Another Tuesday, another afternoon of hydrating before gym day. I’ll get right to it.
Incentives: powerful enough for Mexican farmers to not grow corn, and instead grow something profitable like…I dunno poppies.
.
..Speaking of drugs. If they didn’t want people to make drugs, they shouldn’t have made growing corn unprofitable? Yeah I know, thats a stretch.
Thankfully, we don’t decide Constitutional Amendments the same way we determine why the Big Bang Theory is remotely watchable.
I thought Pele was dead.
How certain are they exactly, those kids were brought here by their parents?
A single death in a COVID vaccine trial in Brazil finds no safety concerns. Thats certainly inspires confidence in people that would rather prolong this bullshit instead of freaking out when they see their own shadow.
Here’s some tunes, enjoy.
What about maize?
All seeds are corn under the husk.
If the furrows are planted, then the field is ready for Plowin’! Or something.
“What about maize?”
That’s Injun corn.
It’s milho.
0%
There is a non-negligable portion dragged along by strangers and smugglers.
If it’s a 0% certitude, then they would be 100% certain that the kids were not brought by their parents.
It wasn’t coyotes – those animals aren’t strong enough to drag children across the border /derp.
This was the hot-take on Twitter for a day.
Now, dingoes on the other hand…
IT WAS PETER COYOTE!
How common is this? Do we have number from say, 2014 to compare?
Pele, the man who inspired hundreds if not thousands of neck and spinal injuries from attempted bicycle kicks.
Truly a monster.
Speaking of, if you want to see a chubby dude nail a bicycle kick, I get a kick out of this one from a couple days ago.
https://twitter.com/ECCoachMoreno23/status/1320605391215120385
Xherdan Shaqiri would like a word with you
What are those moving objects in the seating area…?
I’ll join in with others to be shocked hes still alive. I have a memory of a kid where he was part of a 70s attempt to make soccer a thing. Saw him play a game. He signed a book where I also had autograph of Bruce Jenner and OJ….
I guess Pele wins that autograph book battle….
I notice none of his teammates want to go in for a celebratory bear hug… probably wise
“Steadily growing use of yellow feed corn to fatten Mexico’s livestock has for decades come from cheap U.S. supplies, with imports now making up more than a third of national corn demand.
While this has kept prices down, it has also undercut farmers in Mexico, where leading industry players say subsidy cuts are set to exacerbate the problem.”
So it’s U.S. subsidies vs. Mexican subsidies.
I thought we turned our corn into engine-destroying fuel additives.
It’s truly the way of the future.
How else are we supposed to make algae blooms in the Mississippi delta?
Need that sweet, sweet over-fertilized runoff water from the subsidized ethanol.
My favorite part of that is that enviros see all of that excess fertilizer as something to regulate the shit out of. When really that is wasted money that isn’t doing anything. Reduce your runoff and you’re cutting your costs as a farmer both in material and time/cost to buy and spread it.
One of those ethanol plants just north of the Twin Cities also makes vodka (a liver-destroying, making-white-people-think-they-can-dance additive)
Truly evil of us to supply all of Mexico with less expensive food.
#NosRobanTrabajos
It is when it’s at the expense of my pocketbook.
Certainly against agricultural subsidies in both countries.
“The lab had chemical preparation vats about two stories tall that could process 11,000 pounds (5,000 kilograms) of raw material at a time,”
I think I saw that on Breaking Bad.
Seems like a waste with her being so old and decrepit.
What a great birthday gift it will be next year for @HillaryClinton when she is one of the three new Supreme Court justices appointed through the Judiciary Reform Act of 2021. Thanks for the idea, guys. Only your colleagues’ thuggish behavior made it possible.#ReformTheCourt
He’s the “Conservative” at MSNBC
Scarborough was never a conservative, just an opportunist Democrat who saw an opportunity to run as a Republican and took it.
These people vote.
Obama, the constitutional scholar, never did specify whether he was “for” or “against” the constitution.
I think he specified a lot. Almost every day for 8 continuous years.
Considering there is no requirement if being a lawyer to serve…
That would have been the ultimate Trump Troll. Nominate the Pillow Guy!
