.
Now you know exactly what Stern thinks of his audience.
*throws bologna at Scruffy’s ass*
Well dude. When you build an empire on cum and then talk like pussy about how ‘disrespectful’ it is to cum on a girl’s face like he did, you know he’s an asshole. Go do a segment on Delilah if you’re going to insult people like that.
You became a multi-millionaire not because you had a moral compass or conscience, you became one because you IGNORED it.
So yeh, he’s an insulting, hypocritical son of a bitch.
His former audience dumped him more than a decade ago.
As if other presidents would let you bang Martha’s vineyard.
My last job held a big trade show in Chicago in 2016 before the election. A lot of coworkers from Europe decided to paint the town red. At about 3 am, they went to the top of the Trump Tower and were having a drink. Trump and Guiliani wandered out and talked to everyone who was there. Trump gave the guys a bunch of shit because they didn’t have any women with them. Made a “sausage fest” crack and shook everyones’ hands. Took pictures with them all.
The next morning all these Euroweenies were gushing about how great Trump was. One of the guys was from Mexico and was joking about how he was going to explain the picture of him and Trump to his friends (he said his family would be thrilled because they all liked Trump).
So I sort of doubt that Trump actually despises anyone. To me he seems like one of those people who have to be constantly around other people and validated. A lot like an actor. Not my cup of tea, but not a cartoon villain either.
It’s about the reality the left wants their drones to believe in. See books like “Brave New World” & “1984” which the left decided where instruction manuals/how to books…
FAKE NEWS!
Everyone knows what the real purpose of 1984 was.
Are you doubting the wisdom of Herself?
I am sure Herself is one of the Devil’s most trusted agents of malice.
By a quirk of fate I know a small number of people who work in international finance. All of them have worked with/for people have been involved in direct business with Trump in the past and from what they tell me DJT is really a nice guy to work with. He comes off as an agreeable person.
My good friend from high school is a big time politician in Minnesoda. He says Trump is the exact opposite of a politician. Trump is an asshole in public and a great guy in private.
News release from Standard Chartered Bank, British multi-national, concerning US unemployment.
I will never click another gateway pundit link again. What a shitshow of a site.
Yep. Daily Caller used to be that bad, too.
Vox angling to top ‘NowThis’ as the most retarded thing on the internet.
Though Trump’s narrative around the virus may be reinforcing gender stereotypes, the issue of masks is revealing Americans’ racial biases as well. While white men have been able to appear in public without masks — and with guns — as part of a protest, black men have been targeted by police, both for wearing and for not wearing masks. In Philadelphia, officers were caught on video forcibly removing a black man from a bus for not covering his face, just one day after the city began requiring it, Fabiola Cineas reported for Vox in April. And a police officer in Miami handcuffed and arrested Armen Henderson, a black doctor who tests homeless people for Covid-19, as he loaded equipment into a van in front of his home — while wearing a mask.
Black Americans often have to engage in “social signaling” to make white people feel comfortable in public spaces, said Price, the political science professor. “You say good morning first, you smile first,” she said. “None of that can be done with masks.”
White people often already perceive black people as dangerous or not belonging in public places, Price said. “But a black body with a mask is something that somehow expresses even more danger.”
Meanwhile, for white protesters like those in Michigan, not wearing a mask may signal a kind of immunity from danger — or at least a perceived immunity. As white Americans, they’re unlikely to encounter the same kind of police brutality that black people face when they engage in protest. “Imagine 10 black men and rifles walking up to any state capitol in the United States,” Price said. “They would be shot before they ever made it up the steps.”
The Black Panthers would like a word…
You say good morning first, you smile first,” she said. “None of that can be done with masks.”
This was not my experience growing up on the north side of Jacksonville.
again with the “black body” shit….what the hell is with that weird verbal tic of theirs?
Maybe they fucking love physics.
Why lockdowns and contact tracing are a waste of time and money. Flattening the curve was not a bad idea – now the health systems are ready if more people get sick.
It works if you are Taiwan and can do it from case 1 forward.
And you give up basic human rights.
24/7 cops parked in front of your house? How they going to enforce this when tens of thousands tell the tracers to go f*** themselves?
News from the state of Washington: “For those individuals that refuse to cooperate with contact tracers and/or refuse testing, will not be allowed to leave their homes to purchase basic necessities such as groceries and/or prescriptions.”
Seems a reasonable approach
https://twitter.com/LynnwoodTimes/status/1260429498966847494
Oh, and the contact tracers will be National Guard.
Now that’s how you play with fire.
I don’t know guys. This is getting very serious.
964 DEATHS IN WASHINGTON!?!??!
Keep this thread to remind you who the retards are:
https://twitter.com/bferguson_WA
The former Christian in me is screaming: NUMBER OF THE BEAST!!!
That’s pure evil, right there.
SJWednesday: Top Ten Lists Are Old And Busted, Top 130 Lists Are The New Hotness
How about if I revel in it and do the Nelson laugh instead.
Whitey just lets the Kenyans win all the marathons to make them feel better.
Really all of the track events.
Jogging was an outgrowth from NZ, popularized by Bill Bowerman, but was hardly limited to Oregon. So evil how an activity that uses sneakers as pretty much the only equipment manages to disallow non-whites from doing it. It’s the shackles, right?
Black people don’t run, this is known.
Just another sector of non-essential (*spit*) jobs.
So the AG is not the president’s “wingman”?
Host Chris Hayes asked, “[O]n a sort of scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being like an absolute rule of law emergency, 1 being the kind of normal back and forth of democratic politics, where do you place the moment we’re in right now?”
