Happy Friday everybody. I’ll probably be executing my role as husband-sherpa-tech-support when you guys see this, but I hope everyone has a great start to their weekend. My delaying action against getting all the baby stuff has finally failed. I have to go pick up the crib and rocker today, and then help Mrs. L’s friend set up a web cam for a mixed-presence baby shower. Fucking COVID. I can’t believe I typed that. Anyhow, nesting has set in, and I was voluntold I was doing the toting and carrying.
I hope he clarified, “Just McCain. How many planes did that loser lose?”
I haven’t checked my scorecard this week, is this supposed to hurt Trump?
Also, weirdly, the Trump administration comes through with another bilateral peace deal. Someone should nominate him for the Nobel Prize.
By “international response”, I assume NATO means, “the US should do something”.
Ah yes, The Lancet, known to most of the non-medical community for its giant fuckups. I guess fewer children will die from this one than the “mercury in vaccines causes autism” study.
On time links and an on time First. Like it should be.
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We finally let you have a first because we felt sorry for you and thought maybe you would take it as a hint to shut up now.
Who has the all-time Firsting record? I want a hard number here. Who owns the all-time belt?
Adam?
I keep reading that as fisting. Based on my reading, I assume Brochettaward.
Is anyone even counting? I think it depends how you count firsts. Link posts only? Needs to reference the post?
If so, I think I’m the only one to pull the hat trick.
Links only. Has to be something about the post is up to the powers that be here. But that came over from TOS, so not sure it’s relevant.
The old rules were:
1. Has to reference something in the lynx.
2. Has to include some sort of formatting.
But if you are an anarcho-commentist, do you care about the rules?
3. There can be only one. Winner gets The Prize.
Wow.
If the Saudis make peace with Israel then the PA is done. The only place they will find support is Iran. That won’t go down well with the rest of the region.
The Palestinians are mostly Sunni, so that would complicate any relationship with the Iranians, who are Shia, given that those two groups tend to view each other as heretics. Although I guess mutual hatred of the Jews has brought together stranger bedfellows before.
Iran supports both Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas is Sunni. Hezbollah is Shia. Iran does it because both terrorize Israel.
TAKE THAT, TR— hang on.
I think the Ay-rabs & Moose Limbs are realizing the Palestinians are a losing proposition & they have been unsuccessful using the Palestinians to destabilize Israel. Time to fold before they become pot-committed.
Look at all that empty land in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere around the ME. Have you seen anyone offering some free land to the Palestinians to settle on? Honest question, I don’t know, but if that hasn’t happened, I think it’s legit to ask why.
:IIRC the Jordanians did back in the 80s when Clinton tried his hand at the History book prize of Peace.
Yaraffaty said no to the deal even though he was getting 95% of what he asked for in the negotiations.
Clinton wanted that legacy pump so bad he tried twice to buy off Puerto Rico politicians to get their plans to vote for statehood all to no avail.
When is the glib sub Am A main fantasy draft coming?
Anyone know?
I’ve been away so much due to the extensive travel of my new endeavor I can’t lurk like I used too.
I think it’s mainly that Egypt and Arabia, the prime supporters of the Palestinians in the past, view Turkey and Iran as greater threats to their hegemony than tiny Israel (plus Egypt, Arabia, and Israel all have a mutual friend in the US, so why not make nice with the little guy to butter up the big guy on the block).
First, Israeli troops kicked everybody’s ass during the Yom Kippur war. Second, they have had US supplied nuclear technology and arms for several decades, now.
Oh yeah, didn’t Trump start WWIII a while back by moving the US embassy to Jerusalem? I almost forgot about that.
I think he announced we would, but I have no idea if anything has actually happened. State hates Trump and Israel, so I’m guessing its being slow-played until a Dem that hates Israel takes office.
It officially moved in 2018. They didn’t have to do all that much, since there was already a consular office in Jerusalem, so the official designation switched, but the building is the same.
Trump has started WWIII more times than I can keep count of. Despite being the least war like president since… Carter?
You never hear about it because the media is a bunch of far-right Tump supporters and also because Trump murders anyone who criticizes him.
That’s why we don’t see the Nazi like camps, because he just murders them to save money on camps.
“More than 175 current, former law enforcement officials endorse Biden, call Trump ‘lawless’“
How many current and former law enforcement officials do we have in this country? Color me not impressed.
They are all prosecuteors. Go figure.
Not just prosecutors – that noted law-and-order fanatic Jenny Durkan is on that list too!
I was wondering about her and Wheeler.
Horizontal’s ‘friends’?
I wonder how many are Soros sock puppets, and how many are just hoping for a sweet AUSA gig from a Dem administration.
“how many are just hoping for a sweet AUSA gig from a Dem administration.”
All of them. And they know exactly who to screw to get it.
Us? They’re going to screw us, aren’t they. And not in the fun way, either. In the prosecutor way.
Sure, but they got to do head over heals first.
More than 175 current
Because saying “176” makes it seem like… not a very big deal.
And IIRC the NYC cop union endorsed Trumpy.
That has to be embarrassing to Cuomomafiosa, but he’ll never admit as much.
Cuomo has recently said that Trump is not welcome in New York. Almost made it a threat. Said he couldn’t walk down the street in NYC.
I’m kinda waiting for Trump to hold a rally in NYC.
If NY becomes a swing state that Trump should actually visit, Biden is toast.
Good luck with that.
I’d say impossible because of the population of NYC.
The population of NYC has dropped fairly significantly in the last 4 months or so, though.
That’s the worst part. All of those ex New Yorkers and San Franites, are going to move to your town and turn it into far left shithole as well.
That’s one of Cuomo’s stock phrases. He said the same thing about abortion foes among others.
Nice to know he speaks for all New Yorkers, yes? Much easier not to have your own personal opinion…so, What’s life like in the Hive under Queen Cuomo?
He speaks for most of them. There must be something in city water supplies that turns people into the unthinking Borg.
New York’s water has low concentrations of calcium and magnesium. The result is great bagels and group think.
I’m kinda waiting for Trump to hold a rally in NYC.
Now I am, too.
I hope he does it Jack Nicholson Joker style, minus the killing. Just the crazy suit, cash and music part.
And IIRC the NYC cop union endorsed Trumpy.
Yes, as did the National Association of Police Organizations, which claims to represent 241,000 police officers, a bit more than 175.
Adding to that, the Fraternal Order of Police (355,000 members) just endorsed Trump today as well.
Well, Biden has the mailmen. Cripple fight!
The list includes former Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano among dozens of other former attorneys general and U.S. attorneys.
According to Wikipedia:
As Secretary, Napolitano was a central leader in the federal response to the 2009 flu pandemic.[41] Rather than closing schools and businesses, which would have led to wide-scale disruption, Napolitano advanced a strategy of proactive education for prevention. This included a basic virus-prevention education program.[42] Ultimately, as a result of the programs implemented by Napolitano and others, much of the damage expected from this flu was mitigated.
Sounds like she’d be in the vanguard of opposition to the lockdowns. What did I miss?
One of these flus is not quite like the other …
whew.
I said i was gonna take a break, and i can’t kick you guys like a bad habit. I’ll still probably be posting less. Yesterday was a low day for me, but i’m feeling much better, and glad you have you jerks around.
Yesterday was low day, tomorrow is leg day. Rest up!
Ugh. I pulled a back muscle this morning, ironically doing good mornings. Hopefully I can still go camping tomorrow.
