Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful morning it is for everyone but Sloopy who is inconsolable.
Despite uptick, TSA traffic is down 70% from a year ago.
Casino fined for allowing church service. Real life is becoming crazier than anything satirists could dream up.
In addition to Amazon, grocery stores might also be taking over dead malls.
That is all I got got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
I give up. I left the oven on overnight. I’ve been making too many stupid mistakes of late.
You know who else left ovens on all night?
Bakeries?
In what country?
You don’t have twenty-four hour bakeries in CT?
I was thinking you were referring to the ones in some European country from back some 75 years ago or so…
Sounds like you got Vid.
Is that a dig on poor UCS by implying he is afflicted like Stupid Joe Biden?
Mornin’
What did you make prior to the mistake?
roast beef. (pre-marinated off-cuts)
Cuomo’s gonna have you un-personed for that, Comrade.
My current stovetop operates in reverse from every other one I have had: turning it all the way “up” results in a minimum flame.
I have left that damn thing at minimum way too many times. Not overnight, though 🙂
That’s the way every gas stovetop I’ve ever had works. You need the higher gas flow for the automatic ignition to work reliably, so it’s closest to the off position.
Most stoves round these parts work that way. To get a consistent small flame you turn it all the way to the end. The middle is the highest flame. But you can get a small flame at beginning and I always did that. But I would default think it works this way. Would bee surprised if high flame was at the end.
We have one like that. Hold the dial at max until the floof. Turn it past max to douse the flame. Seems counter-intuitive. Burners left on a few times before we got our heads out.
You’re still way more mentally competent than Joe Biden.
Time for a pig roast. – finally the anticipation was killing me
Who’s going to take over the dead grocery stores? Malls?
Roller derby
The Burning River Roller Derby already cancelled their season for this year.
Killer Derby.
Sadly no. Roller derby has been one of the worst sports in regard to covid reaction. Their guidelines to play include “zero” cases in a geographic area.
Guidelines?
Ignore the self-proclaimed dictators, open your own derby in the abandoned grocery stores.
Wegman’s was an anchor in one of Rochester’s dead malls fifty or sixty years ago.
The more things change….
To be fair, the mall wasn’t dead at the time.
That is true.
I used to buy junk food there after school all the time. Because the bus station I had to transfer at was also in the mall.
Former mall-rat has a (:-(
Well, when Wookie becomes president in 2024, she’s going to fix that junk food problem.
Mall Disc Golf!
Zero is better. – Move them all to Romania. We could use the money. Also we have good beer, good wine, specialty coffee, prostitutes. It is safe, generally speaking. The soldiers will have a good time.
Sounds like a vampire trap.
Don’t drink the wine.
Shouldn’t that have been phrased with a pause in it?
“Don’t drink … the wine”
Don’t you want them back in the US so they can buy new cars on 72 month 0% interest loans?
I mean if they are tesla sure
Soldier: ‘Yeah, I have a Purple Heart.’
‘What happened, IED in Afghanistan?
‘Nope, my Tesla blew up.’
I have 2 of them on the wall in a frame in my den. My grandfather got those in WW2 and the Korean war. Got blown up in a tank for one of them. Dude had 9 lives.
There was an NCO in my unit who badgered DOD for years until they finally relented and gave him a Purple Heart for breaking his arm in some freak accident, that was nearby where some Egyptian troops were engaging PLO smugglers, while deployed on Operation Bright Star in the 1980s. IIRC, the ferry he was riding did an emergency stop due to the gunfight, and he broke his arm when lurched from his seat.
You think the American government just hands out money?
Wait, is that not a thing?
Well they did randomly give me money earlier this year.
I can take it off your hands
I would have to verify your identity in person, and I’m nto travelling.
So unless you get here, I’m not even going to think about that.
Pie, you have just received proof that you are popular. The most curmudgeonly hermit on a website of people so curmudgeonly and anti social that they couldn’t stand a libertarian website, just offered you a bribe to come visit.
Addendum – previous statements to not represent a contractual agreement to pay any funds.
This is one of the reasons I sometimes pity the current generation in uniform.
For generations up through mine when you served in the US military they sent you places like France, Italy, The Philippines, Japan, Germany, Korea, Thailand – places where they knew how to drink and party. Booze, companionship, good food, and music were cheap and filled up whatever spare time you got.
Today they get sent places where drinking is generally illegal, the music could drive you crazy if you listen too much, and companionship is either a guy named Abdul or farm animals. Even the food is hit and miss. No wonder they mostly stay in their rooms playing video games.
Okinawa was basically a leper colony where Marines could be stationed without terrorizing decent Japanese folks.
Yeah, I’m with you TJ. Being stationed overseas was a blast for me. I didn’t have a girlfriend or wife in the states, so it was a year of fun over there. I would have easily extended at least another year if they hadn’t forced me to go back to NAS Memphis.
I kept volunteering for overseas, a couple times was turned down but Germany, France, Spain and Viet Nam listened for 10 years.
Cheap booze and other entertainments were available for those interested
I volunteered for Korea, ended up in Germany instead. Army works in mysterious ways.
I guy I knew in grad school had done his mission for the LDS on a tiny island off the north side of Japan. 2 years (in the early 80’s) were he and his LDS partner(s?) were the only round-eyes they’d ever seen. Totally fluent in Japanese after that. He enlisted into the Army after that and the Army sent him to DLI (language school) for Korean. Go figure…
Michael Flynn needs to show up to a Portland riot. Easiest way to get a case dropped.
Michael Flynn needs to show up “brandishing” an M-2 on the back of a WWII era Jeep. Two birds, one stone.
Modulating the frequency?
One of the biggest questions amid the COVID-19 pandemic has been why does the virus kill some people and leave others without any detectable symptoms. Now, six months into the pandemic, we’re finally getting some answers. According to Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), if you’re someone who’s known to get the common cold year after year, you could have some protection against the novel coronavirus, thanks to the T cells in your immune system.
“If you look at [your immune system] metaphorically as an army with different levels of defense, the antibodies prevent the virus from getting in. So that’s kind of like the first line of defense,” Fauci told McClatchy in a recent interview. “For those viruses that do escape and infect some cells, the T cells come in and kill the cells that are infected or block them.”
Fauci said much of the research on COVID has been “focusing very exclusively on the antibody test,” but, he said, T cells are an “equally important component of the immune system.”
Don’t tell me they have decided to throttle back the panic machine. That would be crazy.
“One of the biggest questions…”
…among idiots.
Dosage (incl. viral load) is apparently an esoteric concept to the functional illiterates that call themselves journalists.
If they had been capable of passing a more demanding major, why would they get a degree in journalism?
So Faucci just pulled some new fresh crap out of his ass that will alarm, confuse and dismay the Public even more. This is even better than the Aids panic if you were a Puritan or so inclined.
Dosage, viral load, blood type, preexisting conditions, age, general health, smoking/vaping or not, lifestyle, diet, et freaking cetera
Isn’t there some evidence that smoking might actually help prevent you from catching the Rona? I thought some study in France had shown a weak link?
Think of the heads exploding if smoking was an effective prophylactic.
I think it was more nicotine consumption but I haven’t followed up with research on that. Smoking might cut down your chances of contracting it but if you do it ain’t good.
Smoking was once considered healthy. At a time before modern medicine and a life expectancy of about 50 it probably was healthy, because you were unlikely to live long enough to get cancer.
My sister’s friend’s husband is a virologist at a major hospital here and they’re screaming the world will end in the fall. They claim the media isn’t reporting the dark side. He’s saying people discharged come back with organ problems later. I’ve been hearing this but don’t know the frequency of it.
I’m trying to get to the bottom of how this doesn’t seem to square with: Oxford virologists I listen to who seem to think it’s not as bad as being portrayed and, obviously, the statistics.
Treatments known to work. In fact, I’m not entirely sure why they’re not moving from this destructive ‘suppression theory’ to one of treatment.
We also have to get off this ‘wave’ thing. A virus CIRCULATES constantly. All a lock down did was delay the process. This constant comparison to the Spanish flu is misleading. For one thing, it was influenza and second happened 00 yeas ago. The theory of ‘waves’ is moving target. It’s commonly believed when there’s a down tick and then up tick that’s wave but what if it’s just a temporary spike? Seems to me that’s the difference between draconian and normal policy. See Australia and New Zealand where they’ve absolutely lost their minds.
Hopefully with this T-cells discovery they start to dial it back a little.
You’e better off comparing it to the common cold.
I wonder whether it’s really caused by the virus or if it’s increased medical scrutiny that reveals preexisting conditions. Maybe both but any major illness has a good possibility of making something that’s already there worse.
The medical peeps I know are in full freakout mode.
Yet they don’t seem to even know the numbers. 80% of the deaths here in LTC. Almost 100% with serious metabolic diseases.
Maybe one of these fucking ‘experts’ could suggest that people up their metabolic health game to – and I know this sounds crazy – allow their immune system to do what it’s done for a million fucking years!
Maddening.
Up their metabolism?
But how, the gyms are all running at reduced capacity and the fear mongers have convinced people like my wife that gyms are hotbeds of Rona transmission.
I find this preposterously unacceptable if they can’t contextualize the data.
No wonder then they’re freaking out. They’re just reacting to what they see in their hospital bubble. It’s a little like staying in a Twitter bubble for politics.
This is spot on.
I don’t watch live TV, but saw some at my sister’s in July.
Wall to wall panic covid coverage, soothing pSAs, wild speculation..
My sister’s panic was bolstered by our sister in law’s panic.
They live in a bubble where covid is a great crisis that threatens humanity’s existence.
It was fascinating to behold their parallel universe.
All the plague and BLM PSA’s and commercials are driving me up the fucking wall.
Today’s vote for the absolute worst:
Dominos supposedly convinced a nice suburban family to plague-LARP as a Domino’s delivery service.
#staysafe
How long has this guy been a virologist?
The idea that the media wouldn’t be portraying a dark side is laughable, it’s their stock-in-trade.
leave others without any detectable symptoms
This is how every coronavirus works.
