Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful morning it always is!
Can’t imagine why anyone would want to leave these places.
Kenosha residents form armed neighborhood watch.
Rules for thee but not for me.
After 9th circuit court ruling overturning CA’s ban on over round magazines, CA Attorney General requests an en banc review.
Walmart launches subscription service.
Acquire unique product, sanitize the hell out of it, wonder why it loses its base.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song that has been stuck in my head for an entire week. I have no fucking idea why.
Mornin’ Banjos
Mornin’
I eagerly await LeBron blaming it all on racists.
LeBron James, civil rights activist making millions off of Chinese slave labor.
Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
Wait, wut? You telling me some grandstanding multi millionaire social justice warrior is a hypocrite? Say it isn’t so!
That’s a long-term trend though. Nothing in that article demonstrates that the boycots have had any negative impact on viewership. The “Get Woke Go Broke” narrative is completely unsupported.
That’s a long-term trend though. … The “Get Woke Go Broke” narrative is completely unsupported.
The narrative is not proven, but it is not completely unsupported either. The “Get Woke” part has also been a long-term trend, it didn’t just start this year (although it did intensify), so if it is truly turning people off we should expect a decline in viewership to also be a long term trend. The alternative explanation is that 40% of people who used to like watching the NBA 10 years ago no longer do, for reasons left unexplained, which seems like quite a sudden and inexplicable change in taste. Although I admit I do not watch the NBA, so perhaps they’ve changed the sport in the last decade significantly enough to turn people off.
Sports has been a huge part of my entire life. However, due the non-stop lecturing I canceled cable and my subscription to The Athletic.
I can’t be the only one.
Falling mortgage rates helped bolster the pent-up demand from spring, when home sales ground to a halt due to the start of the coronavirus pandemic
Or maybe people actually weer able to go look at houses again.
“Lower-priced homes are sought after and have had faster annual price growth than luxury homes,” said Frank Nothaft, CoreLogic’s chief economist. “First-time buyers and investors are actively seeking lower-priced homes, and that segment of the housing market is in particularly short supply.”
No shit, Shirley?
That’s hard to believe.
I want to believe that that NBA story is accurate, but I think it’s too early to say.
At the moment the risk of being accused of racism (even unfairly) is still higher for businesses than the risk of alienating people by being “anti-racist”. We’ll see more woke crap until that definitively changes.
I think there’s a short term and long term effect. Being called racist definitely brings on a strong, short term reaction. But going woke I think guarantees a long term death cycle, either by customers who get tired of your bullshit or self-immolation from batshit employees who run you into the ground.
I think this may be true. The problem with a long term reaction is that it can be attributed to something else (e.g. cost cutting in the face of the recession) by executives who can’t admit to a mistake. You might also get a seen/unseen problem. Getting into bed with Kaepernick might actually have brought new customers for Nike; what is less likely to be measured is the number of people who quietly decide not to buy from them again.
The other thing is that I don’t necessarily want self-immolation of hosts that have been taken over by the parasite. I want them to go back to how they were.
I don’t. I want them to die, just like any other venture that makes bad decisions. Creative destruction is necessary for a free market.
I agree on normal businesses. I feel sorry for long term fans of sports teams who have to walk away from something they love.
I would not shed a tear if they went broke either.
There is very little that can dissuade a fanatic from a destructive lifestyle. They mostly Serve as a warning to others.
I think a big turnoff for a lot of former fans is that they are championing a scumbag violent felon who got shot because he was resisting arrest while brandishing a knife.
I am not sure what is news and what is rumor in that case. The national media has been so over-the-top in their spin and propaganda that it is difficult to sort through the other sources to figure out what is real and what is not.
The national media says things like “police summoned to a domestic disturbance”. They rarely mention anything about other accusations or warrants.
But the narrative I am seeing coalescing in the “alternative media” is that he was wanted on a warrant for sexual assault and was at that address in violation of a protective order – his ex and baby momma called the police to come remove him – and finally, and the one I am most skeptical of at this point, that she called police because he sexually assaulted her again that morning in the bed where she was sleeping with her child… That last bit sounds so over-the-top inflammatory that I cannot believe that it is true. I mean, that the national media would leave that detail out?
The final rumors have confirmation from police (take that for what it is worth), that he had a knife and there was a knife on the floorboard of the driver’s side of the vehicle. There’s also video of him resisting arrest (rather successfully) and ignoring warnings from officers with guns drawn.
That’s a lot to leave out when you keep characterizing things as “shot in the back 7 times”. They also still sometimes include the good Samaritan story concocted by his lawyer – that he was simply breaking up a fight between two women.
I wonder why the media has such a hard time doing the reporting on stories like this. It is almost as if they want to ensure that the inflammatory narrative takes hold before they allow the true story to come out.
“ I wonder why the media has such a hard time doing the reporting on stories like this”
The job of journalists is to promulgate narratives. Always has been, always will be.
If it bleeds, it leads. They are vultures.
Yeah, but there is a big problem when their manipulation of information or silence about events always and without doubt skews in favor of the dnc agenda. That phenomenon can’t be attributed to financial interests. There have been plenty of cases that were misreported or outright ignored that didn’t suit the narrative that would have brought them massive amount of viewership, so I am certain that they at this point would go broke being woke rather than just serve up raw meat.
“That last bit sounds so over-the-top inflammatory that I cannot believe that it is true. I mean, that the national media would leave that detail out?”
Yes, they would.
I don’t know if it’s that specific.
I think the overall problem is you’ve got players in their 20’s spouting ignorant political positions (ignorant as in they make no attempt to look deeper) while 80% of the money coming into the leagues is from people in their 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s and have an experienced perspective. You insult your paying customers and they stop being your customers.
I have a huge problem with an uneducated young woke moron acting out as if they care about the unfortunate by doing the shit they have been doing. The current crap is just woke posturing and virtue signaling. If they really wanted to make a difference, being informed and demanding the destructive shit stop would have produced real results, but that currently has a risk attached to it, because the woke mob will punish those that are not compliant. Unfortunately as long as people comply with the woke mobs agenda, there is no end result but self destruction.
I’d like to see if this is unique to the NBA. From what I can tell, the NHL has done less of the social statement stuff so it’d be interesting to see if their ratings are similar to last year.
I’m wondering if partly it’s the overall weirdness of things: playoffs in September, months after the season ended, no crowds, etc.
Politics above all
Topol and other scientists have sharply criticized the FDA in recent weeks, accusing Commissioner Stephen Hahn of bowing to political pressure from the Trump administration, which has pushed the agency to approve COVID treatments faster.
Stopping trials early poses a number of risks, such as making a vaccine look more effective than it really is, Topol said.
“If you stop something early, you can get an exaggerated benefit that isn’t real,” because less positive evidence only emerges later, Topol said.
Stopping the studies early also could prevent researchers from recruiting more minority volunteers. So far, only about 1 in 5 trial participants are Black or Hispanic. Given that Blacks and Hispanics have been hit harder than other groups by the pandemic, Topol said, it’s important that they make up a larger part of vaccine trials.
Some dumb bint on Bloomberg this morning was whining about the serum treatments. They can’t be trusted, because insufficient data and no carefully controlled long term studies, et c.
She might just as well have explicitly said, “Because President Cartoon Villain went to bat for it.”
Racism. Is there nothing it can’t do?
Topol is a fucking hack. Anyone who quotes him or Slavic just can’t be taken seriously.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
LOL I was waiting for it
That’s a fantastic cover of that Gwen Stefani song.
Science is no longer science. This is the science of post-modernism, IOW not science.
Instead of getting getting results based on the old racist science, now it will be based on identity politics and social justice.
This is something I posted about a few days ago, about how the left turned against the FDA and CDC when they ‘got’ the wrong results based on their now fake science.
The science of the future, will not be based on the old hard racist science, but will be based on getting the ‘correct’ results. We’re truly fucked.
I’ve started calling it “psy-ence” since it has more to do with what’s going on in some peoples’ heads.
Only science that confirms the rightness of the Party is valid science, comrade!
+1 Lysenkoism!
about how the left turned against the FDA and CDC when they ‘got’ the wrong results based on their now fake science.
The CDC coming out and saying testing non-symptomatic people is not necessary sure did get ignored around here. Tests are free and anyone can get them. I know testing is not free. Who is paying for them. Fed grants? All tests in CO (afaik) are processed at state labs. I think it is a money grab.
And, also, without race justice, there can be no SCIENCE.
Mornin’ Banjos!
“After 9th circuit court ruling overturning CA’s ban on over round magazines, CA Attorney General requests an en banc review.”
And from the article : “the ban on sales of magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds remains in place as the case is being deliberated.”
That is what I had assumed. Whenever there is a court ruling striking down something the left likes that immediately is in effect and liberty to do the formerly banned activity is legal and allowed – even if the opposing entity is taking it to a higher court. But when the issue is something icky like gun rights we have to wait for the highest possible authority has heard the issue before our liberty is restored.
Yup. It would cause the state irreparable harm to allow people to exercise their rights. So no rights troll we decide that you don’t have any rights.
Mornin’
speaking of highly political en banc reviews….
The Flynn case just had another development. The full appeals court overturned the writ of mandamus and gave the case back to Sullivan to do with what he will.
Of interest: The same court actually issued a writ of mandamus in a case involving Hillary Clinton – taking less time to do so than they took to decide whether or not to even review the Flynn case. They ordered that the lower court could not order Clinton to be deposed. It was an irreparable harm with no other remedy, requiring mandamus. But the judge in the Flynn case ordering an amicus to act as essentially his own special prosecutor – to explore charges of perjury for entering a guilty plea when he was in fact innocent, if you can believe that….. that is not irreparable harm. No, sitting down for an interview is much worse than having to spend months paying lawyers to defend specious charges in a case where the government admits that they railroaded him and withheld exculpatory evidence in a case in which another judge has determined that as a matter of law, the government cannot prove that a crime has even been committed.
They even gave a nod to Frei and Barnes in their ruling, addressing the “legal pundits” who say that you can predict how the judges are going to rule based on who appointed them. The justice writes that this is totally wrong and a terrible thing to say…. and then they proceed to rule in a way that is entirely and only predicted by their political leanings. They even address the Clinton case, which tells everyone that they are really, really wrapped up in the political drama. They say that it is totally different because reasons.
Anyway, Frei had a post about it last night.
What is crazy is that 9-0 the supreme Court said that judges are not allowed to do this. But I guess what that really means is, your allowed to do all the shit and then get your pee-pee slapped later.
And there is no harm.
I mean, not irreparable harm. Sure, you lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. And your house. And the stress of facing maybe decades in jail with a judge who irrationally called you a traitor in open court and appointed his own special prosecutor to bring charges of perjury for the crime of pleading guilty to a crime you did not commit, all because the government coerced that plea by withholding exculpatory evidence and extorting you by holding out the prospect that they’d do the same thing to your son if you didn’t agree? Yeah… other than that, I suppose no harm, no foul.
Yup, But it is totally too much to be held in contempt for refusing to answer questions at a deposition and then appeal that. A mandamus is needed!!
