Briz starts the weekend early
Yesterday, the Dame; today, Puppet the Pyscho Dwarf (h/t mexican sharpshooter) When will it stop?
You might have seen this one, but after weeks of clowns on IG talking about how we need to show up for USPS, I had a good laugh.
This also is not …necessarily… a new link, but I saw it for the first time yesterday so I’m counting it. Thanks, jesse.in.mb. Skip ahead to about 1:30 for the “action” if you’re too impatient to just watch it.
This Florida Boy will never become Florida Man. Unfortunate for him, but many other Florida Children will were spared. (They all still have to live in Florida, though, so there’s that.)
Speaking of spared, “objectively unreasonable” never sounded so good.
For our musical selection as we head into the weekend, I have two covers of the same song, so you must choose: A or B ?
“When will it stop?”
Never, but at least it wasn’t blamed on covid.
“We wanted to make sure it wasn’t a bargaining employee,”
Because that’s the most important thing?
“though it will possibly be delayed”
Possibly?
It hasn’t been a month yet.
Yes.
It means effectively, he can be fired.
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Oh, fuck off.
Ooooh, CP triple-taps the Bro’ – or has he dropped the shtick?
Who knows?
Never, ever try to breathe the water in Florida.
Taking a swim in stagnant pools of fetid water is not advised either.
Everyone should swim in stagnant pools. How else are we going to get super mutants?
The old fashioned way, with radioactive spider bites.
FEV ftw
The even older fashion way, having sex with super mutants.
And the first ad for the video gives 5 reasons to drink water??? Stick to beer. Or non-alcoholic carbonated beverages.
“This infection, although rare, is fatal that does not always respond to any medication.”
Florida Copy Editor Dies After Contracting Brain-Eating Amoeba From Lake
Either that or Joe Biden is moonlighting as a copy editor.
Could be both, Joe Biden would be susceptible to Naegleria Fowleri given his sniffing fetish.
It all makes sense, because it makes no sense!
Not just Florida. From our local news site:
“ A Toano man and his daughter are in jail in connection with the stabbing of two people — one being stabbed 13 times — in August, James City County Police said.
Police are asking the public for help in identifying a third suspect.
Timothy Kelly, 52 and her 21-year-old daughter, Katherine Kelly, are each jailed on charges of robbery, felonious assault, malicious wounding, malicious wounding by mob, breaking and entering and conspiracy to commit a felony.”
The whole article reads like a computer wrote it.
I was all set to be grossed out and vowing to never swim again until I got to the cheerful graphic at the bottom and LMFAO’ed. Well done, Science Times.
Why God, WHY!? You had a perfectly worthless Steve-O to claim. Why Wee Man!?
That ain’t Wee Man!
So like Lou Reed? We still have Wee Man?
“Acevedo detailed that before the 21 shots in question, police officers had shot Chavez more than once, discharged five cartridges of stun guns and deployed six bean bags.”
Acevedo was a mystic working a healer for the Russian royal family.
Some guys take a lot of killin’.
This is the same slimeball who slandered the dead couple in that botched “drug house” raid a few years back. Are union mouthpieces all lying sacks of shit, or is this guy a special case?
I’m going to go with the first one.
It’s been a long short week. My work is increasingly getting more insane and my wife is finishing her first week of teaching in person after 6 months of being remote and on summer vacation.
I’m looking forward to ignoring politics and focus on music, food, and drink for a few days.
Remain calm
The federal stimulus package provided direct aid to consumers, forgivable loans to small businesses and tens of billions of dollars to besieged airlines.
The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero and pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system to unlock frozen credit markets. The Fed even started buying corporate debt, including junk bonds, for the first time ever.
The avalanche of aid flung credit markets back open — wide open. Companies like Carnival (CCL) that were struggling to raise money were suddenly able to borrow on reasonable terms.
US companies sold more than $40 billion of junk bonds in August alone — more than quadruple the amount from the same period of 2019, according to Fitch Ratings. Junk bond volume is already nearing the record-shattering $281 billion raised in 2012, Fitch said.
We have our best people on it. Don’t worry about a thing.
