“YES. STEVE SMITH DO LINKS. HOPE SLOOPY BETTER.”
STEVE SMITH STILL BEING HOBO. HIM STOP IN STORE WHEN HIM STEVE SMITH SENSE TINGLE. THAT, OR HIM WANT USE BATHROOM. OR GET MOAR STERNO. HIM NOT SURE WHICH. BUT CALL FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HQ AND HEAR THEM NEED LINKS. STEVE SMITH DO LINKS! HIM DO GOOD LINKS!
SO STEVE SMITH DO LINKS, THEN CATCH TRAIN. BY CATCH, MEAN RAPE.
HERE LINKS:
- STEVE SMITH RETHINK LET PORTLAND IN CASCADIA. THEM TROUBLE. AS PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER, STEVE SMITH ADMIRE SPIN IN ARTICLE. SEE IF FIND!
- भूरा जीवन मायने रखता है
- BROWN MAN, HAVE JOB FOR TINY DOG!!!
STEVE SMITH SEE YOU ON RAILS.
FREE CASCADIA!
Yes, even the cryptids are filling in…it is all hands on deck this summer.
Oh…”deck”
Mornin’
You were thinking like “Grab the Bat” to see who plays visitor.
Pickup hockey is less gay. Everyone dumps their sticks in a pile…
And since Im prolly still drunk from last night- Let The Day Begin
Those hangovers that don’t set in until 10 AM are the worst. Maybe you should drinking again.
It’s the only way.
So you were Out All Night? I hope you’re asking your girlfriend to Take it Easy.
/avoids a Skoidats song that would fit to avoid the three link limit.
Enthusiastic white guy missed high-five for Baby-head! I love that tune.
I love pensive Steve. It’s like he’s remembering his first rape so many rapes ago…
Gah. That Indian story. Rectal bleeding? SHIVA SMITH.
Rectal bleeding? SHIKHA DALMIA.
Is SHIKHA SMITH a thing too? I can’t keep track of them all (at least until they aggressively rape me) but that could be a fun one.
“SHIKHA SMITH”
Choose the form of your destructor.
I wondered if anyone would catch that…
I didn’t realize it was a social disease…
Vishnu Smith
I stand corrected. Mind you, I’m probably drunker than Tres. I’d trip over my own dick if it were three feet longer.
The father-son duo were accused of keeping their mobile phone shop open despite the lockdown, an offence that at worst would have got them three months in prison, legal experts said.
Apparently, that was not the worst it could have got them.
SP and I were watching some of the old Lone Ranger TV shows. When Tonto would say something like, “Me go into town and watch horses,” we’d start giggling and continue, “…AND BY WATCH MEAN RAPE.”
Tonto is SOUTHWEST SMITH???
Definitely not REDSKIN SMITH
He is SMITH WHO RAPES
“He is beautiful but he won’t stop thrusting against the papoose. We have named him ‘Rapes With Gusto’ “
SMITH TRIPLETS
Meanwhile, there is growing dissension between city and state leaders over how to handle the ongoing clashes between protesters and police.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was not available for comment on Monday, but his office is working on what to do about downtown Portland as so many businesses are shut down from the nightly damage.
Did you call the number for his underground bunker? He might be there.
Is he the mayor who sits on the big bouncy-ball?
I love that they sneak that sentence in at the very end of all the soft selling beforehand.
But it’s peaceful nightly damage. Or antiracist nightly damage. Or whatever the “makes it ok” excuse du jour is.
Why do you support fascism, you racist?
I think the word you are looking for is ‘mostly’.
Ironically, by using the “mostly peaceful” excuse, they’re saying the protestors just have a few bad apples.
I know I’ve gotten old when I start to see the wisdom in the original Mayor Daley’s approach to youthful stupidity.
Firehoses and billyclubs?
Thats Bull Connor
1968 Dem Convention, young man. Cops out of control.
As a government town, Ames has a well-funded and lazy police force (there should be tourist map of favorite sleep and chat locations), no surprise they are letting the BLM protesters set-up wherever they like while po-po diverts traffic. This could get very ugly when the University open next month.
At least these marxists are burning down their own back yards and not taking their “revolution” to people that are under the yoke of idiots in government they elected because too many people in that area suffer from damage caused by eating lead paint.
Over at the Atlantic, they’re doing serious journalism. Mike Pence is a spineless lackey who craves Trump’s approval and will do anything to be President. This, of course, will never happen, because he is complicit in the murder of thousands of Americans who could have been saved from teh plague by a SCIENCE-worshipping Democratic administration. We know this because various and sundry highly placed, fiercely patriotic, yet resolutely anonymous Republican sources have said so.
“We’re the news and you can trust us!”
“We’re from the Media and we’re here to help!”
They must think science is basically magic that can be realized through the utilization of the correct talismans because there aren’t really any effective things that he could have done that he didn’t do. Then again, we are the only country that has had issues with handling the coronavirus.
Were the only country that has had issues with the Coronavirus?
Left off the sarc tag.
I thought you might have been sarcastic. Should have realized.
They think the invocation of the word science, like when they use racist, patriarchy, or a slew of other “Shut the fuck up you bastard with your logic, reason, and facts, and let us do what we want” words, is just another tool to stop any sort of debate or questioning of their agenda driven behavior.
That describes pretty much every vice president ever. Since it’s largely a symbolic role.
+1 warm bucket of piss
damn your nimble fingers, John Nance Gardner
Not worth a bucket of warm spit.
It seems like the sensible people in Portland would be ready to tar and feather the mayor and run him out of town on a rail. They can’t enjoy not being able to shop and risking having their asses whipped if they go into certain parts of the city that have effectively become no go zones.
Portland, the largest case of Stockholm syndrome in history.
The problem is most of these cuntes are conditioned to roll over and show their bellies hoping they are the last ones to be fed to the alligator, and fighting back because you have had enough of the marxist’s shit, is not in their DNA.,
This won’t end well. Some asshole is gonna open fire on the cuntes eventually and then all hell breaks loose.
“…the sensible people of Portland…”
Stinky Wizzleteats <—— Check this guy out
That was a hanging curve but Stinky is good people. See! I can be nice!
I know you’re joking but certainly there are some/many. I’m still convinced that these rioters are a small and extremely vocal minority that are being coddled for some reason that escapes me.
To convince the majority that their anti-riot opinion is a minority voice and that if they voice it they will get ostracised.
Of course I am joking.
The mayor, elected by the citizens of Portland, is tacitly supporting the rioters who are communist agitators. It seems to me that the sensible people of Portland are the ones who left. The ones who are left are getting what they voted for. I wonder how many of them also support the rioters.
Like most big cities, the sensible people live in the suburbs and don’t get to vote against the marxists.
My cousin is an X-Ray tech there. He just stays away from the crazy.
So you contend there is not one single person in that city that doesn’t want or like what is going on? Nobody stuck with family that needs their care, or has a family business, or was transferred there by an employer, etc? Heck of a broad brush you are slapping down paint with.
I was teasing Stinky, that’s all.
He is correct in that if there were enough sensible people there the mayor would be tarred and feathered. There just dont seem to be enough sensible people there.
Portlandia hit home because it wasn’t much of an exaggeration. Prior to that My Own Private Idaho had some great inside jokes and insights into Portland.
The mayor and city council all won elections – so yes, this is the govt that the voters of Portland want. Until they demonstrate otherwise.
Meh. Fifty percent plus one of the likely minority who bothered voting ain’t much of a mandate. It’s the next vote that will be telling.
Even YHWH couldn’t find ten good men in Sodom.
What were the criteria used?
You’d have to ask Him. The fact that I have no idea what His mind looks like is why the “omnibenevolent/omniscient/omnipotent “disproof is bullshit.
Didn’t God send angels to check the place out and the people of Sodom wanted to have sex with them? Maybe not wanting to do that was the main thing.
Since angels have neither genitals, nor knees, nor need to eat, it seems likely that they don’t have anii. I guess theyd do have mouths though.
Titty fuck those angels!
But Cherubs have penises. I had to digitally remove them for an advertisement.
I had to eliminate the Baby Angel Cocks (band name? I think so.)
The normies are afraid. Herd animals need leadership and right now their leaders are leading them straight off of a cliff. They get their news from CNN fer fuck’s sake. They voted for this in overwhelming numbers.
They get their news from CNN fer fuck’s sake.
I’ve seen this a lot on here. But most don’t get their news from CNN. They get it from Facebook. And they don’t read articles, only headlines. So you don’t even need an article to be awful, just a clever headline writer.
Probably right. I get a little too forward whilst in my cups.
Lighten up, Francis.
Screw you. This place sees plenty of “everyone there deserves it” – NYC, Chicago, Portland, etc.
Hate the policies, the effects, the people doing bad things – but to condemn the trapped, the innocent and the unwilling is lazy and wrong.
It was and is a joke.
Lighten up harder, Francis.
The day you contribute anything toward the conversation on this site – I might (but probably not) listen to you.
You would be missed as much as a lint clog in the dryer
ruodberht is okay for a tulpa.
Jesus, Swiss. A little “sandy” come the morn? Have a Snickers. It’s probably all in jest.
Festus – go back and read r’s commentary across this site – it is usually corpsefucking dead threads and crabbing about everyone and everything here.
My tolerance is high, but not limitless.
