Reality is, I’m agnostic about what to do with politicians. As long as the end result is the same. Woodchipper, hanging, electrocution, whatever. Tree of Liberty and all that.
Birthdays today include a guy who never let a barrier stop him; a brilliant noir novelist who is likely to be canceled; a pitcher whom I had the pleasure of seeing live only once- and he lost; a piece of shit judge (the name was a clue) who would have fit nicely in the above contraption; a great actor who is a stellar example of the maxim that great actors have empty skulls; and an obscenely talented musician who deserved every bit of fame and fortune she’s achieved.
Now the infuriation part.
Seattle Antifa/Boogaloo/Whatever to receive reinforcements.
This is why we have the deepest respect for the police and criminal justice system.
Team Red: Party of fiscal austerity.
“How to Lie with Statistics” Part 76,894
The cops always have the best weed.
Stupid moves by the federal government make the federal government look stupid.
Old Guy Music today is a delightful cover of what would be on my very short list of “favorite songs ever,” and she does it proud.
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Zen factorial?
*hides under box*
Okay, didn’t realize you had a fancy name that links directly to your books you shameless promoter you. I don’t have amazon prime though so the kindle unlimited reads will cost me some money. Which book do you recommend first?
I would start with either “Beyond the Edge of the Map” or “Shadowboy”, as they’re the first installment of their relative worlds.
Thanks.
What’s a little tampering with evidence in a good cause, amirite?
They were just adjusting the evidence to show the systemic truth. Not your cracker true-truth!
“Goodfacts”
Good bit, but I was expecting the Political Officer or one of the conversations with the Nightwatch.
All B5 clips showing the slide into a corrupt state are excellent.
The blonde chick who is almost pretty except for her crooked mouth and what issues forth is exactly who I picture to this day when I think of “political officer.”
It’s freakin’ maddening.
Apparently not her first time doing this sort of thing in a political prosecution either.
I asked my cousin in Spain why there’s an uptick in cases there all of a sudden. He’s of the opinion, aside from Spain being a total incoherent mess, they’re manipulating data. As soon as masks were ordered, the numbers went up. His guess is they did that to show people why masks are needed. And then they can fine people, In other words, it’s a tax.
I don’t know what the deal is in California but I do find it interesting since the masks have been mandated the amount of cases went up. Either they’re playing with the numbers (and at this point who can really trust any of the numbers disclosed?) or the masks suck.
Newsome looks like a slime ball Mayor in a comic book. You can cast him on Gotham and he’d fit in perfectly.
Texas has begun to consider all probable vases as confirmed cases of the corona. To be first deemed probable a person has to have been in the immediate vicinity of a confirmed case.
So once it is learned that you have had contact with a confirmed case you are listed as probable and since all probables are now deemed confirmed you now are corona positive even before testing.
Eeezy peezy.
I saw this on a YouTube video of county official in some Texas county discussing new State guidelines.
“I think it’s a bowl”
“It’s a probable vase.”
^This is why I keep coming back here.
“is it concave or confirmed?”
I am vexxed now
That was like 2 months ago that Texas did that. I am friends with our county commissioner because his kid plays on my daughter’s soccer team. There was push back but it’s actually how most states do it so it makes the data more comparable.
Texas’s case numbers are actually starting to come down as of last week. Hospitalizations too.
Deaths are a lagging indicator, unfortunately, so we’ll see some pretty gaudy numbers the next 1-2 weeks still.
Didn’t the EU recently reopen to travel? I blame ze Germans.
Laugh but at the height of the pandemic the Germans pressured Spain to open travel to Germans because they needed to get to their villas.
So I hear.
“I don’t know what the deal is in California but I do find it interesting since the masks have been mandated the amount of cases went up. Either they’re playing with the numbers (and at this point who can really trust any of the numbers disclosed?) or the masks suck.”
This is not true. We were spiking in several places long before the Universal Masking guidance was issued (June 18). Around 40% of cases and over half the deaths are in one county, Los Angeles. You can go to the following link and see precisely when the Hospitalization curve bends from heading down/flat to going up.
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/data/index.htm#graph-hospitalized
That date is around 6/14 – before mask guidance and also, BTW, before bars were allowed to open in Los Angeles (June 19).
It is very difficult to identify what precisely happened ~2 weeks before the spike in hospitalizations started. The media is not too curious- they just talk about masks, and the people all around the city (and neighboring counties) just want to shame people for not wearing masks. Nevertheless, I could swear that on Sunday May 31, hundreds of thousands of people were packed into downtown los angeles for some reason. I just cannot remember what. Maybe it was beaches.
The other big hot spot is Imperial County CA. It is a rural county along the border. literally on the other side of the border fence is Mexicali, a city of around 1 Million. But that city is essentially a bedroom community for US citizens who have worked the fields of Imperial County for generations. That city had a huge outbreak, its hospitals filled up, and then the American citizens there began coming to the hospitals in the US side.
Again, this is something you will not hear about in the US media. Because all the media can be expected to do is scrape numbers off of World Info- and not even detailed numbers. They only care about state level data, and it annoys them so much that they still have to head to Wikipedia to figure out whether the state is led by Republicans or Democrats.
Thanks.
Cases haven’t really been going up in California recently either. I think most places that are seeing the late covid surge have plateaued.
That’s why there’s a push for mask mandates now. They can claim the coming decreases or plateaus are the result of masks.
But they fucked up because the relationship is backwards. What they have actually shown is that masks are useless.
I am seeing more and more bits on people getting notified of positive tests when they have not even been tested. Shenanigans are afoot.
My COVID! The masks do nothing!”
When they decide which racist portraits to evict from the halls of Congress, they can replace them with copies of Mussolini’s last public appearance.
Never hurts to keep that image in politicians’ heads, just as a little reminder.
That pic of those mothers. I can’t. I just….can’t.
Medical masks are completely useless.
Long but a quick read from CIDRAP:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/commentary-my-views-cloth-face-coverings-public-preventing-covid-19
Blah, blah, the masks suck but I wear one so don’t hate me!
Jeremy Howard is a computer scientist who has spent the last four months calling virologists and epidemiologists “liars” for their questioning of the efficacy of masks. Why he’s such a mask absolutist is anyone’s guess, but he’s become the David Hogg of the mask movement. Apparently he went after Osterholm as well.
I noticed him starting to garner attention. He strikes me as exactly like a Greta type but Osterholm did a good job of rebutting.
And Osterholm is a lefty as well. I believe he finds himself in between the political folks above him and the scientists who work for him at CIDRAP below him.
The Univ of Minnesota has been apparently been receiving calls for Osterholm’s firing and short of that called for the defunding of CIDRAP. Osterholm has said he’s never seen anything like it in his career. And he, more or less, is on their side. It’s tantrums all the way down at this point.
Greta really is the person for our times.
#IfYouDon’tAgreeWithUsYouDon’tFuckingLoveScience
Another person who has no understanding of the psychology of safety. A few people will do what he suggests – wear masks *in addition to* all of the annoying behavioural crap like distancing and compulsive hand washing. But most will not – they’ll wear masks *instead* of modifying behaviour. It is, after all, much easier. And if masks are less effective than distancing, this is a net negative for safety.
I sometimes wonder if any of the scientists/politicians/journalists/etc who make up the Establishment have ever met another human being.
I’ve met algorithmic simulacra of human beings.
Many are co-workers.
Uh huh. The spin is making me dizzy.
Also, fuck these
politiciansMarxist douchebags.Garcetti is complete retarded douche. I’ve been listening to that guy over the years. California is in good hands.
He’s the son of a long-time local politician. You know how that goes.
I can just imagine how thoroughly corrupted this mid-wit is.
Let Portland burn. Remove all federal personnel and refuse to return until the city/state agree to provide sufficient police protection.
Sell the federal buildings to the city and require that they fix them before returning. End all federal aid and funding to the city.
They want the feds out, then let them have it.
Trump is playing a fool’s game here. The riot organizers obviously want a Kent State moment to galvanize opposition and he seems intent on giving it to them.
Four dead in Portland doesn’t have the same ring to Four dead in Ohio.
There’s a Portland, Ohio?
Google maps says yes, it is along the border with WV.
But this is two song references you have missed this morning.
Why would I get a song reference?
I don’t know, I didn’t know the lack of taste buds affecting musical taste as well.
Well, if human experimnentation weren’t so frowned upon, we could use your lack of taste to test.
I may not care for Neil Young, but I still recognize it.
A southern man don’t need him around anyways.
It’s important that you confirm which Portland you’re buying a plane ticket to.
I thought I was visiting a stevedore museum and theme park!
Also Birmingham (there was the story a year or two back of the UK couple accidentally buying the tickets to Alabama).
+2
CHS / CHW
At least you could drive between those. Its only 7 hrs.
At least I assume you meant Charleston WV for the second, its airport code is actually CRW.
Yeah… I think Trump’s getting even worse advice:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Cleveland is among the cities that will see a surge of federal law enforcement agents in the coming weeks that he said aim to “restore safety and peace in U.S. cities.”
There have been no riots here for a while. There’s still rebuilding going on, and I don’t think the general public was on the side of the rioters. The next several “peaceful protests” were met with people guarding their businesses while open carrying. The riots dried up after that. This is looking more like punishing Democrat run cities.
There are more subtle ways to punish them I reckon.
Helicopters for example…..
Someone linked the Skopje Anthem yesterday. Google conveniently won’t find it for me but it was basically “Fire up the rotors and dump the commies into the sea”. Nice folk, those Yugoslavs. A friendly people.
Back in the 90s, I was waiting for a girl I was dating to get off her shift at a club. In the meantime, a guy was shooting pool and we started talking. He was Serbian and fought in the war.
Scariest mother fucker ever. At one point, he made me grab him so he can show me what he did to a guy. He was a piece of steel-cement.
I stood their limp looking at my watch helplessly like Daffy Duck.
Mother.
Nobody hates like a Serb, in my limited experience.
Mine too. My brief time in Serbia gave me an impression of what 1930’s Europe was probably like.