Today: no calls. Tomorrow: twice as many!
I’m officially on vacation and too damn tired to care. Popped a beer, but I’m too tired to enjoy it.
I found Facederp to be the most toxic environment, so I’ve been taking extended breaks from there.
Ironically, Glibs has been a calm pool of sanity in all this. That’s how you know the world has gone to shit.
Yeah, when this group counts as the sane bunch…..
Sleep-deprived and raging.
My boss is becoming unreasonable and unhinged. I am trying to forgive him and blame his attitude on the fact that he has a kid scheduled to be born next week.
You think he is being unreasonable and unhinged? His preggo wife is at least an order of magnitude worse.
I’d definitely cut him some slack. But you should also be aware that it will be a year before he returns to normalcy. His first kid?
Third. I don’t remember him being this bad for the other two.
I thought at this point parents were blase about the whole thing.
I’m guessing the first two were probably his, and he thinks this one might not be.
I am so tempted to ask him if that’s his problem.
I’m not answering his emails until I’ve calmed down.
It is stressful having to change your base defense from man-to-man to zone.
Is he
locked up 24/7working from home with hiscrazy hormonal preggolovely wife?Maybe it isn’t his.
Aren’t you self-employed?
Me? Hell no. I work for the Emirati royal family at their money-printing and tax incentive laundering fab in Upstate NY.
I remember when I was in highschool (early 2000’s) I wanted to work at AMD and their manufacturing division so badly,
they had just broken ground on Fab 30 in Dresden and it seemed like they were on top of the world.
glad that never panned out, given what happened from 2008 onward…
The Dresden fab is shockingly inefficient by US standards, though apparently well-run by Euro ones.
When they hired me here, the pan was:
Day 1 in NY: Get badge, fill out paperwork
Day 2: Fly to Dresden, spend six weeks there
Day 43: Fly to Singapore, spend six weeks there
What happened was: “Oh there’s this thing we need you to work on right now, w’ll push back Dresden and Singapore for a month.”
I’ve still never been, and I’m still pissed off about it. Even more than them chopping my relocation allowance in half.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
“More than 175 current, former law enforcement officials endorse Biden, call Trump ‘lawless'” — That’s rich, calling President Cartoon Villain lawless. How many “mostly peaceful protesters” have been charged for burning down businesses belong to minorities?
Sometimes you have to make black omelettes.
Orange Man Bad isn’t squeaky clean, but it’s like there is no thought at all when these headlines are written. A computer generator could produce a more compelling argument to vote against El Trumpo.
I’m 100% positive that Biden’s tweets are AI bot generated. And the AI is about as intelligent as Alexa.
I would say chimps on typewriters. But close enough.
“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times…”
Stupid Monkeys!
How many people have been straight up murdered by Biden supporters over the last 2 months? Gotta be north of 30.
It’s north of 30 every weekend in Chicago.
At least the victims still get to vote.
To be fair, that’s 30+ shot, not killed. About 500 murders in Chicago so far this year, so about 2 per day. But up about 50% for murders over last year.
Or, as it is pronounced in Chicago, “500 COVID related deaths caused by Trump.”
So when does the murder/shooting contest between Shithole Chicago and Shithole NYC officially start and end?
Chicago has way more murders than NYC every year. Despite being 1/3 the size.
Duh. NYC doesn’t border Indiana!
Well, I’m gonna root for the big dumb underdog then. GO NEW YORK!
Second City my ass!
I meant “in the name of killing because of a belief and the enemy is the rest of you” type biden supporter.
Meaning Antifa/BLM peaceful protesters.
We know that they killed the former police officer who was defending a business. Shot him in the head. Widow spoke at the RNC. We know the Antifa dude straight executed some Trump dude in Portland.
There have been quite a few additional deaths during riots. And there are tons of videos of racist attacks by black youths – kids running up behind old white dude or lady and laying them out with a brick to the head.
I’d imagine most of those names would pop up on the national news if the parties were reversed. (imagine white teen smashes black grandma in the head with a brick and celebrates… Booo-ya! Make America Great, beee-atch! I think we would see that. Nick Sandmann became a household image because he stood there passively as a native american elder beat a drum in his face. You gotta think brick to the head and celebration dance beats just standing there passively doing nothing.
Why are older whites called “old white people” but old Indians called “native elders” ?
Let’s see 175 out of an estimated 800,000. Yup Democrats locked up their vote.
When Clinton was president they upped funding grants to get to a million cops on the beat.
So I would be surprised of LEO was less than a million.
Someone should nominate him for the Nobel Prize.
[insert Scanners gif]
Was reading about Copper Mountain’s COVID plans for the upcoming season.
This is gonna AWESOME:
Me, alone on a quad chair? Yes, please!
Does that mean the lines will be twice as long?
On holidays and weekends? Probably. But I ski on non-holiday weekdays exclusively. Lines have never been that much of a problem and I often get to ride on my own anyway. But with this policy, I can ride alone and not get the stink eye!
Uh….
What exactly…
Uh…
So, you are on the quad chairlift alone…
And ….
Uh…..
So… what happens next?
Hey, buy the magazine if you want to read the Penthouse Letters.
Damn right
“I never thought it would happen to me…”
And Kristen was heard to exclaim, “Dammit, I dropped my C-cells!”
“Mommy, why is that lady carrying three ski poles? “
I figured it was either that….
Or you were one of those folks with the urge to give the stranger on the next seat a little shove….
Some resorts are requiring reservations….
https://durangoherald.com/articles/337034-vail-resorts-to-require-reservations-for-202021-ski-season
I always buy my lift tix far in advanced. They usually have a 4-pack deal that amounts to ~$25/day that I take advantage of.
Wouldn’t that make the lines quite a bit longer, though?
I just got back from a quick vacation to Breckenridge, CO. I might have some bad news for you…
Let’s just say that if I had driven there instead of flying, I think I would have canceled the reservation and gone back after the first day/night there. Holy shi-ite the mask nazis were bad there!
Mandatory masks outdoors and the locals are more than ready to call you out if they think you aren’t wearing it properly. When we got there I wandered into a liquor store to buy beer. The shit head behind the register yelled at me because my mask wasn’t pulled all the way up. It wasn’t below my nose, but it wasn’t up to the bridge either. His buddy employee literally ran over to me to block my entrance if I didn’t pull up the mask. I just turned around and left. As I was leaving both were loudly telling me that masks were mandatory and that included wearing them properly.
Same thing happened while we were sitting around outdoors in the sun with a good breeze going on waiting to see people come down an alpine slide. Some guy yelled at me from 40 feet away (yes literally) about my mask being too far down my nose. His superior (20 feet away) also yelled in support of him. Both of them were wearing the neck gaiters that before Covid were sold on the premise that they were great for outdoor activities because they had super material that breathed so well that they didn’t get all icky wet from being exhaled through. I yelled back that my mask was doing more protecting even drooping than their dumb masks were. I pointed out that the fact they could wear glasses without fogging meant that their gaiter masks weren’t doing shit. Lots of snickering from people around me, threats to call security from mask tyrants and my wife pulled me away.
Even my wife who is super paranoid about the Vid and fully supports mask mandates, lockdowns and other BS thought the locals were insane and pushy.
Copper has said masks will be required indoors when not seated to dine/drink, and outdoors is OK to be maskless as long as you’re not crowded next to people.