Note – as a libertarian, I am not doing anything other than engaging in speech….
“Trapped and unwilling” imply that people are being held in Portland against their will. I guess that could apply to children and kidnapping victims.
“Innocent”? Who would you call innocent? If you live there and don’t vote you’re not innocent. If you live there and vote against their brand of insanity but choose not to leave you’re not responsible for the insanity but you made a conscious choice to remain under their bootheel. Smaller government means it becomes easier to vote with your feet. If you live and/or work in a city run by woke authoritarians by choice then you are actively choosing to be ruled by their decisions.
“Sorry grandma, but someone else will have to care for you – I can’t live here. Grumbletarian says I deserve it”
“Dad, sorry, I have to leave – I know you can’t run the store by yourself…but otherwise I deserve it!”
I am staying in Illinois because my parents are here and cannot get by without my help – so I “deserve” everything bad that happens because enough people have voted themselves into my wallet, eh?
By God I hope nobody ever ends up dependent on you, and lives in a bad spot.
By the way, this is also how you lose the culture war. As soon as California fell, the crazies were moving on to Colorado and Austin. Fight them there or fight them over here. I have friends in rural Oregon. They are supporting some of the few conservative towns left in that state. Should they abandon years of community and family just because Portland is winning?
I have to side with Swiss on this one. One of the reasons I tell my nieces and nephews to learn a trade rather than become a lawyer is to give them more life flexibility. It is all very well to say if you don’t like what is happening in your area move, but it is not a trivial thing to do. My area is not nearly as far along the path to ruin as Chicago but it is definitely on the path. To move requires:
1. Leaving my extended family
2. Leaving my friends
3. Either starting an entirely new career in my 50s or spending most of a year getting licensed in anew jurisdiction
4. Giving up all of my client list, connections for finding new clients, and
5. Starting out in a new area where massive chunks of the actual expertise I have developed slowly over years no longer apply.
So the arguments for moving are politics and bad neighbors, and the arguments for staying are basically everything that is important in life, friends, family and work. The peaceful divorce idea sounds great, if you live in an area that would divorce into the country that you want to live in.
I can see both sides of the argument and understand where people are coming from. I think one of the biggest overlooked things is that we’ve been ceding land to the looters for far too long. I can only hope that there comes a time when the tide turns.
Swiss, in all your examples you’ve made a conscious choice to remain. You’re not trapped, you’re not unwilling, you’re not innocent.
So your answer is always “flee”.
Where?
When do you stop running away?
How is your pain level Swissy? Hope it gets better.
All better – remarkable what not having your nerves crushed 24/7 can do for your pain levels.
“So you contend there is not one single person in that city that doesn’t want or like what is going on?”
From the way things have been going in Portland for months, there might as well not be.
This season of Portlandia sucks.
Nice. What are the odds that those two shills even touch upon what really happened instead of poking gentle fun at the absurdity? We’d need Don Escaped for a judgement.
To be honest, I kinda don’t want Fred Armisen to touch the subject at all. He’s a genuinely funny guy who doesn’t seem to have a nasty streak in him at all, kinda like Michael Palin. I’d hate to see him get canceled for taking the wrong stance…I hate that I felt the need to type that just now.
You know, he could do the befuddled fellow traveler so perfectly though – the “this isn’t what we wanted” kind of thing.
I could see the feminist bookstore window getting smashed in with a BLM sign, looters pour in, look around, walk back out without taking anything.
I mean, befuddled fellow traveler is just George Orwell. Dude actually had to flee Stalinist death squads, and the lesson he took was that Josef Stalin was a uniquely corrupt and corrosive force that was ruining his beautiful ideology, not that his ideology would always turn to terror and oppression, that it was baked into the cake.
I was reading some stuff on Kristallnacht, and there were lots of Germans who were genuinely befuddled and confused and “wait wait why did they bash Herr Stein’s bookshop, they’re supposed to be beating up communist street fighters. Herr Stein is not a communist, why did the SA loot his store?”
The befuddled fellow travelers are the most dangerous, because they have the numbers. They are the people that wring their hands, wipe their brow, feel terrible about how the revolution turned out…..but continue to work for the dedicated cadre.
^This is the truth Solzhenitsyn awoke to in the gulag. It is what Edmund Burke was getting at.
FYI, the show Portlandia is over. It ended in 2018.
that deserves either the Orson Wells or opera applause gif!
STEVE SMITH LINKS?
We’re really fucked, aren’t we?
Straight bored out. It’s a veritable Cave of the Winds back here.
It’s a bone-womb. Queefs like the low note from Close Encounters…
Didn’t sleep well last night. I have managed to misplace quite a sum of cash, likely in an effort to hide it better. “Oh, I’ll totally remember where I put it!”
🙁
Coffee can buried under a tree?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-couple-finds-11-million-worth-gold-yard-article-1.1808077%3foutputType=amp
…You never should have given me a rough approximation of were you lived…teeheehee.
In all seriousness, that sucks. I’ve done that to myself a few times and it’s infuriating. Good luck on your hunt!
My wife had been stressing about losing her rings (misplaced within the house) – she found them last night.
I feel ya’ Mojeaux.
Wife was once holding onto 5K in cash to give son on his wedding day. The night before she and I had a couple of cocktails and then she took an ambien before bed.
She then decided to ‘hide’ the money for some unknown reason. The next morning when she went to get the money….well, hilarity ensued.
Double that and that’s why I’m sick to my stomach.
Did you find it eventually?
Double that? Ouch.
Yes we did but not after a concerted effort to turn the house upside down. It was in a Tupperware container in the back of a large unorganized Tupperware storage drawer. A place no one ever looks.
*facepalm*
I had it in a fireproof safe in my office. The last time I remember seeing it was about a month ago when I had to get in there for important papers.
Looked yesterday and it wasn’t there.
Safe from thieves and perhaps her spendthrift instincts? I’ve done the same before but it wasn’t cash that I was hiding from myself.
Well, I wasn’t hiding it from myself. I barely acknowledged that it existed, so it’s sort of not real to me.
We gave my son a hand me down cell phone for his birthday, which he lost. The “Find My Phone” app continues to insist it is in our house, but for months we have been unable to find it.
A month or so ago I had this sudden sinking feeling that one evening after several gin and tonics, I was walking around downstairs and saw the phone sitting out, and I grabbed it and hid it as a lesson to him. That is a thing I do to the kids because I get tired of them asking me where their phone is- I snag it if I see it anywhere except at their charging station or on their person.
To this day I do not know where that phone is. I have this vague recollection of hiding it in the garage…but I have been completely unable to find it, and think maybe I made up this event in my head. Getting old is a bitch. Old and alcoholic is a whole other level.
“Old and alcoholic is a whole other level.”
I find I’m a lot less reserved in my criticism when I’m a bit fuzzy. I’m also a lot less patient. I think it’s healthy for everyone involved.
Stop thinking about where you put it, instead think about what you did that day and retrace your steps. Calm and relaxed will be a big help too.
Calm and relaxed will be a big help too.
Yes, but memories are supposedly tied to emotion too. Think about what you were feeling also. Good luck.
I stop thinking about where I thought I put it, and start thinking about where would I put it? Usually works.
^^^THIS^^^
This works well with my girlfriend. Not so much my wife.
This guy…
First GF many moons ago was from the midwest. When her parents passed, they scoured the house and gound 250K shoved into books, pots, planters….it was quite the sight to see.
Good luck on your search, Mojeaux. When I got rid of all those books, the part that most time consuming was having to flip through EVERY SINGLE ONE, as i DO hide money/important papers therein. FUCK!!!!! If I knew that fucking whore was gonna throw me out regardless, I would have NEVER gotten rid of my books.
‘STEVE SMITH ADMIRE SPIN IN ARTICLE. SEE IF FIND!’
“Property damage is always going to be secondary to life safety.”
Aka: Fuck your property, pleb. Now lie back and think of England?
*Looks upthread*
Ah, a swing and a miss on my end. Carry on.
Mutineers
John Farner considers himself a lifelong Republican. He worked on George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign and then took a job in the administration’s Commerce Department.
But Farner was skeptical when he saw Donald Trump step onto the GOP stage. And in 2016, he chose not to vote for any presidential candidate.
This November is different, Farner said. The past 3 1/2 years have made it clear that he needs to pick a side, that it’s no longer sufficient to simply abstain.
“More than 130,000 Americans are dead, and over 30 million are unemployed. That’s just unacceptable right now,” Farner said. “We continue to look to the White House for leadership that we are not getting.”
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“There’s a decent chunk of those white college-educated voters who support [GOP] policies, they support the tax cuts, but you know, they wouldn’t be crazy about President Trump demanding an apology from Bubba Wallace this week,” said McHenry, referring to the Black NASCAR driver Trump singled out on Twitter.
McHenry said if the presidential campaign eventually shifts into more policy debates, those white college-educated voters will be forced to make a choice between policy and tone. And it’s possible policy will win out.
But the Republicans backing Biden are convinced that tone and character will matter more.
The ship of State is rudderless, and careening toward the rocks! The captain is insne. Quick, let’s throw him overboard and let the 80 year old cook’s helper take charge.
Oh no! It was a dog-faced cook that sabotaged the Red October…best be careful here; might be a trap…
Who fucking cares about Bubba Wallace’s crybaby ass?
