Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots.
He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion.
Oh, where has Brett gone?
He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft.
Brett is becoming legend.
Brett can never die. Brett can never die.
Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.
Suicide.
First, with relevant comment.
I toast your success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0NdwzdOLkE
Deep cut, it is!
With relevant comment? Et tu, Brute?
*preen*
“Exxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
Police said the burning car is a mile in from the entrance on a remote path in a marshy area. Since the area is not accessible by car,
Huh?
Obviously whoever did this has a cargo helicopter.
I caught that too. They don’t want to have to wash their patrol cars.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land.
The Hyperbole: Are you suggesting cars migrate?
Ones with “Je Me Souviens” on their license plates certainly do.
I think I saw that one on Sherlock.
I hope that the plane in the lead of that formation is real.
That has to a photoshop.
Boeing had a flying wing that they proposed a decade ago or so. Ultimately they didn’t pursue it because it would require significant changes to airport terminals in order to park, load and unload, despite the major efficiencies in costs.
I would expect the go forward design to be more classical shape at first, since you are already asking to get a hydrogen network in place.
I feel conflicted- I hate to see Airbus winning, and you know that the EU will get behind forcing everyone to dump those dirty gas burners and buy Airbus planes (FOR THE ENVIRONMENTS!!!). But the alternative here in the states is so crony-licious and dangerously incompetent to boot, that I can’t really bring myself to care.
Okay, a car was found burning. The cops are using golf carts to get to it, because the place is inaccessible by car? It’s like that one alternative song, ” on my own, here we go..” or Thin Lizzy, ” there’s gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town.” Maybe the fucking jail?
Every once in a while I’ll go bouncing up some hurly burly 4-wheel-drive road here in Colorado in my FJ and at the end will be a 1999 Ford Fiesta with a guy sitting on the bumper fishing in the lake. How the hell did you get that thing up here?!
A drummer I played in a band with when I was 17 had an early 80’s VW Rabbit. They used to take that out mud-boggin’ in the sticks. The good thing was, it was so light, if it ever got stuck, it was easy enough to push out of the mud.
My sister totaled her Rabbit in the late 80s on a patch of black ice. Couldn’t be repaired (well, not in a cost-effective way) thanks to the unibody design, if memory serves.
A buddy in high school in the ’80s had a Fiesta and we used to off-road in that thing all the time. So small you could lift the back end or otherwise get them out of tight spots you couldn’t do with a real car. It was a lot of fun.
Ha. A guy on my high school football team had the mighty, three-cylinder Chevy Sprint. Small enough that the offensive line hid it from him by picking it up and taking it around the corner.
“Hard to say this could make Bethesda worse.”
Witcher fan?
The best part of this acquisition will be now I can play Skyrim on my Zune.
I don’t eve know what a Zune is.
They’re going to turn Skyrim into the RPG version of Sea of Thieves. Every time you quit the same and go back in, all of your stuff will be gone and you’re back to the beginning of the game.
Only if Microsoft Bob lets you.
Just remember MSFT’s “Bob” had Melinda Gates as the product manager!
I see your Microsoft Bob and raise you an Enzyte Bob.
I’ll wait for the Kin edition, personally
Probably just not a fan of Fallout 76.
It does open up interesting possibilities since last year they bought Obsidian (The Outer Worlds) and that’s where Fallout:New Vegas was hatched (most of those folks have moved on, as I understand though).
I was going to say they should go for the trifecta and pick up inXile to get Brian Fargo and get the band back together (as it were)…. but holy crap! They already did in 2018!
C’mon Microsoft… give us Brian Fargo with inXile making a Fallout already!
The Outer Worlds is a complete SJW hack job. I’d say the chance of anything coming from Osidian from this point on, the chance of it not being a complete SJW shit show is zero.
Zero emission aircraft…..fueled by hydrogen. Right.
*facepalm*
How many joules of electricity will be needed to produce one joule’s worth of hydrogen? Are they going to condense the ‘not emissions’ produced or let it go as water vapor?
I get it…there will be innovation and progress technologically but all this catering to the magical thinking morons and marxist front groups leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Just get a bunch of water, a knife, and cut the hydrogen-oxygen bonds. Instant hydrogen gas!
I saw a documentary a while back which showed how the young Albert Einstein split a beer atom with a chisel, so why not?
Since the French are mostly nuclear (75%) , Airbus can claim that its use will be zero emission. It is a closed cycle, fracture the water at the airport, recombine it to water in flight.
H2 has a better specific fuel density at reasonable pressures than batteries. It still isn’t as good as Hydrocarbon fuel. This will be a niche vanity market if at all. I would think the Biofuel’s would be better compromises, but their creation releases the CO during the processing as well.
I’m sure there are government grants involved..
If you are on nuclear, that’s your source of Hydrogen. One of the ways to make hydrogen is to use the extreme heat of a nuclear reactor (not electricity).
let it go as water vapor
But they can just let it go because it’s not a greenhouse ga…haaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I couldn’t do it.
