Greetings,
As mentioned last week, we are celebrating Brett’s expansion of his illicit drug empire by shouldering the load for links. Which means this link may be of interest to him or anyone else looking to start a business in Latin America.
Now for the links!
Drug runners in Rio prove once again if there is a demand for a product and service, existing producers will move quickly to accommodate demand.
11 million Mexicans in the tourism industry out of work. Women and minorities hardest hit.
Argentine bishop with ties to Pope Francis continues to not be in prison.
Peruvian villagers detain 5G technicians installing a tower because they fear 5G is spreading Coronavirus.
CBP has a small accounting issue.
Here’s a tune. Have a lovely aftenoon.
“”I don’t think hydroxychloroquine helps. It’s BS. Everything that comes to Brazil from abroad has already been contaminated.””
LOLOLOLOLOL
To be sure.
The wording is interesting it is ruled to be ineffective, not ‘found’ or ‘determined’ to be ineffective.
And perhaps dangerous! We don’t know but maybe!!
So Didier was full of shit?
“Women and minorities hardest hit.”
True, for once.
Are Mexicans considered a minority in Mexico?
No, and keeping it that way is why they send the Guatemalans and Hondurans up to el Norte
“Peruvian villagers detain 5G technicians installing a tower because they fear 5G is spreading Coronavirus.”
que?
¿Por qué? Por qué no.
I’m neither a biologist or electrical engineer, but really?
The 5G conspiracy theories are harmless compared to the stuff that the experts and governments embraced in 2020.
I believe the 5G technicians are probably a significantly higher risk.
I doubt the people in that village are well versed in electromagnetic radiation or biology either. Panicked people will latch onto all sorts of crazy things to assuage their fears, especially if they don’t have the knowledge to parse the bullshit spin from legitimate information.
There are still people out there who swear they can hear wifi signal.
It’s slightly higher pitched than the Taos hum.
Are you seriously unfamiliar with that one? Its not exactly a flat earther thing, but its in the ballpark.
5G is designed to deliver communism, not corona virus.
Chinese communism, at that.
Don’t you Huawei enough, bro?
I tried Chinese communism.
I was capitalist an hour later.
So you’re saying it’s proven science?
I read about things like brain cancer and Chinese spyware, but this isn’t like chemicals in the water that turn the frogs gay, this is like a shade of blue that turns your toaster gay.
Dude, why do you say this? You think viruses cause the Covids, they think microwaves cause the Covids. Have you ever actually seen either a virus or a microwave?
Sure, it’s in the kitchen, right next to my gay toaster.
It is stupid. Everyone knows vaccinations cause the covids!
I was expecting hookers and blow, not dirt bikes and boats. Not sure if I’m disappointed or not.
You know it’s all about them boats ‘n hoes.
Leave it to a government agency to seek new, inventive ways to disappoint.
Why does it matter what type of vehicle a migrant is operating when determining who gets food & medicine?
I’d rather have a new KTM than a high mileage hooker.
A valid assessment.
To be honest, I might flip a coin if ever given that choice. And yes, I have rode both so I know what I am talking about.
I was expecting hookers and blow, not dirt bikes and boats.
Dammit. That’s what I get for going out for dinner. I’m late with the joke.
Oklahoma State RB Chuba Hubbard says he won’t participate in workouts due to coach Mike Gundy’s OAN shirt
With stories like this becoming common and the Republicans announcing record donations. I suspect a silent majority is growing. November could be interesting.
When will the coach apologize or get fired?
Depends. What was OSU’s record last season?
Mike Gundy’s no Cale Gundy, that’s for sure.
I hope he goes off on reporters who insult his players again.
He’s a man, he’s 40.
I’ve been waiting nearly a month for an opportune time to use that quote now.
This might be accurate, but I trust USA Today on this as much as I’d trust the CCP’s characterization of the Epoch Times.
OAN is the only network that reports on the analysis from theconservativetreehouse.com, which, at least wrt the Obamagate, is a much more credible source of information than NYT, WaPo or WSJ.
All I know about them is they have a hot reporter babe that the WHPC voted to kick out of the room, but Donny Two-Scoops brought back in.
It was the only news station I could tolerate and i lost it when i had to switch to comcast.
I’d to see any evidence they lied about anything
Yeah, I’m looking for some help on this too. There’s more than enough right wing whackadoodles to start their own “news network” and populate it with reactionary garbage, but the well has been poisoned so badly, I can’t very well assume OAN is such a thing just because that’s what they’re being called.
“…One America News Network, a far-right, pro-Trump cable news network founded in 2013 and known to push conspiracy theories.”
“…They just report the news. There’s no commentary. There’s no opinions on this. There’s no left. There’s no right. They just reported the news.”
Far right extremists. It is known.
I left off ‘You are either with us or against us’.
NO COMMENTARY?!?
That’s it. They must all be fascists.
I see a struggle session in Mike Gundy’s future.
Can I dream that the school says “tough shit” and references the Bill of Rights?
Then change schools, you pussy.
Eh, it’s his year of eligibility to squander as he sees fit.
It’s amazing but in all honesty the past couple of months had made me forgotten just how divisive and controversial it was to support the fucking sitting president.
Oh wait My bad this is just for wearing a tshirt of a news network that is right wing.
After reading about them, I decided to check them out. Honestly, they don’t seem nearly as extreme as a lot of stuff I find online. How somebody gets “far right” about them, I don’t know.
Dude, Tim Pool and Jimmy Dore are far right meow.
That is just what a Nazi would say.
Anything to the right of MSNBC is far right, since the average prog considers that network impartial.
He should transfer to Evergreen State.
Even considering it’s Stillwater, the coed quality would suffer a massive downgrade.
“CBP also used some of the money for facility services, including heating and air conditioning upgrades, sewer system upgrades and janitorial services.”
That doesn’t sound like a waste.
It’s CBP so probably air conditioning upgrades on the Canadian border, and Heating on the Mexican border.