And it would be much less of a big deal if it wasn’t *the exact same people*. It isn’t even just the same political affiliation, or a similar court, or even a different group from the same court. These are the identical justices.
They need to keep him quiet, because the damage he can do to the weaponized bureaucracy and the Obama legacy would help bad orange man in November. It’s pure vindictive shit, because he chose to fight them and didn’t roll over. Now where else did we see this?
Well, it is done now. Once they inked the plea deal with the DOJ lawyer who falsified the email for the FISA warrant, you knew they were not going to hold anyone accountable.
Not only did Durham not use the full power of the US prosecutor’s office to leverage his cooperation, they gave him a plea deal in which he agreed to nothing, and then said in his plea hearing that he changed it to make it more correct. (really… he changed an email saying he was working with the CIA to say that he wasn’t working with the CIA… to make it more correct?} That is the end of it. Everyone above him just got their get out of jail free card. They had a smoking gun, in writing. They could have climbed the ladder…. but they orchestrated a show to let everyone off with zero accountability.
This is what I woke up with in my head,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEphx0mBRas
Funny how a band can get pigeon holed by a couple of songs. Much like The Tubes.
Fine
I still maintain J Geils was the best bar band that ever was.
That’s my point.
I would not argue that point but I would, respectfully, add both Huey Lewis & The News and George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers to that competition.
Mornin’ Banjos! That song makes me want to break out the polyester three-piece suit that my parents bought for me in 1979 and start grooving. I was never a fan but that is a solid tune (I’m a sucker for electric piano!) 🙂 Thanks for that!
I always thought that was a Steely Dan song but I am kind of a musical moron.
That’s why I always didn’t mind it, Brother.
Mornin’
Reason #1 I don’t stream anything other than sports.
I don’t think even sports are safe, anymore. I listened to part of a hockey game yesterday and they had piped in crowd noise.
That’s pretty universal now.
Thank god they’re not doing that at the US Open (tennis). They have a camera on every (empty) court and some of them don’t even have idiot announcers. It’s heavenly.
No, the main reason I hate streaming media like music or film is that you never know when it will be removed. Screw that.
Or edited for your safety.
Mornin’, Banjos! Great song choice.
Getting children set up for virtual school is effing exhausting and confusing. I’m about to go pick up supplies for XY’s biology class and I just hope there isn’t a frog there I’ll be expected to keep in the fridge.
New High School nearing completion here. They had to name it with an “Indigenous” name. They also have Unisex bathrooms. Yeah, that’s just what pimply teens want to do, take a shit in front of members of the opposite sex. I’ll link the idiocy if I can.
Nobody wants it as an adult, either. Good heavens, my teenage years were bad enough.
“They had to name it with an “Indigenous” name.”
I would have suggested “potsʉnakwahipʉ” – a great Comanche leader of the 19th century. His name is generally translated as “Buffalo Hump” but the real meaning is “erection which never goes down”.
Don’t those names portray the tribe as warlike and aggressive and isn’t the mascot peak cultural appropriation?
STEVE SMITH High?
My friend’s kid’s high school has unisex bathrooms – but it’s an art-focused charter school, so it’s a magnet for all the artsy kids who like to be ‘different’.
Mornin’
Well, THAT was a shitshow.
Parents were told to go to the district’s distribution center and pick up the biology supplies between 8-9 for surnames beginning A, B, C. I get there at 8:01 and there is a fucking line of cars to get into the parking lot. Nobody’s parking.
There is one old guy creaking his way from between the car to inside the building, get the stuff, and bring it out to the car. They were organized inside, but they should have had tables outside and a battalion of people passing these things out.
I was in line 1/2 hour to get the “goodie bag”, which contains a few cotton balls and a Rice Krispie treat and a Missouri Conservationist magazine.
Related: The biology teacher said she expects the students to take notes (and turn them in [scan and email? dunno]) using the Cornell note-taking system. I don’t know if I want to laugh when I think of handwriting+my kid, or nod approvingly. Oh well. Gave me an excuse to buy more cool office supplies.
So Spotify is just another lame ass woke company.
Rogan is going to regret the move.
Lebron can peddle a ‘we’re hunted’ lie but Jones and Gavin get erased? Amazing time we live in. And by amazing I mean depressing.
Well, we do live in Canada, wherein the Prime Minister can just shut shit down for months if the winds of politics are running afoul of his agenda. His “diverse” Cabinet have been shitting the bed like Spud from “Trainspotters” for years now and everyone seems to be wising up to the fact.
yeah, it’ll be horrible for Rogan when he gets all that free press for getting kicked off the platform.
He only got a lousy $100M moving to Spotify.
Lebron can peddle a ‘we’re hunted’ lie
I see this crap all the time from black folks about how they are always scared in the presence of police because they’re “hunted” and the cops are just looking for an excuse to kill them. The thing is, they know it isn’t true because they don’t behave as if they actually believe it. If I truly thought that cops were looking for an excuse to kill me, the last thing I would do in any interaction with them is give them any excuse at all. I would be quiet, polite, cooperative. Yet time and again we black folks screaming at cops, resisting arrest, throwing shit at cops, etc. etc. which of course you would never do if you really believed the cops were looking for an excuse to kill you. And then when a black guy gets shot resisting arrest while brandishing a knife, well, that’s because cops are hunting black people.
SJWednesday: How To Maintain Your Street Cred When You’re Square
Clearly this is these people’s problem.
Our society is truly a victim of it’s own success.
First world problems. If people had to worry about their next meal and security, all this shit would go away….
Wait. Maybe the marxist are on to something…..
30 years of self esteem focused schooling has fucked up a generation and a half.
Earn a participation trophy and you are incredibly important despite having never done anything of importance, have created a generation or two of people that think they are owed. I blame the fucking idiot parents that did this shit. They should have whooped more ass and kept junior from thinking the world revolved around them. Now we have asshats that want to destroy the world because suddenly they realize too many things still have some semblance of a meritocracy and they would not even be able to rank.
If you look at the ven diagram of insecurities and anxieties, and then the complaints about being queer, you’ll see that it’s the same circle
These guys need to sue the shit out of the SJW crowd for libel.
The last three years have made me irredeemably sexist to a degree I would have laughed at 4 years ago.
80% of our societies problems currently being screeched and demanded to be addressed at are either invented or blown out of proportion by irredeemably bored women who hate their lives.
Maybe there can be some sort of visual cue exchange program so people will still be able to gauge where you are on the oppressed hierarchy. For instance, are you a queer or bi woman who’s currently in a relationship with a boy? Here’s a wheelchair. We’ll need it back when you get dumped.
Magic and Bird saved the NBA and built the Republic, Jordan brought it to its height and was Pax Romana.
Lebron is tearing it all down playing his banjo while the league burns.
I heard Kobe had been working on a plan to get rid of the commies.
Are you saying he was murdered?
I’ve been telling you people for years “sports are dumb, don’t watch it”, but only now do people see my wisdom. Also I’ve been saying Minnesota sucks for as long. I may be an oracle.
Aaah shit, Tundra’s gonna drop the gloves.
Nope, too busy loading the moving truck.
Besides, if you predict the demise of a state long enough eventually you will be right.
San Marino is still going strong
San Marino’s existence is a quirk of history.
You take that back
Agreed. We’ll never see another quarterback so good, and so let down by the rest of his team, as San Marino.
What about holy Joe Montana? Heretic!
The NFL will crater almost as hard. Antics during the national anthem, social justice crap all over your tv screen, lefty martyrs like Floyd and Jacobs on their uniforms.
I have no plans to watch a moment of that shit-show. I bet a lot of normal “fans” tune in and find they can’t stand it.
If I want to see a sports competition, I’ll go watch the local high school team.
College is still mostly a bastion of just sports.
Yeah I only started regularly watching the NFL last year. I can easily do without this year.
Maybe return to some amateur stuff.
Pros are dead to me.
Does that make Isaiah Thomas “Hannibal”?
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for bringing the lynx!
Nice to see neighbors taking care of their own. I suspect the fuckheads are in for a surprise if they try to move their mostly peaceful violence to the leafy suburbs.
Thrilled to see the NBA getting nut-punched. I’d wish it on the NHL, too, but they have no ratings to tank. It’s almost as if people are realizing
I’m very disappointed in Spotify. I’ve been a subscriber for a long time, but I may have to rethink it now. Censoring is stupid.
I have no fucking idea why.
Because it’s an awesome fucking song? No lie, we had the ’70s music station on at the office yesterday, that song came on and everyone was, ahem, reminiscing about memories it brought back.
Good stuff.
I hope all of you have a fantastic day, full of joy and beauty!
Why the fuck not, eh?
Mornin’
“Kenosha residents form armed neighborhood watch.”
I think you mean evil angry KKK mobs.
Sounds like you could now get a job at CNN or PMSNBC, man…
Nice work.
NBC shines a light on a true American patriot
Closer to police headquarters, Brittany Berman stood near a wall of steel gates holding what she described as an unusually specific protest sign.
“THIS COUNTRY & THIS PRESIDENT TREAT BLACK FOLKS WORSE THAN WHITE TERRORISTS: END INSIDIOUS, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM.”
Berman hails from Antioch, Illinois, the town just across the state line where Kyle Rittenhouse also lives. Rittenhouse, 17, was charged with murder in connection with the deaths of two protesters in Kenosha last week. Rittenhouse, a Trump supporter, claimed intermittently that he came to the city to protect Kenosha businesses he does not own and to help protesters.
Berman, who is white, does not know him and is almost twice his age. She has been living in California, working for a scavenger hunt company, surrounded by people who seem to grasp the concept of institutional racism. But when she was furloughed because of the pandemic, she became free to volunteer. She said she wants to stop Trump from another narrow victory in Wisconsin, and since she has returned to the Midwest, she said, she has been staggered by how completely normalized racism remains and how often it is openly justified. Trump, to her, is one of the biggest reasons.
“The legitimization and normalization of racism by a president is destructive,” she said. “And that is absolutely what he is here to do. So I felt, since this was going on in my backyard, I had to be here to say this is not all right.”
A scavenger hunt company?
I trust her. I believe in her. She can lead us to the promised land.
So is the turning of brains to mush by too much time spent listening to social justice gibberish.
That article was a huge sack of shit.
Pravda was less obvious
mornin’
whaddup, ya’all ?
I want the next gay feller at that salon to jam the hose down that evil cunte’s throat, hold her down and say “You are the enemy of the American People!” but then I would just wake up later today with crusty sheets.
Sorry, Tres. That was a little bit dark.
I burned my burger bun trying to toast it and only had the one. So skinny burger for Pie
Atkins it is!
Mornin’
Been up for four hours for an early morning change. So this is what it’s like getting to the morning links late. So much shite to catch up on.
That song is part a soundtrack of my life.
In the 80s, we would leave from Montreal at 3am in the dead of winter to head down to Florida by car (while my father smoked and my brother sleeping in the rear deck – try that today. Bunch of pussies). Once we were settled in and chilled with the radio on, that’s one song for some reason that always stayed plastered in my head as we all just stared out the window.