ELECTRICITY COMES OUT OF A WALL AND IS TOTES CARBON FREE!
They’re going to have to burn a shit ton of hydrocarbons to capture and compress that hydrogen. But it’s totally zero emissions. Swearsies.
Build a nuclear reactor next to the airport?
See, that would be cool. Which means it will never happen.
Fusion reactor? Since we’re dreaming you know.
Cold fusion. It’ll be any day now
Make explosions fun again.
Plus, when it explodes over water, there will be much less of an oil slick to clean up!
The answer is methane. Plentiful, free, energy-dense, and a greenhouse gas. Mel Brooks had it covered a long time ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0
I didnt have to click on that.
“Oooooh, the humanity!”
skeptical person with a brain – “Where does the electricity that runs this car come from?”
moron – “The holes.”
skeptical person with a brain – “The what? What holes? What are you talking about? ”
moron – “You know….the holes.” *points at electrical socket in the wall*
I actually did have a conversation once with an enviro crazy and I asked that same question.
Peron didn’t reply, just looked at me.
Then I said ‘coal powered electric plants’.
He thought for a minute and said ‘Well, that won’t be a problem anymore because we’re outlawing those coal plants’.
Well, OK then.
Nikola has them covered!
Nikola: How to Parlay An Ocean of Lies Into a Partnership With the Largest Auto OEM in America
Subsequent to Nikola world, Trevor reiterated in several public interviews to have already solved this major world problem, describing Nikola as having achieved breakthroughs in hydrogen production.
In an August 2020 interview with Fox Business News, when asked about hydrogen, Trevor says:
“We saw an opportunity to bring the cost of hydrogen down going zero-emission and putting it on parity with diesel, and it’s the first time in history that’s been able to be done, so it went from about $16/kg and we are down now below $4/kg. And there’s a lot of reasons for that, but the main one is standardization of a hydrogen station worldwide has allowed us to drive that cost down dramatically. We tell people we’re an energy technology company that happens to build really cool vehicles.”
In another interview on July 17, 2020, on the TeslaCharts podcast, Trevor claimed Nikola has been able to “chop the cost of hydrogen from $16/kg down to – we’re down below $3/kg on our hydrogen now.”[1] [11:34]. This would mark an astonishing 81.25% reduction in the cost of hydrogen.
Ok. If he is telling the truth that could be something.
This thing is Theranos Part 2. The CEO just resigned today so as not to be a “distraction”.
He is absolutely not telling the truth.
STEVE SMITH PROVIDE FUEL. BY PROVIDE FUEL, MEAN RAPE GM AND SHAREHOLDERS.
(Cascadia reference in above link)
That’s what I get for skim reading with 3/4 attention elsewhere.
I was reading about these at the same time: https://www.warwolfordnance.com/products/ammo-war-wolf-ordnance-0086-3081
And watching the video. Impressive.
Those are two pretty big balls.
I do recommend this one not only for price but for effectiveness and accuracy. It is far more accurate than round balls.
https://www.warwolfordnance.com/products/ammo-war-wolf-ordnance-0086-3081
That is a Lyman bullet design. I used to have one but it got lost in a move.
“….used to have a mold for this bullet….”
Ugh. My brain is dull today.
Looks like they are no longer available.
Nikola is powered by Tyrolean horn players.
“Nik..ko…la…!” (cough, cough)
*narrows gaze*
Un-called for gaze-narrowing. Superb use of the meme.
Swiss was attacked by a gang of feral puns as a child. He gives no quarter to their kind.
I will decide when it is ordnung oder nichts.
Crappy day, almost no time for glibbing. 🙁
Going to Chillax with a watery Martini and fire up a game on my $1 Game Pass.
Seriously. I just spent eight hours pouring through thousands of emails and policy documents and multiple state tax withholding forms* and whatnot for my new job. When do I start doing actual work?!
*Whoever designed these things should be launched into the sun.
Freeeeeedoooooommmmm
https://pasteboard.co/Js9JZBm.jpg
w00 h00000o0o!!!
Freedom
More freedom
Even more freedom
4-6 weeks for delivery. Bummer.
Freedom, hippy edition
More hippie freedom
Even more hippie freedom
Here’s some more freedom.
Finding the cost of freedom.
Fuck that hippie shit, have some funky soulful freedom
Excellent
(I didn’t feel nearly as assholish as I thought I would taking pics with a tripod & remote)
When I was taking pics with my tilt-shift lens and, of course, a tripod in Frankfurt and Würzburg one person in each city assumed I was a professional photographer and asked some technical questions. Impressively, both of them could immediately switch to English after it became obvious I wan’t in a position to understand what they said in German.
Nice view!
And the landscape isn’t bad either.
Lucky!
What’s the plan this week?
Hills tomorrow because it’s supposed to be fucking hot. Devils Tower Wednesday; Air & Space & Wall Thursday; Badlands Friday
Don’t forget the State Game Lodge. Also the Wildlife Loop is great!
Badlands is spectacular, too.