It can get hot up here under America’s hat.
Someone authorized those purchases. Find out who. Fire them.
Trump, duh.
Garbage comment.
How do you get rich?
Buy an Argentine for what he’s worth, and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth.
“Boogaloo-linked Texas bodybuilder who ‘tried to stir up “guerrilla warfare” against the National Guard, hunt Antifa and kill looters at Black Lives Matter protests’ is charged with running a steroid trafficking ring”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8423035/Texas-bodybuilder-tried-wage-warfare-National-Guard-charged-steroid-trafficking.html
That’s some headline.
“His Instagram posts express an attitude of anti-police brutality and in one post he says we need to normalize seeing armed black people. In a video posted to his Instagram profile he compared the protests to his own protesting for the economy to be reopened after lockdowns”
I’m very confused.
Really? Seems very consistent if you’re an anti-racist anarchist who thinks the USG is the source of all problems.
He was also on the grassy knoll.
So is the media narrative. So they are just throwing everything at it.
Boogaloo::rightwing militial; 2020::1990
same with white-supremacists::racist
I wonder what his Glibs handle is,
Who hasn’t been on in awhile?
I was going to say you.
Sadly, I’m not at my fighting weight anymore.
Also, I’m browner.
*clicks*
That dude is a cartoon character.
There is a dearth of pictures of his co-conspirator, Danielle Bocanegra.
In Thailand, anabolic steroids are completely legal and OTC.
Somehow, they have avoided a plague of roid-raged beasts roaming the streets, tearing the heads off children.
*cue monkey attack videos*
I thought anabolic steroids were a gateway drug to multivitamins?
Sorry guys. I won’t be able to ship steroids to you for a while.
FTA: “The hundreds of contact tracing workers hired by the city under de Blasio’s new “test and trace” campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who’s tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration, City Hall confirmed to THE CITY.”
SCIENCE!!
https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/6/14/21290963/nyc-covid-19-trackers-skipping-floyd-protest-questions-even-amid-fears-of-new-wave
But Bill does want to know if they have been going to Synagogue
Or hanging out at Jew-park. Fixed it for them now.
That’s how they’ll be able to say that there’s no evidence that the protests spread COVID.
I thought contact tracing was when you stand near somebody who’s tripping and start seeing trails?
“South Carolina police release bodycam footage of officer shooting dead a black handcuffed shoplifting suspect outside a Walmart – after cops say he pointed a gun at them”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8422861/Bodycam-shows-South-Carolina-police-shooting-dead-black-handcuffed-man.html
Now they are going to burn down Walmart.
Obviously a false flag orchestrated by Target.
LOL
He had a gun but I didn’t see any pulling or pointing.
It looks like the guy was handcuffed but somehow still had a gun behind his back. I don’t get it. There has to be more to this story. I have no idea what it is or who it will help, but there has to be more.
The Minneapolis PD is not looking any better after the most recent data dump. Concerned Minneapolis 911 dispatcher asked police supervisor to respond to George Floyd scene
Don, you ignorant slut.
“Listen, white people are so scared right now to do anything, to talk about anything, to broach these conversations,” Lemon said. “They’re sort of frozen because they — who wants to be called a racist, right? Who wants people to think that they have a racial blind spot? But this is what I think. I think that—this is going to sound weird, but, every year, I have hydrangeas in my yard, they come back a different color, or a tulip or an orchid. And it’s not because they’re different, it’s because the soil is different, right? It depends on the nutrients in the soil. So, if you grew up in America, you came out of American soil, considering the history of this country […] how can you not be racist? How can you not have racial blind spots? How can you not see that the factory reset in America is whiteness?”
It seems like you want people to be racist even though this is the least racist time in the history of this country.
One of the reasons I think this shit gets so nutty is because things really are so much better than they were in the past.
Kids want to be on the side of Good. They want to fight Evil. Unfortunately there isn’t a lot of Evil to be found anymore. That is why every single instance of hate notes on college campuses turn out to be hoaxes.
But to crank the Drama dial up to 11, you need a bad guy to fight against. So they blow things out of proportion so that they can play at being a hero.
I think you’re truly onto something, Your Holiness.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E18/1014113
There’s plenty of evil left in the world, but in America it is mostly petty evil. The political-media establishment is full of crooks. I’m genuinely a bit surprised that Weinstein and Epstein went down, but the latter “committed suicide” before anyone could be taken down with him (and, mysteriously, the FBI took so long to get his records that they all disappeared). A total cleaning of political house is overdue but the public refuses to do it (Trump notwithstanding, and he’s no saint). But none of these petty evils is as glamorous to go after as toppling the Nazis or abolishing slavery. Plus, the crooks are clever enough to jump on the “right” side of certain issues and deflect criticism from themselves.
So he’s saying he’s racist or that someone should water him every morning?
/unzips/
Go fuck yourself Don.
“…Don Lemon…”
I’m out.
Quite interesting. However, wouldn’t that mean that everyone, regardless of color, all have racial blind spots? It was his analogy after all.
If you have racial “blindspots” then you cannot be racist. Assuming we are keeping the actual definitions of the words. There’s no such thing as unconscious racism. It’s just not possible. Racism requires maintaining a belief. I have no beliefs that I didn’t choose.
‘CBP has a small accounting issue.’ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/customs-border-protection-used-money-meant-food-medicine-dirt-bikes-n1230101
If you like your government-run Customs and Border Protection, you can keep your government-run Customs and Border Protection as long as it is voluntarily funded and the law does not give them an artificial monopoly.
Fundraising versus taxes for abuse, corruption, fraud, and waste?
Donation not taxation.
Can i have my Government-run death camps, as long as they are paid for through Donations?
*opens a gofundme*
Well, the private wall seems to be making more progress than Trump’s wall.
Like SpaceX v. NASA, only on the ground.
