Unbelievably, it’s already August 1st. Of course, Arizona continually reminds us of this by being, you know, sweltering. And it would be OK if it were sweltering and shit was open. But it is and it isn’t. So really, either I’m working or wasting time with you reprobates.
Speaking of reprobates and August 1, there’s a pile of interesting birthdays today including The Man Who Would Be Messiah; a guy who should have wondered why Jews keep getting born with foreskins; a guy getting cancelled who has made everyone hate Baltimore sports fans; a guy who, if there weren’t a Theodore Dreiser, would easily have been the windiest American writer; a master of spin but who was not a stern fellow; a Jew with a gun; the guy who absolutely stole The Twelve Chairs; a hilariously stereotypical Swamp Creature; the best nine-fingered guitarist in rock; and a guy who once dated a girl who had the same unusual name that he did.
Let’s see how real shit’s getting.
“It depends on what the meaning of ‘island’ is.”
Most libertarian president ever. Yep, you bet.
Amoral, grasping ambition, and total tone deafness. What a peach.
Political appointee acts like a political appointee. Inconceivable!
So wait, they’re not special and go through the same 70 day cycle everyone else does? Huh.
Old Guy Music today is because I’ve been on a Dixie Dregs kick recently. And because of Steve Morse, who frightened Chuck Norris away from ever trying to play guitar.
Wait, I though Japan was really big on mask wearing.
*thought
Local mask related news: https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/police-searching-for-man-accused-of-firing-shots-outside-cigar-store-they-believe-him-to/article_025dafaa-d354-11ea-b918-fb68bdeeced9.html
Whoa, CI. Driven past there many a time, and went to the one in Hamburg once.
Yes
https://youtu.be/88v-HYGAKMQ
They covered that with what has to be an extremely well sourced assertion.
“While people have continued to wear masks throughout the pandemic, the current infections have largely occurred in situations where face coverings aren’t typically worn, like group dining and drinking events.”
There’s no point in trying to talk reason, logic or common sense with people about this. They’re in “100% certainty” territory with their beliefs on this stuff. If the gods have cursed a group of people, those people must have done something to anger them.
I’ve been told multiple times that Japan’s example is all the proof we need that masks work very effectively to stop transmission. I haven’t heard that one in a while though.
Would a real libertarian president just ban the Chinese spy software without just talking about it?
Cybersecurity experts have said TikTok’s potential risk to national security is largely theoretical and that there is no evidence to suggest that TikTok’s user data has been compromised by Chinese intelligence.
Now I’m worried.
Are these the same ones who were just shit sure that Russia meddled in our elections?
No, these are the guys who said Saddam had suitcase nucs.
Suitcase honeybee hives? OH NOES!
“there is no evidence to suggest that TikTok’s user data has been compromised by Chinese intelligence.”
What evidence would there be?
Millions of American houses flying CCP flags?
Is that the red and black flag or the one with the fist that everyone’s been flying lately?
Yes.
*rings a bell*
Oh yeah… that guy and many of the events surrounding him were featured in a Repairman Jack novel.
I really need to go back and re-read that series – it’s wonderful.
It ran four or five books too long, and the author’s compulsion to tie every single book he’s ever written into one universe seemed a bit strained at times.
Quiet, you.
Niven too, although at least he has a few universes, not just one.
Larry is a Jew with a gun or known space has too many stories shoehorned into it?
“This is the result of the government prioritizing economic activity by getting people to move around again over infection control,” said Yoshihito Niki, a professor of infectious diseases at Showa University’s School of Medicine.
Unconscionable.
National game of red light/green light.
“Hospitals can treat the infected,” said Koji Wada, a public health professor at the International University of Health and Welfare in Tokyo. “But only the government, through public health measures, can reduce the number of infected people.”
I think I see the problem.
Government reducing the number of infected people?
I can think of 731 ways they could do that in Japan.
Has anyone considered just passing a law that would make it illegal for the virus to infect people?
“Virus Free Zone” signs
“Virus-free drug zone”
Anyone know the name of a good Japanese door-welding company? I’ve got some money to play with.
Fun fact I’m sure I’ve mentioned before: With just a bit creative arranging and fudging, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of “The Wabash Cannonball.” But probably not at DD’s tempo as presented.
Me, I can’t read the poem without getting Iron Maiden stuck in my head.
https://youtu.be/t7zk4as9kzA
“And this is what not to do if a bird shits on you! The rhyme of the ancient mariner!!!”
God, was Live After Death awesome or what?
This.
It will be fun watching the Dems go to bat for TikTok. And by fun, I mean tedious and painful.
Probably something like this.
Gah! Yes, something like that.
Instantaneous test results?
As an Indiana school district welcomed students to the 2020-21 academic year, one of their students tested positive for Covid-19 on the first day of class, according to a letter sent to parents.
The Hancock County Health Department notified Greenfield-Central Junior High School Thursday afternoon that one of their students, who had attended part of the school day, tested positive for Covid-19, Superintendent Harold Olin said in a letter.
Maybe they had one of those plague-sniffing dogs.
We need to stop testing people who aren’t sick. I don’t know what it accomplishes: I don’t see any evidence that it stops/slows the spread, there’s clearly some inconsistencies between the test results and the realities of whether someone is actually infected or infectious and it’s sowing the seeds of more panic when we already have way too much of.
People don’t understand that if you send 100 healthy people to the hospital and start running a series of tests on them, you’ll find something “wrong” with about 99% of them. An illness in which you don’t have nor ever show any symptoms is not an illness.
That it’s got to be prohibitively expensive doesn’t help.
Someone’s “expensive” is someone else’s “profitable.”
So much ^^^this^^^
OT: just went to fire up the SiriusXM online, as I do on weekend mornings, and their front page is all about the roundball for some reason. Big link to a channel called “The Heat,” featuring “Uninterrupted Radio Takeover: Guest DJ sets from LeBron James, A’ja Wilson & more basketball stars.” Right next to it, another link to SiriusXM NBA Radio – “Whole New Game – The NBA you love, reinvented and live.”
Hard pass. For Saturday morning, it’s either jazz or classical for me. It’s never NBA time. Ever.
^This. My morning drive time today features a live performance of Porgy and Bess by the Bohusian Big Band featuring Lew Soloff. No Basketball At all.
No link because phone.
It’s never NBA time. Ever.
Hard pass… Nice.
Other than an occasional dribble dribble shoot in the driveway, no basketball period.
Well, maybe if fit girls in lingerie are playing I’ll reconsider.
Most libertarian president ever. Yep, you bet.