Actual LOL. Yeah, the hatred is palpable. Bikers have nothing on Serbs.
this. the short game is playing to your base by busting some ANTIFA heads. the long game is letting these cities eat their own, doing everything you can to turn this into a self-imposed seige.
Trump is a master of the short con, but he doesn’t have the patience for a long game.
He can’t pick lieutenants. He won’t listen to good or bad advice. Hence, “Hat and Hair”. *Fluted McMuffin fart*
I’m a little disappointed that the color change never made it into this week’s yarn.
I agree. Clear out the courthouse and let them burn it down. But then refuse to rebuild it unless they come up with the money. If the citizens have to drive an extra hour to the next town to go to court, then tough shit.
California’s hospitalizations due to COVID-19 increased on Wednesday by 79 to a total of 7,170. That means the number of hospitalizations has more than doubled in the state in just under six weeks. The number of virus-related ICU patients in the state rose by 52 to 2,058 total.
In Los Angeles, the state’s largest county, there were a near-record 2,207 COVID-related hospitalizations as of Wednesday. That’s just 25 patients below the all-time high of 2,232, which was recorded on Monday. The number of ICU beds there was hovering between 120 and 160.
Are those actual numbers in real time, or is it a cumulative total. I barely even look anymore, because I presume it’s all bullshit.
Oh I am enjoying this news greatly, as I know so many insufferably smug proggies in California that just think their state govt is the greatest. Apparently the virus doesn’t give a fuck about your politics and you have it worse than Florida and Texas – bwahahahahahaha.
I’d laugh too but the insanity is spreading worse than any plague. I just want the ability to grab Society by the shoulders, shake them back and forth a bit, slam them against the wall and say “Put on the fucking glasses!”
You’ll need a protracted fight first.
“I’m to old for this shit…”
“Age ain’t got nothin’ to do with it, son”
“I know so many insufferably smug proggies in California that just think their state govt is the greatest. ”
It has been so bizarre to watch the cognitive dissonance. I give an analysis of where the cases are coming from up thread, but dealing with Angelinos has been hilarious. I live in Orange County, but a huge friend-base from my 20’s is still in LA. And many of my work colleagues are up there as well.
As far as all of them are concerned, this spike is caused by all the Trumpaloos in Los Angeles (what is that, 2?) who refuse to wear masks. All the scolds on FB and Nextdoor are constantly saying shit like, “I don’t want to close the schools either, but this is what happens when you people refuse to wear masks.”
And yet EVERYONE is wearing masks here. When I go out, everyone wears a mask. They all want a silver bullet, so they cling to this ridiculous theory that if cases are going up, it must be because people don’t wear masks. And that isn’t Gov Newsance’s fault. Thats on Trump and his Qannon people. (If they are to be believed)
What makes me blindingly angry – to the point I would go off on those people – is the evidence and science clearly shows the kids are safe.
But these motherucking, arrogant, degenerate, malicious, ignorant pieces of shits have the unmitigated audacity to make kids pay for their depraved stupidity. To me, they’re child abusers.
What makes me blindingly angry
Which is why I’ve reduced my contact via FB with them, and thank god I’m not physically near them.
Yes I had a large conversation on Next Door with one of these people. This is how that conversation goes:
Them: You aren’t killing my child
Me: Your kids are safe (links follow)
Them: You don’t get it. They will still infect teachers, and grandpa.
Me: Teachers can social distance and wear masks. At risk families can distance learn.
Them: So you want people like me to get a substandard education while your kids get a better one?
I want my kids to get the best education they can. Don’t you want the same for your kids? If you think the distance learning is inferior, you should be talking to the school, not me.
We will only reach equality when we all equally have a shitty education.
“what I want is to stop having my hard earned money stolen to pay for your crayon eating spawn’s daycare service.”
I spent a long time looking at this yesterday for nearly every state that mattered.
The hospitalization numbers are the purposefully vague. When reading the information for hospital data points it makes it clear that this may be an under representation of hospitalization numbers. In the same vein, it also stipulates that these numbers don’t show the number of currently hospitalized patients. There are only two numbers presented, new hospitalizations and cumulative hospitalizations. Most states don’t have a running average of discharge to admittance. But given the trend-line for hospitalizations and the fact that most hospitals that aren’t bordering Mexico are not being overwhelmed, we have essentially beaten this virus.
I say that because the one important metric that has not significantly increased in basically every state, even when taking into account the myriad of ways this metric can be reported to the various departments of health, is deaths. the death rate has not increased significantly in every single state. Even if the number of deaths have gone up, the death rate has fallen dramatically. Additionally we are lead to believe that these deaths are 1: caused by the coof (patently untrue) and 2: kill with reckless abandon (also patently untrue). What is true, if you are morbidly obese, have type 2 diabetes, or have extremely high blood pressure (the kind of person who could easily die from a myriad of other lung infections), you might die, though what that likelihood is, and whether it’s worse than any other disease is unknown.
To point out something interesting, anyone have a guess as to the death rate for people ages 0-17 in California? THE STATE WITH THE MOST COVID CASES!!!! It’s a big ol’ zero. literally out of 500,000 cases, there have been zero pediatric deaths. Pediatric death rates are a statistical zero in every state.
Lastly, all of these numbers assume the total case rate is correct when, in fact, they are not. The infection rate is anywhere from 25% to 100% under represented. Meaning, that this illness is on par with a bad flu. But, in contrast to the flu, that kills without care for age, race, color, or creed, we know specifically who is at risk and can easily isolate those people and let this shit burn through. Had we done so initially, the US would have had the lowest death rate in the world. We had no problem telling people to stay home. We just needed to tell who to stay home and tell them that we were serious. My grandmother was in a long term care facility, she passed this may, but not from covid. The workers there were not wearing masks because the CDC said it was unnecessary. They didn’t start limiting visitors and mandating employees wear masks and be tested till early May. At that exact same time all the deaths in Virginia started to decline…. probably a coincidence.
File this under Shut Up and Take My Money.
I saw MLS players in BLM t-shirts and masks getting off the bus on a TV report last night.
If I could, I’d just stay in my bed and sleep 2020 off.
It sounds like that stuff will be so prevalent that it’ll be completely unwatchable after it’s all cut out, kind of like this (censored Sopranos):
https://youtu.be/qqE7ZxH7BJE
Another Canadian comedian.
Just saying.
Just like I’M THE FUNNIEST guy here.
Plus you have great hair.
Great skit.
That was hilarious.
That was brilliant! So much better than SNL.
I presume they are not wearing the masks during the game. Covid-1984 theater is fucking retarded.
MLS players in BLM
No need for me to watch MLS anymore.
“This feels like it’s something out of a science fiction dystopic series about a police state in America, but it’s real,” Garcetti said during a news conference Wednesday.
I read that earlier. Guess what- if there were sanitation crews hosing blood and body parts off the streets every morning, and protestors were actually “disappearing” permanently, that statement might be valid.
Nobody in Dystopia Prime gets to be interviewed by the New York Times after they’re “snatched up”.
Meanwhile in Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang.
The SF Giant Wokes hired a female 1st base coach!
About time!
And in other Giants news.
Soon they’ll get a trans-gender woke-speech and pitching coach.
The team is going to be complete shit anyway, so now’s as good a time as any for this silly experiment.
Base coaches are and always have been former players at the same level. Ridiculous. What the fuck would she know about anything having to do with playing in the Show? My favorite sport, ruined in a year.
Dude. 2020 destroyed sports for me.
Not interested. Plus not interested in seeing them in masks.
Our mettle is weak. Very weak.
We’re very lucky the Mongorians aren’t around.
They already got to the armed services. It was inevitable.
This still pisses me off to no end! If you physically can’t pull your chin up to an overhead bar the same amount of times as a dude, while weighing upwards of 100lbs less, you have no right to be in the field where you would then be incapable of dragging said dude to safety. It’s significantly more dangerous for the wounded, for others in the squad, and for the 120lb bitch that just had to prove herself. I’m totally cool with women in the arms forces, flying planes, steering ships, looking at aerial photos with a magnifying glass, but allowing them to be a SEAL… is fucking asinine.
The second a Seal is killed due to this, they’re going to end it.
I am open to this — only as long as she grabs her crotch and spits.
I beg to differ.
Particularly when they are seizing hemp – sure, you go right ahead and smoke that.
Unfair! OMWC links are supposed to be “at the weekend” to be perused at the readers’ leisure! In other OT news, Wifey is away again at the acreage. The only people that I speak to face to face will be some passing clients, drive through teenagers and hopefully Booby McBoobyface at the beer store. Festus likes to talk to Booby McBoobyface… I can only use that outlet once a week or she might think that I’m a lush. I mean, if you can buy a twenty pack and leave the store with a semi-chub it makes the whole experience worthwhile, right?
No love for the beer store comment? Come on, people! She’s got a rack that would stop a clock! Tres knows.
Just for you Festus, Tits McGee (song, lyrics probably NSFW).
*does kissy finger gesture* Perfectioso!
I’m no fan of Federal cops, but at this point, I would be fine with them treating anyone with a laser in Portland like Randy Weaver’s wife. Probably why they gassed the Mayor. These assholes are playing for keeps.
Federal officers in Portland may have been permanently blinded by lasers.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-riots-federal-officers-blinded-lasers-fireworks-doxed
The rioters are trying to goad the feds into doing something extremely stupid, even if the people at the front of the line don’t recognize it themselves. The organizers of the riots know exactly what they’re doing.
True, they really don’t realize that they’re cannon fodder to be sacrificed for the cause.
Yep. I’ll be completely indifferent when the inevitable happens.
Next time there is a group the feds should go over with a helicopter and drop 100 gal of skunk essence onto the crowd.
Totally nonviolent response.
I thought they had sonic non-leathal weapons to disperse crowds? I read in Popular Mechanics while taking a dump.
Yes. LRADs. Not sure if the Feds are using them. The Antifa support group Don’t Shoot Portland has successfully used the courts to limit the use of non-lethal alternatives with the connivance of Portland’s political leadership. They’re trying to rope the Feds into the same injunction but so far the Feds aren’t playing ball like Portland did.
