Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful morning it always is!
A lot of people questioned Trump’s nickname of Kamala, but I think it actually is apt. The women is just another Hillary, a heartless power hungry psycho who would do or say anything to rise up in the ranks.
New memos disclose relentless pressure by Biden-connected Ukrainian firm.
Want to have your crime ignored by the mainstream national media? Be black and commit the largest mass shooting of the year or be black and execute a child.
The most dangerous roads in America. I had the pleasure of having to drive #1 on my daily commute for two years.
That is all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
Morning banjos!
@hyperbole, just read the comic. Really well done. Sorry I missed it last night.
Mornin’
Hyperbole is Jack and Rosebud is his sled.
Thanks, leon.
To journos, scary black rifle = bad. Scary black shooter = victim of systemic racism lashing out.
But you might think they would still take the opportunity to blame the guns. I guess not when it might cause a questioning of narratives.
Mornin’ Banjos!
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Black Lives Matter. A plague of Black Deaths, not so much.
Mornin’, Banjos.
Mornin’
A Small Number Of Specific Black Lives Matter.
SNOSBLM.
Block party in SE DC attended by hundreds – does not fit the narrative.
If and when I go back to going to work, #3 is the major part of my daily commute. It isn’t the annoying part though. And on the way home, I usually take a parallel, more peaceful route most of the way.
The only time I have ever seen a car roll over live was on that road. I was making a right turn onto 17, a truck was making the opposite left onto 17, cut it short, hit the center island at full speed and flipped over 2 or 3 times right in my rear view mirror. It was freaky. He was fine.
Their metrics struck me as off.
For a road itself to be deadly, it should have a higher rate of fatalities per vehicle-mile driven. Some of these roads are just crowded or really long, and thus racked up high absolute numbers.
I agree, but I assume any list like that is mostly stupid.
After the first few, I didn’t really see any metrics. I think it’s mostly folklore. Not saying it’s wrong.
I thought the same thing, especially when I saw #2 (US1 in FL). You have a road that goes from the Georgia border to Key West, and is being driven on at any given moment by impatient commuters, drunk beachgoers, lost tourists, befuddled retirees, clueless snowbirds, and Florida Man. You’re going to get some accidents.
Any metric that doesn’t include ‘per miles driven’ is pure bullshit.
Some of those roads see millions of total miles a day.
One 10 mile stretch of I-45 thru Houston averages more than 60K cars per day, so that’s 600K miles driven every day.
I see #17 is also local to me, but it is not part of my commute. I chose where I lived wisely to avoid that.
South Carolina has a couple of crazy roads. Route 501 in Conway and Myrtle Beach for instance. It’s kind of a highway, but there are also stop lights and people randomly enter and exit the road from all sides. It’s like Rt. 46 in NJ but worse.
I avoid 501 at all costs. The traffic pattern is fucked up. The drivers are fucked up.
I’d like to if there was another way to get to Coastal Carolina.
Headings towards Conway from the beach you can take 544. Depending on where you are coming from it might not save much, if any, time but at least you won’t be sitting in traffic.
My hometown was famous for a highway interchange that was so dangerous they rebuilt the whole thing. You had to quickly swerve across multiple lanes to navigate the thing. Probably wouldn’t rank on one of these listicles numbers-wise, though.
Highway 31W in KY used to be known as the Dixie-Dieway. It was on record as the most dangerous stretch of Highway in the US
Up into the ’70s, there were stretches of the road that were still 3 lane.
One northbound, one southbound and one shared for passing and left turns (and running into another oncoming car).
Donald Trump, bird murderer
A federal judge referenced the literary classic “To Kill A Mockingbird” when striking down a Trump administration policy that she said upended decades of protections for birds.
Judge Valerie Caproni ruled late Tuesday against the Trump administration’s interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to “only criminalize affirmative actions,” rather than incidental acts. The ruling cites an example of the distinction offered by the administration: Knocking down a barn that contains owl nests would no longer be covered by the treaty if killing the owls was not the reason for demolishing the barn.
“It is not only a sin to kill a mockingbird, it is also a crime,” Caproni wrote, referencing the Harper Lee novel.
She said the Interior Department’s 2017 reinterpretation of the century-old law means “many mockingbirds and other migratory birds that delight people and support ecosystems throughout the country will be killed without legal consequence.”
He wants to kill all the birds. For profitz!
How is To Kill a Mockingbird not canceled? BELIEVE ALL WOMEN
Oh, but it is problematic.
Learn to victimhood stack. White woman from the south accusing black man of rape =racist oppressor = liar. If accused = white = bleeve all wamyns
Unless the accused has a “D” after their name.
So He supports windmills?
And solar panels I guess.
Streamer?
Well you know you had it comin’ to you,
Well now there’s not a lot I can do
I must be psychic. I’d never heard the name Valerie Caproni before, and yet I was able to correctly predict which president appointed her just based on the ruling. See if you can do it as well.
If you weren’t sure, you knew once you saw her picture.
I can’t wait till Harry Potter is quoted in legal rulings.
I was just thinking that – TKaM is a previous generation’s holy book, to be cited at every opportunity.
Never mention the unauthorized sequel (prequel) that got shamed and cancelled.
I served on a jury (civil action) and the plaintiff attorney quoted TKaM to us about doing what was right. After the verdict was returned, I told his partner in the lobby that that went over really poorly with us.
Today you are supposed to use “Now imagine she is white”
The mockingbird’s conservation status is “least concern”.
It’s also non-migratory (for the most part).
The migratory bird act covers freaking robins. You know, the birds you will find several of in basically every yard in America.
Well, I guess this overturns Chevron deference?
Now do wind/solar farms.
“2 Highway 1 in Florida ”
Only #2? Looks like Florida Man needs to steal more cars.
Good morning, Banjos.
Mornin’ tuber
US 1 is something like 500 miles long in Florida. Of course it’s going to have a lot of fatal crashes. And if you count carjackings in Deerfield beach/Delray/Ft lauderdale, it’s probably the most personally riskiest. I’d bet a lot of the fatal crashes are in the keys.
“The women is just another Hillary”
https://youtu.be/E7gE63gltDI
She certainly has the irritating cackle down, I’ll give her that. Sounds a villain in an old Disney film.
Cruella Deville and Ursula. I can’t un-see that.
Reminiscent of old tapes of Hilary cackling about getting her client, an accused rapist, off Scott free. No problem there, that was her job, but she did it by destroying the witness (the victim) on the stand and delighted in that fact.
She liked accused rapists so much she married one.
I liked it so much that I bought the Company – https://youtu.be/qf22bddvLnc
Getting the accused acquitted was her job, even if it means going after the victim. But to a non-sociopath lawyer, that’s the kind of case where you go home, crack open a bottle, and spend some time wondering why you got into this profession. It’s not the kind of case where you cackle in delight like the Wicked Witch of the West.
To give credit where credit is due:
Of all the things I could hate about Hillary, holding the state accountable for not meeting their burden of proof, after bringing charges against someone who has the legal presumption of innocence – that’s not gonna make my top 1,000 list.
Are you certain that you know the details of the case well enough to know the jury got it wrong, that there was no reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime? Because if the client didn’t actually do it, then I could see a defense lawyer being delighted that they prevented a miscarriage of justice.
She is going to murder a bunch of puppies to make a fur coat.
Mornin’ Banjos. That tune was perfect accompaniment in these trying times. Nicely dealt.
Mornin’
You keep saying that
Trump is heading into fall and winter months that could prove even more perilous for the nation, with the spread of Covid-19 coinciding with flu season — a dangerous combination public health officials have long been dreading.
“The fall could be incredibly gruesome,” said Yale School of Medicine epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, adding that the Trump administration largely squandered the summer months, leaving the nation no better protected than it was in June. “Somebody’s going to have to explain it to me, 10 years from now, why they would make all these bad choices.”
Please provide us with a detailed list of those “bad choices”.
^^^ I always wonder what they want trump to do? Go Full Melbourne on them?
They stand in front of the mirror and say “Hillary Won The Popular Vote!” three times and expect Herself to magically appear as POTUS. Have you not been paying attention?
How many votes did she get if we remove the fraudulent ones?
And the entire vote disparity was accounted for in CA.
It was accounted for in LA county. Excluding that county, Trump got more votes than Hillary in the U.S.
And LA is in a Dark Blue state with a Top Two primary system, where anyone inclined to vote for Trump knew their electoral college votes were going to Hillary anyway, and the rest of the candidates on the ballot might have all been Democrats. Why bother showing up for that shitshow?
I remember him suggesting that with New York City, and Andrew Cuomo having a shitfit.
Was that before or after he said they couldn’t have responded better because they were basing their decisions on the information that the virus came from China when it really came from Europe?
New Zealand and Australia are OBSCENE.
They’re the opposite of Sweden.
Two very stupid countries. It blows my mind they think lockdowns are a viable strategy.
Well, it is a viable strategy to make the sheeple more compliant.
He didn’t wave a magic wand and make the virus go away. Alternatively, he didn’t force a one size fits all federal response down the states’ throats that would have had them calling him a fascist. They yearn for a top down strongman solution and Trump the Tyrant has steadfastly refused to give it to them.
I don’t get it. Shouldn’t the GOVERNORS be prepping?
I swear. If nothing happens I’m going to rip such a huge one on the medical community like I’ve never tore into anyone.
Resist everything trump does, try to undermine his authority at every opportunity, then complain when he doesn’t get things done.
Trump should try the Costanza strategy and do the opposite of anything he’d naturally say or do.
Love that episode. Especially when he threatens the two punks in the theatre.
Seems to me that Democrat governors’ strategy to prolong this into the fall worked exactly as planned. ??♂️
Covid-19 coinciding with flu season
Curious dynamic, that is.
It already did. And apparently the ‘Vid cures the flu, because flu numbers dropped off a cliff when the ‘Vid showed up.
“Please provide us with a detailed list of those “bad choices”.
Let me just cut to the chase here.