I prefer full-on privatization over public-private partnerships as the latter all too often leads to corruption and cronyism. Yet, compared to completely pubsec work, time and time again, contracting it out shows how ineffective civil service bureaucracy can be.
*looks at 42 page municipal contract to purchase a power drill*
Yup
But of course that would never work with cops.
There are some locations where I wonder if there even is such a thing as a purely private enterprise. We literally have offices here for town officials since there are so many things their approvals are required for on a daily basis. And that’s not even considering all the
kickbackstax incentive andbribescorporate community involvement.“On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stripped hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug touted by Trump, of its emergency use authorization for treating coronavirus patients.
It comes after Dr Gary Brisbow, director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority’s medical countermeasure programs requested the FDA revoke the controversial drug’s status.
Already, the FDA had issued a warning about the use of the drug outside clinical trials or hospitals, due to its potential to cause dangerous heart side effects, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommended its use be isolated to trials.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8423273/FDA-REVOKES-emergency-approval-hydroxychloroquine-treat-COVID-19.html
Does it need an emergency use authorization? Doctors prescribe all kinds of shit off-label.
“director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority’s medical countermeasure programs”
Odds that guy has ever collected a non-stolen paycheck?
Their paymasters really want a hugely expensive patented drug to treat the rona – not some 80-year-old generic.
Missing from this conversation: Does it work?
That will be missing from the conversation about the upcoming mandatory vaccine as well.
On a related note, my school sent out notice that, to fight Covid-19, the flu vaccine will be mandatory for students, faculty, and staff. The email did acknowledge that coronavirus and influenza are technically different but fighting influenza is apparently needed to defeat the coronavirus.
I was also informed that wearing a mask will be mandatory. I’m thinking about wearing one with a valve. The valved N95 is less comfortable than the surgical mask that’s 100% theater, but I’m curious if any of the rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth mask zealots have the slightest understanding that the valved mask only protects me.
Jesus for the past 3 months if you mentioned flu and the rona in the same sentence you were a trumper nazi
It’s going to be really funny like it gives 10’s of thousands of children the corona and they have to recall it for year after they rush it to market. The graft on this is already unreal. The books they right about the money pissed away and the effect of the response is going to be unreal.
Even though every time it was claimed to work it had to be used together with zinc, no study that purportedly checked its efficiency included zinc. Let alone the study where the hospital data was simply fabricated.
WTF. It’s already a market tested drug, are they saying it’s not safe for malaria anymore? How fucking corrupt is big pharma? This shit is unreal.
No, the emergency authorization being revoked is only for covid treatment. Doctors can still prescribe it off label.
Off label for covid. Still on label for malaria.
I can expect the evening national news will be positively giddy about this.
“Look, here’s something we really have zero understanding about, but we’re sure it makes Trump look stupid!”
As long as everyone continues to focus on the koolaid and (mostly) ignores Pepcid. That shit is scarcer than a virgin at a porn shoot and I use it on label.
Yup. Probably half the meds I prescribe are “off label”, mostly because once a drug is off-patent and docs find other uses for it, there’s no reason for anyone to spend a fortune to obtain an additional FDA indication. As long as a med is used consistent with community standards, or even if not, if you can suggest a science-based reason for prescribing, it’s absolutely ok, and docs everywhere do it daily. You’d be surprised at some of the most common meds out there never were FDA approved for their current most frequent uses.
Brian, you ignorant slut.
Ellis appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to discuss what Stelter calls the president’s “divorce from reality,” as well as other fair and balanced news items typically covered by the network. Stelter argued the president’s contempt for the liberal media was “aberrant” in the course of America’s history. When Ellis countered that Trump was the first citizen and president able to use his own platform to cut through the fake news narrative, the fake news remark hit a little too close to home for Brian Stelter.
“You understand that like someday you’re going to regret this, right?” Stelter said, as he talked over Ellis. “Someday you’re going to regret this when your kids and grandkids look back at this and you use slurs and smears like fake news to hurt news outlets.”
“Oh, now you’re going to the personal attacks,” Ellis responded. “That’s when you know you lost the debate, Brian.”
Brian continued to claim Ellis would be an embarrassment to her progeny.
“I think in 10 or 20 years if we just sit down and talk about this, you’ll recognize how damaging it was,” Brian said. “How damaging it was to use terms like fake news to attack journalists who are trying to do their jobs.”
And that’s when Ellis had to burst Brian’s bubble: “You’re not a journalist, Brian. You’re an activist. That’s the problem. You have an agenda, and your agenda is anti-Trump,” Ellis said.
Remind me what the provenience of the term Fake News was?
Good point. That was one of the first instances where Trump flipped the script on them wasn’t it?
Yes. In fact it was CNN and Herself that bandied it about the most wrt any claims about her and the emails and her server.
These always seem to boomerang back on the Left. Look at the number of prog scalps #metoo claimed. And they mocked Pence relentlessly pre-metoo.
What happened to the MeeToo thing anyway? I am not hearing much about it lately.
It was still strong when the Dems still thought Joe Biden wasn’t going to clinch the nomination.
It got raped.
##metootoo
They’re saving a #metoo incident for October.
You know, just before the 2016 election we had a mass bout of fake news that went straight down the memory hole: remember the Great Clown Panic of the fall of 2016?
The Russians remember.
That was the best, given how fucking clearly fake it was.
A clown show?
I miss that creepy but harmless panic, it sure beat the hell out of the current ones.
I always thought it was a covert marketing scheme for the release of the then upcoming IT remake.
Clara Bow as a clown?
Really, you should just re-name everything you’re posting to “CNN, you ignorant bag of sluts.”
“You understand that like someday you’re going to regret this, right?”
Like, totally!
Then they came for the Beatles…
https://www.foxnews.com/world/penny-lane-name-debate-slavery
Wow. Imagine.
*screeches in Yoko*
I imagine Yoko Ono not having the IP right to any of her of John’s works, and living in penury as a result.
The Beatles?