Keep on printing, what could possibly go wrong?
I like both covers, but I would still prefer the original singer.
?
Yes, I think this is her.
She basically does the entire soundtrack for one of my favorite games, it seems.
And then they went and made that game better (Royal), except that they did not include this song as often as they did in the original.
Game soundtracks are the only music my son listens to. He’s an odd, but likeable kid.
Your DOG distracts you? Imagine 6 of those, all rescues with emotional dependency issues. That is distraction.
That reminds me…my little scruffy Bridget needs a haircut and a pedicure. Where is Mrs. OwnBestEnemy when you need her?
New Dog is still far too nervous.
https://imgur.com/a/xnm3SdH
It didn’t help that she spooked and dragged a 25 lb. metal chair down the street last weekend – sparks flying, me running after her, cursing. Thank god she wrapped it around a tree, otherwise she’d still be going (more realistically – hit by a car).
Looks pretty chill to me.
she’s not usually amped up, just gets on edge far too easily.
I’m guessing her time in Arkansas was a bit less stimulating.
It’s only been 4 weeks, she’ll get there.
Aw. ❤️?
That first pic doesn’t quite capture her Hypno-Toad eyes:
https://imgur.com/a/K5f6Fg6
She’s adorable!
Thanks. “Catahoula / terrier” per the paperwork from Arkansas – part of a litter, so I’m assuming the owner was at least half right with that mix.
I’m also assuming ‘terrier’ means pit bull terrier, so apparently we got a pitahoula.
Suthen, you have six?!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081480/mediaviewer/rm2325466624
“OK, who peed?”
My mom and step-father got five basset hounds after I went away to college. I have no idea how they managed it. One or more of them got all over me every time I visited but I couldn’t tell them apart.
Roooooooo!
That must have been a stinky slobbery mess. Love the hound group though.
“Woke Twitter desperately tries to defend pro-pedophile movie ‘Cuties'”
https://thepostmillennial.com/woke-twitter-defends-cuties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQEWK9jbA3Y
They’re reflexively supporting anything conservatives vocally oppose because it makes them feel intellectually superior.
Yeah, I’m not even taking a position on this movie – mostly because I don’t care but also because I’ve seen wildly different takes that seem plausible – but I can see that this ↑ is how it’s going to shake out.
^^ cosigned
Yeah, I refuse to express an opinion about something I have not seen (because I try not to be a retarded monkey and only a retarded monkey gets outraged by a movie they have not even seen) and it doesn’t sound interesting enough to watch. Seriously, if you are posting outrage about this and haven’t watched it, please think about how you differ from the people who reflexively attack anything the MSM attacks. (hint, you don’t, you just picked a different master than they did)
It’s OK, ‘cuz it’s French.
That’s some real spin:
“ Peter Strzok, the former FBI deputy chief of counterintelligence, noted that while the mistakes and failures found in the Justice Department inspector general’s report were “inexcusable,” he added that they were not improper.
“I don’t think at all that it’s anything improper,” Strzok said in an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning.” “You get people who are overworked, who make mistakes — and don’t get me wrong, inexcusable mistakes.””
It’s like they have a department that brain storms canned convenient excuses. I accidentally wiped my phone, it was a typo, the emails just disappeared…
I accidentally inexcusably spent the extra time to alter those documents because I was overworked.
Our best and brightest, flinging about Dr. Phil Show-level excuses.
Why not, I guess. It’s 24/7 experts and elected officials in the news, pumping straight-faced, “me or your lying eyes” dialogue while the general public just shrugs.
“It was inexcusable…but here’s my excuse”.
They forgot!
I think these people should be given the same courtesy and benefit of the doubt as they gave to the people they were investigating.
So it’s proper for the FBI to do things that are inexcusable?
Someone has to protect Americans and save our democracy from bad orange villains.
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/JFvujknrBuE
Rape is inexcusable but I slipped and my coincidentally erect phallus entered her (200 times) and can’t we all agree that no one should go to prison for slipping?
Hah hah. CEO just sent out a meeting invite ten minutes prior to the start. Looks like his hand was forced by the oops email.