I don’t think it will affect my experience that much, as the only time I’m indoors there is to eat/drink. When I’m outdoors, I’m skiing and have a face covering regardless. My neighbor may find it burdensome, but she usually hangs out in the condo and meets me for apres ski in the bar.
Holy shit that’s insane. I forget other places went full nazi and I’m made that I have to put a mask on for 5 minutes while going to a restaurant or from the entrance of the gym to the workout floor. Our stuff is really dumb, but at least only mildly inconvenient.
I was talking about the mask craziness with someone who said he vacations in Breckenridge a couple times a year for 25 years. His take was that if there is any spike in cases, the CO staties will shut everything down and a shutdown during ski season would devastate the town. So they aren’t taking any chances during the off season.
It was weird though. As a tourist, there was a real us vs them vibe that I’ve never felt before. I grew up in a tourist trap and touristas were always happy to talk to a local to get the “real scoop”. As a local, you did your best to not let the touristas know how much you hated them because you wanted to skin some more money from them.
I just don’t like being barked. Say excuse me sir, could you pull up your mask. Thank you. Yelling at me is going to get you a middle finger.
My main concern is being at 10000 feet with a mask on.
As long as I can hot up the smoke shop, I’ll be chill AF no matter what.
*hit up, but hot up is not out of the realm of possibility…
Masks weren’t mandatory on the hiking trails, and to your point, if they were we would have died. We had a hard enough time with the altitude without a mask. Couldn’t imagine trying to do anything strenuous with a mask on.
I spent the week before last in Vail, and several days last month in Steamboat. Masks indoors, but fairly chill overall.
Although I will say I rode the chairlift at Beaver Creek, and the young lady lifty asked me to please wear my mask. On an outdoor chairlift with my kid. 20 feet above the ground, chairs spaced 20 feet apart.
euphemism alert
Serious? That is a just plain ignorant policy.
Confirms my thinking that a town like that has gotta be chock full of Karens.
I’m morbidly fascinated by the emerging cultural differences around this. Even at peak death I didn’t see any of this sort of behavior in my part of Brooklyn. We theoretically still have the six-foot rule outdoors but nobody gives a shit any more.
You people who keep going to the wrong side of CO baffle me. Any ski town is going to be full of people who should not live in a ski town. They draw the worst kinds of people and eventually outnumber the best kind of people who are ski bums who don’t give a shit what you do because they don’t want you to give a shit what they do. Granted it has been over 30 years since I was a ski bum and lived in a ski town but I can be nostalgic.
Sorry. Wife wanted to go to the mountains and we had an angle on cheap accomodations at Breckenridge.
I was just as miffed by all the people there who were wearing thousands of dollars of outdoor gear (none of it ripped, stained or worn out) as I was about the mask fanatics. I like the outdoors and spend a lot of time hunting and fishing and none of my outdoor clothes would pass muster out there. The duct tape and shoe-goo repair job on a pair of muck boots alone would get me cited by the fashion police out there.
I should have talked my wife into Great Falls or Missoula where normal people live, but live and learn I guess.
Let me put it this way, I still think people that buy muck boots are half-assed sissies. When I grew up, your muck boots were the cut off lower ends of you duck hunting waders that had sprung a leak. Store bought? Makes me feel guilty.
Just come over Hoosier Pass from Breckenridge to Park County.
Hoosier Pass? Wouldn’t I be risking attack from wild Indianans?
Western slope dood, western slope. If you don’t need fancy shmancy digs with room service next time check some cabin rentals on Grand Mesa. Lots of fishing and hiking. And while I have not been up there this summer I can almost guarantee nobody cares if you wear a mask and will look at you suspect if you are. Plus, I could drive up and drink your beer.
@kibbledkristen – I couldn’t comment earlier but I enjoyed your geneology article. I was born in 1971, my wife and I could not conceive and have 2 adopted daughters and I ran across Neurofibromatosis 2 when I was researching treatment for a vestibular schwanoma (aka acoustic neuroma). I don’t have NF but it jumped out at me. Anyway thanks for sharing that story.
Hope your brother is doing well.
Thanks RofG!
As you already know, I LOVED your article! ❤️
Thank you!!
I have to admit that I sort of like this social distancing stuff. I mean, I would if people would actually do it.
But you know how there are certain people who just invade your space? I’m talking about the yuppies at Wholefoods who will get right up against you if they’re behind you in the checkout line. And you can always smell them before you see them.
^This.
I’m perfectly fine staying away from people and keeping to myself. That is my natural proclivity. I just hate to be told I can’t do something if I were inclined to do it. I was talking to my brother about all of this this morning and the take away was that we are both infuriated by the fact that we can’t make the choice to be in a crowd at a ball game if we wanted to. Not being able to choose the level of risk I take is the thing that pisses me off the most. Also, the analogy of the girl riding the scooter without protective gear, but wearing a mask that someone mentioned in the Lynx this morning was fitting and shows the lack of thought that goes into the mask mandate.
/rant
Get out of my head.
No, you can’t make me!
Oh wait, that means I’m too close.
:Whistles while walking away:
It’s all just a meaningless gesture anyway. If I go into any supermarkets or Walmart, whatever, social distancing is over once people go through the door until you get to checkout and there are always plenty of people who still won’t follow it even with the lines on the floor.
I am not in favor of forcing anyone to do anything. It just would be nice if people would not violate your space out of respect. But, we have a country full of people educated in public school, so it’s a lost cause.
Leave me alone!
Patchouli and B.O. It’s a powerful thing.
Guy who straight up assassinated the Trump supporter was shot and killed himself by police. Only sorry that he didn’t have to rot in jail forever and make the Left defend his psychopathy (don’t worry, they are mythologizing him already)
Same thing with Stumpy McKiddiediddler in Kenosha.
I’ve been waiting for the glowing articles of the hero to start spinning out of the NYT. They’re a little slow on this one, but I’m sure it’s coming.
Probably late Friday meeting to decide if he’s a hero or not real(tm) Antifa before the propaganda push starts.
And Facebook is deleting any posts saying Rittenhouse was defending himself. And Discover and Gofundme are cancelling any attempts to raise money for his defense.
But GFM straight-up calls Lefty a “hero” on his fundraising.
He was defending himself. Video like that does not lie.
Not that it would be PC for a bank to do that, but i feel like a few banks could push back on the payment processors. My bank wouldn’t be able to refuse to allow me to withdraw my money because they didn’t like what i was buying. likewise when i use my debit card, i expect my money to work, and not to have some third party that my Bank contracted with to step in and say no. It’s bad customer service, and makes me reject wanting to use a banks card if they don’t guarantee payments.
Asset limitations are an important, albeit often overlooked part of America’s structural racism that feeds the racial wealth gap. Prior to Ronald Reagan’s election, states set welfare programs’ eligibility requirements. But in the early 1980s, President Reagan delivered on campaign promises to crack down on lazy and unworthy “welfare queens” (a term he popularized) who took advantage of the system. He did so by placing asset restrictions on major welfare programs, which vary program by program and largely remain in place today, though states have regained some control. For instance, the Social Security Income (SSI) asset limit is $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 for a couple.
There is a legitimate point to be made, here. Too bad it’s obscured by the structural racism stuff.
People should not be penalized for making good decisions.
No worries. After the left manage to kill off incentive and innovation, they’ll make up for it by inventing the new better green soviet man. This time it will work.
Somehow I doubt that “assets of people who are on welfare” factor in to the “racial wealth gap” to any significant degree.