Let me rephrase. Part of the soundtrack to my life. I’m starting to sound like a mix of Pelosi and Biden. Peloden.
Trade mark that name muppet master…
we would leave from Montreal at 3am in the dead of winter to head down to Florida by car- Canadians can’t handle a little winter
Montreal in the winter is a slaughterhouse. Jagged multiton ice blocks shearing off of roofs, treacherous icy streets dumping unsuspecting pedestrians into the grinder that is the St. Lawrence, ordinarily peaceful moose and beavers denied their usual food sources turning to hum an flesh to sustain themselves… *shudders*
And don’t get me started on the prime sinister!
This guy gets it.
Last year the roads were literal ice sheets. The last couple of years I’ve fallen. I NEVER fall. But the ice is so sleek and slippery even with studs you fall.
When winter is beautiful, it’s beautiful. When it’s ugly, it’s demonic.
And those Falling Ice signs are useless. The time between hearing the “crack” and the time it slams into the sidewalk isn’t even enough time to think “oh shit!”
Being a queer person in a relationship that’s read as straight by others can be painful and invalidating, no matter how healthy and empowering the relationship itself is. Being mislabeled as straight can bring back all our baby-queer insecurities that we thought we were past: being “queer enough,” worrying about taking up space that isn’t “ours” to take up.
You want validation?
Stop caring about how random strangers “see” you. In all likelihood, they are looking right through you, anyway, because they couldn’t care less about who or what you are.
This, over and over
These people are irredeemable narcissists who value the image of their relationship more than the relationship itself.
Re: Walmart subscription. That doesn’t seem very beneficial. But I don’t do the shopping so I guess it’s have to check with the wife.
Free delivery is a good selling point. See Amazon Prime.
If I did as much with Walmart as I do with Amazon, maybe?
During the beginning stages of Lockdown: Coronaggedon, the Musical, we were using Walmart quite a bit. They were the only ones who could get me decent shipping dates. Amazon Prime was fine if you wanted toiletries, but if you wanted something like a weight lifting bench, they had a 4 – 6 week delay (they were intentionally prioritizing the staples), while Walmart got me the bench in 3 days.
Harrumph. I always get free shipping from Amazon – I just have to spend $25 or more and wait a few days longer.
Walmart does that for orders over $35. Wife just builds a shopping list until it hits that mark or adds something if she needs an item sooner and clicks buy.
Just discovered I can buy Nekot wafers from there, along with both Hellman’s and Best Foods mayo. And Community Coffee. All without getting jacked by Amazon’s third party sellers (Walmart has the same problem but they seem to offer more of their own internal inventory).
Wth? It sounds like the subscription service is either what they offer already or just charging for now. What’s the point?
I’m predicting that en banc the decision gets overturned. Like with Flynn.
The Flynn situation is a complete shit show.
Who appointed the judges? Tally that up and that’s the result. Nothing to do with law anymore.
So evidently the CDC is going to issue an order banning evictions for the rest of the year, under some “for the public health” authority:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cdc-issues-nationwide-eviction-ban-through-the-end-of-the-year-in-an-effort-to-control-coronavirus-2020-09-01
1) If the CDC can invalidate numerous state laws, and regulate a pre-existing contract between private individuals “for public health”, then we have no rights any more.
2) This is the worst sort of pandering from the Trump administration. Trump is a real estate guy- he KNOWS what this does to landlords. He is isn’t just selling out principles, but his own industry to score some points for the election.
I got out of the real estate business several years back, but I have lots of friends and family who are still landlords. A couple have been negotiating with their tenants to keep them in their house, but this order now removes much of the incentive for the tenants to actually negotiate. Worst of all, I don’t think it is actually going to work for Trump. Biden will have NO problem saying that he’ll ban evictions permanently to get to the left of Trump.
This is the worst kind of Bread and Circuses populism, and shows just how off target the country is headed.
We live in the dumbest times imaginable. I guarantee all these people have college educations.
https://notthebee.com/article/no-matter-how-many-times-i-watch-this-video-i-still-cant-believe-its-not-satire
I completely understand why people would want to believe in demonic possession. It’s much easier and far less depressing to wrap your head around this type of behavior
In their minds, they’re the victims.
That’s what makes them dangerous.
In their minds, they’re the victims. – maybe for some. for others in their minds they should be in charge of everything and everyone. They mean to be woke masters, but they mean to be masters.
So much this. It’s a bunch of ignorant stupid cuntes that don’t know that they are just that fucking stupid thinking they would fix things. I guess protests solve all the worlds ills. Community organize away, bitchez!
I don’t even think they’ve thought that far.
I really want to know if he managed to get his gas.
Canada’s head incompetent doctor. The woman who said closing air travel from China is ‘racist’.
“Dr. Theresa Tam
3/3 When it comes to public health, Canadians are part of the solution. YOUR #COVIDKnowHow helps keep #COVID19 under manageable control and when we have a safe and effective vaccine, we’ll all be needed on the #CommunityImmunity team!
https://canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2020/07/information-and-resources-on-covid-19-epidemiology-and-reducing-your-risks-for-infection-and-spreading-the-virus.html…
“Dr. Theresa Tam
@CPHO_Canada
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2/3 Widespread vaccine uptake is also our best shot return to the simple things we cherish….things like holding our family and friends closely?, having community events, and living our lives without the fear of contracting #COVID19.”
Fuck you bitch. I’LL DECIDE for MY family.
Other than that, ‘flatten the curve’ was always meant as a sting-along tactic for the vaccine.
Sometimes I pray it flops and the coronavirus peters out. I’m even thinking this vaccine won’t even be necessary.
She sounds like she should be writing for Saturday morning cartoons rather than directing “public health”.
She looks exactly as you would expect.
I’m even thinking this vaccine won’t even be necessary.
The leftist authorities will make it mandatory wherever they are in charge.
This “red mirage” thing is a little scary, because I believe the Dems are willing to burn it all down to get at Trump. I think they want to have a full blown coup.
The GOP needs to do something proactive to keep ballot security.
The already have.
The GOP or the Dems? I think the Dems want no shit the military to install Biden and that’s how they’ll show they are the legit president.
The dems. They’ve nuked their economies, ran their tax base out and allowed for business’s to be burnt down in looted in their districts.
Other than that, I mean, at least they give out free needles.
“Tis better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven”
That’s their strategy: unless they run the country, nobody else will be allowed to. They are scared people will realize how corrupt and inept they really are, and take away their presumed hereditary elite status. And that will not be tolerated without a fight.
I think clicking on youtubes of mostly naked women in youtube recommendations makes youtube recommend even more. It is just a hypothesis at this point, I will test further.
Again, in absence of Q, this is today’s recommendation. nsfw probably
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv06tTyEPpY
BLACK TAPE MATTERS!
True but I’d rather less of it was used in one or two cases
Hell of a job he’s got there.
Where can I get me some of that leopard tape?
The Daily Fail keeps giving me commercials of Traian Basescu running for mayor of Bucharest. Maybe his demographic was “Romanians who read the daily”
Bitchez and hos, that’s my demographic…
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8689071/Love-Islands-Arabella-Chi-puts-racy-display-tiny-thong-bikini.html
I don’t know about thicc but definitely hot.
No.
Nice erm facial structure?
This morning, on Bloomberg, the
public health expertdumb bint from Johns Hopkins was complaining about restaurants and bars, which are clearly nonessential activities, being open. There is a clearcut either/or decision to be made. You can have restaurants and bars open, or you can have schools open, but you can’t have both. Because SCIENCE.Yeah, don’t ask me to explain it.
Again i keep telling people… the proverbial cat is out of the bag. Pandora’s proverbial box is open. The horses left the barn. And so on and so forth. The virus is here to stay. Might as well get back to normal.
Too bed the message we’re actually getting is “we will never get back to normal”.
What are they going to do when it’s clear by the end of the month that people are attending football games, schools and bars in the southern states with no problems?
They’ll figure something out.
Are you joking?
They will ban travel to and from those states. For safety!!
They will suppress it, like they did Sturgis. 500,000 people gather in close quarters with zip, zero, nada masking or social distancing.
I think 187 positive tests. The pandemic is already over.
Maybe someone should tell Trump this? The CDC eviction moratorium announced last night is enough to keep me home on Election day. I won’t vote for Biden, or the libertarian twit, but I am really struggling to see how I can possibly vote for Trump after that completely dictatorial, and horribly destructive move.
Yeh. Been seeing that guy. Calamity Joe over there spreading fear and stupidity.
Problem is he’s from Johns Hopkins. People will listen.
Like Pie said. It’s out there. The rest is just theatre and lies.
The problem, also, is assholes like that guy get amplified and become the message to the masses. HE’S the one spreading mass hysteria but is not censored.
Meanwhile, for jerk off like this, there seems to be more experts who disagree but they don’t have the megaphone and you have to seek them out. But their message is not getting out to the masses.
Kenosha residents form armed neighborhood watch.
Armed vigilantism against peaceful protesters is the new normal in Trump’s America.
“Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times.”
I say we’re in stage three.
I think there are plenty of strong men.
Right now they are too busy keeping the fucking lights on, so they are largely invisible. Wait and see what happens if the shitheads back them into a corner.
That’s the point. The conditions prevent them from entering the fray.
We have to go through the process. Stage 4. Step 9. STEP 9 has to happen before they come back.
Portland is in stage four.
The weakest were Republicans. All it took was a threat of being called racist/sexist/etc. to make Republicans back off on just about anything but warmongering. Anyone on the right who had balls was thrown out by the establishment out of fear of being labeled a racist/sexist/etc. by association. Trump is the strong man the right was desperate for. Whether you love, like or hate the man, he may be the only person capable of ending the left/media’s tyranny.
Ending their tyranny by doubling down on it? Sorry, but effectively seizing tens of millions of pieces of private property to ‘fight’ a disease is exactly the sort of thing I fear from the left if unchecked, so if Trump is the only check on them and Trump is doing the same crap, what is the point of Trump?
I’m pretty sure the constitution does not give the federal government the authority to do such a thing. It’s an empty decree.
It is an unconstitutional decree, that is not at all the same thing as an empty decree. The period of the moratorium will be long past (and the property owners ruined) by the time it can be finally struck down, assuming it ever is.
The alt right keeps saying this but I believe we are on the verge of a social justice fueled renaissance.
I don’t understand what you mean
Sarcasm. Irony. Something like that.
I mean that quote is an alt right talking point… like as a joke
Also I am sure the wokesters think paradise is around the corner should they get their way.
Although is there any lefty site/twitter etc that uses that quote? Because I think it is an exclusively right/libertarian thing.
I think we’re in late stage three, moving into four.
Rules for thee but not for me.
She cares about her hygiene and looks, unlike you dirty proles.
It’s her duty to look good so she can lead you people. Just be grateful.
I might care about her looks too if she had any worth looking at.
She cares about making sure the serfs stay in their place so her own life is not affected by the rules she has demanded they follow or be punished. Didn’t the catch Andy Cuomo walking his dog without the mask he told his serfs they had to wear or face ass rape the other day too? There are tons of these woke leftist demanding the proles hunker in place and comply with a bunch of arbitrary woke demands that keep changing that have no problem doing exactly the opposite of what us serfs are expected to do.