I’ve always taken this statement to be more of an indictment of the past 100 years or so of presidents. It’s an extremely low bar to be the most libertarian president of anyone here’s lifetime.
The actual non-ironic one was Coolidge.
Silent Cal. He would honestly not understood why modern Presidents are obsessed with “legacy” and “being on the right side of history.”
Yep, I was going to say 20th Century but Coolidge wins that one.
It’s particularly tricky in the American system. Tip O’Neill, for example was able to protect the New Deal and the Great Society and the Departments of Energy and Education by giving Reagan the tax cuts and the defense buildup that bankrupted the USSR. Even at the height of the Reagan’s personal popularity and power, he never had the base in Congress for serious domestic reform. The 99th Congress, seated after Reagan massacred Mondale, had a 70 seat Democratic majority in the House, and the Republicans only had 52 Senate seats. Reagan could peel off conservative Democrats for defense spending to defeat the USSR, but he was never going to get the votes to hack away at Leviathan.
Now, there’s of course a case that he wasn’t inclined to, that Reagan was fundamentally fine with the New Deal and the Great Society, and all he really cared about was tax cuts and defeating the Soviets. But I think that’s quite unfair, after all he campaigned for Goldwater, that was his big political break. So I think, if Reagan had been actually empowered to act as he wished, he would have set the slider of federal government to about the Eisenhower level, and possibly gone farther than that. But he didn’t have the ability.
Goldwater would have been a pretty decent libertarian president. Of course he was a “Nazi” and had his views pathetically misrepresented.
The three Democratic Presidents who got the United States into the three costliest American wars of the century all did so immediately after winning elections in which they promised over and over again that they would not do that. When in fact, we know from the historical records that they were all planning entry.
Wilson in 1916, FDR in 1940, and LBJ in 1964 all swore that they were the peace candidate and that their opponent was going to get the country into war, and all three of them were actively taking the country into the war, as President, but were straight up lying on the campaign trail about it.
Goldwater would have been an excellent President even if all he did was sit on his ass.
Don’t forget honorary Democrat George W. Bush, with his “humble foreign policy” promises, who got us into not one but 2 costly wars.
I tend to give him a pass on Afghanistan. A response had to happen. The issue was he allowed the foreign policy establishment to talk him into the grand nation building scheme, while simultaneously insisting that the actual root source of Islamic terror, the Saudis was actually our allies. Though long term, he did start the ball rolling on domestic oil production, which is bearing a lot of fruit nowadays.
I blame WWII for a lot of the problems with American foreign policy. The lessons of WWII are applied in cases where they really do not apply. Yes, Germany and Japan became staunch allies……because of the threat of the USSR. That doesn’t mean that every time America goes to war, they should carry a Marshall Plan in their back pocket.
But punitive expeditions don’t require Experienced and Dedicated Foreign Policy Professionals to have a 20 year career dealing with The _________ Problem. War is still a racket, but peace is right up there with it.
There is another lesson of WWII that gets overapplied, which is the notion that we have to stop the next Hitler before he gets too far. Saddam Hussein couldn’t beat Iran and was handed his ass by us when he took Kuwait, he was not going to be the next Hitler. Though we never toppled him, the same applies to Bashar al Assad. Whether he was or wasn’t responsible for the use of chemical weapons is irrelevant; he too was not the next Hitler. In fact, the problem with finding the next Hitler is that we are more likely to fail to spot him. While we’re fighting mustachioed Arab Not-Hitler, the next actual Hitler could be Xi Jinping. Then what?
On Afghanistan, I agree that the Taliban needed to be toppled. I just think that process ended about 6 weeks in and the necessary elements of reconstruction ended no more than 6 years in.
Germany and Japan also had to be bombed into submission and utterly vanquished before they could be rebuilt under US supervision. Their citizenry had to be convinced that to continue to fight would only lead to more death and destruction.
We were not prepared to go that route, thankfully. But we had zero business in Iraq since we already had Saddam on a short leash and Afghanistan should have been a manhunt and punitive expedition not the sinkhole it became.
Since the 70s, my step-dad writes in “Barry Goldwater” ever election.
My car has a “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Goldwater” sticker in the rear window.
The daisy girl campaign ad was so effective it was scary.
Today in DOOM – too local edition.
I didn’t know there was a name for it – I’ll have to remember that.
Oh, you.
Don’t you let them laugh at me
When I refused to ride on all those double decker buses
All because there was no driver on the top.
Nice!
One of my favorite blogs. But a few of the commenters would fit right in at ZH.
I hadn’t noticed that but I generally skip the comments, unless (rarely) I feel like leaving one myself. I read every post, though. He’s pretty good.
Speaking of sports- there are headlines about besbol. The impression I get is that the commissioner is playing the role of disappointed daddy. His children are misbehaving, and now he has threatened to cancel their trip to the zoo.
“the zoo” <—THATS RAYCISS!
Definitely some parental vibes out there, from Neighborhood karen’s to sainted nurses and teachers to “experts” behind podiums telling us how to behave.
Maybe we do live in a paternalistic society…Throw off the shackles of White patriarchy! Burn the bras! Er, burn the masks!!
Lots of “Angry Dad” vibes from people these days, it’s actually the nickname I exclusively use when referring to Doug Ford.
Silicone Saturday is all about the pulchritudinous pillows of pleasure.
http://archive.is/Bml4H
That’s a bountiful set.
*applause*
*wolf whistles*
Inconceivable!
Obligatory Princess Bride clip:
https://youtu.be/Z3sLhnDJJn0
Hey, Gender Traitor: you said
While memorizing the Prologue To the Canterbury Tales in Middle English, I found it was extremely helpful to set it to the tune of “the Beverly Hillbillies.”
Brilliant! ::hastily scribbles this down to add to collection::
I wonder how many public high schools still teach the Canterbury Tales, and in Middle English!
I’m thinking I won the public school lottery.
Yeah, I didn’t get Chaucer until college. Brit Lit prof read Canterbury Tales prologue in Middle English, beginning of Beowulf in Old English, which to me sounded like a Viking choking on an ox bone.
One of our theater faculty put on a play last fall that was entirely in middle english, with one of the brit lit faculty coaching the actors on pronunciation. The whole thing sounded like gibberish in a vaguely scottish accent.
Lol. Yeah, we started with Beowulf too. Had a scratchy vinyl record to hear in class. The main book we read in modern translation.
Not so for Chaucer. That was Middle English. Great for historians, linguists, and learners of Germanic languages.
They didn’t even mention Beowulf in school. I had to seek it out and read on my own.