Great, let’s lock down harder to prevent people from getting those T cells. Science!
In the future, we’ll look back and see, we had:
Millennials
Gen Z
The Bubble Gen
Nevada voters got what they wanted, good and hard.
😉
All the assholes who moved from CA to escape the shitstorm they voted for there.
We did but was proud of someone using my idea…hold church at the casino.
I wonder if any lessons will be learned.
Why do the gov of IL and the gov of NV look like they have the head of a giant fat hog instead of a human?
If aliens ever invade and start identifying species, they’ll say ‘wait, these 2 aren’t human, they’re of the species ‘Gluttonous Porkchopus’.
Morning Banjos
Mornin’
Mornin’ Banjos! I lurve me some Bluegrass but I also like me a little Texas Swing – https://youtu.be/Q2GGo-VQDxo Thanks for the music!
Mornin’
Son, you are a rather discerning lad, for a North of the Border guy. World needs more Festi.
Don’t you dare dead-name me! It’s Festux!
Isn’t Festi, or Festii the plural?
Hidin’ Biden’s political acumen is astounding.
“He reportedly clicked well with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, but she would not have fulfilled the desire of those who prioritized a candidate of color,” Axelrod wrote for CNN. “Whitmer, a White moderate pick, also would have raised questions among supporters of progressive champion Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, widely viewed after a lifetime of advocacy and a strong campaign for president as a tough, brilliant and capable policymaker. But some also saw Warren as the most polarizing of the potential candidates, who would have been offered by Trump as evidence that the moderate Biden is merely a Trojan Horse for the left.”
“In the end, Biden seriously considered others but returned to Harris as the ‘do no harm’ candidate, unlikely to thrill or outrage many. She may not seem the most comfortable fit as a governing partner, a quality Biden said he was seeking, but Harris was viewed as the safest pick to win in November,” he continued.
My opinion is that Team Blue’s best bet would have been Temptress Tulsi and Peculiar Pete. I can only assume they are deliberately throwing this one.
There’s still that racist rapist thing though.
Clicked well with Whitmer because her hair smelled great?
I think her pantomime makeup contrasted well with Biden’s orange hue.
No, they are genuinely this disconnected from reality.
First the amount of racism in that statement is incredible.
Second, I can’t believe that they didn’t know this was a big FU to the progressives in the party. They are trying to remake her as a progressive, but it will only work for the people who were inclined to believe anything Biden said anyway.
She’s remaking herself as a progressive.
It doesn’t matter. The proggies burning down cities are burning down Blue cities that will go for Biden overwhelmingly anyways. To the extent that communists complain that Biden brought on a “Tough on Crime” lover of cops, that can only help Biden win the center.
Live by the identity politics, die by the identity politics.
It looks like it’s on purpose.
Only because, as Banjos said, they are really that clueless. Or maybe they are right that the electorate is that clueless, too. God help us.
You unwashed rubes will take what we give you and you will then also tell us you like it good and hard in the ass! Or else…
‘Brilliant’. If you mean ‘shameless opportunistic mid-wit’ sure. Why not? Words have little meaning these days. See the ‘racist’ -the New Racist or Neo-racist.
Temptress Tulsi is a whackadoodle but she’s good on minimal foreign interference. She looks good on camera and was easily the most well-spoken of the current crop. War machine go Brrrrrrrr…..
I don’t know about deliberately throwing, but they had kinda painted themselves into a corner with pre-defining the biological characteristics of the nominee.
And now they get to accuse any opposition whatsoever of racism, just like with BHO. I think that the recent kerfuffles may have finally made everybody tired-enough of that, but it’s been their go-to plan forever.
There has to be a dem convention. Some how or other, bad orange man has to goad them into it. I want to see the Bernie Bois riot over Horizontal Harris.
Also, if the Donerd calls her that, I’ll vote for him twice, no, 3 times.
Space trucking around the web late last night, as I am prone to do, I noted a lot of dems saying that they would have preferred Tulsi. Her name came up as preferred more than anyone, to my surprise. I thought only Glibs like her only for her tits.
I only saw a few who said ‘OMG, thank God it’s Kamala, my prayers have been answered!’. So you know, those are DU posters. Bernie bros do not appear to like her.
KAMALA. I can’t stop laughing.
Some lefty gasbag was on Tucker last night berating him for not pronouncing it right. ?
“comma – la”
I thought is was ‘Camel-uh’. I see a lot of people pronouncing it that way.
Commie-la?
It’s hard to pronounce your own name with a dick in your mouth.
I hope Trump calls her that.
He’s going with Phoney Kamala.
I hope he can do better than that.
Cop Kamala.
Sleepy Joe and sleeps-with-x (needs work)
You have a kid sniffer and a truant kid chaser.
Yeah, that seems rather weak for him, Didn’t he already use that for Warren a few times?
The Child Abusers
“Canadian Girlfriend”
She’ll bag ’em Joe’ll tag em.
Horizontal Harris, come on Donnie, you owe us that.
I guess Biden didn’t want the BLM vote.
Come on… who are they going to vote for? Trump?
They can stay home. Or, go burn something down on election day.
They don’t care about anything but race. Kamala record has no bearing.
The left has gone fully open with their racism.
#itshappening
He couldn’t lose the States they live in if he picked Adolf Hitler.
I think they’d actually like Hitler, maybe not as much as Mao or Stalin, he doesn’t have the stats.
Hitler has that Blue State popular “Tough On Jews” policy package.
The Nonconformist
Over a lifetime of scholarship and public engagement, economist Thomas Sowell has illuminated controversial topics such as race, poverty, and culture.
Coleman Hughes
Summer 2020 The Social Order
Arts and Culture
https://www.city-journal.org/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture
Sowell is a king among kings. It’s years I listen to him and it’s years the media ignores him. Never saw him, say, on those lame ass mainstream Sunday political shows. Or even, surprisingly, The McLaughlin Group back in the day. I mean, they had a paleo-con like Buchanan on.
To this day, speaking of which, I’ve yet to hear or read a person as knowledgable of political history as Buchanan. The man is a marvel and machine of facts. I use to love him school Clift. Which wasn’t hard I admit but man was he a fountain of information.
It is a deep disappointment that Sowell has never been on Rogan’s show. If he did, it might just get a lot of kids pointed in the right (intellectual) direction.
I just introduced my Pa to Sowell. He’s inhaling his writing like a starving orphan. Frankly am surprised he wasn’t aware of Sowell previously.
I’m proud of you and your Dad, KK. He raised you right and turnabout is fair play. Tom Sowell and Walt Williams are among the very best.
Except he laments my “fuck marriage & children” attitude…he wonders where he went “wrong” HAHAHA.
He went “wrong” by teaching me to make my own living and that I could do anything I want.
“Except he laments my “fuck marriage & children” attitude”
Even though I have both of those, you’re not wrong.
Actually, fucking children will get you a lengthy prison term you are unlikely to survive.
Uncivil is just full of wisdom today.
Don’t have the time. Bookmarked.
y’know, for how underappreciated he is, some of his older books are really freaking expensive
*skips the $850 first edition of race and economics*
Very nice, thanks. I particularly like the comparison between French-descended & Russian-descended wages.
SCIENCE!!!!
Cat butts are good?
Lions need to eat to, though
They should get their own property then.
They had that, but once again, white men screwed them out of it.
Hyenas are cats in drag
“It’s a trap!”
Why does no one love the Hyenas?
If you say ‘queen’ in Portuguese, it sounds almost exactly like hyena, yet even that is not enough to get the Hyenas some love.
#AdpotAHyena
#HyenasNeedLuv2
I believe it was in A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens likened barristers to lions. Hyenas (solicitors) go out and kill the prey and the lions (barristers) come in and chase them away to eat their kill. It’s the hyenas who do all the work and the lions are the freeloaders. Sydney Carton (the anti-hero) was a barrister.
I haven’t read A Tale of Two Cities since high school. The only Dickens novel I have revisited was Great Expectations a couple of years ago.
My wife was curious about what I was reading, so then she wanted to read it. The first night, she looks over at me and says ‘Uhh, this is English? I can’t understand any of this!’, lol.
It was a recurring theme in my Prohibition book. The male protag explains the plot to the female protag who’s having a hard time with it.
My husband said, “If someone had explained it to me like that when I was in high school I would have read it.”
you mean that bashing high school kids over the head with rote thematic deconstruction kills their interest in literature?
*reaches for shocked face*
Seriously, I had one good literature/English teacher in high school, and I still have a love for Mark Twain because of him.
Right?!
Had a section on Romeo & Juliet and nowhere did the teacher point out (Shakespeare R hard) that they were barely legal and thus, stupid. But it was kinda necessary knowledge. I had no idea what she was on about because I assumed they were adults and had a huge tragic misunderstanding.
All of us were confused as hell, then at the end of the unit, she drops this tidbit.
Kinda important there, teach.
Why are we studying Elizabethan Pop culture?
Today’s pop culture is tomorrow’s great art (whether it deserves to be or not).
I saw a special on performing Shakespeare with the original pronunciations. Many more puns were unearthed.
And it rhymed better.
Me, I like Marlowe.
Because Marlowe is harder for mush heads to understand.
I find this whole thing to be somekindofphobic. It is denying those that like to come on from behind their rights! WTF???
I have Bloomberg News droning in the background. A little while ago, somebody said market futures are up because Biden did not pick Warren.
Was it the eagles flying overhead or what they opined from the sheep’s entrails?
Most of the top brass dem masters decided a long time ago that Warren gave Biden the best chance to win. But being woke is more important to them than winning. That’s why the markets are up, they’re throwing the race.
No joy in Mudville this morning. Mighty Antone Melton-Meaux has struck out.
Ilhan Omar won the primary by about 18% yesterday. I’m stunned that it was that high. I thought she was in for a much closer race. Omar ended up with 57% of the vote.
More results.
Is it me, or do the DFL vote totals seem a little high?
Lacy Johnson got a higher percentage of votes than Omar, thereby I declare Lacy the winner in District 5.
She gets as many or more votes as were cast for all candidates in other districts? Hmm, that does seem – unusual.
