Anti-climatic, but it still counts.
Bayern won the Champions League. DJ went 30 under par and won a PGA event by 11 freaking strokes. And the big ten officials are still the dumbest people in the sports world right now. That’s all I’ve got.
Murderous and psychotic. Or (as the NYT would say) austere.
Noted abolitionist William Wilberforce was born on this day. He shares it with noted mobster Carlo Gambino, “historian” Howard Zinn, Nobel Peace Prize winner, grifter, and noted terrorist Yasser Arafat, wrestling promoter and businessman Vince McMahon, sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card, football coach Mike Shanahan, comedian Stephen Fry, acting great Steve Guttenberg, HOFer Cal Ripken, Jr, Madness’s Mark Bedford, deaf actress Marlee Matlin, comedic genius Dave Chappelle, and Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint.
And now…the links!
Nothing stops police violence like burning a bunch or normal people’s cars, I guess.
Kenosha is on fire after police shoot a black man seven times at point-blank range. If you haven’t seen he video yet, it’s pretty fucked up. Those cops were incompetent as shit, allowing that man they had detained to walk casually around a car and get in the driver’s door…which was the only place they had to make sure he wouldn’t go. Fucking useless.
I can’t wait for this. I’m sure it will be all about resolving the questions people have and in no way will there be political grandstanding.
The sooner these two crazy fucks leave the spotlight, the better.
You two waited long enough. I’m not one to generally tell people what to do, but these two attention-whores have neglected their obviously unwell child for way too long. Get your shit together, you idiots.
This is a headline I didn’t expect to read. Well, that’s not entirely true. I expected to read part of it someday, but it still caught me off guard.
I think I have a new political hero. Eh, not really. But I will give credit where credit’s due: this was quality trolling.
Biden announces his willingness to become a dictator. And the media doesn’t ask a single follow-up question about it.
More coronavirus deaths, this time in Peru. Why couldn’t those selfish people just let themselves be thrown in cages for wanting to live their lives? How dare they!
The weather this week might be as interesting as politics. And equally as retarded for parts of the gulf coast.
Here you go. I always enjoyed these guys. Most of them, anyway.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Stay safe all you Southern Glibs.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine”
-REM
Adequately sums up my feeling as I read the headlines this morning. Well, the first line, anyway.
Those cops were incompetent as shit, allowing that man they had detained to walk casually around a car and get in the driver’s door…which was the only place they had to make sure he wouldn’t go. Fucking useless.
That is about my take on it, too. Otherwise, I’ll wait for the spin masters on all to sides to fill in the gaps, try to undo their spin and come to a reasonable opinion. That should be done by 2029 or so.
Did you see the new meme wherein someone adds a little spray paint to the Black Lives Matter totem to make it read Black Olives Matter? I hope it spreads like wildfire.
I usually plead the 48-hour rule but nine years works, too.
Once again, there’s a lot missing about the whole situation. Given the current tensions, cops are going out of their way to not offend certain demographics. That’s probably why the guy wasn’t face down in the lawn with cuffs and a knee in his back. They were trying to avoid an incident.
I suspect this is why things just went to shit. The certain demographics people feel they can now simply ignore everything and sooner than later, not complying was going to lead to excessive force.
Meanwhile, 40 miles south of Kenosha, a quiet week end. Only 4 KWB (Killed While Black)
That, combined with the modern trend toward only hiring police officers that can’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
Just so I’m following your logic here, the only alternatives they felt they had were:
1) not controlling the confrontation
2) shooting a guy several times in the back once he got to where they didn’t want him to go
Why didn’t they just let him go at that point and follow him until he left the car, ran out of gas, or initiated violence?
Well good morning Captain Though Police. Any other words you want to put into my mouth before you act like we’re going to have a civil conversation?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I would have liked to run up against Kelly-Anne about thirty-five years ago. I’ll bet she was a firecracker.
Boy howdy. She doesn’t look all that bad now.
You guys are kidding, right? She looks like a pack of unfiltered cigarettes mated with a crack pipe.
Or as I like to say, an older ENB.
What do you have against trailer park romances brah?
I wasn’t going to say anything.
“Come to me, Festus. Run your fingers through my thick bouffant of hair. Stroke my pre-cocaine nose. Delve into my jungle snatch. Bring a machete.”
That rules out doggie style. I’d wanna see that smile.
The smile that says “I spiked your coffee with LSD just for fun”?
Dealer/Lay? Two for one. I saw her smile as “I just fucked your dad before you showed up”.
Takes rock-hard pair of tits to show up drunk to Senior picture day.
You know an ex-boyfriend has some boudoir pics of her somewhere, with a dark brown muff and tan lines like a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich.
[shudder]
Ha! I almost posted this pic. It’s really heard to tell an ’80s girl’s attractiveness based on pics from the time though. I remember seeing a pic of my wife from ’91 looking smoking hot and then a pic of her from ’89 looking about as goofy as this, with retarded hair and makeup. It was a tough time.
The 80s was not good for looks, but the 70s sucked even more because of the fashions. Those bell bottoms and big collared shirts made everyone look like fucking clowns. I am glad that I rebelled against that look from the get go.
I’d take a 70s girl in goofy pants any day over that salon poodle.
The shift from clean-cut sixties to hippy seventies was not kind on anyone. The Brady men ran around with disgusting dirty perms FFS.
The eighties had some excesses but at least the guys kept it together for the most part, before dumping gallons of product over their heads in the nineties.
It seems like men away drift back to t-shirts and jeans quickly. Or even just save fads for the weekend and look normal most of the time.
But the worst thing for men is hairstyles. Men find one and stick to it until they go bald. The mullet, for example.
Got me that crew cut and stuck to it forevah…
I’ve gone from bowl cut to the Shawn Cassidy to the Billy Idol to the George Clooney Caesar to the Boring Dad (aka the Anderson Cooper) and now after six months of no haircut I’m headed back to the Shawn Cassidy. WOOOOOO!!!!!!
Yup. That’s usually what I notice first. I mean, if they’re clothed.
I can’t believe how many men are still parading around with “There’s Something About Mary” hair.
I know that’s a movie, but I don’t know what that means.
With jizz in it?
*swoon*
Jizz. A gallon of Paul Mitchell Extra Stiff and High. Same difference.
Rhywun, Paul Mitchell’s XTG (Xtreme Texture Glue) is the best hair product ever made. It works just like Elmer’s White Glue but is more easily soluble in water for easy removal.
Full disclosure – I spent the last half of the 1990s with a pompadour that puts Wayne Cochrane to shame.
lol
I had the ubiquitous spiky pushed-up look in mind.
I’ll be honest – I miss the “dry look” from the early nineties the most. I like running my hands through hair without having to wash them afterwards.
I’ve had basically the same hair cut since I was 11. Quarter inch on the sides, inch on the top, water-based-gel (Groom-and-Clean) or light pomade. Just like my grandpa.
#mediterraneanprivilege
Long-haired Hippie.
THE WORST was the late 80s/early 90s female fashion scene. It was let’s-rifle-through-dad’s-closet-for-the-biggest-fucking-button-down-in-the-world-and-button-it-to-the-neck-with-a-stupid-brooch-so-you-have-no-clue-what-my-body-looks-like.
Middle-class white girl burqas.
I resemble that remark!!
(literally wearing my dad’s suit jacket)
That coat is too big for you.
High school in the mid-’80s. Girls started wearing men’s boxer shorts as outerwear. It was scandalous enough that the Sarasota County School Board held an emergency meeting to amend the dress code so as to proscribe the trend. They were right to do so – boxers make ladies look like they are walking around with a fully loaded diaper.
Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about that. I think those were banned at my school.
Wife and I have been watching early 90s episodes of supermarket sweep… woof!
Watch live: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies before House
Dude should just mail it in.
Hiss.
^ Dad Joke Approved!
Stamp of approval?
Nice!
Hope he doesn’t get cancelled
Of all the farcical “hearings” they’ve had, this one takes the cake. I hope he goes postal on those clowns.
Doubtless they’ll question his service, so he should package up the data and just let’r rip at the committee.
It’s all just part and parcel of our new normal.
It will be the best hearing, the classiest. First class, for sure.