I’m jealous as hell. You are in one of my favorite places in the country!
Once again: “Exxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
For the alkies – American serves booze to 1st class upon request
JetBlue has full service (food and booze) in Mint since July. But good to know in case I’m blacklisted by JetBlue for not wearing a mask.
Tulip – we shoulda gone with Jet Blue for FL, it seems. Maybe things will change by Xmas
It’s a short flight.
What’s all this? A girls trip to Florida? Why wasn’t I notified?
We’ll be there over Xmas. Cocoa beach and Kissimmee
Nice. Are you doing any parks? NASA? Just bumming around the beach?
WAT! You expect us to plan?
Fishie fishie!!
I’m a fan of planning one activity per day of vacation and leaving the rest of the day free for spontaneous activity. That way I’m not making my vacation work, but I know I won’t spend my time asking my wife “what do you want to do?” Have fun and good luck with the fishes.
We don’t have wives. We are free!
I don’t like to do much but lounge & eat & drink at the beach, but I could be rousted for some salt water fishing any day
And we don’t know what’s open or how open (maybe visitor center open but no tours) things are.
Beyond a day of fishing, no plans yet.
Pretty much everything is open, you just need a mask.
“For the alkies”
*meekly raises hand*
I have to fly in a few weeks, and I pretty much refuse to do so sober. I may have to find it in my heart to go first class. Or fill my hazmat suit with illicit booze.
You could carry on mini bottles
That’s probably the route I’ll take. I’ll be disappointed if people aren’t tailgating in the airport parking lot.
What, you’re too good for a vodka soaked tampon up your rectum like the rest of us?
*tips back airplane bottle of Early Times with pinky in the air*
Why not make booze mandatory? Doesn’t alcohol kill the ‘rona? Better than masks, I say.
^^ I like this guy ^^
This is how you get the people to buy into full-on authoritarianism. Spoonful of sugar and all that.
So does United.
The lefties used to be insufferable, but now they’ve somehow taken it to a new level.
They are not finished yet.
If you talk to people who have lived through this shit in other places you will get right away that what we are seeing now is identical to what they saw. The same rage, anger and unhinged crazy. Notice that you don’t see a lot of ex-pat Chinese, Cubans, Eastern Blockers etc joining BLM.
There was crazier shit happening in the early seventies. Bombing police stations, robbing banks to finance revolution, kidnapping prominent people’s children, etc. Lot’s of love and support for criminals and violent attempts to overthrow the government. The difference is the percentage of the general population who agree with this bullshit. There’s way less pushback and major institutions have thrown their lot in with the crazy fucks.
Yeah, the FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in 1975, there were other incidents. Makes me proud of my Puerto Rican heritage 🙁
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/puerto-rican-terrorists-plant-bomb-tavern-1975-article-1.2484977
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_shooting
And I was a mere 10 months old at the time!
Crazier shit, followed by Nixon beating McGovern in the electoral college 520-17?
Somehow I doubt the crazy this time will get quite such a rousing beatdown from voters tired of all that.
It will be a very good test of how much America has changed and come to tolerate that crap
I would love to see a wholesale rejection of this new version of violent revolution, but my country has a long track record of letting me down.
I still have hope … but not much
Great. I’m just hoping they peaked too soon, before there are enough of them to do too much damage, and while most of the country has little patience for it. That’s why I’m nervous about this election. I see it as a referendum on crazy.
If the crazies win they will pack the supreme court and add DC and Puerto Rico as states and gerrymander the congressional districts and rig the voting rules to ensure they never relinquish power again. This election makes me very nervous.
^^^ This is why I plan to vote early and often.
As I think many others do. I hear more and more saying “This is going to come to blows”
I think an amicable as possible divorce might be the preferred path but I am fairly certain the left wont go for that. For them is it all or nothing domination and control.
That’s why we have accelerated our move north. I’m hoping that if it comes to that, Alaska will be able to just walk away without a lot of hassle.
If it comes to it, I guess we can go all First Bull Run on the Feds.
If they were content to leave you alone, none of this shit would be going on. A peaceable divorce presupposes they’re willing leave you alone.
Silence is violins. Or something.
They’re already laying the groundwork to tar any succession as traitors. And there won’t be a Grant or Lincoln to recognize the losers as fellow Americans.
They already did that over a century and a half ago.
But not as traitors. And reconciliation afterward. The current movement to upend that and essentially go full Hutu.
DC statehood would require a constitutional amendment. It’s not going to happen.
i’ve heard this from a few Glibs but don’t understand. Democrat Congress passes bill making DC a state. President Biden or Harris signs it. Packed Supreme Court upholds when challenged. Seems like a straightforward pathway that the Dems have aligned on.
The requirement for a constitutional amendment doesn’t seem relevant in the current political climate.
Seriously, the need for a constitutional amendment hasn’t mattered for a long time. They do what they want and rely on the packed court to declare it constitutional.
Even if they didn’t, just redraw the district to the White House, Capitol, and a few other buildings and make the newly split territory a state.
Maryland and Virginia might want their land back in that case.
