Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful morning it always is!
5 Covid vaccines in advanced trials by October.
Dershowitz suing CNN for defamation that occurred during their impeachment coverage.
NY restaurants given permission to piss people off.
Italian pronoun lady pretends to be black. Someone needs to tell these kids that there are ways outside of race and gender to feel special.
Billionaire pisses fortune away.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Italians pretending to be black.
That’s a new one.
Well, they were pretending to be white until it stopped being advantageous.
Around the late 1800s to early 1900s Italians were not considered white.
are they now?
By what the women say when I show them my Johnson I think they still think us goombas are not white….
They think you’re Asian?
That’s your problem tasty treat…
Me, I get told they didn’t think that came that big in white…
It’s after Labor Day… You know what they say…
Just so long as it doesn’t come too soon.
Actually I get told I can take too long… And when I tell them that’s cause I need to be loved long time, they gets mad and tell me they are not from Vietnam….
The promotion to whiteness is only the last 50-60 years.
This. My people came over in the early 20th century and they sure as shit weren’t white.
Well, Catholics aren’t really white.
Friend sent this to me yesterday
Calling Irish People White Is Racist and Imperialist.
I’m half Irish, half white, but I’ve been told I can pass for either one.
Press to play
My Irish wife is going to love when tell her she has to like okra and greens now.
Aren’t you from the North?
It’s practically another country.
Also.
Here name is Vittolo-Haddad. Why are you racist against Arabs?
The Liga Nord has always pretty adamant that Africa begins at Rome.
Italians or Sicilians?
The broadcast television version of that scene is almost as funny for its bowdlerization.
I knew I would be too late to lob that one over home plate.
Yup.
I got mistaken as mexican, but that was as dark as it went.
In NYC you can go from being Puerto Rican to Dominican just by driving over bridge between the Bronx and Washington Heights.
So you latinx?
Someone needs to tell all these people pretending to be black that it’s a terrible idea to do in this country. Blacks are “literally being hunted” in the streets by racist police, according to CNN. Blacks in Chicago were reported today to have significantly shorter life spans than whites, and the only possible reason is a racist health care system.
Wise up professors! There can’t possibly be any advantages to pretending to be black, only certain early death awaits.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’ UnCiv
Billionaire pisses fortune away. – he could have thrown a few bucks my way. Or a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle or something
You didn’t play the victim hard enough?
NY restaurants given permission to piss people off.
And this type of bullshit is why I will be avoiding restaurants until this idiocy is over.
As I mentioned last night, I’ve been tipping heavy (30%+) when I’m going out now. Start adding surcharges and fees to my bill, and that’ll dry up.
Not the waitresses’ fault.
Not my problem.
True, it’s not. My wife and I and our friends love restaurants; going out to nice restaurants was one of our bigger entertainment expenses every month. But with all of the idiotic rules in place, we’re just not willing to pay good money for a shitty experience, even though I feel bad for the restaurants being screwed by our idiot governor.
But Mister Ilium isn’t made of money either.
The tips would go back to a standard 18%, and I’d avoid that place in the future. I’ve got no issue with raising prices, or the suspension of specials during the reduced occupancy restrictions. I do have issues with additional fees.
My choice would be to not go to a restaurant or go less often, not to lower the tip.
I’d shift to preferring locations that aren’t charging the fees. I was already preferring those who were working to do what they could to technically comply with the rules while giving themselves an advantage while pushing for the removal of the rules. As an example, when patio only dining was allowed here, several restaurants/bars had been built with garage doors at the front and back of the building. They opened both up, and claimed that their entire establishment was now a patio with outdoor dining.
“Under a new bill passed Wednesday by the City Council, New York restaurants will be allowed to add up to a 10% charge onto customers’ tab. The bill passed on a 46-2 vote.
“The fee won’t be mandatory, and it can be any amount up to 10% of a food and drink bill. Restaurants’ permission to charge the fee will expire 90 days after the state allows full occupancy of eateries,” the New York Daily News reported. “Restaurant bills will have to be explicit about the amount of the charge and its purpose. Food trucks and restaurants that are part of national chains with 15 or more outlets will not be allowed to charge the fee.””
Couldn’t they just raise their prices by 10%?
That would be gouging.
Why do they need permission? Just put it on the menu, point it out to people and let them decide. The salon I go to added a fee for PPE that probably also goes toward the Plexiglas dividers. It’s small, I understand and I’m willing to pay it. It’s the only way they can be open.
They don’t. It’s just politicians grandstanding, dog-bites-man shit. The press can’t help themselves, they love the taste of politician genitals.
This sets the precedent that government can control their prices, and thus help government do a better job at picking winners & losers in the name of justice….
Not just justice, SOCIAL JUSTICE!!
That’s the only type of justice these types believe in. Was that not obvious?
Well yeah, because social justice is pretty much the exact opposite of justice.
That’s exactly the point of peddling it WTF…
It’s government and other unaccountable entities picking winners & losers…
“Restaurants in the city remain closed, but can reopen for indoor dining at 25% capacity on Sept. 30. If things go well, that would move to 50% capacity a month later.”
Because NY hospitals are flooded with covid patients?
I’m thinking the fee should be about 300% if restaurants are going to have any chance of surviving the winter.
I don’t buy this for a second.
I can’t think of a single good reason why anything in NYC should still be closed at this point.
Close the subway, open everything else back up.
While I’d rather he gave it to me instead of those grifters, it’s his money to throw away.
He should have bought lottery tickets, may be could have won.
Mornin’ Banjos!
Mornin’
Good morning, Banjos
Mornin’ tuber
Mornin’ , Miss Banjos
“Money printer goes brrrrrrr”
What could possibly go wrong? Sounds like a good idea. I only wish some other trials had been made before we tried this solution. What? What Oh, how did that turn out? No, I can’t pronounce or even spell Zim.., Zimb…, whatever.
Besides, what would that tightwad, Von Mises know, guy wasn’t even an American, to start with.
Weimar is probably easier to say.
Zimbabwe is easier.
But it’s racist.
Mornin’
They continue the war on small businesses. Food trucks and restaurants part chains of 15 or more can’t charge the fee. And, why the fuck would a restaurant need permission to add that fee anyway?
Or just change their prices?
Even absent some restaurant commission on pricing, a change to the menu list price is scarier to customers.
My competitors all rely on bullshit fees (environmental surcharges, track/tire wear charges, etc…)
I refuse to do it. It just pisses off the customers. They get mad enough when I charge them for fuel.
Because this way, NY can say that that extra cost is OMB’s fault.
What, you want anarchy?
But why do they need permission to add a fee?
Because everything not required is prohibited! Don’t you even government?!
I wanted to link to an old SNL sketch about a Scottish Restaurant, but web search came up empty.
They don’t need permission, they need an excuse. A price hike on menu items will send some customers away. A price hike necessitated by City fiat allows they restaurateur to shrug and say “tell it to the City Council”.
I had to stop hanging out at the porch of our local brewery because the State mandated, a few weeks ago, that patrons were required to order food to sit and have a drink. I love the food there, but it’s NYC so it’s on the pricey side to be dining there every day. I can only eat so many $10 tacos before I feel like I’ve fallen for some rookery. Add a 10% surcharge on top, I’ll be making tortillas at home.
I read in a different article that restaurants in NYC are not allowed to add fees. This is a temporary exemption.
Adding on fees is banned because it forces restaurants to hide the price of government decrees in the menu prices.
Letting people know that government is fucking their dining experience over and that without the asshats that view businesses just as places to plunder doing what they do, their experience could cost a lot less, could cause people to hold the wrong opinions about the vulture class and their claim to do these things to “help” people…
Good morning Banjos
Mornin’ Tulip
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to all of the rest of you little islands of sanity.