The justice warriors whom had desperately been hoping this was true so their image of boogieman orange’s followers as knuckle dragging racialists would be validated?
Leadership would be pointing out that the governors who put guns to businesses’ heads and said their workers aren’t essential are the people to blame for the unemployment.
Good GAWD man – don’t you realize there was a virus running amok? If mass media (TV, etc) have been bad for this country, social media has made it 10,000 times worse.
“He worked on George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign and then took a job in the administration’s Commerce Department.“
*rolls eyes*
That’s all I needed to know. The left’s rehabilitation of Bush the Warmonger and his lackeys is fucking disgusting.
I imagine that there are a lot of Bush alumns still mad that they got passed over by trump. The Democrat party has become available coalition of the establishment. This is why you see them supporting Joe. They know he’ll keep up their wars.
Bingo. I dont think many people understand how important these wars are to the establishment. It is their bread and butter. Any effort to end them will be met with merciless pillorying. It is the source of most of the Trump hate. Look how they treated Gabbard.
Here is a disturbing report on exactly how pro-war the Biden team is. (Sorry if double posted)
https://youtu.be/CwBJIr0msH8
I don’t think the wars are as important as the peace.
Ukraine? We aren’t doing any fighting there. But we are engaged. Because being engaged prevents wars, you see? And all it takes is a few billion dollars spread around to keep us engaged. A few Billion! That’s hardly a rounding error on the national budget. And so for want of that few billion dollars, some corporate owner spreads a hundred million around at think tanks, and politicians’ sons here in the states. And now very important people stroke their beards, and explain how very important it is that we stay engaged in the region.
Syria? We have contractors in the area. Very smart people, who help keep the region under control so that we don’t HAVE to go to war. It just costs us a few billion dollars to keep engaged so that it doesn’t spin out of control. How do I know? Well, the Kurdistan Office in the State Department has some of the best minds on it. For 10 years, Joe YaleGrad has worked that desk- his entire career. And as an expert, he assures us that we need to stay engaged in that area. Maybe make him a manager, and give him a couple interns to help get to the bottom of what is going on. As an expert, one thing he will tell you is that disengaging from that area is the biggest mistake ever.
Afghanistan? Don’t make me laugh. We built schools and hospitals there. Are we going to let that all go? 20 years of bureaucrats have poured their blood and sweat into that area, and for just a few billion dollars, we can preserve those jobs- I mean gains.
“Ukraine? We aren’t doing any fighting there. But we are engaged. Because being engaged prevents wars, you see? And all it takes is a few billion dollars spread around to keep us engaged.”
Especially when there is an army of dnc operatives and pro dnc agents out there getting the lions share of that money to then send back to the overpaid but inept credentialed elite class which will then donate a chunk of it back to the political machine. Ukraine was one of the places where a lot of crooks in government, in both team red and team blue parties, went to feed at the US tax payer trough.
I don’t think many republicans fully appreciate what’s now possibly at stake in losing the culture war to the degree they have. Low taxes? lmao, what a quaint notion in a time where we have to mandate land reassignment and reparations.
Everything is at stake right now. Another Leftist on the Supreme Court means it is done. The only reason we haven’t gone full Venezuela is because you people are manning the ramparts. I don’t love conservatives, I wish they’d just leave me the fuck alone. They want to tell me what to do, the creepier idea is that “liberals” want to tell me how to think.
Oh, and what is low taxes, anyway? 35% instead of 45%? But no spending cuts, so they borrow to make up the shortfall. Fiscal conservatives!!!!
I’d rather have 45% tax rates with a straight up negative income tax to redistribute to the poor, and the dismantling of the bureaucracies, then a 35% tax rate with all the bullshit they do now.
I wish these people would be honest and just say “I hate Trump and I’d vote for literally anyone to defeat him, even this guy” rather than waxing rhapsodic over the wonderful character and “tone” of a senile, corrupt serial plagiarist who pulled strings to get his cokehead deadbeat son no-show jobs and spent years falsely accusing a man of killing his first wife by driving drunk.
Trump being a shitbag doesn’t mean Biden isn’t one as well. He’s a shitbag of the first order.
I like how they pretend this is somehow a dangerous position to hold, when it costs them nothing.
Young Joe Biden looks like he’d be cast as a sleazy, corrupted Senator in a mob movie.
“Cast”? “Movie”?
LOL
What are the chances that John Farner is a fictional character?
This is the ol’ “I am a gun owner but even I think we need common sense…” blah blah blah.
They must teach that in propaganda school.
“what we need as a nation is an open & honest dialogue about ________”
And it’s nothing new – there were a slew of “I’m a lifelong GOP voter but….” ads in 2016.
“… but this candidate says mean things.”
It’s an old dodge. Along with “Previous Nazi Republican actually Not So Bad when compared to Current Nazi Republican.”
I’m just stunned that they’ve all already forgotten that their guy was called BusHitler and “consensus worst President ever” by the same folks they now consider their pals.
I can’t think of anything more disgusting than a weak bitch begging for ‘leadership’.
I’m glad to see that STEVE SMITH is alive and well. I had heard troubling rumors as to his health
Looks like there are some big time STEVE SMITH blockers out there. And by blockers I mean ….
Reassuring to know this guy’s first instinct on encountering what he thinks is Bigfoot mating is to shoot the furry hominids.
“I had to! It looked like the male bigfoot was about to shoot and I decided to shoot first”
He got lucky the male hominid didn’t decide to “Deliverance” style shoot him…
Janet Smith, lol.
You were expecting Janet Reno?
Just out of curiosity I googled “Joe Biden gun control” morning. Holy shit!
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
It’s all good though, it’s gun safety not gun control.
Good thing moderate Joe Biden is running and not one of those crazy lefties, huh?
I know how also: he has a pen and a phone; Bill of Rights will no longer factor in.
We will all be on permanent lockdown, just voting by mail when our betters need the fig leaf of legitimacy.
No particular plan toward building the economy. Just start banning things! Hate speech BANNED, guns BANNED, hanging out at a restaurant or bar BANNED.
Not sure how this will play in Peoria.
“Not sure how this will play in Peoria.”
Will they even know about it? Joe is busy hiding in his basement drooling on the TV remote and the “press” does nothing but bash Trump and make shit up. Most normies are not motivated enough to bother doing the research themselves, they’ll just nod along with “Joe’s a moderate and Trump is unstable”.
When I was a kid gun safety was don’t touch gun.
That’s the NRA’s program for kids. “Stop. Don’t Touch. Find an Adult.”
Raise taxes, gun control, green new deal, single payer healthcare….I think Khrushchev would blush.
The D’s really will turn us into Soviet America given the chance and they think this is their chance.
Now that they are getting rid of the Redskins team name, I think I’m officially an NFL free agent. Feels liberating.
Well if you like losing teams you can always hop on the Cleveland bandwagon!
As a bonus they have the ugliest uniforms in the league so all your gear will look like garbage no matter how much you spend.
Green Bay gives Washington Redskins some stiff competition on the ugliest uniform list.
Both have mustard pants. Perhaps trying to make something look good with mustard color is asking the impossible.
When I was a kid, the more garish a team’s colors were, the more I loved them. That changed as I got older, much in the same way I stopped liking sweet foods so much.
Uhh… Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Miami Dolphins.
I like the Browns uniform. I’m sick of red, white, and/or blue.
I do hate the overuse of every team being some combo of red, white, and blue…but I am not going to endorse brown and orange. Teams that use black as an alternate (49ers) when it is not part of their normal colors can also fuck off.
We need more charcoal gray, and by that I mean one team needs to do it. The Bengals main jersey should be orange. The Eagles midnight green is better than kelly green. No one is more boring than the Texans.
Those are my takes.
Gray is good.
My favorite is a color I would never wear.
The first woman who rented my house asked if she could paint.
“Sure, if you’re willing to repaint when you move.”
A job loss and eviction proceedings later…
Bobarian is repainting his living room, which was painted with 49er’s gold and red on opposing walls.
With high quality outdoor paint. So that the first coat of white primer actually ran right off the wall.
Had to sand and scuff to get Kilz primer to stick.
I’m glad I’m no longer a slum lord.
The Eagles midnight green is better than kelly green
You sure about that?
Yes, 100%.
This is the year of the purgings. Next year we can start over as a pure woke society.
You could quit watching football?
I have no plans to watch pro football this year.
Can they keep the name and put a sunburned ginger on the helmet?
They could become the Redlegs.
That’s an awesome slur I never knew about. Gonna start using it on my wife.
I first heard it when the girlfriend and I were in Dublin at the Teeling distillery. They made a drink named after an indentured servant rebellion that was called the Red Leg Rebellion. Unfortunately, it looks like the pulled the story down from the recipe page.
That place is still one of my favorite tours. Great story, got to crawl around the factory, and samples before and after.
I’ll put it on the list for my next visit!
Why do you hate the artillery?
Caissons.
Fuck that loud load of hubristic flag-waving if they even won’t bother to wave the flag. NBA lost me twenty years ago. MLB soon. NHL? You’re on double secret probation. If the PGA tour bends the knee I’m gonna chuck my clubs in the lagoon (again).
You’ll put up with all of the other horrible things about the team, but you won’t do that.
If they go with Warriors, I might stay. If they purge the American Indian iconography, I’m gonna be a Chiefs fan, and I’m gonna do it with the explicit reason that I support American Indians, and think they’re awesome.