How many mail in ballots were there?
Six times the number of voters?
Sounds legit.
Even with the machine behind her it’s amazing someone so obviously corrupt just sails through. SMDH.
Commies want to burn everything down, so they need the most vile leaders they can get. She is nearly perfect for the job.
My GOP critter had to resign because a restaurant he owned was paying illegals under the table. In a city that wants to fine people for calling them “illegals” and where every single restaurant does the exact same thing.
Meanwhile, she launders far more money over to her third husband and nobody bats an eyelash.
Is sloop ok without Ohio State football?
He’s got a cluster of comfort happening right now. Woe unto his business rivals come the morn.
Good morning, Banjos!
You are quite literally the only thing good on the interwebz this morning.
Well, you and the Salty Dog Blues.
Mornin’
https://youtu.be/aa9JH_iUSzg
OK. Banjos, SDB and that.
More panic, please
Earlier this summer, students at the University of Virginia packed bars, rental houses, apartments and fraternity houses as part of Midsummers, a party and reunion tradition of students.
Watching the surge in large gatherings on social media and hearing from concerned residents prompted Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker to call UVA’s plan to bring students back to campus a “recipe for disaster.” At a virtual press conference, Walker said local officials had little power to control student behavior and that their only option would be to work with the university president and Gov. Ralph Northam.
“I, for one, do not understand why the students are coming back into the community from all over the globe and why we would take that chance,” Walker said. She said she was worried that once the students come and then leave, the city will be left “cleaning up the fallout.”
The university ended up delaying undergraduate in-person instruction and residence hall move-in dates by two weeks and scolded students for their recklessness. “If such behavior continues, we will not make it long into the fall semester before a significant outbreak occurs and we then need to send students home,” Dean of Students Allen Groves wrote in a letter to students. “That’s the self-interested motivation to do better.”
Bodies piled in the street. Carrion eaters roaming freely. Buzzards thick as starlings. We cannot risk it!
I assume she’s standing on top of the pile of dead bodies of Liberty U. students.
Sky as black as night, the “summer that ne’er was”… Oh wait, we’ve already got that. High temp yesterday was 55 degrees astronaut. In August.
We’re finally NOT hitting 90 today. W00t!
Of course, 100% humidity and thunderstorms but I’ll take it.
Just hitting the 90 here, 71% humidity. It doesn’t feel as hot as it was over the weekend. Well, it isn’t, but it doesn’t feel nearly as hot.
Missing from the article: Any indication that a single person caught the ‘Vid at these parties.
At a different school:
“In one of the first weeks students were back on campus, 13 UNC students tested positive for Covid-19, according to UNC’s dashboard of cases on campus. UNC’s first day of classes was Monday.“
So they didn’t catch it at school (a bit of context mysteriously missing). Also missing: the positivity rate, which if they are testing everyone is likely around 1 in 2 or 3 thousand.
These people are retarded. The colleges are really perfect settings for achieving herd immunity among the young and mostly invulnerable. It’s such a mind fuck we are still here mentally with no end in sight.
A big part of the strategy of the left is to break apart families, friends, and have everyone at each other’s throat or at least not communicating with each other on a personal level. One’s attention and devotion must be to the state, and the state only.
C-ville is certainly not a sleepy college town that’s totally dependent on the students for funds, but it’s still absolutely staggering that a mayor of a town with a major state university in it is publicly calling for 30,000 wallets to stay out of her jurisdiction this year.
The Democratic Party is completely divorced from basic economic reality.
Charlottesville is a haven for rich progs who wanted out of DC. They’re wholly divorced from reality in general, not just economically.
this. Charlottesville used to be what Viking describes maybe 15-25 years ago now the local traffic in that area rivals fucking anywhere in nova.
I’m surprised that BLM/Antifa are not trying to #CancelUVA, seeing as it was created by a white slave-owner.
From my outsider perspective living in NoVa for a while, most people talked about Charlottesville like Carolinian yuppies talked about Asheville or like Texan hipsters talk about Austin.
“It’s our oasis of culture in a backwards desert of redneck tractor pulls and turkey shoots”
I’d highly suggest visiting Monticello, before these luddites burn it down. There people are every bit as ignorant and backwards as the Taliban.
I’ve been twice. It’s neat. Smaller than you think though. I haven’t been to Mt. Vernon, but I don’t really want to venture to that part of the state.
“The Democratic Party is completely divorced from basic economic reality.”
Well, they aren’t. It’s just that their economic reality is not the same as those of us who value individualism and free markets.
To them, the state should be the sole owner and arbiter of the economy. Only the state can fairly decide how economic activity is carried out and how the limited resources are distributed in an equitable manner.
Does that make economic sense? No, but we have to do it because it’s the right thing to do. when all of this strife is gone, we can all be happy in our little gray tiny homes with our equitable rations.
The old machine Democrats understood that there had to be a cow to milk, a goose to collect the golden eggs from.
Like I said, C-Ville isn’t solely dependent on UVA, but it’s still a big chunk revenue for the city from things like food and alcohol sales, events, concerts. Oh, and if all that student housing is empty, how will landlords pay their property taxes.
The old Left knew that the sheep had to be alive to sheer it. They just wanted to wet their beak. These new lefties seem to think they can outlaw commerce and they’ll still collect taxes ex nihilio.
I’m sort of starting to see it like this.
The old guard dems, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, the people who you are referring to as want to wet their beaks, they are dying off.
The ones who came after them are just the followers, the new generation of good ol boys in the swamp. Just like the RINOs on the other (same) side, they didn’t want to rock the boat too much, just keep their comfy seats warm.
Then along came the new generation of radicals and they just rolled right over the old guard while the new guard wannabes stood their in terror.
Ever see The Wire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-j5XWo1fPI
The old Democratic Party was funded by and supported by American workingmen. It was built on people who dug coal. Who built cars. Who moved freight on and off ships. Who put up buildings, made roads, grew food. It was a party who’s goals and policies were built around hard, concrete, things. Schools. Healthcare. Old age pensions.
The new Democratic Party is funded by Big Tech, Big Law, and Hollywood. It’s a party funded by abstract thinkers and creators, and its goals reflect that. Everything is about optics and abstractions.
Dosage (incl. viral load) is apparently an esoteric concept to the functional illiterates that call themselves journalists.
One germ- one molecule! and you’re a goner.
Germ = Molecule = Mole. My Journalisamiming Degree.
New Study Links Covid to Moles.
Biden’s promise for a female candidate aside, would Bernie Sanders have been a better pick or worse pick, strategically, for Biden?
No. Bernie Bros are a tiny minority of the coalition. If he’d picked a no-name like that Atlanta Mayor, maybe. He needed Oprah or the Wookie. That’s just the BIPOC ones…
Yes. They ceded all ground on police reform with Kama Kama Kama Kameleon.
^^^ unloved comment.
But Horizontal is promising abolishing the police. You don’t believe her?
Bernie would have been a way better pick, of course. They aren’t interested in winning, I’m convinced now. They want to appease BLM and keep the riots going.
I’ve been kind of circling around the idea they aren’t actually interested in winning since they impeached trump in January, they just need someone who won’t be a total drag and have some kind of coattails. They have gone total scorched earth, this mail in ballot scheme and choosing someone who literally brings nothing to the table but negatives is just more evidence. they can fund raise off the fact trump stole the election through fraudulently throwing away mail in ballots and hold endless impeachment hearings and wait for an economic rebound of some kind for 2024. In fairness unseating a sitting president is incredibly hard.
When’s the last time we had a one term POTUS? Well, we both know that, but I’m agreeing with you. Trump voters are extremely motivated. Biden voters are not. And then the Kamala thing. A CA democrat who is unlikable as it gets. They just threw the swing states, for what? To get black women more excited to vote? Harris is not even black. And they pissed off the Bernie bros, and what are black men to think of this harpy and former cop sucker who threw young black men in prison like you’d throw a beer can in your kitchen garbage?
I think they just want to stir more agitation. Look forward to 4 more years of the same, riots, lockdowns, still better than Biden as president.
Colorism is a thing in the black community.
“Biden is mocked for using a SCRIPT during his video call to Kamala Harris asking her to be his VP pick – as he posts photo that also reveals a mystery caller on his smashed iPhone”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8618031/Biden-mocked-using-SCRIPT-call-Kamala-Harris-asking-running-mate.html
Otherwise he might have ordered a pizza.
Will we be hearing cries of “Oreo!” in response to the Harris pick?
She’s more of a samosa.
Crusty on the outside, full of potatoes and peas on the inside?
Full of Willy on the inside.
And all you can really taste is the dipping sauce anyway.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8619251/Demi-Rose-showcases-eye-popping-assets-miniscule-bikini.html
Nope. Incredible curves.
I like my red-pilled rants like I like my coffee.
Tasty. Thanks!
“The daughter of immigrants with the White House in her reach: Meet Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris who prosecuted criminals and savaged Trump’s nominees (and was helped to the top by her married lover)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8616277/Meet-Joe-Bidens-running-mate-Kamala-Harris.html
That’s some headline.
Needs more SHOUTY
https://twitter.com/Jorgensen4POTUS/status/1293291018905935876
She realizes Biden is one of her opponents no?
I’m done with this “We’ll campaign against the GOP, but not against the Dems” attitude from the last two LP candidates. You should be droping nukes on both of them daily. I’ve entirely soured on the point and purpose of the LP, and think it is entirely doomed to fail. I guess it’s time i write up my article about that.
She’s fucking terrible.
Nice work, LP. You did it again.
I’m 100% convinced the LP is just a Trojan horse.
Or it’s been skinsuited.
So ladydooms voice is a different woman having a chance a power?
Isn’t her voice hers? Or her actions? Say, voting?
Way to collectivist, Jo.
When did the LP go with “no enemies on the left”, anyway?
Yeah, I am with you on this. I’m done with them. The Libertarian party is a joke and its existence discredits the philosophy. We need to abandon the libertarian name and start fresh.
why don’t we just add a “g” at the beginning?
Nothing like getting retweeted by Dave.