From the vaccine article:
You think? Oh, and having the DoD involved fills me with warm fuzzies. Or maybe I’m bleeding out from a thousand cuts. So hard to tell…
The billionaire story is interesting.
The attention whores, however, appear to have missed a central premise of Chuck’s plan.
Oh well, at least we can share a fantastic song together. So much awesome there. Especially Jane.
I hope all of you have a wonderful day and an inspired weekend. Headed up to Fourscore’s for Honey Harvest on Sunday. I will report back.
Hopefully…
DOD, vaccines… sounds totes legit.
Department of Defense officials tried to assure reporters briefed Wednesday morning that logistics will be in place for the manufacturing and distribution of hundreds of millions of doses.
After reading Ozy’s account of the DoD and vaccines, this really raises a red flag.
Think of the chilruns!
“Now you see what I’m on about!”
We’re about halfway through this list, the rest is my prediction:
– Public health “experts” create panic over poorly-understood virus
– Public health “experts” ignore growing body of evidence regarding mortality rate, and instead set expectation that a only a vaccine will save us
– Politically connected pharma labs, in which public health “experts” are invested, rush vaccines through trials
– FDA grants emergency approval to vaccines, and at the same time gives blanket liability waiver to pharma labs for vaccine side effects
– Public health “experts” make vaccine mandatory, if not literally, at least effectively mandatory for people to engage in day-to-day life
– A raft of vaccine side effects become apparent
– Public health “experts” stand on piles of bodies, shaking their heads and blaming Trump for poor handling of the virus, while they count through the Hefty bags of cash they got from their pharma investments
– Nobody is ever held accountable for damage done, to public health, the economy, or the tattered remnants of rule of law or constitutional government
One of the key reasons the credentialed elite aristocratic class is fighting the Trump phenom so hard is the fact that they are genuinely scared the public will realize not just how inept they are, but no longer just take it lying down. Especially when Trump, despite massive opposition and outright sabotage from them, keeps making things they told us were impossible happen.
Unaccountability is one of the most important perks this new aristocracy feels it is due, and they mean to burn everything down rather than be forced to actually show competency and results over credentials and fluff social bullshit talk…
The public may not take it lying down, but they’ve shown very little resistance to taking it by bending over.
Do not confuse the fact that most people remain silent with lack of resistance. When the enemy has made it a point of destroying the livelihood of those that resist them, what you end up with is a silent underground movement.
I will not be surprised orange man wins in a landslide, the dems lose the house, and these fucks decide they will rather burn it all down or lose their aristocratic perks, but the more they show their true colors, the more people will decide fighting back is no longer optional…
you’re much more of an optimist than I am
Mornin’ Tundra!
I’m back.
I read Webdom’s thing from last night, and now this stupid NYC restaurant thing. You can accuse me of blaming the victim if you want, but I will shed not a single tear when restaurants go tits up because the owners just bent over and spread their cheeks instead of telling the Chicken Little Brigade to fuck off. It makes my blood boil.
Looks like I won’t be moving to Rockland, Idaho (pop 290), after all. I buzzed down there on Wednesday (gone for less than 36 hrs) to look at a place. I looked at it from the outside, and made an appointment to go look at it at ! on Thursday. At noon, the realtor called me to tell me somebody made an offer, and the owners accepted it. It’s okay. It was really close to what I’m looking for, but not perfect.
I will say I am really going to focus on landing somewhere in a 25-30 mile radius from Pocatello.
Not many masks in sight, while I was there. Kids are apparently back in school.
For WebD/SP/OMWC:
Just got a chance to read WebD’s article.
I’ve got a guest room and a guest bathroom. If the two of you need to take a break and chill out, there is wonderful Adirondack hiking nearby, a good Indian place, a bland Indian place, and a hippy restaurant which might fit your dietary needs (as well as farmers markets and assorted frou frou groceries).
Foliage is typically best last week in September/First week in October.
I unplugged last night and just did the same.
Hang in there WebD!
Reading WebDom’s article near broke my heart. This manufactured crisis should have some intense blow-back but I fear that it won’t. We’re doing okay but we don’t get out much. I see at least one person in my life doing incredibly stupid things to earn a buck.
I even abstained from making the standard joke I would make in such situations
The whole thing reads like the Milgram experiments.
And like the experiments, 75% of the subjects behave like Adolf Eichmann.
Working at a food establishment, even in non Kung Flu times, is at best painful. During these times it must be hell.
And the twist of the blade in WebDom’s tale here is the fact that she DID learn to code.
Way to mess with the narrative.
Happy Friday everybody! A bit frosty this morning, but the sun is shining, and golf abounds!
What corner of the country are you in today?
It’s a secret. Somewhere where they sell you egg noodles covered in ketchup and call it marinara. Now he’s just a putz.
More Polish
“polishing the marinara” is a new euphemism to me.
He gets to live the rest of his life as a schnook, yeah
44 north, by a big lake
Ten degrees further and you’d be at my latitude.
ToG and I were discussing that last night
You are not going to like winter, Desert Boy! Layers. The answer to shitty cold is layers.
I lived in Colorado for many years, I got this cold thing down, layers
Or fight?
That lattitude goes through several of the great lakes. Explains why you got our comfortable weather.
Its pretty nice, a shock to my lizardy temps, so very green
It’s actually colder where you are. We have the ocean currents. Mind you, it did get down to – 50 here last winter but that’s been an outlier for forty years.
– 50 – I would ask C or F but at that number it no longer fucking matters. I knew some Romanians who moved to someplace called Winnipeg. Sounded dismal.
-40 is the point where metric temperature is finally accurate as it read the same as degrees F.
It is dismal. Flat, floods in the spring, skeeters all summer long and windy all winter. We’re in the Rocky Mountain trench so we get a little of both. Arctic blasts and warm currents from Hawaii.
I like 41 north myself
57 North?
Magnetic north?
Happy Friday Yusef.
” CNN turned my statement on its head, wrenched a few words out of context while omitting other crucial words, and lied to its viewers.”
What did he expect was going to happen?
If he would keep his fool mouth shut for one hot minute he would cruise to victory. That’s our Donny! (canned studio laughter)
The advice I have seen that you should consider all media hostile (and record everything going on so you can then expose the fraudsters when they manipulate your content to peddle the left’s lies) is one everyone should take at heart. Dershowitz is no conservative, but because he was not willing to abandon some principles and give these dnc operatives with bylines the sound bites they wanted, they fucked him over. I am glad to see he is going after CNN and hitting them where it hurts. Until we make lying to support the left’s evil lies cost them more than they gain from it, they will have no incentive to stop.
He needs a good lawyer…
Lawyer on lawyer….
least popular Pornhub category
Is that cause these are also considered snuff films?
Even Germans don’t sink to that.
Hawt.
The Fed announced last month that it would temporarily allow inflation to run above its target to make up for periods of below-target inflation.
A Keynesian says “what”?
So the Fed understands compound interest about as well as a toddler.
A savings based economy would destroy their ability to tax, borrow, print, and spend, so I am sure even if they understood it, they would ignore it… and
Incompetence is its own job security.
In government, maybe. In the private sector, it’s quite possible the person judging may well know just how incompetent someone is.
I have worked for plenty of companies where incompetence was promoted upwards in the hope it would keep the individual from causing too much damage. Unfortunately, way too many of these people ended up at the upper levels, and that then had destructive results. My prime example is GE. That company went from a top contender and one people envied to dead weight in a decade because of this shit (practically every one of these promotions involved some woke ass dipshit that was technically incompetent and more concerned with their own promotion to the next level at all costs), and Immelt managed to completely destroy it once he got his hands on it by basically coupling the company to government graft in the green space.