I mean this quite seriously: a racial slur, to me, is a word that if you said it in a crowded bar, people would whip around and stare at you.
If Dwayne Haskins walked into a bar, and I said “Hey look a n________!!!” I’d get kicked out, maybe asked to leave. If I said “Hey look a Redskin!!” they’d ask me which player. No one is saying “Redskin” as a racial slur in 2020. It’s 100% the name of a shitty football team that has abused my life for far too long.
ESPN is currently chyroning “no Native American reference in new name”.
Stoopid.
They should be the “Washington Scalpers”
One of the Cleveland sports writers wrote a decent column about the Indians changing their name.
Heck it wasn’t even supposed to require deep thought when they picked the name. Everybody then clearly understood that the choice was a sign of admiration/respect. You pick a team name for strength/tenacity/respect/”winner”.
Only a modern educated person could be dumb enough not to understand that.
This.
Well the argument against Redskins is that it is an explicit racial slur. Which is why, if they changed it to Warriors and kept everything else, I wouldn’t be too mad about it. But Indians, Braves, Chiefs, Blackhawks, Seminoles are not racial slurs.
Naming a team The Pathans would not be a racial slur, but The Ragheads would be.
In the article he mentions his support for getting rid of Chief Wahoo (who has been purged, and is now only available at the team shop at the stadium). Meanwhile, in the same paper, one of the other sports writers has been debating new names for the team.
Fuck Sherrod Brown’s suggestion of the Buckeyes right in the ass.
I am waiting for them to decide the team can’t include the word Washington anymore either, cause that guy was a slave owning racist.
Guess I can now be a free agent myself.
They don’t even play in Wash DC anymore, so yeah, how about the Prince Georges’ ____________ ?
Asshats?
I know I’ve gotten old when I start to see the wisdom in the original Mayor Daley’s approach to youthful stupidity.
“The police are here to preserve disorder.”
If we’re going to relive the glory of the 60s, all the players need to understand their parts.
Do we get a real Summer of Love and not this shitty imposter?
When there is a herpesAIDS vaccine.
“Herd immunity, Man…”
Winston’s Mom.
“Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was not available for comment on Monday, but his office is working on what to do about downtown Portland as so many businesses are shut down from the nightly damage.”
And he’ll be easily reelected.
“ And he’ll be easily reelected”
This is true. Portland is voting for D no matter what.
What perplexes me is that when there’s a district that is so red or so blue that the outcome is clear for the foreseeable future, why is there not more competition within the dominant party? All you have to do is win the dominant party primary, and you’ve basically locked up all future elections in that district until retirement.
Presumably the party bosses control who rises among the ranks.
Party primaries are where the ideologues vote. The Democratic primary voter is an actual socialist, and they vote for actual socialists.
The primaries in lots of places is as stiff as the general in other places. The fact that they all have the same letter after their name doesn’t mean they are part of the same coalition.
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/lady-a-lawsuit-trademark-country-group-blues-singer-1234701779/
This is the best example of woke culture encapsulated I’ve ever seen.
Fuck them. They rushed to broadcast their virtue to the world by changing their name when no one cared. I hope the blues singer cleans them out.
And goodbye Mr. A
You promised you would love us but you knew too much
Goodbye Mr. A
You had all the answers but no human touch…..
Mr. A already exists. The Question (and by extension Rorschach) were based on him.
Well, of course. You needed to Go through Mr A, B, C, and D to get to Mr. E.
What we need here is a Red Foreman ‘Dumbass’ app.
The group says it applied for a trademark on “Lady A” in 2010 and was granted it in 2011.
That should pretty much settle it, then. I don’t know why they are even talking to Ms. White, other than to tell her to stop infringing on their trademark.
Not a lawyer here, but don’t you have to use and protect a trademark to keep it?
The use requirement is quite minimal. I have a bucket of trademarks that 99% of the people would not think were ours, but we trot them out in a flyer or something every couple of years. That way, we can submit samples of our use at renewal time.
Protection is a requirement, but its pretty nebulous.
Its possible they’ve lost it, but once you renew it, that pretty much wipes out whatever shortcomings your management of it may have had before you renewed it.
The renewal cycle is 10 years, so I doubt they have renewed it yet. Its possible they could lose a challenge, but I think its pretty unlikely.
Good doggie!
And that’s a Labrador, one of the more notoriously stupid breeds. Think of what they could do with a Border Collie.
Deliver and prepare the food?
Now I’m thinking about how NYC would require full-body hair nets. But then I realize the restaurant workers union would never permit such a thing.
I think they should require it for the Italians and Lebanese anyway.
I’ve probably already told this story.
One of my pledge brother’s last name is the same as a town in Sicily.
After we streaked the neighboring sorority house one night, a sister asked why “that one pledge was wearing a sweater.”
My avatar was the smartest dog I’ve ever interacted with.
His answer would have been…”Pretend to deliver and then eat the food.”
“Show up for treats from customers anyway.”
“Pretend he was robbed.”
Labs aren’t stupid, they are stubborn.
It’s 6:44 am on Thot Thursday. Do you know where your kids are?
http://archive.is/J5ejg
13 37 70 hmmm 78 85
and all the ladies wearing masks.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8502321/Demi-Rose-struggles-contain-ample-assets-rainbow-bikini.html
I was hoping the covid would keep this one a bit out of the daily mail cycle
She’s the only thing keeping them going.
They’re her pimp.
That’s all I needed to know. The left’s rehabilitation of Bush the Warmonger and his lackeys is fucking disgusting.
“He got better.”
How far away are we from having public debates about passing legislation mandating minorities can’t be employees of white people? <=5 years away?
How about when whites become the minority (due to demographics and the general trend toward less-than-replacement reproduction rates among whites)?
When whites are literally minorities, will they have to come up with another term?
Born Imperialist is my suggestion. manifest destiny, bitches!
South Park did it.
It will be dhimmi.
“Kanye West ‘is in the middle of a serious bipolar episode and his family are very concerned for him’ following controversial Forbes interview and decision to run for president”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8505647/Kanye-West-middle-bipolar-episode.html
“sources”
He’s wandered off the plantation, so: clearly crazy.
Well, the Wakanda bit is a mite nuts…
Fair enough.
The dude probably is crazy. It’s funny to me though, how desperate they are to discredit him.
As a writer, Kanye is someone Id put on the same list as a Steve Winwood or John Lennon. As a performer, like Lennon, he basically sucks.
“Cancelling Eve: Twitter mob targets actress Jodie Comer for ‘dating a Donald Trump fan’ after pictures emerged of her with US lacrosse player who ‘is a registered Republican voter'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8503903/Jodie-Comer-targeted-Twitter-mob-dating-Donald-Trump-fan.html
“The 27-year-old (above in Killing Eve) has found herself the victim after hundreds of social media users called for her to be ‘cancelled’ – the modern equivalent of being chased with burning torches”
I say we cancel all non libertarians and start libertopia.
I don’t know. “topia” has too many anti-libertarian connotations.
However “berg” or “bury” or other “fortified place” suffix would be appropriate considering the likely amount of guns and killdozers to be found there.
Moon base…we can be the lunatarians. *jumps 40 feet for joy
Libertarians as a group are barely capable of planning a backyard BBQ. I don’t think we have the skills to pull that off.
I was assured we were a part of the evil cabal ruling the world
“Bootlickers” seems to be the new slur. They’re too stupid to know the irony.
Calling us bootlickers? I guess because we’re capitalist supporting?
Yeah the Internet Left has this delusion that they live in an 1890s coal town and the executives are massacring us with machine guns or something.
*slides SAW behind filing cabinet*
Whycome BBQ has to be in the backyard, hmmm?
Because if it’s in the front, yard sale people keep stopping and offering to buy our stuff at insultingly low prices.
Will you accept a dollar for that Brisket?
The front yard is for storing cars & trucks on cinder blocks.
Difficult to organize people who want only to mind their own business.
People would be a lot happier if they quit paying attention to Twitter.
I deleted my account but keep clicking on twitter links…I think we’re programmed for strife.
Drama and gossip do seem to be part of being human. So much so that we elevate it by renaming it “the media” and “being informed”
This is my problem too, I have no account but am still addicted to derp.
People may not be interested in Twitter, but Twitter is interested in people.
THIS. Twitter is a fucking sewer. The only reason to have an account is to play in the sewage. People who post Twitter links just want to smear shit on everyone.
I can’t see how Twitter is going to last. It’s a cess pool of lunacy.
If I came across that bitter genie from Bugs Bunny, I think I’d use a wish on Dorsey becoming a hobo. Man will I laugh. I wouldn’t even give him a nickel.
What a waste of a malevolent wish. Mine would be that every Twitter user be struck blind.
I would just wish that no one paid any attention to social media.
*assuming of course this is a social media genie and not a universal one.
Should gyms be allowed to be open or are they too risky? A new study from the University of Oslo supports gym reopenings do not significantly increase corona transmission rates.
Nearly 4000 Norwegians were randomized to either have access to their gym or not. Social distancing norms were in place in either group.
Most participants with COVID19-like symptoms turned out not to actually have corona. Only 1 person in the gym group was verified to have contacted corona, and contact tracing revealed he got it from the workplace, not the gym. He also did not become symptomatic.