If this was actually about giving DC residents the right to vote, they’d redraw the district as above and cede the rest to Maryland. That would be easy to get ratified as a constitutional amendment. But that wouldn’t get two new D Senators.
Then a two step, cede back to Maryland and Maryland acquiesces to split off another state. They have Baltimore, do they want DC also? Besides, Congress has turbo money printer. How about full debt forgiveness for the state in exchange for giving up DC?
Retrocession of the former Maryland land doesn’t require a constitutional amendment. The VA retrocession of 1846 was done by Congress.
I’m not even sure if redrawing the district actually requires giving back the remainder to Maryland. When the district was created, the land was ceded to the federal government. Redrawing the boundaries doesn’t change that, any land would remain federal territory and should be able to be made a state.
“Maryland and Virginia might want their land back in that case.”
May as well just give it back to VA and make DC the capital. VA is already ruled by NOVA, so just make it official.
If the Ds make DC a state, the Rs should move the capital if they ever get the Congress back. And hopefully disperse it while they are at it.
And if they have absorbed any of the trollish nature of Trump, they should make a state out of whatever private island Trump buys when he retires.
(the first suggestion is serious, the second one is not, FYI)
Springfield, Missouri awaits its designation as the new National Capitol.
Boise, and the new US flag is a picture of a potato.
Open Letter from Medical Doctors and Health Professionals to All Belgian Authorities and All Belgian Media
Pretty solid. It addresses most relevant issues.
Only experts with cushy gubmint jobs are to be trusted
These medical doctors and health professionals don’t seem to understand what is going on here.
And Belgium had it worse than most.
I had local news on the teevee yesterday and it drifted over to an NFL pregame show after that. Cue Chicago QB Mitchell Trubisky going through warm-ups wearing a “Stay Woke” shirt. I guess he had that sitting in his closet from a time when the phrase “stay woke” wasn’t a mocking slur used by non-progressives.
In looking at his stat line, I see Mitchell’s throws to Bears receivers are still practicing safe social distancing.
Did the shirt say “Go Broke” on the back?
CDC covers itself in glory
Story about CDC website pivoting to aerosol transmission, but published too soon, so now it is being walked back? All I could figure out for sure is that the CDC has no idea what it is doing in any facet of its operations.
Have you ever worked for a state or federal agency?
Well do the Marines count?
And I have made a lot of money as a consultant because the workers at a state agency couldn’t do basic tasks and just hired it out.
Story about CDC website pivoting to aerosol transmission, but published too soon, so now it is being walked back? All I could figure out for sure is that the CDC has no idea what it is doing in any facet of its operations.
I wonder if that’s the same story I read earlier. The only substantive takeaway was that the CDC is staffed by morons who don’t have the faintest idea what they are doing.
In justifying its decision, the DOJ cited New York City’s rising gun violence
Huh. I wonder how that happens since NYC has strict gun control. I’m certain Indiana is to blame.
Well, it sure as shit ain’t NJ.
Winter is coming….
I have 7 – 5 gal propane bottles, one of them is empty. I need to get it filled and buy an additional bottle.
After our hurricane riddled summer I am sure we will end up with an ice storm this winter. Thankfully because of the hurricanes I am drowning in firewood.
It’s a government agency. Their primary function is to get their budget increased for next year. Doing a good job undermines that goal. The only possible outcome is doing a bad job.
Don’t forget lobbying to get rid of the 2A because of the public health menace of gun violence. That takes up a lot of their time.
Winter is coming….
I was just having that conversation with myself earlier.
Am I the only one who thinks of that bozo from Texas when I hear “tropical storm Beta”?
Wondering what the next storm will be… Next in the alphabet… Is “Cuck” in the Greek alphabet?
I think once they run through the alphabet they start using the Greek alphabet.
Nope. You are not.
I made a joke that the hurricane was coming to take our guns.
No
Haha no, that was my first thought. I still see those stupid bumper stickers occasionally. The lefties here really did not want to let that one go.
The cuckicane! It’s a pretty big storm, as long as there’s not any other storms around.
If the House impeaches President Cartoon Villain, does that mean the Senate is not allowed to conduct hearings in the course of their Constitutional duties? You know, like if the Senate Judiciary Committee wanted to consider a judicial appointment.
The senate should impeach the liberal justices in retaliation. If we are using impeachment strictly to punish political enemies now.
Isn’t an impeachment something that the Senate can just table if they want to? Why give it any credence if it’s a blatant political move that’s being done to tie up the Senate in order to push back a judge’s confirmation until after the election or even further?
I don’t know the rules, but if the house is going to abuse it’s power, then so should the senate. Turn about is fair play.
I don’t know the rules either, but I will be totes disappointed if the women who are picked to solemnly walk the articles of impeachment over to the Senate don’t wear Handmaid’s Tale dresses and such.
I laffed.
yup. they can just hold a vote and go back to business. and would.
“Session called to order. All those in favor of acquittal because this is a blatantly political move? 53? Oh, wait, 51, Senator Romney and the Senator from Maine who is gonna lose her election.”