I’m assuming the Federal Reserve’s role in discouraging saving (in favor of current consumption) was left unmentioned?
Get with the program! Real progressive leaders (like in St. Paul) are simply giving people money.
St. Paul’s mayor announced a new program that will give 150 families a check for $500 every month for at least 18 months.
The St. Paul mayor has been big on universal guaranteed income schemes for some time. Before anyone gets too excited, he believes that the UBI should be gravy on top of all the other welfare programs. No way he thinks it should simply replace all other welfare.
I’ll pop the popcorn while “our most vulnerable families” jockey for position at the front of the line.
They say it will be a random drawing, but I doubt it will truly be random.
I thought I remembered that Stockton or some other place in CA was going to do something similar and the daughter of the city’s comptroller was discovered to be the recipient of one of the grants. Can’t find a link though, so it is just a rumor from my bad memory.
I’d be shocked though if any of the randomly selected families has a Trump yard sign. Or that the demographics of the families chosen will closely match those of the state/city as a whole.
Whoopsie- forgot the link
Secret Service agent got physical with Biden after he copped a feel of his girlfriend in 2009. Allegedly.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/destroyed-biden-records/
I don’t think that “shall be retained for X years” means “shall be destroyed after X years”.
“shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him.”
LOL
One of my favorite Biden clips is when Jeff Sessions slaps
Biden away from his granddaughter. That dude knew what was up.
Due to all the recent mayhem, the possibility that the (D) party may have nominated a fucking ChoMo has been lost on the nation.
Of course, I can’t prove that but the dude just creeps me out.
He has creeped me out for years. I am sure his handlers are thanking the good lord for the virus so he does not have to stand close to Kamala for photos because they know he would cup her breast. He is a creep.
I hope refers to her as Brown Sugar, and starts singing it.
If I was to ever abandond my principles for my vote for the presidency this election it would be because Trump openly endorses a commerical showing a montage of Biden creepily groping children set to the music of George Michael’s Father Figure.
lol
I didn’t see that one, but I will be looking for it.
Remember that (admittedly unconfirmed) story where female Secret Service said Biden would choose to swim in the nude when they were assigned to him?
It’s on YT. Just type in Sessions Biden hand slap.
Hey, LBJ used to flop his wang out on a number of occasions. Don’t be a square, man.
#wherethefuckismetoowhenyouneedthem
By “international response”, I assume NATO means, “the US should do something”.
Putin’s official response.
‘Most recently, the administration brokered a deal for Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations. That was followed by the first commercial flight between Israel and the UAE, with neighboring Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to allow such flights to pass through their airspace. Additional Arab states, including Sudan, Bahrain and Oman, have been identified as countries that may soon also normalize relations with Israel.’
I shit on Trump more often than not here(He’s the president. I’m always going to call out a president’s bullshit as I see it more often than I will give praise) but, I have to give credit where credit is due. In many respects the “War on Terror” has continued unabated under his administration but, his administration has also done more to stabilize relations between Israel and its neighbors/old adversaries during his first term than any other presidency during my lifetime.
So, kudos to you, Orange Hitler.
Trump helping jews is more proof he is Hitler
He’s just trying to lure him in with a false sense of security before the sheepskin comes off and the wolf presents itself. 5D checkmate!
Dammit. Not “him”, “them.” and it should be (((them))).
First, you gain their trust…
If these things had happened under Obama, he would have been lauded as the greatest diplomatic president of all time.
You’re probably correct. And to be honest, if Obama had done this, he damn should have been given ample credit, despite my personal distaste. Instead, he ramped up the destabilization of the region to levels not seen since at least the seventies. But prior to that his very existence warranted a Nobel Peace Prize. If he had pulled this off, the amount of NPP’s he would have won would have made him the Archie Griffin of American foreign relations in the eyes of the media…but for the weird colored egomaniac, the MSM utters almost nary a peep. And when they do, it’s almost never a “front-page” story. I’m sure there are exceptions but the story hasn’t leaped out me after casual browsing of the major news stories. Instead, I’m hearing about anonymous sources saying things about Trump saying things that were confirmed by other anonymous sources, conforming nothing. Gossip is the headline. Fucking gossip.
“but for the weird colored egomaniac”
I’m referring to Trump here. Don’t get it twisted.
Wealth envy
The outcome is a skewed economy in which wealth is valued more than labour. Year after year, the incomes generated from wealth outpace those from labour, compounding inequalities. This is on top of the effects of the pandemic, which further deepened these existing inequalities. We may be at the tipping point of falling into a situation where rising to the top is only possible through owning and inheriting wealth and not through hard work. An income structure that is lopsided in this way does not bode well for the post-pandemic recovery. Economic growth will suffer if consumption and investment is driven only by those owning big fortunes. Levelling the playing field between how we tax wealth and income could be a first step towards addressing this.
We could always lower the tax rate on income.
Haha, I crack myself up. This isn’t about “fairness” it’s about punishing rich people.
The irony is that they use the word “compounding” without awareness.
I’m assuming he’s referring to all those lazy millionaires and billionaires who “inherited” the wealth from stocks from companies they started that didn’t exist 20 years ago?
PI saw your post about Louisville the other night. What do you need to know?
You know what turns income into wealth? Savings!
Its that fucking simple.
This. Of course the article ignores a bunch of common sense basics like:
1) labor isn’t some fungible commodity. superstar sportsball players make more for their labor in a year than the average saver sees in a lifetime.
2) With investment comes risk. In fact, the return on the investment is because of the risk.
3) Financial capital isn’t the only asset that people have. Lotto winners blow their winnings not because they aren’t rich enough, but because they’re not disciplined enough.
Bravo. Well said.
Also, fungible is one of my favorite words.
We already tax wealth by inflating the fiat money in which it is denominated.
Why won’t you troublesome GOP legislators rubber stamp our decisions? Gov Walz’s Chief of Staff calls out GOP legislative leader for being “shockingly absent” at critical meetings.
Unfortunately the two sides are meeting to repair the relationship. The GOP should stick to their guns here and force Walz to own the entire fucked up response. Gazelka should reply that why would he show up to a meeting where he has no influence? He’s not going to add any appearance of bipartisanship to a tyrant.
“perish” == super-serious “died”
I have to admit that I sort of like this social distancing stuff.
As someone with “personal space issues” that was never really a problem for me.
I’m assuming the Federal Reserve’s role in discouraging saving (in favor of current consumption) was left unmentioned?
Correct. You win a cookie.
what a good name for a character, “Crapgame”
Dome of partial obedience arrived in the mail today. Just need new comfort pads and fast forward 3-5 months for the plates to arrive.
I think I read about those in the Dungeon Masters Guide. Grants a +2 on save vs. Karens.
Mentioning because I think someone mentioned a similar experience in the morning comments:
I took my kids for a walk this morning while they were on a break from their zoom classes. On the trail there was some guy with no mask walking the other way. When he got about 20 feet away from us he pulled his shirt up over his nose and held it there until we had passed each other.
You must be a super spreader.
ur moms a super spreader lol
Ha! That’s a good one.
He probably knows it’s bull shit but doesn’t want the Karen patrol called.
Did you shower this morning?
Haven’t seen that, but I’ve had people cross the street so they won’t walk by me and my wife when we’re on a walk. Utterly ludicrous.
All of your fellow citizens are dirty pathogen carriers. It is known.
Germophobes have known this forever.