Holder responded, “I think we’re at a pretty consistent 9. What we have is a president who is bound and determined to delegitimize those parts of the government that he thinks pose the greatest threat to him. That is the Justice Department, the FBI, the intelligence community, as well.”
After referencing the president’s comments about “Obamagate,” Holder added, “It’s all part of a plan to somehow make those institutions weaker so that he can do the kinds of illicit things that he’s been doing. And he’s facilitated by this attorney general. This attorney general is actually complicit in this by weakening these institutions. This is an attorney general who’s supposed to stand up for the people who work for him. And in fact, he is doing all that he can to weaken the very institutions that he leads.”
Well there’s an outright admission that the DOJ is a wholly unaccountable institution, at least in Holder’s eyes. That POS should never have been let anywhere near the levers of power.
The DOJ should be dismantled and the authority devolved to the states except for maybe dealing with pirates and terrorists.
Would change nothing. We are all pirates (let he who is without a bootleg mp3 or video throw the first thumb drive) and terrorists now.
Given that the Attorney General is appointed, I’m not sure where this idea comes from. Practically speaking, an AG or other cabinet-level appointee has to play ball with the bureaucracy if he wants to accomplish something. But the reason they are appointed by the President and not simply promoted from the ranks is precisely to keep some accountability of the unelected portion of the executive branch to the electorate.
Journalism professor lectures Musk about SCIENCE
One might think that Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, would be among the billionaire business leaders with the best understanding of the science and public health risks of the coronavirus; after all, his wealth is based on his science and engineering acumen. But, instead, he is seemingly treating the pandemic like it’s a game of The Sims, in which his choices are nothing more than tactics to win a challenge in a virtual world.
But unlike in the video game, Musk’s choices — like reopening his California factory on Monday without a county-approved safety plan to address worker safety in a post-coronavirus world — can have life-and-death consequences.
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Clearly, Musk is in no mood to contemplate the reasoning behind the shelter-in-place order or the safety plan required to reopen beyond minimum basic operations — namely, the health of his employees. What mattered to him was the setback to his production schedule. Or, to put it in terms of The Sims, he had just lost “energy points.”
And what do billionaires do when they’re incensed about losing energy points? You guessed it: File a lawsuit (in his case, against Alameda County) and invite the cops to arrest him.
It’s as if Musk doesn’t understand that he is not the protagonist in this story and his employees are not virtual characters who say cute things like “dag dag” instead of “goodbye”; they are human beings, and their lives are being unethically put at risk by this reopening without a plan in place. And, apparently, not even the birth of his baby last week could soften his stance on the eternal question of people or profits.
Maybe Musk is in a better position then you to judge the lockdown, you credulous nitwit. It’s entirely possible he knows more about the reliability of models than you. But keep whining about PEEPUL BEFORE PROFITZ like a good little class warrior.
From what I understand, Musk isn’t requiring people to report to work, only those who want to. The author here is full of shit.
He can’t require people to work. Only the government has that power (not authority).
It is worse than you think. He’s not forcing them, he’s probably paying them more money!
Literally damning their souls to Hell by making them succumb to Greed (one of the seven deadly sins).
“David Frum
@davidfrum
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Mar 15
The reason it’s important to blame Trump’s leadership for the country’s predicament is not to score points in some political game – but because Trump remains leader and he continues to make *new* terrible decisions atop the old ones.”
Pricks abound.
We’re fucked aren’t we?
It depends on how many swing voters believe the spin.
Pushing boundaries of SEC regulations — while serious enough — only involves people’s money, though, and not their lives. Trying to evade public safety orders by moving your production line and your employees to a state with fewer precautions, or simply defying the state’s request to implement a plan for workers’ safety, shows a stunningly cavalier attitude toward your workers’ lives.
Furthermore, some of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country have been in other factories, forcing many of those companies to close facilities even in states without shelter-in place orders and seek special protections from the president of the United States to avoid lawsuits from their employees. Why, then, would a business owner question California authorities when they ask you to ensure workers’ safety before ordering them back to work? Especially when the nation’s best strategies to contain the outbreak debuted in California?
Yeah, okay. Just keep repeating your catechism, and you’ll go to Heaven.
Yay, Minnesoda Glibs. The local newspaper is dutifully preparing the public to accept another month of lockdown.
The GOP response got relegated to the very bottom of the story. And their big stick is that they won’t vote for the $2B of pork spending in the bonding bill if he doesn’t end the emergency.
The comments are refreshingly scathing of the gov.
The Minnesoda tax cattle must be getting restless. Minnesoda health people are going to start including “probable” CV19 deaths now. Those juiced up numbers will hopefully scare the rubes back into compliance!
as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities in Minnesota continued to rise
They expected the cumulative numbers to drop?
Are any of the Republican legislatures pushing the legality of this? On that same matter, have you come across a good article detailing Walz’ authority? I pulled up the Minnesota Constitution a few weeks back and couldn’t find much commentary on emergency powers. I did manage to stumble across a page listing emergency powers under statutes, but I don’t recall seeing anything regarding the length of time a governor can exercise these powers.
SJWednesday: Obviously We Should All Be Living In Self-Sufficient Kibbutz
So a bunch of people at an extremely isolated facility that ultimately isn’t closed to the world got the cough. That’s not surprising at all.
You mean to tell me disease spreads along corridors of commerce? 0_o
Clearly we need to shut down everything, forever. Just sit in your home until you die.