* gavels trial session as over *
Why elect Collins when you can have an actual Dem?
In Collins’ defense, she did stand up against the Dems over Kavanaugh (which is more than can be said of Murkowski), so she’s not a total RINO.
Trump will be spending a lot of time in Alaska in early 2022 to get rid of her.
This
Murkowski is worthless
Trump will be spending a lot of time in Alaska in early 2022 to get rid of her.
This should be for every single one of the Republicans trying to derail this. “You don’t want to play ball? Fine. Expect zero support from the national party, and expect to be primaried at the next election.” This is basic partisan politics, the party’s whip needs to be scarier than the opposing party.
They primaried Murkowski before and beat her but she won as a write-in. Her father was a corrupt senator so I assume there is some sort of machine up there.
The Senate can conduct no business until the trial is over.
The senate writes their own procedural rules and can table it and conduct other business if they choose. Or just vote immediately to acquit and move on.
The rules were all written with serious moral people in mind. These assholes can do whatever they want. Acting this stupid just hastens the end.
If Biden wins the election, articles of impeachment need to be filed immediately. The flimsier the basis, the better. These are the new rules.
Oooor, they could just wait for Biden or Harris to do something actually unconstitutional, and file based on real charges. I’d give it about a week for the over / under.
But that would mean the Rs would have to recognize the actual language of the Constitution, and start following it. Not gonna happen.
And the Rs would have to retake the House first. And then grow a spine.
Uffda. I think this story in the local commie rag is supposed to be an uplifting profile of activists who are fighting homelessness in Mpls after the “uprising”. I think, though, that the SoDak Chamber of Commerce couldn’t have written a better ad urging Minnesodans to move to South Dakota.
Yup only the state can do it.
And hidden way at the bottom is this gem
She seems nice.
Probably better to let her waste her time on this nonsense than attempt anything productive.
I just wonder if we could send her back to NoDak. Surely the primitive Sioux could use her guidance.
Better to let her starve until she is forced to work to survive.
Feeding hungry people? what a cunte!
If she was feeding them with her own money I wouldn’t have anything bad to say about her. When she is simply redistributing things that other people (or the govt) gave her, I am a bit less impressed.
It also doesn’t help that her movement put homeless people into a Sheraton Hotel and it turned into an unsafe disaster in 8 days and then they helped set up tent camps in parks that turned into unsafe disasters. Maybe feeding the homeless is a bad idea? Before they were given this food they had to at least spend a few hours dumpster diving. Now they spend those extra hours of leisure ruining the places where they are staying.
The locals don’t seem impressed:
When she is simply redistributing things that other people (or the govt) gave her
I agree with the parenthetical, but the rest of that sentence just describes charity, I got no problem with that.
Should be “most charities”.
Maybe feeding the homeless is a bad idea?
Big Meh on this one. What is a bad idea is aiding and abetting property destruction by improperly supervising the way your charitable program’s gifts were being handled by a group of people known for sky-high rates of destructive mental illness.
Giving a homeless person a sandwich doesn’t somehow cause them to wreck up a hotel room.
“Corner”? More like closer to the wall they’ll line the useful idiots like you up against when you’ve outlived your usefulness.
23. I’m guessing the history of public housing isn’t taught in any schools.
Those would be the same people that burned down housing complexes and businesses, right?
This is supposed to be a happy day! Let’s not quibble over who burned who’s housing to the ground.
Probably not.
Aren’t you a construction contractor? What do you think will happen to your industry if her dreams of ‘revolution’ come true?
I thought we were talking about if these bleeding heart homelessness activist were the same people who burnt down businesses. But sure she has misguided ideals, if you want to criticize her for that great, I’ll probably agree 100%, but lumping her in with arsonist because they are both on “The Left”, is akin to me claiming that since Catholic priest bugger alter boys every Catholic is a child molester.
The cashier from whom I bought a soda pop said “thanks for coming here for your vacation”
Dissent is Treason
A public affairs official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will “retire” after a news report identified him as the anonymous author of blog posts on a conservative website that disparaged Dr. Anthony Fauci and mocked the use of masks, a spokesperson for the health agency said Monday.
The Daily Beast reported Monday that William Crews, who worked in NIAID’s communications branch, is a managing editor working under a pseudonym for the right-wing opinion website RedState who had mocked Fauci as a “mask Nazi” and described wearing face coverings as “a political statement.”
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The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay, who broke the story for the news website, said he was able to identify Crews as the RedState editor through public records, social media postings and, internal NIH records.
“It illustrates the extent to which the response to the pandemic has become deeply politicized, even within the agencies at the front lines of fighting it,” Markay wrote. “Crews isn’t just a civil servant anonymously disagreeing with his bosses online; he’s actively undermining their work and even suggesting retribution against them.”
Oh, no! Undermining all their good work. they worked really hard to make those models agree with their conclusions, too.
We found one good bureaucrat and he is already fired.