Yay! Banjos brings the morning Jane granny panties! All is forgiven forever.
Pardon me. Mornin’ Banjos!
The fee won’t be mandatory
Have you ever noticed how a “ceiling” becomes a “floor” when the government gets involved?
I have.
Five COVID-19 vaccines in advanced trials by October. Doses to be shipped within 24 hours of FDA approval
Pass.
What has transpired in the last six months that suggests we’re gonna have a choice?
If you’re under 60 that’s probably a good move, if over probably not so much.
You mean that there is one very specific and easily identifiable population that is susceptible to the Wuhan virus and individuals in that population should take extra precautions while everyone else goes about their normal life?
Nonsense
Sure, stroke your beard DENIER!
That’s ageist, racist and… fatist? weightist? sizeist? I can never remember what that last one’s called.
Realist?
yeah I’m just going to wear a mask it’s been proven more effective according to the experts.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz is suing CNN for $300 million for misreporting the substance of his defense of President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial earlier this year.
He thinks you can be vaccinated at gunpoint. He can eat shit.
$300 million buys a lot of 15 year olds
Quality over quantity
If you source them from Siberia you can get both. Not unlike wild salmon.
New Alan Dershowitz defense – “I said only the tip! What they did with the shaft is grounds for dismissal.”
The Bishop Burchard of Worms (c.950/65-1025) wrote a law book, Decretum, explicitly to educate priests on the kind of sins (& the required penance) they would hear during confession – such as this sin.
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1306204922862600193
He also published a shitty Diet book.
Meaning how to eat you own shit?
No, it’s about german legislative assemblies.
Sheisse porn then?
Damn, Pie. I love Whores of Yore. You are a good egg.
Re: service fees,
My barber shop raised its haircut prices from $40 to $30 post-covid.
My mind boggles at NY cheapskates. When I was waiting tables in Houston in the mid 1990s, the tipped wage was $2.13/hr… but my tips were about $17.50/hr after tipout.
you may need to rephrase that first part
coincidentally, my barber raised prices from 35 to 45 lei
But they did include a mandatory hair wash which was 10 lei before but optional, so they did not really raise the package price
That’s a lot of flowers.
$20 -> $30.
They also shut down the kegerator.
How much extra for the mandatory cough in the face?
I’m no immunologist, but rushing a vaccine as fast as possible seems a bit reckless.
I think that I’ve read that book before…
You looked upon that work and despaired?
Italian pronoun lady pretends to be black.
I mean, they are kind of the blacks of Europe.
The Irish are the blacks of Europe.
According to the progderpdom, everyone who does not come from an English speaking country (UK, Aussieland, USA) is white and everyone else is a person of color. I think you can become a good person of color by voting democrat.
In Cleveland news, at least one private parking lot flipped the bird to the Cleveland mayor:
The Pit parking lot permits tailgating despite Cleveland orders before Thursday’s Browns game
I’m sure those people are all dead from the ‘vid now.
That’s just it, they don’t want people noticing that all these large gatherings aren’t leading to disaster, revealing the scam they’ve been running for the past several months.
Browns game – apparently they won.
I think by the beginning to middle of October will be around the time most people don’t even put up pretenses anymore. It seems like more and more people are deciding this was overblown.
I’ve stopped guessing when this ends after I was wrong with it ending before Memorial Day.
It’s a prediction I also keep getting wrong.
I’m seeing more people who have decided this with overblown, alongside more people who have decided we’re not taking it seriously enough. The polarization worries me.
Feeney went to great lengths to keep his gifts secret.
What’s the point of doing good works, if no one knows about them? You need to get yourself on the MSNBC Business Channel once a week to beat your breast and show off your luxurious hand crafted hair shirt.
A good work is only good if you do it secretly.
Bragging about it only saps the virtue from the act.
^^^
“virtue”
“A gentleman never brags about his conquests”
I am very worried that if a covid vax becomes a reality as a hospital worker not only will I have to get it, but get tue first batch. I will definitely be looking into how to get out of it but I am skeptical there are options for optout outside of religious.
On the plus side, I overheard a couple leftist young millenial and Gen Z nurses having the same reservations about the vax that I do.
The CDC director just said a mask is more effective than a vaccine.
I mean, he’s an abject moron, but you might as well use government stupidity to your advantage when you can.
And now goggles and face shields are back in vogue.
Panic. All they do is panic.
Living a life trying to avoid infection is not a life.
It’s irrational and depressed hysteria.
I don’t see it winding down. The true believers are doubling up but the rest of us are all too ready to get along to get along. I thought that the May long weekend would be the breaking point but now I’m looking at Xmas.
I think most reasonable people should have concern for a mandatory vax for a disease that largely doesn’t impact on anyone under the age of 55
NY City Eateries Will Be Allowed To Charge 10% COVID-19 Fee Under Bill Passed By Council
DeBolshevik and his comrades are determined to destroy private business. No way in hell would I go out to eat, especially combined with the nonsense in WD’s article last night.
*snort*
Also, I forget if it was him or Cuomo… one of them explicitly said that dining out is a “luxury”, which tells you everything you need to know about what they think of that industry.
Well, it does technically go under ‘discretionary income’ when preparing a budget.
This doesn’t mean it’s bad. This is the part where we’d tell clients they had to decide for themselves what to prioritize. You still have to enjoy life. Cutting out all expenses that brings happiness is not good either.
So DeLenin and Cuomsky are basically saying be miserable.
It may not be “essential” but I wouldn’t call it a “luxury” either. Also, there is the context and tone – the dripping contempt they are so practiced at.
“Dripping contempt” That’s a keeper!
As somebody who has called eating out a ‘luxury’ more than once, I think the tone is what rubs me the wrong way on this one.
Luxury may not be a synonym for non-essential, but I think they’re closer in definition than they look at first glance. Luxury isn’t just yachts and diamond studded bow ties.
His “wife” pissed away 500 million dollars. The fact that both of them are not hanging upside down in the market square leaves me somewhat nonplussed.
how long before that becomes an actual tax?
A few hours ago.
There is a local dude who has been doing the heavy lifting of analyzing all the bullshit coming out of St.Paul in regard to the ‘vid.
He’s getting a little frustrated.
I Have Completely Had It With the State’s Bullshit
Good rant.
LOL
Can vouch. State Street and the 5th quarter is the graduation procession and reception.
“If the state wants to be transparent, require double testing of any positive from a cycle number above 30, really above 25. Do your own study of cycle number versus culture positivity. Release the contact tracing data that shows any, any at all, asymptomatic spread or that shows spread from younger persons to the old and vulnerable. Do an independent audit of hospitalizations and deaths to verify that the cause really was CV-19. They won’t do any of this because it doesn’t support the message and the game plan and because the data to support the lies isn’t there.”
This, for every state.
I enjoy that site. Discovered him last month. Quebec is acting like Minnesota. Only in French.
Is there a word in english that where a politician or bureaucrat is knowingly lieing to the public, everyone listening knows they are lieing to the public and everyone just accepts the lies as what we are pretending today? If not I propose covid.
“politics”
true.
BAZINGA!
Know how bad it is? /stretches arms out with interlocking hands cracking fingers.
There’s a scientist here I’ve been listening to for years on the radio. He fights the good fight against junk science and quackery. And he holds no punches on stuff like, for example, homeopathy. He drilled into people’s minds how important EMPIRICAL scientific evidence is and to make sure you follow the literature. Or else you get bad practices in community settings and bad policies as a result. 100% correct.
So I reached out to him (as I’ve always done for years. He’s always gracious with his time) in July to ask his opinion on masks when it was mandated here He said it was worth a shot even thought the evidence was against and that we’d know soon enough if it worked. Red flag.
I followed up yesterday asking if he felt it worked. Cases have TRIPLED.