Ono! Say it ain’t so.
I hear it’s a long and winding road.
Charlie’s dead, so we no longer have an expert on interpreting Beatles lyrics.
Good. The Stones were better anyways.
Nickleback was better too.
And while we’re on the subject, so was Creed.
Hey! Keep your shirt on, man.
And I could attend their concert as recently as in 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljiTS-3Xlk
The Kinks, The Who and The Yardbirds were better than both, If we’re looking at first wave brit bands.
Agreed (except that you left off The Animals).
Whether or not other bands were “better” is irrelevant. The Beatles were a phenomenon that changed pop music and pop culture forever.
Brilliant!
No, this is true and I am not a Beatles fan.
Pop sucked before the Beatles, and it sucked after the Beatles. All they did was make it suck differently.
I’ll take Winston’s Mom over the Beatles 8 days a week.
The Stones? Is that like The Monkeys?
True story. When I was a freshman in college a guy on our floor had one music cassette tape and it was the Monkeys. He was a nerd and embraced it. He had a Commodore 64 and everything
This will be a bridge too far for the Boomers.
When they come for Elvis they will lose the south
There’s an Elvis bust at the local Chuy’s. I hate to think what will happen when the rioters get wind of it.
I suspect a silent majority is growing.
I think you’re mostly right here. Donald Trump has always had a significant Bradley Effect. My guess is that the current environment has magnified it. The Dems have positioned themselves in a really awful spot. Right now, they’re effectively the party that wants to lock you in your house and let rioters and looters loose. My bubble-leftist friends really do seem like they’re going through the motions when it comes to trying to convince people. They mostly seem to be hoping that people won’t be so rude as to question them. And my sense is a lot of people have given up even bothering trying.
Honestly, I really do think the crap is going to hit the fan if Trump loses. Not so much because of what his supporters will do. But, because of how the left will react if they win. They’ve pushed themselves hard left enough that I don’t think they’re going to much bother with anything even remotely resembling consensus. They’ll rely on a supportive media to maintain the illusion while they attempt a full court press. And I think that will blow things up.
There will be riots if Trump wins, I’d put money on it.
There will be riots.
FIFY
CNN is already prepping the stolen election narrative. The riots are to try and make him lose the election. Once he wins, they’ll contest the election, and if that fails, they’ll go for impeachment again.
The riots are to try and make him lose the election.
Yeah, that seems about right. But, I can’t figure out how that works. Right now, they’re visibly supportive of riots and looting. Is that what they think is going to sweep them on to an electoral victory? That would seem like a surefire way to make Trump seem relatively reasonable.
I think that they think that they can intimidate America into voting for Biden. They may be right. Has the exact opposite effect on me. I wasn’t going to vote for Trump, now I am, dispute not liking him.
He’s got my vote too because the left can’t be allowed to win. If the tactics they’ve been employing succeed we’re in serious trouble.
Anecdotal: Several of my friends have largely apolitical wives, who I have suddenly began hearing rant and rave against the lockdowns and riots with the fever of the recently converted.
…still not voting for 2scoops myself, just observing shit around me.
I’m convinced they wanted the visual of soldiers shooting protesters.
Yes
They will let their cities burn in order to get Trump to step into that mess.
This.
They tried to egg him on into further Middle East conflicts
They tried to get him to entrap himself with Flynn
They tried to get him to go authoritarian with Covid
Now they’re trying to get him to march troops in the city streets
They want him to play the tyrant, to use as proof of his facism, then they want to keep that power for themselves when he’s gone.
Likely. But, what happens if the rioters were to win?
Neither side recognizes the legitimacy of the other. This country is fucked.
I believe the Dems are the rioters. Trump has an advantage in that he’s the anti-riot candidate. Usually, that means he wins in a landslide, but 2020 has been one big lie so far, so anything is possible.
The Dem’s campaign message may as well be, “Vote for us, or we’ll shoot this puppy.”
In 2016 1.2 million voters voted in Georgia GOP primary. Trump won with 500,000 votes.
One week ago, 700,000 Trump voters went to the polls to make sure Trump won a primary election he was unopposed in.
That’s pretty unusual.
Over a million here in PA. I don’t know if that’s unusual or not.
I mean, has it ever happened that an incumbent President, running unopposed in the primary, got more votes than he did in the contested primary he ran to get elected?
700,000 people took the time out of their day to go vote for Donald Trump in a race he could not possibly lose. That says something. I don’t know what it says, but it says something.
I mean, I see that as meaning he’s very popular among his base, but I don’t know how that will translate to the general. He has one thing, his base will turn out. After that, it’s a question of if the left’s base will turn out in sufficient numbers to counter and how the squishy middle will break. Certainly not a bad sign for Trump, but far from guaranteeing a win or anything.
It says it is a religion.
If there are a lot of candidates in the first primary the votes will be split. Voters don’t have that choice in the second primary, so it will be as one sided as a Soviet election.
There was more on the primary ballot than Trump. I took time out of my day to vote because the Republican primary included questions about school choice and 2nd amendment sanctuary counties. I left president blank because I don’t vote for unopposed incumbents. I don’t know how to tell which of those 700k people turned out to vote for Trump and which showed up to vote for something down ballot.
I just read a Polito article where the boots on the ground Republican operatives in all 50 states were interviewed and think Trump will win. One point was that Trump voters are more likely to hang up on or lie to pollsters.
Basically a silent majority thing.
Though I’m still going with “they” won’t let him win. Whether it’s fixed or contested or they just send in the military to remove him.
Soledad O’Brien unpersoning incoming.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-cnn-anchor-soledad-obrien-network-exec-told-her-to-only-have-right-kind-of-black-guests
This is the best timeline. *gets popcorn ready. But seriously why are these liberal institutions always such hotbeds of racism and sexism?
Because they are full of racists and sexists?
I’m eagerly awaiting the day they get Maddow.