“Provided good hygiene and social distancing measures, there was no increased COVID-19 spread at training facilities.”
https://www.facebook.com/MennoHenselmans/posts/3184513844939762
Menno is one of the guys in fitness I actually occasionally follow. Off course going through the comments, this post is quite controversial. Many of the more covid panicked are against it – the main argument being that the study is only 4000 people and anyway Norway had a low infection rate and logically gyms are a good place to get infected. I am not sure how much confidence I can put on this particular study.
Another controversial point is his opinion is lockdown is not worth it from a cost benefit analysis. Here the main talk seems to be of Sweden. Menno quotes studies that looked at all countries and see limited benefit of lockdowns. The pro lockdown crowd looks at Sweden compared exclusively to the other Nordic countries Norway and Denmark. This is also tricky as yes those countries have similarities, but those countries also have differences and often when you have a data set you look at it as a whole not in parts. Who the fuck knows.
Romania had an all time record 614 cases. No idea where it is heading.
Anyhoo I am gonna try to make the best of gyms opened while it lasts.
The covid panicky people don’t have to go to the gym. I don’t understand busy-body mentality that seems to rule the world now.
Well You go to the gym catch the covid and give it to them on the streets or something.
“logically gyms are a good place to get infected.”
Well yes, logically. But science is about “hmmm this seems true, lets test and see if it is true.”
But science is about “hmmm this seems
truepolitically useful, letstest and see if it issay it’s true.”No, that’s SCIENCE!
Common mistake, don’t feel bad about it.
Reassuring to know this guy’s first instinct on encountering what he thinks is Bigfoot mating is to shoot the furry hominids.
That reminded me, for some reason, of the Viet Nam era “recruiting” poster:
Join the Army, travel to exotic far-off lands filled with people from fascinating ancient cultures, and KILL THEM.
What happens when STEVE SMITH meets cancel culture?
Love at first sight. And by love ….
STEVE SMITH #S THEM TOO
My God Oregon. The incompetence and cowardice of these left-wing loons is pathetic.
While they are incompetent, they aren’t cowards. Think they would just helplessly shrug if the Klan was taking over the streets every night? They do nothing because they agree with the rioters – and hate themselves and each other that much.
Good point.
Basically the entire west coast is insane.
Been having dirty thoughts lately. Disown me before it’s too late.
Look as long as the schoolgirls sell you their panties by their own choice it is okay
Just dont get caught sniffing girl’s bicycle seats at the grammar school and you should be ok.
Whats grammer school?
Elementary, my dear Straff.
Thank you for calling me “my dear straff”. Brochettaward told me I like sucking dick and so I was gay.
He was propositioning you. Careful I believe he is obsessed with fisting.
Tell em you are only gay on certain days of the month straff….
Ridiculous.
Face masks mandatory for school kids.
Here in MA, the same thing…. except they’re surveying parents about how they feel.
I wrote a nice little blurb in the survey to the effect that they were harming the kids’ education, health and social development in order to protect ‘third parties’ – eg the fraction of adults that a fraction of the kids come in contact with for whom COVID is dangerous. That there were less costly, less disruptive and less harmful ways to protect that fraction of a fraction.
I also told them that I would appreciate them publishing notice about mandatory stuff like masks sooner rather than later so that I would have time to make alternate arrangements should they go down this road.
Sadly, the flame of liberty died in the people’s republic of Massachusetts a very, very long time ago.
*pours one out for Merry Mount*
Worse than ridiculous, It’s abuse.
LEAVE THE KIDS OUT OF THIS.
If there’s one thing that has left me with angst for the first time in my life is this madness of projecting our fears onto students and kids.
The evidence masks work is TENUOUS.
Paediatricians across North America disagree.
So what’s going on exactly?
Soon they will mandate that we all wear black pajamas.
Good luck with that. Nevada is going the same route and I can forsee many detentions in the future for my boys for malicious compliance.
I’m so done with 2020.
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/07/strike-for-black-lives-will-stage-nationwide-walkout-from-work.html
Everything is stupid.
8 minutes.
The nation trembles in fear.
Banana bread is in the oven.
We’ll see how it turns out.
Fuck turning the oven on right now. It’s already 82, supposed to get up to 92 today. And I can’t run the AC without going down into the basement to suck up the water it’s dumping out. Repair guy is supposed to be here in a bit to give us an estimate.
I know it’s supposed to be the hottest day so far, but I think the heat has gone to my brain and I’m crazy.
It’s hilarious to see how the money got spent. The heat and humidity are too much for the A/C in the office buildings to cope with. The production space is a unflinching 22 deg C and 50% RH.
My AC went out a few weeks ago. New coolant would require new equipment (compressor, ducts, etc) under California law, to the tune of 9k. Ouch.
We paid a guy who had a stockpile of the old refrigerant less than $800 to refill.
It would probably have been even cheaper to refill if not for California law.
its already 84º here, and the a/c kicked on @ 08.30
Banana bread is out of the oven.
Seems like it takes an hour to cook.
Delicious! I’m sure it’s a worn-out vid by now, but I’m still posting it anyway.
“Sign in to confirm your age”
Hell, no YouTube.
And Machine, what sorts of videos are you sharing?
It’s a young man talking about how awesome it is to get banana bread at work. Weird that they think it should be age-gated.
MLS is back – at 9 o’clock in the f—–g morning. They could at least have the common courtesy to skip the virtue ceremony and the pushing the Marxism. Nope!
Easier to do that crap when no one in the stands is heckling them for it.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, TAYLOR TWELLMAN. WE GET IT, YOU’RE WOKE. Just fucking watch the game! Fuck, I dunno if I can take much more of this.
Libertarians as a group are barely capable of planning a backyard BBQ.
“You’re not really to cook those like THAT, are you?”
A libertarian BBQ would have several different grilling stations manned by whoever wants to share in the festivities, and guests would then “vote with their plates” by free selection.
Guests can bring a side dish or a financial contribution.
The Great Libertarian Cookout!
Soo… a potluck?
Yeah, but not a crummy one where some Karen makes an organized list of who’s bringing what and tries to sign you up for a dish you don’t want to make.
Cool – no salads.
You don’t win friends with salad.
Bah! Meat needs a green complement for good digestion – green veggies or salad.
But I’ve made enough gazpacho for all!
(I really would, in fact. I do realize it’s basically salsa. Mmm, gazpacho.)
Fantastic episode. But, yeah… I would demolish some gazpacho; I love it so. Particularly if it’s slightly spicy and HEAVY on the Worcestershire. It’s like eating a Bloody Mary.
I have never run into the iteration you describe.
Oh I have.
It usually sets in once 50+% of the guests show up bearing a 2L of room-temperature soda and a bag of tortilla chips.
The other day the senior Dr. Paul likened reinhaling one’s exhalations to drinking one’s urine.
Uhhh… was supposed to be a reply re masks in Asia. WTH?
You give libertarians too much credit. It would have 12 grills still in the box needing assembly and the entire party would be sitting in the house arguing about whether they should follow the directions (once they start putting the grills together) or if that would make them gay. Then they would spend 3 hours saying versions of NTTAWWT
Well what maters is the beef is rare and the wine is of quality. The rest is details.
And I thought you were supposed to have taste.
Well I do. Only I assume it is rather difficult for you to tell. Like a deaf man and a symphony.
Are you calling me culinary Beethoven?
Beethoven was not really deaf though, he just pretended for clout
I am also deaf whenever my significant other is talking about shit I don’t care about or is asking me to do something I don’t want to do….
Relevant.
I came across this article from 2003 about the effectiveness of masks. It’s a fairly quick read. What’s interesting is it pretty much concludes what recent ones show. That is, inconclusive. In fact, I’d add, useless. That moron Fauci was right when he said they’re psychological protection.
I would like to ask the peanut galley here if they know why masks are worn in Asia. Do they have studies showing they work or are they just doing it because and it’s a learned habit? If the latter, we really need to stop it. Something tells me it’s the latter.
https://www.nursingtimes.net/clinical-archive/infection-control/the-effectiveness-of-surgical-face-masks-what-the-literature-shows-30-09-2003/
Is Asia, much of the mask wearing is against polluted air.
Ah. Ok.
Yep, I only have anecdotal evidence but the smog is usually (always? I can’t say for certain but I think so) the reason I hear.
Some of it. There’s also a lot of germ theory involved.
From what I’ve read they do help, but nothing is 100%.
Help enough to justify mandating it?
‘Suggest’ and ‘could be beneficial’ doesn’t wash with me.
Do you have a link i can read?
Also, that article is a about surgery.
Yes, I know, but there’s some useful information even for this scenario. The way I see it, it was inconclusive there, then imagine in the corona context, no?
Sorry, I’m not an expert on infectology, but I’m thinking there is a big difference between bacteria falling into a large incision, and breathing in a respiratory virus transmitted via droplets.
There has been studies that have examined it’s usage within the home as well, and found no benefits to surgical masks. And people aren’t wearing surgical masks anyway, they’re wearing wearing cloth “face coverings” with no actual filtering capabilities.
Furthermore, it isn’t incumbent on anyone to prove beyond 100% of a doubt that the masks “don’t work.” It’s incumbent upon the mask advocates to prove that they do, particularly if they want to justify these insane far reaching mask mandates. They also need to demonstrate that there aren’t significant unintended consequences of widespread community mask wearing, including the most basic of “people are more willing to expose themselves to infection if they think the mask is going to protect them.”