I like that, but there is a specific chemical released by rotting corpses, I think, that is even worse. Wind direction could be tricky, but spray the rioting crowds with it. Mixed with some kind of permanent dye. Disperse now, identify and detain later.
I, too, am in favor of the unflinching boot of the state stamping on the neck of people I find yucky.
Yeah, but i like it for forever. Beat that poser.
Well in terms of them gassing Portland’s mayor, the boot of one part of the state is stamping on the neck of a state actor with their own boot on other’s necks.
But yeah, overall Civil War tends to be bad. There’s a whole lot of wrong to go around here.
“Federal officers tear gas the mayor of a large city”
Siri, please define the phrase “mixed emotions” for me?
I am shocked the rioters haven’t killed more people or a federal officer yet.
Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley stated in charging documents that the gun was “readily capable of lethal use”
It was…after the crime lab reassembled it correctly.
I wonder if it is called a crime lab because it is a lab in which they commit crime.
Everything they did was immediately made public. Sounds like the lab played it straight and torpedoed the AG.
Annie Dookhan says “hi!”
Still would tho. She probably has the best party favors.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/07/22/philadelphia-swat-officer-richard-nicoletti-charged-in-pepper-spray-incident-during-peaceful-protests-on-interstate-676/
And actual criminals go free. FFS.
Don’t play on highways.
Anything that will divide the cops and the DA is probably a good thing.
If you are shutting down a freeway it is no longer a peaceful protest.
Am I a bad person for laughing when the cop pulled the one persons mask loose and sprayed pepper spray inside?
I don’t really think you can describe occupying a limited access highway as “peaceful”. It creates an inherently dangerous situation, even if you have the full cooperation of the state police in shutting down the highway upstream and downstream of your protest. At the rear of the backup there will always be a greatly increased risk of a high speed collision. You are literally putting other people at risk of serious injury or death for your protest. That’s not “nonviolent” by any reasonable definition.
And of course, if you do it ad-hoc like they have been doing it, you are inevitably going to get someone who doesn’t see or comprehend what is happening and ends up hitting someone. Then you have a seriously injured or dead “peaceful protester” and a newly minted “alt-right racist murderer” (regardless of the actual race or political beliefs of the driver).
So. Are masks the new tulip mania?
Cargo cult.
Exclusive Interview: Trump Opens Up To The Babylon Bee On The Challenges Of Being The Smartest, Most Popular President Ever
Toxic Masculinity.
https://www.q13fox.com/news/get-off-of-her-good-samaritans-intervene-as-dui-suspect-tries-to-choke-king-county-deputy
Leftist AG charges teens with assault in 3…2…
It’s like we are living in a police state!
Yeah no shit Sherlock. My prediction: this is used by Biden as precedent to pick up and lock boogaloo meme kids in secret. The ratchet always moves forward.
Nightmare scenario
A person briefed by the Biden campaign on its strategy told Reuters that the former vice president’s staff was bracing for a “nightmare scenario” in which Trump is leading the in-person vote count in battleground states on election night but complains the contest is being stolen from him in ensuing days as mail-in ballots get counted.
One party official in a battleground state who asked not to be identified said the campaign was quietly coordinating a legal strategy with state-level party staff for post-election scenarios such as the 2000-style Bush v. Gore recount.
Trump is “laying the groundwork to say: ‘The election was stolen, there was fraud, we’re going to go to court, we’re going to call out people on the streets,’” said Mark Brewer, an elections lawyer who is helping train Democratic legal volunteers in Michigan. “The guy is capable of anything, so we have to plan for everything.”
What if Trump is right about all this? What if his predictions come true?
The Democrats are preparing the battle space, since they fully intend to commit fraud using mail-in ballots.
^
All progjection, all the time.
We have a bingo!
Has anyone ever seen an election where, in the days afterward, the Republican gains ground on the Dem? Simple random variation would seem to dictate that this would have to happen sometimes, and yet I can’t think of it ever being the case
“Has anyone ever seen an election where, in the days afterward, the Republican gains ground on the Dem”
I haven’t seen it happen ever. Remember when Al Franken won, it came out later that the margin of victory was entirely fradulent. But nothing happened, because the GOP aren’t actually trying to win, they’re trying to lose with fat fundraising accounts.
Yep, that’s the plan. Trump wins on Election Night, then Broward County FL, the Philadelphia precincts in PA, and Cleveland/Columbus in Ohio start creeping in those mail-in ballots.
“Broward county now reports sixteen million mail in votes for Biden”
That’s not the Democrats’ nightmare. That’s their dream.
And the Republicans are sitting around with their dicks in their hands doing nothing to prevent it.
That’s their true purpose, isn’t it? Like the stupid white Marxists, I’m starting to hate the Cons more. The Dems have revealed themselves. Their nature is completely exposed so they have reason to pretend. They get bonus honesty points now. The GOP is still faking it like a frigid whore. I’m sick of it.
“have no reason”
GOP is still faking it
It’s not the populists’ fault: the GOP already spent four decades pretending to care about the Constitution and fiscal responsibility. Trump is only the latest sham to lead the party that should know better.
But what are you going to do? It’s a two-party system! All hail Kang!
I’m pretty sure I voted for Kodos too. Ah, remember when the Simpson’s were good?
People have been glib about it for years, but it’s gotten where I actually think large chunks of Dem leadership want another hot civil war.
It’s absolutely crazy.
I actually think large chunks of Dem leadership want another hot civil war.
It won’t go the way they assume.
Progtards truly believe they are the frontline of a vast majority of Americans.
They’re too stupid to see what they’re aimed at. they think that they’ll get another 20s or 70s style asymmetrical conflict where the populace will mostly buy in because the media carries their water.
It’s not though. The GOP is the cucked out controlled opposition. They would never actually fight a ballot harvest. They’d make speeches, and Heritage would do a white paper, and there would be some really sick fundraising emails.
So. Are masks the new tulip mania?
More like voodoo charms.
OMWC has the most glib links. Must be all the adrenachrome he’s taking.
Spoke to a virologist yesterday. He gets the impression vaccines will be obligatory.
Rushed to market, not fully tested…
I’m perfectly willing to sacrifice my travel in order to let everyone else be the guinea pigs first.
Thats how you create even more anti-vaxxers. What could go wrong?
Animal trials? Nah too important, skip em!
Use rDNA technology? Sure, never done it in a vaccine for humans before and have no idea how it will affect the DNA of patients, but we must do it!
“Thats how you create even more anti-vaxxers”
This is whole problem with the “denier!” howls from people. The anti-vaxxers are almost always wrong. But when they’re not, it’s almost impossible to mount a defense because you just wind up getting lumped into the “conspiracy loon” pile and we dutifully trundle ahead into disaster.
Science by “ad hominem” doesn’t work.
Science by “ad hominem”
doesn’tshouldn’t work.Unfortunately. I just returned an audiobook written by a Public Intellectual* about the eugenic origins the anti-immigration laws in the early 1900’s. You’d think that would be right up my ally, but this Public Intellectual though that he could refute the (very refutable) eugenic science with name calling instead of, you know, actual refutations. Pretty disappointing. Do Not Recommend.
*”Daniel Okrent was the first public editor of The New York Times, editor-at-large of Time, Inc., and managing editor of Life magazine” according to his bio.
endangered species: intellectual honesty
congrats: your type is dying out 🙁
https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/06/12/fisking-buzzfeed-because-they-dont-understand-how-writers-get-paid/
Wait—these people thought that the heavens would open and rain down money just because they got a journalism degree?
Methinks the “you can do anything you set your mind to” pep talks to young students has been taken too far.
self esteem is fragile and breeds entitlement.
confidence is strong and breeds a good work ethic.
I resist any time anybody talks about how important self esteem is. it isnt. it’s corrosive. confidence is the important one.
Larry is a CPA and former gun dealer who wrote books in his spare time before they took off. One of his main things he always tells writers is that writing is your job. If you wait for inspiration or your muse, you’ll never be a writer.
Piers Anthony is mostly a hack, in my opinion, but he was right about that. He said he didnt ever have writers block, because his job was to write. He wrote X number of words per day.
I think he would have been better if he had written less per day with more thought, OR had gone back and rewritten more, but his general idea is right.
Once upon a Thot Thursday…
http://archive.li/GuSBW
Senate GOP and White House agree on key parts of Covid aid package, with stimulus plan set for release
“It will be the biggest and best stimulus, maybe ever.”
It’s always nice to be reminded that, while not quite as repugnant as the Democrats, the GOP is rotten to the fucking core.
The issue, politically, is that the Democrats have a hardcore of socialists, with a surrounding group of supposed moderates who always come home and toe the line on the big votes. They’re allowed to vote no on a gun control bill that has no chance of passing anyway, but when it’s time for socialized medicine, they fall in line and pay the electoral costs.
The Republicans have a decent core of actual conservatives, with a surrounding group of supposed moderates who always cross the aisle and stand with the Democrats on the big votes. They never go to their purple states and make a tough vote for a conservative bill.
Can you imagine a former Democrat nominee for President crossing the aisle to vote to renew Trump’s tax cuts? But John McCain does it for Obamacare.
Controlled oppositions. The Washington Generals don’t actually want to beat the Harlem Globetrotters.
The Republicans have a decent core of actual conservatives
Not to be an asshole, but can you really name them?
Well the House voted to repeal Obamacare over and over again, and it always died in the Senate, and it died in the Senate because there are these Republican Senators who, on the big ticket votes where you can actually shrink government, they always cross the aisle. Which the Democrats never have to deal with when they are trying to expand government.
When push comes to shove, Joe Manchin will always come home and vote the way Chuck Schumer tells him to. Meanwhile Lisa Murkowski will not toe the line Mitch McConnell draws.
Hell, look at the leadership. The Democrats make Pelosi and Schumer, from their strongholds, the leaders of their party. They make the “moderate” Democrats toe that line, they exert that ideological pressure to bend toward their arc. The Republican’s don’t really do that. They never make a firebrand conservative their House Speaker and pressure the squishy Representatives to either toe the line or be forced out of the campaign money machine.