I’m pretty sure my school’s coverage of the Canterbury tales was “Oh yeah there was thus guy named chaucer. Moving on…”
These days he’d probably be canceled any way.
Biden interviewing Harris.
Biden: “The county is threatened (I know, so what? But play along) and we need to get information. Would you sleep with the enemy to extract key information to save the country?”
/Harris playful smirk. Tongue gently touches upper lip. Raises eye brows gently suggestively.
Biden: “Excellent. How far are you willing to go to get this jo….”
Harris giggles. Head begins to bop. Biden’s head falls back as he drools.
::shudders:: And I was all set to indulge in my Saturday morning Dave’s Killer Bread toast. Something seems to have happened to my appetite.
Doing the Lord’s work
The Lincoln Project, run by a group of renegade Republican political consultants, has crystallized one of the core narratives of the 2020 campaign in ways that few other political commercials have in past cycles.
Its work on brutal attack ads sits alongside the swift boat veterans against John Kerry in 2004, the Willie Horton ad against Michael Dukakis in 1988, and the daisy ad against Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Their reward? Disdain from independent media, distrust across the political spectrum and a recent series of harshly negative coverage from pro-Trump media outlets.
Disdain appears to be the consensus view from the pundits. Atlantic magazine called their ads “personally abusive, overwrought, pointlessly salacious, and trip-wired with non sequiturs”. The New Republic examined what it called “the viral impotency” of the Lincoln Project, suggesting they couldn’t “persuade voters of anything”. Even the Washington Post declared most of their ads were “aimed not at persuading disaffected Republicans but simply at needling the president”.
But that’s not how the project’s leaders see their work or purpose. In their launch manifesto, published as a column in the New York Times, the founders said their goal was “defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box”, including his Republican supporters in Congress.
“We are your salvation. Why do you mock and taunt us?”
Because you’re just a bunch of sleazy assholes pissed off at being elbowed out of the feeding trough.
Principles are for suckers.
The Lincoln Project’s collection of neocons and deep state bought and paid for shills are a collection of some of the worst shitbirds on the face of the planet. Trump isn’t the most savory guy around but the LP people are fucking scum.
Yeah and it’s especially disappointing when self-styled libertarians pump them up as some kind of guardians of the rule of law.
They are the Perpetual War Faction of the Republican Party. They are terrified that the foreign policy part of Trumpism is going to stick, that the Republican base has finally been freed to say “The Cold War is over, regime change in Third World shitholes never works, and it’s not unpatriotic to have a rational defense policy.” If the next GOP candidate/President goes back to the Wilsonian interventionism, then they can continue on with business as usual. Especially if Trump gets boatraced in November, they will claim his “abandoning our allies” was a huge part of it.
As far as the mainstream parties go Trumpian wing of the Republicans are the (relative) peaceniks right now. The Democrats used to talk a pretty good game but it was all talk unfortunately and the standard McCainites have never met a problem they didn’t think they couldn’t bomb their way out of. If Trump loses get ready for perpetual war turned up to 11.
They are terrified that the foreign policy part of Trumpism is going to stick
I doubt it. It will be reversed the minute Trump is gone and the people who don’t like it will just go back to being “disaffected” (non-)voters.
Oh I doubt it sticks either, but the fact that Donald Trump won the primary in the first place is the crazy thing. Remember, Ron Paul only got 2 million GOP primary votes in 2012. Yes there are so many other factors, not denying that.
But it starts with one candidate, or one President, or a few congresscritters rejecting the orthodoxy of the party. It’s how the Democrats went from Cleveland to Wilson to FDR in less than 40 years. It’s how the Republican Party went from Taft to Nixon in 30 years.
The Lincoln Project wants to kill the seed before it grows, just like the Democrats and the media killed Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign. Perpetual war is the bipartisan consensus, and the Lincoln Project is just one more cats paw in pursuit of that.
They are courtiers and apparatchiks hoping to grovel their way back into a sinecure.
Arizona continually reminds us of this by being, you know, sweltering.
It is only going to be 100 here today. Perfect! The parts for my cars AC compressor came in yesterday so I might even have AC next week.
MLB is threatening to cancel the season?
What. A. Mess.
Everyone go home. Hide under your beds. 2020 is write-off.
Make sure if you go outside you don’t kill anyone with your selfish asymptomaticism. Wear goggles, shield and a double up on the masks like you’d double up the condom sleeping with that loose chick at the end of the bar usually reserved for hobos.
The end of the bar or the loose chick?
Both?
A personal fave.
If you listen to sports talk radio it seems like there is a lot of people in the media rooting for MLB to get shut down and for the NFL to not even get their season started. I don’t understand that attitude.
It’s the strangest thing. Media are a bunch of nattering nabobs of negativity.
They should be pulling together. After all, they keep telling us ‘we’re in this together’. But something tells me they don’t believe a single word in that phrase.
They’re like arsonists who just love to see things burn for its own sake.
A doctor in my hockey pool is one of those types. He wants everything shut down until deaths are at zero. It’s certifiable and impractical beyond belief.
Maybe he should stop playing hockey until there is no more CTE.
In the emerging new religion of progressivism, I see this as a type of self-flagellation. Show your devotion by punishing yourself at the altar of government; allow your idol to shut everything down and destroy all the things in life you find enjoyable to demonstrate your piety and commitment to the faith.
Yeh. They’re a regular St. Francis of Assisi these numbskulls.
/Barney Rubble voice.
But, like with everything, the modern leftist is not sacrificing, he’s taking. A sacrifice by ancient pagans involved giving up something of value to god. You gave the best wine, or the best parts of the cow. There was a tribe somewhere, I forget where, that sacrificed dogs. The dogs were played with constantly, and much loved, because it’s not a sacrifice if you’re not killing something you care about. It’s not sacrifice to hook a trout, but killing a beloved pet is an offering to the gods. Incans sacrificed their children, on occasion.
These people are not sacrificing anything. They are sitting at home, on Zoom calls, emailing a few times a day, collecting their paychecks. It’s not the people who have been driven to bankruptcy or suicide who are chanting the mantra of “WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER”.
Which dovetails with another aspect of progressivism’s religious tenets; that of forced proselytizing and joy at inflicting suffering on unbelievers.
My anecdotal experience has been in line with this. For example, as far as I can tell from anecdotal evidence, the right-leaning people who doubt the pandemic is that serious are nevertheless avoiding unnecessary travel and wearing the stupid masks, meanwhile the left-leaning people who think Trump is an idiot, the pandemic is killing everybody, and we have to listen to the experts, are still out partying and going on vacations.
Did I mention this was anecdotal?