*Ducks*
Welcome to the Liberaltarian Party.
I mean great, but Kamala Harris is terrifyingly authoritarian. Perhaps even more than Pence
Pence is authoritarian?
Pence is going to kidnap Jo and force her to read bible verses.
From one of the replies
https://twitter.com/jamesmiltonray/status/1293527370842939392?s=21
this.
OK, Jollary.
Wow, that bat really did a number on her.
Fuck the LP. At this point it is actively working against liberty and the possibility of getting some libertarians in public office.
She sucks, the LP Is a joke, and no one is going to miss that .5% of the vote either way.
They got to Shaun King!
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1293351604998086657
No way out
A North Carolina dog that died after suffering an “acute illness” earlier this month has tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Monday.
The death could mark a rare, potentially fatal case of COVID-19 in a pet, though it’s still unclear if there were other underlying conditions that contributed to its death.
The dog was brought to the NC State Veterinary Hospital in Raleigh on Aug. 3 after showing signs of respiratory distress earlier that day, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
The person who brought the animal to the hospital told staff members that a family member had previously tested positive for coronavirus, though a later test returned negative results, the department said.
Citing patient confidentiality, the department did not provide additional information about the dog or the person who brought it to the hospital.
We’re doomed.
DOOOOOOOOMED, I tells ya!
The virus jumped!
Rectally, prolly.
I had an employee express concern that extra rolls of toilet paper were left on the toilet tank and that someone may cough onto them.
Someone called us the other day to report a worker not wearing a mask.
In his van. By himself.
“We’ll make sure to deal with this in an appropriate manner.”
/puts extra rolls of toilet paper on the employee’s desk in a plastic bag
Wait, I can get free toilet paper by complaining stupidly?
“If that a concern, I have to worry about what you’re doing with the toilet paper.”
I’d tell the employee that we’re going to send all those rolls of toilet paper to the local clinic to be tested to see if any of them had caught the ‘rona.
Huh.
Patient confidentiality FOR A DOG.
The lowest common denominator.
A county in Virginia is discouraging parents from hiring private tutors for their children while refusing to provide in-person instruction in public schools.
“While [the Fairfax County Public School system] doesn’t and can’t control these private tutoring groups, we do have concerns that they may widen the gap in educational access and equity for all students,” said a memo from one of the nation’s largest school systems on Friday. Many parents are working together to hire private tutors to teach their children in small groups at home.
“We have received some requests from parents who would like to cluster groups or pods of students together with a specific teacher. From both a logistical perspective, and in the interest of educational equity, FCPS cannot accommodate such requests,” the memo continued.
The Trees was supposed to be some silly 1970s parable in song, not an instruction manual.
And here i thought Kids were our most valuable investment.
As if I needed any more proof that the public school system is a farce and a threat to well-being.
My main takeaway from that story is the county is worried that all those teachers who bitched and bitched about how unsafe in person school is are going to double dip by homeschooling the kids they were deathly afraid of and to get in front of that story which will appear in wtop in about a month.
My coworker’s grandkids are in a nice affluent public school. They have pooled with a few other families and hired a teacher to tutor. One of the families is paying 10%, the other 3 paying 30% each, the 10% family has a WFH parent and a spare room thats already been set up with desks and supplies and hardwired Internet. So the other parents will drop off or let their kids walk over every morning, and then the teacher will supervise them go through their virtual learning.
According to my coworker, 14 other teachers at that school have quit, presumably to take up similar arrangements.
The public schools have no idea what they’ve done. They bitch about how terrible the kids are now, there aren’t going to be any good kids left.
I can’t wait for the destruction of the public skooling system! Thank you, COVID!
Yeah, and I’m not bleeding heart, but these are the kids who have affluent parents that can afford to do this and also keep paying their property taxes.
It’s absolutely infuriating to me that the government is telling poor and middle class parents
“Keep paying your thousands of dollars in property taxes, but we’re not actually going to take care of your kids all day, feed them, transport them, and entertain them. You get a Zoom call instead. “
(signed)
Diana Moon Glampers
Yeah, well, some students have bigger houses, fancier cars, and designer clothes too.
Money can be exchanged for nice things we like. That’s part of why we strive to earn money.
This is a big thing in leftist education administartor circles. I think it was Minnesota that was going to do no school because doing online school might exclude people who couldn’t reach it.
We must all be equally deprived, so that equality can be achieved.
And when that doesn’t work because the single largest factor in diverging abilities is nature not nurture we’ll just strip the successful of their rights.
Pikers! NYC ponied up for internet connections to every student house that had none and complimentary iPads for every student and teacher. Also, the City is still providing free school breakfasts and lunches to any minor who shows up to one the schools used as a food center.
With all this extra hand-washing, we’re going to use up all the water!
Four months sounds about right.
The Appeals court is playing a dangerous game if they let Sullivan stay on the case at all. 1) He cannot have standing 2) since they already granted him the hearing, he either has been disqualified by making himself a party to the case. 3) By allowing Sullivan appoint his own special prosecutor (in the guise of an Amicus) and telling him what to investigate and argue, Sullivan has usurped constitutional authority. I don’t know how that is remedied except by a mandamus.
Or impeachment and removal.
“Analysis: No, Kamala Harris didn’t call Joe Biden racist”
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1293352043973926913
Yeah, OK, sure.
I’m not calling you racist, but…
Yeah, that sentence always is going to imply you’re a racist.
^^^ This. She did everything but say the words “Joe Biden is a Racist”. And it doesn’t take a person telling you that she called him a racist to be convinced of that. Just have Trump play that clip on a million ads
And Trump needs to use the clip of Tulsi nuking Harris on stage.
But my prediction is that the networks will attempt to stop that via frivolous copyright claims.
Apparently the school wants all of us to get tested today.
They’ve had us coming into work for months. They already let students move on campus. We’ve already all been in contact.
*It’s just all so tiresome.jpeg*
My son gets covid re-opening videos emailed from his school every day. I watched one – it’s ridiculous. Is there a group less likely to get seriously ill from covid and less likely to follow all these stupid rules than 19-year-old college kids?
Today they announced that anyone using the school gyms has to wear a mask the whole time, which means I have to pay for a private gym membership this semester.
It’s absurd at best.
Postponing college football? What the hell for? There is probably not a segment of the population less likely to get seriously ill than a college athlete.
And do they think the virus will be gone in the spring? What will be different at that point?
At least we dont have to watch usc lose games they should be winning?
The school is fucked. Fuck, I hope facilities tests positive. Admin has been screwing everyone.
Is there a group less likely to get seriously ill from covid and less likely to follow all these stupid rules than 19-year-old college kids?
My 4 year old? On both counts.
Yes – but you haven’t given up supervising that kid full-time.
Are you sure?
“Casino fined for allowing church service”
Do all the drinking and gambling you like, but if I see a single one of you praying…
“I was praying only cuz I was splitting 6’s, I swear!”
Heh.
I dreamed last night I was on a boat to heaven…”
I know the FYTW clause is in full affect, but this is just such a blatant infringement on multiple basic constitutional rights it stuns me.
“Police also attempted to stop the event multiple times after it began but were halted by Trump’s legal team who were at the event, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal.”
Send lawyers, guns and money.
Sorry, everyone. I decided to be more woke.
My first step is to help as many young women as Willie Brown helped Kamala, no matter how much hard and sweaty work is involved.
You are a monster.
…with a sore penis.
Sounds like some hard work
SJWednesday: I’m Tired, So Tired, Let’s Face It I’m Pooped!
“I’m not racist, so why is that my responsibility?”
Good point, I’m going to have to side with the white person on this one.
Always the right move.
“Be a good little commie and take responsibility for your collective.”
Alternate White person: What am I doing that’s racist you bigot?
I hate people who are racists, also all white people are racists and that’s okay.
Ibram Kendi nods.
“Look, the spider demons are inside your brain. It’s not your fault. But all of you white people have spider demons in your brain.”
If I’m not a bad person, then why are we even talking? Go find some bad people to harangue. Or a brick wall, or something.
The goal is to get an admission of guilt they can use at any time to rhetorically beat you over the head with or cancel you if you even hint of breaking from the thought herd. I file it under It doesn’t hurt to ask. I constantly ask these communists to go jump off bridges.
A: “You need to stop eating toast”
B: “But I don’t eat toast. I don’t even like bread”
A: “But somebody is eating toast and you still eat other food so you need to take responsibility for funding the food industry that produces bread which can be toasted”
B: “You’re starting to make toast sound good”
Damn you. I’m trying to cut back on eating.
And I just finished off my bison/venison ground mix.
Such a martyr.
Michael Flynn – must really have some dirt on a lot of people for them to keep dragging this crap out. Will it all get dropped the day after the election, just like all the covid bs?
I doubt it. I think a lot of people like using their power to torture the enemy.
Maybe but maybe they’re just a bunch of hateful bastards that get off on making their perceived enemies suffer.
Why would they antagonize a guy with dirt on them? If they succeed he’s got nothing left to lose and no reason to not spill the beans.
SBBC 2020!
I listened to some of the arguments and to my non lawyer ears it sounded like they were using an irrelevant procedural mistake on Powell’s part to undermine her otherwise solid arguments.
Compassionate justice
Flanked by more than a dozen community leaders, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced Tuesday that his office will not pursue cases against most Portland protesters.
The new policy states that only demonstrators who were involved in “deliberate property damage, theft or force against another person or threats of force” may face charges.
Schmidt said the prosecution of cases “relating solely to protest activities,” including interfering with police, disorderly conduct, or criminal trespass “have a weak nexus to further criminality.” He also suggested their prosecution unnecessarily siphons crucially needed resources from within the district attorney’s office.
“We recognize that we undermine public safety, not promote it, if we leverage the force of our criminal justice system against peaceful protesters who are demanding to be heard,” he added.
——-
The rallies in Portland had begun to lose momentum before July. But President Trump’s deployment of federal agents to guard a downtown federal courthouse in early July reinvigorated the demonstrations that often end in violent clashes.