Trump=Republican=Bad Choices.
You don’t need no details, because EXPERTS!
Any more questions?
Morning, Banjos!
I can easily believe the Perimeter as one of the most dangerous roads. Mainly because with a constant speed limit of 55, if you aren’t doing at least 70 in the far right lane, you’re taking your life in your hands. Further left, you better be pushing 80 at least. And that includes semis — and you have to watch out for construction… and be ready to get over at least 2 miles before the exit ramps for 400 or I-75 because they’ll be backed up pretty much all the time. It can be fun, I’ll grant.
The perimeter is named after the 2 speeds you can drive on it. First, everyone drives 85 until someone screws up. Then you get to drive 2.
Nice one. So is the Connector so named because all the cars just form a train from I-20 to the split? 🙂
I learned pretty quickly to get off at Howell Mill and take Northside to Tech as opposed to going down to the 10th St or North Ave exits. Avoid the connector.
It wasn’t as bad back in the day when I dormed in Techwood (and whatever was the one just across the street (North Ave, I think?) on that road that parallels the Connector. Pretty much a straight shot off the exit, so easier than dealing with city street traffic.
I lived in Techwood in Fall/Winter of 1988-89.
The only stretch I ever drove semi-consistently(a couple of trips to ATL per year – a few times per trip), was north side between 75 and 85. And “fun” was not a word I would use.
Yeah, you really can’t take your eyes off the road for an instant. It’s like being a wildebeest crossing the Nile.
White knuckle low grade fear would be my description. It’s like riding a roller coaster without the innate safety features.
It’s the feeling after you clear Alpharetta on 400 northbound and you realize it is over and things are calming down that make it fun. 🙂 “I survived! Ha ha ha ha!”
I was struck that the author seemed to struggle to come up with reasons why some of those roads are dangerous beyond “people refuse to drive safely”.
There was a NASCAR Driver, forget which one, who said that driving in Atlanta was far worse than anything on the track.
I moved a friend to Atlanta. She drove her car and I drove the Uhaul. I enjoyed 90% of the trip, including driving the foggy stretch in Tennessee. Trying to drive a truck with a top speed of around 60 on the highway in Atlanta was the third scariest vehicle experience in my life. First was rolling a car 3 times in the median of I 75 at Orient. Second was getting a flat tire at dusk in the 71/75 cut in the hill in N Ky and changing the driver’s side rear tire with my butt 6 inches from the right lane as semis roared past trying to carry speed into the hill.
71/75 cut in the hill in N Ky
That should have been on the list.
Mornin’
I’m surrounded by DEATH! roads,
Mornin’ Banjos,
Mornin’
The state of authority of hte executive, both the executive himself, and the bureaucratic warlord, is ridiculous. But congress just lets them get away with it. Is the house even suing trump on his “I’ll budget stuff myself” EO’s?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8621683/Demi-Rose-flashes-ample-cleavage-floral-maxi-dress.html
Are you a partner with the DM on pimpin’ that bitch out?
Nope. Sensational assets.
State of lawlessness
Scores of people in an Oregon city blocked the path of buses carrying ICE detainees for hours Wednesday, until federal agents arrived and removed the detainees and some officers from the vehicles overnight, CNN affiliate KTVZ reported.
The intervening federal agents appeared to use a spray to compel protesters to move from the unmarked buses after the nearly 12-hour standoff in the city of Bend, KTVZ reported.
The federal agents have since left the scene, near an office building, and the crowd dispersed peacefully, Bend police said in a tweet early Thursday. Details about where the detainees and agents went weren’t immediately available.
The arrests that led up to the standoff were of two undocumented people with “a history of criminal violent behavior,” the Department of Homeland Security said without releasing further details about them.
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The standoff began Wednesday afternoon when a man, apparently aware that ICE had detained someone or some people, stepped in front of one of the buses in a parking lot in Bend, refused to move, and began livestreaming on Facebook, KTVZ reported.
That eventually drew a crowd, gathered in part to oppose the arrests. Within hours, some in the crowd held signs with messages including, “Stop separating families,” “It ain’t right” and “Where is the love?” KTVZ reported.
Local police tweeted they arrived “to allow free speech” and make sure the demonstration was safe, but repeatedly sought to distance their actions from the ICE detentions. “We are not there in an assisting role with ICE,” they tweeted.
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Before the standoff ended, the district attorney for Deschutes County, where Bend is located, tweeted that he had been at the scene and was “impressed by the passion and empathy shown by our community.”
Whatever the real story is, we will never get it from CNN.
Whatever the outcome in November I remain steadfast in the belief that some of these DAs, City and State officials are Kulaks, Saboteurs and Wreckers. I can’t feature how that this is happening to your country. I’m so sorry.
If we don’t have a real joe McCarthy anymore, they’ll just pretend we have one just for self-righteousness’ sake.
“New York state is ranked the WORST in the country for economic outlook, study finds, as businesses begin to flee amid fears it will take years to recover from the pandemic and widespread protests”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8621983/New-York-state-ranked-WORST-country-economic-outlook-businesses-begin-flee.html
“Manhattan or Skid Row? New York’s homeless community use furniture and junk abandoned by wealthy people fleeing the city during the pandemic to build a sidewalk camp”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8621705/Homeless-camp-Manhattans-Chelsea-district-angers-local-business-owners-residents.html
Great job, everyone!
I’m only surprised it took so long.
6 years in a row
Only? I expected it loooong ago.
Say hello to the Detroit death spiral.
Andrew Cuomo for President and Bill de Blasio for VP!
MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Pre-vid, I’d walk through that part of Chelsea regularly on my way back from work. Was pretty bad even then, but now it’s ’70’s-level awful. My office won’ t be opening any time soon, but when (if?) it does I’ll need to find an alternate route.
I lived on 16th and Sixth for a couple years and it was fine. Of course, that was more than ten years ago.
If a city has to “recover” from a protest then it was not a protest.
Who are you to tell the oppressed how they can speak?
Way to other their lived truths. Bigot.
If the Waffle House is open it means the pandemic is over.
Obligatory.
No Waffle Houses looted and burned during the recent unpleasantness. I’m not saying it was Aliens but it was totally not Aliens..
Dangnabbit… now I really want a country ham and eggs platter with hash browns scattered and smothered. Stupid California lack of good restaurants. I so miss living on the other side of the Mississippi…
The debasement of language continues. There’s a big difference between “pigeonholed” and “buttonholed” so of course they use the wrong term. It grates.
“Buttonholed”? Not a term I’ve heard in general usage.
You’ve heard “pigeonholed” in general usage? Maybe it’s my age showing, but I’ve heard “buttonholed” at least as often as “pigeonholed”, especially in politics.
From my understanding, pigeonholed is a colloqual term for when a person gets categorized into a very limited role or percieved ability.
Which is exactly not what is going on with the Burisma crap. “Buttonholed” is a term (colloquial?) for accosting someone ‘up close and in their face’, along the lines of grabbing a button or poking a finger at/near the buttons on a shirt/blouse/vest. Which is exactly what was meant to be conveyed in the Burisma situations.
As I said, it grates.
Argh! I hate even when the local paper publishes a typo and I haven’t diagrammed a sentence for 38 years. Drives me batty.
I just use gloryholed.
Just in case it wasn’t mentioned yet… the headline alone was enough to sell me:
US proposes change to shower rules after Trump’s hair-washing moan
I don’t want to read the article, it can’t be anything better then the headline.
Trump’s hair-washing moan is more of a Sugar-Free joint. Best leave it to the experts.
I’ m looking forward to the next H&H installment.
“People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once,” Trump told a meeting of small business leaders at the White House.
This. I hate modern low-flush toilets. And low-water washing machines.
New high quality toilets aren’t terrible. They’ve finally (15 years later) cracked that nut. However, anything more than 3 or 4 years old and anything builder grade sucks.
I agree completely on the washing machines. There are some out there that aren’t terrible, but you shouldn’t have to read 40 articles to find the 2 models that actually work in water that’s any harder than distilled.
Classy billionaires gravity flush. Everyone knows this.
I love the part where “consumer groups” oppose consumers getting more choices because some of the new choices are more expensive and everyone will be forced to use them. Or something.
Is that satire? It all seems so bizarre; I never really knew that the fed gov had anything to do with water pressure, of all things.
Like most things, you can blame Bush for that.
Go in your showerhead, take it apart, and look for a plastic washer or nut. It should just be sitting in there. Pull it out with pliers or your fingers.
Voila, you now can have a proper shower and also make Gaia cry.
It’s the Gaia chastity disc, put there by uncle Sam.
Seinfeld even did an episode about it.
So did King of the Hill.
“My hair … I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect’”
He might be the funniest president ever. I’m sure people are freaking out about this statement.
Word.
It’s the Guardian so there is no need to read the article because you know exactly where it’s going.
Yeh well, none of those roads have the pot holes – some the size of Kamala Harris’s mouth – we have in Quebec. Legendary. Some have colonies living in them.
I’ve been on a couple of roads he I-10 most recently and the ones in Maine and Connecticut.
Is it me or are most concentrated in the South and South West?
I-10 LV/LA that is.
There’s a giant one on the street that I use. Assholes painted new lines right over the top of it. it looks like “- O -“.
Uffda! I wake up to good news this morning (although the local rag sure doesn’t think it is).
MInnesoda GOP refuses to confirm Gov Walz’s Labor Secretary. One one hand she hasn’t been very good, but their refusal to confirm her was mostly as payback for Walz continuing one man rule under his Emergency Orders.
Of course the DFL is appalled that the GOP would do such an underhanded thing. How dare they not bow and scrape to our new Overlord?
About time the GOP found its spine and did something about our local tyrant.
He’s pained by the fact that his diabolical plan has been stymied. For now. “I’ll get you next time, Deplorable!”
I’m still astonished by this.
Even New York was “politically divided” before last year. Cue another poll showing that the vast majority of Americans are unsatisfied with the “direction” of the country & why ever could that be??