My brother, a stark leftist actually admitted that his desire for everything to shutdown comes from a position where he knows he is not affected.
He admitted that it isn’t helping but “we have to try”
Not affected today, maybe.
The pain is coming for everyone.
Agreed..
Harvard experts are demanding 13 states shut down now.
I say, ok. Fork over your pay checks.
Let’s see how serious you take this pandemic.
Maybe the sports talking heads think they want to start collecting some of that sweet unemployment comp? Probably wouldn’t work out the way they expect. Chris Berman seems to doing lower and lower-budget commercials.
This definitely seems true (the rooting for league shutdown from the media). I’ve also heard more than one talking about how there are a lot of Trump supporters in the ownership groups. It’s all kind of Little Red Hennish.
Origins of gender fluidity.
Dr. John Money sounds like he was a monster. I notice a lot of these idiotic ideas came between 1930-50. I wonder if it’s all related to eugenics in some way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBGrP3AP0_Y
I took a graduate course from him. He was as creepy as you imagine.
He bought you your first van?
Just put down a towel.
Highly erotic/gross depending on several highly variable factors.
The Hatch Act, is there anything it can’t apply to? I mean, besides Democrat Party members.
For the most part Trump’s tweets focused on the individual founders of the project that troubles him so deeply. Given their track record in GOP politics, his dismissal of them as Rinos – Republicans In Name Only – means there are very few Republicans who can pass the Trump test.
The Lincoln Project founders include John Weaver, who was a political strategist for George HW Bush in 1988 and 1992, as well as John McCain’s strategist for a decade; Reed Galen, who worked on both Bush campaigns in 2000 and 2004; Steve Schmidt, who ran the McCain campaign in 2008 and worked in the Bush White House and campaigns before that; and George Conway, a conservative lawyer whose wife Kellyanne just happens to work as Trump’s counselor in the West Wing.
Proven winners, with a clear-eyed vision of what true conservatism, fiscal restraint and responsible governance mean.
These are people who have what it takes to forge a better nation.
Glibertarians gone wild.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/12286856/boozed-woman-prosecco-urinated-spitting-cops-face/
If you fire blindly into the darkness, you might hit something
Trump on July 10 asked Treasury to look into universities’ tax-exempt status, arguing that many institutions “are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education.” The president’s tweets came as he was pressing schools to physically reopen in the fall.
“Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education,” Trump tweeted. “Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues.”
The tweets drew concerns from Neal, who called for oversight of Trump’s demand. Neal noted in letters to the IRS and to Treasury’s inspectors general that under the federal tax code, it is unlawful for the president to request that the IRS investigate specific taxpayers.
Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) told Neal on Friday that according to Treasury’s deputy general counsel, Treasury has referred the portion of Trump’s tweets relating to higher education funding to the Education Department. The deputy general counsel also said that to the best of the general counsel office’s knowledge, no one has been directed to investigate any particular school.
TIGTA told Neal that IRS officials said that they had not been directed to investigate the tax-exempt status of any specific universities or school systems.
President Cartoon Villain strikes again. Let the agonized squealing commence.
Neal noted in letters to the IRS and to Treasury’s inspectors general that under the federal tax code, it is unlawful for the president to request that the IRS investigate specific taxpayers.
1) I recall someone like Bill O’Reilly stating his audited by the IRS every single year of Obama’s presidency but never during Bush. What a strange coincidence.
2) I guess universities and unions are the exceptions to progressives’ objection to corporations being legally treated as people. What another strange coincidence.
it is unlawful for the president to request that the IRS investigate specific taxpayers
“Too many Universities and School Systems” doesn’t sound very specific to me.
But, honestly, if they started facing scrutiny they’d be able to cover it all up pretty quickly. Nobody is required to learn Marx*, this is just anti-bias training, and that’s not political. Even when they say “everything is political” or “you can’t be apolitical” they’re not saying you can’t take a contrary position. Sure, you’ll be shamed and harassed, but the university isn’t coordinating the harassment**. And then, for the coup de grace, they’ll defend staff getting fired and students get expelled as “ensuring a non-hostile environment”.
* = Except when they are, like in an “ethics” class, but you also learn Hegel and Kant so it all balances out
** = Except when it is, but that will be called “not official” and some scapegoat will get a slap on the wrist to deflect blame
Lois Lerner: “I was never directed to investigate specific non-profits, just conservative indoctrination in general.”
I’m sure that Team Blue will be as forgiving of this incident as they were back then.
Science!
Surprise titty taster
Sneaky Flap Feeler
There’s always room for
Jellointernecine squabbling and turf warsAs scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration’s lack of planning for its nationwide distribution.
The federal government traditionally plays a principal role in funding and overseeing manufacturing and distribution of new vaccines during pandemics, which often draw on scarce ingredients and need to be made, stored and transported carefully.
There won’t be enough vaccine for all 330 million Americans right away, so the government also has a role in deciding who gets it first, and in educating a vaccine-wary here public about its potential life saving merits.
Right now, it is unclear who in Washington is in charge of oversight, much less any critical details, some state health officials and members of Congress told Reuters.
Last week, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters that Operation Warp Speed, a White House task force first announced here in May, was “committed to implementing the (vaccine) plan and distributing medical countermeasures as fast as possible.”
However, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a Senate hearing on July 2 that his agency would spearhead the campaign to develop and distribute a vaccine for the new coronavirus. “This is really the prime responsibility of CDC,” he said.
Of course it is, and you have an unblemished record of performance, in this.
Please, can we have some more unsubstantiated rumor and backbiting from people familiar with, yet not authorized to comment on, the situation? I just love bureaucratic melodrama.
sounding alarms
How can you sound an alarm when you’ve already set off every alarm? The Boy Who Cried Wolf would feel shame at this point.
Hello, after noticing in passing a few concerning posts, I would like to offer my condolences to kinnath, and also to ask what the heck happened to Rhy? Are you okay, man?
I’d also like to say that there was some uncanny force that made me think of CCP puppet Diane Feinstein only to have her pop up in the news, you know, being a CCP puppet. If I was a crude and vulgar man, I might say that they’ve got their hands so far up there that you could get a finger trap stuck in her mouth.
I had my intestines sliced and rearranged a couple weeks ago. Doing fine, thanks.
Very high tattoo to skin ratio on these folks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8575357/Polyamorous-mother-29-raising-combined-brood-opening-relationship-female-colleague.html
Standard face palm and ‘poor kids’.
Also.
Fall of the West reason 40556677700440.
Meh. If it works for them, whatever. Even if it doesn’t, it’s their problem to solve (SLD about family courts).