Now do Lt. Col. Vindeman who got Trump impeached because he was unhappy that Trump wasn’t listening to him.
Now now, that’s completely different because OrangeManBad.
I saw a yard sign that said ‘In Fauci We Trust’ fer fucksake.
The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay, who broke the story for the news website, said he was able to identify Crews as the RedState editor through public records, social media postings and, internal NIH records.
yet another journo to add to the “will dox for wrong think” list.
TMITE, but journos who dox people are the worst enemy.
I have a hard time reconciling the Brett L on zoom with the bio. I can’t be the only one.
Brett’s bio: tl;dr
He’s a sophisticated Florida Man who knows how to politely stay seated when he’s not wearing pants on camera.
Boring.
When I visited Tampa, Brett was nice enough to meet up* with me and was a boon companion. He brought me to a truly wonder Florida Dive Bar (where I also got to meet his wonderful wife). But to be honest, I had to leave before dark to catch my plane home, so maybe he didn’t transform into Brett L until later.
* That is right! I now am not only the Grand Old Man of the Honey Harvest, but I’m leading the pack in attendance at the Meth Harvest.
That’s just it! He’s so nice on zoom, not a FloridaMan at all. With apologies to our Florida man above.
I’LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!
nah, I’m just playing.
When does you plane land?
Was I supposed to pay attention to the arrival time?
Nah, you’re good. Have another drink for me.
I live in Florida.
But did you live there…first?
Before the COVID, the only time I was on camera was during depositions, so I guess I just learned to be when the camera is on.
You are the white trash version of Wayne Brady.
“don’t you know there ain’t no devil,
there’s just God when he’s drunk”
-Tom Waits
At least drunk god leaves the porch light on.
Back in Iowa.
Hope no one stole your brewing stuff while you were gone. Great to meet you this weekend.
I had a great time.
The brewing gear is all safe.
I found a lot of bottles that I’m guessing you paid hard cash for. Can I save them, washed out, for your next visit? I know the price of canning jars and I’m guessing bottles are commensurate or even more.. Locals here are used to getting the refreshments in plastic throwaways. I’ll keep them ’til you tell me different.
My relatives aren’t used to seeing such fine glassware.
You can dispose of the bottles. I buy them by the pallet (not kidding).
So you throw a pallet through the front window of the local brewing supply store and get your loot on?
“Found”? You mean you finally pried that bottle loose of your wannabee Glib kin?
I didn’t know women could be so strong! Especially after celebrating with Kinnath!
A great day with great people! The attendees make a work day into a party, Particularly when they provide the material.
Thanks, Kinnath, but now they are spoiled. I thought the bottled water would be a treat (the NoDaks thought so too).
I’m glad you made it safe. Thanks again for making the trip up.
I saw the Honey Harvest recap while catching up on threads.
It sounds like I missed a good time.
I hope next year is sane so I can make it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1308129396285485057
Enthusiasm.
Joe is probably back in the basement, it’s getting dark.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1308134517081886720
For real.
Think about it man
It? You mean the thing?
for real
At least he didn’t insult our intelligence by pretending that we are a republic and simply left that part out.
I’m still waiting for somebody to tell us he’s the biggest practical joke in history. Imagine what the original cast of SNL would be doing to him.
Only 8 seconds, I wonder why the clip is so short? He’s obviously insane the rest of the speech must be off the hook bonkers, I’m no Republican but if I were I’d post the whole thing if I really wanted to show how unfit for office he is. Why go easy on him?
It was on a teleprompter and he still couldn’t do it.
What was on the teleprompter? The Pledge of Allegiance? are you certain he was reciting the pledge, not just using it to illustrate points, as some people on twitter are saying, (It’s a 25 minute speech and I’m not watching the entire thing so I don’t know either)
Short attention spans?
From the comments: https://mobile.twitter.com/OrwellOf/status/1308134955822784512
Supposed to be the whole clip.
That’s all my attention span can handle. The internet has turned my concentration capacity into the equivalent of PBR. If I can hang on to the thought for a full eight seconds, the buzzer sets me free
https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2020/09/18/cgb-police-thousands-of-child-porn-images-found-at-home-of-southern-utah-man-who-runs-popular-youtube-channel/#.X2kkXN8pA1I
WTF
Was hoping it was Mitt Romney.
Romney’s as straightlaced as they come.
Too bad he values decorum over the founding principles of the USA.
Eh…Romney is your typical sleezeball politician. After trashing Trump he was completely willing to suck his dick for a cabinet position.
If only he’d swallowed he probably would’ve gotten it too.
He makes a big show of morality while being absolute scum.
I don’t think the three traitors can stop Trump’s SCOTUS nomination. And Mitten’s career is toast. He’ll have to join the democrats now.
He can just claim he was brainwashed.
I don’t get that entire thing. 20 hard drives and several computers? So this guy was running a network at home with all of these hard drives, but not even one image could be seen? Odd.
Trump is a few miles away from my house, holding a “friendly protest” near the Dayton airport. Haven’t seen the size of the crowd, but they sound enthusiastic. (Watching on local TV station’s website – they’re not loud enough that I’m hearing them in person.)