A ten second google search reveals that there are 14 states with divided government. How lazy a journo do you have to be to not fact check that?
https://ballotpedia.org/State_government_trifectas
Huh. I’d heard it stated more than once that there was only one.
The women is just another Hillary
But somehow more fake and unlikable.
https://geofred.stlouisfed.org/map/?th=reds&cc=7&rc&im=fractile&sb&lng=-96.548&lat=37.805&zm=5&sl&sv&am=Average&at=Seasonally%20Adjusted%20Annual%20Rate,%20Quarterly,%20Millions%20of%20Chained%202012%20Dollars,%20no_period_desc&dt=2020-01-01&fq=Quarterly&rt=state&sti=131463&un=pca
Saw this yesterda. Map of the GDP changes by state, during the Covid Quarter.
Notice a certain state that didn’t fare as bad as it’s neighbors? I wonde why that is?
Looks like Nebraska did the least bad out of the whole country. What’s special about them I wonder.
Pre-socially distanced, so business as usual?
Not having an economy dedicated to Tourism?
Ah, I didn’t consider that one. Might have something to do with pop density too as UCS says.
It is why Hawaii is up with NY despite having very few cases.
And Nevada.
Yes, although I wasn’t sure how there case load had been, I figured higher than Hawaii.
State 23 in North Dakota where it crosses Lake Sakakawea used to have an insanely narrow bridge. One one side was New Town, ND and the other side was the Sioux reservation. Locals claimed that the bridge killed more Indians than Custer ever dreamed of.
In the early 2000’s the tribe built a casino and got a new bridge built that is far wider and safer.
“Dead bodies don’t count unless they are politically useful dead bodies.”
Acknowledging gang violence is not helpful to the cause, comrade.
Kamala Harris Delivers First Campaign Speech: “Trump Is The Reason Millions Of Americans Are Unemployed”
Really? Just Trump? Nothing else happened this year?
If only Trump had forced millions more into unemployment then they wouldn’t be….. Oh, Damn.
The hell is she trying to fool with that?
Even my center/center-left friends believe that the virus was blown up beyond hysteria and that dumb politicians overreaching their authority at the local and regional levels was 1) unnecessary and 2) was ruinous for the economy
Maybe she means Trump is ruinous for her personal economic status. Or “green economy” is stunted.
Or we need economic “justice” whatever that means.
Economic justic would be purging the people who gain by impeding productive activity with their grifting.
Banjos always greets us with a chipper “Mornin’!” Even if the world is going to shit.
We can all learn from Banjos.
The world is fine, just turn the news off.
TMITE, even if it doesn’t mean to be.
Was expecting this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NWOoiMtevdY
Nice
The execution of that poor kid. The silence by the media is all you need to know about how evil they are.
It’s ALL about the narratives.
And NEVER about the kids – unless it’s the ‘right’ kind of kid. Could you imagine if it was a white man killing a black kid like that?
It does suck that reading that story my first thought was “whew! Thank goodness it was a black guy killing a white kid because I can’t even imagine the shit show the reverse would have become”
The only thing that could make that story even more invisible is if it was a black child. White on Black ? 24/7 news and congressional calls to action. White on white? Makes the national news but that is it. Black on white? Local news but not national. Black on black? Crickets.
One of the few times I ever completely agreed with Rev. Jesse Jackson. Of course he gave up that line of argument because there was no money to be made from it.
Yup.
Still waiting for a motive on this one though, regardless of the optics. Seems odd.
Seems like there are at least four options, although I might be missing a couple:
1. He’s a psychopath who gets of on killing innocent creatures, like a serial killer
2. He’s a psychopath who’s getting revenge against the kid’s parents for some reason
3. He’s a psychopath who’s annoyed by the kid for some reason
4. He’s a psychopath who’s eliminating a witness
It would be paraded 24/7 as an example of rising white supremacy enabled by ORANGEMANBAD.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/senior-gop-senate-source-romney-blocking-sen-ron-johnson-subpoenaing-comey-brennan/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
More info regarding the Ukraine info. I’m sorry guys. I skipped voting last election and now you have Romney as a Senator for 4 more years.
Thank God that douche lost to Obama back in the day. There, I said it (again).
White Obama’s loss to less white Obama was not a huge surprise.
Boo fucking hoo
Work from home has been the norm for five months now. Some journalists who were previously accustomed to commuting to the office love this new rhythm. Others deeply miss the office and can’t wait to come back. Some soon won’t have a choice in the matter.
Tribune (TPCO) Publishing has decided to save money by giving up its newsroom space in New York, Allentown, Annapolis, and Orlando. Other publishers have done the same, or are thinking about it. Television networks and other types of media companies are also expected to shrink their footprints in whatever the post-pandemic “new normal” is.
Flexibility and cost savings will be gained, but some things will be lost. Intangibles like newsroom comradery and a sense of place.
Tribune announcement on Wednesday was a “gut punch,” Stephanie Sigafoos of the Morning Call newspaper in eastern Pennsylvania told me.
It was “devastating,” her colleague Jennifer Sheehan added. “We’ve been part of downtown Allentown for almost a century.”
“It’s really difficult working at home but we’ve all done it to be safe, keep our families safe and do our jobs,” Sheehan said. “But it’s not what any of us want. A newsroom allows reporters to bounce ideas off each other, share ideas and offer a sounding board. You don’t get any of that working at home on your kitchen table.”
The bottom line, Sigafoos said: “It’s painful to think of being a newsroom without a newsroom.” When you “take the people out of a newsroom, you take some of the soul of the paper
You fuckers have been stoking hysteria and panic for the past six months, and now it’s biting you in the ass? I’m sorry you’re so stupid .
Dude!
It was so much easier when the managing editor would simply read the accepted daily talking points to all the reporters at the morning meeting. Now the reporters have to read the talking points for themselves. So tedious.
“A newsroom allows reporters to bounce ideas off each other, share ideas and offer a sounding board”
Yes, and you can see the rich diversity of thought and opinion this results in.
What we have here, is failure, to communicate.
The fans aren’t there for your politics asshole.
But not caring about their opinion is like an infringment on their rights!!!
“He said teammate Ryan Hollingshead turned to him afterward and said he was sorry.”
Eat a dick Ryan.
They just need better fans.
Why are they wearing masks before the game?
Because the ‘vid only attacks when you’re standing still.
Fans boo players who take a knee before Dallas vs. Nashville in MLS
Wonder how they feel about Kamala. One knee bad, two knees better?
ESPN is so fair and balanced.
PS. About goddamn time.
And soccer fans at that, who tend to skew Hispanic and white-progressive. I’m a bit surprised. That can’t bode well for the NFL and MLB reactions once fans are allowed to resume attending.
When you think the human scum can’t get any lower – Chicago Looters Attack Ronald McDonald House.
Mark Steyn had a podcast on the Chicago looting and pillaging of Miracle Mile.
The fact that Lightfoot hasn’t been forced to resign yet gives me no hope of a Chicago bounce-back.
I was in Chicago last night. They closed all the exits off the highways. I hear they also raised all the drawbridges, and they’ll do this all weekend. They’re at least trying to do something to prevent rioting.
Something that doesn’t involve arresting and prosecuting looters. How long until their handlers figure out a way to get themselves into prime real estate before the bridges go up?
I don’t know about the prosecuting part, but they are working on the arrests.
I wouldn’t put much faith in Kimberly Foxx prosecuting them – she’s as beholden to Soros as the St. Louis DA.
I wonder if they closed the trains.
Ah, CTA says 9pm to 6am.
Set your alarms, guys.
Damn… Do they not know what those are?
Upscale MacDonald’s with the Lobster McNewburg and Filet O’Mignon
Either they can’t read, or they can and all they saw was “McDonalds”.
Flash mobs have been looting downtown Chicago for years. This one sounds a little bigger, maybe, and with different branding, is all.
The lie that will not die.
Presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden took time during his first joint event with running mate Kamala Harris to acknowledge the third anniversary of Charlottesville.
“Today is not only the day I’m proud to introduce Senator Harris … it’s also the third anniversary of that terrible day in Charlottesville,” he said. …
Mr Biden said it was ”a wake-up call for all of us as a country” before attacking how President Donald Trump handled the rally.
“For me, it was a call to action … at that moment I knew I couldn’t stand by and let Donald Trump, a man who went on to say … ‘there are very fine people on both sides’ … No president of the United States have ever said something like that,” he added.
It’s an interesting strategy. Let’s see how it plays out.
It’ll convince the already convinced and turn off the already turned off. IOW, he’s just preaching to the choir.
“No president of the United States have ever said something like that,”
Lyndon Baines Johnson, call your office!
No, see he clarifies, that Trump didn’t say that about the Neo Nazis.
“The Third Anniversary of Charlottesville”
I can’t believe so many thousands perished.
More people have been killed in the George Floyd Memorial Peaceful Protests, and that was on the second or third day.
“Minneapolis is requiring owners of properties destroyed or damaged in the riots after George Floyd’s killing to prepay the second half of their 2020 property taxes to obtain a demolition permit. That’s leaving wreckage in place, unlike in St. Paul.”
https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1293672358952263682
It’s peaceful protest all the way down.
I was close!
Tyranny. That’s pretty much the only word i can come up with for what these City Mayors are doing.
Pay taxes for Security.
Fuck you you don’t get Security. We’ll let the Mob burn your shit down.
We’re gonna Defund your security, that you paid for, and didn’t get, and keep the money.
Oh and Pay your taxes again or we won’t let you clean this shit up either.
Did anybody figure out who was behind the delivery of pallets of loose bricks to Minneapolis neighborhoods where protest/riots were scheduled?
I don’t think so. Noone claiming it was “definitely the cops” has produced any evidence of that, so far (apart from the cops somewhere removing dumped bricks and a carefully edited clip/picture of this being circulated online by agitators claiming it was cops distributing them), and if it happened to be connected to BLM, Antifa, or their string pullers, you can be sure that it will be buried and any mention written off as “rabid right wing conspiracy theories” or something. I also wanted to point out that, regardless of who ordered/orchestrated any brick and/or bat deliveries, there is ultimately the issue of agency on the part of individuals who made a conscious decision to pick them up and use them. So, I know you know this, but, well, I keep pointing it out because, individual agency, man.