The new rules are there to make sure the rest of us don’t interfere with their ability to keep doing whatever they feel like.
From the Pelosi thingy: “Conservatives pounced, casting Pelosi as a hypocrite”.
Antifa ‘commander’ cried in ‘fetal position’ after being caught with flamethrower, smoke grenades on way to protest
This is the organization our DOJ and FBI can’t roll up using RICO?
That’s the tragedy of all this. It could have easily all been quelled long ago.
Mind you, I don’t think many of these faux-protestors are mentally straight.
Can’t find it now (oddly), but the local news ran a story last night on the pedo shot by the Kenosha Kid. Turned out he lived in Tucson at the time. Sexually assaulted a 9 year old and an 11 year old, if memory serves. Did time, but not well. Violated parole, did more time.
As big a dirt bag as you could find anywhere.
But he is now a dream, cause he took one for the cause!
Having seen a few of the protests up close now, I’d estimate that around half of the protesters are long-term homeless.
They’re saying there’s going to be a war, lol. It will be the shortest war in history.
Also- from that NBC piece:
Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH coalition plans to sue Kenosha in the next few weeks. Of the city’s 216 police officers, nine are Black, Rainbow PUSH’s national field director said. Of the city’s 153 firefighters, three are Black. And less than 1 percent of the city and county of Kenosha’s public contracts — funded with taxpayer dollars — went to Black-owned businesses last year, according to a Rainbow PUSH analysis. City officials have not responded to specific questions about public agency staffing.
It’s good to see Jesse get back to hits roots, and gin up the race quota extortion machine. He needs to get his fce back in the public eye.
I didn’t even know he was still alive.
Selective statistics was always his shtick.
Now do racial disparities in professional sports.
Becerra said in a statement that he disagreed with the initial ruling and will “continue to use every tool we have to defend the constitutionality of our laws.”
You misspelled “continue to violate the constitution”.
It makes no sense that these episodes were all withheld at first, but it looks like they will all be on Spotify after all.
I have listened to most of the 5 hour first episode with Duncan Trussell. Despite Joe begging him to be on the podcast once a week, I hope that asshole is not back on for awhile.
I couldn’t get through thirty minutes of that fucking horror show. Trussell is the annoying guy from college that used to smoke all your weed and never pay for it.
Who is he?
“Comedian,” he was with Joe on Joe Rogan Questions Everything (apparently, I never watched).
He thinks he has some deep insights but then contradicts everything in the next sentence. Idle’s description of him works too.
shoppers will receive unlimited free delivery on more than 160,000 items from stores (shoppers must spend a minimum of $35), fuel discounts and “access to tools” that are said to make shopping even faster, according to Walmart.
Sweet. I’ll never need to leave the house.
Sweet Jesus.
THE NFL TAKES A KNEE
You just can’t make it up.
And then racism was gone. The end.
Is the NFL not paying any attention to the NBA?
Like I said above, people who haven’t been paying attention will tune in and be repulsed. The only way the NFL is entertaining me this year is reading their ratings.
Find a nice place to take a hike on a Autumn afternoon.
At some point I think I read that back in the day bowling was one of the better paid sports. Maybe that will return … Although bowling is not actually a sport.
Neither is golf, but what are you gonna do?
Players can choose either the name of a victim or one of four pre-approved phrases
Duncan Lemp.
Reginald Denny?
Cannon Hinnant?
I remember when Jason Witten wanted the Cowboys to wear a sticker on their helmets in memory of the Dallas police officers killed by the BLM guy. The league said no. You know, because that would be too political.
How times have changed.
Now Lebron and Jenkins would team up to bully Witten into submission for daring to do that.
Lebron took a hissy fit a few years back when Jackson said ‘posse’ to describe his friends.
I think, judging by his behavior over the years, posse sounds about right.
I peed next to Jason Witten in a bathroom once.
*different urinals*
Coward
“Hey, bro. Got room for one more?”
Why Is Drew Brees Wearing The Name Of An Alleged Rapist On His Helmet?
How is this not going to chase off most of the fan base?
I’m sure his grandfathers would be proud of him parading with the name of a child rapist on his helmet.
For the love of God Drew. Actions like that make me want to offer if needs me to be a boyfriend to his wife.
What he should have done, if he had a pair, was ‘NO! Now you’re going to listen to ME….are you fucken crazy?’
After he backed down on the flag thing, it was all over.
Once you compromise your principles and lie about them the first time, the rest comes easy.
I feel bad for Brees. He and his family have been targeted for months over various things, and I get the sense that he just gave up and is going with the flow to keep from being harassed by the media and the leftist footsoldiers.
Gleichschaltung is exactly the right term for this shit..
White teeth are white supremacy.
On Monday night, the ninety-fifth consecutive night of violent riots in Portland, antifa activists again harassed the condo building where Mayor Ted Wheeler (D-Portland) lives, this time to “celebrate” his birthday. They lit a bonfire in the street in front of the building and set off commercial-grade fireworks right outside condo windows. Then they invaded a nearby dentist’s office and set it on fire, heedless of the fact that people live in the apartments above it. After the police held themselves back in order to “deescalate” the situation, to no avail — surprise, surprise — the cops finally broke up the dangerous riot.
Return of the Log Cabin Republicans
Herschel’s kid is impressive. Great video.
He sounds like a white kid. HE AIN’T BLACK!
You gotta dig the valley girl accent though.
Crooked Hillary has the temperament or integrity to be the Phallus is to be understood as modes of enduring relationship
https://twitter.com/realJudaldButt/status/1300916727954305024
Da fuq?
Nancy Pelosi got a blowout at a San Francisco salon closed under COVID rules since March
What’s that and does it involve stirrups?
Just saw the Portland freak out over the Mayor and yes, there are furries participating. I WANT DOWN DAD!
Yes, and be glad the video is from a security camera without sound.
Not proud, but you asked.
Crooked Hillary has the temperament or integrity to be the Phallus is to be understood as modes of enduring relationship
I think your space-alien-to-pidgin-English translator is on the fritz.
Talk about an English translator, scroll down to the video below. What the fuck did he just say? They’re going to let him debate? Lolololol…
“Democratic state and local leaders urged Trump not to come to Kenosha.”
If he was smart, he’d definitely take Democrat’s advice. After all, they only have his best interest in mind, right?
People might see his visit and decide that the “protests” weren’t peaceful.
Very similar to a President visiting the site of a hurricane or tornado – with a similar level of destruction.
A good ruler should walk the streets unarmed and without guards. If he survives the knight we know the people approve.
It’s a sad day when a Merkey victory is good news.
Markey, dammit – coffee hasn’t reached my fingers yet
Maybe the ginger ain’t woke enough.
He has that weird build-up of gesh in the corners of his mouth. People get turned off by that. It’s like those little kids that you used to know that always had the “Kool-Aid Smile” Their Mom’s would pump them full of sugar and set them loose on the neighborhood. Didn’t work this time.
SPIDEN 2020
https://mobile.twitter.com/beeple/status/1300617919265738753
RNC 2020
https://mobile.twitter.com/beeple/status/1298720949458493443
Super Spreaders.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkKzmdPZjaxv?q=london
I’ve known a few Super Spreaders and they were ok.
Fake news
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared data showing that about 140,000 people who died of COVID-19 had a second cause of death listed, while just six percent of those causes of deaths were listed as coronavirus alone. But it didn’t change the fact that all 180,000-plus coronavirus deaths in the U.S. are “real deaths from COVID-19,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told Good Morning America on Tuesday.
The CDC’s new data broke down a death count of 153,504 from a few weeks ago, saying just 9,210 people had only COVID-19 listed as their only cause of death. The revelation sparked false claims the CDC had revised its coronavirus death count and that the very deadly disease wasn’t as fatal as it seemed. President Trump even spread the misinformation before Twitter took it down.
Fauci made it clear Tuesday morning that the information Trump was touting wasn’t exactly accurate. “The point that the CDC was trying to make was that a certain percentage” of people who died “had nothing else but just COVID,” the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease said. “That does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of COVID didn’t die of COVID-19. They did,” he continued. “So the numbers you’ve been hearing, the 180,000-plus deaths, are real deaths from COVID-19,” Fauci decisively said. “Let there not be any confusion about that.”
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Don’t take chances. The plague is out there, waiting for you.
What it means is that for the vast majority of deaths, that COVID contributed to their deaths along with their other diseases, and that COVID isn’t particularly dangerous for healthy people.
Shows why the final verdict will be actual excess deaths, probably for calendar year 2020 or similar. We son’t actually know until next April or thereabouts, because actual death data (not the projections the CDC now has up) lag by months.
I’ve heard the ‘Vid referred to as a “harvesting event”, meaning it mostly took people who weren’t going to last long anyway.
He’s another one they should strip naked.
He knows damn well he’s keeping people in fear.
Don’t mess with Texas.
A Texas school district has removed an 8th grade assignment that compared police officers to KKK members and slave owners amid backlash from parents and law enforcement groups.
The social studies assignment, given to students at Cooper Junior High in Wylie, Texas, used a political cartoon to depict five similar scenes: African-American men face down on the ground with their hands restrained behind their backs and a white man’s knee on their neck. Throughout the scenes, the black man says he cannot breathe.
Among the five different white men, one was dressed in a white KKK robe while another resembled Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
After the assignment was posted online by an unidentified eighth-grade teacher, parents immediately filed their complaints with the Wylie Independent School District.
He’s rolling stone.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1301124795426316288
Doxxed within a day by 4-Chan. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fellow.
Robespierre thought he could lead the mob too.
Social justice to me is when the marxist assholes fomenting, promoting, defending, and inflaming these riots have the giullotines turned on them.
I enjoy that more than I should.
At least David had some talent.
He should have shot a bunch. Would have gone down in history. Now, no one will remember him in 50 years.
Why Civilizations Collapse
We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely peruse the body of theories handed down to us.
Samo Burja
https://thesideview.co/journal/why-civilizations-collapse/
In addition to this complexity, non-functional institutions are the rule. Our institutions today rarely function in accordance with their stated purpose. Individuals within a given society are often very bad at judging institutional functionality. Some people spend their entire lives ruthlessly profiting from the misery of others, or greatly contributing to the prosperity of others, without even knowing that they are doing so. People who try to effect change are most often frustrated. Countless people spend their lives wrestling with a societal problem, slaving over papers for publication in academia or the nonprofit world. They act as if there is some sort of metaphorical wall which they throw their papers over, with some responsible person on the other side taking the output of their disinterested scientific study and translating it into policy, medical practice, or industrial production.
More often than not, there is nobody on the other side of that wall. Since society is so deeply compartmentalized, it rarely functions as a whole with a single purpose. Note that dysfunctionality is not a normative distinction; it often boils down to the simple reality of whether or not anyone ever follows up on key actions within the institution. It is also a question of whether or not there is a multiplier—be it individual, bureaucratic, oligarchic—behind that metaphorical wall.