Where I start to get annoyed is when it requires the “acceptance” of other people. “We get strange looks sometimes” is just the cost of doing this sort of business.
Yeh. I wouldn’t outlaw that sort of behaviour. People do what they do.
He just looks kinda like a guy that’d stick it into any willing woman with a heartbeat. Also, poor kids…
Hey Sean saw your question. My dad was 75
Mine turns 73 this year. He’s over weight, with heart issues and lost a lot of his hearing. I worry about him. Now he’s scared of the Kung Flu and doesn’t want to go to family gatherings. ?
Japans death rate is still insanely low, so good for them. I am not going to cherry pick and start judging by cases just for them.
You will see a spike in deaths in a few weeks but none of those second wavers are seeing the death tolls that early spike areas had.
Despite the media hysteria, the American south and California are going to get out of this looking so much better than the northeast and western europe.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you merry malcontents!
Daughter’s grad party last night was a resounding success. A few masks, naturally, but it felt almost normal to be surrounded by family and friends, eating and drinking together.
People actually smiled and laughed, if you can imagine. Go figure.
I hope you all have a fantastic day! I gotta go walk off about a jillion carbs.
“People actually smiled and laughed”
SOMEONE REPORT THIS MONSTER TO THE AUTHORITIES!
#defundthepolice
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8582841/Demi-Rose-showcases-phenomenal-curves-gold-chainmail-camidress-pink-sombrero-Ibiza.html
Nope. Incredible curves.
“Cancelled at Condé Nast: Entertainment chief is REPLACED after employees uncovered ‘sexist and racist’ tweets he penned almost a decade ago about women being ‘nagging and irrational'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8581841/Cond-Nast-entertainment-chief-REPLACED-employees-uncovered-sexist-tweets.html
HA HA
He got canned for those? That was tame and lame.
Get off Twitbook et al., people. Cannot stress this enough.
Yep, that was completely acceptable back then (and ought to be now but apparently isn’t) but the zeitgeist changed and he’s screwed.
He’s one the main people responsible for changing that zeitgeist.
Ah, got it. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes, like a free ride when you’ve already paid.
about women being ‘nagging and irrational’
Some people can’t handle the truth.
Looks like we’ve reached the Bible burning phase of our communist revolution. To protest police or something.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1289512762733785088
Any copies of the Quran in there?
That’d be racist.
How to not win friends and influence people in the opposite direction. I’m not a religious guy and I don’t like that one bit.
Yep. I would be just as outraged and their idiotic display if it were Obama’s book or the Quran or Mein Kampf or on and on.
Luckily we have digital media but how long before the call to memory hole them by a very compliant tech industry.
I love my Nook, but I’m making a point of acquiring certain titles in dead tree format. Just in case.
I have a 1979 Webster’s Dictionary I like yo use for seeing how definitions have changed and words added.
We had a big door-stopper unabridged dictionary when I was a kid. Also a huge world atlas. Come to think of it, it might be fun to hunt up an old one of those at the local used book store. And a current one to save for future reference/reminiscing.
Looks like mostly peaceful Bible burning to me.
What ignorant twits.
More whining about President Cartoon Villain’s destruction of The Post Racialist’s Legacy
For Trump’s dog-whistling to work, however, all of this complex demographic history must be erased in favor of a simplistic view of “the suburbs” as a safe harbor from whatever chaos is imagined to be filling city streets these days, as protests against police brutality continue. It is a worldview predicated on the bluntest kind of “There goes the neighborhood” perspective on the racial diversification of suburban communities. That diversification becomes Trumpified into an existential threat to “your neighborhood and your American Dream,” and anxious white voters are the obvious addressees of this message.
But Trump’s racist rhetoric is a mismatch for our current political situation, since polls show that suburbanites have not been supportive of the administration’s handling of the Black Lives Matter protests and race relations in general. In Portland, Oregon, images of the “Wall of Moms” facing down tear gas complicate any tidy racial dichotomization of the type Trump seeks to promulgate. And on Election Day, the reality of those living “the Suburban Lifestyle Dream” may put an end to Trump’s “suburban” fiction.
I love how none of these people even seem to contemplate the possibility that black and hispanic people move to the suburbs specifically to escape from all that “vibrant urbanism” just like the white folks.
A desire for peace and quiet (and a yard for your kids to play in) are not race-dependent.
Yeah if you hear the dog whistle, you’re the dog.
The first thing that most people from the old neighborhood do when they get money is get the hell out of the old neighborhood. The idea that suburbia as a whole supports this shit is laughable.
And the people still in the old neighborhood want to get at rid of law enforcement.
I think the political homogenization of the suburbs is wrong. Some of the ‘burbs are very left, some are very right, and most are a mix. But nobody’s plopping 6-7 figures into a home wanting to watch it get burned down because of some unrelated “injustice”.
(which of course is still true of those plopping 4-5 figures into a house; people who are not as well off still don’t want to watch their shit get burned down, but the balance of density, private gun ownership, political leadership, and police presence is different in urban vs suburban settings)
I like the use of Portland as a sample of the true feelings of all Americans
You know, sometimes you wonder who’s the one going crazy.
Finding white human shields and calling them “moms” doesn’t “complicate [Trump’s] tidy racial dichotomization” because no such thing exists. It does however reveal that the only thing these people care about is race. “Fine, you bigots don’t care about the darkies. Have some white shit-stirrers! What now, Trumpsters? Haha, checkmate!” is not nearly as resounding as they seem to think it is. The average white person doesn’t give any more of a shit about an idiot getting bashed by police if (s)he’s white than if (s)he’s black. Marching a bunch of people with tats and unnatural hair colors and calling them “moms” (whether they have kids or not is irrelevant) to elicit sympathy is a little too obvious a ploy.
You could cut a dozen TV spots of these riots and crime and not show a black face. This is not some kind of black vs white thing. There’s a ton of violent white commies breaking and burning.
I’ve seen tons of video of black people in the protests yelling at pasty white antifa types who are trying to throw bricks or bottles at a march.
Oh, absolutely. I was just remarking on how their choice of human shields has changed. The rioters have been mostly white all along.
Look racist, let me explain this to you
1. There are no riots and looting, only peaceful protests.
2. All riots and looting are white nationalist false flags. Or Russians.
3. The Trump campaign will use footage of the riots and looting in attack ads as a racial dog whistle.
It was much more racially diverse in the looting phase. Now that it’s just rioting, it seems to be almost exclusively a wypipo thing.