U.S. Marshals, Border Patrol officers and other federal agents regularly fire tear gas, rubber bullets and other projectiles at crowds that gather in front of the courthouse. In the late hours of the night, demonstrators often rattle a series of temporary gates surrounding the building. They have on several occasions broken through.
President Cartoon Villain made them do those things. They’re mostly peaceful, absent provocation.
And all those other people? You know, taxpayers, people who work for a living, people who just want to live their lives in peace? Well, fuck them. They can’t expect to just skate along on their whitey privilege forever.
“Rallies” began to lose momentum, stated without evidence.
SJWednesday: Help Needed
They’ve turned personality into Gender, and all went to the Asshole gender.
” I have lots of masculinity”
Oooooooh kaaaaay
“It’s in a jar.”
I keep it with my mojo.
I’ve been a tomboy my whole life. I’ve often hated being a woman. But I am a chick, clearly. Never thought of myself any other way. I agree with leon that personality traits are now somehow considered gender.
And I cringe at the thought of what would have happened to me if I had been born recently to SJW parents.
It’s abusive and creates little navel-gazing, self-absorbed, narcissistic monsters.
If my kids were to bring up the gender crap, my response would be “I don’t care. Do something productive and worthwhile if you want my approval. Declaring yourself to be special doesn’t make you special and will not provide you with any self-esteem. That can only be achieved with effort and dedication.”
It horrifies me. I was a kid in the late 90s and early 00s. At that time, the whole message that was being pushed was that boys and girls could like whatever they wanted to like. In the 90s cartoons and kids TV shows, the girls were just as tough and heroic and smart and likely to be the leaders as the boys. Sometimes over done, to the point where all the boys on the show were fucking idiots.
Think Rocket Power, Boy Meets World, Captain Planet, the Johnny Quest remake, Even Stevens.
Now it’s been totally reversed stereotypes went from a bad thing to a determinant of your gender. Tomboys are actually transmen. Sensitive boys who don’t like sports are now transwomen. Time to shoot them up with hormones and start chopping bits off.
Wait… bike shorts make me look feminine? I thought they just made me look like an asshole.
Only if you aren’t with a bicycle.
Well, I do walk into breweries or restaurants after riding my bike there. With a jersey and cap on too.
I dunno. When I wear bike shorts there are some bits of my anatomy which are a little more obvious than usual but my asshole isn’t one of them.
How many lawyers stand to gain truckloads of money from the litigation against the parents, doctors and psychologists this gender cult thing is going to precipitate in the next five years?
Watch for Zardoz’s advice on a “Dear Abby” letter today. Guy is dating a woman who revealed she is transgendered. Abby replies that the woman was “not assigned as a female at birth.” Assigned? Ain’t science denial wonderful?
Hmm, who exactly is responsible for that “assigning”? Nature doesn’t assign shit.
The man does the assigning via his demon sperm. Women have no say in birth sex, which is VERY PROBLEMATIC!
“Overeducated”.
“The “suburban housewife” will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood. Biden would reinstall it, in a bigger form, with Corey Booker in charge!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293517514798960640
Uhhhhhhh……
STFU Donny
I’m afraid i cant do that scruffy
Open the pod bay doors, Leon.
+1 First Blood
My town went through it – no more development without state-approved “low-income” housing. When the state, town, and developers get into a big brawl, you know the loser is going to be the taxpayers.
Luckily here in Podunkville all housing is low income.
Maybe Trump should go with “Sleepy and Grumpy”. That leaves him five more nicknames for Senate candidates.
(or just call them all “Dopey”)
Regarding Malls- they have a significant problem, in that Anchor stores are needed to bring people into the mall, while also generating significant rent. I just have a hard time seeing how that space gets effectively used by Amazon. If it is a distribution center, people aren’t showing up to shop, but to pick up a package before leaving.
One of the richest malls in the country is near me, and they just lost their Sears. But they still have a Sax, Nordstroms, Macy’s, to the point that they probably could have the Amazon there, especially if they also provide logistical services to the stores there at the mall. But a lot of malls probably don’t have that luxury.
I think one of the key things malls could do is turn them into the markets like you see in asia, packed with small booths for cooking or selling tiny things. It may not be what most americans want, but it can be contained inside the big box, and will draw in deal seekers, who then might migrate out to the other shops.
The fiscal Armageddon in my area is going to come more from the commercial offices than the malls. People will always shop at the brick an motors but yeah you’re future sounds about right.
Regarding Malls- they have a significant problem, in that Anchor stores are needed to bring people into the mall, while also generating significant rent. I just have a hard time seeing how that space gets effectively used by Amazon. If it is a distribution center, people aren’t showing up to shop, but to pick up a package before leaving.
One of the richest malls in the country is near me, and they just lost their Sears. But they still have a Sax, Nordstroms, Macy’s, to the point that they probably could have the Amazon there, especially if they also provide logistical services to the stores there at the mall. But a lot of malls probably don’t have that luxury.
I think one of the key things malls could do is turn them into the markets like you see in asia, packed with small booths for cooking or selling tiny things. It may not be what most americans want, but it can be contained inside the big box, and will draw in deal seekers, who then might migrate out to the other shops.
The nicest mall building in our area is being turned into a casino.
So a church it is then!
Some of them are doing exactly that. Especially with more immigrants living in the burbs.
In your neighborhood – your very own Wuhan wet market!
There is mall out on Lawn Guyland that has a Walmart as the anchor store, and another that has a community college as the entire basement level.
I went to a huge mall in Shanghai last December. It was all but empty of customers. My buddy who lives in Shanghai told me they keep the B&M shops open for customers to check sizes and see the actual merchandise before buying on-line. They don’t expect to make a lot of face-to-face sales but know that the B&M shops keep on-line transactions going.
I’ve ruminated on what will eventually happen to malls since they seem to be dying off.
Our local mall is losing the JC Penney; the girlfriend and I were there a few weeks ago to take advantage of the liquidation sale (snagged some nice shirts and a blazer for cheap). Now the only anchor store in that mall is a Dunnom’s Sporting Goods. There used to be a popular movie theater down there, and now they’ve converted it into a hotel with oddly low ceilings.
The Dan Bell “Dead Mall” series on YouTube is interesting if you’re a weirdo like me who enjoys looking at abandoned or nearly-abandoned things.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/trump-vs-biden-top-battleground-states-2020-vs-2016/
I’ve started following this graph/ set of polls. The 2020 differental vs 2016 differental has flipped into Trumps direction for the first time since June. In short, Trump is polling better against Biden than he was against Hillary at the same time in 2016.
How relevant that is may be up for debate, but i find it a good data point to look at. Also I don’t know how much of this is just driven by the fact that Hillary seemed to get a much larger boost from the convention than Biden is at this time. We’ll have to wait and see what effects Kamala has on this.
Good morning Banjos. Good morning all.
I’m in a high anxiety state as I just dropped the 17-year-old at the vet.
Awfully young to be a vet. Doggie Hauser? 😉 Hope the kitty is ok.
Well, the Head Ball Coach weighed in on the footbaw season. As usual, he ain’t wrong.
At least this year i won’t have to watch Utah do really well agasint the piss poor teams of the PAC-12 south, and then get stomped on by Washington or Oregon.
“Despite uptick, TSA traffic is down 70% from a year ago.”
So, for some macabre reason, I like to watch those Air Disaster type shows. I was watching one last night where the issue was an airline had been losing money for a while, had to make cutbacks (including mechanics) and eventually OOPS! a wing falls off.
I’m not in the airline industry and don’t know much about it, but my first thought on seeing that and knowing what’s going on now was, “uh-oh.”
Are any of you on Parler? I just joined and am liking it.
Random thought:
In WWII, the Queen of England declined to retreat to a safe(r) location when the Germans were bombing England nightly.
Joe Biden is too chicken to leave his bunker to be declared the Democratic Party’s candidate for the Presidency of the United States.
He just does what his handlers tell him to do at this point.
I think the refusal to go to the convention was rather revealing. They (the campaign and Biden (ostensibly)) know that he is under attack about his mental capability, and so coming out and giving a speech at the convention (something expected) would help bolster him on that end. By declining to go, they are refusing to push back on this issue, by doing something expected.
But maybe its all a ploy, and everyone will be floored by him as he runs into the debates, ripped and shirtless doing 100 pushups.
How the lefties picture Biden
Reality
At least Pike’s beeps weren’t gaffe prone.
You’d think they’d be able to give him a better interface.
They had already spent their SFX budget on green body makeup.
*beeps ‘no’*
But he’s man enough to ride a bike, so he’s got that going for him.
By the way, I love that image of Biden: old man riding a bike outdoors, wearing a mask but not a helmet.
Well, there is no point in protecting his brain.
True, that ship has sailed.
After Buckingham Palace was bombed, she quipped – “I am glad we have been bombed. Now we can look the East End in the eye.”
A mad rush for the exits as New York City goes down the tubes
Nice house on acre + hitting the market soon in semi-rural area! One mile from bus or train service to NYC if you have to go there once in a while.
RECOUNT THE CENSUS!!
You have to bring your own security though because the cops are defunded and replaced with Community Counselors.
We don’t have a town police force. I know for a fact that at least half the people on my short street own firearms. Been shooting with some of them.
There’s some regional fighting here in Ohio about who gets the taxes from the employees when they’re working from home. Under the original law, if you’re not in the city they get no taxes from you. So work from home workers only pay taxes to the city they live (and now work) in. Due to the COVID lockdowns, and everyone working from home. An emergency bill was passed to allow the cities to keep collecting income tax as if the employees were going into the office (pay the city you work in, and the city you live in). This was promoted as a way to keep it easier for business to not have to change withholding in the midst of everyone shifting to WFH.
There’s already a couple of lawsuits that I’ve heard of for employees suing the state their office is in to get back that withheld taxes (as they didn’t work there, and there’s no claim to the taxes).
One of the Ohio lawmakers has proposed a bill that would roll back the “temporary” measure. So the cities that courted all of the office jobs are strongly against this, while the suburban areas are for it.
Couldn’t they have done this before April 1? Now we have to wait 10 years for the next census.