This is a really good review from CIDRAP (with 52 cites):
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data
Essentially every single study you see on the topic prior to 2020 says the exact same thing: there’s little scientific evidence supporting the use of disposable surgical masks to prevent infections via either source control (you giving it to someone else) or as PPE (someone else giving it to you). There is only one study which compared cloth masks to surgical masks for health care workers, and that study found a 13 fold increase in influenza like illnesses for the cloth mask group. Unfortunately there was no completely unmasked control in the study. Since the surgical masks have shown every little evidence of effectiveness, that study suggests that cloth masks were not only not protecting health care workers, but possibly causing more infections than if they simply wore nothing at all.
For years, Western scientists and doctors have been trying to get their Asian colleagues to knock it off with the mask shit because it’s a bad look for the “evidence based” medical community. Asia does not have the same history and commitment to the scientific method as in the west.
There is a possibility that mask usage could actually help reduce the spread of infections, but it would require an amount of diligence and care that is completely infeasible (changing the mask every half hour, NEVER touching the mask with your hands while wearing it, ensuring as tight a fit with the contours of your face at all times, completely isolating yourself for weeks at even the first sign of anything remotely resembling a symptom, etc).
People mistake studies showing that masks reduce aerosol/droplet dispersion for studies showing masks reduce infections. To my knowledge, there are none of the latter. The former essentially posit a hypothesis that should be tested. There are any number of reasons why the former can be true, but not the latter to any signifcant degree.
PSA: The Boys season 2 September 4.
Yay!!!
I loved season 1. I’m dreading that the writers may have decided to wokify season 2.
Not that wokeness can’t be written in and still be a good show, see Orphan Black for an example. For just about the only example.
I can’t be the only one who felt that season 1 was already pretty left-wing in its cultural critique. The only thing that makes it seem otherwise is that the era being criticized is not the present day but rather circa 2004: the war on terror is a popular but corrupt enterprise, the evangelical movement is ascendant but full of hypocrisy, the media is pro-war and patriotic but incurious to the plight of the downtrodden, etc.
I’d say that none of that is woke. Now if they make it so all the bad guys are wypipo who are trying to create a disease that only kills trans folx and bombing abortion clinics to distract from their black and brown body organ harvesting…
Well that’s just the plot of season 2 of the Watchmen TV show.
I watched it and thought the same thing. It was yet another example of depicting Exaggerated Americana as thoroughly corrupt. It was fairly entertaining but it was also very much the usual leftist messaging.
Just no to woke Karl Urban.
Dredd is so fucking underrated.
I’m dreading that the writers may have decided to wokify season 2.
Season 2 and 3 have already been written, so there’s a chance the content may have escaped the Great Awokening of 2020 already. That said, I suppose they could always go back and “tweak” the scripts.
Uh, you didn’t hear it from me, but there mayyyyyy be a The Boysspinoff series in the works. Something about a superhero academy.
Interesting.
Glib spies are everywhere!
Some solicitor for the ‘National Police Association’ just called here, and Im quite surly. I hope I ruined his morning.
They asked three times if they could send you an envelope? Scam charity call trying to record you saying yes. It’s not even a real person on the other end, just a recording. You’ll get the same responses no matter what you say.
The NBA allowed a pre-approved list of slogans.
I swear this league.
I’m praying extra primo crispy good this episode in the 2020 timeline gives us an epic and spectacular shit show.
No free Hong Kong, Taiwan rulz, or NRA forever slogans allowed? What a bummer.
Do you think they would approve “Go Read The Negro and the Gun”? (Ps – go read it, its a great book)
Needz moar enlightenment and central planning
A perfect storm of factors makes the decision to leave major cities like New York very obvious. The dense nature of urban living and the lack of proper local government planning led to the coronavirus spreading five times faster in New York than the rest of the country. The city that never sleeps now resembles a ghost town in many areas after thousands of its wealthy and middle-class residents fled early in the pandemic.
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An estimated quarter of a million New York residents will move upstate for good, while another 2 million could permanently move out of the state. More than 16,000 New York residents have already relocated to suburban Connecticut. The preliminary figures show New York is also losing citizens to rural New England and Florida in significant numbers. Similar trends are happening in other large urban areas. There is a political element within the domestic migration at play across the nation, but what is more telling is the level of movement to suburban areas and rural towns.
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The moves and the circumstances that precipitated them will likely cause profound changes in the places receiving the most coronavirus refugees. It is still too early to forecast the political impacts of these demographic trends, but they could be significant. Floods of former urbanites could bring more taxes, restrictions, and regulations to these areas.
On the other hand, an influx of money could reinvigorate former industrial towns. A curious question is whether the waves of new residents will see these smaller areas as their real homes or as places of convenience that need to be reshaped in the image of the cities they fled from.
“It’s kind of a shithole right now, but it’s got potential. We’ll show these deplorable hicks how a city should be run.”
need to be reshaped
Business end of a gun says go back to your fucking city.
I think we are safe here…..for now.
My MIL just sold her Pocono house in one week. The native NYers want to get a vacation and bug out house in the ‘Woods”. The palace populated like a residential neighborhood, but here is a lake and deer.
Pay no attention to the Tokyos or Singapores behind the curtain.
Also, the virus is going to be everywhere eventually. You can’t “hide” from it.
There has been a sharp uptick in interest in moving out to Montana, with the majority of new inquiries coming from California. Real estate sales in Montana are 10 percent higher than at this time last year.
Praise Jeezusss! Get me the fuck out of here.
So long, suckers. Turn this place into a Disney-fied Frontier Fantasy Town, for all I care.
Little Beirut is on its way to being big Beirut.
I would like to ask the peanut galley here if they know why masks are worn in Asia.
I believe it has mostly to do with severe particulate pollution. Soot.
Depends on the country. China more so. Japan, not so much. There it’s for health, appearance, warmth, privacy, or laziness.
People in Japan have been wearing face masks for years during the flu season. The interesting question is whether the flu cases/deaths are lower in Japan than, say, in the US. This site doesn’t strike me as 100% credible but it indicates that Japan has a higher rate of dying from influenza and pneumonia than the US.
First thing I notice…China, the country from which most if not all flu comes from, is in the lowest group of death rates. Long exposure to the flu has created high resistance in the population?
There could be genetic or cultural factors. Who knows?
For whatever reason East Asian countries appear to have some cross-immunity against the coronavirus. They and Eastern European countries have low COVID numbers. Could it be that cross-immunity is related to the universal BCG vaccination in those countries? It could be one of the factors.
They also look to have a different variation of the virus.
Long exposure to the flu has created high resistance in the population?
I would bet on bad data.
There are interesting indications that susceptibility to the ‘Vid has a genetic component, and that there are two varieties of the ‘Vid, one of which is more infections.
Yes.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-02-21/why-arent-people-in-china-dying-of-the-flu-101382286.html
see Orphan Black for an example.
I read that as “Orphan Blackface” first time by.
I’d watch it.
You should. Whatsername puts on an acting clinic. Plus it really is a good enough story (for the first few seasons at least) that you can overlook the hyper-wokeness. It also weaponizes the audience’s genre-savvyness, which is a technique I particularly enjoy.
I don’t want to encourage them.
The series is well over, and it was Canadian anyway.
There was one character that really stood out on the hyper-woke scale. Was only in one, maybe two episodes IIRC. Worst fake mustache ever.
Yeah, the trans clone. But honestly, the entire premise of Season 2 was that Toxic Masculinity is so real that women would die if they fucked a Castor.
Tatiana Maslany.
My favorite clone turned out to be the suburban housewife. But I gave up on the show in Season 3 for some reason.
It kind of went downhill at the end when the writers couldn’t come up with an extension of the mythology.
However, if you haven’t seen the episode where Housewife Clone is in her church’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, go seek that one out.
She had the most development throughout the series. The others were too perfect to start with.
My message to cancel culture and the curating media.
Eat my asshole.
*Been drinking, not walking, got home.
This is why you keep getting pink eye in your mouth.
I agree with Andy Warhol: “I think everyone should see everything and decide for themselves.”
Best baseball players born on this date: Jack Powell (who?) and Willie Wilson. Powell’s last season was 1912.
Powell’s last season was 1912. – how do you know he was any good then?
He cause them to start the income tax and the Fed?
Have you ever talked stats with a baseball geek?
I certainly have not and am offended at the suggestion.
Short answer: we know his stats and the stats of the other players at the time. From that, you can make a pretty darn good estimate of how good he was relative to his league. Plus he spent 16 years in the majors, you don’t do that if you suck.
Everything about him screams “Hall of Very Good”.
in that time neither skill nor fitness were necessary for most sports
“I am not an athlete [takes puff on cigarette], I am a baseball player.” — John Kruk, sometime in the 90s.
He was smoking on the sideline during spring training, and some woman got onto him about athletes shouldnt smoke and etc.
He also showed up at spring training wearing a “If you don’t let me play, I will take my ball and go home” t-shirt after his testicular cancer surgery.
Best football player born on this date: O.J.Simpson
Amber Heard shows photos of Johnny Depp’s lunch- whisky and four lines of coke, then passed out on floor.
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1280926756153651200
Looks totes believable
Given her track record of fabrication, I’m going to need outside verification.