Way too much stupid to unpack. You could literally point out the lie in every sentence. And I say that as a city boy.
diversification becomes Trumpified into an existential threat to “your neighborhood and your American Dream,”
I have neighbors of all melanin contents in my neighborhood. Everyone seems to get along just fine. *Adage about dogs and dog-whistles*
Daughter’s grad party last night was a resounding success. A few masks, naturally, but it felt almost normal to be surrounded by family and friends, eating and drinking together.
People actually smiled and laughed, if you can imagine. Go figure.
MOST EXCELLENT.
Colorado to declare racism a public health crisis after push by agency staffers to respond to protests, pandemic
The push inside the state health department to take a stronger stance against racism reflects a larger movement among public health organizations, which have been outspoken about the need to address racial inequalities and have supported the protests that followed the death of George Floyd, the Black Minnesotan killed when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Last month, the American Public Health Association denounced police violence. And in Jefferson County, public health officials declared systematic racism a public health crisis and passed a resolution that directs the local health agency to take steps to address such inequities.
At least 24 state and local governments have passed or considered declarations that racism is a public health crisis, according to PEW Charitable Trusts.
“We also condemn police violence against community residents who have expressed frustration and despair over day-to-day racism,” the association said in its statement. “This racism, while far too commonplace in our health care system, in housing, in employment and beyond, has rocked this nation and is tantamount to a public health crisis.”
Shit, I predicted this would happen 4 months ago. Public health is just watered down Marxism.
Plus it gives convenient cover to allow large groups to protest while keeping everything else locked the fuck down. These disgusting pricks are transparent at least.
Keep pushing, comrades.
How is racism commonplace in the health care system?
The health system is colorblind. Colorblind = racist.
#DoYouEvenWokeBro
No that is not correct.
Steve Kerr
@SteveKerr
With NBA games now in full force, the inevitable race baiting ‘kneeling is a sign of disrespect!’ tweets are coming. Our message is clear: We love our country. And we also believe that this nation can and must do better to eliminate racism and bigotry. That is why we kneel.
Kneeling is 1) a sign of subservience and 2) a retarded virtue-signal that has no place while you are at your job.
And how do you propose to accomplish this? Off to the re-education camps? Some one does not see to value individual rights, of which one is the right to be an asshole (with which you are clearly familiar).
Is this the motte definition of racism or the bailey definition of racism?
The one or two who aren’t playing along with this theater are a hundred times braver than any of the kneelers ever were.
I haven’t been watching – are there…. [whispers] dissidents?
Saw a couple stories but I don’t watch baseball or basketball. There is no dissent in soccer that I have seen – bunch of pussies.
Great Steve! Now get back to selling shirts to those Uigur-loving Chinese.
So Steve, talk about the NBA kneeling before the CCP.
The person that will actually be running the show.
The Democrat’s presumptive nominee Joe Biden will name his running mate as early as next week, and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) is reportedly a top contender for job.
The California Democrat has emerged as the favorite pick of former Sen. Chris Dodd, who serves on Biden’s vice presidential search committee. According a source who spoke with Politico, Dodd has urged Biden to choose Bass because “she’s a loyal No. 2. And that’s what Biden really wants.”
On the surface, Bass’s background as a former medical professional and South Los Angeles community organizer make her an attractive candidate to serve at a time when public health and racial inequality are on the top of voters’ minds.
I seem to recall that loyalty was a bad thing when Trump wanted it.
Oh, please pick her, Joe. ?
The tragedy of a black man who didn’t know his place, as told by a concerned white progressive
By the time he died today at 74, from COVID-19, he was remembered, if at all, by that last phrase. Yet although Cain’s 2012 presidential platform didn’t deserve serious consideration, his life traced a tragic arc. In his ascent, Cain embodied some of the greatest things about U.S. society; in his later years, and in his death, he exemplified some of America’s bleaker aspects.
Cain worked his way up from a threadbare childhood to great wealth, becoming a successful restaurant executive. He served his country, first as a civilian Navy mathematician and later as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. (He was also, it was later alleged, sexually harassing women during his rise.) Then he embarked on a presidential campaign and punditry career that catered to some of the basest, know-nothing instincts in politics, and may even have cost him his life.
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His politics emerged slowly. He became a Republican, he later said, after overhearing a Black man say, “Black Republicans? There’s no such thing.” Cain promptly registered with the GOP. The attraction was mutual. With his bootstrap backstory and his insistence on color blindness despite his own Black heritage (“It’s not about color,” he said. “It’s going to be about the content of your ideas.”), Cain appealed to a Republican Party focused on individualism and opposed to affirmative action and other race-based policies.
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In June, Trump decided to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the objections of common sense and practically every public-health expert in the country, who warned that the event would spread the coronavirus. Some prominent Republicans attended out of a sense of defiance, including Cain, who was photographed—like most attendees—without a mask. Nine days later, he was hospitalized with COVID-19. Today, he died at a hospital in the Atlanta area.
It’s impossible to say whether Cain contracted the virus at the rally or elsewhere, and aides said he’d been traveling often, but the risk he took in attending the rally seems to exemplify the change in Cain after his entry into politics. Cain was not a stupid man, nor ignorant of science; he was a trained mathematician, after all. But by 2020, Cain—a man who’d joined the Republican Party out of a sense of contrarianism—was ready to risk his life to show his lockstep conformity with party dogma. At one time, Cain seemed like a model of how an individual can live the American dream. Today, he seems like a cautionary tale about how an individual can be destroyed by American politics.
How could he not be a Democrat? What a tragic waste of a good story.
At least we can use him as a stick to beat Trump with.
He was an adult who made his own decisions and decided to live his life without fear. They don’t give two shits about him other than using his death as a bludgeon and they can get fucked.
As a real black man he will of course vote for Biden in Nov.
“Why Woody Harrelson’s dad was a REAL Natural Born Killer: Hollywood star’s father was a psychopathic hired assassin who even claimed to have murdered JFK”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8581865/Why-Woody-Harrelsons-father-REAL-Natural-Born-Killer.html
Woody Harrelson is no Zodiac Killer.
Well, it’s not like he’s a senator from Texas.
Here’s couple of local stories that made me go hmmmmmm……
Nouveau rich and recently appointed commander of the Diversity and Inclusion Unit steps down due racism.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/wildhaber-says-he-s-the-victim-of-racism-steps-down-from-st-louis-county-police/article_f7b06872-114e-5743-a3f9-3a1df4ce05b9.html#tracking-source=home-trending
Dude…. the gay card has been worthless for like a decade now.
I’m sorry but banning TikTok is effing retarded.
It’s arguably a national security issue.