Am I evil for laughing first about this, and then thinking if he ripped off his shirt and started beating himself around the head, neck, and chest while ululating it would be an awesome show of disrespect for this charade?
*narrows gaze*
Swiss delivers narrowed gaze.
First class service.
Neither wind nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…
Don’t ask about Mrs. Cake.
I am pre-disappointed that the term “conspiracy theory” will not be used.
I hope he tells those mooching Congress critters that he frankly doesn’t give a damn
Don’t give the loser more publicity, or demean the sewage treatment plant by association.
Right?
I’d be pissed if I worked there. Sewage plants provide a vital service to society, unlike certain faux comedians.
I was assuming he meant Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton is the new political hero.
Wasn’t this already done with Dave Berry a while back?
At least somebody got it.
I understood that the mayor was your ‘political hero’. I’m just saying it isn’t fair to the workers there… and I think UCS is saying Oliver shouldn’t be getting more publicity at all.
You are correct.
Getting ready to walk the kids to school for the first time in about 6 months. It’s only two days this week and if I were a betting man, I’d put $100 on the union finding an excuse not to be back next week (“oh no, 10 of our teachers have been potentially exposed, the whole district needs to quarantine for 14 days”, repeat every 14 days).
I don’t get the “why” of this nonsense. Do they just want to sit at home watching diminishing returns on Netflix? Do they really think that they are gaining allies?
First rule of union negotiations: never give the other side anything for free, even if it means nothing to you. They’ll return to work once they get something of sufficient value (permanently) in return.
I honestly think they’re just terrified they’re going to die. They don’t do very well at measuring potential threats. I mean, to paraphrase Norm Macdonald, “To teach 5th grade,you just need a 6th grade education.” And keep in mind, he was making a joke about his own dad who had a 9th grade education and was an elementary school principal.
This applies to the teachers, I mean. The teachers UNIONS are filled with the same, not terribly bright, people, but with the added sinister goal of “do less, get more money.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-for-every-college-major-2014-10
Education majors, on average, score lower on all facets of the SAT than journalism majors. So think of how incompetent and stupid the average journalist is, particularly with math, and realize that the average teacher is actually worse.
Health professions also consistently below average.
Damn, when I first looked at the average for the various IT degrees, I was feeling pretty inadequate about my score. Then I remembered there’s a whole new section since I took ’em.
I find it sad that I took the SAT when it was only two topics with 800 possible points each and I still scored better than the average education major with three topics of 800 possible points each.
When I took it I got a perfect score on the writing portion, a 780 on the verbal and somewhere in the mid 500s on the math.
I cannot do math for shit.
I was the opposite. Near perfect math, high enough reading, and 650 writing. Granted, I took the first writing exam, so they told us to use our per 1600 score, which I was happy to do.
Hey, I was an Ed Maj. Oh, now I get it, sort of.
I was an Ed major for a year. Couldn’t take the brainwashing and nonsense anymore. I got a write up in January 2009 for leaving class and refusing to watch the Obama inauguration.
I had visions of becoming a German teacher. My brother (a music teacher at the time) steered me straight.
Need us to explain it with some pretty pictures in a PowerPoint? 🙂
Risk assessment has been a cultural blind spot for at least two generations.
I wish someone would ask Biden where in the constitution the federal government is given the power to shut down the country. I bet the answer would be pretty interesting.
“Come on, Fat!”
Like any one would care.
I’m just wondering if his brain would lock up and he wouldn’t answer, or if he would make something up or claim the authority was under the third amendment or something equally hilarious.
Exactly. The cunt class voting for this shitshow because orange man is bad for beating Das Clinton Beatch would still vote for him if video of Biden putting peanut butter on his ass crack to get his poodle to lick him there Surfaced. After all, the dnc operatives with bylines would sell it as Biden helping a poor and disenfranchised thing get some free food.
The MSM and internet platforms would disappear that video faster than they disappeared Tara Reade.
It’s right there, you know in the thing
“no man I don’t get it and would like you to expand on it.”
That’s a high body count for a relatively small group. Pretty fucked up and sad.
Is that due to the platform shoes?
The platforms broke and it was like “Release The Goldfish!”
More ‘vid deaths.
(sorry ?)
Rowr. Well done, girlfriend!
She played out a long time fetish.
Sex with the pool boy.
Mexican ass sex with the landscaper.
Sex with the Russian cable guy.
Sex with the delivery boy.
Sex with the mailman.
Sex with the milkman.
It was Poon Time all the time!
Get out of my head.
BRB
Pizza delivery, right?
“Is that sausage?”
I like to watch…..
He did marry a girl with a stripper name.
Obligatory
That is a great movie – so many little inside LA jokes. I have to watch it again, it’s been a while.
Ya’ll are getting good with the clickbait links. 😉
This guy is a cuck. Your friendship went sour not from him going deep into your wife, bit cause he was about to tell everyone how he hit smash?
I just realized we’ll be having a late Labor Day this year. Typical 2020.
Late? I thought it was early.
I must have no clue when it’s supposed to be, because this is the second time.
It’s as late as it can be, with the last day of August falling on a Monday.
So why is it September 9th is the day I keep remembering as Labor Day?
It’s the 7th this year. First Monday in September. It can’t be any later.
Wanna bet? Teachers’ Unions can re-adjust opening school until after Labor Day so move Labor Day, for the heroes.
Yeah. The 8th. I really needed it sooner than that.
That’s awesome. John Oliver is a world-class asshole.
If they have a tour graphic the intake should be his mouth.
True dat.
It’s also the anniversary of the burning of Washington. 206 years later another foreigner, Ivanka Trump has DESPOILED the White House by, er, transplanting some trees and putting in some roses that will bloom later in the year.
Mind your P’s and Q’s or we might just have to come down there and do it again! Fair warning.
Threat or promise?
And she put in wheelchair-accessible paths. The bitch!
By Ivanka I mean Melania. Whoops. (Not that anyone cares).
I know you guys don’t care much for the NBA, but yesterday Montrez Harrell (black guy) called Luka Doncic (white guy) a “bitch ass white boy” during their playoff game. Of course, Luka came down and drained a three at the buzzer to win the game, so at least payback was sweet. Here’s a guy that calls Montrez on his racist shit:
https://twitter.com/RealJayWilliams/status/1297266119032676354
I thought the racist incident happened in the previous game.
Yea, it was the next game.
I read up on it a little. Luka accepted his apology. We have learn once we state our opinions to forgive and forget.
No one defended it.
Back to ignoring the NBA.
Someone should ask them about their penchant for sucking ChiComm CCP dick.
Good morning, Sloop!
Thanks for the uplifting lynx!
Nothing stops police violence like burning a bunch or normal people’s cars, I guess
It’s getting crazy out there. If these lockdowns don’t end soon, these fucks will end up burning everything.
Great song, though. Lots of talent in that rail car.
Have a great day, people. You’ve earned it.
Not a religious person, but I believe God created hell especially for arsonists.
Biden says he would shut down the economy if scientists said so.
Let’s look at this a second. The left and Democrats are so obsessed with ‘following science’ and ‘fucking loving science’ it’s unhealthy to the point of being irrational.
A leader doesn’t destroy a country because doctors say so. And the ironic part about this is lockdowns are NOT based on any kind of science. People just take it for granted it is. Tony over at Reason thinks quarantining the healthy was a normal part of how we did things forever. People can’t even be bothered to research if indeed lockdowns worked. Blindly following orders is their thing.
So. Harris said ‘racism is a virus’. If lawyers said the country has to be locked down to fight it, would Sleepy Creepy Joe do it?
That’s not a leader. That’s a loser.
On a technical level, does the executive have that power?
I seem to recall Trump begging governors to re-open.
That’s totally different. Trump was trying to get them to unshutdown, something he can’t do, but Biden wants them to shutdown. See. Tenth amendment wouldn’t apply. Anyone who would say so would be a racist neo-confederate
He’s still at it? I was never sure if he was performance art or not.
I can’t find it now, but back about March or April I saw an article about how the scientific community had completely thrown out the entire concept of quarantining the healthy nearly a century ago. There was consensus and everything.
Your misaligned humours are distorting your memory. You need a course of leeches to help correct the imbalance.
We threw away 100 years (never mind thousands) of established virology on that based on a hunch really.
I thought it was based on a high school science project.