Same thing with SCOTUS. No one ever has any questions how the RBG/Kagan/Breyer/Sotomayor bloc will vote on big time leftist cases. They have it in the bag, and then the 4 of them can work on Roberts and get him to spread his fat white cheeks.
Considering how depressing the rest of the lynx and comments are, I choose to hold on to the Schottky pun, because I can choose where to focus my gaze when surrounded by a collapsing society.
If you were still looking for lighter things to watch. The third season of Norsemen just dropped on Netflix. It’s a comedy that’s best described as a cross between the Office and Vikings.
I just hope this unrest settles down so that I can diode
Of course, California is the most populous state in the U.S., with about twice as many residents as New York State
And these 2 states will get to decide who the president is in perpetuity as soon as we eliminate the electoral college to fix our democracy.
Not the states, the cities of New York and LA will decide.
The cities run by Democrat machine politics will decide. They’ve been rigging elections for decades. Now’s their opportunity to put that skillset to use nationally.
And nearly half the populations of those states hate that fact too.
Yeah the whole question with National Popular Vote is “how many Republicans in NY, CA, New England, etc etc don’t bother voting because they know their state is going blue.”
If that ever happens the US will be over and done within a decade.
This cisco/linksys switch I have to configure is the largest piece of crap. That is all.
Don’t worry. Now that Cisco has purged wrongthinkers from their employee pool, the quality of the product will get much better.
Lecture on how we should be supporting #BLM starts in five minutes.
No fucking way. Seriously?
I will be liveglibbing.
Can you ask questions? Like “how is it in the interest of this company to support a Marxist front group dedicated to destroying the founding principles of the United States?”
Only if you don’t care whether you keep your job.
Sure you can ask….
But based on the recent example of Cisco, I imagine the termination letters would be arriving shortly thereafter.
If I were an employment lawyer, I would be dancing a jig of happiness at all this. Think of the unlawful termination suits that will be coming! It’s like manna from heaven!
Particularly since these are companies with very deep pockets.
Yeah I’m sure a CA state judge in San Jose is going to call balls and strikes, and not unveil a brand new legal theory of “you can’t be racist against white people.”
Yes. However, after what happened at Cisco I’m not going to.
ha wimp
Harsh, but fair.
“We will be hearing from Dereca Blackmon on becoming educated.”
Dereca, can you tell me how diversity and inclusion training is going to improve our yields in our organo-metallic vapor phase epitaxial growth processes? Because we’ve really been struggling with those as of late.
one of their honchos is the guy from the fucking Real World San Francisco? baaaaahahahahahahahaha
*financials and other confidential and non-entertaining things*
Zzzz…
“I’m so happy to be here with what I now consider my new family”
“I’m loving the change to be here and frame the conversation over inclusion and equity.”
“It’s important that we are all on the same page as to what these terms mean.”
“These terms are nonsensical babble from people who have to justify their existence because they don’t produce anything of value.”
I’m not your family and you’re not my mother.
I hope this is virtual and you aren’t having to control your facial contortions in person.
+ 1 mandatory mask.
*lists symptoms of panic*
“I have some experience. I was born in Detroit, which is 80% black. Then I went to boarding school in East Hampton, which if you know geography is mostly white, then I went to Stanford in Palo Alto CA”
*shows graphic of Identity groups. All of them are SJ approved groups.*
You could have some fun by retrieving a list of even more groups with even more specific definitions from Everyday Feminism.
Double or triple down on the craziness.
“Let’s talk about the P-word. I invite you to take a breath if the idea of being privileged is uncomfortable to you.”
“Privileged” like having the power to preach my wacky ideas to a whole company and anyone who complains will be instantly fired? That is a hell of a privilege.
“Anything you don’t think about is a privilege to not think about it.”
The retarded are the most privileged in society.
Oxygen – you have too much of it.
“Anything that’s in your subconscious is a bias.”
Evolutionary psychology would like to have a word or two with you.
I think it is a “Heads, I win. Tails, you lose.” scenario with this crap.
“Detroit is the Wakanda of the United States.”
I am not making this up.
I thought Wakanda wasn’t a shithole.
So… it’s due to a monarchy holding back technology from the community that it’s a shithole?
The Very Serious Intellectuals talking about a fucking comic book movie.
They are so advanced that they choose a supreme leader based on a battle in a drug-induced Thunderdome? Detroit is cooler than I though it was.
That was the most ridiculous part of the story. So very advanced, they are. They should have made that part pornographic. It would have at least been interesting then. We shall choose our leader based on his ability to service the ladies! Wait, why didn’t the women get to lead?
Soooo much motte-ing being laid down now. Anticipating the bailey.
Find the most destructive piece of industrial hardware at your disposal, wheel it into the room, and feed the presenters into it.
I think she’s presenting from the other coast.
And?
“If you think diversity hires are less qualified, that’s prejudice.”
But not wrong.
https://youtu.be/e_LpxldL8h4
Well, it would depend on the individual in question, wouldn’t it? But that would require evaluating someone on individual merits, which is itself white supremacy.
the “+power” definitions are being wheeled out now.
“we like to talk about prejudice so we don’t have to talk about oppression.”
I bet you aren’t feeling oppressed at all right now.
“when here you first aware of police abuse? For some people the answer is: Birth.”
As long as she’s just spewing bulshit, maybe you should see what the most ludicrous thing you can say is.
See how it goes over if you say that even before birth some people are aware of police abuse.
Abortion fixes that you know.
“Did you know the police were formed to catch slaves? “
This cunte needs to stop fucking lying.
“In 1838, the city of Boston established the first American police force, followed by New York City in 1845, Albany, NY and Chicago in 1851, New Orleans and Cincinnati in 1853, Philadelphia in 1855, and Newark, NJ and Baltimore in 1857”
The London Metropolitan Police was founded even before that, in 1829. Guess there were a lot of escaped slaves running around in George IV’s reign.
“Let’s talk about anti-blackness.”
“Skin lightening is a billion dollar industry. There is a Korean expression ‘a light complexion can hide seven faults'”
The USA makes the Koreans hate themselves.
More likely, this is an expression of how much the black community hates Koreans.
I am familiar with another expression: “Black don’t crack.”
“Because I went to Stanford, I don’t like definitions. What I like is metaphors.”
Well there’s an indictment of Stanford.
See how much money I spent to get this stupid!
*claims her policies will increase our profits by 19%*
“Our” being her consulting firm,. not your company.
And there it is.
If it doesn’t, that means it wasn’t taken to heart of course.
A competent management would insist that she get paid from a portion of their increased profits.
I honestly don’t know how you are doing it. I would have left with an overwhelming case of food poisoning.
Bonus points if you vomit at a particularly egregious lie before hurrying from the room.
Oh shit! Bring up the Nation of Islam and the number 19!
/don’t do this if you want to keep your job
I don’t get the reference.
Nation of Islam has a whole bunch of numerology insanity. The number 19 was listed as especially evil. Quick search to send you down the rabbit hole of insanity (if you dare) here.
The reference became well known up here in Cleveland because a local sports talk guy had a recording of Farrakhan ranting about the number 19 from a Million Man March (I think) that he would juxtapose with Browns announcers talking about Bernie Kosar from back in the day.
That’s hilarious.
No decimal accuracy? She knows nothing of proper modeling!
*promotes the 1619 project*
So they acknowledge that the first non-native slaves in the New World were European?
Q&A beginning…
“Why are we paying a racist propagangist to lie to us?”
“Dereca thank you very much. That was so powerful.”
*barf*
So far, no actual questions, just paraphrases. And they are all paraphrased as a stereotypical talking point.
I suspect the actual questions are more like what we’ve been saying, but people are worried they’d lose their jobs if they give voice to them.
Actual legit question” What are our D&I goals, and how do we define success? “
“we’re not going to have a defined metric.”
“we’re not going to set targets”
“Because making it official will get us sued into the poorhouse for discrimination.”
“This was just bullshit to appease the mob”
That is the best case scenario.
in the average and worst case scenarios, key people have embraced this whole-hog.
Now that’s rich for a company that lives and breathes yield numbers.
Of course. Success is never achievable. If you put out an acievable goal, someone might achive it and then say we don’t need to do D&I hiring anymore.
“Dereca, you can help us with this one: When we see or hear non-inclusive behavior in the workplace, how do we address it?”
“you need to be brave enough to call it out.”
Stonings!
You have that much weed just lying around?
“shoot the person complaining about non-inclusion.”
You should ask what is more important in Diversity. Being Inclusive, or constantly breaking people down into small steryotypical groups based off of immutable characteristics.
Three times a question has been “answered” by dismssing the question by saying “that’s your bias.”
“I can’t be arsed to actually address your concerns, shut up and pay me.”
That’s not very inclusive. How are we supposed to learn from that?
“I finally feel we’re reaching a tipping point in racial bias. How can I help?”
“Start shooting hucksters and commies.”
Over.
Nicely platitudinous. No concrete next steps. Hopefully this was just a ceremonial exercise. There is some evidence to support that… but there I go again, talking about evidence.
Struggle sessions serve a ceremonial (ritual?) purpose as well.
Jesus. Honestly, I’d have submitted 10 resumes before that Newspeaking whore finished her diatribe.
“Alright, who is typing on their computer during the conference call?”
“Sorry, that was me. Just updating my resume. I’ll mute my phone.”
RE: Communist revolutionaries rioting in the cities.
The way I see it there are two ways to deal with this:
1) Announce that anyone rioting is stripped of their Citizenship and considered a terrorist, then treat them as such. For many reasons I think this is a bad idea.
2) Cut all federal funds and withdraw *all* federal employees, not just from the city but from the entire state. You want ’em gone? They’re gone. You want your independence? You got your independence.
Cut all federal funds and withdraw *all* federal employees, not just from the city but from the entire state. – I would be OK with this as second step of cutting federal taxes… otherwise… I would not want to be a citizen of these places pay my taxes, not support the situation, and be fucked. I have my rights as anyone.