“Census? Reapportionment? That’s rich. We’ve abolished that old racist piece of paper.”
Kamala Harris confirmed as the Donkey’s pitcher of warm spit.
Kamala Harris confirmed as the Donkey’s aspiring pitcher of warm spit.
And I kinda thought she was more of a catcher.
and that ain’t spit ?
No, no it’s definitely snot.
Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney Mike Schmidt to Limit Criminal Charges Against Protesters
That should stop your city from turning into a hellhole.
I’ll just leave this here https://ibb.co/100jqfc
And they call everyone else conspiracists.
A Fish Named Wackadoodle
LOL. That can’t be real
It’s real.
https://twitter.com/jamieleecurtis/status/1293246051772588032
Sounds plausible, either that or the postal truck broke down.
So, Ms. Curtis doesn’t know what a tow truck is for?
BTW, the actual Tweet is still there as of this morning. I just took a screen shot, because the rule on the Tweeters is “always be screenshotting”
Yep, it’s real:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jamieleecurtis/status/1293246051772588032
Twitter links don’t work for me, tell me she’s getting properly roasted in the replies.
The ratio is…golden
Yeah, she’s getting slagged pretty good.
It’s sad to see her going down this route. I always liked her stuff.
You mean, you liked her rack.
What did she ever write?
“Girl, you need to check the expiration date on that yogurt.”
Lost her mind. That is akin to 9-11 and chemtrails conspiracy shit right there
Mild-mannered Glenn Reynolds has officially snapped.
His field of Fucks to Give is barren.
well Glenn Imho they never had moral authority to begin with, smokers realized this years ago. The morality angle is just a means to an end to get you to change your behavior to what they want. They don’t really care about you in fact they actually want you dead and will tell you that.
And he was showing signs of being a Branch Covidian earlier.
he had completely bought in when this broke.
I don’t blame people for panicking in March, or April. Even May. The downside risk of an actual, no shit, deadly virus is worth hedging against.
But it’s fucking August and the governments and the experts are still pretending this is Captain Trips.
I think the technocrats and smart people who still think this is a thing can’t be brought back to the edge because they got this so categorically wrong and the immoral knuckle dragging apes were far more right. This kills them. We won’t get those people back till vaccine they are to politically bought in and admitting they were wrong or coming clean would be tantamount to saying they were a traitor to their class for insufficiently worshiping the experts.
Oh absolutely, its the New Class of Knowledge Workers versus The Deplorables, just like so many conflicts in 2020 America.
“We won’t get those people back till vaccine they are to politically bought in and admitting they were wrong or coming clean would be tantamount to saying they were a traitor to their class for insufficiently worshiping the experts.”
I think if Biden loses, they will make some sort of histrionic nonsense about “Well, we’re all dead anyway, might as well get back to normal life and enjoy it while we can”
At this point, we’re talking about fiscal reality: these lockdown states need a bailout bad.
Everyone I know has been living their life as much normal as they can. In fact I would wager and in many cases know for a fact the the biggest bitching branch covidian assholes in my timeline actually are able and doing and partaking in far more risky activities than the people they regard as grandma killers. It’s just really hard for me to get my head wrapped around the fact that so many people are willing to wreck and destroy so many people livelihoods for basically a rhetorical win against orangeman. I just can’t believe it. The fact that the legislature didn’t enact a blanket liability shield to all business’s for covid related illness tells me they are honestly torching america down on purpose.
I do. The panic was driven by obviously bad modeling, that was refuted within a week. If it took me half an hour on the Googles to see this was a panic and not a rational response to a new virus, then I don’t have much patience for those who did not.
BLM has officially worn out their welcome in black neighborhoods.
White Supremacists in Chicago!
I dropped the youngest off at school this morning. The car line was crazy because they have been encouraging people to drive their kids to school. We’re one of the few schools in our area offering in-person learning. I’m really hoping it goes well. Those kids need to be out and about interacting with each other.
Why would they encourage you to drive your kids to school?
And all the “public health” people complaining about this (Sturgis biker rally) can go fuck yourselves. You squandered all your moral authority rushing to line up in favor of the Black Lives Matter protests because you valued politics more than health.
*faints*
Mask up on Zoom! Don’t be selfish!
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article244861827.html
JFC.
Keep pressing. JFC is right
Utter insanity.
The march dispersed after less than an hour following the standoff, with an organizer saying they did not feel safe.
Good.
Exhibit A in favor the death penalty….
Neighbor reportedly rushes 5-year-old boy playing outside, puts a gun to his head, and executes him
https://www.theblaze.com/news/felon-rushes-5-year-old-boy-playing-outside-puts-a-gun-to-his-head-and-executes-him
Depressing read. Executed in front of his siblings.
He’ll be killed in prison for that. Intentional child murderers are a rung below pedos in the joint.
What in the hell?
Draw, hang, and gibbet that son of a bitch.
That is beyond words terrible
Jesus.
As my brother would have said, “Yeah, where was Jesus?”
SJWednesday: Vocab Lesson
Demisexual: A demisexual is a person who does not experience sexual attraction unless they form a strong emotional connection with someone. In general, demisexuals are not sexually attracted to anyone of any gender; however, when a demisexual is emotionally connected to someone else (whether the feelings are romantic love or deep friendship), the demisexual (may) experience(s) sexual attraction and desire, but only towards the specific partner or partners.
So, like…human? I’m only attracted to people whose personalities I take a shine to. Pretty sure that’s just being normal.
They’ve managed to take the entirety of personality and turn it into an expression of sexual preference.
Presumably because sexual preference outside of plain old heterosexuality confers victimhood status and makes you special without any particular effort other than your own proclamation.
Had an acquaintance come out as “poly” recently because she was living with a couple. I’m thinking, “Wait, so two of you are coming out as bi and one of you is coming out as “dude who likes to bang chicks?”
I think a lot of it is jealousy over the attention that was showered by the media on those who came out. At one time it was a big deal to come out, now it just seems irrelevant and self-absorbed, particularly the ever smaller variants of “non-hetero.”
You get a label! And you get a label! Everyone gets a label!
It’s basically a fancy way of saying “I don’t do one night stands with insufferable but attractive people.”
A guy I knew a few years back was excessively handsome and built, but had this awful voice, laugh, and was just incredibly off putting. Had no natural conversational flow, told weird jokes, laughed too loud and too long. So he’d strike out a lot, because he had the looks of Ryan Gosling but his voice and charm was like Steve Urkel.
A female friend of ours finally told him “Dude, when girls come up to you, just lead them out to the dance floor and go over by the speakers. Don’t say a word, just hold her and dance and let her feel your muscles. Smile and make noncommitall noises. Speak as little as possible, and change your voice to something deeper and slower. Don’t tell any jokes. Your jokes suck.”
I was talking about this with my neighbor. Basically, I can see a good-looking guy (OMG), but he won’t ever become fantasy fodder unless & until I can see his personality. Looks alone don’t get my genitals revved up.
I just thought that was how most people operated. No idea I had some kind of sexual preference other than hetero.
yeah, that’s called being a woman. Women aren’t as visually stimulated as men.
There are girl-parts and boy-parts. There are occasionally both-parts. But there are no no-parts. You are what your parts say you are. Who you want to bang is totally different.
But there are no no-parts.
Kinky.
Eunuchs hardest hit.
Eunuchs’ stones are usually removed and they still keep the dangly bit.
Eunuchs in China went whole hog. Nothing left but a stitched up scar with a hole to urinate through. If they survived the procedure.
Did not know that.
“Demisexual: A demisexual is a person who does not experience sexual attraction unless they form a strong emotional connection with someone.”
No, it isn’t.
A demisexual is someone who is attracted to a thicc British IG model.
Yeh. Color me skeptical. Something tells me this may be flawed but I’m not smart enough to detect it. Does laser pick up virus particles?
https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/duke-university-face-mask-researchers-share-more-on-study/
The surgical mask comes in at #2. Which is all you need to know. Medical masks have NEVER been seen as effective against viruses and there’s reason why they were never suggested during flu season. Which doesn’t say much about the rest of the stupid idiotic masks in the study from Duke Univ.
Debating the effectiveness is ceding the more important ground that says “if it works, it can be mandated”.
It doesn’t matter if it works, don’t tell me what to do.
Yeah… that’s the study saying that neck gaiters are worse then nothing.
/pulls up neck gaiter
I read that a day or so ago. Seemed like one of the lamer studies as it was totally focused on water droplets and not on viruses. If the science was settled that the main transmission of C19 was water droplets, it might have some value but there isn’t any proof of how C19 is transmitted; water droplet transmission is nothing but a theory at this point.
So you are correct that it’s nothing but a report on which masks are the least useless since none of them are effective.
Does laser pick up virus particles?
AEROSOL!!!!!!!!
Laying the groundwork for President Copmala
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1293328417555918848
CNN is getting ready to make the argument that Biden should step aside.
Yep. After seeing that Tweet, I’m 100% convinced the plan is to make Joe step aside in January/February. Kamala is literally Frank Underwood.
Now, now, they’ll let him enjoy the inauguration festivities, before he’s frog-marched out of the White House.
Exactly. That’s what I’ve been saying for months. He will not be replaced before the election. He will resign very soon after inauguration.
CNN is confirming my speculation. We all know the lefty media is on the inside of the DNC and its plans.
Why bother they won’t need to they can just put him in the basement in a replica of the white house and let him pretend.
these people have not an ounce of shame. They are literally going to hand the keys of the most powerful position to a mentally compromised mouth breathing imbecile, and that was before he caught dementia, in order to have potemkin candidate for an establishment insider that has the charisma of a sandy wet towel and are not only happy about it but are actually telling everyone what their plan is. The hubris is mind-boggling and level of disdain this shows they have for the people voting for their candidate is incalculable.
I appreciate the honest and just confirms what most already know. It also makes me sad for fellow citizens that just shrug their shoulders at it.
I have FB friends that shrug their shoulders at Trump abusing EOs.
This is how a great country goes to hell.