As an introverted misanthrope, I’m totally ok with that.
As an introverted misanthrope who is also a crass materialist, I’m totally not ok. Wealth is stuff; id rather be wealthy than impoverished.
Somebody said to me “why do you care if the lockdown ends? You hate people.”
I replied I hate people but I like the services they render.
Something something money in politics.
The move is part of a $60 million nationwide effort by the political arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, an organization co-founded by the former New York City mayor, and underscores Arizona’s more competitive political climate.
Dubbed “Gun Sense Majority: Arizona,” Everytown’s plan is to create an organization to send mailers, run digital and TV ads, make phone calls and recruit new voters.
Its efforts will encourage support for Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and Mark Kelly, the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate. But those efforts could grow to include U.S. House races and will also target races in five districts in Arizona’s state House and Senate.
Arizona’s newly evolving political landscape could help settle the race for the White House and control of the U.S. Senate.
“We see Arizona as one of the most important battlegrounds for gun safety in the country,” said Charlie Kelly, a senior political adviser for Everytown.
The NRA is buying our Democracy!!
In shit Romanian news publishes, young children are all little heroes for bravely weathering lockdown.
You can’t disenfranchise all of those CA voters who died from Covid who were no doubt going to vote Democrat. #countallvotes
It’s what they would’ve wanted.
I thought after death all Democrats just moved to Chicago to vote there.
I’m laughing because I see a bunch of party big wigs staring at a big bag of ballots from known CV-19 victims and teeming with the virus telling some poor staffer to “get in there and count those votes” and then running from the room.
You know the fat cats are willing to sacrifice a few flunkies to get those votes.
That leads to an interesting question in general.
If someone mails their ballot before election day, but then dies before election day, is their vote removed as invalid?
In the ranks of dead voting, that is probably not even statistical noise.
These people are truly vile.
I would be surprised that they would take the same risks they inflict on the serfs. Remember that these are the people that get mad when the riff raff don’t take their orders to stay home seriously and interfere with them being able to move around freely. We need to be under house arrest so our masters can keep living their lives without having to worry about catching something from the hoi-piloi.
we don’t want them evil capitalists refusing patients do we? They should be fully equipped for hospital grade quarantine anyway.
Yeah, that’s pretty bad. She obviously knew the order was dangerous and she should have resigned rather than give it.
Actually it sounds like the Mom was the smart one who decided to get the fuck out.
“My
sondaughter has been fucked up from the get go. No way I’m going to rely on her to do the right thing”No way the Commissioner resigns. Expecting her to not kill a ton of people via bad decisions is like super-transphobia or something.
I wouldn’t blame someone for spitting on that tranny bitch.
Spitting?
I’m at the point they deserve a little more than that.
“My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak,” Levine said. The health secretary’s admission came after local station ABC27 found out about the move.
“My mother is 95 years old. She is very intelligent and more than competent to make her own decisions,” said Levine, who in 2015 became the first transgender cabinet member in Pennsylvania’s state government.
My mom knew not to take my advice.
Uffda. Should have kept reading. You and I agree that the Mom is the smart one in the family.
That is the ugliest governor in US history.
Fight me.
Rick Scott.
Or Health secretary. UGH. *Gets moar laotion*
Gets moar Laotion
You can take the boy out of Wisconsin, but you can’t take the Jeff Dahmer out of that Wisconsin boy
Poor man’s Ed Gein.
The Oregon school marm.
So who here is going to become a transvestite, put a D behind their name, and run for president?
Just because you are a transvestite does not mean you put a D in your behind. Some trans are hetero.
And if Mayor Pete couldn’t get the nomination simply by putting a D in his behind, I doubt that trannies are that much more powerful in the official Democrat Grievance Matrix.
They are powerful symbols to be manipulated in front of the correct audiences – but not to really be in power.
connecting with downthread…Deidre McCloskey for LP nomination?
Cuomo’s order forcing nursing homes to accept covid patients killed over 5,000 people. New Jersey had the same rule and almost half our virus deaths were nursing home residents.
If I wanted the death numbers to spike, I can’t imagine a better way.
A face mask you’d be proud to wear.
https://templaran.com/collections/hannya-kabuki?fbclid=IwAR2nI3Nt9P54Ffd735PpA0Hql5L8Fm37jRU0gBEOqB50zh3Ni1Nx6zmdqTM
Speaking of masks… Quarantine theater. If the culture moves (more) to masks as a fashion accessory, I’m going to be even less cool.
Also my electric kettle was delivered today. I set it to 80 degrees as a test but my thermopop shows 82… close enough for coffee and tea I suppose.
What I found it annoying is when I was deciding what to get for most the reviews were all focuses can it maintain 40 degrees or whatever for baby formula. Who gives a shit? More reviews on tea and coffee.
No gooseneck though. But it is black like the rest of my kitchen and I got a good discount.
For most coffee you want 88°C
Please someone tell me what “diagnosed with the disease” means.
1. You’re an asymptomatic carrier?
or
2. You’re in the process of coming down with it?
It means you can be legally claimed as a COVID statistic for purposes of insurance reimbursement.
Blue/Green FACT Checked!
Same thing as being diagnosed with the flu. Test shows active virus. Anywhere between asymptomatic carrier and on death’s door.
Most people diagnosed with the flu don’t get tested.
Doesn’t it mean you have a measurable viral load whether you’re showing symptoms or not? Gotta be something like that.
It means the disease is in your system.