His response?
“The evidence grows ‘stronger everyday.” He cited the example of a Syrian study on hamsters in May. Which I knew about and incidentally Dr. Atlas ridiculed on the radio when it came out. The other was some exercise between cruise ships where one wore masks and the other didn’t and results were apparently ‘stunning’. I’ve yet to locate the study.
It was like getting kicked in the gut to see him fall like this.
“make sure you follow the literature”
If those were his exact words, he’s a moron. You follow the evidence, not someone’s interpretation.
the most comprehensive study on it was that navy ship they experimented on the soldiers and it was one study. USS theodore.
Tasty, but who the fuck other than us will ever read it? We’re the lone voice in the wilderness. Fuck these asshoes! They actively want to break normal people’s lives. If that isn’t evil then I don’t know what to say anymore except “Great run, here’s the keys and please don’t scratch the paint when you park it. “
“BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump will BLOCK TikTok and WeChat downloads on U.S. phones by Sunday if company cannot meet deal to sell majority to Oracle and Walmart”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8747479/Trump-block-U-S-downloads-TikTok-WeChat-Sunday-officials.html
Not sure how that could work.
Well, for most users, you simply put the boot to Google and Apple to have it removed from the app store. Both will happily oblige and divert users to their own products.
The bulk of the populace won’t go to the trouble of sideloading an app on android, or go to the trouble of jailbreaking an iPhone.
Nope, but they will be willing to pay outrageous prices if history is any indication.
But… where do we go now for grainy videos of dancing morons?
Glibs zoom?
That wouldn’t be the only thing she got via the back door.
“If a woman is going to become the first president of the United States, it can’t be her,” Trump said. “That would rip our country apart. This is not what people want. And she comes in through the back door.”
Is that what Willie Brown’s into?
Nothing wrong with earning promotions letting old skeezers ridding you’re backdoor man!
https://youtu.be/aVIA1n5ng4Y
Post-pandemic debt sustainability in the EU/euro area: This time may (and should) be different
https://voxeu.org/article/post-pandemic-debt-sustainability-eueuro-area
Many years ago, Samuelson criticised “pump-priming […] acting as a catalyst to speed the upward movement of investment … or form the spark to ignite business activity …” This warning is still very much valid.
However, today’s environment is somewhat special:
Nominal interest rates are at zero, or below zero, for AAA sovereign issuers and for the EU.
The multipliers can be expected to be higher than usual, due to a substantial shock to public investment in Italy.
The low-inflation environment is unlikely to suddenly turn, thus requiring only a lagged and moderate reaction once inflation starts moving higher as a result of the stimulus.
All EU/euro area countries are introducing a broadly similar fiscal stimulus through investment at the same time―spillovers will hence reinforce the effect on GDP growth at national level.
The duration and maturities of public debt have been lengthened over the years, allowing a long period of very low debt servicing costs.
For many EU countries, the fiscal stimulus (the grant component) does not deteriorate the debt-to-GDP ratio (leaving aside what will be paid at some point through EU taxation).
By contrast, if investment activity is not efficient and multipliers prove to be much lower, or the monetary policy reaction is more substantial and quicker, then sustainability issues will emerge. But the possibility of financing potentially growth-enhancing and tax revenue-enhancing investments at zero nominal (and low real) rates for an extended period makes DSA today look quite different then in the past.
Where did $8 billion go? Feeney gave $3.7 billion to education, including nearly $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell, which he attended on the G.I. Bill. More than $870 million went to human rights and social change, like $62 million in grants to abolish the death penalty in the U.S. and $76 million for grassroots campaigns supporting the passage of Obamacare. He gave more than $700 million in gifts to health ranging from a $270 million grant to improve public healthcare in Vietnam to a $176 million gift to the Global Brain Health Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.
Mostly wasted, then.
Ken Fisher has the correct approach. Don’t give the money away, invest it with an expectation of return. Only then do you have the proper incentives for positive results.
$76 million for grassroots campaigns supporting the passage of Obamacare
More proof that you can be an idiot and still have a chance to become a billionaire.
Yep.
He would have produced better value just fucking ridding around in his limo throwing $100 dollar bills out the window at random…
And then using giant parade balloons to gas everyone, right?
Yeah I mean, I’m glad he was able to give it all away before the government got their hands on it. But damn, his picks really suck.
that’s nauseating. I’m not joking the best thing he could have done with that money is created a trust that did nothing but went to impoverished neighborhoods and offered micro loans for business startups and trade school.
Nothing says grassroots like $76 million.
Disgusting. The left hate Americans.
A terrible thing to say on her part but it’s easy to find the rare lunatic if you interview enough people.
Except that sort of thinking doesn’t seem all that rare on the left.
In fairness how is this really any different from us talking about wood chippers or helicopters for some people?
The people we’re threatening deserve it.
😛
Because we don’t use that talk to refer to anyone who peacefully disagrees with us, and use it only for egregious exercisers of power who seek to trample upon our rights?
Not really.
However, I would be reluctant to voice things on television with the same level of “vigor” I do here. The anonymity here allows for some juvenile bluster.
Speaking of, think JB will come back?
I doubt it, he sort of took a dump on the living room coffee table on the way out.
not that anyone cared. It was like the friend who freaks out about shoes in their apartment when it clearly hasn’t been cleaned in years and theres a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. I liked JB don’t quite understand why he got so butthurt it’s the internet.
Yeah, I wish him the best but I doubt he’ll be back. Why come back to a place where you obviously don’t like being?
Seems I missed some event again. And a lot of people like self inflicted misery…
I cared. I liked his posts.
I meant noone took what he said personally. I don’t think anyone had a problem with him.
Right, okay. Yes, agreed.
Maybe that’s what got him even more irked? Nobody got bothered enough….
Those “some people” are guilty of violating the NAP.
Not due to a political affiliation. Not just some dude walking down the street.
I don’t think I’d talk about woodchippers to some rando on the street.
Because there’s not acksually a history of libertarians doing mass-murder of political “others”, like there is for her kind.
VDM THE LABEL 4K / 2020 Bikini Fashion Show / Miami Swim Week 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8pyRLKbqYg
So number one son sent me these two links this morning. Satire is dead.
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-criticizes-israel-arab-leaders-for-shaking-hands-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/donald-trump-middle-east-agreement-coronavirus/index.html
The BB is going to fail if things don’t get normaler. If reality is as unreal as satire then what’s the point?
I’m trying to think of what CNN would do differently if they were trying to make themselves into a sick joke.
Give Stelter the weekday 8pm slot.
It only took 15 minutes to from satire to reality.
Freaky Friday: Looks Legit
Yowza!
Curious…
Host Anderson Cooper asked, “Do you believe Russia is an enemy?”
Biden responded, “I believe Russia is an opponent, I really do.”
After Biden discussed Russia’s actions and objectives, Cooper asked, “Do you view China as an opponent? Because the president says you’ve been too cozy with China, too accepting of them in the international community.”
Biden criticized Trump’s record on China compared to the Obama administration’s, and Cooper followed up on whether Biden sees China as “an opponent?”
Biden responded, “I view China as a competitor, a serious competitor. That’s why I think we have to strengthen our relationships and our alliances in Asia. … We’re going to abide by international norms. That’s what we’re going to do and insist that they do.”
You can insist all you want but that is not what China is about. And being on bad terms with the Ruskies seems like a bad idea.
“abide by international norms”
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, India, and The Philippines has a sad.
To be fair, might makes right is an international norm. As is oppressing those who try to defy you.