Its what my brother cannot understand because he believe you must play the game and must always cheer for your team. I took my ball and went home a long time ago and he calls me a pussy for not picking a side. This coming from the guy who rightly told Baby Bush to fuck off for saying either you are with us or against us.
On FB I mention to my team blue friend that Kamala is a terrible choice. He asks me who I would’ve chosen. Tulsi. His response is:
Huh. That surprises me a bit given that she’s about as hawkish as a Bush or Clinton. Is that an “if I was a blue team strategist” pick or personal preference?
WTF? I get people live in bubbles, but that is insane.
I’ll trade you those friends for mine who constantly put up Robert Reich quotes.
Kamal gives me the same vibe as Warren. She would bomb a hospital in Iraq, to prove that she is a big strong woman leader who won’t be pushed around.
Clinton attacked her for not being a hawk. WTF?
Sadly, on FB you learn that many of your ‘friends’ are not very intelligent.
And not only unintelligent but also authoritarian and unprincipled as fuck.
Media, Ed. It’s amazing what blind confirmation bias can do to a man.
I have told friends that I refuse to talk politics in social settings. Then they go on Facederp and rattle on incessantly about politics. So I dropped Facederp and the rest.
Reminds me of the discussions I had with my conservative friends in 2016 who assured everyone that Trump was family values guy who respected the constitution.
Labor unions and airline executives have been pushing for $25 billion in additional assistance to preserve jobs through March 2021, a proposal that has gained bipartisan political support in recent weeks. That sector relief that could be included in the next coronavirus aid package, but lawmakers failed to reach a deal for a new package last week.
I’ll bet stocks are up because investors are gambling on a bail-out.
And now Nevada’s Democrat governor, the anti-science and bigoted Steve Sisolak, has not only publicly lashed out at the peaceful Christian gathering, the casino’s been punished with a $250 fine.
Fuck Gauleiter Sisolak.
I am still laughing at the $250 fine. Casinos will hedge that bet all day long if it gets
gamblersworshippers in the door.Yeah, I was outraged until the $250 bit.
Not to mention it’ll also net them good will with at least some of the religious community. That’s a small price to play. At some point they may take over the Bingo for the Catholics too. 🙂
Non-denomination churches don’t care where their services are held and will probably let the casinos know they will pay the fine if they continue to let them hold worship services. My guess, these will be more billed as spontaneous use of open space in the casino conference rooms.
True, but if this becomes a standard practice, it amounts to a tax on holding worship services.
Or…the casinos state their 250 is a charitable contribution to a non-profit hahaha
Call it a BLM rally (Baptised Lives Matter) or, better yet, a funeral service for a Civil Rights icon.
British Muzzleloaders compares the Lee-Enfield No. 4 with the Lee-Enfield No. 5.
I disagree with him about one thing: I noticed a huge difference in recoil between the No. 4 and No. 5.
My No. 5 has a slightly loose front sight. I remember tapping it with a drift to adjust, and the front sight just about slid out of the dovetail. I never fixed that and will need to before I shoot it again.
In the video he briefly mentions the Aussie version of the No. 5, which was designated the No. 6. The UK wouldn’t send equipment to make the No. 4 or No. 5 to Australia because the UK government was afraid the equipment would fall into Japanese hands. So, when the Aussies decided they wanted a shorter, lighter Lee-Enfield, they used the No. 1 Mk III as a base. They made 200 rifles for trials. A few made it out into the collector’s market. I saw one, a legitimate one, for sale on GunBroker. Some owner had drilled and tapped it for a scope. I think it eventually sold for $8,000.
I’ve heard some folks predicting that Pence will take Harris apart in the VP debate, like Tulsi did. A GOP operative acquaintance told me this morning that the GOP has already “focus grouped” that scenario. Tulsi took Kamala apart in a “cat fight” which the group enjoyed. But if Pence does it, it will look like a man piling on a woman in a not fair fight and will actually raise sympathy for Kamala. So look for Pence to be his usual boring self and hope that Kamala overdoes the screeching harpy persona.
I am sure the Trump campaign realizes that no matter what tactic they take it will always be written by the media as “hateful white guy” and “savior blasian(tm) woman”. Pence could probably debate and praise Kamala and it will still be written as he “pounced”.
That phrase is way too common across too many news outlets for me to believe that it wasn’t developed by a DNC focus group and sent out in a secret memo (Conspiracy theory? Yea maybe, but behind-the-scenes collusion between the DNC and the corporate media is already well documented, so it’s not an unfounded one).
From a rhetoric standpoint, it’s a good phrase. Rational people don’t pounce, only irrational animals pounce. It’s a good way to portray your opponents as crazy and borderline violent.
I don’t venture out into the rest of the internet outside here much – too busy with other stuff. So I thought this “pounce” phrase was just a gliberverse thing drawing directly to some kiddy program where the pint-sized heroes – each identifying as some sort of animal – go into action by “pouncing”. I was reading this as meaning the GOP attacks in the most ineffectual, almost silly manner even when they are going as full-bore as they can manage.
Naw. The WaPo did a back of the napkin search for the use and they concluded that news outlets use it more for Democrats/Liberals than for Republicans/Conservatives. When you read through it though, they don’t delve into the context of the headline and its use IMO.
Some highlights: TW WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/19/tucker-carlson-oversold-republicans-pounce-complaint/
Trump pounces on Heidi Cruz’s ‘immigrant’ flub — Republican reference.
Democrats pounce, painting Paul Ryan as out of step — Democrat reference.
One is written as a personal attack, the other as an opportunity.
It’s taking stories about Democrats doing something bad, and making them about the Republican reaction to it.
Thanks to both Ownbestenemy and Count Potato.
TIL about the “pounce” reference.
I think it indicates that the republicans don’t care, they are just always waiting to attack on the smallest slip up. It is a way to mitigate what you are doing by making it sound like the people attacking you are blowing it out of proportion and would attack you over anything.
This is why Trump needs to drop Pence and pick up Kristi Noem.
I think she is too smart for that.
She’s a big part of the reason I chose to vacation in SD next month. The other being that it’s north of NoVA.
Pence is dead weight. Trump should’ve dumped him for Nome.
Pence is good for VP because he is so square, and stable.
Dick Cheney was an outlier. Generally, VP’s don’t do much while in office.
He is a good contrast to Trump but they need more of a firebrand as the Senate President IMO
For those in NH: Reopen NH released a list of endorsed candidates.
The NH Liberty Alliance also released a list of endorsed candidates. The NHLA only endorses candidates for legislature.
There is some overlap between the two lists.
The state primary is September 8th.
I’ve seen some talk of town moderators requiring masks to vote or requiring all absentee ballots. There is no state law allowing town moderators to do this. If your town moderator does, file an election law complaint with the state Department of Justice.
State DoJ link for filing election law complaints..
Good to know.
Town votes to rescind license of N.J. gym whose owners repeatedly defied coronavirus restrictions
They mistakenly thought they lived in a free country with rights instead of permissions. I don’t usually pay much attention to Town Council elections, but I bet the next one in Bellmawr will be a doozy.
Abolish the need for licenses to run businesses.
“If @KamalaHarris
and I are elected, we’re going to inherit multiple crises, a nation divided, and a world in disarray. We won’t have a minute to waste.
That’s exactly why I picked her: She’s ready to lead on day one.”
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1293554330851827712
So that’s the plan?
They’re pretty much openly admitting that hes not fit to be POTUS. Which, hey anyone paying attention knew a while ago.
My wife who doesn’t like politics (and gets pissed at me for red pilling) was watching network news last night and that was her unsolicited observation after Biden was speaking.
He really sounds like a stroke victim. And not one recovering at the hospital or later.
Yeah I get the whole take of “people vote party not candidates” and “it’s all about turnout” I even get the endless harping about “white suburban moderates vote on their feeelzzzz”
But I seriously can’t imagine how 70 million people are going to watch Biden debate Trump 3 times and go “yeah all I care about is party, so I’m gonna vote for an obviously mentally unwell man to be President.”
Oh, and I still believe that if they cancel debates, those voters will score that as a forfeit by Biden, not a no contest.
That’s why they picked Someone ready to lead from day 1, So that the voter can be confident in picking Biden knowing they are actually picking Harris.
That didn’t go so well in the primaries when Kamala was the New York Times candidate of choice and was an actual presidential candidate you could vote for.
See, that just proves that the people are unfit to decide who their candidates should be.
I guess they honestly believe their own bullshit, that the only reason white working and middle class voters in the Midwest went Trump is sexism. That Biden just has to drive his Corvette to a couple events, talk about how much he loves hunting ducks or deer, and swear hes a really real Catholic, and all those dumbfuck rednecks will come right back.
“All Joe Sixpack needs to see is a white guy who they can have a beer with and tell racist jokes to, none of them actually vote on message or policy.” -Top Minds of the Democrat Party.
Sure, in the primaries when the voters had a choice, But now they can choose Her or choose Trump? They don’t want to be the reason Trump is in power again do they?
This is the exact play they will make, and the people who most opposed Kamala in the Primaries will be making it.
Better be ready. Gonna have to thaw out hell when he wins.
The real plan is the get everyone so outraged that Harris gets assassinated so Pelosi takes over.
I saw the discussion on the late thread about people losing their shit inside stores for being forced to wear masks. This store pretty much encapsulates Hyperbole’s take: https://imgur.com/PMTuwJ1
My only problem with this argument is, around here anyway, only one store had their own “must wear masks” policy. Every other one left it up to the customer until the state stepped in and passed the mandates. So I fully support the right of the stores to set their own policies and ask people to leave if they don’t follow them. The problem is, by and large, these aren’t the store’s policies, they’re the state’s policies and the state is using the leverage it has on the stores to get the stores to enforce them.
I think everyone thinks this is going to go away soon, it is not. We’re about 10 weeks away from flu season. Since for the vast majority of people flu is at least just as dangerous than this thing, there’s no point in putting them away now.
I get that and mostly agree. I’m just on board with the “if you yell at employees because you have to wear a mask inside the business then you’re a dick.”