I like #2.
The ‘fuck ’em’ strategy.
Now you’re free to go sacrifice a goat to your gods of woke.
3) Once 2) has been accomplished allow a referendum of the citizens of the state as to whether they wish to remain in the union. And a referendum among the other 49 states as to whether they should be allowed to remain in the union.
Bravely lashing out
The woman who invited Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to her mother’s burial “to witness first-hand the tragedy” of mourning the respiratory therapist who died of Covid-19 criticized the state’s response to the pandemic.
“My mom could still be alive had there been a mask mandate much earlier on and had Texas stayed closed,” Fiana Tulip told CNN’s Don Lemon Wednesday.
Isabelle Papadimitriou was a respiratory therapist in Dallas, Texas, when the pandemic came to the state and then to her hospital, Tulip said of her mother. The only places Papadimitriou went during that time were work and home, her daughter said said.
“My mother was a frontline worker and she didn’t have the option to Netflix and chill. … She had to go to work,” Tulip said. “Whether these frontline workers want to be heroes or not, they don’t have a choice.”
What additional information might be helpful, here? Aside from Greg Abbott’s prostrate self-abasement and confession of sins?
This is crazy.
Now the the effectiveness of masks is retroactive?
These people are certifiably insane in their ignorance.
They don’t have a choice? Was there a man with a gun in her back, forcing her to keep that job?
That’s how you know it’s propaganda.
Don LeMon
Oh fuck off. Yeah all the people unemployed have just been Neflixing and chilling for the last 6 months
So she worked in a hospital and was unaware of infectious disease protocols? Someone from the state had to tell her to take precautions? Seriously?
Texas has a death rate nearly ten times lower than New York and New Jersey, why isn’t CNN interviewing families of victims from those states? Especially the families of victims killed by the governors nursing home requirements to accept COVID patients?
Lecture on how we should be supporting #BLM starts in five minutes.
“Supporting”
Like with a rope?
External Cervical Vertebrae Support Cabling.
Seems like a lot of trouble to make yourself taller.
Hold my beer while I finish off this carpentry.
https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1285867709234913280
LOL
What America needs
What America Needs
Not a Giant Trebuchet.
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war,
Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold
In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,
Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums
King Philip’s in his closet with the Fleece about his neck
(Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.)
The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,
And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.
For those who say Pie can’t write verse
F AEG C A Gre-Syr
F EMS C A Gre-Syr
A Gre-Syr
Men’s Health is now woke.
Joe Rogan Is Spreading Transphobic Hate Speech and It’s Putting Lives in Danger
Rogan has a history of platforming divisive voices. Now he’s actively fanning the flames of hate.
And then there are the episodes which, by virtue of Rogan’s massive online reach, lend a veneer of credibility to some truly dangerous prejudices.
Take the recent episode with guest Abigail Shrier. During Shrier’s conversation with Rogan, in which she promoted her book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, Shrier invalidated the lived experience of trans and nonbinary kids and teens, and made numerous dangerous, entirely unsound false equivalencies.
It is good to know that Men’s Health is an unreliable source for health information seeing as they do not understand or appreciate biology.
They’ve been woke for a while now.
Invalidated their lived experiences? Is that like invalidating a cache?
The only thing I need validated is my parking.
Don’t try to analyze what the gibberish actually means, just accept that it’s bad.
“Take the recent episode with guest Abigail Shrier. During Shrier’s conversation with Rogan, in which she promoted her book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, Shrier invalidated the lived experience of trans and nonbinary kids and teens, and made numerous dangerous, entirely unsound false equivalencies.”
I listened to that podcast. The above is a straight up lie.
Rogan has a history of platforming divisive voices. Now he’s actively fanning the flames of hate.
https://twitter.com/MensHealthMag/status/1285982658498101252
“People who disagree with me are dangerous by definition and should be deplatformed and unpersoned.”
Did I get the gist?
Not agreeing with the Common Narrative is a symptom of deeper anti-social behavior, and really should be taken into consideration.
You’re in Portland. The Commies are coming to your house, and Trumps Secret Police are looking for you for the Boogaloo meme you posted. You have 5 min to get out from wherever you are right now. What do you grab?
What do you grab?
The cat and haul ass outta town?
TP
The nuke trigger, so I can set it off once I’m out of the area of effect.
Building go-bags is a fun activity for the whole family.
I got a Savior SEMA. I’ts not as nice as nicely organized as the GPS competitor.
Another sandbag.
my penis, as it’s detachable.
Shrier invalidated the lived experience of trans and nonbinary kids and teens, and made numerous dangerous, entirely unsound false equivalencies.
“invalidated”
Either it happened, or it didn’t.
“The mission, spearheaded by County Executive Dow Constantine, aims to switch jails to programs for “prevention, diversion, rehabilitation, and harm reduction,” according to a memo outlining the closure plans that was sent Tuesday.”
No doubt we have too many people in prison, but why is it that I think these people are going to get this exactly wrong?
“Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley stated in charging documents that the gun was “readily capable of lethal use”
Let’s prosecute people for protecting their home, but let murderers back out onto the streets. Why is it I think we are getting this exactly wrong?
Let’s create a transparently obvious two-tier legal system based on politics and rub in everyone’s face.
I’m not sure which was the bigger gun fail. The poor trigger discipline, or meeting a mob with an unloaded Rifle and a non-functional pistol
I think confronting a mob with fake / unloaded guns is pretty ballsy. Kind of thing a couple of lawyers would do.
It would never occur to me. I would probably retreat inside and wait to shoot the first one through the door.
Let’s prosecute DAs that make false statements in charging documents.
Enlightened Minneapolis council backs off of plan to take a million from the police budget and give it to community groups.
I realize that says only $500K, but later in the article they said the new number was $1.1M. Also, don’t worry, the armed group is a group called the Minnesoda Freedom Riders who are black. No way they are giving icky white guys with guns any money.
Here is my dilemma, I actually would support a move like that if I wasn’t entirely sure that the City Council wouldn’t fuck it up spectacularly. They won’t give that money to groups that have a plan and are responsible. Nope they are going to give it to the most pc group (and ones that will give them kickbacks). The only good part of the story is that it is filled with Mpls residents pleading with the Council to slow down and do things right.
“plan to take a million from the police budget and give it to community groups.”
By community groups, mean BLM, anttifa, and other Marxist shitheads?
or
BY COMMUNITY MEAN RAPE ALL YOU CITIZEN, BEND OVER GET SOAP, STEVE LIKE SOAP… AND RAPE.
Sadly, I don’t think they know who they would give the money to. They aren’t even competent enough to run a graft properly.
Briefly?
“Senate GOP and White House agree on key parts of Covid aid package, with stimulus plan set for release”
What happened to tax cuts? The Donerd is going to veto this round of cronyized hog trough swill and say ‘Fuck you, cut taxes!’, right? Oh shit, I just woke up, thought I was still living in a free Republic, damnit!
Sleep is now the best thing there is left, it’s that part where you first wake up and don’t yet realize we done flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Art Laffer and few others were going around plugging for a suspension of the payroll tax for the rest of 2020. Great idea so it was completely ignored by everyone.
“It’s unknown at this time who is responsible for deploying the tear gas and at this point, there is nothing to indicate the mayor was targeted. CNN has reached out to the mayor’s office for additional comment.”
It’s a real mystery. Unless you follow this guy, and see that they had set fire to the courthouse.
Wheeler is such a twat. The rioters are pelting him and he’s out there supporting them.
I think he realizes these people want a far bigger more powerful authoritarian government and he wants in on some of that action. He doesn’t realize that along with the useful idiots pelting him, that they all get lined up against the wall together when the real leader of the revolution arrives.
Reminds me of a line from Benny Hill.
Jester (Benny Hill): They weren’t ALL booing. Some of them was cheering!
King’s Man: They were cheering the booing.
damn. I was having a pretty good orbit and you Glibs had to fuck it all up. Gonna eat some chicken and face the retardation again tomorrow. ” Once more, unto the Breach!” Stay safe, Friends.
damn. I was having a pretty good orbit and you Glibs had to fuck it all up. Gonna eat some chicken and face the retardation again tomorrow. ” Once more, unto the Breach!” Stay safe, Friends.
Shouldn’t this asshole be in prison?
James Comey
@Comey
New book coming. I hope it will be useful as our country works — starting in 2021 — to restore faith in Justice.
James “I did nothing to stop Obama from being the dictator i accuse trump of being” Comey?
Today, in “How the fuck does that work?”
Attorneys for Oregon argued Wednesday for a restraining order against federal agents deployed to quell protests in Portland, in a standoff that some legal experts have warned could lead to a constitutional crisis in an election year.
A federal judge heard the state’s and the U.S. government’s arguments in a lawsuit filed by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who accuses federal agents of arresting protesters without probable cause, whisking them away in unmarked cars and using excessive force to quell the unrest. Federal authorities have disputed that.
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The hearing Wednesday focused on the actions of more than 100 federal agents responding to protests outside the the city’s Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, which has been a target for more than 50 nights of demonstrations against racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
The motion for a temporary restraining order asks U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman to command agents from the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, the Federal Protective Service and the U.S. Marshals Service to immediately stop detaining protesters without probable cause, to identify themselves and their agency before arresting anyone, and to explain why an arrest is taking place.
During the hearing — held by videoconference because of the coronavirus pandemic — the state acknowledged during the hearing that the federal agents have the right to defend the courthouse, which is federal property, but argued they had overstepped that role.
Speaking of overstepping…
“50 nights of demonstrations against racial injustice”
HEAD: DESK.
Perfect squirrel timing.
Unintended consequences to education for all: India’s Right to Education Act
https://voxeu.org/article/unintended-consequences-education-all-india-s-right-education-act
Matt Bracken:
Matt Bracken is someone I take pretty seriously.
Once they realized the only real resistance they’d get in Portland was the at the Federal Courthouse, they zeroed in on it pretty quick. Since then it has been nothing but tests and probes – obvious infantry tactics against a fixed position.