Styx is on the case.
I was wondering how Mr Roboto tied into all of this.
If you’re an idiot.
Spyware from an unfriendly, at best, communist government strikes me as at least worth a hard look.
White supremist gang member, 2 days out of prison, teams up with Black gang member to score 40 lbs of meth, busted with $120K in cash.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fresh-out-of-prison-st-louis-area-man-accused-of-trying-to-buy-40-pounds/article_4977e0ea-6b34-55e3-97cb-24aa8348989c.html
Is he still racist? was he ever? Maybe that was that was the group he had to get in with to survive prison.
At least 24 state and local governments have passed or considered declarations that racism is a public health crisis, according to PEW Charitable Trusts.
It must be the lynchings. Hundreds, every day.
The corona of a coronavirus resembles a noose if you squint hard enough.
For now at least, I’d imagine local is doing more work in that sentence than state.
Public health is the camel’s nose under the tent that we’ve always feared and can be used to justify almost any restrictive policy under the guise of safety.
I think we’re all the way to the toe by now.
The camel toe under the tent?
Speaking of nooses, will no one call out Alyssa Milano for using racist imagery in her music video? Clearly the scene at the end is a shoutout to white power.
https://youtu.be/QAc0BvDcaIY
I swear I did not know – until you posted that link – that she had a recording career. Or maybe I was just repressing that knowledge. I wish I still was.
She also has a workout video.
And did the music for it.
Apparently it carried over to the US somewhat, but it was a Japanese contract.
Clearly, a deplorable, racist hate-crime.
Law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., arrested two pro-life activists on Saturday after the activists wrote “black pre-born lives matter” in chalk outside a Planned Parenthood building.
The two activists, who were flanked by numerous supporters, were approached by law enforcement as they started to write on the sidewalk.
“Hey folks, I need to tell you that if you continue chalking, you’re going to be placed under arrest for defacing property,” the officer said. “I’ve given you you’re warning. You understand that, right?”
“If you continue chalking, you’re going to be placed under arrest,” the officer continued.
At that point the two activists continued to write on the sidewalk in chalk.
The officer then motioned to other officers to place the two activists under arrest.
Throw the book at these degenerates so we can clean up our streets.
That’s clearly a public sidewalk.
Yup, public right-of-way. And it washes off when it rains. And, unlike De-Commie-o’s BLM mural (and others), it does not impede road striping that is for traffic navigation.
I hereby confess that I have defaced public property many times in my life, and I remorsefully repent of my egregious sin. I hereby declare hopscotch canceled, and I call for an immediate ban on this deadly assault weapon.
Yay selective enforcement.
Don’t worry, the ACLU will surely take up their case.
I am pretty sure I have seen one of these before…
WA St Dept of Agr
@WSDAgov
Washington has trapped its first #AsianGiantHornet. Press conference will be live streamed on TVW at 10 a.m. Link to the press conference is in the news release. https://agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-and-media-relations/news-releases?article=31413
…and it wouldn’t leave me alone so, naturally, I retreated into the house like a little bitch. ///Idon’tdobugs ///notashamed
SHUT IT ALL DOWN
A Gallatin County resident in her 90s died of complications due to COVID-19 Friday, according to the Gallatin City-County Health Department.
The woman is the third Gallatin County resident to die of the virus. She had been hospitalized, though it is unclear if she was in the hospital at the time of her death.
The health department declined to release any additional details.
“It’s heartbreaking to lose anyone and we send our condolences to family and friends,” said Gallatin City-County Health Department Health Officer Matt Kelley.
Too many deaths. Too much risk. Return to your homes, and await further instructions.
Another day, another Karen assaulting someone for not wearing a mask:
A couple in a SoCal beach town decided it was a good idea to trade in the chill vibe for some hot coffee that the woman hurled in a man’s face, and all hell broke loose.
It went down in Manhattan Beach, when 2 guys were sitting outside a coffee joint … about to eat their meal. A couple walked by and made a point to call out the 2 guys for not wearing masks.
It started out friendly … the 2 guys ignorantly said they don’t believe in wearing masks, and it went from cordial to a fast boil in less than a minute.
The woman then hurls a cup of hot coffee at one of the unmasked guys, and so begins the brawl. The guy beelines it for the couple and punches the guy, causing him to bleed from his nose.
Hmm. Fucked up the blockquote. My bad.
Too much wink wink nudge nudge the guy kind of had it coming waffling in that article for my tastes.
Yeah, I thought so too. But the video is priceless.
It’s particularly absurd because they are outside and far in excess of six feet.
Like, you know what, if someone is within six feet of you, and you’re indoors, and you’re going to be standing in a line together, sure say something to him.
You walk up to a dude on an outdoor bench and assault him, you’re a fucking psychopath.
Video is hilarious. She straight up assaults him, and then her idiot boyfriend calls the cops. The whole things on camera.
‘the fuck is wrong with people? Mind your own damned business.
YOUR SAFETY DOES NOT TRUMP MINE!
#defundthepolice
#Defunpolice
Go fuck yourself.
Scalding the mask-deniers with hot coffee is he only decent thing to do. It is known.
Yep. No long term negative social consequences to any of this. All is well.
Sure, why not?
This week, the Biden campaign released its fourth and final plank in the former Vice President’s package of economic ideas: a plan for racial economic equity. It’s a 26-page rundown of policies ranging from a plan to boost small businesses to a first-time homebuyer tax credit.
But contained in the plan was a less-flashy proposal: asking the Federal Reserve to explicitly take race into account when it sets policy.
“Within its existing mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices, the Fed should aggressively enhance its surveillance and targeting of persistent racial gaps in jobs, wages, and wealth,” the Biden plan says.
What the Biden team is proposing isn’t a total overhaul of monetary policy; rather, it’s more of a refocusing of the Fed’s attention onto America’s wide racial economic gaps, as well as making sure that the Fed talks about those gaps.
Monetary policy isn’t known for targeting particular subgroups, however — the Fed’s main tools are more sledgehammers than scalpels. It’s possible that the policy could play a part in shrinking gaps considerably, but there is some dispute over how effective it would be.
Some dispute? Nobody but wreckers and saboteurs could ever doubt the legitimacy of the Fed’s racial equality mandate.
Why didn’t we think of this sooner?
If you want to help small businesses leave them alone.
And I am pretty sure the Fed thing is actually racist, discriminatory and violates equal protection.
Explicit victimization of the majority, which is what this is regardless of how they spin it, in favor of a minority will not end well at all.