I don’t have first hand experience with coke, but from what I’ve seen passing out doesn’t happen for quite a while.
I do and I’ve never passed out. In fact, quite the opposite.
He didn’t pass out from the coke.
“Why are the pretty ones always insane?”
present company excluded
Who, me? If so, aww.
Also, that “pint of whiskey” looks suspiciously like a pint of beer.
Re: an earlier comment. I keep seeing people hit how bad the economy is as an attack on Trump. Which is a tactic I’d use too if I were in a race against him. I just wonder how effective it will really be. Will people out of work blame Trump? I have a hard time seeing the people voting for the guy promising more lockdowns because they are out of work.
Who cares? What did Trump do to protect people from government over reach? From destroying the entire premise of free speech and free association? From demonizing people based on skin color? At best, he mocked them as they got everything they wanted. Doesn’t matter to me one iota.
What would’ve happened to him had he fought them?
Sure, Trump certainly seems to lack the genuine concern for anyone but himself, and I don’t think he deserves props for the economy. But I wonder how effective blaming him for the current state will be.
It’s so crazy with all the money printing that there is almost no way to figure out who is responsible for what. Exactly how DC likes it.
Delivering tiny, tiny packages of cocaine?
Coffee, one bean at a time?
Kopi Luwak is from civets, not dogs
fter passing the “Amazon Tax,” Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant went on this unhinged rant.
She threatens to seize control of the Fortune 500 and overthrow the “racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism.”
If you oppose her? “We are coming for you.”
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1280578930060128256
At some point it is going to come down to making good commies of them all.
Isn’t she the one who’s march to the mayors house got CHAZ shut down? She seems nice.
apparently
She is a no-shit commie.
And she’s been on the Seattle city council for the better part of a decade.
And I believe she was re-elected. Fuck everyone that voted for her.
Oh, they are getting it good and hard they just don’t understand that.
And opened up city hall to the rioters. If the mayor and police had any balls, they’d arrest Sawant.
The Seattle tax payer is going to take it up the ass on the payout to the CHAZ business lawsuit, and the lawsuit by Amazon challenging this law that was already ruled illegal.
There shouldn’t be any Seattle taxpayers. I would leave immediately, I wouldn’t work for a company located there either.
And if I was a CEO, I would be looking hard for a new home.
Where do you draw the line, and at what point do you give up everything you’ve built up to move? What about those who are unable to move out?
The best time to move is 20 years ago.
The next best time is today
Will people out of work blame Trump?
I don’t, but I know what the dem plan is.
*rides in on hobby horse*
2/3 of the people staying home are getting more money now than before. If Trump goes along with another cash drop, I don’t know what the effect will be.
Will people out of work blame Trump?
I don’t know. Trump is not the one closing businesses and putting people on lockdown, but the unceasing drumbeat of “It’s Trump’s fault we had to do this to you!” might actually work. They assert (without evidence) Trump’s unique personal incompetence but have provided little to no substantive explanation of how any of this would have been different with Hillary at the helm.
Hillary would have no doubt showered more money on people to remain unemployed.
“How any of this would have been different with Hillary at the helm:”
I demand Facebook crack down on these unfounded conspiracy theories about some mystery disease that is killing people. These unsourced allegations have already been debunked.
Looks like Bowser riding the 50cc bike.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1281049328937848832
I cannot tell if this comment is racist, fatphobic, or both
The term “obesity”, and anti-fatness in general, is rooted in anti-Blackness because of how Africans where stigmatized as being “gluttonous” because of their body shapes, which sometimes went on display as freakish spectacles
https://twitter.com/truestfantasy/status/1280898042086989827
Both it seems
Apparently it is walls that give you the covid.
N.J. restaurants and bars that can open up 2 walls can reopen for indoor dining, Murphy says
Get your your sledgehammers out.
Climate Privilege is being able to design restaurants where an entire wall can be opened up to the outside. Try that shit in Houston, I dare you.
It’s been a hot and humid week in NJ with thunderstorms and a few flash-floods. Perfect for outdoor dining.
I first noticed restaurants where the entire front opened up when I was in Montreal. My first thought was “must be nice.”
In Houston, it wouldn’t just be the weather, it’d be the flocks of grackles and swarms of wasps.
In addition to being a gov snitch, fraud George Orwell spent WWII demonizing the USSR as it defeated Nazism
As the Red Army sacrificed millions fighting Hitler, and as the Nazi regime shoved Jews into gas chambers, Orwell was writing Animal Farm
Vile man
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1280869217429073920
The coup-plotting, fascist death squad-training murderers and torturers at the CIA strongly supported George Orwell’s work, using it as a propaganda weapon.
The CIA even funded the Animal Farm movie, which is now mandatory viewing in many high schools
Reminder that the absurd “100 million victims of communism” myth is far-right propaganda that trivializes the Holocaust, portrays Nazi collaborators as victims, blames the 26M Soviets killed by the Nazis on the USSR, and helps neo-fascists rewrite history
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1280865246387806214
Emperor Norton just for tankies
The Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico demands satisfaction for that insult.
Great leap forward, Killing fields, Homoldor.
But keep drinking the commie Kool aid as you advocate for genocide.
I’m sure he’ll be deplatformed very shortly for his evil and false statements.
I’m sure it was only like 10-20 million so NBD.
In 1980, there were 10 million people in Hungary, another 10 million in Czechoslovakia, and 35 million in Poland. All 3 countries were under hostile occupation by Soviet-backed puppet states. That’s 55 million people held in bondage to Soviet colonial masters, and those regimes lasted longer than the approximately 5 years the Nazis controlled much of Europe. Yet no foreign military force ever organized and set out to free them. If Orwell helped to topple that regime, he deserves a medal not a condemnation.
You can’t oppose the Soviet Union without supporting Nazis!
Rise of the Stalinists. Fuck Krushchev.
I don’t know what it is that triggers me most about these tankies. I suspect it’s that they are as vile as Richard Spencer, but not publicly reviled like him.
Exactly. Like I alluded above, he’s in no danger for being deplatformed despite being as vile as a Nazi apologist.
The Nazi apologists deny the Shoah ever happened. They claim it was all made up, from the whole cloth. That there never were death camps. They claim the deaths were due to epidemics and malnutrition caused by Allied blockades.
Commie apologists will lower the death count, but still insist that the gulag was justified to preserve the revolution. They don’t deny the gulag, they argue that those in the gulag were counterrevolutionaries and traitors.
That was the first wave… Subsequent waves consisted of those that got in the way of the people that had seized power from the idiots that had started the revolution and were never going to give it up… Often time people were sent there for petty grievances or just because, and many of those sent were hardcore believers in the revolution that couldn’t understand why they were in the camp. Quite a few of them came to believe they deserved it for not being true to the revolution enough is my guess as well..
Oh, there are communist apologists who deny the gulags. It’s kind of hard to deny the ice axe to Trotsky’s face, but it’s easy to deny the connection to Stalin. For every atrocity in human history, there’s somebody somewhere who will happily deny it.
I really, really wish guys like that would run into the wrong Ukrainian sometime.
What triggers me is just thinking how much richer and better off the world would have been without communism imposed to it by the Soviets.
Shit, the people peddling this stuff think the only reason the USSR (and every other commie shithole out there) failed was because the capitalists “sabotaged” it (them)…
You trying to make me angry? Harsh my buzz? Not gonna work.
You know that saying about cops and bad apples? That applies to socialists as well. There were lots of bad apples among the socialists in the West. Orwell had to fight to get any of his work published and whatever the CIA may have done elsewhere after the war, they didn’t help him overcome the institutional bias against honesty about socialism that was rampant in Britain. He was a good apple and remained a committed socialist for the rest of his life. To cast him out from the socialist movement in the name of protecting people like Stalin is to say that you’d rather have the boot stamping on every human face than to achieve whatever alleged goals of socialism you purport to be interested in.
You know that saying about cops and bad apples? That applies to socialists as well. – no, there is the occasional ok cop out there.
Most cops aren’t worth the helicopter fuel.
Defending Stalin as the hero of socialism because of his actions in WW2 is itself absurd.
By the end of the war, Stalin had thrown away any pretense of maintaining Marxism and was pretty much just the archetype for every military dictator that followed. He changed his title from Comrade to Marshal, he wore military uniforms all the time, he set himself atop a vast hierarchy centered around war, his own policy of affirmative action for the other ethnicities of the USSR was discarded and called a counter-revolutionary plot, the war was labeled “The Great Patriotic War” and the ideological elements were minimized in favor of Russophilia (even though he himself was Georgian), he was having everybody who disagreed with him eliminated (well, that wasn’t new), and he eventually split the “international” socialist movement along ethnic and national lines.
And as for his actions during the War, the allies on the Western Front were able to inflict the same number of casualities on the Germans but took a third as many casualities as the Soviets. Never mind that the Western allies helped to liberate the nations along the way instead of leaving them to be “cleansed” by Nazi atrocities then lazily marching in afterward to claim new prizes for their colonial empire.
Actually, the casualty numbers are off. The Western allies inflicted around 5 million casualties and took 3 million; on the Eastern Front, the USSR inflicted 5 million deaths (10 million casualties overall) and took 10 million deaths (15 million casualties overall). The Western Front was a lot less bloody.