Purse-gasm!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/jungletribe/?section_id=5948642&fbclid=IwAR3Lr61nbt_mcNpHvuenouwDna9bEJSj_dDAxSILwSvoEDx5DvpYYPRWbmc
Those barely qualify as “not a leg holster”. Looks like a good way to carry for a lady.
It would solve the problem of being separated from your weapon if you purse-carry. But I agree that it looks like an actual holster, which kind of defeats the purpose of concealment.
Now I’m wondering if that would count as concealed carry for NYS purposes. If you’ve got a holster that is so flamboyant it’s probably not a holster, is it still a holster?
Concealed Carry?
Would those escorts be more reasonably priced if I didn’t require them to wear the holster?
USC professor removed from course for saying 那个 (phonetically “nega”):
https://www.rt.com/usa/499831-chinese-word-professor-racism/
I’ll give y’all three guesses why.
I’m kinda surprised that it was the black students who complained, and not some whiny – assed white manbitches.
A lot of times, in meetings in China, this is literally the most frequently-used word. It’s like “uh”, or “um” in English.
And it’s usually said twice or thrice.
And I mean twice or thrice instantly, not over the conversation. They’re rattling off something and get to a pause, and they fill it with “nega-nega”.
Because drugs fell out his ass?
https://youtu.be/xHaGDVpbQaQ
https://youtu.be/YG4iTGjuoKw
They’ll shit their britches for sure if they watch any Brazilian TV.
Outrageous outrage outrages me!
President Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a tough guy. He likes other tough guys. Masks, in the President’s world, are not the sort of thing a tough guy wears.
“But did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him,” Trump asked a campaign rally crowd in Pennsylvania on Thursday of former Vice President Joe Biden. “And then he makes a speech, and he always has it — not always, but a lot of times, he has it hanging down. Because, you know what, it gives him a feeling of security. If I were a psychiatrist — right? I’d say, this guy’s got some big issues. Hanging down.”
HA HA HA. Man did he zing Biden! That wimp wears a mask! What a rube!
Oh wait. Actually, wearing a mask is one of our best defenses against Covid-19, a virus that has killed more than 186,000 Americans and is projected to kill more than 400,000 by the end of this year.
Don’t believe me? How about Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? “We are not defenseless against Covid-19,” he wrote in July. “Cloth face coverings are one of the most powerful weapons we have to slow and stop the spread of the virus — particularly when used universally within a community setting. All Americans have a responsibility to protect themselves, their families, and their communities.”
And yet, despite occasional flirtations with mask-wearing over the past month — the President of the United States not only refuses to consistently wear a mask in public but also mocks his Democratic opponent — and reporters — for doing so.
At a May Rose Garden news conference, Trump said this of the Democratic nominee: “Joe Biden can wear a mask, but he was standing outside with his wife, perfect conditions, perfect weather. … And so I thought it was very unusual that he had one on. But I thought that was fine. I wasn’t criticizing at all. Why would I ever do a thing like that?””
Good gravy. Mocking the insecurities of others. The man is a monster.
Dr. Robert Redfield” — Dude hasn’t been in anything worth watching since “The Sting.”
Did they also print the scathing denunciation that Doc Bob wrote when his boss Fauci was telling everyone earlier this year that masks didn’t do shit? I mean that is way more outrageous than the President’s actions isn’t it?
Yep. “wearing a mask is one of our best defenses against Covid-19,” – only a monster would keep perpetuating that lie.
Everything pre-mask mandate about masks has been memory holed. Nothing to see here. Just move along, pleb.
“Furious Joe Biden lashes out at Donald Trump over claims he called dead troops losers saying ‘who the heck do you think you are? My son was not a sucker’ and demanding: ‘Is it true? Apologize'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8698927/Furious-Joe-Biden-lashes-Donald-Trump-claims-called-dead-troops-losers.html
“White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claims ‘NO-ONE’ loves troops more than Donald Trump and says the fact he met dog involved in the al-Baghdadi raid and WWII veterans during a lightning storm proves it”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8699183/White-House-pres-secretary-Kayleigh-McEnany-claims-NO-ONE-loves-troops-Donald-Trump.html
I really don’t belive a word of it. And i don’t know why that is controversail. There are plenty of lies that get tossed about. The idea that some are complete fabrications isn’t insane.
+ 2 gorillas beating each other
So, no video of this allegation about this guy who is followed around by hostile reporters all day long?
https://youtu.be/WTi7v77XZYs
Confess, Trump!!!
Is he as furious as he gets when he denounces Trump for embracing the Nazis at Charlottesville? It is outrageous though, I bet this gets used as a pretext to cancel the debates. I mean, why would he want to appear on a stage with someone who’d say something like THAT?
The only time Biden gets furious is if his depends are leaking again. And it’s not really fury, it’s more of ‘dag nabbit, back when my wee wee still worked, I’d get upset about this and I’d, I’d… what were we talking about?’.
I’ll host a happy hour tonight at 7:30 pm Eastern. Please join.
See you then!
Woohoo! See my comment below! I shall edit.
“Driver of car that plowed through BLM demonstrators in Times Square ‘is a Trump supporter’ who was attending a Keep America Great rally in NYC and clashed with crowd protesting death of Daniel Prude”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8696671/Frightening-moment-car-plows-crowd-Black-Lives-Matter-supporters-Times-Square.html
Maybe stop blocking roads?
Plowed into
fled attack.
Potato, po-tah-to
Well, so…what led up to that?
Brakes were engaged repeatedly, therefore not “plowing”. Fuck off, Daily Fail.
The message from democrats is loud and clear. We’re going to send our goons into the streets and you are not allowed to defend yourself.
Anyone who votes for these pathetic corrupt assholes is beyond stupid.
Anyone who
votesdefendsforthese pathetic corrupt assholes is beyond stupid.*waves at the LP*
/why I’m no longer a LP member
Racist! Points finger at CP.
Everybody knows that traffic laws. like every insitution or organization, in the USA are the results of the white-cis-hetero-slave owning-sexist-racist-ableist patriarchy. How dare you invalidate those brave anti racist and antifa lived experiences.
Step over there into that high speed railroad car for your trip to the camp.
I’m trying to fire up Crusader Kings III again, if I can come out of my fatigue syndrome, it might make sense to me.
WTF is this anyway? I don’t have any weapons and there’s nothing to kill? Just some pictures and text on the screen. What is this? I just want to shoot something. Gay!
You’re the ruler of a swath of land sitting on a throne in your Great Hall/Fortress/Castle. You don’t wield weapons, you send knights and armires and levies out to do the killing for you.
Two days ago I was a lowly count lording over a patch of gravel somewhere in eastern Europe. Today I became King of Poland!
Murder your children or something.
That’s what you do in CK3? More gay than I thought.
Probably still less gay than seducing the Pope.
So tonight is an annual event in Santa Fe that I can really get into. If I were there. If they were allowed to have the normal crowded event in meatspace.
When I lived there I sometimes attended, but always showed up for the pre-event festivities because friend musicians were always playing.
This year, however, it is all being streamed at 8 p.m. Mountain time. WebDom gifted me a Gloom, so I was able to submit it online ahead of time, and the Kiwanis humans will have printed it out and stuffed it into Zozobra along with everyone else’s gloomy musings.
BURN IT ALL DOWN. I am SO DONE with this year.
I will be writing down some other gloomy thoughts and events to burn here in person while I watch the streamed conflagration.
BURN IT ALL DOWN!