It’s like SanFran (?) wanting to control people by taking away their utilities if they fail to adhere to Covid-1984 minstrel theater. If I am paying for utilities I better be getting utilities.
It was LA that said you could cut off utilities to people having “large gatherings”.
Los Angeles.
There’s no utilities to pay for once they’ve been cut off.
Can you imagine what it would look like if the government had a monopoly on healthcare?
I’d be seriously tempted to send them a big “For WHAT, a-holes?” letter in response. Jeez louise…
Write it with the wires connecting the detonator to the timer on top of the ton of ANFO
What a disgrace. Just leave the half ruined buildings in place and get the hell out of there.
As a warning to others.
Yeah sure, keep paying property taxes while the city fails to protect property. Fuck off.
Landscape of rubble persists as Minneapolis demands taxes in exchange for permits
The progs running the city do not disappoint
Does insurance help offset that?
Those businesses are hosed. I have many friends with small businesses in MPLS, and some are taking this as a sign that Minnesota Nice is no longer a protection, and rioters don’t care about anything but envy.
It is a sad day when St. Paul beats Minneapolis on the business beat.
Minneapolis has traditionally been the place where business people and entrepreneurs lived. St. Paul was always the back water where lots of state government workers lived.
More proof I guess that Minneapolis has been skin suited. It is commie land now.
Those numbers seem really high to me.
“Trump inherited the longest economic expansion in history from @BarackObama
and @JoeBiden. And then, like everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground.”
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1293746347707899904
CWAA
I’m not going to lie, I thought the Economy was a paper tiger, and campaigning on this just makes is seem like what the governors did was on purpose, for the election.
But that’s just me, and I’m already primed to believe that politicians would be willing to do anything to accrue more power.
One year ago: Bill Maher ‘Really’ Wants a Recession Because ‘We Can’t Survive Another Trump Term’
Well, Maher will be just fine either way. Bill Maher is asshole.
I’m not very good at seeing through the eyes of Joe 6 pack, but I feel like the connection can’t be more strong for them to see. Shut down society and the economy crashes. Who shut down society? Not Trump. He was the one being called out for not doing enough.
Yeah I’m not trying to say the American public is this perceptive, intelligent, discerning entity.
But the economy crashed because of the pandemics and the lockdowns, and it’s not like the Democrats are running on “WE WOULD NOT HAVE LOCKED DOWN!!!!” See, they would have a case there. If they had been saying in April and June WE MUST REOPEN, well, I’d probably be voting for them in the fall. But they didn’t. They wanted more lockdowns and more restrictions, not less. The only state to never lockdown was SD, and the FL/GA/TX crowd was reopening before all the rest.
Are the Democrats gonna run as the party of free commerce and no restrictions? Joe Biden hasn’t left his basement in six months, now he’s gonna start talking like Kristi Noem? Is that their plan?
^^^ This. I’ll admit that I don’t see myself as just a “regular Joe”. But if that is an overestimation on my part, then this is really bad positioning on the Dem’s part.
Here in Ohio, the workers I’ve been talking to blame DeWine. That may have some anti-Trump effect, as DeWine is (nominally) a Republican. However, DeWine isn’t up for election this year.
Is he really so cynical as to think that people believe this?
Just watched Netflix “Fear City” about the NYC mob in the 70s and early 80s, and about how they were brought to justice through RICO.
One thing I hadn’t grasped was the stranglehold the 5 families had over legitimate business like building construction, not just vices like liquor, gambling, prostitution etc.
I was left with the question, with the families neutralized, who/what filled their power vacuum? Who do the little shops pay protection to? Who gets the kickbacks on construction?
Hard to believe it’s all legit now. So is it just broken in smaller pieces like Baby Bells phone companies, or was the structure just inhabited by Ukrainian or Russian or Chinese mobs?
They took the bosses down, and capos moved up to fill in. They have less influence in certain areas, but they are still there mostly doing business as usual, just not so blatant about it.
SLD: I would prefer freedom for everyone without needing permits.
I’m not convinced that a model without the Mob or some other middleman greasing the path isn’t better than one without. I can always pay Paulie and get the zoning changed or permit I need relatively easily. Without that self-interest, I’m now stuck dealing with a souless bureaucrat who has no interest in giving me that permit or zoning change. In fact, doing so could only come back to bite the bureaucrat and never benefit them in any way. It will likely end up costing me much more time and money dealing with the bureaucrat than Paulie.
Dangerfield’s Back to School classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSLscJ2cY04
That movie is so good.
What you’re really saying is the bureaucracy created the market for the Mob.
You’re assuming Paulie deals in good faith. What happens when he shows up next week for more fees? And the week after that? And the week after that? It would be a sad thing if he had to arrange a meeting between you and Vito to discuss credit policies.
If the dems win the election, antifa and BLM will be the mob. Only a mob without a brain or a plan. So instead of Guido and Antonio shaking you down for your protection money and coming back to break your knees if you don’t pay up, they’ll just burn down your business, and then hopefully the mayor’s office. Capitalism is bad, you know?
Heads we win, tails you lose
For the first time in months, the daily growth of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. has steadily fallen over the past two weeks, giving some hope to U.S. officials who proclaimed there were “signs of progress” in Southern states that were hit particularly hard.
“No one’s declaring victory,” Adm. Brett Giroir, an assistant secretary at HHS, told reporters on a July 30 conference call. “We continue to see signs of progress across the Sun Belt and diffusely throughout the country.”
But testing shortages in key states and other gaps in Covid-19 data call into question the accuracy of those numbers and whether the outbreak in the U.S. is really improving or whether cases are simply going undiagnosed, epidemiologists say.
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In Texas, for instance, new cases have fallen by 10% to an average of 7,381 a day from 8,203 two weeks ago, based on a seven-day moving average. Testing, however, is down by 53% over the same time frame. Meanwhile, the percentage of positive tests has doubled over the last two weeks to about 24%, according to Johns Hopkins University. That compares with a so-called positivity rate of less than 1% in New York state, which was once considered the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S.
“I really have come to believe we have entered a real, new, emerging crisis with testing and it is making it hard to know where the pandemic is slowing down and where it’s not,” Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said in an interview with CNBC. The Texas data, he said, is “very concerning.”
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Regardless of what’s driving the decrease in test results in many states, he said epidemiologists and public health specialists are unable to determine how bad the outbreak truly is.
“How pathetic are we as a nation that six months into this pandemic, we can’t get this stuff right? We don’t have enough tests. Tests are taking two weeks,” he said. “We can’t figure out where the outbreaks are getting better or worse because our numbers are so messed up that we’re having to squint at the data.”
Just keep torturing the numbers until you get the answer you’re looking for.
Let’s go back to only testing people in the morgue, so we can claim it’s 100% fatal.
Lets forget about what happened in Q1.
And let’s forget that number of cases is irrelevant, all that matters is hospitalizations and deaths, which continue to decline.
This. “number of cases” is a trigger word for me to ignore the rest of what a person is saying.
Sadly no. Deaths have been steadily going up for 1-2 months. But they’re a lagging indicator. I expect they will follow the curve back down soon.
Yeah still drives me nuts. Back in March the experts were telling us that there wasn’t really a way to prevent people from getting sick, and that people who were very vulnerable would suffer regardless. But if we shut down, we could clear hospital capacity to deal with sick people as they came in.
Now it has morphed into “Stay in your homes until these politically connected pharma companies give you a vaccine that was rushed through testing and that they are exempt from liability for.”
Sadly. no. You are making the mistake of assuming a large country can be treated as one locale. The fact is EVERY individual locale in the US that had a first wave of deaths has not had a second one. The mistake was treating the entire country like it was NYC at the same time instead of realizing outbreaks don’t happen that uniformly – something that has been known for over 200 years and something that could have easily been observed by looking at South Korea which has several large metro areas and is only the size of Indiana and had outbreaks in different areas months apart but no second wave in any of them.
I am?
You are wrong, most first reply got eaten. Deaths have been trending downward for 11 days now.
They started up 42 days ago, so rose for about 30, then started downward again as the 2nd round of states peaked.
I’d look at the national death trend (weekly/smoothed) this way: it was strongly down until July, bottoming at 2/M/d; since then it rebounded and settled near a new plateau above 3/M/d.
But it “peaked” at 3.46 in the “2nd wave” (which was really a first wave in most places), so it has clearly declined. The decline is going to be slow as states falling are offset by states that are still rising. Eventually we will run out of states having an exponential peak and the fall will be more rapid.
the fall will be more rapid
We’ve already agreed on the asymptotic view.
I see a peak ~3.5 on 2020-08-01.
I see a plateau of ~3.2 for most of the ten days since.
Maybe it has started downward, but it’s a tiny delta to hang your hat on, especially since the very latest figures haven’t had time to much ripen; it’s not like this is a well-defined process with few actors, timely reporting, and one yardstick. I’m just saying it makes, for now, as much sense to surmise that we’re just taking a random walk along a recent trend.
National death trend is meaningless for a large country with over 200 metro areas. A virus doesn’t give a shit about political boundaries – it operates on a market basis.
When NYC had their outbreak, the lockdown panic only forestalled the first wave in most of the other metros. Without the lockdown panic, the other metros would have had their first (and only) waves sooner.
Maybe the lockdown panic helped the healthcare systems ramp up supplies which would help lower the mortality rate, but it didn’t do anything for total infections over time. Which is exactly what was being said initially until people decided to turn it into a political shitshow.
This is what we were sold to begin with. The goalposts have moved to the other side of the field.
They seem to be under the illusion that we can eliminate the virus if we really try. Total deaths is the most important metric.
Finally, some good news. Mr. Lizard has escaped his kidnappers.