It will doubly delicious if it’s over some transphobic stuff. Maybe some sexual harassment of a lesbian too.
Please. Don Lemon is a raving, racist lunatic and he’s not going anywhere. Neither is she.
Lemonhead hates white people. That’s not racist because you can’t be racist against whites. It is known.
Someone is encroaching on Biden’s “King of the Blacks” turf.
I’m pondering the irony of the Russians making this movie in 2020.
https://youtu.be/BVLvQcO7JGk
They built a perfect world full of bliss and harmony.
No thanks.
It’s based on the novel that inspired Orwell and probably Huxley.
It certainly seemed a lot more like Brave New World than 1984.
“We” is the lesser known of the trilogy of best dystopian totalitarian novel. But, like 1984, it was based on someone’s experience with the outcomes of communism. It’s hard to be a leftist after being fucked over by communists.
How do you prevent creative destruction and incentive corruption?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/the-fed-says-it-is-going-to-start-buying-individual-corporate-bonds.html
Locking down the economy. The Fed buying individual bonds.
No matter what you think the dumbest decision possible is, I promise you the FedGov will top it.
Geeze. They are desperate. But if you scare people enough, they will let you just hand cash to big businesses to make the bad pain go away.
https://www.city-journal.org/reflections-on-race-riots-and-police
I think this is the closest summation of my own thoughts re: cops, race, rioting. “Fun” fact: there was a white guy pinned down by cops for 13 minutes while he struggled to breathe. He died. Haven’t seen any murals of him.
And you won’t because white people generally don’t give a fuck about other white people they don’t know.
Nobody cares about cop violence unless it has
the rightsome race elements to spice it up.If cops were patrolling the suburbs like Marines in Fallujah and pinning upper-middle class Karens down until they asphyxiated, it would be a.) a start and b.) the motivation for real police reform in this country. Unfortunately, the issues of class and race are often intermingled. This makes it difficult to see what the root problem is.
This. But I also get the feeling that many of the people who support the total defunding of the police don’t live in those communities either.
I would get fired for talking about that article at work
Coleman Hughes is a racist and he’s definitely not black.
This question should properly have gone in the last thread but I was busy, working.
I’m curious what Glibs think about this product from the perspective of “if this is the only thing we can get at the moment.” It’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s decent summary. IOW, is this a decent firearm.
Mrs. Nation was v. moderately opposed to owning guns, but recently she has become a staunch advocate.
It’s basically a copy of the Beretta 92, which is a perfectly fine firearm. Not my particular cup of tea, the 92 doesn’t fit my hands as well as some other guns, but if it feels good for you and the ergonomics are right, go for it. See if you can rent one at a range to try it out if any ranges have it around you.
I am definitely an advocate of telling people who ask me what the best gun is, “the one you shoot the best.” Nearly every gun in the world can outshoot its wielder. A mix of ergonomic factors make different people “fit” different guns better. My advice is see if you can get with a group and try out what they have. Don’t go buying a gun and then feeling bad you can’t shoot it. Far too many people end up losing hundreds of dollars returning guns they don’t like, or, worse, quit shooting because they get discouraged.
Unless it is a Glock.
When it comes to guns, I am big on buying from the quality companies. It’s one thing to buy some wacky KelTech as a range toy, but for something I am counting on to save my life, I demand quality.
The cool thing with guns is that used guns are often very high quality. There’s an absolute ton of quality firearms that have next to no actual use. Police trade in Glocks, for example, will have lots and lots of holster wear, but have been shot very little. Any decent sized local gun shop or pawn shop will have some really good guns at very fair prices.
Another thing to remember is that guns are a product where MSRP is higher than the actual price. Something like an SW Shield, a single stack 9mm pistol thats very user friendly is MSRP ~475 but is available for 350 bucks all over the place.
I have no experience with Girsan.
I whole heartedly encourage you to buy this: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/869576024
Same price range as the Regard on Gunbroker.
The 92 is a huge handgun, larger than it needs to be. Never felt comfortable in my hands. In my experience, new gun owners actually shoot larger bore handguns better than the 9mms, for various reasons. For whatever reason, most first time shooters I have dealt with have done better shooting a .45 than a 9mm. Might be the slower recoil impulse of the .45, might be the narrower grip of the 1911, might be the psychological impact of being told you’re shooting a “nine,” which for some reason has been built up in popular culture as some sort of powerful handgun totally out of proportion to reality.
I can agree with this. I shot the narrower XDs single stack better than I did the wider XD. And I shot the XDs in .45 better than the XDs in 9mm. And I have found that I shoot the 911 better than any of them, even though it is a tiny pistol (I actually pocket carried that gun to dinner, and it felt about as bulky as my iPhone. I’m not a small person either, and have larger than average hands…
I really come across as a Springfield fanboy, but I really have no brand loyalty. I tried the Sig P938 before I bought the 911, and got the 911 mainly because it was a lot cheaper, but was pretty much identical otherwise.
The 911 is well designed and priced right.
I’ve seen that. The best explanation I’ve heard is .45 is a low pressure round and *often* in a heavy handgun. 9mm the recoil is extremely light, and high capacity, so a newer shooter might be inclined to shoot rapidly.
Yeah, the .45 is a much less “snappy” round for both the reasons you mention. I played around in QuickLoad years ago with different barrel lengths, bullet weights, overall gun mass, and powder charges, and there’s basically no way to get the recoil impulse in the same ballpark as a .45 and maintain the muzzle energy of a 9.
IOW, the 9×19 has a lower recoil, but its peak happens over a shorter period of time, contributing to muzzle flip and “perceived” recoil, which includes the sound and flash.
Apologies if this was mentioned earlier (I totally skimmed!) but apparently Thomas was the only Justice to dissent in denying cert to the QI cases.
Got myself a new Glock 42, yay!
Ordered some talon grips too. Now if only the range wasn’t too busy to get a lane. I really need some land of my own to shoot at.
Don’t they have road signed where you live?