During Tulip’s Glibs Zoom Virtual Happy Hour tonight, I invite the participants to join me in burning away the gloom of this horrible year!*
*Paper, matches, lighters, gloomy thoughts and libations not included with this offer.
I sure do miss Santa Fe. Couldn’t get there last year on account of meeting my brother’s brother and obviously this year is out (I usually go around
ColumbusNative American Appreciation Day)Yes, I was planning on going there this past June, but several events conspired against me.
I will probably get over there sometime this autumn at least.
NM is a fabulous state with so much to do/see. I’d like to go to White Sands and Trinity. There are also a number of cool-looking swimming holes around the state. I want to go back to the VLA.
And I need my chili cheeseburger, dammit!!
(BTW, if you’re not familiar with it and you are a chocoholic, Kakawa is amazing)
At the risk of outing myself, I was living there when they opened and became friends with the owner. Mmmm chile drinking chocolate!! I could pop in and pick some up that was already mixed and packaged in a canning jelly jar. So good!
I lived there for a decade and it was without a doubt the place I felt most at home in my adult life. I’d still be there if I hadn’t met OMWC and gotten tired of the long-distance-cross-country romance back and forth.
Trinity Site is awesome in a weird way. Standing at the remains of the tower is cool and kinda depressing all at once. I felt the nowhere near the same way at Tinian looking at the bay where Little Boy and Fat Man were loaded into their respective planes.
Wandering around the Nevada Test Range is awe inspiring as well.
I drove past Trinity site on my way to New York in June, but didn’t have time to stop, and everything was closed anyway.
I did take some great photos at the VLA this year. I had a friend who worked there when I lived in NM and it was entirely cool.
Going to the VLA was like a pilgrimage to me. It did not disappoint!
One of my drafting colleagues is a steel detailer now but cut his teeth doing CAD at the VLA in the 90s, producing documents for everything from site buildings to equipment for the dishes and even the humongous gantry or whatever they use to separate the dishes from the treads for maintenance.
Cherry chili truffles are my favorite…I sometimes call Kakawa and order a dozen to be shipped to me (rather than ordering online & getting the mixed truffle box)
I had a roommate in college who was an interesting guy – much older than most college students at 39 (although it’s amusing to think that I’m now several years older than he was back then!), he had been a touring musician for a long time after high school before accepting in his mid-thirties that rock stardom wasn’t in the cards. Anyway, he had spent a year living in a tent in a state park in New Mexico and had a lot of amazing photos of desert scenery to show for it. I’ve driven through the state several times but never spent any time there, although it looks like a great place to visit.
I have a friend who retired early to New Mexico from being an IT guy at the place in New Jersey that creates the SATs. He specifically retired to NM in an RV because it cost him $40 a year for a NM State Parks Pass, and only about $3.00 per night if he wanted electricity and waste disposal hookup. But he had solar and satellite for power and Internet, so only hooked up for waste disposal once a week.
He said that for what he sold his condo for in NJ, he could live for 45 years in NM, just driving around to interesting places all the time, changing location when he got bored. He was talking about all living expenses, including the cost of the RV (a super nice one), medical insurance, food, a TOAD (towed car) etc. He wrote books, took photographs, hiked, and just enjoyed life.
He stopped at a State Park near me for a couple years. A lot of fun. As I’m sure you all know, there is a huge subculture for full-time RV people. He’s the one who got me thinking about South Dakota residency and permanent mail forwarding etc.
The VLA and White Sands both rock.
Trinity wasn’t open for turistas last time I was there. Sad!
There was a similar event every year in Crested Butte every labor day weekend. Just checked, not happening this year.
Already missed our local Spring beer festival, I’m going to be pissed if we lose the Fall one too.
Burn, baby, burn! /recalls late 1960’s
wistfullywith horrorI went to Zozobra several years ago. Very entertaining. I think I was more lit than the burning effigy.
Pretty sure that’s the spirit of the thing! 🙂
This is a wonderful idea.
Relax.
I have a very early memory of being strapped to dad’s back with a clear view of Zozobra and feeling terrified.
During Tulip’s Glibs Zoom Virtual Happy Hour tonight, I invite the participants to join me in burning away the gloom of this horrible year!
Smoke em if ya got em!!!
Don’t mind if I do
The continued politicization of mask-wearing by President Trump is, in a word, unforgivable. Masks didn’t have to be political. This is a matter of public health not partisanship. In his continued attempts to equate mask-wearing with wimpiness (and Democrats), what Trump is doing, in a very real sense, is encouraging his most ardent supporters to engage in behaviors that make them more likely to contract the coronavirus. A virus, I will remind you, that is projected to kill more than 400,000 Americans by the end of this year.
“Why do people “politicize” things when they could just do what we goddam tell them, instead of thinking for themselves?
Take that “model sez 400,00 dead” nonsense and stuff it up your ass, you lying homunculus.
Still no actual documentations that masks accomplish anything, huh?
Uffda. You made me go look for a story on how Minnesoda’s new and improved model was horribly off (it was) and instead I found this horrible regurgitation of Gov Walz’s justification for one man rule.
We’ve had 1800 deaths here so far. I think the rest of the nation owes us some sort of award for being so good at lockdowning that we avoided 76K deaths.
Do it looks like Everton is bringing in an entire new midfield.
Heh…
“”End Of Quote”: Biden Goes Full Ron Burgundy, Accidentally Reads Teleprompter Cues”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/end-quote-biden-goes-full-ron-burgundy-accidentally-reads-teleprompter-cues
Bill Burr used to do the same thing on his podcast ads but that was on purpose.
“12 grooming manuals have been shared online among pedophiles about 100,000 times.”
https://twitter.com/Evie_Magazine/status/1301913179438624769
“Pedophiles Are Sharing Grooming Manuals Online, And It’s Perfectly Legal”
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/pedophiles-are-sharing-grooming-manuals-online-and-its-perfectly-legal/
Awful, but books should still be legal.
It’s like The Anarchist’s Cookbook, people shouldn’t be arrested until they actually build the bomb and reading it doesn’t mean it’ll be done. It’s gross and all but banning books is even more dangerous.
Yes. This goes under the heading “Not everything I find repulsive should be illegal” Anyone who actually practices what those books say, that’s a different story. A printed page never hurt anyone itself. It takes a conscious decision to act on the part of a person to do that.
On the other hand, I have no problem with those caught actually doing those things being castrated or executed.
There has to be a Pelosi/grooming = “I was set up” joke in there somewhere.
The photoshop of her face on Marion Barry’s body in the video of him smoking crack is too goddamned funny.
If it’s not too much trouble, which comments can i find this in?
I saw it on twitter but cant find it again. Might have been deleted?
We now live in a country, where we have a certain sector of society who at the same exact time, proclaim 20 something year old adult women to be victims and heroes, who had sex with Epstein, by their very own consent, but it’s OK to diddle 10 year old girls if your politics are correct.
Moral relativism is a terminal disease.
Woo hoo! Late drop in ticket for tonight. Guess this guy won’t be drinking anything harder than soda on the rocks tonight.
Oh fuck. Just remembered that antifa is supposed to have a riot tonight.
Maybe they’ll all be in Portland to party there given the recent turn of events.