No one can keep up performance art for that long. Andy Kaufman eventually died out.
You shut your mouth! He’s alive and living in Dubuque, Iowa!
Upstairs from Elvis. They go to wrassling shows together on weekends.
I thought Elvis ended up in a Texas nursing home?
Convenience store in Michigan, still has the hair and sideburns. Mama Cass is a local and good customer
Damn! I thought they were in a Swiss clinic with the Kennedy boys.
Well, they move around a fair bit. Otherwise the news might find and expose them.
They’d rather expose themselves.
I posted there years ago that Tony was a Reason sock puppet designed to increase page refreshes and whatnot to increase ad $$.
The reality is that you only become an expert on anything by specialising, and to specialise is to neglect. I never used to believe in that “just as dumb as the next guy” stuff, but Feynman was completely right. Most public health scientists couldn’t read a balance sheet and in fact might not have worked outside the public sector at all.
The job of a leader isn’t to follow one set of experts blindly, it’s to try and balance what they’re telling you with what other experts-in-their-field are telling you. And experts-in-their-field doesn’t just mean credentialed people, it means the sort of people would-be technocrats: ordinary people who know what the ground level impact of a decision is.
The lack of wisdom on display from public health officials across North America is ASTONISHING.
And leaders refuse to take the keys to the Cadillac back. Which points to the quality (or lack thereof) of their characters and abilities.
I’ve been saying since April. Stop letting health officials dictate our economy and lives. Of course they’re going to say shut it all down and wear masks and whatever precautionary measure they can dream up. It’s not their job to think about trade-offs. Quite frankly, I don’t even think they know how to even understand it and even if they did they’d likely conclude it’s worth it.
It’s the same with this idiotic mask hysteria. I’m so tired and irritated with people who keep saying ‘oh so yo know more than the doctors?’ when it comes to mask.
FFS, they’re DOCTORS. They’re not PPE EXPERTS. They know JACK SHIT about masks.
No one THINKS.
Know where it’s getting us? I read in Maine they’re asking restaurant workers to wear ‘human cone shields’ and in some schools they’re putting plexiglass at every kid’s desk and mandating they wear masks all day. How the frick is any of this rational or rooted in science? It’s PURE HYSTERIA. And child abuse.
Apparently, if a doctor says jump off a bridge because the corona virus and people will do it at this pace.
FFS, they’re
DOCTORSGODS.They’re not PPE EXPERTS.They knowJACK SHIT about masksEVERYTHING.FIFY. I’ve met a few outstanding and very humble physicians but many seem to believe the above (Glib company of course excluded). Prepare for this to get worse as Social Justice is now an official component of the medical school admissions exam and is being added to the curriculum of many medical schools.
One of my brother’s friend is a doctor. At my brother’s wake we we talking and he said (praphrasing), “I’m not gonna lie, I wanted to be a doctor because of the money. And it seemed more interesting than pharmacy (he was a pharmacists for a year or two). And the money was great 30 years ago. And I didn’t take out any loans for med school. But I know what new doctors make now, and I know what it costs now. No way if I was 25 now that I would even consider med school, it isn’t worth it. Unless it was your life-long dream and you have a sugar daddy paying for it it’s a fool’s occupation now.”
And my sister (Ph D at Harvard Med) has told me numerous times: “I’ve worked for doctors, lawyers, architects, biologists, and professional athletes. By far the stupidest of that bunch are the doctors. They know their one little area and NOTHING about anything else.”
I work for about as wide a spectrum as your sister, and I agree.
But proceed to pretend to know about anything else.
I’m actually worried about it getting worse if that happens. Already they’re acting like SJW buffoons.
Lawyers have to be pretty close. Gah, I work in a dumb profession.
Cass Sustein.
Quite the insufferable, faux-virtuous douche.
“Biden says he would shut down the economy if scientists said so.”
Dr. Mengele, I presume.
Speaking of losers, John Oliver has an audience still? Mind you, so does Samantha Bee.
I dispute that claim. These programs continue because the gang of liberal asshats collect money from cable packages that force people to pay for these shows nobody watches. Without that, idiots like this would already be in bread lines or sucking dick to finance their crack habits as they should be.
I will say that the UU churches I’ve been to are the most pro-diversity least diverse places I’ve ever been to.
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1297818080865738752
I’ve been to one, a long time ago. It was… something else.
I’ve been to a couple. When they were saying “we’re all about diversity & racial justice!!!” I was looking around at all the rich wipipo.
It always seems like that’s the case with any organization that screams about race & diversity.
To be fair, mine was in Buffalo’s hipster neighborhood so at least they had that excuse.
Aren’t they all in rich honey hoods?
There’s a big UU church in a borderline neighborhood in DC. It’s still all rich whites who drive into the city on Sundays. Sprinkled with a few rich white younger folks who live in the city.
“Hipster” in Buffalo being mostly college kids and transients at the time. But yeah, the clientele certainly drew from wealthier neighborhoods too.
My voting location is at a Unitarian church. They have a pamphlet on display titled something like “Do Need to Believe in God to Come to Church?” Now maybe it the pamphlet explains that everyone is welcome through their doors. If so, that’s fine, but it seems to be a church for people who don’t really believe in God.
That’s the least of what bothers me about the UU. Even we atheists have a spiritual side sometimes.
Still preferable to progressivism.
My belief has always been that UU was the church of progressivism, worshipping the state.
I grew up a Unitarian-Universalist. They always spouted that “Question Authority” line but weren’t too happy when I questioned theirs.
“Who are you to tell me to question authority?”
Hehe. They are the bumper sticker Coexist people, no?
Formerly married to a UU minister (though not for the last 25 years,) so pretty deeply immersed for a time. Y’all are not wrong.
More in “what did he just say?!”:
Already going back on your promise to Kamala. He learned it from you Daddy Obama.
I could have sworn he already ruled out a second term, but I was too lazy to look for proof.
That was before his handlers started pumping him full of drugs.
You’d think that would elicit a pretty seismic response from the media. Let’s watch them ignore it this week.
They figure they can do the zombie Ginsburg show with him too..
Didn’t Kamala pull out of the DNC race because of poor finance management and low morale?
Is it a different crew that’s running her game now?
A leopard-whore doesn’t change her spots I reckon.
Re Peru and lockdowns. It’s as if public health officials are keeping arms crossed refusing to eat pablum not considering shifting towards the Swedish model.
Which is, you know, BASED IN ACTUAL SCIENCE.
Think of it. We claim to be ‘following science’ but based on our entire strategy on something not scientifically proven.
Sweden does the opposite, and they’re the pariah.
Voodoo is a science if the scientists practicing it say it is.
Fake, but still amusing.
Lol
I thought this was going to be a boobs link.
First hurricane is fizzling out, already down to storm strength.
There were two baseball HOF birthdays yesterday, one a rare case of the Veteran’s Committee getting something right (eventually).
George Davis or Cal Ripken, who was the better shortstop.
Looks like storm #1 is well east of where they forecast
or well west, depending on which forecast you are comparing too. If was first supposed to hit south of Houston, then about New Orleans.
It’s a hard and fast rule for our kids: NO SOCIAL MEDIA
That’s a good rule, but I’m kinda surprised parents are able to enforce that these days.
Well, you start by not giving the kid a phone. Then you configure a linux machine as a router that dumps all traffic to social media sites into /dev/null . Then get ready for the tech arms race as the kid discovers VPNs…
…or goes over to a friend’s house and uses their computer.
Friends? Does not compute.
No one has friends. Especially not meatspace friends.
It takes effort, but it’s doable.
Good on you and the missus.
Hard and fast rule for me: NO KIDS
Hopefully that is without the added pressure from being on some list.
Not that I’m aware of, no.
^^^This
This times 1000.
Is it just me, or does anyone else look at Claudia’s picture and think “15 year old me could totally talk her into putting out.”
Nope. 15 year old me had zero clue and not a chance in hell with most females.
This guy libertarians
LOL. I remember my freshman year in college, we came back from the bar (I had my older brother’s ID) and this girl in our group said, “Hey Ed, do you want to go back to my room and watch a movie?” It was 3 AM. My dumb unaware ass said, ” I have class at 8:30, so I’m just going to go to bed.”
I really fucking thought she wanted to watch a movie until my friend the next morning ripped me apart mercilessly and told me her true intentions.