Linky (goddamn phone)
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/08/12/Louisiana-man-warns-of-large-lizard-on-the-loose/4061597264962/
Who knew that he was staying with Suthen the whole time?
The Rona was especially hard on black women entrepreneurs.
I’m sure Kamala as VP will fix all this.
I’m sure the proposed licensing requirements for hair washing would go a long way to help them get back on their feet.
And don’t forget braiding! Gotta have a full cosmetology license to braid hair (and preferably a master’s degree.) Funny how the girls in the bleachers during grade school assemblies would do it for me for free with no credentials. Of course, I died a horrible death as a result.
Oh God, braiding. Honeymoon cruise, port of Ocho Rios. As soon as we got off the ship, my wife was accosted by hordes of local ladies screaming “Braid your hair, lady?”. I got the offers of “good smoke, mon!”. All this with heavily armed gendarmes looking on. We passed on these generous offers.
I would pay someone just to play with my hair.
Memphis Barber takes down the system, wins lawsuit against state agency
“You don’t need [high school diploma] to be a cosmetologist, you also don’t need one to be an emergency medical responder and you don’t need one to be the governor of the state,” says Boucek. “This law was not about protecting health and safety barbers, who have to go to 1,500 hours of barbering school to learn how to be a safely trained barber.”
The diploma requirement is now gone, but the year of “training” remains.
“the requirement of a high school diploma, to cut hair.”
But if you don’t have a high school diploma, maybe you haven’t learned enough about the 26 genders yet? What if you don’t know whose hair you’re cutting and you fail to use Xe’s preferred pro-nouns? Irreparable harm would be done to Xe and how can the state compensate Xe for your ignorance and carelessness if they didn’t demand you had the proper training to cut hair?
Black women entrepreneurs are more often underbanked than their white counterparts. This means that they don’t use bank accounts or traditional accounting practices to run their business or have easy access to small business loans.
I can’t tell if the Journalo is implying that black women are more likely to operate shady businesses in the black market or that black women are too stupid to run the financial side of a business. Either way, not a flattering depiction.
black market
Systemic racism PROOF! Poor gals can’t sell in the normal market, they are stuck in their own segregated market
“Underbanked” is my cue to ignore anything else that person has to say.
Absent context, I would just assume it was the name of some trick that the kids do with their skateboards or wee BMX bikes.
Yeah, it’s a very recent invention of Newspeak.
By prosecuting them for money laundering? Or structuring?
Now do burning there businesses down.
Um, “their”.
Speaking of Waffle Houses, liberty and the human experience soul, Tom Waits talks tour as only he can.
Price. Less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psk3rmjonQA
Marked for later viewing.
LOL. For a minute there I thought Winston was in the audience. Also, Not Adahn has some competition.
https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states&highlight=Utah&show=us-states&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right#states
what this tells me is that: as long as you get all your deaths out of the way first, You will get to be hailed as a great leader who knows how to beat the Rona.
(I’m kidding, what it really means is that you just need to be a somewhat charismatic D and the media will suck you off)
I dunno about Murphy but Cuomo is as far from “charismatic” as you can get. I’ve seen it in action – his office was in my building back in the day.
Following up on yesterday’s “Excess Deaths” thread, I noted something that seems very interesting, and want to make sure I am not just confirming my bias.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
I. When I switch the dashboard to “Number of Excess Deaths” we see that New York has the most excess deaths- 36,000 – 41,000 (careful, you need to add New York and New York City). However, if you see what they are reporting on (say) worldometers, they say only about 33,000 deaths. I spot checked a bunch of other states, and all of them are reporting COVID deaths right in the range of what CDC sees as “Excess Deaths”.
II. When I drill into the data for “Cause of Excess Death” in New York, I see lots of Excess deaths for various, non Influenza/Pneumonia reasons. One of the most interesting is a drip, drip, drip of excess deaths related to Alzheimers/Dementia. 10-20 excess deaths each week in New York, and a spike of them in New York City during their surge. But there are also spikes in Diabetes Deaths,
III. For the last couple weeks, there has been a spike in “Excess Deaths” for New York (Not NYC) that is definitely NOT being reported by New York City. Indeed, if you drill into “Excess Deaths With and Without Weighting” you see that most of the deaths are “Predicted”. That is, the CDC knows how many institutions have reported in, and then extrapolates deaths when the remainder report in (much like they do on election nights before all the polls report in).
Tinfoil Hat Analysis: It seems almost INDISPUTABLE that New York is undercounting COVID deaths by 10 – 20%. And this seems to be unique only to New York. Florida, California, Georgia- they all have counts within the numbers CDC gives. Now if I am Cuomo and I want to avoid getting skewered for killing a bunch of old people, how do I hide that? The CDC *will* know that these people died. So my only choice is to mark these people as dieing from some other cause- like diabetes or Dementia. I think that is what is happening here, and that is a fucking scandal.
And if there is a spike in greater new york (evidenced by CDC’s excess death predictions), it hasn’t been reported at all. If I am cuomo, I am holding off on reporting data until it gets lost in the noise.
New York also has the biggest economic disaster. 90% of restaurants couldn’t pay rent last month.
Most popular Democrat right now. unbelievable.
You make it sound like there are multiple death reporting systems: one for CDC purposes (read: regular money) and one for congressional purposes (read: extra money).
Basically, two sets of books.
Agency officials suspect the number of Black female recipients is much higher but could not provide data to support the notion.
FEELZ-based analysis.
OMG, gun prices are insane! I bought a Ruger AR556 from Buds in January for $479, and it was about the same price as the S&W M&P15. Today, Buds is selling the M&P15 for $850 and the AR556 is completely out of stock.
But Gun Control will be a winning platform for the Dems to campaign on.
I was ready to write Trump off a month ago (well, not quite, since we still had 4 months left in the election), but now the race is much, much more competitive.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/2020_president/
Still the betting money is very much against Trump.
From what I’ve seen, the betting average seems to lag the polls by about 3 weeks. Does that seem plausible?
Hmm i havn’t looked to see that. Could make sense.
Not sure what to think about the betting markets on this one though. I would think it would be funny if you were able to place a series of well placed bets that would ensure a good pay out, no matter if you were right or wrong.
Could the Dem money men be gaming the betting markets to make sure they don’t contradict the polls?
Why? What advantage accrues to them by convincing people the election is in the bag? If you were gaming a poll you would make sure to keep it close enough to scare people into voting not send the message that you have already won.
I still think in October people will want to vote for an actual human being. Right now Biden is basically Generic Democrat. At some point, he needs to get out there and show that he’s sharp enough to be the President.
Trump is a blowhard, he’s a narcissist, he’s a buffoon. But four years ago I was told he’d have nuked somebody before Memorial Day 2017, and that didn’t happen. I was told the economy would never recover, and it was awesome until the China Flu hit.
I am about 70% positive Joe Biden is wearing Depends at this point. The man is frail, and confused, and tired. The media is already trying to sell Kamala as The Real President, but that means she has to make the case to America that what they really want is California progressiveness.
Kamala wanted to outlaw private health insurance, just as an example of stuff that sounds awesome in CA Democratic Party but that the vast majority of the population thinks is fucking nuts.
The difference is Trump can think for himself and Biden has always been a willing puppet.
Kamala may or may not end up as President, but one thing is certain, if the Communists take over this country, she is the ideal choice to play Beria.
Yeah I think the needle they are trying to thread is:
“Hey Midwest States, Joe is the candidate. He is white. He is male. He has fired a shotgun once or twice. He drives a domestic automobile. Union jobs. Scranton. Catholic. Good Family Man.”
“Hey Blue States, Kamala is the real candidate. Woman of color. Will herd the deplorables into camps and complete The Revolution. She’ll be President for real before Memorial Day 2021.”
I just can’t see that. The gun thing alone, man I get Trump is not a gun friendly POTUS, but until we stop picking our Presidents from the Acela Corridor, we will never ever get one.
“Kamala wanted to outlaw private health insurance, just as an example of stuff that sounds awesome in CA Democratic Party but that the vast majority of the population thinks is fucking nuts.”
Apparently, that is not so awesome with people in CA. They tried this shit and people did not go for it, they had to scrap it before it even went to ballot because they did polling and it was a total loser.
Yeah, it was gonna cost something like double the GDP every year. Dopes.
I wish I had a warehouse full of cheap ARs right now. Even a closet full would be nice.
Supply & demand. I keep looking for deals on Gunbroker, but I’m not finding
manyany right now.How’s the ammo supply?
Gunbroker prices on common ammo continue to surprise me.
I was rendered insensate by sticker shock when I looked at Mossberg pump guns a month or so ago. They seem to have come down quite a bit but still… well, anything over a couple hundred is a very hard sell for me.
If Trump wins, prices will be back to normal next year – maybe even some sales as manufacturers ramp up production to meet demand.
Right now the only stuff that hasn’t gone nuts are bolt-guns.
Too bad, I have a bolt in 308 that I want to get rid of eventually.
Eh, maybe, maybe not. The gun market is weird, and the ammo market is weirder.
If you need ammo, and you see it available, I would snap it up every if it’s more expensive than you’re used to.
Local store facing backlash for policy that exempts BIPOC from appointment fee
“As a mostly white staff with white ownership, we do not feel comfortable upholding a digital and financial barrier which could prohibit BIPOC from shopping at our store at this time, on top of the limitations already made by online booking,” Civvies said. The store then said that any white person who refuses to put down a deposit because they disagree with the policy will not be accepted for an appointment.
NewWife brought this one to my attention. Two notions:
a/ This is getting fixed but good and right away with zero abuse of the commerce clause, no police, no bureaucrats, not Supreme Court ruling.
b/ She says any deposit in and of itself is stupid and bad business but was shocked by my answer: yes, I very much would be glad to pay a $20 deposit . . . at the stores I (a man) go to (because I am actually intending to buy something). Would I put down $20 up front that is credited to what I was going to buy anyway for the privilege of not being crowded by browsers who waste clerks’ time and delay their attending to me, a real customer? My LGS (I bought my first revolver there in 1986) is most welcome to require $50 door deposits, and anyone who doesn’t like should boycott them . . . please . . . please boycott away.