*signs
Make sure the spousal unit is ok with it. The missus is now not on board with shooting in the back acreage because it’s ‘too close to the property lines’ and one side has horses. Except that half the neighborhood shoots in their backyards on the weekends. Time to rejoin the range an hour away.
They shoot horses don’t they?
Fortunately (or unfortunately more like) I am still single.
Cmon… some rural Ohio glibs help me out!
“We can’t count exactly how many have already died. The hospitals kill more than if you stay home and take care of yourself.”
You sure this isn’t a story about America?
There are a number of ways to think about it: Might it be safer to travel than stay home? How much is mental health worth, and, if people are going to socially distance anyway, why not do it in a beautiful, isolated place?
Just fucking go and enjoy a vacation.
False claims linking 5G to coronavirus have been widely shared online. Scientists say a connection between the two is biologically impossible.
The BBC needs to WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
Customs and Border Protection spent parts of a $112 million emergency fund meant to buy food, medicine and other items for migrants on all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and boats, according to a Government Accountability Office report published Thursday.
You’re supposed to take a hint from the Secret Service and spend it on hookers and blow. Sheesh.
AC/DC cover is good.
Peruvian villagers detain 5G technicians installing a tower because they fear 5G is spreading Coronavirus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71PNZH1OaW0
Good fucking grief. Were those Peruvian villagers sent to attend US public schools recently?
I’m telling you, once someone goes firmly down the conspiracy theory trail, it must be really hard to come back from it. I had a friend, I’d known the guy for at least 10 years, good guy, solid normal working guy, intelligent guy, you know, nothing crazy at all. And all of the sudden one day he starts about ‘chem trails’. He says ‘we gotta talk about the chem trails’ next time we get together. So I said OK. I thought it was a joke, what else could I think? But next time we got together in his back yard to grill and have some beers, the guy goes into all this wacko chem trail shit. Have you seen them? I said ‘you mean those frozen crystals from jet exhaust’? So he says ‘Yeah, but man, they’re up to something!’. So I said ‘uhh… who’s up to something?’. Seriously, from that point on, they guy just lost his freaking mind. I had to stop talking to him, he kept getting more and more wacky.
I have a colleague whose wife, a registered nurse, has been sliding down the conspiracy path for years. About 2 years ago, she got onto flat Eartherism, and he is pulling his hair out. He can’t stand to be around her anymore.
“flat Eartherism”
Good grief, that’s about as far as you can go, that’ just insanity.
My old friend, he’d gone so far off the rails, the last time I talked to him, he had been hospitalized for something and he asked me ‘have you ever heard of saline solution?’. So, I said ‘yeah’. And he tells me ‘You don’t want it, I had to check myself out of the hospital because they were trying to kill me with it!’. I said ‘Dude, that’s common practice, it’s to keep you from being dehydrated’, but he was convinced that they were trying to kill him with saline solution. That’s the point that I said to myself ‘OK, man, you gotta cut this dude loose as a friend’. I’d talking to him a few times to try to reason with him and he’d just act real offended, like maybe I was ‘one of them’ or something.
Hey, Jimbo.
I saw your post earlier today about an ebike for your aunt. She should get one.
I got an electric mountai bike about 18 months ago and it changed my life. The effect of the decades on my body had made riding in the mountains impossible. Now I’m pedalling the mountains again and going places that never would have been possible even Back-I-The-Day. At 3.5 score and with a heart pumping beta blockers the thing has been a miracle for me.
Like I would have recommended to Mo when she asked about what bike to buy, find a local shop and let them help. Local bike shops are a great resource that survive by being helpful.
This is a cool link that tells the story.
https://youtu.be/I2n1XiJWM1g
Don’t know if this was discussed, but a Michael Flynn update for anyone interest. Previously, Judge Sullivan decided to sit on the Governments motion to dismiss and requested a third party weigh in on if he should let the case be dropped, and if perjury charges were appropriate because he plead guilty under oath and is now saying he’s innocent. The government and Flynn appealed to try to make him rule on the motion. By a, I’m sure, total coincidence, if Sullivan’s brief scheduled is followed, the motion won’t get ruled on until just after the election.
The DC appellate court heard oral arguments Friday. 1 hour and 47 minutes worth of arguments which is…a lot for an appellate case. Essentially, the government said it was their power to prosecute or not as the case may be and what happens if Sullivan doesn’t’ dismiss because the government isn’t interested in prosecuting the case. A third party for Sullivan argued that they felt the dismissal of charges may have been politically motivated and it’s within the Judge’s right to ask questions on if the dismissal is inappropriate because of potential corruption in the DOJ.
Simultaneously, the brief Sullivan ordered from the third party was filed way early, but before the appeals court gets to weigh in. It flat out accuses Barr and others of naked corruption to protect Flynn. It is a purely political document and doesn’t try to hide that fact.
The three Judge appeals panel consists of a Trump appointee, an Obama appointee and an elder Bush appointee. The first two you can guess where their questions seemed to indicate they were. The elder Bush seems to be pulling a Roberts. Doesn’t want to interfere, establish regular order to the case and all that. At the end though, she seemed to be against Sullivan from her questions. It seemed like it was a “we’ll let Sullivan rule on the motion because of course he’ll make the OBVIOUSLY CORRECT choice on it.” My guess, writ denied but the opinion makes it clear that Sullivan doesn’t have an out here so he needs to get his act together or the appellate court will get it together for him.
we’ll let Sullivan rule on the motion because of course he’ll make the OBVIOUSLY CORRECT choice on it
Well, that choice is obviously to put Flynn in jail because Sullivan’s OWN BRIEF in the case says that dismissal is improperly politically motivated. He done told them what he was going to do. If they don’t tell him different, why won’t that be what he does?