Oops email? Did he sext everyone in the company?
Someone sent out an email earlier and then recalled it.
Turns out not to be as drastic as it first seemed. Rebranding effort but also includes a domain name change. Cue worst fears rumors.
Lesson learned: that never works.
It worked back in the early aol era, if you were fast enough.
As has become normal in these annoying times, I’ve set up a Virtual Happy Hour for tonight which I’ll kick off at 20:00 Eastern.
Danke
Thanks, Neph. We missed you last week.
Thanks Neph. A silver lining in the whole hot mess
Thanks Neph. I shan’t be attending at all this evening, as I’m inexplicably entertaining guests whilst my wife is out of town, touring wineries with her girlfriends, bitching about me behind my back and probably having sex with the poolboy (and as I’ve told her numerous times, “Get the SOB to wear a condom!”).
“So ronery.”
Euphemism?
Jerry Jr is that you?
“Welcome to the apocalypse: San Fransisco is compared to Blade Runner 2049 after smoke from wildfires turns skies bright orange as blazes continue to sweep across the West Coast leaving at least 23 dead and 4.4million acres destroyed, while 10% of Oregon’s population is forced to evacuate”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8721227/West-Coast-wildfire-death-toll-rises-23-500-000-Oregon-residents-forced-evacuate.html
Yikes!
From yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/ipt1bg/i_put_blade_runner_2049_music_to_drone_footage_of
+1 thisisfine.jpg
Indeed
“Chinese virologist who fled to the US after claiming Beijing covered up Covid-19 vows to publish evidence PROVING the virus is manmade – and claims even non-scientists will be able to verify the data”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8722519/Virologist-claims-publish-evidence-PROVING-coronavirus-manmade.html
I think she’s over-estimating the abilities of non-scientists. Also, scientists.
This.
Yeah, there’s ability and then there’s political willingness…
It almost surely came from that lab. I doubt they made it. But I do think that since it got out it has been used non-stop for political purposes, by the Chinese, The WHO, out own power made governors, and the democratic party to try to get rid of Trump.
Holy cow, my spelling.
“our own power mad governors”
Gustave linked this in the dead thread. I wouldn’t want to have to use one for work but it’s fun to watch!
I don’t miss those things at all. They’re a nightmare to maintain.
I had one of those at my desk way back when.
Back in the 80’s a friend’s Dad had a multi-color tabletop pen plotter at his house that he used to render architectural drafts created in AutoCAD. It was huge, and really amazing to watch.
Oh yeah.
You wouldn’t happen to have some 4k video of old HP hammer-action drum printers, would you?
I didn’t know HP even manufactured drum printers. I know they had dot matrix printers before the laser and inkjet printers.
Very interesting. Virtual museum has a video but it’s WMV and can’t play it on my phone.
http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=332
That was unexpectedly funny.
You’re not missing much. I wanted to hear the thing and instead it’s some wacky musical interlude.
The Dean Beasts are not allowed on the furniture. Period. Any furniture, anywhere, at any time.
They are also not allowed in the dining room when I am eating.
Boundaries, people. Never allow anyone, man or beast, to question who is the alpha.
BRB. Mrs. Dean needs me to run an errand.
Hound shows no sign of thinking she’s the alpha, even though she’s allowed on the couch, but I could be missing it.
I am having a difficult time prevailing on the cat to respect boundaries. It’s willing to dish out much more pain than I am.
It’s a cat.
It’s willing to dish out much more pain than I am.
Much like women.
Exactly like women.
Cats are not pack or herd animals. They do not do the status thing the same way sheep and humans do.
But something happened then. The ring was picked up by the unlikeliest of wielders.
My sister fostered our dog for a week before we met her, and taught her all kinds of bad habits. We’ve got her pretty well trained at our house, but as soon as we go over to my sister’s she’s climbing on the couch and jumping on my sister and BIL.
who is the alpha
Mrs. Dean needs me to run an errand.
?
I keed, I keed!
I’m pretty sure THAT’S THE JOKE.
I see.
You suck, McBain!
Max is unimpressed with your rules.
https://imgur.com/mDRlal7
That looks like a Natuzzi. Dogs love Natuzzi.