After referencing the president’s comments about “Obamagate,” Holder added, “It’s all part of a plan to somehow make those institutions weaker so that he can do the kinds of illicit things that he’s been doing.
List those illicit things.
1) Allowing guns to run rampant killing innocents by barring the DOJ from engaging in gun running to gin up support for more gun laws
2) Allowing dark money and wrong think to influence elections by barring the IRS from rejecting applications from deplorables
3) Allowing Russians to control our government by barring the FBI from wire tapping people they just know are bad
“1) Allowing guns to run rampant killing innocents by barring the DOJ from engaging in gun running to gin up support for more gun laws”
That abuse of power ordered by Obama and executed by Holder was a fucking act of war: and the Mexicans now want to know why.
But I doubt the Obama defenders will risk talking about this (as they do with all sorts of other things) since it undermines their propaganda about how scandal free Obama was…
These people are so committed to that belief, they will go to their deaths with it.
Yeah, religious fanaticism-like adherence to falsehoods is not something I find appealing. I guess the problem is with me.
Mainstream media reporting (sans Fox) was virtually devoid of any reports of a scandal in Obama’s administration. Therefore, his administration was scandal free. /Mainstream Media
Like, I dunno, running guns to the Mexican drug cartels in an effort to garner public support for gun control laws. That sort of thing.
SJWednesday: Commies Love The Family Unit
I read it as cummies love the family unit and was intrigued.
Incentive, how does it work?
Inmates in California jails purposefully tried to infect themselves with the coronavirus because they believed they could be released, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a news conference Monday that surveillance videos showed inmates in L.A. County jails trying to infect themselves by taking sips from the same bottle of hot water, “sniffing out of a common mask” and passing around a styrofoam cup to share.
“Now, they’re sharing the hot water from the dispenser in the same bottle,” he said at the news conference. “Right after this video was taken, a nurse came to take temperatures. With the hot water, they were trying to falsely elevate their temperature readings to generate the symptoms of COVID-19.”
Ferris Bueller approves.
We need to stop using the word “capitalism,” it would be much better to call it innovism.
Professor Deirdre McCloskey on the ASI’s ‘Unfreezing the Economy’ Webinar:
https://twitter.com/ASI/status/1260519377138524160
yeah… I am not really a fan of the word capitalism, but…
I prefer free markets, but I’m not opposed to the word capitalism.
I am not exactly opposed but it has to many connotations so I like to be more clear.
Capitalism is what you use to emphasize words.
It hasn’t been capitalism for a long time anyway.
Capitalism assumes that the lender assumes risk and only lends what they have in deposits. Instead the lender is backstopped by the central bank and deposits are only a tiny fraction of loans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOIEGz7o_s
Le covid 19 ou La covid 19
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/le-covid-19-ou-la-covid-19
I don’t speak frog so who cares?
Is it offensive that COVID-19 *isn’t* feminine or would it be offensive if it *was*? Or is this one of those “Heads I win, tails you lose” sort of things?
Are you mocking some grievance studies major’s PhD dissertation?
Talk about lacking ambition, I would mock EVERY grievance studies PhD dissertation.
Google Translated:
Covidx
Covid XIX
Pretty Funny – Kevin James running from the Karens.
I think that’s the first funny thing he’s done in years.
I’ve seen better but it beats Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
God, I hope this is true.
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1260565846746959872
CNN promoting teenage activist Greta Thunberg as an expert panelist for its next “Coronavirus: Facts and Fears” town hall.
How long before one of the major players at CNN just throws their hands up and says “I just can’t do this shit anymore”?
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore”?
And anyone that dares question the stupidity of those that have vesting this “expertise” in a moron of a child will be accused of being the dumb/evil ones too, right?
If she’s smart enough to be a climate expert at such a young age she should be able to grasp epidemiology and virology without too much trouble.
To be fair, her grasp of epidemiology is probably just as good as the other “experts”*.
*I’m looking at you Neil Ferguson.
Literal LOL. It’s so stupid it has to be true.
Gotta feel sorry for the Babylon Bee. If true, how would you satirize that?
Bee: Infant appointed to…
I can’t find them referring to her as anything other than a ‘climate activist’, The Coronvirus F&F town hall they are promoting has no Greta listed just Al Gore and Spike Lee, and neither is being promoted as an ‘expert’ although I don’t know why anyone would care what Al or Spike has to say about it.
Al Gore was Vice President, so i think that entitles him to be listened to on anything.
Oh yeah, and I forgot that he also invented the internet.
The guy did make a cool billion peddling marxist/fascist drivel to morons. Talk about using capitalist practices to get rich by fooling morons to part with their good money…
Isn’t that behavior what caused people to be called robber barons?
robber barons
Gore sold hot air, so he doesn’t qualify.
To be a true robber baron, you must sell gasoline or a car or the steel it’s made of at half the price it has ever been before to someone who has never made so much money or been so comfortable and safe in their life. That is how you truly earn the hatred of everyone. See also: Bill Gates.
“Oh yeah, and I forgot that he also invented the internet.”
#metoo – a few years ago while I was working a security job where Al Gore happened to be staying… standing in the lobby of a hotel, the current Mrs. Gore walked past and I greeted her (I was supposed to kinda blend in) and a second later Al is right in front of me so I greet him as well – he shakes my hand in response as he says “Good morning” and I wish I had had the presence of mind to thank him for the internet.
On the environment front, it will interesting to see how this plays out and if it’s used as a model elsewhere: youth activists in Australia file lawsuit against proposed new coal mine saying it will violate their human rights.