Riiight…
Institutions often become non-functional due to the loss of key knowledge at critical junctures. Take, for example, the recent failure of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to reproduce a niche classified material known as FOGBANK that is necessary for manufacturing nuclear weapons. It took the NNSA ten years and millions of dollars to re-engineer a material that their staff in the 1980s knew how to make. That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule. – Is this a thing?
A keen observer would examine the way that laws are made today and conclude that we have witnessed the emergence of a new legislative body all but in name, with Congress reduced to a vestigial organ of this governing structure. Law today is made mostly by the Supreme Court, or the civil service when it chooses what to implement and how, or occasionally via Presidential executive order. Yet very few people today come to such a conclusion, as the ideology of American government dictates that law is made in Congress, and does not make room for the development of new federal legislative bodies. If no one believes a hypothesis, the evidence for it remains unnoticed, even when such evidence is abundant.
Any regime which attains great wealth and power seems with remarkable regularity to decay and fall apart in some ten generations.
A generation used to be about 20 years and is probably closer to 30 now, so lets call it 25. This country was founded in 1776, so 244 years…
We didn’t exactly have “great wealth and power” in 1776.
I would say WW I was our coming out party.
The progression is:
– The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
– The Age of Conquests
– The Age of Commerce
– The Age of Affluence
– The Age of Intellect The Age of Decadence.
Decadence is marked by: Defensiveness Pessimism Materialism Frivolity An influx of foreigners The Welfare State A weakening of religion
Drake, thanks link “THE FATE OF EMPIRES and SEARCH FOR SURVIVAL Sir John Glubb”
Brian, you dishonest hack.
Stelter said he appreciated the call and knew the man wasn’t the only American who felt the same way.
“There’s been a process of a radicalization that’s happening in this country, with media bashing that is absolutely unprecedented. You know, 20, 30 years ago conservatives talked about media bias and there were some really valid points to that critique. It is absolutely true that lots of journalists are based in New York and Washington, they’re based in big cities, they have liberal leanings.”
“Mainstream newsrooms are built so that that bias doesn’t seep into the news coverage and yet, sometimes it does. I absolutely acknowledge that,” Stelter said. “I think it’s different to talk about things as if they’re enemies. No American is the enemy of another American. No news outlet is the enemy of America.”
Running scared when “Bag-O-Dicks” is trying to put out the fire. Poor Spud, searching in vain for the ball that got away from him while he was busy trying to scoop up the jacks…
Then why are protesters destroying businesses and harassing suburbs?
They absolutely are. Flat out lying propagandists.
Brian Stetler is the real life manifestation of a character Ayn Rand cut as being too much of a charicature to be believable in the original draft of Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.
O M G.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1300992988718432256
Ahahahahahaha. Can’t wait for the media to fact check this
DNC: We’re putting Biden signs in Animal Crossing!
GOP: LOL. Hold my beer.
Holy Shit they are getting good at that! Did you see the Hitler/Stalin one from yesterday?
I don’t think so.
Here before it gets disappeared. https://youtu.be/f9FNJcGrBbg
Creepy.
I join Zoom meetings. Nobody gives a fuck about my opinions but it’s easy to see how this can be leveraged. It’s a little bit terrifying.
You do look Stalin-ish
That’s fucking savage.
Moar hackery.
BRIAN STELTER: And how far down the road would you say it is happening?
JASON STANLEY: Well, we don’t have a fascist regime, but arguably, Trumpism is something akin to a fascist social and political movement. And at the very least, we have massive use of fascist tactics. We’ve got militias roaming the streets.
We have — we have one of our political parties turning into a cult of a leader. The RNC platform was just whatever Trump wants. That’s an extremely worrisome sign.
I’ amazed you took Barry’s dick out of your mouth long enough to say that.
STELTER: Let’s go to the next pillars. Victimhood, we see a lot of conservative victimhood in right-wing media. Law and order, well, that’s the president’s favorite thing. Sexual anxiety, Sodom and Gomorrah. And tell us about the tenth pillar.
STANLEY: Arbeit macht frei, work shall make you free. So, the idea here is social Darwinism. The idea is that only the fit survive, winning is the only thing that matters. Hitler’s book is called my struggle, Mein Kampf. The idea is one group has emerged in struggle victorious. We can get rid of the weak. We don’t need them. You know, a pandemic is something that’s just going to clear the weak. They have to be sacrificed for the strength of the nation.
STELTER: But no one is literally saying that. Are you talking about what the subtext of the rhetoric is?
STANLEY: The subtext of the rhetoric, why do we have to — you know, the economy becomes more important than lives of the vulnerable. So what we have in these liberty liberate America, free America rallies is we have people calling for — you know, we have to return, we have to sacrifice people to the strength of the economy.
TMITE
Yes, yes, we care oh-so-much about the vulnerable. It’s very important that we take care of the vulnerable, so that they stay vulnerable and we can continue to exploit them for their votes and tax money.
Progressives are the moral descendants of southern plantation owners. Change my mind.
I’d say they’re the moral descendants of the Puritans.
Um… Isn’t that kind of how political parties work?
It was friggin chilly this morning. I am not ready for fall.
I’d tell those guys to go suck a bag of dicks but they already are.
* blankly stares at computer*
It was Glib response. Still friends?
It’s still a hundred here in Tejas. Fall… ha! You mean 2nd summer!
Dammit! That’s my joke!
“Houston has four seasons, but three of them are summer”
I am. I’ve got my fall-scented candles at the ready. Just waiting while I run through my spring- and summer-scented candles.
That Mom and Son from the other day are ready for Halloween. They Pumpkin!
No it wasn’t. I went on my morning walk at 6 15 and it was not chilly at all
I’m ready. Hot tub is ready. BRING ON FALL!
You should have a cold tub also and switch between them.
Neighbor is ignorant asshole.
“Your neighbors who dare to be different.”
By demanding conformity of thought from the entire human race.
There was a guy down the street with a giant Trump flag. His house was vandalized and I saw him and his family (small kids) out cleaning the graffiti. The flag did not go back up. I’m voting for trump otherwise the terrorist win.
I’ve never much liked Donald Trump. Didn’t vote for him in 2016. You’re goddamned right that I’ll vote for him in 2020 just to spite these motherfuckers.
Up until last month I wasn’t going to vote for trump. The rise in terrorism and intimidation is making me vote for him. Good job left wing America. You forced me to vote for someone I can’t stand to hear talk.
They’re fully convinced of their moral superiority in the aggregate, so much so that their individual actions do not matter, even if those actions are abhorrent.
Brought to you by social justice and the moral relativism that goes with it.
Just imagine an antifa on the streets destroying private property and proclaiming that it’s OK because social justice. Then walk up to them, snatch their iPhone, throw it on the ground and stomp on it and say ‘it’s just private property, I did nothing wrong’ and watch them get a bad case of cognitive dissonance.
This is what we are dealing with.
Kyle Rittenhouse says “Hi”
It was friggin chilly this morning. I am not ready for fall.
A couple of days ago I turned on the heater in the bathroom so I wouldn’t freeze when I got out of the shower.
I had coffee with Big Buddy Heater today.
Turned the thermostat up. This winter does not bode well. It has pissed rain for months and rain turns into snow. Fuck my life.
Almanac predicts a particularly cold winter, I read.
How contagious Wuhan flu?
‘The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious. This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are. In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
TRIGGER WARNING: The New York Times
‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’
Hide the children! Lock up the wife! Vote for Biden! The SUPERSPREADERS ARE COMING!!!!
Cy: ‘The SUPERSPREADERS ARE COMING!!!!’
‘R C Dean on September 2, 2020 at 8:30 am
They will suppress it, like they did Sturgis. 500,000 people gather in close quarters with zip, zero, nada masking or social distancing.
I think 187 positive tests. The pandemic is already over.’
lol every day.
I would love to have an honest comparison of this and how influenza is reported though.
‘I would love to have … comparison of this and how influenza is reported though.’
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-disease-2019-vs-the-flu
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
Oh, ‘an honest’
Searching …
Good Mornin’ (Glibs time) Banjos
Mornin’
Now it’s personal
He said Monday night brought the destruction of “another minority-owned, local business,” police violence and an attack on the building where he lives.
Nineteen people were arrested Monday, although no one has been charged with setting a fire outside Wheeler’s home, where protesters had gathered with signs and chants demanding the mayor’s resignation.
“Arson and terrorizing families with children does nothing except steal, and distract from, the important message of the racial justice movement,” Wheeler said.
“The violence must stop,” he wrote. “None of this should sit well with any thinking Portlander.”
Terrorizing the normies is fine, but coming to the mayor’s house and disturbing his serene contemplation?
Unforgiveable.
Bend the knee to the mob… get mobbed.
Act like food… get eaten.
It does give me a chuckle when the establishment politicians try to cater to the mobs of commies and anarchists. How fucking dumb can you be?
“How fucking dumb can you be?”
It’s not only that they can be that dumb, all of them are tripping over each other to prove they can be the dumbest of all.
Their hypocrisy is on full display. But they know it doesn’t matter, the idiots will vote for them anyway. Those places have been deep blue for 50 years or more.
As far as the protesters, their only cause is to continue to be adult children. If their parents had disciplined them when they were a toddler, they’d be too busy right now doing something constructive instead of being destructive. But it continues as always for them, because just like their parents let them do anything they want with no punishment, now their government’s provides them with the same.
The only thing that has changed, is that instead of them lying down in the supermarket aisle and throwing a screaming tantrum to get that bag of sweeties their parents told them they cannot have, now they’re in the streets sitting things on fire to get all the goodies from mommy government that they demand. They need a good hard spanking is what they need.
A good hard spanking huh?
Hawt.
Speaking of which, doesn’t Creosote Achilles live in Portland?
The only thing that has changed, is that instead of them lying down in the supermarket aisle and throwing a screaming tantrum to get that bag of sweeties their parents told them they cannot have, now they’re in the streets sitting things on fire to get all the goodies from mommy government that they demand. They need a good hard spanking is what they need.
We’re imparting that lesson on the 3 year old right now. Even at her age, the lesson of “can’t afford it, don’t get it” was less stinging than it is to many adults. Her first trip to the store with her own money ended in tears and no toy, but she was over it by the time we got to the car. Can’t say that about the ANTIFA commies.
Went through the same thing with my daughter at the same age. Carried her out of the store screaming and in tears sans toy. Wasn’t fun but it only took once. That lesson stuck and never happened again.
They’re all just lucky he decided to run and hide instead of unleashing the goon squad of King’s men!
https://twitter.com/suchaone/status/1300945379790401541
WTF?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued a sweeping nationwide order temporarily halting millions of U.S. renters from being evicted, in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
The order covers all 43 million U.S. residential renters as long as they meet income eligibility requirements, although an administration official said the government does not expect an “overwhelming” use of the program.
The order lasts through Dec. 31 and applies to individual renters who do not expect to earn more than $99,000 this year or $198,000 for joint filers. It also applies to renters who did not report income in 2019 or received a stimulus check earlier this year.
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Renters must file sworn declarations warning eviction would leave them homeless or force them into a “shared living setting” and attest they have done all they can to get government assistance for rent or housing.”
Nation of laws? How quaint.