It smells like all of their natural prey. What’s not to love?
I didn’t know you had kids.
OZY et al
Sorry if I misled you on the last article, I didn’t mean to imply that that was my cousin’s actual flight, only that I thought it was fairly descriptive of what I had learned about my cousin’s flight. It was in all likelihood typical of many flights. After re-reading it I could understand how a misunderstanding could arise.
I was young (7 YO) and my cousin was a lot older, I really didn’t know him but he was my dad’s only paternal nephew, my family took it hard (I was spared).
No problem, Fourscore. The authenticity of the piece struck me as coming from firsthand material; it sounds like that’s the case, but it was excellent writing regardless.
I believe we have previously covered in the comments the size of the brass, ahem, fortitude… it would take to be a ball-turret gunner.
As I noted, the reason it stuck out for me was my few occasions of sipping lemonade on my HS English teacher’s porch, pestering him to tell me more stories from the air war over Germany.
Yep, close to what I have learned
When I was about 11 at a 4th of July party a friend of a friend of my Dad (much older) got a bit drunk and started telling stories about his days flying B-17s over Germany. According to him most of the bombs got dropped on France or Holland (as soon as they hit land) because no one wanted to be in a plane full of explosives when they hit the flack and fighter cover. Maybe he was joking, but it always stuck with me as the one truly honest discussion I ever heard about combat,.
I can’t help but wonder if CNN is covering the USPS thing because they’re setting the stage for missing ballots to be miraculously found after the election.
Right now they are busy trying to associate people who died from covid with people who died in 911.
Not only missing ballots but 2 small packages I sent to TX on Aug 27th. They leave here right away but things get confused after that. They need to hire UPS for the first mile(s) instead of UPS using the USPS for the last mile. Seems like a lot of stuff I send, often with a printed address, still gets misplaced.
They are probably recording that “news” report right now.
https://twitter.com/ArsenalAtHeartt/status/1304042169964126209
I feel bad for laughing at that.
I don’t. If you can’t even joke about 911 how can you joke about the holocaust or child rape?
“I am devoting this thread to the Rescue dogs of 9/11-
The goodest pups of all.”
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1304479253304573952
Bit dusty in here.
Some sort of localized dust storm must have just blown through here.
@#$%ing onion cutting ninjas…
I’m sure this decision is going to be popular with the students. Especially with no football. But don’t worry, AG Yost thinks that tOSU has a case against the Big10 over the cancellation.
OFFS.
“Misty Dawn Poole-Bohannon was arrested today in Portland, Ore. & charged with trespass and interfering with public transportation.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1304291625040924672
There’s a keeper.
She seems nice.
What the shit is all over her face? Ball point ink or tattoos?
Seriously, probably tattoos made with ball point ink.
She’s just proudly displaying her wokeness.
There’s another mugshot floating around of her last year where she’s got half her face covered in a weird half-blackface, so she looks like those guys from Classic Star Trek.
I read a theory that she’s attempting to avoid facial recognition, but she’s probably just an addict/nutcase.
She must’ve passed out on the couch at the Antifa riot pre-planning kegger.
and they were unable to draw dicks?
The People’s Council declared that to be too heteronormative.
So labia are out too? Ok, assholes it is then. I need a template so I can practice.
“Yeah, we’re totally inclusive and stuff, but could you maybe go riot over there for a little while? You’re spooking some of our best projectile throwers.”
Bless her heart.
There seem to be a very high percentage of ‘protesters’ matching that profile…that or violent felons.
Now we know why the left has been wanting to open the prison doors.
There’s a whole lot of mental illness in Portland that Antifa is exploiting.*
*Assuming she was arrested in relation to the riots.
We may have closed too many state hospitals.
Yeah, but then SP set up this site so we had a home.
The bee strikes again
https://babylonbee.com/news/oh-no-the-president-visited-san-francisco-and-now-no-one-can-find-him/?utm_content=buffer12d79&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
So great.
That’s My Trump!
LOL
Happy Bella!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/M8bq23YAnDKp9cbU9
Happy to be somewhere other than AZ? I would be for sure.