Many Chiefs fans removed their masks while attending open practice
The author of this article was the kid nobody liked in high school.
OH MY GOD
Video from the end of practice when the COVID wave struck:
https://youtu.be/FfQWz4gVcP8
That’s why I think at some point all this will collapse under its absurd weight as civil disobedience will take over.
Politicians are too gutless to be proactive on this front.
Look up gutless punchable puke in the dictionary and you’ll find Brampton, Ont. Mayor Patrick Brown.
*looks him up*
CWAA
I’ve seen Chiefs fans, I find this hard to believe.
lol
Eating and drinking can introduce the virus to your body and therefor should not be allowed.
Maybe they were Breatharians?
Don’t read the comments.
So you intend to meddle in the election?
“SHOULD TV NETWORKS AIR RNC IN FULL?”
@BrianStelter advanced rationale for nets not to: “Television nets are going to have interesting choices to make…about whether to cut away if there’s this stream of disinformation happening live.” Promises CNN will cut in w/ “fact checks.
Does that really convince anyone? I don’t know but having the news pipe in during a politicians speech and tell me how i’m supposed to think about that speech really gets me wanting to do the opposite of what they say. Don’t tell me what to think.
The RNC should just air non-stop all the daytime streams that even CNN wouldn’t touch.
Former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr.
reveals his wife had an affair with their pool boy who he claims is now trying to ‘blackmail them’ after they invested in his gay-friendly hostel and took him on vacationtalks about his first time*pours Campari*
The two “promises” i believe Biden on are: 1. He would shutdown the economy on his own Fiat and 2. He will pursue radical Gun control and confiscation.
Kenosha is on fire after police shoot a black man seven times at point-blank range.
And now we’ll start seeing what happens when Antifa operates in areas more gun-friendly than Seattle and Portland. Looks like they are incorporating rifles into their squads. Sounds like he may have taken a few shots at the police vehicle, but maybe that’s fireworks. Certainly fireworks at the end.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1297770791891656706
I’m not going to lie, The first thing i thought of when i saw that link was: Hmm Wonder what Don will think of this. Does this Hurt or Help Trump?
Congratulations, jackasses. Now cops will have justifications for those surplus MRAPs.
Portland and Seattle aren’t gun unfriendly places yet. Politicians are doing their damnedest to institute gun control but these aren’t Chicago or NYC by a long shot and both states were at the better end of gun rights not too long ago.
Those MRAPs will be deadlined/maintenance casualties within the first 300 miles.
So what you’re saying is the police need even moar. Either vehicles or funding for maintenance.
If you haven’t seen he video yet, it’s pretty fucked up.
Indeed.
I’m sure it will be all about resolving the questions people have and in no way will there be political grandstanding.
Excuse me, I reclaim my time.
So number one son is at boarding school in NC for high school senior year. He’s required to take a civics and government class to graduate.
After one week, it’s turning out to be nothing but pure propaganda and nothing about actual government. He has an assignment coming up on what policies he would enforce in order to combat systemic racism.
I’ve advised him to consult with me before turning anything in. His papers will need to thread a needle in order to get a decent grade and not compromise his values in the process. Should be interesting to say the least.
I would oppose the organization that gave us slavery and Jim Crow.
Perfect way to turn that back on a school in NC.
Learning how to write false confessions during public struggle sessions might be the only important skill to learn for the next decade.
You have a point.
Yep. Learning how to pass is an important skill.
End the War On Drugs.
Might have to add a few pages of extra verbiage to make it look like effort.
Shitcan Affirmative Action? Cuz that is the definition of systemic racism.
Kellyanne Conway announces she’s leaving the White House and George Conway is stepping away from Lincoln Project
I don’t get how these two can remain married.
Hate sex.
They need to consult with Carville/Matalin on how to do the hate sex correctly
There was some knight in the corner of their honeymoon suite whispering in Carville’s ear, “You choose poorly.”
Hate banging her rocks, yo!
Because it’s all performance art to them. They believe very little of anything they say. Mary Matalin and James Carville have been married for how long?
See below. Although allegedly those two don’t talk shop at home.
Politics and government are just rackets to them. It’s like actors playing good guys or bad guys – it’s not real.
I don’t get how these two can remain married.
In a world where James Carville and Mary Matalin celebrate their 27th anniversary this November?
I don’t think either is a true believer, I think it is all about team for them.
And thus, it is like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0_EpF5SyY
The first one, not the second.
I dunno. Matalin apparently changed her registration to Libertarian.
I havent seen her since the Bush admin days, I guess it was obvious she wasn’t a true believer back then or something. Or she is going to run for Prez via the LP.
Looking suspiciously around at the Glib ladies. Could it be? Naw, not her, how about? No way , Man, because…
I live in the DC area and I like bald guys.
I’ve said too much…
One (or both) of them are full of shit and grifting would be my guess.
They’re co-dependent!
So what i’m learning is that if Koresh had armed all those women and Children, the cops would have been too afraid to burn them alive.
If one thought Janet Reno was fun, wait until we get whoever President Harris will apoint.
Anti-Com protests will not be allowed
In fact any group that goes by “Anit-Communist” would be linked to Nazis. But don’t get the Idea that the Antifa are linked to communism or something.
You know all the hysteria about how Trump is Hitler and will put people in camps? Projection.
They don’t have any problem with the right people being put in camps.
Intubateher? Yes or no.
100 nudists test positive for Covid-19 after ‘very worrying’ outbreak at French naturist resort – despite wearing face masks
Makes me question their commitment to Nudism if they are going to wear masks.
So masks don’t work. Boom.
…and boom-boom…
…and boom-boom…
Squirrel boom-boom?
The high nut content in any comment involving naturists will always attract the attention of the squirrels
This
“I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. We cannot get the country moving until we control the virus,”
Which virus? There are dozens all the time. You are probably carrying several pathogens as we speak.
Of course no respiratory virus in history has ever really been controlled.
You are carrying about 400 trillion pathogens.
The human body only contains about 30 to 40 trillion cells.
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-many-bacteria-cells-outnumber-human-cells-microbiome-science
Virus cells are not human cells.
“In 2016, a review of more than four decades of research into the human microbiome found that there is zero scientific evidence to back this oft-cited factoid up.”
“They found that for a man between 20 and 30 years old, with a weight of about 70 kg (154 pounds) and a height of 170 cm (about 5’7) – they call him the ‘reference man’ – there would be about 39 trillion bacterial cells living among 30 trillion human cells.”
Is smoking a permitted reason to not wear a mask?
No, you have to smoke through the mask
Pole smoking?
No, but you will be given free quit smoking aids paid for by tax serfs.
Looks like a beautiful day in New Orleans….
Hot and dry in Kenosha.
(Wistful sigh) – I know what it means…
Actually, it’s quite nice on the beach today; sunny, breezy, 81°, and a new (to me) strain of dried flower is just about to hit my greedy lunch-hooks (if I can be arsed to leave the house on a day off).
I got supplied a few days ago. Usually when I’m desperate, the pickings are ditchy. This delivery was…amazing. Coupla pulls and I’m off to dreamland.
I had one drink last night and it knocked me loopy for a couple hours. I had to nap part of it off. I can’t imagine what doing this would do to me now. Maybe the opposite of what it did to me last time, for all I know.
Yay! We used delivery back in Brooklyn and there are a couple friends I’ll still get from who can come over but the older I get, the less I want people in my house (also, nobody wants to schlep out to The Rockaways). My regular guy in Brooklyn has his basement outfitted for retail – pegboard walls, product hanging from hooks, price tags, he takes credit cards, etc.; it’s pretty high-speed.
https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/1296851815749820416
As Remy Says: “I took 400 Grand in Loans, so you know I’m smart”
A reply:
Not having a college education means you are sheltered and not able to see new ideas :eyeroll:.
Oh yeah, the kids on college campuses with their safe spaces and intellectual conformity and no need to earn their own way while they’re in school aren’t the sheltered ones.
Yeah the idea that kids who went to public school, which is an institution entirely controlled by partisan Democratic women, have never been exposed to a leftwing point of view is just plain silly.