Such a terrible idea.
This is how you get suitcases full of renters in Puget Sound.
It’s also how you get a bunch of gullible people with zero credit, probably living on the streets eventually. Feature not bug?
*contemplates reading all of the FIRE and passive income subreddits to drink some “rental properties aren’t that high risk” tears*
They’d better hurry up and sell if they can. That’ll be a fun realtor note in the description! *Already rented out!*
Rental property is the path that most people have to accumulate wealth. If you are fortunate enough to be born with the high intelligence needed to succeed in our technological/professional society you can become well off by working and saving from your high salary. It is much harder to do that if you do not have the ability to sell your labor for that high salary. Real estate has always been the path to wealth accumulation for the blue collar world, and this order is an absolute betrayal by Trump of his base.
Can confirm. My wife’s parents built a rather sizable amount of wealth. He was a welder and she was a hairstylist, but they owned several rental properties over the course of a few decades.
The CDC has no power to issue anything.
If the democrats can get all the power they crave, they’ll have every sort of alphabet agency or even NGOs making diktats for Americans.
I am not sure what you are trying to say here, but if you are claiming that the eviction moratorium did not just happen you are wrong. I concur with Idle Hands below, Fuck Trump.
Agree with that. It’s just more instant gratification and people who stop paying their rent will suffer the full consequences later, when their credit is destroyed.
Fuck off Trump.
Yeah, very disappointing. I wish I could go a week without Trump doing something that pisses me off.
Happy Atlas Shrugged Day.
https://objectivistindividualist.blogspot.com/2010/09/september-2-is-atlas-shrugged-day.html
Don’t tell me how to react to Atlas Shrugged Day, slaver. I will live my life only for myself and not for your emotional validation.
Am I required to celebrate with rough sex?
It’s also Hoppe’s birthday. Forcible removal FTW.
Celebrating the day she started writing rather than the day it was published? Rewarding attempt rather than accomplishment?
Objectivists today…
Get off my lawn.
https://notesonliberty.com/2020/09/01/why-the-us-is-behind-in-fintech-in-two-charts/
fun with piktures
We’ve been Japanized.
We have simultaneously made it next to impossible to open new banks and propped up the old ones by giving them access to the printing presses.
This is how an economy dies.
Agreed. But what does BLM have to say on the subject?
Bank Leverage Matters.
Anyone have any suggestions on stuff to do in St Louis or Louiseville?
At the Arch natl park – 8 employees at security checkpoint, me and mrs. Prolefeed, and no one else anywhere in sight. Crickets.
Rioting, looting…. there’s loads of outdoor activities you can do with groups these days….
You might even meet a fun antifa girl and play the STD lottery.
Two chicks at once?
“Anyone have any suggestions on stuff to do in St Louis or Louiseville?”
Riot and loot?
looting is all the rage. The classics like drinkin are forever fashionable. You could also go biking.
Been 35 years since I’ve been here so not sure about the neighborhood or how they are dealing w/ the ‘vid, but this was a go to place to take visting family when we lived there.
https://crowncandykitchen.net
Again, not sure how they are handling the ‘vid but a go to when we lived there and was pretty cool stop when we went to a Cards game a few years ago.
http://soulardmarket.com
If it’s hot outside, the market is hot as balls though. If they are still open, they have some great little food places in there.
Looks like they aren’t currently doing evening light shows, but missouribotanicalgarden.org/ if botanical gardens are your thing. If it’s open they have a cool beer garden in there.
This place is the bomb diggity for Italian food and can also tool around the Hill if you are so inclined.
Gah, My link got stripped. LoRusso’s Cucina.
Roll up your windows?
If it’s open, check out City Museum in St. Louis.
Louisville has this really cool exposed fossil bed in the river, with associated museum to explain what you are looking at. If you are a nerd who likes sciency stuff, then it is great.
In Louisville – go see the Fraiser Museum of American History (formerly the Frasier Arms Museum.)
Have a drink at Proof at the 21C Hotel and Gallery. Stop by the Louisville Slugger factory. There’s a cool glassblowing shop that does lessons in that general area.
Anyone have any suggestions on stuff to do in St Louis
Fill the gas tank outside of town, and do not stop until you are on the other side?
You’re thinking of East St. Louis.
A-B brewery tour open?
re LV: drink/dine at Brown Hotel? Slugger museum? Muhammad Ali Center? several antebellum houses? HST’s birthplace?
(Suggestions mostly from a ten-year-old Rand McNally atlas; haven’t been to either)
How about a new feature at Glibs?
Name the gun. *I really shouldn’t be the one to do it, though.
AR-47, which is short for “Automatic Rifle, 47 bullets per second”
Spraying bullets.
That is a polish submachine gun type 2
Oh, it’s Megatron (1980’s version)
Have no idea if that is correct or not.
Ransom paid
New York City’s public-school classrooms will not reopen until Sept. 21 under an 11th-hour deal struck between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the powerful education unions, officials announced Tuesday.
All students will start the year online Sept. 16 — then be allowed to move to a hybrid approach including some in-person instruction five days later, de Blasio and schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said.
The schools had been set to reopen for partial in-person instruction Sept. 10.
But a recent escalating war of words between City Hall and the United Federation of Teachers — including threats of a strike without more safety precautions amid the coronavirus — forced the administration to push back classroom reopenings to address concerns such as testing.
As part of the revised plan, up to 20 percent of students and teachers at every school will now be randomly tested on a monthy basis, officials said.
If parents of students refuse, their children must go to remote-only learning, the UFT told its members in a “fact sheet” about the new plan.
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Asked why the city waited till now — fewer than two weeks before the start of school — to suddenly alter things, the mayor dismissed any disruption as “very modest.
“For all the parents of kids who are going to be in blended learning, it does mean a few more days where they are going to have to figure out accommodations,’’ de Blasio said.
Who gives a shit what the parents or students think? This is politics.
The customer is irrelevant. Only the state-created metrics matter.
Welcome to the Soviet Union.
I think the radio was reporting that Albany is not reopening schools this year.
“Pray I do not alter the deal further.”
The teachers were *never* going to strike – IIRC the last one was before I was born FFS. For starters, it’s illegal now.
No, this is Deblasio caving to his masters yet again.
https://legaltemplates.net/resources/personal-family/divorce-rates-covid-19/
Im not surprised at all. *snips comments about marriages of convenience*
“17% of couples have a joint bank account, and 14% are solely responsible for any joint debts or debts of the other party”
Still boggles my mind that anyone would say “I want to mix my DNA with this person, but *NOT* my checking account!”
Having a kid is one thing. Trusting the bee-ach with your checking account is something else altogether…..
You forget, there are two brains at work in the average male. Usually the smaller one is in charge.
“We’re waiting until the college loans are paid off.”
I don’t get it either. Do the savers insist their spendthrift spouses eat cat food in retirement while they vacation solo?
I am extremely idealistic and have totally been devoted to the idea of life long love and commitment.
As an old man who has lived experience i have learned a few things. Reality disagrees with my idealism.
If I were giving advice to a young couple with two careers, I would say to set things up as yours, mine, ours. Explicitly.
Your relationship is romantic.
It is a financial partnership.
It is a roommate situation.
It is a friendship.
It is a co-parenting partnership.
Each of those will bleed over into the others. The romantic is the most likely to blow up.
Your money. Your car. Your jewelry.
My money. My car. My tools.
Our house. Our furniture. Our living expenses. Our boat.
You each pay into a joint account to cover our expenses.
This makes disentangling things much easier, particularly if there are significant disparities in income. Everything gets negotiated up front. Explicitly.
It also removes a big friction point. By valuing the financial contributions of both partners, it encourages an equal partnership on those decisions.
With more than half of romantic relationships coming to an end, it is kind of naive to think it won’t be you.
(Yes… I count myself among the naive. I just prefer living that way. Call it my religious upbringing)
To each their own. We always have used a joint account… when we both worked, when only she worked, and now when only I work. We’re aligned on finances so there is no friction, and after we agreed on our savings strategy, I can’t remember there ever being any other than the most minor exchanges (on the same level of disagreement over choosing a restaurant for dinner).
This makes disentangling things much easier
This could go both ways. I want it to be hard to disentangle. I want it to be a life shattering event. That’s how important some of that idealistic stuff is, IMO. Maybe I’m just a few years behind you on the idealism to cynicism spectrum, but I don’t want to make it easy to fit the cynical stereotype.
I’ve heard 1000 reasons why people want to do that arrangement, and 99% of them come down to either “I’m gonna do what I want and she aint gonna tell me no” or “whenever we talk about money, he gets mad at me”.
The thing that boggles my mind (not really) is how folks with separate accounts save for the future (most don’t). We run our finances jointly and make a shit ton of money, and it’s still hard to hit all of our savings goals. Heck, my wife’s Roth IRA has a $0 balance right now. I can’t imagine trying to coordinate a viable retirement savings plan alongside “you pay that bill and I pay this bill”.
Children are savings killers.
Ask me how I know.
My children aren’t nearly as expensive as this house, which I view as a totally disabled child.
lmao.
Is it insured? I’m not saying I know a guy, and definitely don’t tell me when you’re going to be out of town in front of multiple witnesses…
My bestie also knows a guy and didn’t want me to tell her when I’d be out of town.
How did you open one with a $0 deposit?
I’ve ignored all the angry emails telling me to deposit something into it.
A big chunk of it is also the feminist notions of worth and value, often held by both spouses. If he makes more than her, but their incomes are close enough to be comparable, they both feel guilty mixing their finances because it feels so, so, retrograde.
This kind of thinking evaporates when one spouse makes so much more that there is no competition. They both need to make piece with the fact that one person is bringing in the cash, and the other person’s non-financial contributions and intrinsic value are enough to balance the equation*.
This is similar to conspicuous consumption – people only engage in it when their earnings are similar to their peers. Relatively poor folks surrounded by rich folks don’t really engage in it. The lone rich person surrounded by poor people doesn’t engage in it. But a community full or rich-only or poor-only? You better expect a lit Instagram feed of organic foods and fabulous vacations, or a shit load of gold teeth, car stereos worth more than the car, and Louis Vuitton bags.
*And how hilarious is it that us dam durty capitulists structure our families around the intrinsic value of each member, while the COEXIST socialists measure the value of each partner by their income. Crazy days….
I’ve been thinking about your footnote for a while. I keep trying to turn it into an article
We keep our accounts separate. We do have our names on each others accounts, again for convenience and in case of an emergency. Frankly, I just don’t want her to be looking at what and how I spend. If we go out to a nice dinner, I pay. I don’t want her to worry about how much. This may make us sound frivolous with our funds, but it’s quite the contrary. We don’t have car payments. We don’t pay for almost any kind of insurance outside of legal requirement. Total monthly expenses for phones, house, internet, car maintenance, utilities is under $1200. We’ve flipped multiple homes. Generally if I buy anything expensive, it’s a tool we use the crap out of or it’s just expensive to us. No cable.
As the saying goes, it’s not how much you make, it’s how much you save. The caveat to that saying is, what’s the money you ‘saved’ doing. Is it working for you or not?