Hey, just what I heard while listening to the arguments at work. She was very much on the “Sullivan hasn’t ruled yet, he may see the amicus brief he ordered and decide it’s wrong and grant motion to dismiss train.” That was the core of all her questions. “Sullivan is an ‘old-hand’ and may still move to dismiss so isn’t it early for us to weigh in on it.” Paraphrased, but very close to what she said several times.
Whatever it is that Flynn has on someone, they are fucking terrified of it. You can be sure of that.
It’s rage inducing that this is being ignored by most of the media.
11 million Mexicans in the tourism industry out of work.
My odds on Mexico becoming a failed state, Venezuela-style, just went way up.
Oh, and the unofficial word from our AZ border crossings is that there are a whole bunch of sick Mexicans coming across. Currently, you are only allowed to cross legally if you have “essential business” or somesuch. “Seeking medical treatment” is essential business. So, because we are absolutely going to get everything ass-backwards, we now allow people with infectious diseases to cross the border, and keep healthy people out.
““Seeking medical treatment” is essential business.”
Why can’t they seek it in their country of origin? For starters, I’ve been assured that the USA have the worst healthcare on earth and it’s free everywhere else, including Mexico. That being said, a lot of people go to Mexico for healthcare from here, to get stuff cheaper and without prescriptions. And I’m sure that’s not essential, right?
I’m not familiar with the US/Mexico border. I wonder if exceptions which make sense along the US/Canada border were applied to Mexico.
There are parts of the US/Canada border where Americans head into Canada for services like groceries, dentists, etc. because it is quicker/cheaper to go to Canada for those things than drive to the closest such service in America. And vice-versa. Pittsburg, NH comes to mind. St. Stephen, NB and Calais, ME cooperate and coordinate with emergency services like fire and EMS.
Don’t forget the all nude, legal age =19, strip clubs. We used to go to Erie for those over the Peace Bridge. Now that you need a passport I wonder if that type of travel has diminished
My buddies and I usually classed it up in Niagara Falls or Toronto. I don’t recall if there was anything for “us” in Fort Erie.
Is it still mostly US citizens (including dual citizens) and PR holders? Or others?
Hey, Jimbo.
Saw your post earlier about advice on your aunt getting and ebike. I would highly recommend it.
About 18 months ago I got an electric mountain bike and it changed my life.
At a bit over 3..5 score with a heart pumping beta blockers I just could ride the mountains anymore. The ebike has changed all that. I’m not only back cycling ( a life-long love) I’m going places I never could have reached Back-in-The-Day on my acoustic bike.
Like I would have recommended to Mo when she asked about buying a bike I’d recomment finding a local bike shop and letting them help. Local bike shops are a real resource and survive by being a helpful source of knowledge.
This might be your aunt.
https://youtu.be/I2n1XiJWM1g
“Drug runners in Rio prove once again if there is a demand for a product and service, existing producers will move quickly to accommodate demand.”
Well, you see, the medical profession are the world’s most powerful drug cartels, no matter where you go. It’s just much worse here in the USA, because everything here is illegal without a prescription until the pharm companies and their pushers, the doctors, have decided there is no more real money to be made from a drug, then you can get it OTC. Then of course, there are still the drugs that were casualties of the WOD, when it was decided that feeling good through chemistry was a sin.
Not being able to get a drug, whether it gets you high, or not, has nothing to do with public safety. It has to do with protecting the medical industry’s drug cartel.
Meh. The last few months there’s been a black market for haircuts among other things.
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1272168016697065473
Hobbes’ Leviathan?
RC Dean from last article:
A Ruger No. 1 in .22-250 is on my bucket list. If you seriously want to sell it I’m about a day’s drive away.
“The U.S. is currently under a major DDoS attack.”
https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1272640965358923776
I don’t have, nor have had any service disruptions today, at all.
Whether I’m just lucky or what, don’t know, but I’ve seen no downtime at all today.
I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. The interior of the building where I work can be spotty for 4G, but other than that everything seemed OK.
I guess it’s not a very good DDoS attack. If there really was one, I can be sure we’ll all get an email from Network Security by tomorrow morning.
It would have been a big story on the local news, too, I guess, and I didn’t hear anything.
Funny you should mention that, because from where I live (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), trying to update the Glibbies website takes about ten times longer than normal today. Effing frustrating.
I had a hard time getting to the 91-DIVOC.com site (which has COVID data) this morning, but it cleared up after an hour or two.
“Y’all, the “libertarians” are still mad at me for calling them white supremacists like Ron Paul’s newsletters don’t exist and “Taxation is theft” isn’t code for, “Don’t give our money to those blacks.” Don’t get mad at me if your belief system can’t stand up to critical scrutiny.”
https://twitter.com/vexedinthecity/status/1271139650170769408
CWAA
Muahahaha we control everything! We are your oppressors! All 1% of the population and 0% of elected officials of us.
I don’t know who that person is.
“keto is racist. i can’t prove it but jus gives me white supremacy vibes”
https://twitter.com/musegold/status/1272031690047848449
I thought it was vegan that is racist, cuz ain’t no bother goan be caught eating that tofu chit.
*fashions a crucifix out of crispy bacon*
*bacon-magic sizzles*
Math checks out-
maybe: la negra
@itweetrecklessh
Replying to
@musegold
Any diet or restrictive eating that alters your body from its natural state is racist. The beauty model most want to achieve is a colonized goal. So yeah. We have to decolonize the way we should let our body be & grow.
Reading through that thread is really interesting, tho.
The claim is that “yt women” coopted keto from epileptics.
I found that amusing. People coopt anything they find of benefit to themselves.
That’s both insensitive and cultural appropriation. *Cancels Mojeaux*
*wails* *gnashes teeth* *throws self at Hyperion’s feet to beg for forgiveness*
Geez, if you were truly repentant, there would have at least been some rending of garments and pouring of ashes on head. *remains cancelled*
I was too lazy to type all that out.
“you cant get absolution w/o an act of contrition….”