These people are not serious thinkers. My experience is that most college grads Outside the hard sciences/engineering disciplines will need a decade in the real world to unlearn all the erroneous and idiotic shit their heads were filled with while in college. Unfortunately too many of them never unlearn the stupid shit. And these days even the hard science/engineering types have their heads filled with downright destructive idiotic shit. College IMO makes most people dumber. Especially the idiots that borrow upwards of $100k to get degrees in bullshit.
Fortunately for us, the democrats will make college education a right, and then make it required.
Want to know the real answer to the Fermi Paradox? I just wrote it in one sentence.
College IMO makes most people dumber. Especially the idiots that borrow upwards of $100k to get degrees in bullshit.
I think you have to separate the majors, or the colleges. I don’t think anybody at Chippewa State Community College and Grille is getting any dumber by enrolling in the evening nursing program. I don’t think that many at Flagship State University and Sports District in difficult STEM majors are coming out dumber for the experience. The value may not be there, depending on the cost, but there is real education going on there.
The SNR drops significantly when you go over to the liberal arts side of the campus. Not to say that there is zero signal or that there aren’t majors with decent SNR, but there are a lot of majors where the lack of rigor combines with the lack of objectivity to create a breeding ground for pomo woke bullshit.
Institutions that have to deliver value because those that attend can’t afford to be fucked over, will have less bullshit going on by virtue that they will not have entire waste of time programs dedicated to fill the heads of people paying for a 4 year party with Marxist drivel.
Yep. People who start their professional lives in their teens doing a trade are the sheltered ones.
14% without degree support neither. Only 7% with degrees support neither. That looks like the undegreed are smarter to me.
I’ll take low formal education over indoctrination any day. I met some of the stupidest motherfuckers I’ve ever met in my life in college.
Just watch some Steven Crowder change my mind videos or Charlie Kirk videos where they set up on a campus and debate the lefty students to see just how clueless and incapable of logic most of the students are.
35% of adult Americans have a college degree. Not looking so good for Biden there.
That’s also some of the most classist bullshit I’ll read today, purportedly from the party that represents the proletariat.
But don’t worry, the Communists who really do care about the working class are…. advocating for you voting for Biden. Wait…What?
No way. The proggies and the left gave up on class and replaced it with race decades ago. (Which is how Trump won the presidency, btw…)
Is there anyone in congress without a degree?
Yes, several
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45583.pdf
Okay, still 95% of the House and 100% of the Senate have at least a bachelors degree. One could draw the conclusion that a degree is necessary if you want to fuck over other people.
Yeah, yeah, and Hillary has a 97% chance of winning….
I get it.
Polls are the lefty version of the magic spell where you repeat your wishes over and over until they come true.
“They say if you pray hard enough, you can make water run uphill. How hard do you have to pray? Why, hard enought to make water run uphill, of course!”
-Robert A.Heinlein
They don’t even have to bother to hide the fact that they’re the party of the elites any more.
I remember thinking things might improve when the masks came off. Silly me.
Not everyone without a college degree is automatically dumb. Still, they’re probably the easiest to convince due to being either sheltered all their lives or never apply themselves and end up far more gullible for it. Or just a combination of both.
Is this person serious?
Also, having a college degree does not make one intelligent.
They literally go months without socializing with another adult without a college degree. They are as foreign to them as a native of another country, so their shitty opinion never gets challenged with real-world counter examples
I interact with a good # on a local politics page. College teaches critical thinking skills & communication skills. The vast majority have neither. It shows badly in any attempt to discuss issues. It’s pretty much Trump good, guns good, DemocRATS communist. Etc etc etc
Funny, I only see leftists having such simplistic positions. And no, college does not teach critical thinking and you are an example.
“College teaches critical thinking skills”
Then why are there so many teachers?
What’s amazing about this is these same people openly mock trumps base is as both dumb because no college credentials while at the same time successful out of touch boat owners with disposable income as if they are some kind of losers or something.
Riot police in Paris clear out a bar for not social distancing during some sort of soccer game.
who won?
oh wait these are sloopy links it is in the article
The cops.
Nah, they surrendered.
Don’t read the comments.
Now you tell me.
I generally don’t read comments anywhere buy here, but I scrolled through the first dozen or so on that Chiefs’ practice thing.
I fucking hate people and want them all to die.
I fucking hate people and want them all to die.
Anti masker confirmed.
Anti Mask => Anti-Vax => QAnnon => MURDERER!!!
So do they.
The Browns cancelled a practice because of some positive COVID tests. Two local papers had two different spins on it:
Browns cancel Sunday’s practice after numerous positive COVID-19 tests – NBC
Browns cancel practice Sunday after double-digit positive COVID-19 tests from the NJ lab that has produced false positives from many NFL teams – Local news (emphasis added by me).
The other day, I was tangentially a party to a discussion about some person who contracted the plague, and nobody could figure out how. I think she works at a hospital, so there was contact tracing, and everything.
Maybe she lied about where she went and whom he saw. Or maybe that one single roving germ wafting through the air managed to find her.
the government infected her on purpose
She works at a hospital, where sick people go?
I’ve done more hospital time than I would like in the last few months and didn’t catch it.
Fun fact: I’ve been tested four times. I have to go the hospital to get the test. ?♂️
JFC. All the PPE in the world short of a dive suit isn’t 100% reliable. Stack up a Large Number of low probability interactions across a Large Number of hospital workers, and the Rule of Large Numbers is going to come into effect.
Sturgis. It was Sturgis.
All infections for the next few weeks will be blamed on the wrong thinkers at Sturgis and the double plus wrong thinkers in SoDak govt who didn’t BAN Sturgis.
https://twitter.com/stonecold2050/status/1297285398339579904
I KNEW IT!!!
AT THE WHITE HOUSE! SO OBVIOUS.
SNP confirmed.
Does the roof look pointier to you? I think so.
My God. The comments. /looks away to protect eyes.
That’s where the pro-lockdown-maskers live.
Actually, the one about achieving Lawn Order was pretty good, I thought.
Not swastikas?
They’re gonna have a stroke when they see Kamp Grounds of America’s logo.
Sigh… https://youtu.be/7KNtWrC7vfI
That individual is an easily manipulated idiot. They seem to have outsourced all of their cognative capacity to blue check twitter.
The people who get upset at the K meter at baseball games.
The Country Is Literally Out Of Ammunition
Bummer. Due to covid shutdown supply chain interruptions, manufacturers can’t increase output or expand capacity because the raw materials are in short supply.
Who cares about being out of ammunition, Apparently the Internet is out of space for your link!
Wow – misfire!
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/08/23/the-country-is-literally-out-of-ammunition/
Maybe get a new distributor, too? Like one that takes phone orders and ships to store?
If you’re getting the idea that the entire firearms industry is something of a shit show, well, you’re not far off.
I was promised No shortages in capitalism. I guess we’ll have to go to Communism.
Great news comrades – the production quota has been exceeded; there is plenty of ammo now, as long as you are shooting .218 Bee.
….uh….*checks cabinet*…why look at that, you are right!
HOARDER!
2k rounds of 9mm being delivered by the big brown truck later today.
400 rounds of 308 coming in a week or so.
I have only been able to scrounge 600 rounds of 9mm lately. Cheaper Than Dirt has severe limits on purchases, and shipping is expensive.
https://www.federalpremium.com/handgun/american-eagle/
Check availability daily.
Prices are MSRP plus a bit. Shipping is free after about 90 bucks.
They are slow. Mine 9 mm was shipped 15 days after order.
Believe me, I have been checking. Out of stock on all.
Keep your powder dry. At the rate things are going you are going to need it.
Nah. Shoot it all up. You’ll be better off for the practice.
“I am an expert shot with this gun I have no ammo for.”
Yeah, I obviously don’t mean blowing through your working loadout.
But having a huge stash of ammo and no skill is functionally no different than having the skill, but no ammo. Either way, you’re worthless as a combatant.
Just in Time training.
Speaking of guns, can anyone recommend a bacon delivery service? I’m curious if there’s price-worthy alternative to the expensive AF stuff at the supermarket.
ShopRite generally sells “ends & pieces” packs at a significantly lower price than the slices. The packs are often full of slices, but not even, pretty cuts. If the aesthetics don’t bother you, the bacon is delicious. Also, Stop & Shop has a wonderfully lax rain-check policy (they NEVER expire and are good at any Stop & Shop). When it goes on sale, get a bunch of rain-checks for later use.