As for our savings, it’s almost all tied up in different investments and retirement accounts.
Kids? They’re not even a little bit expensive. The United states is saturated in used toys and clothes. Medical care definitely is a large expense for kids, braces… ugh!… But in the grand scheme of things, because we don’t spend money elsewhere, it’s a blip. people talk about the trade off of kids vs money as if it’s that cut and dry, but I’d still say investing in your children’s work ethic, morale compass and health are far more reqarding than having an extra 150k laying around when you get older. That’s even assuming you’re savvy enough to be putting that money away instead of upgrading your lifestyle with stupid shit.
I like having our finances separate because we don’t wind up pushing responsibility for the accounts on our spouse. There’s also a bit of pride. My wife beams at me when she brings up the “I have X sitting in checking. What should we invest it in?”
We have mine, hers, and family account and business account. Works so far
Let me add, we each have full access to all of them
We have the same. It’s not about how the accounts are arranged. it’s about how the income is treated. More than a small percentage of married couples have completely separate finances and then haggle over sharing the bills.
Having listened to my parents fight about money I am against joint checking.
We have three checking accounts. She has hers, I have mine, we have a joint account. Paychecks are deposited into individual accounts. Money is transferred into the joint account. Joint bills are paid from the joint account. Hobbies and luxuries are paid from the personal account.
Has been working just fine for 35 years.
See my comment above…exactly my setup
I cannot access her account. She cannot access mine.
Same here, for both credit cards and checking. We could set it up that way, but can’t be arsed.
Similar. Three accounts. I pay a lot of bills from mine, she pays some bills from hers. I sweep my account (except walking around money) into the joint account after I pay down my credit card evey other week. She pays down her credit card every month, drawing on the joint account as necessary. Every quarter, the joint account is swept (except for a cushion) into the retirement/tax “optimization” account.
I don’t know and don’t care how much she spends or what on. She’s financially responsible. She’s the same about me. We talk about big expenses before we commit to them.
Again…same execution of the same setup.
My husband moved here to marry me, so I was established. His banks were out of state. He closed them and I made my account joint. I also have a business account with that bank and I have a Paypal account with cards he uses. He pays utilities, I pay rent (transferred into my non-business account). Most of his paycheck is eaten up by health insurance or else we could survive on one income.
Well, he’s fed up with my bank, so he went and got another account at another bank to have his paycheck deposited into it. I’m on the account as a joint holder blah blah blah and I can see what goes in and out, but I admit it unnerves me a bit.
My husband moved here to marry me – simp 🙂
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My sister and her husband keep separate accounts. He was divorced twice before he married my sister, so he might be gun-shy about finances. On the other hand, he spends money like a drunken sailor, so my sister might be gun shy about his spending.
Researchers have a gold mine of material to examine regarding all the secondary effects of the lockdowns.
I think prenups are weirdly romantic. Saves a lot of worry. An insurance policy for your marriage.
y’all have been my “guilty pleasure “ since TOS circa 2005. Finally decided to join the other Show Me Staters’ and give reports from the South West, and most beautiful part of the state.
Re: masks
In SWMO the largest town, Springfield (pop 185k) passed the mask mandate. The surrounding towns have not. The three biggest being approx. 16-20k each. The people have caved and it is sad. I do know a few people travel outside the city to shop etc.
Like RC Dean I have a hearing impairment and I use hearing aids, unlike RC I have used this from the start, I am not wearing a damn mask (except I am a delivery driver and I do put a cheap ass gaiter to make a delivery INSIDE). The thing is after the first week I have not been asked but just a couple times; also, have not been confronted by an employee or shopper.
In my work I have a northern route that takes me to three towns that do not have a mask mandate and they are not worn. One restaurant that I deliver to even has (GASP) a smoking section!
Lastly, it’s sad though how the people have been duped and conform so easily. I deliver to the local state university and it is rage inducing to see these students in the prime of their lives walking around with a damn mask on, OUTSIDE! I also officiate, and at a football game at a smaller town the amount of people in general and students especially wearing masks was just sad.
Hey, a Tulpa! ? You must remember some very old handles from TOS. C’mon, let’s give him the welcome noogies!
Welcome Tulpa, and fuck off.
I regularly see healthy college students wearing masks while jogging or riding a bike. It’s depressing.
Fuck off Tulpa! Welcome from a fellow (if former) SWMO’r. Bolivar is clearly superior to Springpatch.
Fuck off, Tulpa! My dad’s people come from Southern MO (Springfield & Ozark).
Police in Australia arrested a pregnant 28-year-old woman in front of her partner and two children Wednesday for allegedly planning a coronavirus lockdown protest and promoting it on Facebook.
They’ve lost their minds.
Why is Australia afraid of China? Seems like they’d get along just fine as one of the southern provinces.
That fascist cunte in New Zealand is salivating.
So Australia is not a democracy.
The customer is irrelevant. Only the state-created metrics matter.
“We’re teaching the kids to wear their masks. What else do you expect?”
Getting ice in your drink is now un-woke:
‘ ‘Hi, guys, I updated my recipe for the Blue Lives Matter drinks,’ the barista can be heard saying. ‘First, we’re gonna start with bleach. All the way to the third line. Then we’re gonna add ice, because, you know, cops love ice. … We add more bleach, a little blood of innocent black men, and then we add this special blue ingredient that Starbucks has. We do have it, and yes, we are holding out on you.’
The barista adds, ‘[E]ven though it has a strawless lid, we’re going to serve it with a straw because, you know, they only think about themselves.’ ‘
https://www.theblaze.com/news/target-fires-employee-who-made-toxic-blue-lives-matter-starbucks-drink-more-dead-cops
That’s a relief – I wouldn’t want to accidentally order a woke G&T.
Lebron gets dunked on by a 12 year old.
https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1301169808050917384/photo/1
Someone needs to show him Douche and Turd.
Falling mortgage rates helped bolster the pent-up demand from spring, when home sales ground to a halt due to the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed fell below 3% for the first time even in July, giving buyers additional purchasing power.
Below 3%? I might have to look into refinancing.
In the clip taken at eSalon in the city Monday afternoon and obtained by Fox News the Democrat is seen with wet hair and her mask around her neck rather than on her face, as she is followed closely behind by a stylist, who is in a face covering.
Salons in San Francisco have been closed since March and were only told they could reopen Tuesday; they can still only offer outside styling. In June Pelosi said a federal mandate on mask wearing was ‘long overdue’.
Pelosi doesn’t give a shit and her supporters won’t give a shit.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D.) requested an “en banc” review of a three-judge panel that ruled the state’s ban on the possession of any magazine holding more than 10 rounds, even those Californians previously bought legally, ran afoul of the Second Amendment. Such a review would convene every judge in the Ninth Circuit. Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, said gun-rights advocates are willing to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court if Becerra succeeds in his appeal.
I knew he would appeal.
“ Pelosi doesn’t give a shit and her supporters won’t give a shit.”
This is what one of her supporters, a local political reporter and Politico ejit had to say about it:
https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/1300904890751827969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1300904890751827969%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizpacreview.com%2F2020%2F09%2F02%2Fpolitico-reporter-asks-if-it-was-legal-for-nancy-pelosi-to-be-caught-on-video-without-her-consent-967190
Heh. I should defined “Won’t give a shit”.
Wow…I mean….wow. As a shit weasel, the consent is there and they know it. As long as a sign or any sorts indicated security cameras are in use.
Fuck I hate people.
Gosh, you mendacious cunte. It took me less than 30 seconds on the Googles to learn that CA does not restrict video surveillance as long as it is not also recording audio.
At least she is getting absolutely roasted in the comments. I can’t believe that she hasn’t deleted that tweet, it is moronic as well as being laughably Team Blue cheerleading.
Marinucci is probably worried the Pelosi will kick her out of Pelosi’s basement if she reports on this story.
https://www.redstate.com/mike_miller/2020/09/01/this-split-screen-of-biden-on-banning-fracking-might-be-the-funniest-thing-youll-watch-all-day-—-no-really/
Speaks with forked tongue or is it the dementia talking?
Look fat, he can still move his walker faster than you.
Forked tongue. He has different messages for different audiences. The “I ain’t gonna ban fracking no how” is for outstate PA, where there’s a good sized fracking industry. The “No mo fossil fuels” is for his urban/fundraising base.
NYC restaurateurs sue over indoor dining ban
More than 300 restaurants have joined a class-action lawsuit seeking over $2 billion in damages due to the city’s ongoing indoor dining ban. Il Bacco — a restaurant on the border of Little Neck, Queens and Nassau County — filed the lawsuit on Friday in the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive orders have violated its constitutional rights. In the suit, the Italian restaurant alleges that it can’t serve diners indoors, while its neighbors in Long Island — just 500 feet away — can. “According to Gov. Cuomo, it is dangerous to eat at [Il Bacco] in Little Neck, Queens, but it is safe to dine indoors a few hundred feet east,” the suit says. As of Monday, Crain’s reports that at least 337 restaurateurs have signed onto the class-action suit against the city and state.
My ad for Black as Knight that’s been running on Facebook for the last 3 months just got rejected for some bad political speech. WTF? It’s a medieval romance! I requested a human review it, but if I want it to go on, I have to verify my ID. I can’t even.
And you even went out of your way to capitalize the B in Black.
Color me woke.
This is the ad:
the bubonic plague or witch accusations.
Oh shit – violence against women, I bet.
Its the abduction…you are perpetuating male privilege
Well, it WAS an abduction, but it was ALSO a rescue. She thought her family hired him to abduct her right when she was about to say “I do” at swordpoint.
Rescue would also be problematic.
That’s my read.
What?
As for the rest of it, tell me again how they aren’t exercising editorial discretion and shouldn’t be treated as a publisher.
they aren’t exercising editorial discretion
Legal compliance (or in the case of WA state rules, legal avoidance) is not editorial discretion.
shouldn’t be treated as a publisher
I’m not sure there’s any distinction between Random House and Facebook here that is legally meaningful.
I read that as “begin the authoritarian process…”
So problematic I can’t even.
That’s how they get you. Submit yourself to go on the list.
Beat that drum, little wind-up monkey
The fatal flaw of President Donald Trump’s botched pandemic response has been a yearning for a quick return to normality that is dangerous and unattainable while the coronavirus still lies in wait.
And now he may be making the same mistake again.
When he is not diverting attention from the health crisis by stoking controversy over racial injustice and unrest in US cities, Trump has returned to his aggressive push to get the economy firing on all cylinders. A new demand for a full slate of college football games follows his earlier demands for all kids and students to get back to class.
But while the President is surely channeling the fatigue of millions of Americans with the pandemic, his demand for reopening without offering solutions that could restore a semblance of regular life safely is another apparent sign he’s prioritizing his political prospects over science.
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Trump’s growing impatience coincides with multiple reports that the White House is growing receptive to the herd immunity, a theory reportedly advanced by the President’s favorite new adviser Dr. Scott Atlas.