I’m sure there are plenty of lunatics milling around other parts of the city, but their controllers have them aimed directly at the Feds for a reason.
Indeed I imagine there will be more riots to be put down when Trump wins reelection.
Julio Rosas
@Julio_Rosas11
@RepMaxineWaters
on DHS sending agents to Portland as riots continue: “As a matter of fact, it has been suggested that this is a trial run by the president of the United States who may be organizing to not accept what happens when we have the election if he’s not elected.”
I’m split in the short run. Do i want Trump to Win to see everyone who’s been pushing the “He won’t accept results narrative” shut up? or do i want to see him loose so that they eat crow when nothing happens.
Of course neither of those are going to happen. My prediction is that we get an election where it is so chaotic. You will see lots of “Found” ballots in Political Operative cars. The elections are just theater in the next battle.
I would note however that as soon as the pandemic started, and we had no idea what the effects were going to be, the DNC started pushing for mail in ballots. If that doesn’t tell you something…
Democrats colluding with the Chinese?
Minorities hardest hit!
Right, so the Teachers’ Union is totes racist. Why are we giving them more money?
I have a question: Why Latinx and not Blacx? Is the idea that black is gender neutral but lationo/latina is not? I would say you could consider latino gender neutral. Latina appeared probably precisely because the latinos themselves genderized it.
Blax
Because the Latinx are not as politically organized as the Blacks. The politically powerful blacks want nothing to do with that bullshit as it offends a very large portion of their culturally conservative yet politically liberal base.
Something like 98% of Latinos hate the Latinx term, yet NPR and the other twenty-something single white females out there continue to use it because politically powerful Latinos haven’t told them to knock off yet because it’s pissing off Mexican Catholics.
Black is replacing African-American as to erase the concept of Americanism from the group.
Rosenblum, the state attorney general, said she was asking the court to “declare it not acceptable for federal officers to use unconstitutional, police state-type acts to detain citizens of Oregon without cause.”
David Morrell, an attorney for the U.S. government, called the motion “extraordinary” and told the court it was based solely on “a few threadbare declarations” from witnesses and a Twitter video.
“It’s important to underscore what’s at stake here. The Hatfield courthouse did not damage itself,” he said, calling the protests “dangerous and volatile.”
It’s not clear when Mosman will rule, but he challenged the state on whether it had the proper standing to ask for the restraining order on behalf of all Oregonians. The judge noted that past legal decisions have required a state to establish a very high bar — “quasi-sovereign interest” — in order to successfully sue the U.S. government.
Attorneys for Oregon contended they had met that bar because the actions of the federal agents could erode Oregonians’ trust in all law enforcement, including state and city officers.
I think the City of Portland and State of Oregon are doing an extraordinarily effective job of destroying the citizens’ trust in law enforcement, without assistance from the feds.
Anecdotal rumor notwithstanding.
including state and city officers.
Maybe if the state and city officers were allowed to do their jobs in dealing with rioters, “trust” would not be a problem. Likewise, maybe if the Portland mayor was not joining the rioters, “trust” would not be a problem.
Cause we weren’t already a police state. Here’s why i’m having trouble getting super worked up over this. 1). I don’t like the precedent of the Fed Gov doing law enforcement by picking people up into unmarked cars. I don’t like DHS doing law enforcement, and i hate the FBI. 2). The people bitching about this do not actually care about 1). They don’t care about “police-state” tactics. Generally i’d be willing to say “welcome to the liberty movement” for someone “who just saw the light”. But the Left has burned me on this over the last 3 years. Rather than embrace Liberty as a means to fight Trump, they have argued for more bureaucratic authoritarianism in order to ensure that the Left is the only party in power. So i’m not going to accept people who openly hate me, and want my rights deprived, because they are having a power spat with the Feds.
I’ve often said the way to deal with David Koresh was to wait for him to make a grocery run and arrest him on the street of Waco, so I have a hard time blasting the feds for doing that now. If they used “marked” vehicles, they’ll have to be armored given the level of violence they could provoke – and that isn’t a good look either.
I know I should care, but it’s getting harder because it sure looks like either these lunatics or the the cops will be coming for us before long.
yup
*checks gunbot for ammo deals *
Exactly. The rioters and their supporters are trying to do everything they can to funnel things in a certain direct. Hence the lawsuit to limit/bar non-lethal force options. And force the Feds to attempt to make arrests on the scene in the middle of a mob.
I’d agree on that point. And i do think the “Secret Police Death Squads” is maybe a tad overdoing it from the left, but I’m in general not in favor of Cops being undercover, except for infiltration operations into criminal organizations. Unmarked cops as regular law enforcers (Looking at you for pulling people over) is bulshit.
today in tweets from 2014
BBC 1Xtra names #EdSheeran as the most influential artist in black and urban music
https://twitter.com/hmvtweets/status/487640124344115201
Who?
BBC. It is… how to explain… like NPR but limey
Huh, that isn’t at all what my internet searches would indicate that a BBC is
Incoming simps saying beat me queen uwu
https://twitter.com/DianaWintah/status/1286067254476636160
I mean… I’d take a few slaps to tap that ass
Baltimore Italians plan to re-victimize you with a statue.
Weeks after protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, members of the city’s Italian American community are developing a plan to reproduce the marble monument so it can be displayed in a more secure location.
Grand Knight Santo Grasso, of the Knights of Columbus St. Vincent Pallotti Council No. 14535, said community members retrieved the statue from the Inner Harbor a few days after it was vandalized July 4. Broken into three pieces, however, it cannot be restored.
the Knights of Columbus – that name needs to go
“The Knights of Columbus were real head-breakers; true guineas. They took over their piece of the city. Twenty years after an Irishman couldn’t get a fucking job, we had the presidency, may he rest in peace.”
I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.
*cue talk of the Catholic menace*
Which is appropriate, because the Klan of the 1920s was intertwined with progressives and more anti-catholic and anti-right sort of immigrants. Gee, why does that sound familiar?…
“The mayor’s order makes exceptions from the strict new rules for many city and federal government workers, stipulating: “The enforcement provisions of this Order shall not be applied to persons in the judicial or legislative branches of the District government while those persons are on duty; and shall not apply to any employees of the federal government while they are on duty.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/dc-mayor-mask-order-requires-facial-coverings-while-outside
The peasants have to wear the mask so their betters can identify them.
Excellent, another order to ignore.
Well, at least they’ve finally gotten past that pretending phase that the rules apply to them as well. I guess ‘the mask has fallen off’.
They need something to help the masks stand out so that mask compliance can be checked at a glance from a distance.
Maybe a patch sewn o or something; bright colored such as yellow, with a contrasting and distinct shape/outline.
maybe something like this
Unequal application and differential enforcement of the law that isn’t really a law. Seems unconstitutional but we all know that ragged piece of paper doesn’t mean shit anymore.
“Unequal application and differential enforcement of the law that isn’t really a law.”
So, what you are saying is that we have no real laws left?
Apart from the obvious “Carve Outs for the Kings Men” context, i find the second paragraph more terrifying. As long as we have a government, there is going to be preferential status for government workers. The terrifying thing is that the people in charge think themselves so clever that they can concieve of every reason why a person might not need to do what they say and explicitly create exceptions for that. This is the pretense of knowledge and hubris of command that Hayek warned us of.
Yes this infuriates me, especially since I’m going into the district today to watch baseball at a bar a block from the park where no fans are allowed in except Dr. Fauci.
I need to figure out what I’m doing for lunch.
I have plenty of options, but I don’t want to turn on the stove in this weather.
… how is it only 74 out? oh it’s that 94% humidity.
90/70% here. Heat Index is 105 and rising.
Why did you move there?
Job was here.
While the summer heat is miserable, I don’t really mind it too much. On the other hand, winter lows were 30F. I think it got that low twice. On the gripping hands, alligators.
Take some crispbread put smoked salmon on it, pepper, lemon, capers and eat
Of that I have… Pepper.
Sandwich. Meat, cheese, and veggies. Only heat required is to toast the buns.
No bread or bread-like substitute.
Unless I order out.
I’m out of cheese 🙁
Most of the meat is frozen, except the hot dogs and jalapeno brats.
Going to the store has become an entirely horrible experience. I’ve been known to eat cold hot dogs rather than go to that people infested business.
Salad?
Steam the buns outside.
EXTRA LIFE
https://mobile.twitter.com/beeple/status/1286159655992008705
Because Bill was holding her back.
As per Variety, the streaming service is developing a Clinton alt-history drama series, and it’s not their first time at bat for the Bernie basher.
The new show — based on a 2020 fiction novel by Curtis Sittenfield — would imagine a world in which Hillary never marries Bill. Instead, she dives straight into politics herself.
“Instead, she dives straight into politics herself.”
When reality isn’t bad enough.
Then of course, we wouldn’t even know who Hillary is if she has never married Slick Willy.
Without those coattails, she’d still be a small time operator.
Yeah I’m fully cognizant that her ruthlessness and drive contributed to Bill’s rise. But without his charisma and natural political skills, she wouldn’t get elected dogcatcher.
haaaaahahahahahahahahaaaaa
is it set in space?
So… She ends as a State Senator in AK?
Illinois, probably. Without Bill, she would have had no reason to go to Arkansas.
I thought leon was implying she’d need to go to Alaska to find a small enough pond to be a big fish in.
Without Bill, she spends 10 years in federal prison for one of her many capers. She spends her later years as a disbarred cat-lady working as an admin at a warehouse.
For the love of God….are they that starved for original content and ideas?
They were always starved for ideas.
I just can’t imagine being so enthralled by a living politician that you are going to slavishly make an “Alt-History” movie about them, while they are living. And if it’s to appease Herself, that is Marie Antoinette levels of Fantasy Role Playing.
Sometimes you can look at someone you don’t agree and see some positive attributes that can in part explain why people may like them.
I NEVER ever saw the appeal on any level with Hilary from the day she became First Lady. A mean, wicked, self-serving, corrupted witch-wench is all I saw and still see. No charisma. No nothing. Just a pile of dirt.