Well, I see a ShopRite on Avenue I. That’s a bit of a hike 🙂 But good to keep in mind.
I burned through ~$60 (replacement prices) of ammo at the match over the weekend. I had been flying too high and it was time for some humility. I still finished in the top third overall, but I had two excellent stages (top 15%), three ‘meh’ and one absolute dogshit (bottom quintile).
*sob*
The Area 8 Section Championship did not go as planned…
The NFL had 77 positive COVID-19 tests from 11 teams re-examined by a New Jersey lab after false positives, and all those tests came back negative.
But the numbers reported in the news are totally reliable.
I heard False Positives were almost unpossible.
Almost as unpossible as vote by mail fraud.
My little sister works at a blood testing lab. They were recently certified for COVID antibody testing about two months ago.
They’ve done several thousand tests over the last two months. ZERO positives so far.
Odds that your sister’s lab’s contact gets cancelled for not enough positive tests?
Who does the certification?
/has ISO 14000 flashbacks
You get those too?
Jesus, what a pointless timesuck that process was.
Like when Firestone got QA9000 certified, and their tires had an annoying habit of shredding on people driving down the highway?
I’d have to ask her, prolly can’t get an answer until tomorrow. I’d guess IDPH, but there are probably multiple bureaucracies.
I can tell you it’s the Beckman Coulter test. Approved for emergency use, not formally approved by FDA if that means anything.
Everything is fucked.
Peter Attia did an interesting post on normative errors.
He highlights two COVID-19 studies that were recently retracted because – surprise!! – the data were fucking bullshit.
We know fuck-all about this goddamn virus. Except it does what viruses do.
So, so tedious.
It’s the best virus ever, it gives politicians magical powers. And it can morph on demand to be whatever else they want it to be.
I read about Surgisphere a couple of weeks back.
It’s crazy how we keep following bad science.
I’m waiting for the moment when all these assholes making decisions WAKE UP.
I would argue the Lancet and NEJM are also guilty of normative errors by publishing anything by surgisphere in the first place. Sure they retracted the articles after being called out, but they were basically lazy from the get-go. As was the NYT by taking stuff as Gospel instead of checking it out.
There’s lots of “Fred Demara” Lites out there.
I love this rant…
Something, something, circular?
Like a wheel within a wheel?
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2020/08/23/scott-adams-epic-rant-excoriating-biden-for-his-fine-people-race-card-hoax/
FYI ^^^ If you are at work and don’t want a picture of a KKK guy popping up infront of all your co-workers, i wouldn’t click the link.
There is a joke there I am not getting Dilbert?
The header photo to the picture has a guy in full KKK regalia. I’m not saying the sight you linked to is racist, it’s obviously in the effect of talking about biden’s racisim fearmongering, i’m just saying it was a surprise to me when i opened the link to have that front and center.
I didn’t get that popping up. Maybe cause I block that shit?
Peru: The government saved those people from the consequences of their bad decisions.
That guy in WI that was shot 7 times point-blank? He’s in stable condition.
Good to know cops are still shit at discharging firearms.
Yeah, but if he had been a dog, im sure the cops would have been more successful.
Was he actually hit 7 times?
That’s what I had read * shrugs *
Man if he took 7 modern 9mm JHPs at point blank range and survived hes one tough and lucky bastards. Not one of those ripped through a major vessel or blood bearing organ?
One reason I’m not touching this story for at least 48 hours.
Headline:
“Trump’s sister says he has no principles”
That’s like qualification number one for the Presidency. Or politics in general.
Also: 99% of people couldn’t name an actual principle if their life depended on it
I’m uncertain about what you mean.
What you did there? It has been seen by me.
Also: * narrows gaze *
So you’re saying it was observed?
I observed it, but couldn’t tell how fast you were typing.
I have a sudden craving for meth.
You’re damn right.
A couple of months ago my left eye swelled shut for no reason I could think of. It stayed that way for nearly a week then it just went away as mysteriously as it appeared. A few days later my right eye did the same. Even now I can tell they are very slightly swollen and kind of weepy. I have had eye infections before but this one felt very odd and behaved veery oddly.
Three days ago we learned that one my step-son’s friends is in the hospital with bleeding ulcers. He has definitely had the cooties but that was a couple of months ago. When is the last time you heard of a healthy 27 year old getting bleeding ulcers out of nowhere?
As Tundra so delicately put it above: We know jack shit about what we are dealing with.
“When is the last time you heard of a healthy 27 year old getting bleeding ulcers out of nowhere?”
Me, when I was around 20.
Weird. Me too. Did you have the barium test?
I don’t really remember any of that, it was 40 years ago. I only remember getting some medication and getting better.
You would remember a barium test.
They used to be fairly common and not infrequently led to death but we have since learned that that condition is caused by an infection not the wrong food or drink or stress. We have very effective treatment. Since that treatment was discovered I have no heard of anyone being hospitalized for them.
I only mentioned the conditions above because they arouse my suspicions….I have no hard evidence….but my radar sure is going off
I was hospitalized for severe anemia, which turned out to be a bleeding ulcer. H. pylori test came back negative. Most probable cause — overuse of NSAIDs, which I am now forbidden. (Aside from one aspirin with lunch as a blood thinner/stroke amelioration ritual.)
Over time, aspirin and the other NSAIDs can really mess up your stomach.
I had an X-ray tech nod his head knowingly at me recently when I told them how many Advil I was taking to alleviate pain before some recent hospital adventures. Haven’t touched the stuff since.
I knew it. Myxomatosis finally made the jump to humans. That is so 2020.
Rabbits Revenge?
Drama queens with typewriters
After an editorial in a student newspaper last week pleaded with leaders at Notre Dame to not “make us write obituaries,” the university said it agreed with the students’ concern about the spread of Covid-19 in the community.
“Students, faculty and staff are all in this together, and it’s only by working together that we can stay safe and continue to stay on campus for the remainder of the semester,” said university spokesman Dennis K. Brown in a statement to CNN.
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The Observer, a student newspaper for Notre Dame and nearby Saint Mary’s College and Holy Cross College, ran the editorial on its front page Friday, asking everyone — students, the administration and faculty — to do everything in their power to contain the virus.
“The University administration has largely blamed the COVID-19 outbreak on students attending off-campus parties,” the editorial said. “While this isn’t entirely misplaced, it has been used to deflect responsibility from the very administrations that insisted they were prepared for us to return to campus. Clearly, they were not.”
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“The virus is a formidable foe,” Notre Dame President Rev. Ron Jenkins said in Tuesday’s announcement. “For the past week, it has been winning. Let us as the Fighting Irish join together to contain it.”
Leontaras said she and other editors would like to see more transparency from the university, too, such as how many students are in quarantine.
The Observer’s editorial ended on a sober note. Don’t let us write obituaries, it said, but also: “Don’t let us write yours.”
“Don’t make us write obituaries.” Maybe Notre Dame should offer some sort of course in risk assessment.
They will the moment The current occupant in the WH has been sent packing. Until then it will be fake anti risk assessments all the time, cause they would rather be left ruling in hell than, not being in charge otherwise.
You are talking about the environment in which 1 of 3 (now? or is it still 4?) women will be raped while on campus.
I thought it was 5 out of 4, everyday. I am sure it was.
NPR had a segment on this morning where they were discussing a new show about a woman who was drugged and raped. One of the critics was saying that she was so familiar with the topic since multiple of her friends had experienced the same thing.
All I could think was “Either you are totally full of shit or where the fuck do you party?”
drugged and raped
Got drunk and/or high and had regret sex.
^This happened to a good friend of mine in college after the girl got back with her ex and thought accusing my friend of kinda-sorta rape would be more palatable to her bf than the idea of her sleeping around on their break.
Real newspapers don’t run editorials on the front page.
“ATLANTA — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers’ advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated.”
No one could have saw that coming.
But Joe’s for unity and since “public health advisers” aren’t in agreement over this, how can he make a decision that is “science based” if “science” doesn’t have a near unanimous opinion.
Unity just means ignoring the people saying otherwise.
The only way to get rid of systemic racism and the virus is to eliminate capitalism. Then we can move forward with a Green New Deal.