He’s totally trashing Sleepy Joe.
Well, Creepy Joe is a pretty soft target.
I’m getting a bad feeling that the only way Trump wins re-election is by thoroughly destroying Biden in the debates.
Which Joe will soon duck out of because Trumphitler is destroying the constitution by nominating Himmler to the Supreme Court and he won’t give him any prestige by appearing on the same stage with such a Nazi.
Not only Himmler, but fake woman Himmler.
I thought fake women were the new top of the leftist heap?
I had to tell the hotel bar staff how to make an Aviation. I think I botched the proportions. I hope they Google it before serving it to someone else
As long as the proportions are “lots of booze”, how can it be wrong?
Some flavors of booze just don’t taste well together.
Briefly, sure. Then your taste buds are numb and it’s smooth sailing!
Sounds like hooch
The person should have known that it’s not 9 parts alcohol and 1 part something else. So wasn’t you who killed all those guests from alcohol poisoning.
OK, that “anarchist jurisdiction” designation demonstrates the right can be just as dumb as the left.
It’s idiotic. Stay out of it and let their voters learn and decide.
They don’t call them the Stupid Party for nothing.
At some point if certain cities are ignoring the rule of law and not protecting the basic rights of their citizens, it becomes a civil rights issue to me.
No, that’s only true if the president is Eisenhower, Kennedy or Johnson ( or has a “D” after their name.) It’s right there in the “Real Invisible Annotated U.S. Constitution.”
If only citizens had a right to bear arms…
“”Needs To Be Quashed Immediately”: Michigan Clerk Files Criminal Complaint Against Resident Who Mocked Mail-In Voting”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/needs-be-quashed-immediately-michigan-clerk-files-criminal-complaint-against-resident-who
The toilet with the Place Mail In Ballots Here sign might get mistaken for a real ballot drop off point. No shit, that’s the basis.
Needs more instructions: “Flush Twice…It’s a long way to Democrat Party National HQ.”
So the government is admitting that they think its citizens are absolute idiots?
OK, that “anarchist jurisdiction” designation demonstrates the right can be just as dumb as the left.
Oh, come on, when I think of “no rules” I definitely think of New York.
I find this hard to believe.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/popcorn-farmers-unsold-kernels-movie-theaters
I figured glibs would have cleaned them out by now. I know I got mine, guess I could always use some more. It’s for a good cause.
Wait until after the SCOTUS hearings, the market will recover.
Malice on the Bee podcast tomorrow.
Bee…podcast? Had no ideer the Bee had one o them.
After 150+ days of no rain…a nice little cell opened up over my house and provided a 30 second monsoon. Now back to no rain.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zcmWsYWkFM
Palmetto State Armory to buy Remington ammo? Anyone else hear that?
Huh. Starts @ 7:00.
Gun companies get traded around like a bunch of kids are playing Monopoly. They really don’t make that much money. High overhead, low profit margin.
Saw that a week or so ago. As I recall, it was a place-holder bid that allowed the bankruptcy court to move forward to an auction.
Important, but not that important yet.
Costco is selling these jalapeno and garlic stuffed olives.
Holy shit are they good. I may need rehab shortly.
Surround them with martini.
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yeah thats good stuff. Now where is my Costco card
That will keep you regular.
Those of you who have waited tables: solo middle aged women. Bad tippers? I often find myself getting poorer service than couples and groups.
I tip ~20-25%. More if I know I will be returning. When I return I usually get excellent service.
BTW, I love bribing people to treat me well. I probably need a psychologist to unravel that one. Or, as a libertarian, I recognize money is power.
I probably need a psychologist to unravel that one.
No. It’s not bribing, it’s greasing the skids.
And it always works.
That’s just good sense.
I know plenty of rich people who are lousy tippers. They’re also miserable human beings who don’t value pleasant company.
Solos of any sex were undesirable for wait staff. (simple math, the check total is generally lower than a group, and it it is not really harder to deliver 4 glasses or plates than 1) Middle aged women were not the highest end tippers in my memory, but also not at the lowest end.
I just tipped my man 35%. I asked for an Aviation and he went back & forth tryna find out how to make it.
Did they have creme de violette? I’ll freely admit that 1. I had to look that up and 2. neither of my nightclubs ever had creme de violette in stock.
They had that and maraschino liqueur. It’s a higher-end place. Rooftop bar at a historic hotel.
Lol.
I ordered a Negroni at a local country club and they didn’t have fucking Campari!!
I’ll bet they had a dozen different hard seltzers, though…
Yeah, it’s simple risk/reward. I observe this same behavior all of the time at restuarants. If you have a large party, they are always getting all the attention. bigger tip and much higher risk because now you have one multiple persons who might complain about something where it might trigger others in the group, next thing you know, riots, and the restaurant is on fire.
Hm. I bet groups do generally tip better and I suspect age & sex don’t factor.
It becomes a financial signaling thing.