I’m far away from everything, as far away as possible, cold lands in the wilderness,
I’m looking out the window, don’t see you. I’ll holler out the door
“Dinner at 6”
Hmm
Try again “Bella, dinner at 6, bring your friend”
Have you morphed into a yooper yet?
No, very good guess, think higher
I see that San Diego Gas and Electric has cancelled their Wildfire Safety and Preparedness Fair this weekend.
It was cancelled due to wildfires.
The man who predicted 9/11 – Rick Rescorla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla
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Cyril Richard Rescorla (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was a soldier, police officer and private security specialist of British origin. He served as a British army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a United States commissioned officer in the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the United States Army.
As the director of security for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center,[2] Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures credited with saving thousands of lives.[3] He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, while leading evacuees from the South Tower.
***
When he was a boy, he made friends with the American bomber crews who lived at the base nearby. He changed his name to Rick to sound more American.
Fake news…Biden predicted it…I read that in the news today.
Ah, there are still a few roots left of the mighty oak that was once the British people.
And that “I am Millwall” guy.
I feel heartbroken for the few Brits left who remember the former greatness of Britain and the powerful ideas of its thinkers. The remaining stalwarts must be depressed at Britain’s slow suicide.
We and the Aussies are next if we don’t learn.
One hero among many – Orio Palmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orio_Palmer
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Orio Joseph Palmer (March 2, 1956 – September 11, 2001) was a Battalion Chief of the New York City Fire Department who died while rescuing civilians trapped inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.[1][2][3] Palmer led the team of firefighters that reached the 78th floor of the South Tower, the floor where the plane had struck the building.[1][2]
According to The 9/11 Commission Report, audio and video recordings prominently featuring Orio Palmer have played an important role in the ongoing analysis of problems with radio communications during the September 11 attacks.[4]
***
His last radio calls are on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP51TrbyfsI
crazy man pets great white shark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVGLKG3dSqY
So Trump gets nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and….a writer at the Atlantic immediately advocates abolishing the award entirely.
Completely normal reaction.
[incapacitating laughter]
Man, if Trump walked on water, Team Blue would yell at him for not knowing how to swim.
If he cured cancer, they’d say he put doctors out of work.
Arafat actually killed people before his Nobel.
Let’s get him an Academy Award, then.
I am shocked.
How can one be so far deep in the derp that their (il)logical conclusion is to dump the award because Trump was nominated. Jesus some people.
Hate clicks are all the rage nowadays.
People should just start nominating Trump for every woke bullshit award.
I endorse this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_tax
Y’know, if you screw up your country so badly that people stop reproducing, maybe rethink some of your grand social engineering schemes?
***
As originally passed and enforced from 1941 to 1990, the tax affected most childless men from 25 to 50 years of age, and most childless married women from 20 to 45 years of age. The tax was 6% of the childless person’s wages, but it provided certain exceptions: those with children that died during World War II did not have to pay the tax, nor did war heroes that received certain awards. Also, many students were able to obtain an exemption from the tax, as did people who earned less than 70 rubles a month. Furthermore, those who were medically incapable to give birth were also exempt to this tax, and many single men fraudulently escaped the tax by claiming infertility and provided fake medical documentation.
***
Marriage draft dodgers? Larf!
A great way to keep a country’s population from declining is to avoid starving and shooting millions of people.
No, what really drives population growth is a ruinous war that kills off loads of virile young men. Think of the potential gains if we committed to endless, bloody wars, forever.
the original defense of marriage act:
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The Lex Papia et Poppaea was a Roman law introduced in 9 AD to encourage and strengthen marriage. It included provisions against adultery and against celibacy after a certain age and complemented and supplemented Augustus’ Lex Julia de Maritandis Ordinibus of 18 BC and the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis of 17 BC. The law was introduced by the suffect consuls of that year, Marcus Papius Mutilus and Quintus Poppaeus Secundus, although they themselves were unmarried.
***
And of course, some animals are more equal than others.
“…and against celibacy after a certain age…”
Baby, you gotta give me some lovin’ or I’m gonna be in trouble with the law!”