That’s called a dodge…
The fucking guy is owned by the CCP. For real, and unlike evil orange man whom they accuse wants to give America away to Putin, Biden has been part of the cabal that have been selling the country away to China for some 3 decades for real. But that doesn’t bother the marxists…
Trump Orders Schools To Replace Anti-American Curriculum With Daily Viewings Of ‘Top Gun’
Struggling CNN Just Starts Stealing Headlines From The Babylon Bee
See? I knew he wasn’t homophobic.
That is legitimately the one Trump critique I have the most problems with. It’s such total bullshit it defies comprehension that anyone could remotely lap it up as truth.
Ask Hershel Walker what he thinks about people that say they know Trump is a racist as well….
Freaky Friday: Looks Legit
Wasn’t there some sort of “Why women live longer than men” website devoted to stuff like that?
Related.
Thanks Sean. Now I’m lured into that account’s twitters. The iceberg climbing and the ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Duck’ still have me chortling.
The internet was made for cat videos.
Do you have any? I’ve not seen one in a while.
Not sure if you’re serious…
Twitter is blocked from the office.
I did find some on youtube, so the counter has reset.
I thought the question was why married women live longer than married men, and the answer was cause guys were ready to get out of being married…
Um…wut?
“You lost your freedom because he didn’t act. The freedom to go to that ball game, the freedom of your kid to go to school, the freedom to see your mom or dad in the hospital, the freedom just to walk around your neighborhood, because of failure to act responsibly,” Biden charged.
He condemned Trump for running “such a thoroughly, totally irresponsible administration,” citing a Pew Foundation poll to claim that “Russia’s Putin, China’s Xi Jinping are trusted by more of the people in the world than the president of the United States of America, and one of the reasons they cite is COVID.”
“This is not only causing us lives lost here, it’s causing us to lose our influence in ways that are profound,” Biden claimed.
OFFS!!!
“We have to oppress you because Trump!”
I am really not sure what trump could have done in a large and vaguely decentralized country like the US. Most EU countries are now having resurgent waves and still have plenty of restrictions. New Zealand and Australia lost plenty of freedom themselves.
This
They’re blaming Trump for the oppressive measures while extolling places like Australia that have gone full gulag.
It looks like the only EU country that has a chart that could be interpreted as a “second wave” is Romania. And again if you go by metro (as a virus does), there hasn’t been a second wave in any of Romania’s metros.
It looks like the only EU country that has a chart that could be interpreted as a “second wave” is Romania- France has been having record daily numbers. And Austria. And a few more. Not sure where you get your data
You are making the mistake of looking at (bullshit) cases. Look at deaths and hospitalizations – they tell a different story.
well governments in Europe panicking look at cases. So that is what matters
Look, governments lose in a thinking contest against a low grade moron. Don’t base your conclusions on what they’re looking at.
It matters politically, but not scientifically.
well politically is all that matters.
Just… wow.
Yet they have a freak out when Trump says he’ll remove American troops from their countries. Why would that be if they have more confidence in Putin and Xi?
Because what they want and like are American presidents that fuck over American tax payers and productive citizens in favor of the assclowns in other countries. That is why asking people that have a vested interest in seeing you do bad if they like you is an exercise in futility. Those profiting from you losing only will like presidents that fuck Americans over – like Obama constantly did – to their advantage, and will dislike or even hate one that tells them to fuck off because he is looking out for Americans. Have no doubt that most people that dislike Trump – whether they be foreign globalists, never Trumpers, or your usual leftist authoritarian – do so because he is not putting their personal interests above the promises he made to his electorate.
…and, once again, I was at work all day and missed a flying thread!
It stayed pretty grounded.
I found it uplifting.
some parts did tend to drag though.
It really stalled at the end.
That’s just you spinning it.
You can still review it and give props to the author here.
That comment is right on the nose.
Doom.
EEE has been around the great lakes region since.. well, forever. You’ll have a case or two every year.
Mosquitoes only bite after dark. It is known.
Ready for the next panic?
China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign
Inside the CCP’s use of social media bots and other disinformation tactics to promote its own response to the coronavirus pandemic and attack its critics
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda
“Parents of toddlers who appeared in doctored ‘racist baby’ video shared by Donald Trump sue the president and accuse him of pushing his ‘brand of sensationalism in complete disregard for the truth'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8746963/Parents-toddlers-appeared-doctored-racist-baby-video-sue-president.html
OFFS!!
The parents added, “Who needs to fake racist toddlers when we have a racist mayor and a racist schools chancellor?!”
“Doctored”…
It’s called editing when the media do it. Doctoring when Trump does it.
Fake news!
Ancestry.com updated their estimates, my 1% sub-saharan is gone. New estimate:
53% England
27% Scotland
9% German
5% Wales
3% Ireland
2% France
1% Finland
I think I am officially white.
You’re part Welsh?
*spits on ground*
keep using that FBI curated and monitored dna site and see where it gets you.
brother did a family tree and poured a ton of research into it a couple of years ago, I’m an embarrassing amount of french Canadian.
Dude, you’re whiter than white
He’s not Romanian though.
So, I was hoping to crack wise and share a commercial for Rinso, it was advertised as getting clothes “Whiter than white, brighter than bright, and newer than new™” I couldn’t find it (it was a staple of The Amos & Andy Show – “New 1950 Rinso, with SOLIUM the scientific sunlight ingredient”). But I did find a lovely British Rinso spot from 1940 that claims “Housewives help Hitler”. https://youtu.be/ccRgZ37UxEk
That’s very American for a British ad.
France? And you show your face here?
My update:
46% Ireland
20% Scotland
19% England and NW Europe
4% Northern Italy
4% Wales
3% European Jewish
2% Norway
1% Sweden
1% France
Not that much different from before. Main change is they used to lump England and Scotland together, and now they’ve separated them.
So, when are they going to show the % sheep in the scottish number?
That’s coming in the next update.
I’ll play too:
– 56% standard Cracker
– 25% gentleman farmers
– 12.5% Yankees* (hangs head)
– 6.25% German who came over in 1859 to avoid getting drafted into a European war
* not just regular-old Yankees, but a strain that had been breeding with itself on Nantucket since the Massachussett’s Bay Colony, and who evidently had a son that got in enough hot water that he had to move to central FL after the War and sell swampland
Mine:
33% Scotland
30% England & NW Europe
23% Germanic Europe
8% Sweden (!)
3% Ireland
2% Wales
1% Baltics
Actually quite a swing away from Europe to Scotland/England.
Still, looks pretty caucasionny to me…
Why the exclaimation mark on Sweden? The vikings deposited a lot of genetic material in the gene pool of the britihs isles.
It means he’s 8% impervious to Covidianism.
Bingo!
To some of the various restaurant threads, I sympathize with restaurants, but I also don’t owe them anything. They need to compete for my limited resources with good value just like any other product/service. I can prepare a strip steak dinner at home for less than takeout at a cheap restaurant. They should be looking for ways to reduce costs and barriers to my dining there rather than adding both.
There are two restaurants we patronize and both have gone out of their way to actually lower prices with better specials and do everything possible to remove Covid-related barriers (example: will bring takeout directly out to your car like an old-fashioned carhop). Business has been booming at both places, and the full parking lots look no different than pre-Covid. I don’t understand the mentality of some restaurants that the way to weather Covid is to increase prices and make it more difficult for your customers to enjoy their experience.
To be fair, it is the state/counties adding the costs.
And cutting out some of their most profitable hours by changing last call.
Yes, there are unfair restrictions forced on them. As others do, we tip extra to waitstaff because of that to try and help them out. The doesn’t change the fact that patrons have limited resources themselves. It’s more important for restaurants than ever to be competitive and provide value.
True. But I don’t blame the restaurants for getting rid of some marginally profitable/loss leader specials during these times. As an example, my Sunday place to go watch the games previously had $.50 wings (minimum order of 10). They’ve gotten rid of that special and replaced it with a $6 for wings (~6) and fries combo. Still a decent deal, and they’ve kept their beer prices mostly the same (although they’ve upped the special clearance cans/bottles from $2 to $3).