The concept relies on allowing the virus to spread to build community resistance. Independent medical experts warn such an approach could lead to several million US deaths in the long-term. Atlas has forcibly denied he backs such a strategy. Yet an administration official told CNN many of his policies appear to point to such an approach. And even if the administration has not formally endorsed herd immunity, its failure to corral the pandemic and resistance to full-throated promotion of social distancing and masks — flagrantly demonstrated by Trump’s Republican convention speech at the White House last week — means that it is almost falling into such a counter-virus plan by default.
“Whether the number is 2 million, 1 million Americans dead, it’s unacceptable,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor University, told CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday.
Sources told CNN that that key players around Trump inside the administration have all but given up hope of quelling the virus with the aggressive suppression and mitigation efforts advocated by trusted medical experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
While US infections and deaths are declining, they remain at levels unseen in most of the developed world. There are flashing warning signs through the Midwest. Surging cases in colleges that have welcomed students back point to the inexorable threat from the disease. And there are already fears that the Labor Day holiday could produce a spike in infections much as Memorial Day did, ahead of a feared fall resurgence.
Did it hurt when you pulled that number out of your ass?
And they persist in their mendacious implication that the virus is infinitely contagious and universally lethal.
President Donald Trump’s botched pandemic response
I still have not seen an explanation of this.
a quick return to normality that is dangerous and unattainable while the coronavirus still lies in wait.
There it is, lurking under the bed, waiting to pounce.
Like a Republican or a Jew…always ready to pounce
Or Festus’s old avatar.
Cats are assholes. Obviously they released coronavirus onto the world.
They can’t spread it.
It’s funny because it’s true.
He didn’t have a national plan. It’s never clear why that would have made a difference, but it’s one of those things that sounds good to some people.
Herd immunity, that dangerous new theory that has been accepted for the last hundred or so years of medicine.
Unseen?
Is that a new word for “right in line with”?
My favorite number is the “another 100,000 dead by December” I keep seeing.
GTFO
https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1301155855551926272
“New national survey: 40% of families said they disenrolled their children from the school they were supposed to attend because of reopening plans.”
If it’s 20% these fuckers are in serious trouble.
We are giving them 1 quarter. If its still just as terrible then they are getting pulled
If they were actually paying attention they’d unroll them because they’re not getting an education, but an indoctrination.
I did this before it was cool.
“83.3% of parents who disenrolled their children say that they will re-enroll their children back into the original school once it is safe to do so.”
Ooof.
yeah I chose to cherry pick the 40% and ignore that horrifying number.
Thats still a huge loss to the schools 17% saying they are not going to go back at all?
Agree, I’m still disappointed in the 83% though.
We took our three elementary age boys out of their Catholic school last week because we can’t see the state allowing them to open (5 days a week with no masks or bullshit) anytime soon. The Zoom bs was driving my wife insane.
I made XY all virtual, although he was angry about it. Suffice it to say, everything is better and more peaceful when he’s not enmeshed in drama.
He’s in high school, right? I think a mostly or all virtual thing could work for that age, but in no way does it work for little kids. Mine were bored as shit by the zoom classes. They are so far enjoying their mom’s lessons. I should be starting mine in a month or so when my wife has to go back to her part time job.
Yep. I feel for you, though. I am not a good teacher (yes, it’s a skill) (I don’t have it), so that would be very rough for us all.
This story would be a perfect lesson in propaganda, but the people who would need to hear it will immediate shot off their brains the minute the word “Russia” appears.
From NPR:
So Russians hired actual American freelance journalos to write actual stories, but the site they published them on is not actual journalism… why?
And of course there are ZERO examples of these “disinformation” stories. In fact the only fact actually presented in the entire three-minute story is the name of the “fake” Russian website.
“shared by dozens of social media accounts created through artificial intelligence.” They used AI? Sounds scary. More likely they wrote a script to create accounts.
You don’t get it. The Russians are masters of of disinformation.
So much so that they can spend 0.1% of what the major campaigns do and swing the election with ease.
NBA ratings crater.
Remember LeBron’s fake hate crime from a year or so back? Isn’t it funny how amidst all of the systemic race hustling currently going on that this is never mentioned? I can’t recall it being mentioned at all just a few days after it allegedly happened. Isn’t that strange? It’s a total mystery how noone was caught for spray painting racist things on an NBA player’s mansion in LA and not one snippet of video evidence has ever emerged from it.
So Russians hired actual American freelance journalos to write actual stories, but the site they published them on is not actual journalism… why?
They don’t conform to the narrative, duh.
My only scheduled meeting for the day was just rescheduled! Woot!
It was rescheduled for Friday at 3pm, though. Boooo!
Do they not understand it’s a holiday weekend?
Motherfuckers don’t realize shit. And they’ll often let us knock off early on the Friday before a holiday.
That’s a stabbin offense.
The person that changed it is lucky we’re on telework!
A paddlin’ at least.
Uh, wondering what the story was here. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8687475/Footage-shows-Kenosha-gunman-Kyle-Rittenhouse-punching-girl-times-argument.html
Need more context…really do. The kid is toast and I expect some more pile ons
Sort of looks like him and sort of doesn’t but it’s hard to tell from the photos.
Scratch that, the other photo is him for sure.
The glasses look a little different to me.
Looks like has longer hair that’s a little longer than the Kenosha Kid had, for what that’s worth.
OTOH, how many people actually own American flag Crocs? The video is such crap that’s the only thing I can really hang anything on.
Looks to me like he’s trying to pull two fighting girls apart, but it’s shitty video and hard to figure exactly what’s going on.
Deep deeper – I hear he picked his nose in 4th grade.
My understanding is one of the girls was his sister who he went to go help.
https://rt.live/
Florida is 5th lowest Rt. Suck it NYC!
Nice page, I will be monitoring it.
Well it happened had a rational friend tell me he was just going to vote Biden in hopes this shit would just end. So tally one for the hold the hostage america strategy.
Really? In those terms?
Please tell me you made that up.
I can accept “I hate Trump”
I can accept “I like socialists!”
I can even accept “i want a president who strong arms other countries so his son can get rich. ”
But an erstwhile Trump supporter who wants the vitriol from the left to stop, so he votes for them?
No…. my view of humanity cannot sustain that.
So please…. say you made it up….
I think under that theory the Dems are supposed to ease up on all their bullshit if we just give them total control. The racial shit stops, no more rioting and looting, and oh yeah you can eat indoors again.
Hm, I don’t think I’m buying it.
Nope. The Dems are riding the tiger. They aren’t going to be able to easily control the forces they’ve unleashed even if/when they want to do so.
It takes all kinds, so i can see it happening. But not so much that it would be easily observable, and i’ve heard this a lot. Never forget the desire for saftey is very high, and if you hear the person beating you saying he’ll stop if you just do what he wants, well why not give it a try.
I absolutely believe there are a lot of people like this.
I realize i argued both sides. Sorry, Thoughts are coming to me and i’m just writing them.
In short. Yes i absolutely believe there is a significant portion of the population that is willing to cower and say “please just stop rioting”.
I agree, and they don’t seem to care that the Dems are basically admitting that they are in control of the rioting and all the rest.
I think their pitch is that the rioting exists only because Trump is President. If he loses the election, there will be no more rioting.
Even though the rioting doesn’t really target Trump or even Republicans. The targets are the cops, the federal government, and local (universally Dem) officials.
And end the lockdowns and the screeching and the interjecting politics into everything. They are wrong, but it’s not an unreasonable take.
You can eat indoors again, if only there was food.
There is a reason blackmail exists.
no he’s a logical person and it was exactly that reasoning. He just want’s it all to stop and thinks giving the screaming child the lollipop will make them shut the fuck up for a while. It’s definitely an argument and I understand the appeal even though I doubt it will achieve it’s goal.
That’s the Curtis Yarvin strategy, elect Biden and they’ll calm down. Don’t freaking bet on it .
If they win with this they’ll take the brakes off everytime.
And LBJ will keep us out of war.
And then they came for Washington.
A committee formed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a report Tuesday recommending the removal, relocation, or contextualization of the Washington Monument and a number of federal monuments and buildings in Washington,DC.
Bowser formed the District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions, or “DC FACES” committee in July, to study assets in D.C. named after individuals to “ensure these individuals reflect contemporary DC values,” according to the report. …
The committee was asked to make recommendations if a namesake is “inconsistent with DC values and in some way encouraged the oppression of African Americans and other communities of color or contributed to our long history of systemic racism.”
The report recommended:
Nuke it from orbit – it’s the only way to heal.
Bowser hates all that sweet, sweet tourist money
If they want to move the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial to Iowa, I’m all for it.
In the three months through June, the retailer saw a 79% surge in profits as more Americans ordered goods online while at home.
How much of that is folks merely wanting their cheap consumables sans having to deal with People of Wal*Mart?
Blah blah blah “cases”
The country collectively reported 35,337 new cases on Sunday, according to Hopkins data, but case reporting tends to drop over the weekend with local health departments closed. The seven-day average of new cases per day has risen over the last two days after weeks of decline. It now stands at just over 42,100, down just 1.2% compared with a week ago — more than double the daily average in early June before the outbreak started to pick up speed again, according to a CNBC analysis of Hopkins data.
Over the past seven days, an average of 5.7% of all tests processed each day came back positive as of Sunday, according to data from Hopkins. That’s down from 6.1% a week prior, Hopkins data shows. Epidemiologists often point to the percentage of positive tests as a good indicator of the status of an outbreak.
Now tell me how many of those tests were administered to “symptomatic” individuals. “Symptoms” seem to be an extremely poor indicator of infection.
Tell me what a “case” is. Is it merely a “positive” test, regardless of presence or severity of symptoms? How many of those “cases” required a doctor’s office visit, much less hospitalization?
And don’t forget that some states were reporting the number of positive tests as “cases”, and they didn’t de-duplicate the data. So if someone tested positive, then got tested again a month later to see if they cleared it and came up positive again, that goes down as two cases.
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the Biden campaign just got some new internal polling from Wisconsin, because suddenly he’s going to Kenosha tomorrow.
While it’s still fresh on everyone’s minds that two days earlier the Dems went apeshit over Donald’s visit.
I swear he is the dumbest campaigner since… well, the last one.
At least hes going to winsconsin. Didn’t herslef never even step foot in it?
I’d love for him to get heckled or to be confronted by people asking about his VP pick being giddy about the riots happening for forever and increasing in intensity.
True. But a handler who isn’t an idiot would have told him to wait a week or so, so he wouldn’t have to field questions about Donald’s visit.
What makes you think he will field any questions at all, or even visit the riot-damaged neighborhoods?
Odds are, another secluded, sanitized location with nobody present but his crew. Just like his last “campaign” stop.
My favorite number is the “another 100,000 dead by December” I keep seeing.
GTFO
“We got that number from the
Oraclemodel! You have to believe it. Otherwise you’ll be smitten by the gods.”That doesn’t seem possible with cases in steady decline.
That’s total dead from all causes.
Trump’s fault of course.
Mrs. Prolefeed didn’t much feel like rioting and looting today, so we compromised and saw the St. Louis arch instead.
Our rebellion consisted of cutting the no people in line at the Missouri history museum, instead of walking 20 more feet to the social distancing footprints line with no people in it.