“provisions against adultery”
Those aren’t retroactive, are they? Is there not a statute of limitations or something? Asking for a friend, of course
The worst feeling I’ve ever had was being cheated on. The third worst was being caught cheating.
Actually, food poisoning is the worst feeling, followed by that dull shell shock sensation of a fever.
“Here’s a cup of me. Knock yourself out.”
robc posted this in the AM links and it meant a bit to me…
“Baseball trivia question:
Who was the first MLB player to hit a homerun into another state?
If you know a bit about stadiums, it is actually a reasonably easy question. I am sure Pie will be all over this one.”
…Then posted “That is why Ellis Park Race Track is in KY, despite being north of the river.”
And I grew up a mile or two from Ellis Park as the crow flies! My dad was on the sports beat for several years before he got his own (small) metro column for the Evansville paper. As a kid I’d be given my $2 and would go after the minimum bets. It started out that dad would get our bets, but once the machines were opened in the late ’90s we’d do it ourselves, well under age. No one cared.
Hey, Evan! How the heck are you?
Hey! I think I’m getting more stabilized. I have had a good couple of weeks to get to my new anti-convulsant meds…but MORE IMPORTANTLY: I feel like I have my agency back.
I had a day of psych assessments on Wed. Then on Wed night I had…a job interview! They are going to hire me. They just want to know if I want to do elem or middle school kids. I have another talk with the head foreign teacher my Sunday night.
I had a long and painful year. And I am THIS close to a year anniversary of the whole Incident. I feel like I’m back to being me. I’ll have a schedule. I’ll have a routine. I’ll have MONEY. I’ll be on my own—girlfriend and friends excluded here.
I’ll feel normal again and not like the lab rat I’ve been for 51 weeks. It’s hard to express how important that is. But I feel so elated today. Big steps were taken and I’ve kept myself afloat, mostly with dignity.
I plan on writing something that will hopefully appear on September 22, which will be a to-the-day touchdown celebration of putting the Incident Year behind me. It was difficult, but I am proud of how I was able to achieve what I wanted to. It took me a long time and I’m not yet perfect, but if I gave this to anyone else then I know they wouldn’t have bounced back like I have. I admit that I have made many mistakes.
Live and learn. Grow and prosper!
Yay Evan!
Boom! Good on ya!
If you need someone to chat with, help you through this, I can’t promise it’ll be illuminating or whatever, but I hear there’s people who specialize in that sort of thing.
So glad to hear it!
Thanks! I am all over that already, though. I have a primary physician, and I see speech, occupational, visual and physiological therapists. I have a pretty full weekly calendar seeing these folks.
The biggest mistake I made was going back to work in February…which I think was a great idea, but I straight-up wasn’t ready yet. Still had so many hallucinations and it was difficult to tell reality from irreality.
There’s a fairly specific reason behind all of this, but that’s mostly for me, I think. I still am not comfortable getting into it at length, but I know that I know how I have been thinking and how I can make things worse.
But I’ve made that mistake and I have worked at conquering that and have largely been successful recently. I know better how tackle these issues and feel more confident and comfortable addressing these issues. Take your victories when you can!
https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1302103491226329092/photo/1
Former US Ambassador openly calling for Rule of the Permanent Bureaucrats.
Man, there is some interesting stuff in the comments.
There are folks around here who suggest that, if the left wins in November, they will work to stop a fair election ever happening again. I don’t agree with that. However, it does appear that there are a significant number of Americans who believe so much in the rule of experts that they might be willing to consider an end to meaningful elections as long as the people they supported were in charge. At the moment, the loudest voices make it seem like a majority of them are on the left, but I suspect there are some on the right as well.
The experts have been in charge for decades. That’s why they’re freaking out now. So… in some sense, sure, we’ll still have fair elections. The question I have is will they mean anything.
Maybe we should start thinking of sedition as a real thing…..cuz it is.
I suspect there are a significant minority of Americans who would vote to end national elections if it meant the “right” people were in charge.
TAKE CARE OF ME, DADDY GOVERNMENT! MAKE MY DECISIONS FOR ME!