Well the last two weeks on Oahu have been very fun for aviation types. The USN used open space on an assault carrier to ferry multiple WWII aircraft over here for the 75th anniversary of VJ Day celebrations. There have been daily overflights (alone and in formation) of Texans, and Avenger, Mustangs, A Warhawk, a Mitchell, PBY’s, a Bearcat, and a C-47. The other day while out for a “fuck you Guv” sail I had a chance to witness a PBY water land and later take off in Kanehoe Bay. (K-Bay was the primary PBY base during WWII.) Over last weekend while sailing I had a Mustang and Warhawk do a slow overflight and waggle their wings in response to our waving.
They’ll be departing for the mainland soon. The only sad about all these sightings over the weeks is that they were all just cruising along. I remember from my youth in AZ the sounds of a P-51 and a P-38 going flat out low over the desert floor. You could feel the sound in your chest (and lower for aviation types).
Water landing PBY is not something you see everyday.
And unless I run into Jimmy Buffett landing his somewhere I will probably never get to see it live again. The takeoff was very impressive because they had to run those engines way up.
I gonna go find some YouTube videos to watch now. The Pacific war, particularly naval aviation, was my favorite part of WWII history as a kid.
https://youtu.be/Xx13khTTtJ0
Also achieves a kill shortly after takeoff.
“A few hours later, a big fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
The BNN Week In Review 9-4-2020
“20 feet away.”
I went to a GI doctor’s office this afternoon. I sat in the crowded waiting room for an hour wearing a mask. I was mad about having to fill out the “paperwork” as a new patient on a tablet, when I already did it at home. When I realized I was more than 10 feet away from the 5 other people on the large room, I lowered my mask. I expected someone to say something. Instead, two women lowered theirs and stared talking on the their phones.
Missouri History museum two days – staff kept barking at me to cover my nose. Reprimanded by maybe 6 people.
Cincinnati Art museum today – no one said a damn thing about my nose left uncovered, including one chatty staff member who talked to us for 5 minutes from two feet away.
The response is all over the place.
There have been daily overflights (alone and in formation) of Texans, and Avenger, Mustangs, A Warhawk, a Mitchell, PBY’s, a Bearcat, and a C-47.
NICE.
More than 175 current, former law enforcement officials endorse Biden, call Trump ‘lawless’
Fascinating.
* Taps on phone calculator. *
So, 99.98% didn’t sign this letter?
Noticed very heavy traffic enforcement on the ride home. Watch out during the holiday weekend, folks.
State troopers along my route were dealing with a burning car*. Luckily I was going the opposite direction so I didn’t get stuck in the resulting traffic.
*Truck, really. And the fire didn’t appear get to the cab. I suspect the driver is probably ok.
Did you also get to read the “Extra DUI enforcement” signs during your drive?
I love the fact that we are going to pay gobs of overtime to the King’s Men so that they can extort more money from us peasants.
I was driving too fast to be reading signs.
I, for one, saw the sign.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9lh7lqZojc
pay gobs of overtime to the King’s Men so that they can extort more money
They have to extort more money to get paid more.
Someone should nominate him for the Nobel Prize.
Take Barry’s and give it to Trump.
NATO on Friday called for the international community to respond to the attempted assassination of leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and said that Moscow must cooperate with an independent investigation.
Such as? Invade Russia? I’m sure we’ll make Moscow by winter.
I assume NATO means, “the US should do something”.
The US is NATO.
What does NATO have to do with that?
Russia “must cooperate”? Or what? They’ll get a sternly worded letter of reprimand?
Biden has a reset button for them, and if Putin laughs at him, he’ll try to draw a red line and fuck it up so bad no one will understand what’s going on.
Can you imagine being Putin for the last four years? Dude barely did anything, so far as I can tell, and gets to watch the US tear itself up while some make him into an omnipotent supervillain. He must watch CNNi and laugh his ass off.
Ritual Public Shaming
Public shaming is disgusting. That video is chilling.
The final line was good, too.
“History does not repeat. But it often rhymes.”
SCIENCE means silencing anybody who doesn’t agree with you
It is true that building up immunity can limit or even stop the spread of a virus like COVID-19, says Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
But in the past, that strategy has only worked through vaccination. The idea that you somehow could allow the virus to spread through healthy populations without also putting older and sicker Americans at risk is naive, he says.
“It’s very difficult to protect vulnerable populations once the virus is transmitting extensively,” he says. “We haven’t seen any success of that.”
Murray’s group estimates that if the virus were allowed to spread easily, deaths could exceed 360,000 by December. Even if the roughly 50% of the population the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers vulnerable to complications from COVID-19 were somehow protected, potentially thousands of young and healthy Americans would die.
“COVID is dramatically more risky for everybody than the flu,” he says. “There’s just no comparison. It’s at least an order of magnitude worse — tenfold or more.”
Scott Atlas is a dangerous crank who must be muzzled.
That’s it, then. End of debate. Because that’s what the model says, apparently. Whatever you do, don’t do any follow up studies on the sailors who were on the Theodore Roosevelt in March. Or any of the other de facto lab rat colonies which we know to exist.
No herd immunity before vaccines? Then why are we still here? That’s just stupid, nd none of these
reporterspower-fellating stenographers would ever dare to ask a follow-up to a statement like that.This is absolute bullshit that isn’t born out by any of the numbers.
Numbers are for
nerdsreactionaries.It’s significantly riskier for some old, sick people.
For “everybody”? That’s bullshit.
None of these people will admit that a) most of the very vulnerable have already died and b) our treatments for the Rona have greatly improved. You can’t just say that the rate of deaths will hold steady and therefore there will be 360K deaths by Dec.
Wait… WTF?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20043919v1
There’s an irony here…
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is offering a course entitled “How to Overthrow the State,” which includes encouraging students to engage in “producing a Manifesto,” and “writing a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory.”
A course being offered at Washington and Lee for the fall semester focuses on encouraging students to think of ways they can “overthrow a sitting government,” according to the course description on the university’s website.
“This course places each student at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society,” reads the course description.
“How will you attain power? How will you communicate with the masses? How do you plan on improving the lives of the people? How will you deal with the past?” the description adds.
“How will you attain power?”
Shoot anyone who disagrees with you, without getting shot yourself.
“How do you plan on improving the lives of people?”
By asking nicely at first for them to obey you. Then shooting dissidents when that inevitably doesn’t work.
“How will you deal with the past?”
By repeating it.
That would be a really short essay.
So the administrators at the university will not be punishing any students for not following mask mandates or social distancing rules? After all aren’t they the ones trying to teach the students not to listen to The Man?
Of course, the administrators are all old ’60s radicals who don’t think of themselves as The Man and would be outraged if anyone called them that. They would also tell you that they don’t need to worry about students defying them because all right thinking students recognize the wisdom of their rules. Only a few bad actors need to be disciplined (and it hurts the admins more than the student) for not obeying.
That could be an interesting course as taught by an ex-Venezuelan or Cuban or Iranian or Russian, with the ultimate lesson being: you’ll end up killing a huge number of people before you yourself are killed.
It won’t be, but.
Isn’t that the main objective the Army’s Special Forces course?
Yes, but I don’t think the Q Course includes any training on how to write a manifesto.
‘…think of ways they can “overthrow a sitting government,” according to the course description on the university’s website.’
Why do I get the feeling that advocating for a robust defense of the second amendment isn’t part of the curriculum?
So the CIA is teaching college courses now?
Actually reasonable, considering who the school is named after.
Blows my mind that this is happening at W&L, which traditionally was loaded with rich preppie WASP types wearing Polo shirts and Duck Heads, driving Grand Wagoneers or Saab 900s, and bearing names like J. Adderley Rutherford IV.