“She’s going to go back to Copenhagen and live a very righteous life as an international environmental celebrity in a wealthy city surrounded by extraordinary modern infrastructure, most of which was built with fossil fuels. That’s Greta Thunberg’s future and I would like that future for everybody else on the planet.”
Ted Nordhaus
Shouldn’t Greta be clinging to life after the ravages of an out of control coronavirus ransacked the country of Sweden after it refused to lock down?
I’ve been staying away from here because everything in the world was making me angry. And it’s not good for my health.
Quarantine has been …ok for me. I still have a job, and working from home may be permanent, which is something I’ve wanted for a while. But my salary was cut 15%, which means I’m making less than I have in a decade, which sucks. Firm says it’s a 6 month measure but we’ll see.
My county and the one to the south are the only ones still on full lockdown in the state (mostly because between the two counties, there are about 50% of the cases in the state). Surprisingly, people haven’t been dropping dead like flies in the rest of the state. I’m sure that’s disappointed some people. My mom (65) is sheltering at home with my grandmother (92), getting deliveries from either me or from Instacart. The wife (receptionist at a yacht chartering/staffing company) was out of work for 6 weeks, went back for a week and a day, company was told that they’re not “essential” and therefore couldn’t work, and left work again. Now she may be back next Monday if the rumors about this county reopening then is true.
My in laws are in parkland. They called to see what it’s like in Orange County now that it’s the Wild West. Lol. They are some of the most paranoid people in the world. They claim even if the lockdown is lifted they won’t go outside. It must be miserable to be that afraid all the time.
Mom hasn’t been out in months.
We go over for Mothers’ Day and she has sanitized the house. You’re protecting us from you, Ma?
Logic doesn’t enter into it.
My parents are the opposite. They have a party planned for the 30th. I called to see if it is still on. They were confused. “Why the hell wouldn’t it be?”
Yeah, mine too. We’re over at their house frequently. My dad is very much a social distancing skeptic.
Mater Dean has a history of pneumonia and is in her late 70s, and is staying home (she didn’t go out a lot anyway). If we visited, I am confident it would be a totally normal visit. I might shower and change clothes as soon as we got there and before getting in range of her or doing anything else, but that would be about it.
Pater Dean typically had lunch with his cronies every day, ran errands, etc. He’s just a lot more social.
Pater Dean and couple of his cronies (all around 80, one of them a retired doctor with an infectious disease subspeciality) went fishing with us over this past weekend. Zero social distancing – we bro-hugged on meeting and leaving for the trip, shared a table for meals, shared vehicles, etc.
My mom didn’t even let me in the house. I talked to her and my grandmother from in front of their garage while they stood in the house.
They are doing that with their grand son that lives in the next neighborhood. “Driveway visits”. So sad, but its for THE GREATER GOOD.
My wife’s niece has gone full batshit.
She has tables set up in the garage with times and isolation periods written on them. One is for mail, another for groceries, yet another for Amazon, etc…
My MIL, who’s a social butterfly, is living with her right now and about to go out of her mind. She hasn’t been out of the house in a month and has been forbidden to come within six feet of her son and DIL, who come to visit and set up chairs across the driveway because their daughter demands it.
We fucked up people’s psyches and that will never change.
It’s sad.
For this. smh.
because everything in the world was making me angry
Funny, this is one of the few places I find to be sane, and something of a refuge.
This is pretty much the only place I spend significant time for exactly that reason.
Tacticool Auction in MD
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Something happened. Some people did some things.
“The scope and speed of this downturn are without modern precedent, significantly worse than any recession since World War II. We are seeing a severe decline in economic activity and in employment, and already the job gains of the past decade have been erased,” Powell said.
Powell said the recovery is largely dependent on a number of questions surrounding the virus, such as how long it will take for treatments to arise, whether the end of social distancing will spur new outbreaks and when consumer and business confidence will return.
“The answers to these questions will go a long way toward setting the timing and pace of the economic recovery,” he said. “Since the answers are currently unknowable, policies will need to be ready to address a range of possible outcomes.”
While he indicated the Fed will continue to bring all of its power to bear on stabilizing the economy and financial markets, Powell indicated that the biggest future response may have to come from Congress.
“Additional fiscal support could be costly, but worth it if it helps avoid long-term economic damage and leaves us with a stronger recovery. This tradeoff is one for our elected representatives, who wield powers of taxation and spending,” he said.
Only the the government can save us.
Help, Big Nanny!
ReopenNH is sponsoring a “Christian Worship Service” at the State House steps at noon on May 16th. According to the facebook event page, this is the first in a series of civil disobedience events.
Despite not being Christian, I will go. Glibs meet-up?
Free Ohio Now is planning rallies again this Saturday. Details are still being put together for most of the counties.
Excellent.
The pols inside will probably think y’all are kneeling for them.
The State House is empty on Saturdays.
I think it might still be closed due to Lil Rona.
So in quarantine activities for Pie, I am doing an online wine tasting tonight. They will also allow us to buy at a discount en primeur but a minimum of 6 bottles which is more than I usually buy of 1 wine.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/robert-pattinson-batman-workout-tenet-chris-nolan-release-date-a9510296.html?amp
Robert Pattinson refuses to work out constantly for Batman role because he doesn’t want to ‘set a precedent’
He says that actors who lift weights all the time are ‘part of the problem’
You’re an entertainer. If you don’t entertain, you’re of no value.
He fancies himself an artiste no doubt.
Like Tony Clifton.
I think he has a point about realistic body image for men, but at the same time you’re playing a super hero. It’s hard to be “super” when you’re normal.