Yeah, but who else can they yell at? The rulers restrict access. Like, the VA legislature is in session next week. Closed to the public. So the minority Republicans are going to try to pass a law restricting Coonman’s power to write EOs without any check or balance. I think the vote might go another way if the gallery was packed with pissed off people sick and tired of lockdowns and bankruptcies.
I don’t see how it can be allowed to be closed to the public. That defeats the point and purpose of our system of government.
Additionally I fully expect that atrocity of a bill* regarding banning virtually all firearms produced after 1900 to come to a floor vote, especially with no citizens to voice an opposing position. Buckle up. It’s about to get bumpy.
*Which entirely unconstitutional on several levels but it’s not like anyone cares.
“I don’t see how it can be allowed to be closed to the public. That defeats the point and purpose of our system of government.”
Website says the building is closed till October.
“Additionally I fully expect that atrocity of a bill* regarding banning virtually all firearms produced after 1900”
Uh what bill is this?
https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB961
That’s incredible. They really are going to keep this going to November. Amazing.
If you yell at an employee for almost any reason, you’re a dick.
That said, incentives matter. And it’s pretty clear that people are being incentivized to “act out.” If you don’t throw a fit, you get ignored, no matter how much your rights have been stripped from you. Someone yelling and screaming with hate in their eyes is scary, but “scary” appears to be more effective than subdued disagreement.
It’s a shitshow.
I walk into every store maskless, with their huge signs saying the state and local politicians require masks. If an employee asks me to put one on, I either put one on or leave. Not gonna argue with the employees.
Vast majority of stores, no one says a damn thing about me not wearing a mask.
So the proggy left wants to simultaneously give each individual a label as to their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender non/conformity, politics, and diet (e.g., vegan). As we know, the individual is the ultimate minority. (Never mind the individuals who don’t right-think.)
AT THE SAME TIME, they want to usher in a collective “for the greater good”.
I can’t wrap my head around this.
I can’t wrap my head around this. – this is because you have not received the true faith in your heart.
I have asked Marx into my heart as my personal savior. I will re-dedicate my life to Marx and his kingdom on Earth.
In the name of Lenin, Engels and Marx, amen.
Did you actually think it was supposed to make sense?
Silly me.
Keep you constantly guessing at what new sin you’ve committed and ready to abase yourself in response to whatever pronouncement they make. It’s a helluva way to manipulate people, but you can’t say it isn’t effective (for those willing to accept it).
It’s just one more little fib. I’m sure it will be his last one. It’s not such a big deal. Besides, who else would have me?
LOL…just had my DMs slid into for the first time.
I don’t know what that means, but it sounds momentous, so congratulations!
Yeah, nah. On the Tweeters, some guy (not a scammer) just sent me a message.
where you DMs wet? Did the slide go smooth?
Y’all are so SQUARE!
You ain’t never heard “slide into her/his DMs“?
I certainly did. What is your point?
No, but I’m a bit of a hermit, especially when it comes to social media.
No. I don’t use social media.
“What’s useful about it?”
–Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman
“You ain’t never heard “slide into her/his DMs“?”
When you’ve been married close to a quarter century and haven’t lived in the US from a while before that those kinds of terminology can be a bit beyond.
My wife just recently learned what “Nexflix and chill” meant; so we are obviously squares.
I have no idea what either of those phrases are intended to mean.
Netflix and Chill
HAHAHAHA! That’s awesome!
I really enjoy that show.
I think I had someone slide into my DMs once, but I’m not sure. She must not have seen a picture of me.
She was definitely slidin’ if it was out of the blue…
Well men send me DMs a lot too and in most of those cases they’re not slidin’. I’m a borderline “public figure” at least in my industry (which is the entire reason I’m on Twitter).
It’s hip to be square.
Looting, specifically in response to police violence, is actually an extremely rational and precise form of protest action because it correctly identifies the most direct way to instigate a confrontation with the law without committing violence against anyone in the community.
https://twitter.com/babadookspinoza/status/1293223457027756032
Theft is violence, evil-person.
That’s actually the official position of the DA of Portland.
It used to instigate a confrontation with the National Guard using live rounds. Even the Rodney King rioters in the early 90’s had a real chance of getting shot if they left their neighborhoods. What we have now is larping and reenactments. When the real thing starts, they aren’t going to like it.
Fold like a $5 lawn chair.
https://twitter.com/babadookspinoza/status/1293322130516475905
They might not like the employers, but i think they like the paycheck that they aren’t getting anymore.
I would have gone up agasint the whole “No violence committed against anyone in the community”. He dehumanized the owners of the businesses being looted as “not part of the community” and therfore all violence is A OK against them. Fuck that murderous wannabe.
Shit found in sewer – shocking!
“…without committing violence against anyone in the community.”
Uncle Hugo would like a word.
“Useless piece of shit” would have sufficed.
No shit.
It flows from an understanding of the true nature of policing: the protection of private property at the expense of human life. Committing intentional, targeted property destruction on a scale large enough that the police can’t contain it is a perfect show of force by the people.
So you won’t mind being ventilated when you try to destroy my property.
Aside being wholly and completely wrong in the first sentence, he admits in the second that this is about force.
The thing about force is that it can be responded to with force. “Be ready for what you ask for” is good advice.
First tear down, then build up. BBC wants to know why there are so few statutes of minority & women athletes in Britain: https://www.bbc.com/sport/53731984
Also why are there so few minority & women kings of Britain?
You were saying?
Don’t mess with Big Daddy.
How much do they hate themselves and why?
https://www.theblaze.com/news/portland-da-rioters-refuse-prosecute
Everyday for the last 6 months I’ve read or been met with news stories I would have disregarded as utter brietbartian or gateway pundit trash a year ago that are actually real. It’s incomprehensible.
“Exceptions include not wearing a mask in a grocery store.”
It’s hard to know exactly how you or I would’ve reacted to any other Dem being tapped for VP. I find it hard to believe that if Biden (his handlers) had picked anyone other than Kamala, I’d have felt that Kamala would’ve been a better choice.
I thought Susan Rice had a better shot.
They really fucked up narrowing the field with their ‘diversity hire or bust’ comments.
Me too. And yeah, they fucked up big time.
‘diversity hire with bust’ was the specific requirement.
Foreign policy isn’t even on the radar anymore. It’s completely run by the professionals at State, NSC, and the Pentagon. Completely bipartisan consensus of forever war and expanding alliances all over the fucking planet.
It’s hard to know exactly how you or I would’ve reacted to any other Dem being tapped for VP – you need to know yourself better. Go zen or some shit. visit a rock garden.
You don’t want me to know myself better. I’m running out of socks as it is.
I did not know they had socks in Japan
Honestly I just assumed you use chopsticks
Just the females.
Has Camela been going to the tanning bed? Because I swear she suddenly got 3 shades darker. Maybe I’m just imagining that, but she looked a lot lighter back during the dem debates.
RACIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wouldn’t put it past her and her campaign staff to black her up some if they were so out of touch and cynical to think that black voters wouldn’t take so kindly to some sorta redbone Jamindian.
She has to move a few castes lower to satisfy the racist left, I suppose.
Joe / Blow 2020
Harriden 2020 is still tops.
The DNC is just Biden their time ’til he drops?
5 best communist songs of all time
https://twitter.com/DPRKJucheFan/status/1293358852122050560
Save the childrunz
There has been a dramatic increase in coronavirus cases among children in the United States, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The association noted a 90% increase in pediatric cases over four weeks.
From July 9 to August 6, confirmed cases of COVID-19 in children across the country went from 200,184 to 380,174 – an increase of 179,990 new cases, according to the pediatrics group.
During the last two weeks of July alone, more than 97,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the AAP.
All those poor little kids are going to die, now.
Lock it all down.
good, we are going to approach herd immunity.
Well, it will go something like “icky white supremacist trumpy conservatards weaponise their children as disease vectors to kill off brave teachers, and vulnerable Persons of Color, on whom it is known that the virus has a disproportionate affect because it is in league with systemic racism“, or something.
I got about 8 public school teachers on my Facebook feed. 4 of them are New Yorkers (I used to live in NYC).
Every single one openly and annoyingly was in favor of sacrificing jobs if it saves lives.
Every single one openly and annoying was in favor of NOT going back to school.
Every single one is now going back to school now that the government of NY has decided it’s on.
..
Guess they are not in favor of losing their own jobs to save lives.
Early on they weren’t really testing people without serious symptoms because they were scared resources would be scarce. Hence, few children got tested.
Seriously, I recall the numerous stories in NY about people trying to get COVID tests during the major outbreak. You had better have been hacking up a lung and over 65.
Yet the tests – on symptomatic people – consistently run 90+% negative. While the antibody studies suggest that there have been 10x the number of confirmed cases. It’s almost like the drunk looking for his car keys under the lightpost.
Meaningless statistic is meaningless.
Overweight Chinese man’s big belly saves him from falling down a well
https://nypost.com/2020/08/12/chinese-mans-big-belly-saves-him-from-falling-down-a-well/
Dunelm House, Durham, 1965, designed by the Architect’s Co-Partnership, and Kingsgate Bridge by Ove Arup. A Brutalist masterpiece currently under threat. @SaveDunelmHouse
https://twitter.com/MunicipalDreams/status/1293225183327719424
that is fuckin hideous
LOL
What part of the name Brutalist didn’t prepare you for ugly?
I find Brutalism quite appropriate for government buildings; unyielding, grotesque, and oppressive.
True. It announces their intentions. Beautiful architecture lulls you into expectations of benevolence.
I really like Brutalist architecture, and that thing is a fucking eyesore.
Hmm, a little over 20 minutes to The Hat and The Hair, better get some lunch down now.
Its always a gamble right? Eat now and hope it stays down or has digested enough —-or—– don’t eat and lose your appetite for the day.
Rhy, didn’t you used to work at hotel/motel desk?
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1293533235549437953
Give it a rest Glenn.
If dealing with assholes required lots of skill, maybe they would get paid more. Seeing as its a requirement for life, i don’t see why that should net them more income.
A Brutalist masterpiece currently under threat.
If I had any spare dynamite, I’d contribute it.