From Brazilian friend about the new woke America.
I so woke, watchu want?
Never mind, that won’t work, trying to get the direct link…
Here we go
Wachuwant?
OANN traded places with the Bee?
I hope he clarified, “Just McCain. How many planes did that loser lose?”
He’s even claiming he never called McCain a loser, and while I don’t think he called the WWI soldiers losers, I would be surprised if he didn’t call McCain that at some point.
Also relevant to this story, John Bolton, no friend of Trump, has come out to say that he did not hear Trump insult the troops, and he was with Trump most of the trip where it allegedly happened.
I’ll take over here and call McCain a loser if it helps.
We’re done. THE U of M started out pretty good this summer when they said they would be opening in person this fall. Then they started equivocating. Then they said they would delay moving into dorms by a week or so. Now this.
Well I guess my youngest Altar Boy is going to be a scofflaw since we are going to Beach, ND for the opening of Sharptailed grouse season on 9/12. I wonder how they are expecting to track students? I know that 22 year old me who had just gotten out of the Marines would not have done well with this type of BS.
If you wanted your kid to live in a prison you probably would have raised him differently. My kid’s school seems to be resisting that crap so far.
Youngest isn’t happy. “I could go to the U of Phoenix a lot cheaper if I wanted an online degree”
Yes – I imagine a lot of parents are having that conversation with the schools.
This guy…
On Friday, after reporters at a White House briefing regarding the historic Serbia-Kozova agreement repeatedly asked questions that had little or nothing to do with the agreement itself, former Ambassador to Germany and interim National Security Advisor Ric Grenell, who was instrumental in getting the deal done, tore into the reporters, snapping, “Maybe it’s too complicated of an issue for you all.”
A reporter asked Grenell, “Ambassador Grenell, clearly you were effective here as the Special Envoy to these talks between Serbia and Kosovo. I wanted to ask you about another initiative you led; last year you kicked off the Trump administration push to decriminalize homosexuality — ”
Grenell cut him off: “I’m just gonna talk about Kosovo and Serbia. I don’t know if you can find it on a map, but this is atrocious. I have to tell you guys: You might be too young to understand what this issue is about. Maybe the older journalists should step up and say, ‘This is a big deal. This is a big issue.’ I am astounded about what happens in DC & especially in this room. I gotta tell you; it’s substantive. Maybe it’s too complicated of an issue for you all.”
Grenell seems to be a guy the GOP should be promoting more. He seems like a guy I wouldn’t mind seeing run for President one day.
They’ll General Flynn him.
Yep. The long knives of the GOP swamp creatures will come out for him. He’ll be shivved by the Romney types for working for Trump once Trump is out of office, whether that’s next year or four years from now.
Good for him.
Well you need one.
How dare you call out our attempts to go off topic!
There are Glibs in the White House press corps??
What topic? I’m sorry, I don’t read the links.
This guy is a top-notch diplomat…he should be Sec State
Holy Moly!
I’ve always wanted the President or Sec State say exactly at and this sort of event. Two world learders announcing a big deal agreement and all the press can ever do is ask petty questions about the day’s stupid politcal kerfuffle. I’ve always figured the foreign poobah is smirking inside at how stupid and small-minded Americans are.
…exactly that at this sort..
And it is a big fucking deal, although it shouldn’t be an American deal. How many troops do we still have in the balkans, 25+ years later?
Rock star.
I work with Serbia & Kosovo a lot at my job. This is such great news.
Un-fucking-real.
More of this, please.
None of these people will admit that a) most of the very vulnerable have already died and b) our treatments for the Rona have greatly improved. You can’t just say that the rate of deaths will hold steady and therefore there will be 360K deaths by Dec.
Yes, exactly. But that doesn’t help them maintain their grip on the reins.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ThorDeplorable/status/1301845037584658432
I have no idea what is going on here, but you just know these are the same fuckers that want vote by mail.
I’m not buying the caption, but whatever it is it’s almost certainly nearly as dumb.
Fuckin’ white women.
Worse. It’s Extinction Rebellion.
Climate cultists get coralled there. Eventually some branch of it will poison themselves, I believe. They’re all completely looneytunes.
By which I mean, the really cultlike ones. Not just your average believers.
Democrats clearing the area of COVID using plastic bags.
I thought they hated plastic.
Interesting. PPB didn’t obtain an arrest warrant until Thursday morning for Reinoehl. Shooting took place Saturday evening.
Murder isn’t murder until the violent death of a person is no longer politically beneficial to your cause. It is known.
Facebook purged a patriot Prayer today it looks like:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-portland-faceboo/facebook-removes-pages-of-right-wing-group-patriot-prayer-after-portland-unrest-idUKKBN25V2UH
How dare they get shot, it’s unacceptable.
Patriot Prayer I mean. I shouldn’t have started drinking so early.
SMITE
Yeah, these will be a big hit. Now if it were women’s beach volleyball…
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1302016647796944896
LOL
WTF?
He did that on purpose, it’s part of his genius.
“How many times have I told you??? Anything you put on that teleprompter,
BurgundyBiden will read!”Yeah, but 175 of them endorsed Biden.
Back to the propaganda machine:
So the wife puts on the local news. They are covering the story of Trump insulting the Troops. “bombshell” is the chiron.
They throw it to their corespondent in DC at the white house… an NBC national guy who does standups for everyone. He says Hi to our anchor and then says “With the white house facing growing concern among the military over his comments…..”
Growing concern?
Troops are upset?
Biden angrily calls him out?
I mean.. it was a straight-up Biden campaign ad. They even had talking points that are clearly not true inserted as factual observations being made by the reporter. The white house pool reporter talks about how the troops are upset, and getting more restless. How in the holy hell could a guy who is stuck at the white house have even the slightest notion of what “the troops” are doing or thinking?
It was all laughable.
Yet the wife wasn’t laughing.
“He’s such an asshole…”
Now, she’s got full on TDS. Has had since the grab them by the hoo-ha moment. But the propaganda is reaching some people. I see a story like that and I cannot believe anyone bothers…. it is so over-the-top made up that they telegraph the whole thing. Reporting about what all of the military thinks within a day of “revelations”? There is no chance they could have even bothered to ask any “military” personnel what they think. There just isn’t time to find a reasonable sample.
It is silly. And obvious.
Yet apparently somewhat effective.
They’re convincing the already convinced and if your wife’s buying into it you might want to throw your TV set in the garbage.
Turn off cable.
Splurged on a bottle of Bulleit 95 rye. I don’t hate it.
It’s good booze for the price. I love mid priced stuff that tastes like you got more than your money’s worth.
The British atomic attack on Japan:
https://youtu.be/5XX9ptCNpik
Mild clickbait, sure, but still interesting.
interim National Security Advisor Ric Grenell, who was instrumental in getting the deal done, tore into the reporters, snapping, “Maybe it’s too complicated of an issue for you all.”
“That’s a stupid question and I’m not going to dignify it with an answer. If you yahoos can’t formulate a coherent question about the topic at hand, we’re done.”
Took an evening bike ride out by the lake. Pulled the neck gator up over my mouth and nose. Not for the ‘vid or even the Govenor – the damn gnats. Need to wait for the first frost before I ride out there again.
It was a lovely evening though. Still some smoke from the fires to make a nice sunset.
https://imgur.com/a/BKtY7p4
The intensity of the peacefulness in Rochester is steadily increasing tonight