This is just more evidence of the racisim that is systematic in our society. Someone sees a policy designed to hurt BIPOC, and they don’t even have to get the government involved to get it changed? This is just proof that all white people are racist.
My first thought was “Where in Indiana is this gun store?”
“My LGS (I bought my first revolver there in 1986) is most welcome to require $50 door deposits, and anyone who doesn’t like should boycott them . . . please . . . please boycott away.”
Oh come on Don, don’t you love it when you can’t get to the pistol case because some 19 year old wants to finger every single one that costs 1000 bucks or more before he heads over to the ammo shelf to buy a box of steel cased 9mm to run through his KelTec.
I’m really impressed by the try it buy it model. My son rented a dozen pistols at his range/LGS and then bought there. A store without a range is missing an opportunity.
Yeah it’s a huge help. The best gun is one you shoot well, and you have to shoot them to find out.
Sounds like the store is getting lots of new BIPOC customers and doesn’t want to chase business away.
But the deposit idea is stupid. Makes more sense to be open to genpop 3 or 4 dyas a week and “by appointment only” the other days. That satisfies both new customers and regulars without having to make any accounting for deposits – keeping an appointment book is a bit less work without opening one’s self to accounting mistakes.
Talk about discrimination.
I guess only BIPOC are poor, eh? White people ALL can afford this. And there are no blacks with money, either.
Fuck me, this world is trying to break me.
* Checks to see if nearest Waffle House is still 40 minutes away *
Yep. Dammit.
Still closer than my nearest Waffle House.
Being near Balmer, there is a waffle house right across the street from every chicken, lake trout, and chicken joint in the city. So that comes out to around 546, 321 waffle houses.
And if you don’t know what lake trout is, it’s not trout and it doesn’t come from a lake, and don’t eat that shit.
A big ol’ helping of derpa-lerpa-shlurpa. [TW: Slate]
Really should be subtitled – the progressive retconning of Kamala.
They shouldn’t bother retconning, she has a horrendous prior record but she’s saying the right things now. Will they be able to rehabilitate her in the eyes of the leftists? Who knows.
They have to retcon – they can’t rely on just the faithful, there are doubters that need to be swayed (until they can be given the choice of accepting the true faith or death). They aren’t called useful idiots without reason.
Eh, I think prosecutors should apply the written law fairly and scrupulously. If you want to change the law, go be a legislator and change it. I don’t like it at all when I’m supposed to applaud prosecutors ignoring laws that they don’t like. The chief executive has the power to pardon, the DA is supposed to enforce the law as written. Yes, they can strike deals and such, but wholesale ignoring of a law, any law, is not in keeping with republican principles.
I also believe the philosophy matters, the intent matters. There is a difference between
“I will not be enforcing drug laws, because people have self-ownership and there is no power granted in the constitution of the state or nation to support the drug laws.”
“I will not be enforcing drug laws, because they disproportionately affect poor people of color.”
The first keeps you enforcing crimes with actual victims, you are asserting a clear legal principle: the victim and the criminal cannot be the same person for the law to be just and enforceable. The second leads, as we see today in CA and other leftist jurisdictions, to a ignoring more and more offenses on grounds of disparity.
It’s the glee with which she did it and campaigned based on it. She also had serious issues with withholding evidence both to obtain convictions and to keep people in prison. She’s scum.
The left obviously doesn’t have its marching orders yet when it comes to proclaiming her “progressive” or “moderate”. I’ve seen both takes.
Karen-on-Karen violence
A high school student in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, needed stitches for one of the injuries reportedly sustained during a physical altercation with customers at the Chili’s restaurant where she worked as a hostess this summer.
Seventeen-year-old Kelsy Wallace said the incident took place after she told a group of patrons they could not sit together due to the restaurant’s COVID-19 policies, local CBS affiliate WAFB reported on Wednesday. In efforts to reduce risks of coronavirus transmission at the restaurant, Wallace noted that employees were instructed to “separate” groups of more than six people and seat them at multiple tables.
“They got upset,” she recalled of the customers who reportedly went on to initiate the fight with her on August 9. In Wallace’s comments to WAFB, the teenager said what started as a verbal argument became increasingly violent after she solicited help from a store manager. With the manager nearby, Wallace said one woman pushed her first, and the rest of the group followed.
The woman who originally shoved Wallace then reportedly used the restaurant’s “wet floor” sign to hit her in the face, which was the injury that required stitches. She told WAFB her nails were also broken and hair was pulled from her scalp during the fight.
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Wallace described the incident as “overwhelming” and said she is no longer working at the restaurant.
“I was just trying to follow the rules and make sure that I wasn’t going to get in trouble,” she added.
I’m sure we all can agree this was President Cartoon Villain’s fault.
If the owners were requiring that she probably didn’t have much choice in the matter.
Yeah. Yelling at or attacking the workers makes you a dick. They’ve got to follow the rules their boss put in place (and they have to follow the rules that the government is forcing them to).
The manager should be the one handing that situation though.
So people come in together, probably hang out together, are family, etc, but Chilis will be damned if there is any chance these people might have caught the wu flu from each other in one of their restaurants.
Can’t be OrangeManBad’s fault – the victim (and presumably the assailants) were all black. We know this because if it had been even one white woman out of the 11, the story would’ve been Trump-loving bigot attacks girl trying to protect her from the ‘vid.
I hate that I laffed.
At least Chili’s called the cops. Here’s hoping they can ID the perps and get some convictions.
I just saw a Trump Ad featuring an attack on the Pick of Kamala Harris, and i’ll tell you what. It was pretty weak.
Trump would almost certainly lose this election if the Democrats weren’t so damned stupid.
Morning Banjos!
Tell Sloopy that my wife who is a Michigan alumni feels his pain about Big Ten cancelling football. It’s probably a good thing though because Michigan has blown ass for a while.
At least Penn State won’t lose to Ohio State in 2020.
Chinese immigrant poses with AR-15 with a “Don’t tread on me caption” to commemorate Tiananmen Square, gets screwed by his school:
https://freebeacon.com/campus/fordham-requires-escort-for-student-who-posed-with-gun/
“Fordham graciously offered me a realistic historical simulation of being overseen by the Soviet secret police,” Tong told the Washington Free Beacon. “This just exposes the sensitivity of Fordham and colleges on safe speech, resorting to extreme means to make sure students stay in line.”
*applause*
If I see one more post on Facederp saying “Lockdown is harming people with depression….so here’s a suicide hotline number!!!”, I swear I will cut a bitch.
Here’s a aggressive impulses hotline number for you…
Kristen, the correct and sciency way to say that is: I’m a stab ya! Everyone will think you have a degree from Harvard.
Ignorant disobedient hicks won’t follow orders
While anti-vaxxers flood social media with lies about the upcoming coronavirus vaccine — that it contains monkey brains, that it’s a CIA plot to take over the world — the government’s multi-billion-dollar vaccine effort has yet to come up with a public education campaign to counteract that propaganda.
“We are behind here,” said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. “We haven’t done a good job of getting [coronavirus vaccine] information out there.”
The stakes are high. A CNN poll in May found one-third of Americans said they would not try to get vaccinated against coronavirus, even if the vaccine is widely available and low cost.
“Speaking for myself, I think I underestimated the level of public resistance,” Collins said. “I didn’t expect it to be that widespread.”
TRUST SCIENCE!
These are the same people who are condemning the Russians for pushing out their vaccine so quickly. If they’d stop acting so damn shady people would trust them more, maybe they should start there.
You’ve told people for fucking decades that the FDA needs 10 years to test a new drug, and now you’re surprised people don’t trust a five months in development vaccine?
Seriously, you can’t have it both ways. Either the FDA is our stalwart shield which protects all of us from bad drug side effects and needs a decade and millions in funding per drug to do it, or you can roll out new drugs in less than a year completely safely. But it can’t be both.
It’s all both ways with these people, all the time.
“Trump did nothing to stop the COVID!”
“Trump destroyed the economy!”
Well in that case they are postulating that there is a magic button somewhere that threads the needle. That with the right combo of policy you could have fixed everything. This guy is asking for the impossible: for people to throw out everything they learn in school about what the FDA is and how it works.
It has been a bedrock article of faith for people since at least 1930 that the only thing that protects us from shoddy drugs and birth defect causing medicines, pushed by the greed and evil of corporations is the FDA. I have gotten lots and lots of people to agree with me on other libertarian POVs, I’ve never gotten anyone to agree to abolish the FDA.
People fucking love the FDA. They trust the FDA. They know the FDA keeps them safe, they believe in the multi year trials, the rigorous checking of new meds against animals over and over, then people very carefully and slowly. The State has pushed that in school for decades. Everyone learns about how the Progressives saved us from tainted meat and fake medicine with the Pure Food and Drug Act. It’s part of the civic religion of the State. FDA, Social Security, Medicare, The Civil Rights Act. The blessed intercessors that keep us safe and ensure Freedom From Want.
Now this fucking Dr. Bureaucrat is flabbergasted that people don’t trust a drug rushed to market without going through the FDA process. He doesn’t understand why people are skeptical. What an absolute moron.
“People fucking love the FDA. They trust the FDA. They know the FDA keeps them safe”
Seen vs. unseen is a tough concept for a lot of people.
Yeah the closest I have ever gotten to people re: medical choice is them saying something like:
“Well, the government should grant special permissions to people who might benefit from experimental drugs. But we still should keep the FDA in place as it is. If someone already has cancer, yeah they should be free to try whatever, but everything else should still be tightly regulated.”
Govt is always infallible Viking. When it takes forever, it is infallible; when we do a Manhattan Project, it is infallible. Just always trust the govt – no matter what inconsistency that imposes on your dumb, cishet, patriarchal white logic.
“Govt is always infallible Viking.”
Hence the constant cry (from left & right) of: “we just need the right people to be in charge.”