I don’t blame them for doing anything they need to try and stay afloat. I think increasing prices on a customer base that is dwindling and has less disposable income is generally not a favorable strategy for any business regardless of the reason.
Adding a 10% fee to their restaurant prices will probably hasten the decline of many of these NYC restaurants. But they are probably doomed either way. It sounds like your local bar is doing a good job of providing value to their customers so can handle the removal of loss leaders.
I hear what you’re saying in general, but during the moment when government simultaneously forces a pile of fixed costs onto your business AND constrains your volume, you are stuck having to guess at which specific operational and product/service strategies are going to keep you afloat. The theory is fine, but the execution got way more difficult.
But you’re not in NYC.
Those restaurants are so tightly bound by regulators and inspectors that their options are next to nil.
There’s been plenty of stories about how Target and other companies are now considering the risk of placing stores in certain areas do the risk of the local politicians doing nothing to protect them. Perhaps small business owners should similarly consider the risk of having a business in these bureaucratic nightmare spots.
I’m not in NYC because the risk of having your life upended by these assholes is very obvious and I choose not to subject myself or my family to it. When I was looking for my last job, I was very clear with recruiters to not even mention any positions in CA, NY, or IL.
I am really not sure what trump could have done in a large and vaguely decentralized country like the US. Most EU countries are now having resurgent waves and still have plenty of restrictions. New Zealand and Australia lost plenty of freedom themselves.
I don’t understand how the public health expert cult can pretend quarantines will be effective, over the long term. By intentionally preventing any progress toward herd immunity, they guarantee recurring waves of infection.
Unless that’s their real goal…
The vaccine will solve everything
For a virus which they claim you lose your natural immunity to in a short time. Is this the new social justice biology?
Coronavirus: Football team loses 37-0 in socially distanced match
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54193770
??♂️
“If Ripdorf had not played, they would have faced a €200 (£182) fine.
They had asked for the match – in the 11th tier of German football – to be postponed but the local association refused.”
There are rules and fines in the 11th tier? I had no idea there even was an 11th tier. I just figured anything below the 5th was just a couple of guys kicking the ball around after work.
Humans are social animals.
We live in a society.
Why do we allow our economy to be owned by an elite who produce things only for their own benefit?
Surely “our” economy should be collectively owned and run democratically?
https://twitter.com/tappylappy/status/1306857553108840448
If it were for their own benefit they’d keep what they made.
When people buy things, they do so with the expectation of benefiting from the purchase.
Since you don’t understand that, I don’t want your voice interfering with the transactions. No mob-rule economy!
No, it shouldn’t
I don’t understand this obsession with democracy*. Democracy is not a moral good in and of itself.
*Of course, leftist only preach the virtues of democracy when they get their way.
“our economy” is an abstraction for a bunch of people making decisions about what they will buy and sell. Commie here wants to take away our freedom to buy only what we want and sell only what we want. Commie here is an authoritarian freeloader.
We should definitely hand it over to the people who produce nothing.
“Surely “our” economy should be collectively owned and run democratically?”
And this is exactly how our economy is run.
You get to own the parts of it that you purchase. And your participation is “democratic” because you vote with your money.
Feel better now?
In other good news from Ohio, DeWine is getting booed at Trump rallies here in Ohio.
Why is DeWine attending Trump rallies?
He’s ostensibly a Republican.
awesome. Fuck that piece of shit. There are only like 2-3 gov not worthy of getting eggs and tomatos thrown at them, and their are only like 10 not worthy of being put into a stockade for 6 months and he’s not one.
That’s music to my ears.
‘Look, we’re making tough decisions’
And that’s my excuse for acting like a dictator, forever, now sit down and shut up, peasants!
So do something about it.
As for the “wiping” of the Special Counsel phones, it seems likely that the task has been assigned to US Attorney Jensen — and it may have been assigned to him some time ago. The public only learned about it within the last week based on documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. But it is certainly information that AG Barr has known about for some time, and the kind of information that would be material to Jensen’s review of the decision-making and motivation of the partisans who made up the SCO staff of prosecutors.
This information about the phones and the fact that it is being reviewed by DOJ — likely by Jensen — also helps to explain the zealous and vehement antipathy expressed by former SCO member Andrew Weissmann with regard to AG Barr and Pres. Trump. If Jensen has been looking into this question since around the time that the motion to dismiss the Flynn case was filed, then Weissman has likely been aware of the inquiry for a substantial portion of that time as well. It’s possible that Jensen has already made an effort to interview Weissmann on the question.
Since the moment he left DOJ and went into private life, Weissmann has engaged in a continuous effort online and in the media to discredit AG Barr and the Durham investigation.
AG Barr’s confirmation that the “wiping” of the phones — twice by Weissmann — is under review is a pretty solid indicator of what has motivated Weissman’s actions.
If Trump wins, then something will be done about it. If Trump loses, then it will be buried and forgotten.
The mayor of Bucharest announced a large bridge was finished as a great achievement in infrastructure. this is a picture. As an exercise to the group, identify the issue with it
https://media.hotnews.ro/media_server1/image-2020-09-18-24292828-0-cel-mai-scump-viraj-stanga.jpg
Someone drew all over the picture. I can’t see the road.
what road can you not see?
Anything under the big red arrows or the two circular symbols.
what is there to see under the circular symbols?
I don’t know, I can’t see it!
Missing an off ramp blend area?
that too
Yikes.
– Don’t know if it’s what you mean, but it’s super-duper easy (2 nearest ramps as main example) to get on the highway going the wrong way as fast as you can.
– And even if they’d done that right, I despise this design where the main highway has traffic trying to slow down and get off in the same piece of road as traffic that just got on trying to speed up. It’s common, but it’s bad design.
there are no highways there. Just urban boulevards
I refuse to use the word “boulevard” in any except its original sense. If the road goes where the old town’s encircling fortifications used to be (or is on top of them even), then it’s a boulevard. Otherwise it’s something else.
fine larger thoroughfares
Yeah, even Paris let that ship sail.
They’re rue the day they made that choice!
“‘Rue the day’? Who talks like that?”
People who like Jello.
punning is nasty work UCS
It was a pun
Movie quote fail
I got it Mojo… especially after your Val Kilmer revelation the other day…
?
Avenue made this terrible joke before?
Crangasi is actually UP and Lujerului is DOWN?
The issue is that before the bridge there was a traffic light for people coming along the river. they would take a left on the road, which took them through half a dozen major intersections and more than an hour of gridlocked traffic to outside Bucharest.
The bridge was part of a larger project and it should have continued with an express road out of the city. The road was not build. the bridge ends literally in a dead end. It can be used to just “take a left” without the light, but that gets you in gridlocked traffic. The bridge was about 70 million US.
Those words were more useful than the picture. There’s virtually no traffic and no sign there’s anything off the right hand side worth driving to.
oh, I just thought it was still under construction. That’s the finished product??
yup. No plan as of now to continue.
I was going to say that it looked like a bridge to nowhere, but then I figured that just meant they hadn’t completed that portion yet.
To be fair, the bridge took 14 years. Maybe in another 20 there will be a road.
The bridge, like most such projects, was not built for any traffic-related reasons, so the dead-endedness of it is irrelevant.
It was built as an instrument of graft, so that politicians could funnel money from the public purse to the right contractors, who will then hand it over to the politician’s personal purse. Probably works fine for that purpose.
Why is waving forbidden?
because it is gay / unnamed glib
The first problem is that it’s in Romania.
“This election is Scranton vs. Park Avenue.”
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1306750785879973888
What?