Dude, progs watch The West Wing over and over again and imagine how amazing President Bartlett would be in real life.
and yet they nominated puddin brain biden…
Because, as some here have mentioned, he will step down after the election and we will have the first womyn president. All will be well then.
You gotta wonder how much of the search for VP is centered around someone who won’t have the power to force him to step down.
You are forgetting that they wanted Bernie or Warren.
sound’s like they are going to get Warren. Although herr whitmore seems to be getting an extended look.
Yeah, they’re going to get Warren, because she’s getting the VP spot, essentially making her POTUS if Biden wins.
I have FB friend who randomly posts pictures of the Obama family.
Well, imagine it based on the writings of SugarFree. It isn’t like Netflix is held to broadcast TV standards.
Given the target audience…
The effects would be highly amusing.
I wish Bill would divorce her, and write a book.
“Living with the Maw of Abdominis” [edited by SF]
Opening lines:
All of the dead bodies are hers. I only raped people.
That is an excellent opening line.
Wishful thinking?
Administration officials were alerted on Wednesday that a cafeteria employee on the White House grounds has tested positive for coronavirus, according to an email viewed by CNN.
Ike’s Eatery — located in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building — and the New Executive Office Building’s cafeteria have been temporarily closed, though the email advised that the risk of transmission is low due to precautions like gloves and masks.
“There is no reason for panic or alarm,” the email reads.
——-
In May, two White House staffers and a member of the Navy who serves as one of Trump’s personal valets tested positive for the virus, raising alarm about potential exposure of the President.
In conversations at the time, Trump expressed concern that aides contracting coronavirus would undercut his message that the outbreak is waning and states should begin reopening, according to a person who had spoken with him.
The White House has since gone to great lengths to prevent Trump and Vice President Mike Pence from contracting the virus, even as they travel to states where cases are surging.
Why would anybody go to any lengths at all to keep those monsters from getting their just dessert?
How the fuck did we go from a nation that fought the greatest army on earth to win our independence and went on to fight and win 2 world wars, to a nation where we are terrified of a fucking cold virus and people saying mean things on the internet?
50 years of infiltration and intentional societal destruction by the progressive, communist left.
As soon as the dems take the supermajority back in November, and take office in Jan 2021, Putin should just ride down from Siberia on bear, with his shirt off, ride down to DC and say ‘surrender’ and we will. Our long nightmare shall be over, welcome to our new nightmare, I’m getting tired of this one!
Also, three generations of coddling takes a toll on self-reliance. We got what we enabled. Legions of shrieking harpies raising beta male foot soldiers. Good men did nothing?
Good men did nothing?
good men minded their own business, as good men are wont to do
Yes sir, we sure did. And bad women and weak men have proliferated.
Rome fell without any such help, so you don’t have to lean so much on that crutch.
We had as bad a flu epidemic in ’68. What we didn’t have was 24/7 media (mass and social). We didn’t have idiots at computers modeling shit they don’t understand.
raising alarm about potential exposure of the President
They mis-spelled “hopes”.
Biden: ‘All you slant-eyes look the same.’
Vince Coglianese
@VinceCoglianese
Biden says Trump is wrong to hold China accountable for coronavirus because Americans can’t distinguish “between a South Korean and someone from Beijing.”
The patronizing view of voters aside, not sure what that has to do with the CCP, or anything.
The Biden family took a page out of the Clinton playbook and pimped themselves out to the CCP. Fuck them all.
OMFG. Tears.
Still, it looks like a perfectly normal comment compared to his “They’d breathe air into my nostrils to get me moving” nonsense
And this guy is up by elevety leven gazillion points in all the polls.
Basically, he’s right, most voters couldn’t even point out either on a map or spell either. We’re doomed.
Aren’t you one of the people that believes the polls are nonsense or have you taken the black pill?
/sarcasm
Didn’t bother to verify, but I saw screencaps of Biden’s most recent Basement Broadcast that showed 19 viewers at the 26 minute mark.
19. Now, there may be an explanation for it, although I can’t think what it is. That seems incredibly implausible.
*farrakhan triggered image*
X number were reporters and at least 4 were staffers.
Well he just lost my wife’s vote (I think she’s a Trumpster now but still).
It used to amuse me greatly to see how mad she got when we lived in Memphis and got called Chinese. Those hillbillies didn’t have many Asians living there so any Asian was just Chinese. My wife would tear into anyone who called her that and explain she was Korean and there was a world of difference.
So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Which story is going to resonate for decades to come? This one.
It’s the economy, stupid.
So bit of honesty from me: I really don’t understand the “Trump Screwed the pooch” on the coronavirus talking points. Like i really don’t know what people think he could have done to change what happened? Maybe impose a “nationwide shutdown”? All their proposals are “Use the Federal Government to Direct the economy”, which is rich coming from the side that now is upset that he is using the Federal Government to Direct Local Law Enforcement. I guess some dictatorial powers are ok and others are not.
What follows is then, that they blame him for the state of the economy. I’m even amenable to this, because he took credit for the economy, so you don’t then get to blame someone else for it. But Where is the blame at the “If you want to work, get an essential job” Governors?
Thing is he can’t. He doesn’t have the power. The states would just fight him on everything.
It’s nonsense.
The CDC gave behavioral guidelines for safer interaction. State governors went full dictator. I don’t get it either, but I am at least half-way rational and try to be objective. IOW partisan hacks are partisan hacks.
https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1286296283876069377
This is the same man who has a list of state’s you must quarantine from that includes GA who said that the rule doesn’t apply to him because he’s essential.
https://twitter.com/AP_Scoop/status/1285676105328783360
Also this exists so we know they are lieing.
And also the reaction in portland, Chicago and Philadelphia also contradicts this. The people your’re talking about are npc’s and incapable of rational thought and not worth talking to or taking seriously.
Duh. HE SHOULDA MANDATED MASKS!
/goes back to preparing goat for sacrifice.
My question for these people is always why there must be a comprehensive, all-encompassing federal response when there is such diversity between states in terms of population density, use of cramped public transit, and every other variable that affects how the virus spreads or doesn’t spread.
I suppose it’s just another effect of the federal government being viewed as THE government instead of an entity created by the states to promote commerce and mutual national defense.
note that while initial were higher than expected, continuing claims were 800k below expectations – so people are finding new work quicker than expected.
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
In a decade from now, there won’t be 10% of voters who even know what an economy is. They’ll know as much about that as AOC, and care even less, everything will be free, their living cubicle, free internet, and daily gruel. Blissful ignorance shall rule the day.
Humankind shall end our long reign of this rock, not with a bang but a whimper.
And on that day, Mr. Lizard shall return with a host of the heavens, and yea, cries of lamentation will rise up from the masses, tempted by the whore of Babylon no longer, the scales removed from their eyes.
My favorite one-liner on this subject comes from my former colleague, a Marine officer (and attorney) of Korean descent, 1st gen, fluent in English and Korean. We were in Korea at the time, 4 attorneys with co-defendants (Marines who beat up some other service members, go figure.) I asked about the respective views of the major Pacific nations.
His line: “China and Japan can’t agree on who’s number one… but they both agree who’s number 3.” Then a wan smile.
Great dude and great attorney.
Our county is at code RED. Our Covid ICU bed % is 8%. EIGHT FUCKING PERCENT.
Then why does everyone want to come here?
Canada’s federal court has ruled that an asylum agreement the country has with the US is invalid because America violates the human rights of refugees.
The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), in place since 2004, requires refugee claimants to request protection in the first safe country they reach.
But on Wednesday, a judge declared the deal unconstitutional due to the chance that the US will imprison the migrants.
The ruling marks a major victory for Canadian immigration activists.
Lawyers for refugees who had been turned away at the Canadian border had challenged the agreement, arguing that the US did not qualify as “safe” for asylum seekers.
Sounds like a win for Trump.
Yeah big time. Start bussing every “refugee” from Central and South America up to Canada and drop them off.
Why not? I’m sure the Canadians would only thank us for helping them out.
“But on Wednesday, a judge declared the deal unconstitutional due to the chance that the US will imprison the migrants.”
Well, there’s the fix. We send all the refugees to Canada. I mean look at all the free land up there.
And the people are so much nicer.
They’re the nicest assholes I’ve ever met… not really, but the assholes part.
A survey that explains why surveys and polls are going to be useless this year.
‘Walking On Eggshells’: 62% Of Americans Are Afraid To Express Political Views, Survey Finds
I’ve been saying this for a very long time. No one on the right is going to talk to pollsters, they’re directly associated with the media, and no one wants to answer a poll, only to find themselves being followed around and harassed by a mob.
You can be assured that almost everyone answering the polls are left wingers who completely trust the media.
I’ve been called crazy more than a few times for saying that.
I hope I get to have as big a laugh the day after the election this time as in 2016 but I do have to admit that I’m getting nervous.
It’s all a big Joke, so laugh away. Think about Dementia Biden. There are some funny things bound to happen.
I hear what you’re saying and normally I’d agree but I don’t think him being moved aside after a couple of months in favor of whatever lunatic he chooses for VP will be a very good premise for comedy.
You should be nervous, not that the democrats are going to win a fair election. Fair elections are over, it’s going to be paper only voting and massive fraud and guess who comes out on top of that shit show? It’s as simple as this, they are not going to allow you to vote. If you go to the polls, you’ll be accosted by mobs and it will be shut down. If you vote by mail in ballot, you may as well wipe you ass with it.
The only way to stop this is to stop the pandemic lock downs and no one is going to do that.
The polls show Biden ahead by 12-17%. Many Trump supporters laugh it off: “No one answers polls correctly.” “Polls are weighted towards Democrats.”
“Wait until Biden picks his terrible V.P.” “It’s summer and no one is listening to politics.” “Wait until Biden gets out of his basement.” “Trump will cream Biden in the debates.” Trump and his team and his supporters should not be resting on their oars. They should be acting like the polls are completely accurate.
If the polls are wrong, then acting as if they are correct now and taking action is just going to lead to a bigger landslide which smashes the Left.