I’m pretty sure it’s “take 10 yrs, then roll out a drug that lists condition-related death as a side-effect”.
Anti-depressant that may cause depression-related suicide? Approved.
Asthma treatment that may cause asthma-related death? Approved.
I fully expect the Rona vaccine to kill people at double the rate of the virus.
L.O.L.
I’m sure the rubes are eating that shit up. ?
I, for one, am not getting a vaccine for a type of virus that is known, constantly mutating and relatively innocuous.
I’m pretty sure that for me it will be:
Keep my job or get the vaccine. Pick one.
Fake prosthetic arm?
I’m pretty sure I’m going to ask to be put on permanently offsite work as early as January. Then I will move to NH and hang out with DEG.
(but they may still make me get the vaccine if I need to come into the office. Ugh.)
boom chicka wow wow?
So you work for a place that will fire anyone who gets the vaccine? LAWSUIT!
“Pick one.”
Yeah and you said you either get to pick your job or pick getting the vaccine.
yep pick one: keep job OR get vaccine is what you said. I know what you meant, but you SAID keep job or GET vaccine, not keep job and get vaccine or avoid vaccine and lose job. 😉
Alright, Hyperbole. Point taken
Get out your bingo cards, people!
https://twitter.com/PriapusIQ/status/1293845475343441920
Mmmm. Bacon.
“Kamala Harris should do a press conference every day at the same time as Trump’s and just rip him apart.”
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1293346516070010886
Because she’s the one running for President?
I always enjoy hearing from female Bill Kristol.
Sure. To make it fair, she will take questions from the likes of Breitbart, Daily Wire/Caller, PJ Media and OANN. That will make it fair and she will rip through them because she is like the best evar.
Can’t wait for the debates.
“Mr. Pence, why are you on stage. Doesn’t this break your rule of never interacting with a woman without your wife present? As a follow up, whens the last time you electrocuted a gay person?”
“Mrs. Harris, some rightwing media sources have claimed that when you cosponsored Senator Sanders bill that would outlaw private health insurance, that meant that you actually supported banning private health insurance. Can you please explain to these brainwashed hicks that cosponsoring an actual piece of legislation doesn’t mean what their tiny pea brains think it means? “
“I forced a bot to read every Kamala Harris announcement story and write an announcement of its own”
https://freebeacon.com/parody/kamala-harris-historic-woman/
I always love the “we forced a bot” things
Those poor bots.
Really, that’s going to be what makes the machines go Skynet on us.
As revenge we are forced to read Politico and Slate Articles until our eyes dry out into husks?
I may turn my coat in that war.
I vacuum a mean mobo.
I’m not even a bot, and I still want to send a cyborg to kill Paul Krugman’s parents.
I bet he just copied an actual release and we’ll never know because how can you tell.
Because its better written.
Black is capitalized in every instance and white is not. Good robot.
Bot is just the name news rooms give to the lowest ranking intern
his real name is Bob, but nobody cares.
I thought it was Rob, short for Robot.
Republicans plan to unleash attacks on Harris unfairly for “extreme” views. President Donald J. Trump mispronounced her name, and used the word “nasty,” which is often associated with harsh, derogatory sexism. Sarah Palin, a woman of the Republican Party, was a political liability. She is a bad example and therefore not historic.
Nice.
Your narrative lacks consistency
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has weighed in on recent news that Russia has developed a vaccine, and is ready to start inoculating people with it.
“We have half a dozen or more vaccines, so if we wanted to take the chance of hurting a lot of people or giving them something that doesn’t work we could start doing this, you know, next week if we wanted to, but that’s not the way it works,” Fauci told ABC News in an interview late Tuesday.
“Having a vaccine and proving that a vaccine is safe and effective are two different things,” he told ABC’s DIS, -0.33% Deborah Roberts. He said people need to understand that when they hear announcements from the Chinese or the Russians that we have a vaccine.
“I hope that the Russians have actually, definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective,” Fauci said. “I seriously doubt that they’ve done that.” He added, “We have a way of doing things in this country where we care about safety and we care about efficacy.”
Or should I not worry when “we” rush a hastily concocted vaccine to market? It’s okay when we do it?
“We have a way of doing things in this country where we care about safety and we care about efficacy.”
Well then, I guess we’ll need to stay locked down for another 5-10 years until this process plays out.
The Ruskies allegedly coming up with a vaccine is going to really piss a lot of people off if it turns out to be true.
For one Putin and his buddies are going to get rich, rich, rich if it is safe and effective. It will also make our “best and brightest” look bad to get lapped by those Russians, who will listen to them now? Also, given the short time period the vaccine was developed in, you could make the argument that a lot of the geezers that were killed in NY and MN could have been saved if they hadn’t been locked down with infected people.
The worst thing though would be that the emergency orders would have to end! People could do whatever they wanted. How much airtime will Fauci and other experts get once this is over? Why some deplorable might not bow and tug his forelock when Fauci passes by.
States ranked by peak deaths per million per day (7 day smooth) – this is an idea of which states have gone thru the virus and which still have it to come:
NY 60, CT 30, NJ 30, MA 26, DC 16
RI 16, LA 14, MI 14, PA 12, AZ 11
DE 11, MD 11, MS 11, TX 11, IN 10
IL 9, SC 9, FL 8, CO 7, GA 6
NH 6, AL 5, IA 5, NV 5, ID 4
MN 4, NM 4, OH 4, AR 3, CA 3
MO 3, NE 3, TN 3, VA 3, WA 3
KS 2, KY 2, MT 2, NC 2, ND 2
OK 2, SD 2, VT 2, WV 2, WI 2
AK 1, HI 1, ME 1, OR 1, UT 1, WY 1
I’m-a bring my VA ‘Rona to SD in Sept!
You seem to be assuming it will end up with similar behaviors in States with very different demographics, climate, and cultures. I suspect there will be some truth to your idea, but as stated it sounds like you think NY is done with the dying and everyone else is headed to NY numbers eventually and I think that you are assuming your conclusion that no measures or variables really affect the death rate. Again, I think the bottom of the list will come up more going forward than the top will because you are likely correct that to some extent some of them have just postponed deaths, but I also think there are likely other factors at play as well and that in the end there will be a very wide range.
No one will die from COVID if the people select Proper Adult Leadership in November. We have the power to stop the COVID by returning The Adults to Washington.
“This is what they actually believe.”
Are they wrong? I have a feeling the media-reported COVID deaths would mysteriously turn to zero and vanish overnight after Biden is sworn in.
If Biden wins, the flu deaths will resume, and the COVID deaths will stop. Not even a conspiracy theory at this point, just straight up facts.
That’s not the way I read it.
There’s already a wide range; in the end the range will be wide but not as wide as it is now.
No, there is wide variance (using Europe as a guide) in where the numbers end up. I think NY will be on the high end.
Despite a lower peak, for example, NJ has passed NY in total deaths per million. Peak is just rough evidence of “has the main wave passed thru”. I figure anyone above 8 or so as a peak is probably mostly done with the virus, at least as far as significant outbreaks.
But really, you would probably need to break it down to the county level.
Do we know this is the main wave? There might be different failure modes (forgive some product engineering analogies)? Maybe we’ve barely gotten through burn-in ?
meh. If you look at the Individual state data, it sure looks like UT has gone through it
I find the South Dakota data interesting, as it is such an outlier. Their new cases show two peaks early on and then a persistent flatline, and death rate has been basically flat, without the classic bell curve. I’m curious to know why that is.
Natural social distancing makes the R for SD (and other rural areas) naturally lower?
Basically, disperse populations means that Hari Seldon has no chance, because the people need to be modeled as individuals.
Arizona has a dispersed rural populationin addition to its urban population, and I think it ran through that population in a wave after it ran through the metro areas.
Maybe they are more social than Dakotans?
Probably true, robc. My old boss used to live in Western MN, then moved to northern AZ. He liked the rural life but he also liked to go riding on his touring bike. He did that 4 months a year when he lived in MN and he did it nearly every weekend in AZ. (He went to Vegas at least once a month, too).
I don’t find it an outlier. SD has a few small metros, they won’t get their outbreaks at the same time, and none of them is so large as to skew the macro data. There are a few states like that.
Have you ever seen a SoDak? Trust me you don’t want to socially close in on those uggos.
They are nearly as unwholesome as NoDaks.
Hmm I know its a sample size of 1 but the only SoDak i’ve seen is the Governor, and that doesn’t mesh with your claims.
Well, that is discouraging for my prospects of making out with some beardo while I’m on vacay.
Maybe, the peak was 19 days ago at 1.6. SC had a first wave that peaked at 2.9. Utah will probably have a second wave which will be the real first wave. Although maybe need to look at just Salt Lake data to see.
Utah’s total deaths graph looks like a line. It is only to 110, so maybe it straight lines up to 400 over the next year before leveling out and never has an exponential growth phase.
Well 400 people is like everyone so that would be catastrophic
400 per million, so what, 150 total?
More:
Fauci previously said he was hopeful that a coronavirus vaccine could be developed by early 2021, but he said that it’s unlikely that a vaccine will deliver 100% immunity; he said the best realistic outcome, based on other vaccines, would be 70% to 75% effective.
“What I’m shooting for is that, with a vaccine and good public-health measures, we can bring it down to somewhere between really good control and elimination,” he told Abdullah Shihipar, a public-health research associate at Brown University in a recent interview.
Previous studies have found that, on average, the flu vaccine is about 50% to 60% effective for healthy adults aged 18 to 64. “The vaccine may sometimes be less effective,” it said. “Even when the vaccine doesn’t completely prevent the flu, it may lessen the severity of your illness.”
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In the absence of a vaccine, health experts say social distancing and masks are the only alternative as “herd immunity” — where those who are immune protect the most vulnerable in the population — is not feasible for coronavirus. That requires a very high level of population immunity.