You see, Biden is just a nice boy from Scranton who made it through hard work and determination. Whereas Drumpfler was born with a silver spoon and never worked or produced anything of value.
Does Joe know he represents Park Ave in that analogy?
No, but he was born in Scranton.
Yeah, the Dems are totally the party of the little guy…unless you’re a small business owner, a coal miner, an oil worker, a waiter or waitress, a hairdresser, a blue collar person, or a person who doesn’t want to see his shit get burned down. He’s fucking delusional or, rather, the people running his Twitter are.
More like parasite vs. producer. 44 years in federal government. 44 years at the public teat.
The democratic party is sometimes factual but it’s never truthful.
???
“Read my lips…”
So, larger, faster inflation then. AKA the stealth tax.
No, he’ll let the Trump tax cuts expire and claim that’s not an increase. It’s semantic bullshit.
Pretty sure I read somewhere he wants to increase the capital gains tax.
So in addition he is flat-out lying.
Last night Tucker was interviewing Ryan Cleckner (who’s shooting videos I really like). Cleckner brought up the subject of George Soros being behind the crazy DAs who won’t prosecute rioters. Tucker jumped in and agreed – maybe a big fuck you to his bosses that he can get away with having the highest rated show on cable.
That Gingrich clip was bizarre.
I like the Mystery to Me avatar. Good album.
I’m not familiar with it, I just like the Easter Island head looking monkey. Maybe I’ll give it a listen after I get drunk tonight.
The song Hypnotized was big with the stoners back in the day.
True. And he is a swamp creature so I am surprised he even brought it up.
FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization
I don’t really know how to respond to a lie that bold and obvious. He should be fired today and replaced with anyone not from the deep state.
I think the FBI, CDC, FDA and NSA have more than proven they need to be burnt to the ground as organizations.
I’ll keep the CIA and Department of Education as a compromise.
I’d say they have to go first. The CIA for fucking around in American politics and spying on Congress and the DOEd for being blatantly unconstitutional and unnecessary.
Even Antifa acknowledges their own existence as an organization.
Wray is obviously still vested in the “right-wing militia is the major threat” canard. Probably trying to shore up support among Dems in case Biden wins.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, he’s either a fool or a liar and neither’s good.
Why not both?
Mmkay. Now spin the BLM leader saying ‘We’re trained Marxists’. Go ahead, I got all day.
“These fearless students of film have extensively studied the cinemetography of the Marx Brothers.”
Hold my beer while I curl my hair.
https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1306682285224329217
Hold my beer while I lift these weights
https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1306565611774980096
Ouch.
Hold my beer while I fire this gun.
https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1306355025577377798
Hold my beer while I swing off this bridge.
https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1305898949421789186
That’s going to leave a mark.
Should have paid more attention in physics class.
Darwin was right…
“At the outset, Biden told the crowd he’d stay 6 feet away during the town hall.
Watch what happened when he thought the cameras were turned off:”
https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1306764766380204038
Without watching, I bet he sniffed some kids hair?
Meh.
I don’t understand this obsession with democracy*. Democracy is not a moral good in and of itself.
“Democracy” is a polite euphemism for mob rule. And those who most ardently espouse it never stop to consider whether they truly represent the majority, or if they will wind up ground under the heel of the mob.
For lefties democracy is some sugar to help the poison go down. To pretend they are not as authoritarian as those lefties who failed.
It can’t be bad if it’s popular!
Unless it is religion, in which case no matter how popular it is, it is bad.
I see it as more of a brake on mob rule, with built in cooling off periods, and a way to filter out the worst sociopaths from leadership. We get a milder class of psychopaths running things, and in exchange they don’t have to spend most of their time waiting for the literal knife in the back, and can actually retire and die peacefully in their beds.
Democracy is 1000 wolves and 999 sheep deciding what’s for dinner….
That is why we should be glad we have a Republic. And learn to love the electoral college amongst other things…
What modern democracy isn’t a republic? Who is ardently espousing a return to Athenian democracy?
When you look at who got to vote and who was impacted by the decisions, Athenian “democracy” was actually a oligarchy.
I’m starting to like what the libertarian monarchists are pushing. They make some good points from what I’ve heard.
I am a HUGE fan of Mencius Moldbug’s writings on the topic. Even when I vehemently disagree with his positions, I find his points worth considering.
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/
“Biden claims Trump is responsible for every single person who has died from COVID-19:
“If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people — I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.””
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1306763697772085250
What data, Joe?
All of them? Lol okay Joe. Go back to bed.
In my head, Joe’s response to your question is “Data, from the show, given what we know its truth and and and people alive.”
He talks as if a bot crawled the internet and wrote his speeches.
Now do H1N1 and MERS. Or just any average flu season.
The data loosely floating around in what’s left of his demented mind.
Vegas can reopen their bars on Sunday at midnight…never understand why they put a date like that. If you are saying its safe, then they should open up once you vote or decree or whatever it is that you do.
Because “Immediately” is not a timetable!
/bureaucrat.
This comes after all the gaming bars put in new machines in various locations to get around the closed bartops. Now they have to reconfigure once again.
Because we are ruled by fucking assholes.
Something, something safer by autumn.
I think the enterprising journalist in Nashville did everyone a favor by actually doing you know…journalism. I doubt our reopen orders were because of it, but localities and governments might think…”shit there still are some reporters that might go digging for information.”
Two weeks to flatten the curve…
To my point about the reporter…none, absolutely none, have ever called out any official on that line at the local level here in Vegas.
They are taking government press releases, adding a bit of editorial flare, and reprinting as news stories.
To me, that is so damn egregious for a profession that likes to claim they are the bulwark of “democracy”
But they stand outside somewhere while they read a press release that came out 12 hours earlier.
Yeah. Not a single person has asked DeWine in any of the briefings when these restrictions are going to go away. FFS, they breathlessly report the topic that may be answered in the next briefing (today he may give guidance on Halloween).
that’s been every press conference throughout the land and it is infuriating.
Because it’s theater designed to make it look like they are in control.
OT: After reading the post from last night and hearing the plight of WebDom I feel lucky to be able to escape NY. Not through anything I did myself, but rather to some lucky circumstances that aligned during the past 6 months.
To add to the mounting pile of destroyed businesses I put forth my brothers lost construction job and my old man who has run gyms in this state for 28 years only to watch them arbitrarily be shut down by the King, then have their head held under water with 33% capacity and mask restrictions when they were finally allowed to reopen.
The worst part is they lose a third of their members because of the mask mandate and another third because they feel unsafe even with the mask mandate. The remaining third is not enough.
Anyway, rant off. I skipped out on a couple months here (was mostly a lurker anyways) but the insane news reaches my ears even when I’m unplugged. Better to hear it from you comical miscreants than on tv.
Any glibs in southwest Wisconsin who have tips on how to seem local, please let me know.
I skipped out on a couple months here (was mostly a lurker anyways) but the insane news reaches my ears even when I’m unplugged. Better to hear it from you comical miscreants than on tv.
It’s funny how that happens… Even if you go unplugged from social media and completely avoid live TV, you still hear about the news cycle from a dozen different sources. Gossip, writ large. Most people can’t help themselves.
Basically. Between angry scared family members and pissed off family members I figured it’s much better to at least have some sarcasm mixed in with soul crushing news.
Not in southwest Wisconsin, but I would recommend drinking more beer, and adding more cheese to your diet.
Paint thinner is the preferred drink of a True Sconnie.
Also learn to reflexively yell GO PACK GO every 10 minutes or so.
If there is a way to drink more beer than I do I look forward to learning it
Start your sentences with “ya hey”
say, “Heck, yah” a lot. I grew up there. Lots of good people. Check out Taliesin when you have a chance if you are in to that kind of thing.