Oh, and let’s not forget the Winter War which Stalin fought because he wanted to reclaim the old imperial territory of the Tsarist regime. Even though the USSR lost the war, they kept trying to take Finland which led to the Finns joining the other side.
Circling the drain
New York City on Thursday shut down the stretch of Fifth Avenue where Trump Tower stands to begin painting a Black Lives Matter mural.
The proposed mural, between 56th and 57th streets, was called a “symbol of hate” by President Donald Trump, who said it would be “denigrating” Fifth Avenue, known for expensive apartments and luxury shopping.
City workers closed the street Thursday morning, and Mayor Bill de Blasio will likely join the effort to paint the mural, according to NBC New York.
De Blasio defended the mural after the president’s criticism.
“Here’s what you don’t understand: Black people BUILT 5th Ave and so much of this nation. Your ‘luxury’ came from THEIR labor, for which they have never been justly compensated. We are honoring them,” the mayor wrote on Twitter last week. “The fact that you see it as denigrating your street is the definition of racism.”
People are abandoning America’s Greatest City? It’s baffling.
Show your work, Bill.
He’s including Italians?
You mean Sicilians?
I’m surprised Tarantino hasn’t been cancelled yet.
Spike Lee’s been trying for decades.
Didn’t they try a while ago?
Good, good (Emperor’s voice)
Who wants to pay top dollar for a nice house an hour west of that dump?
I said that Trump should put up a bigger, gold-leafed Black LIves Matter on his own building before the other one goes up.
Troll level Godzilla style.
Forget it, he’s rolling.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1281068323615080449
Kinda curious what that rolled up wad of paper he’s holding is.
The Constitution?
Nope, that is rolled up on the wall of his bathroom.
On MDMA? Because if that’s him sober, that’s bad.
Money well spent
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1281161681612214274
What is that thing?
A cat
*applause*
An automatic cat toy….there are a bazillion of them. They are supposed to amuse your cat while you are gone.
Apparently Henri has a soul mate.
LOL
“I will play on MY terms, human.”
So, do we still love Gorsuch? Just askin’.
“we”? “still”? The man was squishy from the word go.
Catch all. I’m not a constitutionalist. Do find it funny that the darling of the conservatives caved on Trump’s taxes.
You are a married man stop loving other dudes
What did he do now?
A little more nuanced than the barb I threw out…
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns-financial-records-353428
The demand for tax returns, like campaign finance reform, is about deterring outsiders from entering politics.
All of my teachers were very clear that there were no reservations in Oklahoma. But I was a public school child, so who knows how much I was miseducated. I still remember the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek though.
“With citizenship extended to Tribe members, the Reservation system violates equal protection.”
/ruling that won’t happen.
And tribal “governments” violate a lot of constitutional protections.
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
Signed in Noxubee County MS after my clans already had people in the ground thereabouts.
Some translate bak as creek, eerily similar to bach.
Well, this is a bit telling:
Which should be nil. Prosecutors don’t get to “explore potential criminality” with the powers of the state. They get to prosecute crimes for which they have already passed the relevant standards of evidence. This attitude of “we’ll find something if we dig hard enough” is running roughshod over basic civil liberties.
The Southern District of New York has a sad.
“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”
Love? Still? If it were up to me every one of those fuckwits would be off of the court and I would re-define the parameters of the justice’s job.
The Trump tax returns seems it should be a settled question. Aren’t there procedures and conditions in place already for looking at someone’s tax return?
#BlackRobesMatter
Saw a thing:
“Remember: You are not voting for Joe Biden. You are voting for RGB’s REPLACEMENT.”
RBG* (spending too much time in Photoshop)
Just so long as it’s not Justice CMYK.
Good argument for republicans who don’t like Trump
Assuming that the confirmation circus lasts 2 months, what is Biden going to be doing for the other 46 months of his term?
Taking a dirt nap.
Absolutely true.
Plus Biden signing off on everything. I keep coming back to that: they own the bureaucracy and the judiciary. They don’t actually need to pass any legislation ever again, because the Republicans are useless fake opposition and will never repeal or defund anything. The New Deal and the Great Society give them all the tools they need to remake America, they just need a POTUS to sign off on whatever they come up with, and they can wipe his drool off the papers no problem.
Yep. We will be flying down the road to perdition with the gas to the floor and no brakes.
You’re voting for someone who will appoint someone with the arrogance to believe they can decide the minutiae of the lives of people living in places and cultures they’ve never visited nor know anything about.
“Remember: You are not voting for Joe Biden. You are voting for RGB’s REPLACEMENT.”
Kamala Harris?
I said that Trump should put up a bigger, gold-leafed Black LIves Matter on his own building before the other one goes up.
A giant statue of Frederick Douglass.
“Guns N’ Roses, Pearl Jam, the Eagles, Green Day Among Bands Who Have Received PPP Loans
The money will go to supporting and retaining staff amid the pandemic
Pearl Jam, the Eagles, Guns N’ Roses, and Green Day are among the bands who have received loans from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program, Rolling Stone reports.
According to data from the Small Business Administration and Treasury Department, the money will go to supporting and retaining the artists’ crews and staff; Rolling Stone notes that the Eagles’ loan is listed under their touring company and will help save 50 jobs. Larger loans—between $350,000 and $1 million—were taken out by the Eagles, Pearl Jam, and Disturbed. Out of 660,000 recipients, Rolling Stone reports that over 40 musicians and bands received loans for over $150,000, including Weezer, Imagine Dragons, Chainsmokers, Nickelback, and Jason Isbell.
Various major and independent labels also received PPP loans, including Sub Pop Records, Third Man Records, and Knitting Factory Records, who each received a minimum of $350,000.”
https://pitchfork.com/news/guns-n-roses-pearl-jam-the-eagles-green-day-among-bands-who-have-received-ppp-loans/
Take me down to the Paradise City
Where the money is green and the graft is shitty
Shillings, gods and runes: Clues in language suggest a Semitic superpower in ancient northern Europe
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-shillings-gods-runes-clues-language.amp
Identifying traces of Punic in Proto-Germanic languages tell an interesting story.
Take the words “shilling” and “penny”: both words are found in Proto-Germanic. The early Germanic people did not have their own coins, but it is likely they knew coins if they had words for them.
In antiquity, coins were used in the Mediterranean. One major coin minted in Carthage was the shekel, the current name for currency of Israel. We think this is the historical origin of the word “shilling” because of the specific way the Carthaginians pronounced “shekel,” which is different from how it is pronounced in Hebrew.
i am not sure I am convinced
Ah, they’re saying that the northern Europeans borrowed the word from the Carthaginians. That sounds plausible, Carthage was founded by the sea faring Phoenicians and they loved them some ocean going trade.
Western England/Wales was a major source of tin during the bronze age, and the baltic was always a source of amber.
Of course they were linked into ancient trade routes.
I think it’s plausible that one of the seafaring powers of antiquity discovered the Strait of Gibraltar and sailed out to the coast of Europe (and maybe Africa too). They might have even established a colony there. I doubt it was a superpower though.
Ancient Atlantic coast sea trade isn’t just “possible” it has been known about for a long time.
It was all mercantile, with no colonial activity.
“the specific way the Carthaginians pronounced “shekel,”
Something that is impossible to know.
Yeah, the headline seems a tad misleading. That never happens.
Shit happens fast.
Crazy.
there are other strategies
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1280716878642544646
L
O
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“Baker uses female urine from public toilets to make ‘Goldilocks bread’ ”
https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/baker-uses-female-urine-to-make-goldilocks-bread/
“ecofeminist”
GG Allin really was ahead of his time.
Great. Next controversy will be when JK Rowlings tries to claim that the piss from a person with XY chromosones and a dick is not really “female piss” even if xe identifies as a woman and pissed in the female toilet.
“To break taboos over excrement…”
*sigh*
Those taboos exist for a reason.
Using chickenshit, an excellent fertilizer, on your tomatoes can be a bad idea. Salmonella can get inside the tomatoes. In fact, most of the food poisonings we get is from contaminated fruit/vegetables that are imported from places where they use animal or human feces to fertilize.
This woman is an idiot.
“It’s time to cancel Don Lemon”
https://twitter.com/WhjteHovse/status/1280965106365378560
Things change in seven years.
The Lemons of the world are just sellouts. They know the nonsense they spout is nonsense but they are making to much money spouting the gibberish to be honest.
Dont forget the cocktail parties…
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1281241132761001984
Slow crime day, eh?
Honk honk.
https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Black-Lives-Matter-mural-vandalized-overnight-571390271.html
You paint stuff on roads, you will get tire tracks on it.
So adding black to other colors is now in the age of Trump considered vandalism? STOP DEMONIZING BLACKNESS! BLACK MARKS MATTER!
Welp it’s over.
https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy/status/1281207732436119552
Lysenkoism has won.
“If scientists retract research that challenges reigning orthodoxies, politics will drive scholarship.”
There is no “if”. It’s been happening for years.
The rest is paywalled, unfortunately.
Yes, and lay-off everyone that was making them.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/8/21317894/ford-employees-black-police-vehicles-law-enforcement-george-floyd
Ford’s African Ancestry Network
Uh, isn’t that everyone?
LOL, solid point.
FTFY
Aka giant temper tantrums
How many of them asked that?
Let me guess…the 5% that everyone already knows as shit-stirrers.