Especially when you’re playing a character who’s main defining trait is an obsessive level of training and planning.
I don’t really mind. Val Kilmer is probably the best Batman actor and he definitely wasn’t all that buff.
I actually meant to say Michael Keaton there and not Val Kilmer, but Kilmer works too.
Christian Bale imo.
Adam West was a physical specimen. He could punch somebody and a “zoink” would come out of their face.
I think that is his point. Steve McQueen was a bad ass, but he wasn’t sporting cum-gutters.
I don’t give a shit about buff Batman, but the way he phrased it … “part of the problem” … annoys me. What problem? Stop acting like you’re a political hero or some shit.
I never got the realistic body image. I never expect to look like someone whos full time job is to look good. It’s like saying steph curry set unrealistic standards for my 3 point shooting.
Trying to figure out how that miscasting even came about.
then again I don’t went to set a precedent of watching Pattinson as batman so we all good.
The entire point of movies like that is to represent an idealized image of a person.
Gonna have to disagree there.
A superhero movie? What are superheroes if not caricatures of what people would like to be but cannot actually be?
Modern mythology?
Well, that’s the thing. They’re super. The explanation for their beyond-human abilities is that they possess something mere mortals don’t. Getting buff is something we humans can actually do.
Of course, part of Batman’s story is that he’s not super. He’s very wealthy, very intelligent, and very driven but he is not a super. He’s supposed to be at the absolute edge of what a “normal” human can do. So, in this particular case, Pattinson’s position falls kind of flat. Batman is supposed to be unrealistic but not impossible.
Promo photo from the new Batman movie?
Is Batman supposed to sparkle?
The thing I noticed in those Barr clips is in the one Chuck Todd and the Twatters used Barr gives the history answer in a close-up shot. In the full video he says it in a wide shot. Which one aired? Did CBS air two different cuts? Or did CBS release a different cut to right-thinkers? Or did the comparison clip get released separate?
Every cut, crop, frame is an editorial choice. And all of those choices are intentional.
I know. But I’m pointing out they are different footage, how did two different shots for that take emerge, neither were manipulated in post to change the shot, so it was someone with the original footage.
Cambridge, MA bar owner turns his bar into a Lil Rona antibody testing site. He gets shut down.
A bar-restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts has been forced to close its doors again amid the coronavirus pandemic after it was transformed into a testing site.
Peter Stein, owner of Wit’s End at 1248 Cambridge St., wanted to provide antibody testing for people who may have had coronavirus, according to the restaurant’s social media pages.
Blood samples were sent to a commercial lab, according to the posts, and people were charged a fee for the service and for the cost of the test itself. But it wasn’t long before the city shut the operation down.
According to a LinkedIn newsletter called “Beyond the Call,” Stein partnered with his brother – a Dr. Benjamin Stein of Manhattan, New York – to get the site up and running, bringing back employees that had been laid off.
Well, was he also serving beer?
The one thing annoys me about the Texas shutdown is that we’re already on phase 3 starting Friday and “bars” (even those that serve food) are still shutdown. On what justification? That’s b.s.
Texas!
where you can drink whilst you drive . . . so let’s repeal that
where you can peaceably journey . . . so long as you leave your home county
where you can’t carry a gun . . . well, here’s a license but you gotta conceal
where you can open carry . . . well, here’s two signs to put up in your window if you don’t like that
I’ll never get over the fact that the Texas ethos is pure and perfect . . . and it’s execution is random, unreconciled, and moronic.
The Clash of “Ideals” and “Reality” has been on my mind a lot lately. I think having Heroes, and Ethos are good, but at the same time can cause trouble because they never meet the expectations in reality. Moreover, as you allude, often Ideals are used to hide otherwise nefarious people who have no meaning to live up to them but use them to mask their real intentions.
The failing to meet Ideals is often used by their critiques to show that those ideals are wrong, impracticable or that anyone who holds them is a hypocrite.
Must see TV: CNN will air a “Coronavirus Town Hall” featuring….um….Greta Thunberg. Because the country is holding its breath as to the very deep thoughts of an autistic Swedish child.
Huh…..somehow I missed straff mentioning this earlier. Oh well.
HOW DARE YOU IGNORE CLIMATE CHANGE AND ME!!! THIS STUPID CORONAVIRUS ISN’T EVEN REAL, YOU CAN’T SEE IT LIKE I CAN SEE CARBON AND POLLUTION!
Are you saying that the world’s entire anti-pandemic strategy isn’t best represented by a retarded child?
The bastards, I checked their entire site and reported back when I found nothing, now I look like an asshole.
I wouldn’t say that is what makes you look like an asshole 🙂
CNN Is notorious for trying to make good people look bad. You should take it as a badge of honor.
That’s what you get for looking for something good from CNN.
Gotta give Schlichter credit when it’s due….
The sad fact is that this is accurate but would result in accusations of hate speech.
Went to the Gym for the first time in two months this morning (they opened up last week, but reduced hours, and i haven’t been able to make it till today). Damn it feels good to go and pound some iron. I knew the mental health aspect was starting to affect me, but not how much.
What state are you in? Jealous.
Utah. I don’t know if the Gym in my county was ever forced to be closed, but they had voluntarily closed before the shutdowns, and opened up again last week. It was actually really nice. Had Antiseptic everywhere and plenty of wipes so everything could be wiped down after use. They said they are going to go to a system where you request appointments via an app, so that might be nice. I like it when there’s not a lot of people at the gym.