This is like stopping to pick flowers on the road to Moscow thinking there is plenty of time to get there before General Winter arrives on the scene. If you want Trump to win, then stop the happy b.s. that polls don’t matter and pretend that they do!
“The polls show Biden ahead by 12-17%.”
First of all, bullshit. It’s about 8% now, which is within the margin of error, IOW, Trump is actually ahead.
2nd, they’re not accurate.
3rd, saying that predicting an election at this point is bullshit, is true.
The only point I find worth considering, is how they’re going to use the virus to prevent voting at polling places, and the ensuing shitshow with having everyone vote by mail. If they succeed in that, and I have no reason right now to doubt they will, we either wind up with Democrats just right out winning in a landslide across the board, with a new dem super majority, or it’s somewhat close and we wind up with this tied up in courts for years with constant rioting and burning of the cities, and outright lawlessness that will make the current situation look like nothing.
And ya’ll think i’m an optimist
I’m with Hyperion. The polls are even more meaningless now than ever. At least in the past, votes were mostly cast and counted accurately (with some notable exceptions), so halfway honest polls at least had some relevance. This year, not so much. Massive voter fraud is in the works. It was beta tested in CA last election and worked a treat.
Which would be less relevant if the Republican states were doing something to prevent it. The electoral college firewalls electoral fraud on a state by state basis, but when most states are rotten, then it will swing even a Presidential election.
Well you can whistle thru the graveyard if you want, but Trump and his advisers better take his underdog position seriously.
None of this handwaving dismissal of the predicted 2018 blue wave that cost them the House and the last two years of bullshit from Pelosi and company.
Whether they’re accurate or not, Trump was doing way better several months ago.
I don’t really think voters are much more shy now than a couple months ago.
100% disagree.
the name ‘n shame, de-platforming, and life destruction kicked into high gear 2 months ago.
Yeah they went from “If you say something offensive, you’re fired” to “If your stepson shoots a guy who shot a taser at him, you’re fired.” It went from “incredible overreaction” to an explicit policy of collectively punishing people for the alleged sins of their family members.
I will say this: I never once in all my years living here seen an election year with so few YAY DEMOCRATS signs. Now, I do think that a lot of Democratics have fully bought into the GOP NAZI KKK MEMBERS ARE LITERLALY KILLING PEOPLE stuff, so they don’t want to paint a target on themselves.
I’ve seen like three Biden bumper stickers, and the only yard sign I have seen was a “Bye Don” one. Which reminds me of the old NOBAMA stickers.
Anything that frustrates Emporer Walz in Minnesoda is a good thing. The GOP didn’t vote to spend $1.8B (that we don’t have) on a giant bonding bill unless Walz gives up his emergency powers.
Why doesn’t anyone ask him why he doesn’t give up on masks so those poor souls can get their hiway? Or why the one state (SoDak) that doesn’t have any emergency edicts is crushing Minnesoda’s number in any metric you can think of?
So bit of honesty from me: I really don’t understand the “Trump Screwed the pooch” on the coronavirus talking points.
I think it goes something like this:
“This never would have happened if Bad Orange Man hadn’t stolen the election.”
^ This. They are just reflexively taking the opposite side on EVERYTHING. Remember in the beginning when he proposed a travel ban, they called him racist? Then later they said he didn’t act quickly enough.
In all honesty we are 4 months in. There have never been defined metrics for what success looks like, or how we determine whether we enter phases, or for when we need to enforce mask edicts. Nothing. And people are fine with it, we’ve lost it’s over.
Statists have finally found a big winner here, one they will NEVER let go of. The future, whatever else it consists of, will consist of a never ending crisis of pandemics, lockdowns, and forced control of every facet of human behavior in order to fight the unseen enemy in a forever war.
You’re right, game over.
Your defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
^^^^ This. The black pill requires that you have no hope. That is fundamentally against my nature.
At some point the black pill is just reality. We’re not quite to that point yet but we’re getting close.
^this^
I’m just not a person who tries to project my wishes into reality. Wishful thinking is just that, nothing more. If doing so were possible, we’d still have a Constitution left and people wouldn’t be knocking down statues of Columbus and Jesus with the politicians cheering them on.
As you said, we’re almost to the point of no return. Sure, there’s a glimmer of hope, but the odds of us surviving this as a somewhat free Republic are very, very grim. It truly would be a miracle.
I’ve always been a glass half full person, so I’m not a pessimist. But when Rome is burning and we’ve willingly let them ration water…
I’m not giving up. It’s just bleak.
^this^
Stating reality as it is today, is not giving up.
We occasionally win a minor battle, but make no mistake, we are losing the war, badly.
You’re quite pessimistic today.
As in, I’m quite realistic today. I think of pessimistic people as people who have given up on the idea of righting the ship. That’s not me, I’m just saying if the ship takes on any more water, we’re sunk, and these teaspoons just aren’t up to the task right now.
I’m always hopeful, just realistic.
The war was lost 80 years before I was born. We’re just going through the motions until the inevitable defeat. The only thing keeping the collapse from occurring right now is the apathy of the general public toward, well, anything.
hows that for pessimism?
Eh.
I mean kind of.
People will get tired of Republicans and vote in Democrats and then get sick of them and vote in Republicans. Over time, government gets bigger and more wasteful. But it’s a lengthy process. We’re not at the apex.
People will get tired of Republicans and vote in Democrats and then get sick of them and vote in Republicans.
I think that cycle is reaching its end. and when the Dems get control of the federal government, they will ensure that it is a one-party government. They are close now, and they know how to do it (there are many examples around the world). We have had multiple elections now where the Dems automatically say that if they lose, its illegitimate.
They have been probing and testing and finding weakness. They won’t take the chance again of the normies slipping the leash like they did in 2016.
“They have been probing and testing and finding weakness. They won’t take the chance again of the normies slipping the leash like they did in 2016.”
Exactly, they were completely caught off guard by their own arrogance and we’re in shock. So they tried to undo their error with a coup. It failed. Now they’re trying to stop any chance of a fair election with a pandemic and mail in voting.
If the latter works, we will not be having any more elections in this country, period. If anyone cannot imagine what the current dems would do with a super majority, I can, they will as they said ‘transform the USA’.
If the latter works, we will not be having any more elections in this country, period.
We’ll have them. One party states do. They are just rigged.
“he apathy of the general public toward, well, anything.”
First world problems. We became the first nation, that for most people, the struggle was over. The biggest struggles being who gets to decide which show to watch on TV tonight and are we going out for dinner, or not.
It’s such an anomaly in the history of humankind, that we basically have 2 groups of people. The normies who are like you said, so content that they are just apathetic to what’s going on, and the group who have to create struggle because none exists and they can’t deal with it.
So you have the normies and the struggle group. The struggle group will win because while they’re storming the gates, the normies are watching the TV and not caring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdo7s16l04g&list=RDIJWlBfo5Oj0&index=2
Y’all need to take a chill pill and watch some nature, with some good music.
Was really expecting this.
We had as bad a flu epidemic in ’68. What we didn’t have was 24/7 media (mass and social). We didn’t have idiots at computers modeling shit they don’t understand.
Cannot be said enough.
Yes, the idiots and Karens have always been with us, it’s just that now they have been given a giant megaphone and political power. We should have never invented the internet. Maybe the Unibomber was a prophet.
“Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society.”
“The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call feelings of inferiority and oversocialization. Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential”
“Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.”
“In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs.”
“but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society.”
Look upthread to my reply to Trashy about the struggle group.
It looks like this year might be worse than 1968 on deaths per capita. Or not. Close enough to call it a draw.
Excess deaths, my friend, are the metric that matters. And I don’t think it will be even close.
https://twitter.com/karensgonewild_
Note to self: Load up some more mags.
Bzzzzzzzt. LOL.
We’ll only reach equality once everyone is equally oppressed.
when did “Karen” devolve into any woman making a public scene about anything?
Once it reached critical popular knowledge. As with anything that gets popular, it must be generalized for the common consumer.
When the people who really like snitching on others decided they didn’t want it to be used on them.
Lefties can’t meme so they just bastardize the right’s internet humor at this point.
Note to self: When buying a new magazine fed weapon, purchase extra magazines immediately.
I’m thinking I need another one or two for the battle rifle, but I have to ask myself:
If I burn more than 100 rounds of .308 in anger in one sitting, what the hell is going on that I think I can come out of in one piece? I’m not going on extended patrols, I will be defending in place. I don’t see a scenario where an extended firefight is survivable. it would mean I cannot retreat and there are so many opponents that 100 (long-range, high-power) rounds, fired from a semi-auto, isn’t sufficent.
1 Two is one, one is none.
2. In a true SHTF scenario, magazines are valuable trade goods.
3. “Man I’m pissed we had all this extra ammo” -Things no one has ever said after a firefight.
When they drag your body away, make sure the survivors go “Jesus Christ, I’m glad you finally hit him Ted, he could have fucked us up for hours if you hadn’t. Good job”
My plt sgt threatened is with Article 15s if he caught us with more than 210 rounds. That joker never left the fob.
– You do plan on training with your gun, right? Lots of magazines to pre-load makes this easier.
– The magazine is likely the most fragile part of the gun. They break, and they wear out. It’s good to have spares.
I plan on going to the rifle range next week.t It was eerie how empty the place was when I went to pick up my WMD. I saw three people (all women) on the range. I get the feeling everyone is preserving their ammo.
I just got a scary thing that goes on top of my rifle, so I guess I have an assault rifle now.
I can’t afford to go to the range. I’ll end up spending $50 in ammo alone.
Don’t think of it as spending money on ammo. Think of it as investing in learning a new skill.
Just the rationalizations I was looking for. More .308 mags it is!
Of course, when the winners loot my body, I will be delivering more valuable ammo and mags to them.
Nah, one of us will booby trap your corpse.
You’d do that for us?
*wipes away single tear”
Don’t worry. You won’t care anymore.
This should be rule #6.
I’m glad Wheeler got gassed. Sadly it was not the reich kind of gas.