“CNN’s @drsanjaygupta: “A source told me” Trump could have saved “80 to 90 percent” of Americans who died of Covid”
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1306931193116585989
Ridiculous.
If only he could have given out hydroxychloroquine and zinc but that’s water under the bridge.
So thats the byline for the weekend they are gonna run with eh.
Wait, Gupta said that? He’s a physician and he has got to know thats horseshit. Fucking hell…
If you think physicians understand science, you’ve been had.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect
Yes. They don’t understand statistics at all.
“The experimenters created a meaningless lecture and coached the actor to deliver it ‘with an excessive use of double talk, neologisms, non sequiturs, and contradictory statements.’ At the same time, the researchers encouraged the actor to adopt a lively demeanor, convey warmth toward his audience, and intersperse his nonsensical comments with humor.”
In other words, a typical TED Talk.
WE FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE
His source is Andrew Cuomo.
Election shenanigans already being put in place.
What happened to having an actual tort to establish standing? M*&^%f*&^ing Democrats in this commonwealth.
Yeah, that’s pretty fucking outrageous. And they’re not even hiding it!
Yep. It’s not like we didn’t predict this months ago.
Who?
In an ad released on Thursday, a former senior adviser on the White House coronavirus task force lambasted President Donald Trump as a stonewalling, capricious leader with more concern for his reelection than the pandemic, and said she would be voting for his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in November.
Olivia Troye, who worked as an adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security to Vice President Mike Pence before leaving the administration in August, appeared in an ad in which she shared damning anecdotes that portrayed Trump as a debilitating actor in the administration’s efforts to contain the virus. She said Trump was dismissive toward the task force’s efforts to prepare for the outbreak from early in the year, before the virus had made heavy inroads into the U.S.
“It was shocking to see the president saying that the virus was a hoax, saying that everything’s OK when we know that it’s not,” Troye said. “He doesn’t actually care about anyone else but himself.”
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Troye is an avowed Republican, and the ad was run by the group Republican Voters Against Trump. The Washington Post first reported Troye’s frustrations with her previous role.
The White House promptly rebuffed the allegations, using its frequent defense against personnel-turned-critics by saying that Troye was a disgruntled and vindictive ex-staffer. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted Thursday night a letter by Troye after her departure from the White House. It praised the task force’s work combating the disease.
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Speaking with reporters on Thursday evening before departing for a campaign rally in Wisconsin, Trump said that “I have no idea who she is.” He then said Troye was dismissed from her post and “then she wrote a beautiful letter.”
The White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, later told reporters aboard Air Force One: “It’s the swamp fighting back. It’s, generally speaking, disgruntled employees.”
Maybe she just wanted Trump to grab her pussy.
Yeah, about that…..
So it turns out to be yet another desperate flail by Team NeverTrump. Not the actions of a confident bunch.
Dammit – us people in national security used to be able to do anything we wanted, and now it’s those fuckers in the CDC. You can’t expect me to serve in a government with those kind of priorities can you?
https://twitter.com/PeterGelderloos/status/1305951236336898056
CWAA
They’re intent on getting more shooting incidents.
If you blow out my tires with a mob around my car, I’m going to assume you mean me harm and react accordingly.
Yep, I’d *redacted* if they did that to me. Besides, a car can go a fair piece at a fair clip on the rims.
That’s what they want..
And the dnc operatives with bylines will edit the video to make you the bad guy attacking mostly peaceful protesters…
I bet a lot of site managers will be happy to “donate” that rebar to the cause.
“Rebar – free in most construction sites”
WTeverlovingF he means “can be stolen from most construction sites.”
This. Lie. Will. Not. Die.
Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a message for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on Thursday in which he lied about President Donald Trump’s reaction to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.
Progs want Nazis around in the worst way.
Straight out of The True Believer – you must have an enemy for your followers to rally against.
It died long ago, they’re just parading it around Weekend at Bernie’s style.
If Trump where smart he’d have a campaign ad with Biden and Heelsup Camela saying they support BLM, alone with that link I posted below showing BLM aligning themselves with the CCP. I think a whole lot of Americans will not be happy about that if they only knew, which they will never know with the MSM as their only source of the news.
This is one thing Trump is tying to do right, brining up issues like mandatory diversity training and the 1619 project, which mot people will never learn about until it affects them personally, or they see the new version of totally sciency history on the History Channel. Trump bumbles around with stuff like this, but at least he’s trying. He needs a Glib adviser.
I volunteer Swiss
Call the vote!
I’m sure the next presser Biden holds will have numerous journalos badgering him about this lie. They will ask him to square his statement with the hundreds of fact checkers who declared his statement false.
Also sure is strange that such a notorious jew hater would be doing so much to help Israel and the Arabs make peace.
Me walking into the grocery store.
I have to go back to the car and find one under the seat every damn time.
I keep one in my purse at all times and several in my car.
My wife put a plastic baggie in the car console with some of them in it for when we eventually forget to take some along.
But just think of the Glibfit benefit there.
Remember when the dnc operatives with bylines edited what Trump said during one of his daily briefing session on the Kung Flu to make it look like he had told people to drink or inject disinfectant and how stupid he was for that shit? Well…..
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/09/17/Nasal-solution-may-stop-spread-of-COVID-19-study-finds/1881600350075/
They also laughed at him for suggesting someone should look at using UV light internally to kill the Kung Flu, only to have Google scrub it’s search capability and delete a web reference to an Israeli company researching exactly that solution?
Fucking sciencing!
Not surprising, it’s not like he just made this stuff up himself. He obviously heard or saw it mentioned somewhere.
That was the point I made. The guy was rambling about this and didn’t do a good job (a problem he seems to have) of explaining things well, but everyone pretending he had actually been stupid enough to recommend drinking or injecting kitchen disinfectants or made fun of the UV treatment without checking, did so because they actually got their bull from deceptively edited shit that had no bearing on reality.
And when I called several libs that had been peddling this lie as a means to show their intelligence and how stupid orange man was out on this, they all got mad that I had not only just torpedoed their fantasy, but left them looking like the idiot here.
TMITE
Wait… what? You mean I’ve been drinking the fish tank water all this time and it’s a lie!?
How long has Joe Biden been trying to bullshit his way into the Presidency?
Johnny Carson mocking him 33 years ago.
*glances at watch* Soon, soon
Housing is a lagging indicator, and there’s gonna be a shit ton of distressed supply coming on the market in the next 12-18 months. Buyers market, here we come.
I’ve noticed an upswing in the number of rental houses available in my ZIP code (that allow pets, which may be a spanner in the calculus) and the prices are edging upward. I’m not sure what to think of this. Within the last year, the supply has been low and the prices within our budget. Now more (that allow pets) are coming on, but prices go up?
However, I also suspect that summer has limited supply and winter has a better supply. I’m not sure what, if any, effect the time of year has on it.
I wish. But I think that’s only going to happen in cities, which people are going to be fleeing in droves. Unfortunately, I see the opposite occurring for more rural housing where we will see prices skyrocketing and rare pickings, because all those fleeing city dwellers need a place to live. This totally sucks, for me.
Woke Unity
Not surprising at all.
I think we’re still going to have Glibsplain this to a lot of people.
Good choice there, Ms. BLM. If there’s one thing Chi-Coms are known for, it’s racial tolerance.
Idiot.
They don’t call them useful idiots for no reason.
Fucking. Commies. The fight never ends, does it?
Oooh. That’s gonna get shared far and wide today.
Thanks!
Thank you, this should be plastered all over the metaverse.
All those idiots who would use a single-use time machine to kill Hitler are missing the better option. It’s arguable Hitler never would have attained any kind of power if Karl Marx had been one of his four siblings that didn’t survive childhood.