The next dem president, whenever and whoever that may be, will be nothing but a puppet of the ultra radical left wing agenda. They’ll push every insane leftist idea that exists, probably starting with gun confiscation and what they are talking about here, including people getting lower interest rates on a loan or people just being pushed out of even being able to get the loan that will instead be given to someone because of their diversity checkboxes even if they are not qualified. Then we’ll get on to reparations, which is basically just having money taken from you and given to someone else just because of your skin color.
Sure everyone is OK with that and will signal that, shout it from every roof top, until they become a victim of it. Then the signalers will be the one’s screaming ‘unfair!’ the loudest.
Isn’t this like thinking you can spot reduce fat?
Ending “systemic racism” by promising more systemic racism.
Shut up, racist.
The woman then hurls a cup of hot coffee at one of the unmasked guys, and so begins the brawl.
I’m just going to say it. As in the mace incident, that would merit a full force strike with a closed fist.
You want to throw the rule book out the window? We can do that.
Had an … illuminating … phone call with my leftist (formerly libertarian) brother where I brought up the theory discussed a while back that if Hillary had one, all the shutdowns and masks wouldn’t have happened.
He was like, nope, she’d have gone in hot and hard with nationwide lockdowns, because she cares. Then I mentioned I don’t wear a mask because I’m not sick, and he lost his shit, daid it was FACTS that we need to wear them, eventually called me a bunch of names and hung up.
I’m done talking politics with leftists. They are so damn certain they have revealed science and truth.
Hillary had “won”, not “one”. FN autocorrect.
Well, you see, they have the moral high ground and you are a bad person (who is probably an inbred, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, gun-toting Trumpster) if you disagree on any particular topic regardless of any internal contradictions or inconsistencies exhibited in leftist positions.
Actually I agree with your brother. She would have tried shutting down shit to an epic level. Red states would’ve resisted.
After that conversation, yeah, I think Hillary would have been Whitmer levels of authoritarian.
And her proposal to postpone the 2020 election “for everyone’s protection” would have been lauded as Solomonic wisdom.
I don’t recall shutting down for any other respiratory illness pandemic.
Trump wasn’t President for any other pandemic.
Because Trump wasn’t in charge. Now that he is in charge the transmissibility and fatality of the virus grew.
Nope. Go back to the H1N1 outbreak. The Obama admin decided to soft play it in large part because they knew it would negatively affect the economy, and they didn’t want that to happen.
Hillary would have kept everything open rather than crash the economy in an election year.
I have no idea how you go from libertarian to leftist. I think he must have been an imaginary ‘leftist libertarian’. It was only a few weeks ago I was talking to one of those, he claims to be a libertarian, but he keeps saying ‘I lean left’. I think he’s confusing left with liberal. I didn’t push it too far because I like the guy and I don’t want a fight over politics, because we almost never even broach that subject and I’m fine with that.
If he were my brother, I’d say shut the fuck up with this leftist shit, then I’d go over to his house and punch him in the face.
Back to the masks, even though it’s still mandated here, indoors, and there’s signs on the doors, I can see a difference from even a month ago. There are now people who do not wear them, I saw maybe 5-10 without masks in the grocery store yesterday and no one says anything to them. I’ve never seen anyone bother a person not wearing a mask, and I suspect as the weeks go by, more people will not wear them.
“When you think you redacted all the #EpsteinFiles but you actually just used black highlighter on the document ??♂️”
https://twitter.com/d1rtydan/status/1289358571713388546
I saw a vid on that yesterday. Mistake or “mistake” I wonder.
When I redact, I’ve used a black Sharpie on paper. Run it through the copier, and hit it again. Repeat until you can hold a copy up to a bright light and not see any letters. Shred all intermediate versions.
Although I might do the .pdf thing next time, and print/scan/copy the result. I assume anything done wholly digitally can be undone digitally, although I didn’t know it was that easy.
I think this was a legit mistake. It’s lazy and sloppy.
Just shred? Burn too
The last time I started a fire in the office, it was frowned upon.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon… you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.”
I would have thought hospitals would have an incinerator.
We have “Secure document disposal” bins. I don’t know what is actually done with the docs, I’m told they’re burned, but they might just be tossed in a dump somewhere.
“Virginia Guiffre, a woman who publicly accused convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking, said former President Bill Clinton visited his private island. Clinton says he was never there.”
Well, he’s never lied before, while president, to the public. Not ever, about anything. ‘I did not go to that island’, lol, sure Willy.
Maybe one time for some sun and sand, but that’s it. Scouts honor
Just because he was there, doesn’t mean he committed any crimes. What’s the age of consent there? Maybe the girls he was diddling were old enough to consent.
I’m being serious about that. Clinton and his little harpy are two of the most disgusting, reprehensible people on the planet. But I’m really against this thing where it’s gotten to be that people automatically proclaim others guilty of whatever just because of their politics. Clinton is guilty of plenty of stuff, like shredding the Constitution while he had a chance (pretty much every president in my lifetime, although he is by far the most guilty of that).
Do I think he’d be diddling 14 year olds on that island if he could? Yes. Did he do it? I dunno. I’d wager more than 100 US dollars that we was there and I think it’s a pretty safe bet.
But even if they played the video Epstein recorded of him doing that on national TV, the left would do a 180 and say that was OK, because reasons.
Agreed. I think we are a long way from proof he did anything illegal. Bill Clinton is never believable in these scenarios but the accusers are not trustworthy either. Either way I’ve already made my own conclusion on Clinton’s character, but I don’t advocate for prosecution based on that conclusion.
Honestly, I’m gonna say this: I’m still waiting for evidence of pedophilia. Let’s take Virginia Roberts claims at face value. She met Maxwell at Mar A Lago in summer 2000. She turned 17 that August. Her dad worked in the maintenance department, and got her a job as a massage attendant. Maxwell then spotted her and lured her into Epstein’s orbit. That’s skeezy, that’s creepy, that’s underhanded and exploitative. It’s illegal in any state where the age of consent is 18. But it’s not pedophilia.
Like, yeah, Bill Clinton would totally fly off to an island and fuck 17 year olds. I 100% believe that. But the claim was Pedophile Island, not “She’s legal in 31 American states” Island. It would have been legal for Bill Clinton to have fucked a 17 year old on the Resolute Desk, because that’s the age of consent in DC. I loathe Bill Clinton a lot, I don’t think Bill Clinton would rape an actual child. Even evil has standards.
Agreed. Except for the last sentence. I wouldn’t put anything past that piece of shit.
Clinton says he was never there.
Define “there”.
Isn’t this like thinking you can spot reduce fat?
With a chainsaw.