Lockdowns forever. Otherwise, extinction is inevitable. All hail Foochy, PBUH. He’s our only hope.
health experts say social distancing and masks are the only alternative as “herd immunity” — where those who are immune protect the most vulnerable in the population — is not feasible for coronavirus.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
“herd immunity” — where those who are immune protect the most vulnerable in the population — is not feasible for coronavirus
First, that’s not really a very good description of herd immunity.
Second, why isn’t herd immunity feasible for the coronavirus? Be careful, because vaccinations are just a way of accelerating herd immunity. I’ll be curious to hear why immunity via a shot is viable, but immunity via infection and recovery is not.
Smokey The Bureaucrat says “Only I can create herd immunity. Not big dumb Swedes.”
The best description of herd immunity is when R is reduced to less than or equal to 1.
Why use words when math works.
R<=1 Easy, peasy.
I bet the definition of “R” has words in it.
Second, why isn’t herd immunity feasible for the coronavirus?
Because there’s no way for government to be portrayed as God-King if the answer is to let the virus ravage the country.
It’s not politically expedient?
I want a job where I can just pull speculations out of my ass for decades.
“herd immunity” — where those who are immune protect the most vulnerable in the population — is not feasible for coronavirus
Sweden says “hi”.
Your Q links, minus Q:
https://thechive.com/2020/08/08/all-aboard-the-fishnet-and-mesh-express-3/
fishnets – making things ugly since they were first turned into ‘attire’.
– 1 major award
Nuh-uh!
* shrugs * My ex liked ’em well enough
(he liked ’em on me…but maybe he liked ’em on himself, too. Who knows?)
One of the most wrong things I think you’ve ever said.
Wong, it is one of the most right things I have ever said.
Sum Ting Wong? The Chinese guy?
Why you gotta drag the Asians into your argument?
Just admit you are wrong and move on. Those Chinee with their mad math skillz ain’t gonna help you here.
The only thing I got wrong was typing.
I am 100% correct on how hideous fishnets make legs.
that ham is ugly whether you shove it into a net or not.
everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how objectively wrong it might be. ?♂️
Many here have commented on the grating schoolmarm aspect of Warren. Maybe it’s because I’ve had a lot more exposure to Kamala, but man, her voice and speaking manarisms are unbelievably annoying. Trump could easily get a dozen commercials of just her talking (and I’m sure there are plenty of lecturing clips to choose from). I’m sure we are going to be getting one of her talking about confiscating guns and trampling on the 2nd. I really look forward to seeing Team Joe lose this one.
Oh, for an honest media. Kamala is going to have to disavow nearly everything she did as a prosecutor. An honest media would have a dozen questions: “When did you change your mind on X, and why?”
Also “Do you still think its OK for prosecutors to do X?”
She didn’t do X, she did Willie Brown, Malcolm died before she was born.
Pedanting own joke: Nope, she was 4 months and 1 day old.
Kamala Harris on the record just in the last 2 years of
A. Forcing all Americans off their insurance plans, and onto Medicare. She co sponsored Sanders bill to do that. That’s not a conspiracy theory, her name is on the bill as a co sponsor.
B. “Mandatory gun buybacks”.
gun buybacks
I’ll happily sell to the government any firearms I purchased from the government.
I predicted her getting the VP nod years ago, but think she is a net minus to the Biden campaign, especially with the obvious decline in his mental capacities. Progressive ex prosecutor from California is not exactly a selling point for much of the country. We should see some more tightening of the race over the next few weeks.
The only reason to pick her is the belief that they need a black person on the ballot to get black people to vote. Their models must show that depressed black turnout = certain defeat.
I am curious about which swing states turn on black turnout.
I’m hoping and thinking she doesn’t even move that needle very much.
KDW says she is on the ballot to get the suburban white vote. There’s a certain logic to that once you filter through his usual tedious blather.
Good point. Going after the soccer mom vote. Which Hillary (should have) had all locked up.
I don’t think Kamala is going to do better than Hillary in turning them out for Dems. If they swing Dem, it will likely be because of the Karenovirus panic. If they swing Repub, it will likely be because of the rioting.
Good thing the media is reporting the rioting and the panic in equal measure.
Trump carried white women by slim margins in 2016, and that was because he carried married white women big time, and lost single white women. I have no doubt that Soccer Mom doesn’t like Donald Trump. I have no doubt that Soccer Mom wishes he wasn’t the massive asshole that he is. But being a massive asshole has never stopped Donald Trump from getting what he wants out of women.
Married white women in the suburbs will vote Republican for the same reason their husbands do: because they pay enough in taxes already, and they like their healthcare plan, and they don’t want any peaceful protesting to happen in their neighborhoods.
Good grief. The Karens were already in the bag for Dems.
Thing is, does Kamala Harris as VP in 2020 have the same affect as Obama as President in 2008?
Like, obviously couldn’t stand Obama but he was a good speaker, he had a good presence, he was the real life Black President that Hollywood had been pushing in movies and TV for a decade or so.
I was in high school in 2006, and Obama came to give a speech on behalf of Jim Webb, who was running to unseat George Allen. It was at a HBCU next door to my high school, so the school all let us cut class to go (what political bias in education.) Dude absolutely electrified that crowd, and I don’t know how many of them would have gone to the polls for a conservative white Democrat without that speech.
I don’t know if Kamala has the same affect.
When I saw Obama at the DNC convention in…what was it? 2004? I knew he would be President at some point soon.
does Kamala Harris as VP in 2020 have the same affect as Obama as President in 2008
No. She’s no Obama, and anyway, she’s just the VP candidate. Nobody gets jazzed to vote because of the VP. Even in this case, where there’s a much better chance than usual that she’d end up as President. People just don’t think that way.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/pennsylvania-district-mandates-white-supremacy-lessons-for-kindergartners/
Maybe keeping the schools closed isn’t such a bad idea.
They’re buying 5mil copies of the books either way. At least with the schools closed the kids might not be subjected to reading them?
Funny thing, that’s the school district that Kobe Bryant graduated out of. Yep, loads of racism.
Wow, that’s a new one. I guess we’re not pretending “the news” isn’t leftist propaganda any more.
https://asrainvestigates.substack.com/p/the-woke-armys-race-war-on-americas
Virginia has public magnet high schools, called Governors schools. They have a strict merit based admission policy, based on objective academic standards. What this means is that they are absolutely chock full of kids of East Asian and South Asian extraction, with white kids being most of the rest, and black and Latino kids being an absolutely tiny minority.
So obviously, it’s time to destroy the strict merit based system.
Systemic racism is basically the claim that everything that has disparate racial outcomes is per se racist.
It comes perilously close to saying that certain races are incapable of achieving good outcomes. It has to rely instead on a claim that there is an invisible, indetectable force that keeps certain races down. It isn’t people doing overtly racist things, it isn’t organizations or institutions with overtly racist policies, its just out there, a vibration in the ether.
And of course you have to obliterate the lived experience of East and South Asians by turning them white. But hey, that’s life on the victim stack.
We have to be racist in order to defeat racism.
The Western Concept of Merit is a a white supremacist ideology
Merit assumes set standards by which one can judge. Standards are white patriarchy at its worst because they are established to match and confirm white patriarchial concepts of what is good. This denies the lived experience of Karen the woman assigned male at birth who overcame numerous convictions for rape to redefine gender by forcing the system to put xer in a women’s prison. It denies the worth of George Floyd who overcame his record of violent crime and lack of any discernible merit according to those standards to become the patron Saint of Oceania.
and replace it with…. a caste system.
Like plantations had.
From an excellent bio article on T Sowell from Coleman Hughes:
“ Sowell’s great contribution to the study of racial inequality was to reverse the explanandum that has dominated mainstream thought for over a century. Intellectuals have generally assumed that in a fair society, composed of groups with equal inborn potential, we should see racially equal outcomes in wealth, occupational status, incarceration, and much else. That racial disparity is pervasive is seen either as proof that racial groups are not born with equal potential or that we don’t live in a fair society. The first position predominated among “progressive” intellectuals in the early twentieth century, who blamed racial disparity on genetic differences and prescribed eugenics as a cure. The second has dominated the academy since the 1960s and is now orthodoxy on the political Left. Democrats as moderate as Joe Biden have charged that America is “institutionally racist,” and when asked to prove it, the reply almost always points to statistical disparities between whites and blacks in wealth, incarceration, health, and in other areas. The suppressed premise—that statistical equality would be the norm, absent racism—is rarely stated openly or challenged.”
https://www.city-journal.org/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture
Race does not equal culture and culture is not genetic.
*facepalm*
This is the part that really struck me:
“One way he pressure-tests this assumption is by finding conditions in which we know, with near-certainty, that racial bias does not exist, and then seeing if outcomes are, in fact, equal. For example, between white Americans of French descent and white Americans of Russian descent, it’s safe to assume that neither group suffers more bias than the other—if for no other reason than that they’re hard to tell apart. Nevertheless, the French descendants earn only 70 cents for every dollar earned by the Russian-Americans. Why such a large gap? Sowell’s basic insight is that the question is posed backward. Why would we think that two ethnic groups with different histories, demographics, social patterns, and cultural values would nevertheless achieve identical results?”
From the linked article.
“Stop stealing my ideas.”
/Bill Deblasio
“Mandatory gun buybacks”.
I only have to worry about the ones I bought from you?
I see a boat rental in my future if (when?) the Dems win.
I have no doubt that the ATF has illegally maintained background check records to create a de facto registry, so when I get the notice it will have a list of the guns I am to “sell back”.
No, No, they haven’t been doing that, But the 3rd Party corp that they have storing the data my have not deleted it and so then when the buybacks happen, they will know who to get the info from.
“See, I was fishing down on the Atchafalaya four or five miles south of Krotz Springs….have you ever seen the Atchafalaya when the water is up?….we were trying to stay close to the bank but….
*click as Suthen switches over to recording of Giligan’s themesong*
Who knew just dribbling and shooting at a hoop with a ball would be such sweaty work? (been playing b ball with myself as a way to get some exercise)
Euphemism?