In Texas they were open longer than most places but at half capacity, and I found that awesome.
Governor Ducey (Idiot-AZ) allowed gyms to open effective today, as long as they meet the usual string of micromanagement bullshit social distancing crap. Not sure if he demanded that customers wear masks while working out, but probably.
Of course, somebody who is working out is breathing so hard that the mask is utterly impractical. Plus, when you breathe that hard, the six foot social distancing is even more ludicrous.
My suspicion on all of this is that it will become a scofflaw post haste. Unless you’re a high level endurance athlete, a mask is going to serious inhibit a good workout. Eos and Mountainside open on Monday. Eos is requiring appointments lasting no more than an hour. So that’s a no from me. Mountainside appears to be doing neither of those things and is merely encouraging masks. So it sounds like you might be able to get a workout in at Mountainside. I have heard nothing from LA Fitness/Esporta.
This guy has 4 screenshots showing the DC mayor pushing off the surge until next month when it inevitably never happens in the current month.
Reopen Maryland protest in Annapolis Friday
Protesters are expected to gather for at least the third time to call for the reopening of Maryland Friday in Annapolis. This time, they plan rally on foot.
The protestors take aim at restrictions instituted by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to curb the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. As of Wednesday morning, the virus had killed at least 1,694 Marylanders and infected almost 35,000 more.
I think that here it all depends on whether or not Fatty Hogan has been able to hoard enough Cheesy Poofs to last through next winter.
Excellent data on this site showing nursing home information by state and comparisons with previous years – click on data to see more information.
https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/
I may have to stop reading stuff like this
The Federal Reserve has poured trillions of dollars into the financial system over a matter of weeks. But soon it must do even more to confront the long-lasting economic wounds that will be left in the wake of the pandemic.
Returning the U.S. to robust growth after the lockdown is lifted will mean dealing with mass unemployment, permanently shuttered companies and a buildup of mountains of debt for both households and businesses.
“Even when we’re beyond the immediate health crisis, this very difficult period is going to leave a legacy that will make it harder for people to get back on their feet,” former Fed Chair Janet Yellen said in an interview.
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Powell himself has suggested Congress will need to spend more to help businesses and citizens weather the crisis. But while U.S. lawmakers have already approved record amounts of spending to bail out the economy, Republicans are starting to sound the alarm about the deficit, and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow says formal negotiations on another relief package are on pause. Debt concerns, plus the inevitable partisan gridlock that’s likely to return, may limit lawmakers’ role in boosting growth when the emergency is over.
That will prompt Americans to continue to look to the Fed, which has few such constraints. Under temporary emergency powers, the central bank is already launching a vast series of lending programs with the goal of helping businesses, as well as state and local governments, survive what will potentially be the worst economic slump since the Great Depression. It has also saturated credit markets with massive amounts of funds to keep them functioning.
Powell said at a press conference late last month that the central bank would use all of its tools “forcefully, proactively, and aggressively until we’re confident that we’re solidly on the road to recovery. And also, to assure that that recovery, when it comes, will be as robust as possible.”
Instead of obsessing about central planning schemes and total dependence on government policy we could try, I don’t know, going back to the sort of economic policies which made this the richest and most powerful nation on the planet. But that would require relinquishing control, and taking the boot of the peons’ faces.
*taking the boot OFF the peons’ faces.
A Tooth Changes Everything We Know About Humans Reaching Europe
https://www.haaretz.com/amp/science-and-health/.premium-a-tooth-changes-everything-we-know-about-humans-reaching-europe-1.8836555
Dont trust bulgarians trying to steal our records
IANA Anthropolotist, but neither is the guy who wrote the article you linked to. Seems like a single tooth is a bit much to be restructuring everything. IFHSJ (I fucking hate science journalisim)
seems like too little*
Did they find the tooth in one of those Bosnian pyramids?
XX disclaimer: I am venting.
Husband informs me I’ve been grinding my teeth so hard at night it a) wakes him up and b) sounds like I’m eating rock candy. *sigh*
I’ve been listening to ambient/new age music and doing deep breathing exercises while I’m working but it’s apparently not working.
I need a massage.
My wife was going to acupuncture to control migraines. Somebody decided that was non-essential so she is no longer free to associate with those people.
It happens. My wife used to do that too. Had to sleep with a mouthpiece for a while.
Same here. Grinding your teeth at night is really bad for them. You might look into getting a mouthpiece.
“new age music”
Oh god, now she’s going to buy a Prius.
I guess this is where I confess that Mr. Mojeaux once won a Prius.
Is that really defined as “winning”?
Aw….my wife used to have a Prius. It was a perfectly good car.
If I am going to drop a few thousand dollars into a piece of equipment it had better give me enjoyment somewhere similar to what I would feel had I spent that sum on a registered machinegun. I know that’s a high bar for a automobile but it’s my money and my time. I actually don’t care what the gas mileage is if it makes me smile while I’m driving it.
1. Dealership bought the car back.
2. Tax law that year gave 100% allowance on owning a hybrid/electric vehicle so no income on the win.
Sooooo yes. But it all went into the house (prolonging the misery), sooooo no.
You decide.
Is that really defined as “winning”?
If you sell it and pocket the cash, sure.
I had that happen to me a year or so back. Not so bad that my wife was complaining, but I had constant jaw pain radiating into headaches. It really sucked, but it has mostly resolved itself. 100% stress related. I feel a bit of tightness today, but the stressors are short-lived, so it’ll go away next week.