I’m going to go back to my safe space. Sure I don’t get to do anything, but I am sure SAFE!
I bet processes degrade over time, too. So you manage to preserve our economy in amber with the idea that you extract the same resources year to year that you would at year zero minus one, and distribute those resources more equitably going forward. But it turns out that people get lazier and inattentive after they’ve fallen into a routine, especially now that you’ve dissuaded optimization. So you have exactly the same capital investment that you had when you took power, but it all goes to pot in a couple years because there’s no incentive and therefore no ambition to even maintain the capital stock as it is, let alone improve it.
You can’t even maintain a perfectly working socialist economy at the pre-takeover peak rate of capitalist productivity, it ends up degrading into unfeasability within years.
Every government program created to help the people falls victim to the mentality of entitlement it creates. The first generation to collect Social Security got a lot more out of it than every generation since, even though they also got the fewest number of dollars.
I know a few.
Once you have a permanent bureaucracy you will, not may but will inevitably end up ruled by the bureaucrats. Those who implement the rules are always the real rulers.
Of course there are. Right and Left hold no meaning for me. Collectivists, i.e. Authoritarians vs. Individualists does.
Sadly I cant think of a single individualist on the ‘left’. Authoritarianism is baked right into that world view.
Trump is long overdue. I wouldn’t put half of those people in charge of policing the dog shit in my back yard.
The Rule of the Permanent Bureaucrats. Unelected, unaccountable to voters and not subject to the rules they impose on others.
Fox guarding the henhouse.
What could possibly go wrong?
Hayek didn’t call his book The Road to Serfdom for nothing.
I have no idea what timezone i’m in,
UTC for the win!
I’m in a time zone!
Your internet is down?
That was pretty much my reaction. My cell phone is my watch and is kind enough to update as it crosses time zones.
I live on Verizon Standard time.
Yeah, I think all the major OS’es do that.
Dudez, is there a zoom meeting tonight?
Glibs don’t have meetings. 🙂
Especially on Fridays.
Look up thread. Neph is hosting.
¡Gracias!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1304284757853966336
That’s a crazy multi vehicle crash.
That truck driver should be reprimanded.
Owwie.
Driver fell asleep? Too long at the wheel and lost spacial perspective?
He was definitely going far too fast. Maybe just an asshole aggressive driver?
Heart attack
Holy shit, for real?!
Holy shit\
Holy moly.
The roads will be a little safer once Tesla semi trucks are common.
I don’t mean to criticize anyone’s religion, but couldn’t you pick one with less self delusion? Scientology maybe?
As a side note, Florin and I-5 is a pretty shitty part of Sacramento.
“Houston will send city officials to “randomly selected” homes across the city, demanding blood harvesting of every person living at that address. This they justify as a COVID medical experiment, & the Mayor says “people should cooperate.” This is total insanity & medical tyranny.”
https://twitter.com/johnflipside/status/1303915972953137152
If this is true, someone is going to get shot.
So not mandatory but how many people turn down government agents (besides us) when they come knocking.
http://www.houstontx.gov/health/NewsReleases/houston-health-department-leading-antibody-testing-survey-to-better-understand-the-spread-of-covid-19-in-houston.html
“If we knock on your door, I strongly encourage you and your loved ones to participate in this important survey,”
Like the government has never done secret experiments on its citizens before….
“Got a warrant?”
Adds address to list of first round of camp goers.
*Raises hand*
I start out trying to be nice about it but that can change in the blink of an eye.
No
Fucking
Way
Stop giving Cuomo and Deblasio ideas, everyone else.
Nice Ted!
where’s the zoom?
See #16, it’s next to the meth.
8pm Neph time…5pm awesome time 🙂 Linky up thread.
5pm
awesomecommie timeLeft coasties. ?
That’s a crazy multi vehicle crash.
And that’s why you keep checking your rear view mirror when you’re stopped in traffic.
I am always checking mine.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/09/11/no-socialista-kamala-harris-not-well-received-by-latinos-for-trump-community-in-florida-970865
Poor CommaLa.
Watching The Boys. Ewwwww.