/waggles eyebrows
Forgiveness is impossible, whitey racial guilt is carried on the YT genes it is basic biology you science denier. Sex on the other hand is a socially constructed lie.
The hell is a “yt woman”?
Karen
“white woman” or, as Jarflax said, Karen.
But what does the yt stand for?
sound it out why tee
Especial when coffee is so much better.
Whitey?
Y T
WHY T
white
Moj is trying to one up all of us with terms like ‘Wypipo’ and the like.
I just post the tweets. I don’t correct their grammar and spelling.
“The hell is a “yt woman”?”
Ya’ll got it wrong. All of ya’ll.
Back in my younger days, we all knew what YT meant. It typically included a ‘&’, like this Y&T. And it don’t stand for white woman.
Here you go: Summertime Girls
To quote 8-Ball from Full Metal Jacket, “man, what the motherfuck?”
Wut The White Squaw?
You know, if this actually happens, I will be totally shocked, because no one ever saw this coming.
My credit union sent an email with the subject “June is World Elder Abuse Awareness Month!”
As an elderly person (over 55), can I use #ElderLivesMatter in my correspondence?
Do it.
No
Jarflax is really Tom Wolf.
Sean goes on my list. If you had said Wolfe I’d have been cool with that.
*gives Sean the side-eye*
Dude, you DID mean WolfE, right?
Jarflax, who is totally not a senior murdering governor, would you like a glass of bourbon?
Cool, now I’m aware that I have been slacking on abusing elders.
OR:
Is Elder abuse a euphemism for masturbation?
That would be elder self-abuse
Or Pounding the Patriarch
As long as it doesn’t contain the now verboten word “master”
Massaging the Mistress?
Was that on Cinemax or something?
That’s Skinamax.
I got a writing credit!
Wow, that’s both childish and psycho at the same time.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/06/15/top-ebay-executives-charged-federal-crimes-trying-harass-endanger-critics/
Damn, those peeps had better be glad they didn’t say ‘All Lives Matter’ instead of just criticizing Ebay, or they would have received live Komodo Dragons instead of insects.
” Six former eBay Inc. employees have been charged with waging an extensive campaign to terrorize and intimidate the editor and publisher of an online newsletter with threats and disturbing deliveries to their home, including live spiders and cockroaches, federal authorities said Monday.
Executives were upset about the newsletter’s coverage, so their employees set out to ruin the lives of the couple who ran the website, sending a funeral wreath, bloody pig face Halloween mask and other alarming items to their home, authorities said. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband’s name on it to their neighbor’s house and planned to break into the couple’s garage to install a GPS device on their car, officials said…
In addition to the disturbing deliveries, the employees set up fake social media accounts to send threatening messages to the couple, authorities said. After the bloody pig mask was delivered, the editor received a message saying: “DO I HAVE UR ATTENTION NOW????,” according to court documents. They also posted the couple’s names and address online, advertising things like yard sales and encouraging strangers to knock on the door if they weren’t outside.”
Yikes!
I’ll believe anything about Ebay execs. They are fucking ruthless.
“Things that didn’t happen for $1,000, Alex.”
https://twitter.com/Such/status/1272007112118251522
Only thing my dad gave me was black eyes and a bad attitude.
So save and invest so you can gift your kids a downpayment. Or don’t if you don’t want to, and teach them to save their own. Not sure why this is a racial matter? Black dollars save just as well as whitiebux
What, your parents didn’t give you a hundred grand for a house? What a prole….
I got a grand and some used This End Up furniture. ?
6 years military and another 10 of saving up…but yeah I guess my white family helped?
Your Uncle Sam?…
Yessir. Also my wife working 3 shifts, skipping out on steak dinners, no car payment, no cable….but yeah
VA only guarantees it if you default. You still have to qualify-for/get a conventional loan.
You sound like my wife. But then, they did buy us our first set of pots and pans.
Something, something, Prince George’s County.
I gave my daughter a 25K gift of equity to buy a home I owned. So not real money, but it caused me to have to file an extra tax form that you can only mail in.
I guess you can always say ‘because my parents aren’t wealthy’, what I would have said. I can’t believe that’s common, most people do not have that sort of money, only the very wealthy.
A lot of these younger proggies seemed to be absolutely convinced that every single person in the world with nice things is like….a Walton or a Bush or a Trump or something. It’s just completely beyond their range of comprehension that the vast majority of people that have money earned it themselves. They seem to think that it’s the opposite, that the affluent are composed almost entirely of twits who were born to rich parents.
It’s getting harder and harder to talk to people my age about any of this shit. It takes a lifetime to accumulate wealth for most people. It seems more and more people want to step in their parents lifestyle in their mid 20’s.
My skepticism is that a realtor just blithely asked somebody about a monetary gift as if it’s normal.
A tweet farther down made the point that a realtor would ask that if he were shopping for a very expensive house and the assumption was normal for that market.
It would have to be very expensive homes if $50k-$100k was the down payment. My house had a total sale price (plus closing costs) of $82k. If you’re shopping for a first house where the down payment is enough to buy another house for cash, you’re likely being bankrolled by a well off family.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/06/15/donald-trump-accepts-scotus-ruling-on-lgbt-employees-we-live-with-their-decision/
Just proof he will have to be dragged out of the WH when he loses /CNN
Its not often he actually says things normally.
Sorry, women athletes.
That part will be interesting how its applied….
I’m still not clear on why we can’t have 4 leagues: ciswomen, cismen, transwomen, transmen.
add 2 more- the full-blown, roid-raged, NFL and MLB with no drug tests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
the 80s….Dennis Miller’s hair
The whole point is that trans women “are” women, hater.
Are athletes ’employees’?
Actual Anti-Fascist
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1272669507778207744?s=19
Based af, yo
https://twitter.com/AlphaLackey/status/1272673225344839680
Charles R. Mousseau
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@AlphaLackey
Replying to
@CalebJHull
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@NYCMayor
At least they weren’t throwing any Mazel Tov cocktails.
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