Why can’t they just admit they want to go back to the system that had the top men using & abusing the serfs?
“It’s for your own good!”
Let’s see- Just for fun, we’ll say 170k is a lowball estimate, so we’ll use 200k plague deaths. Out of a population of ~300,000,000.
I get a death rate of .07%.
Are we really going to bankrupt ourselves over that?
Fearless possible future leader SloJo just said so.
When asked, Americans said an average of 9% of the population has died from COVID. That would be about 29.7 million people.
TMITE
The enemy, it is us – as consumers of it.
“we have me the enemy, and he is us.”
-Pogo
I guess people are getting smarter. Because in 2009, I had one prog to tell me that 40 million died the year before from no healthcare insurance. When I told him that’s more than 10% of the population, he didn’t bat an eye, he was still convinced that he was right.
People are really bad at math. I don’t even think 9% of the people I know have tested positive for COVID.
yes and the death rate is much much smaller as they are surely over-counting.
Sport-rioting
It has become a dangerous nightly ritual in Portland.
Around 11 p.m., protesters set fire to trash cans or toss burning cardboard into police buildings and hurl bottles, eggs and chunks of concrete at officers.
Then police broadcast an order for the demonstrators to leave.
Most do. But a hardcore group, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, remain to face off against police, who use tear gas, rubber bullets, flash grenades and arrests to clear the streets.
Three months after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, the nationwide Black Lives Matter demonstrations it sparked have died down — except in Portland.
Keeping the protests alive here is a local brand of activism with a long history. Its adherents support the goals of ending police brutality and racism but their larger purpose is to dismantle what they see as an increasingly authoritarian government that suppresses the rights of citizens. Police, to them, are the front lines of the enemy.
As of last week, protesters had set 41 fires, thrown projectiles at police officers on at least 58 nights and vandalized property on 49 nights, according to the police department, which has declared riots 17 times.
The protesters, who are largely white, defend the nightly taunting of police, along with vandalism and destruction of property, as a strategy to draw officers into clashes and expose them as fascists, a term with a potent past that has become a mantra at rallies and online.
“It’s to try to push the line just above what’s acceptable in order to get them to respond to show their abuse of power,” said a Portland music producer who carries a plastic shield and walkie-talkie to patrol the edge of the demonstrations and keep out far-right extremists.
“I hope this is a revolution,” he said. “And I hope it continues.”
Be careful what you wish for.
This has nothing to do with George Floyd.
However i expect even more rioting if/when Chauvain is acquitted for Murder 2.
These kids are living in a pretend world. They’ve been coddled and protected all their life. They think it’s like a video game. To the political leaders that are allowing and encouraging this, they are pawns and will be taken care of when the time is right. Useful idiots.
What do they do in their off time? Live at home with Mom and Dad? Surely they don’t work. They need transportation, food, etc and those things cost money. I can’t picture supporting a kid whose resume including “Nightly Rioting” or “Professional Protester”. Help me to understand, I missed that part of life.
Soros and other entities of that sort is where they are getting their money from. That and their parents. Sure, you wouldn’t support an adult child whose only activity is looting and rioting. But you’re not a far left prog. Those parents have allowed those kids to be like that from birth, they’ve never given the child any sort of discipline whatsoever. That’s the problem. And now they are not being forced into the real world where they will quickly learn they cannot behave like that in a work place. Reality is not something they’ve ever dealt with.
And lefty politicians love this, because it allows them an entire generation of child voters, emotionally unstable and unable to care for themselves. And when these adult toddlers get near their own house, we’ve already seen what happens. They can loot and burn anything else they want, as long as they stay away from dear leaders’s house.
Bullshit. They want to be that government. And be even more authoritarian than it is in their delusions.
^^^ They have no desire to protect peoples property rights, no desire to keep peoples rights to self defense.
They just want to be the top men, cause they believe they know better…..
Japan vs Italy, The Forgotten Pacific War
https://youtu.be/VlSi2Zr-h_Y
Interesting stuff for the military history buff.
The instant the FedGov created a financial incentive for people to die of the cooties it assured that everything you heard about it from then on would be a lie. – Mrs. Suthenboy just now.
Smart cookie.
She married me, didn’t she?
Now you’re just being ridiculous.
Seconded.
Hope you’re out of the Hit Zone
More Portland
Davis Beeman long considered himself an antifa activist, though when the recent protests began he felt uncomfortable with calls to abolish the city’s police.
The 38-year-old cybersecurity expert, who attends protests to deliver first aid to demonstrators, said witnessing the police and federal agents’ use of force and crowd-control munitions to disperse protesters over the last two months has changed his views.
“As I’ve gotten to know more and more history about the Portland police and its overt racism, and how out of touch the police is with the community, I’m on board with getting rid of the police department and starting over,” he said.
Such sentiments were reaffirmed Saturday, when more than 100 white supremacists and other far-right extremists staged a “Back the Blue” rally in support of the police.
Leftist activists showed up and the two sides brawled for two hours, shooting fireworks, paintballs and other projectiles at each other.
The police did not intervene.
In a statement, the department acknowledged that the unrest met the criteria of a riot, but said officers did not move to stop the violence because they were already stretched thin.
Officers “have been the focus of over 80 days of violent actions directed at the police, which is a major consideration for determining if police resources are necessary to interject between two groups with individuals who appear to be willingly engaging in physical confrontations for short durations.”
Bayonet the wounded.
Nobody but white supremacists would support the police.
This is a big party to them. Keep them in jail for several nights instead of just letting them go and everyone but the deadenders will give this shit up quick.
^this
And keep the ones violating their bail and release conditions in jail until trial , especially the ringleaders.
It’s not a party… it’s training. Watch the videos that Andy Ngo posts. This is an organized insurrection with tactical squads that play offensive, defensive, supply chain, medic, and other roles. The lasers are two-handed industrial-grade and the “fireworks” are commercial mortars. It’s a very well funded organization… here’s a purchase of body armor being shipped for them. A lot of the comments are making fun of it being just being carriers… but there could easily be a stack of plates that just weren’t added to the photo.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1297692848268042242
The fact that everyone, especially those charged with violent crimes, are being immediately released without bail suggests this is an organized effort between the Dem pols, the funders, and the Antifa boots on the ground. It’s not as simple as denying bail when the entire system is a part of what we’re seeing here.
If they are “At War” they need to be considered POWs and treated accordingly. 2 weeks of vacation inside the concertina may do wonders
“…the Portland police and its overt racism…”
*DDG ‘Portland demographics*
Huh. Minorities all in mid to low single digit percentages.
It’s permanent 1955 to that crowd.
You didn’t watch the video of the full event surrounding the attack on the pickup driver? Very educational (the lead up).
If you aren’t for the Leftist agenda, you are other and deserving of the bullet.
“Nobody but white supremacists would support the police.”
White supremacists do battle with white anarchists. Gee, I can’t tell who the good guys are.
Wait a minute. Just a few weeks ago they were telling us that Antifa doesn’t exist.
Compare the Conn/Oliver feud to the Dave Barry/Grand Forks ND feud.
I think Grand Forks got the best of the situation when they named a sewage lift station after Dave.
Steve Martin v. Terre Haute, IN.
You know why those cops in Kenosha murdered that dude? Because Sconnies are so racist that they allow a giant black rock to sit on the U of W – Madison campus against the wishes of black students
Serious question: Do we actually know that the cop pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes? The video I have seen does not show that and at this point I trust absolutely nothing that the media reports without evidence.
I’ve been told that Zoom is down nationally right now. Today is the first day of online classes in many schools. The professors don’t know what to do. LOL.
ZOMG!
Ouch.
Just tested here, and was able to launch a meeting. Nothing in the work chatter about it being down either.
It was definitely down at some point. My son sent me a screen shot announcing the outage.
Definitely something happened.
https://downdetector.com/status/zoom/
MS Teams was working this morning.
Schools in our town are all down. HAHAHAHA!
30 minutes in to first class and my boys school online infrastructure failed…what a clusterfuck
Chancellor Rebecca Blank has asked campus planners to look into removing the boulder.
Faith healing is real!
Is there a racist boulder now? Not sure what took so long. I just saw a racist bird in a racist tree this morning. This systemic racism is real!