If you have a diffuser, I found that lavender oil helped me sleep better and thus reduced the jaw pain. It’s not a cure, but even if it’s a placebo, it’s a pleasant one.
“lavender oil”
Oh god, now he’s going to buy a Prius too.
…with a tampon dispenser
I guess this is where I say I own a hybrid (not a Prius, though… My balls are shriveled enough from the lavender oil)
I had that throughout the entire Obama presidency.
Just kidding.
No. We have that in my family and it’s pretty much genetic. We all do it.
I had that throughout the entire Obama presidency.
Just kidding.
No. We have that in my family and it’s pretty much genetic. We all do it.
That can cause permanent damage.
I’ve done it since I was a kid, but my discomfit with it is the amount of stress that is making me do that.
Your dentist can get a very small bite block made. Not cheap but better than the store-bought junk and mine has lasted over 15 years.
I may do that. Husband said I’ve been doing it for a while but last night it was particularly bad.
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/doylestown/reopening-supports-holding-doylestown-demonstration
Local protest this morning.
Foochy fatigue?
But Fauci’s Tuesday testimony clashes with the GOP’s vision, and it’s fueling growing fatigue among Republicans with one of the government’s most trusted public health leaders at a critical moment.
“There’s a spectrum of everything. And I think he’s on the overly cautious end of the spectrum,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said after parrying with Fauci at the hearing. “I don’t think he’s doing it because he’s a bad person, but if we’re overly cautious and we wait until all infectious disease goes away… we’ll wait forever and the country is going to be destroyed.”
Sen. Mike Braun said Paul’s view will be vindicated.
“When we get this in the rearview mirror and do the dispassionate debrief, Sen. Paul’s going to be closer to right than Fauci,” said the Indiana Republican, who also attended the hearing. “I never did like the idea that you treated the entirety of the country, and even counties within a state, the same way.”
The nation’s top infectious disease expert testified to the Republican-controlled Senate that there could be “serious” consequences if states open up too early, and he urged them to follow federal guidelines to prevent a second wave of outbreaks. Fauci also downplayed the prospects of a quick vaccine or treatment for the disease this fall.
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“He has a very valuable voice in this discussion. He’s got a field of expertise that’s important to hear from,” said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). “But it’s only one of many considerations we have to make as a society. Because we have to make trade-offs.”
The idea of spending trillions more in federal funds after already plunging nearly $3 trillion into the response also makes conservatives like Toomey queasy. Under the current Republican line of thinking, the best response is to carefully reopen economies.
Republikkkinz. SCIENCE deniers. Profitz over peepulz. Exploiters.
Can’t they see this is the only way to stop the carnage?
SCIENCE DENIERS!!!!
Now, let’s talk to Greta Thunberg for a REAL expert opinion…..
Fauci / Gretel 2020!
“one of the government’s most trusted public health leaders”
Trusted by WHO?
Whom.
Unless you were making a CCP joke.
CalMatters lists every lawsuit filed against Gauleiter Newsom’s cower-in-place orders
Cool link bro
The coming avalanche of lawsuits is mind-boggling. The payouts some states are going to have to make may ensure they never give their governors that much power ever again. As noted above – a bunch of states pretty well exterminated nursing home patients by forcing sick people into them. Those class-action lawsuits should pretty well bankrupt the already broke states.
But if we had to burn it all down to get rid of badorangeman, isn’t it worth it?
That is assuming the courts hold the states liable. I think they are massive takings, but the judges are going to say “Well takings in this case doesnt matter because ….” because they know the states can’t afford it.
Yep.
There’s already been cases getting tossed here in Ohio.
Just wait for when these commercial realestate companies prorate their property taxes. Just wait.
The payouts some states are going to have to make
Its good to see such optimism in These Uncertain Times.
It’s a clear contrast with Democrats who say swifter action is needed to avert Great Depression-like unemployment rates and that not enough is being done to heed Fauci’s warnings.
“Donald Trump’s paying attention to testing and to masks. Because they understand that can help prevent the spread of the virus. And yet for the rest of America: Just get out there and boost the economy,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who questioned Fauci on Tuesday.
Wut?
We have to keep the economy shut down or unemployment will get worse?
Democrats don’t do math and economics. That stuff is racist.
So FiveThirtyEight posted yesterday that the special elections were a litmus test for a possible “blue wave” in November. Republicans were favored in both, but close margins were supposed to foreshadow a blue wave.
Both elections saw huge Republican margins of victory.
Garcia in California is the first House seat won by a Republican were Clinton had more than 50% of the vote in 2016.
Positive sign for Republicans or just a flukey thing?
Certainly recent polls have been horrible for Republicans, but who knows how trustworthy those are nowadays.
Blue Wave is like climate change. It’s always happening or about to happen.
Unfortunately, it happened in 2018 and led to all sorts of nonsense in the House since then.
*where
I think they do indicate a level of current sentiment. Wisconsin may be more interesting than California, since in November California is going to be Blue. But because Red was favored in those elections, how much that tells us, I’m not sure.
this is the correct question for the year
Garcia in California is the first House seat won by a Republican
Did the Dem concede, or are they waiting for LA to finally get around to announcing its results (note: I don’t think saying LA is “counting” votes is really accurate; I suspect they are trying to see if they can plausibly fabricate enough votes to give the win to the Dem).
WRT nothing; Colby is the Nick Gillespie of cheese
It’s terribly bland.
Satire…..but is it, really?
Bad orange man’s approval rating on The Hill’s poll is over 50% now, 46% at CNN. We’re all doomed!