“See how well off I am? I tip like a player.”
Exactly. And nobody wants to look like a cheapskate among friends or family.
I found that the table full of woman arguing over who owes what are the absolute worst tippers.
“BUT I ONLY HAD A SALAD!”
Also, the waiter told me he came from Portland. Refugee or carpetbagger? I intend to find out when I come back.
ME or OR?
OR
Wait a minute… have we just went much further down the rabbit hole, or did I just imagine that we now have a NFL team named ‘Football Team’?
Washington Team Football. Feel free to acronymize it
Worthless Tranzi F@#$%^&*(
lol, I didn’t even think of that. Their fans must feel so woke, if they have any left.
Fuck that, lean into it. Become the “Washington Football Team” officially. Your mascot is a football player. All your merch has “FOOTBALL TEAM” on it with a generic QB about to pass. Rename the stadium Stadium. Direct that all your players only be referred to by position. Replace the names with “KICKER” and “FULLBACK” on the jerseys. Scream “GO FOOTBALL TEAM!” into the cameras, dump SPORTS DRINK on the COACH when you win. Change your colors to white and light blue.
GO FOOTBALL TEAM!
It’s full on retarded. But at least we know what every Native American on every reservation in the country can sleep tonight, not having to worry about that former horrifying name that we can no longer even say in public now.
“Shh… don’t say the R-word.”
“Retarded?”
“No, the other R-word.”
“Retardable?”
Recycle, return, rat? … Redskin *horrified shrieking, sounds of panicked running in all directions*
I literally LOLed. Like a bowl full of jelly.
Where ya getting the hydrogen?
Solar mining.
Technology for its own sake is not the way to go?
Rolls-Royce is remaining steadfast in its position to prioritize luxury over new technologies.
Following the recent launch of the second-generation Ghost, complete with a familiar Rolls-Royce interior that features many physical buttons and switches, it’s clear the British car manufacturer is taking a different approach to what Mercedes-Benz is doing with the new S-Class.
Speaking with Autocar, the head designer of automaker’s Coachbuild arm, Alex Innes, said it is very important for Rolls-Royce to carefully considering the new technologies that it introduces.
“We’re not always the first adopters, and for good reason. For us, technology is about furthering the experience of what is expected of a Rolls-Royce,” Innes said. “Digitalization presents a phenomenal opportunity and will enhance our ability to personalize a machine in the customer’s image. We’d never do anything just for the sake of using technology, but we can develop it to fit the marque and what it represents. It’s important not to ask a client to do more than necessary. A Rolls-Royce should be a sanctuary from life’s distractions. It’s our responsibility to apply technology without overstepping the mark.”
Innes added that the reason why vehicles like the Phantom and Ghost use analog controls rather than touchscreens with haptic feedback is simply because they are nicer to use.
Somebody should tell some of those other car makers.
I don’t want to page through the navscreen looking for a way to turn the heater fan up or down. I want a knob.
Luddite
My truck has physical knobs/buttons for all functions, even those that may be performed on the touch screen.
I like it.
Also, they were smart enough to make them big enough to use while wearing gloves.
I like that, too.
I love having to pull over every time I rent a car in order to figure out how the hell to:
1. turn on the radio
2. turn on the lights
3. turn on the windshield wipers
4. what the 17 other menus I am being offered when trying to do number 1 actually do
I’ll get to do that Thursday 🙂 Diet is suspended, and I am headed somewhere. No plans beyond leaving Thursday morning yet. I may swing down toward the southwest and see some of the AZ and NM parks I usually skip because it is too hot in July.
“3. turn on the windshield wipers”
Happened to me one time I rented a car. Pulled out of the garage, it start raining, and I couldn’t figure out how to turn on the wipers.
And a knob you can tell the position by feel. A completely rounded knob that spins all the way around is useless if I have to stare at a position light.
Where ya getting the hydrogen?
It grows on trees.
It’s a gas in the atmosphere. I played a video game once, Astroneer, and there’s a machine you just put something in and you get Hydrogen in a jar, easy peasy.
Didn’t the Hindenburg float on hydrogen?
Yes.
Lighter than air vehicles. It’s the future.
Of humanity?
Of the huge manatee?
Yeahhhhh…got my blu-ray of “Blood Machines” today. Already watched on digital once, but on the big tv, it’ll look/sound a lot better.
It’s better if you are stoned out of your gourd. Papers over the terrible acting.
I found myself reading the captions and digging the music more than listening to the actors or puzzling out the plot.
There’s a film about getting a blood test? Lame.
Knew it was <<>> all this time. https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1307837415223111681
hmmm… [[[them]]] (internet erased them the first time)
“Chad McBreedingstud”
Hahaha
Well it sounds like he did manage to impregnate his wife (per the last few weeks) so I guess there’s something to the handle.
I am headed somewhere. No plans beyond leaving Thursday morning yet. I may swing down toward the southwest and see some of the AZ and NM parks I usually skip because it is too hot in July.
Enjoy yourself. Relax. Have fun.