A black colored rock that was referred to with some sort of racial slur (journalo never said exactly what it was) as recently as the 1950’s!
Peru has had one of the strictest lockdown policies in the world. Unsurprisingly it leads to human suffering and tragedy.
Well, maybe the serfs will learn to behave now and we can increase gruel rations.
I can’t believe you Negative Nellies are throwing shade at our epidemiologist betters. Just look at how awesome they are at tracking Rona cases from Sturgis.
Right now the alleged cases from Sturgis are at 40, with 29 allegedly in NoDak and Minnesoda. How strange that the Rona seems to be targeting people from nearby states with govs who took a much different approach to handing the Rona than SoDak gov did.
See my wife’s comment above
Shorter ‘experts’: “We dont know so we will just make some shit up.”
Their random number generators are working overtime.
Let’s throw our entire national resources at proving the deplorables cause commie flu, while far left rioters do not. I mean as soon as we have fully exhausted our Rose Garden hysteria.
And then everyone died. The end.
Health officials don’t know for certain that the 22 people were exposed at the event, but they think it’s very likely since individuals are not reporting links to any known cases, said Kris Ehresmann, the director of infectious diseases at the Minnesota Department of Health.
We’ll go with what conforms to the narrative. It’s easier, that way. We can put a ribbon and a bow on it.
I honestly can’t deal with the teachers bitching on facebook about going back to school at this point they are driving me to a level of rage I was previously unaware of having. We’ve had daycare centers operating with few recorded outbreaks the entire pandemic and schools across Europe have opened in person learning. This obsession some people have with the safety of teachers as if they are some special class deserving of special protections is insulting to every single person who has had to do their job in person every single day throughout this pandemic to keep the lights on in this country. Apparently it’s a bridge too far to ask teachers to do their jobs in which they are employed to do while the peasant class of taxpayers have to toil in the fields. This applies to all gov drones but the teachers are the fucking loudest.
Thankfully I haven been exposed to their crowing. I’m getting very close to the DGAF mentality I associate with old retired guys at the local bar. It’s gonna get me in trouble when the wrong person says the wrong thing to me.
I find it very interesting* to signs of a gap open up between the way the US and Europe are handling the plague. For months it was “lock everything down!” everywhere. Now it seems like much of the rest of the world is returning to normal and we are actually getting worse.
*i.e. extremely troubling
The antipodes are fucking themselves, too
Why? I understand OMB in this country, but what’s the political motivation down under?
I don’t know. I had thought New Zealanders were freedom-loving people for the most part. I was wrong, apparently.
They were for about 5 minutes in the 80s when they accidentally had a libertarian as finance secretary due to the previous PM drunkenly calling for a snap election.
True. But weirdly limited. I see football matches with 20,000 people in the stands (out of 40 or 50,000 capacity). You won’t see that in the US. But meanwhile they’re (figuratively) welding public housing victims in their apartments.
That is what they are talking about for college football this fall. Stadiums at 25% capacity.
I actually believe that more than the possibility the NFL will allow any fans.
We have always been at war with East Asia.
The people pushing for these lockdowns will do a complete 180 on that as soon as they get rid of orange man. If they don’t get him out in November, they will work to burn it all down, cause they absolutely would rather reduce it all to rubble than not be the ones calling the shots.
One of the only good part of a biden’s presidency would be seeing Fauci literally locked out of his office with all of his shit boxed up on the sidewalk in front of NIH and denounced as a total conspiracy addled loon within the first 30 minutes after the inauguration.
Before or after we deplorables are locked in our homes with the doors nailed shut?
“Now it seems like much of the rest of the world is returning to normal and we are actually getting worse.”
According to the media, yes. In reality, we are worse than everywhere else for only one reason. Bad orange man will not just go away.
Now the disphit army on the Twatter, I’m talking the likes of Rob Reiner and other stooges, are going on about the Rose Garden and impeaching Trump again. IOW, they think Trump is going to win and they’re going to impeach him again.
We’ve got 4 more years of Covid hysteria and investigating Trump, coming right up.
I chock up all excessive panic beyond what is happening in Europe to political maneuvering. So for example, the teachers opposition to opening schools has no basis in science, since scientist have said that they should open. It’s about the Teachers Union and leftist administrators wanting to make the pandemic be even more onerous on people
How else are they supposed to end our national nightmare of having a president who the wrong people elected?
This obsession some people have with the safety of teachers as if they are some special class deserving of special protections is insulting to every single person who has had to do their job in person every single day throughout this pandemic to keep the lights on in this country.
Most of the teachers I have known were too dumb to work the night shift at 7-11.
High School me was significantly better read than any of my history teachers and I was, in retrospect, not terribly well versed in anything at that age.
Barring the preexisting conditions teachers chances of dying are slim to none, I’d bet near the same level as the flu.
They are a special class. There is no way you can make adult children so dumb by just leaving them alone.
For months it was “lock everything down!” everywhere. Now it seems like much of the rest of the world is returning to normal and we are actually getting worse.
That’s just because we didn’t lock down hard enough, soon enough. And the Cartoon Villain didn’t wear a mask. He gave the cooties to millions and millions of people, al by himself.
“For months it was “lock everything down!” everywhere. Now it seems like much of the rest of the world is returning to normal and we are actually getting worse.”
At the risk of being redundant, bad orange man.
Is it just me or is Amazon search complete shit?
Google and Duck-Duck-Go give me better links into Amazon than Amazon search does.
*smacks forehead* I could have thought of that 🙂
Is it just me or is Amazon search complete shit?
It has to be intentional. Don’t ask me why. I don’t get it, either.
But Amazon has true strong AI! I know because Alexa is able to tell me an Amazon package arrived, no less than 6 hours after it arrives!
“Alexa, show me the front door.”
“There’s the front door, meatbag. Use it.”
The other day, just for fun, I asked Alexa if some women have penises. I was shocked to hear Alexa say “no.” I’m sure that will be fixed.
Some of it is them pushing Prime Video – I get that. It sucks balls but that’s their moneymaker now.
What I don’t get is entering a one-word title, clicking “Movies and Television”, and getting 20,000 results that bear no relation whatsoever to what I’m looking for. The usual google tricks like double-quotes do nothing either. I want this title, one word, the exact match! *blank stare from Amazon*
I refuse to believe in the grand conspiracy theory which claims the panicdemic was orchestrated specifically to get President Cartoon Villain out of the White House, but if Biden wins, there will be a lot of people looking at state and local budget shortfalls and suddenly getting religion about opening up the economy.
*I’m not saying they’d allow a crisis to go to waste.
I don’t believe they initially sought it out, but once we were knee-deep in it, I believe the machine went into overdrive to make it about the election and the golden ticket to get OMB out of office. Governors that are not playing that game but grasped the reigns of supreme power are no different than the toilet paper hoarders in the beginning.
They maybe didn’t want to do it, but didn’t want to be the governor who didn’t expand their powers and so they went along with it because it was just so tempting to not.
if Biden wins, there will be a lot of people looking at state and local budget shortfalls and
suddenly getting religion about opening up the economyputting a supercharger on the money printerThey maybe didn’t want to do it, but didn’t want to be the governor who didn’t expand their powers and so they went along with it because it was just so tempting to not.
I called it early on. Governor Monkey-see-monkey-do Bullock, here in Montana, was just waiting to see what Gavin Newsom would do, and then followed along. That’s why his Bullock for Senate ads, in which he claims he will fight “Washington Democrats” in onder to “do what’s right for Montana” are such risible bullshit. He’ll jump on Chuck’s train without hesitation.
A governor is running for Senate?! That doesn’t scream “no job skills” or anything.
A governor is running for Senate?!
He’s term-limited out of the governorship. It’s either get elected to the Senate or
get a real jobbecome a lobbyist.https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/stars-attending-vmas-out-of-state-not-subject-new-york-quarantine-mandate
We already know that the Dems are the party of the elite. Do they need to keep hitting on it?
I guess they managed to get some rich people to enter NYC for a change, instead of just exiting.
Meanwhile dozens of tennis stars from around the world are busy bashing it out in Flushing (same site as next week’s US Open) and they had to quarantine.
Message received – loud and clear.
Stars will have the privilege of skipping out on New York’s 14-day quarantine mandate when they visit for the MTV Video Music Awards next week.
Something something some animals