After his presidency, Trump should be named a justice. His legal opinions would be magical.
The BEST AND HYUGEST!
I’m not sure why I read the replies – I haven’t even been drinking. Yet.
The general tenor seems to be: “you know, the Democrats have been polite and decent all along. And, when they won in November, they would have governed with decorum and moderation. BUT NOT NOW! Republicans have declared war on the constitution. NOW the Democrats must respond in kind. They must abandon their Marquis of Queenberry approach.”
Then there’s this guy:
“Brendan Sloan
@brendan_sloan
Replying to
@DThomas81592
@JoeNBC
and
@HillaryClinton
Buttigieg is a brilliant political mind. We’d do well to heed his advice.”
TBF, not sure if that’s sarcasm.
If Team Elephant continues to grow balls (and yesterday was a sign that they perhaps have started to) then they would announce that if the Dems attempt court packing they will immediately add one more justice than whatever number they pick the next time they get control of the Senate and the Presidency
Courts come and courts go. I think the threat to add states to secure a multi-generational senate majority is more nefarious
North East South Dakota, North West South Dakota, South East South Dakota, …
If the GOP really did grow cojones, next time they seized power:
New states: The non-Chicago part of Illinois, the non-Portland part of Oregon, the non-Twin Cities part of Minnesota, the non-Philly part of Philadelphia.
Newly combined states: All of New England plus Philly, Wisconsin plus the Twin Cities and Chicago.
the non-Philly part of Philadelphia
*scratches head, moves on*
They would love to add PR as a state. And DC.
They also hate, hate, hate that North Dakota has two senators and Los Angeles doesn’t have it’s own senator(s). “No votes for land.”
+1 State of Jefferson
Free Cascadia!
add
onetwo more justices/OCD
I say shepherd smith jump to CNBC. What a whore. When he was at Fox he was a straight news guy. Now he is an anti-Trump propagandaist.
And his show has tanked.
Legit LOL
“The free-market principles embodied in that document led to a booming economy that continued after the return to democracy in 1990, but not all Chileans shared.”
So make everyone poor?
I can’t wait to see what this new constitution looks like.
Anyone like to posit as to why Central and South American Politics are so terrible? Perhaps some books on the subject?
Watch Avita.
Madonna was a lot better in Body of Evidence.
14 year old me remembers
Evita? I’ve seent it. But a while ago. Maybe I’ll give it another look through a fresher lens.
Peronism is actually one of the most interesting things about South American politics. Somehow a political philosophy/party can and does exist without actually proposing any real and tangible method/structure. We are Peronistas, we are here for you; proceeds to do nothing of or relating to political part stances. Repeat election after election after election, and no one thinks so say, “Hey, WTF is this?”
I agree. It strikes me as a form of negligently incompetent fascism.
You mean liike American Conservatism
I skimmed the constitution and it looked pretty good overall. What exactly do they want to change?
Everything in their way
OMWC promised that something wonderful was coming. And Mexican Sharpshooter delivered those soccer girls. All is right.
I’d like to see more of the one on the left that’s cropped out of the picture, though I suppose that sometimes it’s best to remain mysterious.
All those tortillas add up… mucho grande mujeriles.
See!
I live to post those pics.*
*not really
Mendacious cunte is mendacious and cunte-y
Originalism is racist. Originalism is sexist. Originalism is homophobic. Originalism is just a fancy word for discrimination.
Don’t read the replies.
They’re really aiming to incite political violence, aren’t they?
What a shocker. A Dem calls his opponents racist, sexist, etc. Such a cogent argument.
The last Dem Senator with a brain was Moynihan.
Every single dem campaign ad I see here starts out by calling their opponent a racist. I’m dead serious not making that up.
I’d prefer Sen. Biz Markie.
People would really be catching the vapors
if that happened
Although the government says it considers all farmers important, its agriculture minister said last month that with limited resources available it must prioritize the most vulnerable in the country’s many poor rural regions.
Rural poverty has been a driver of immigration to the United States and social unrest for decades and López Obrador, who ran on a pledge of helping the poor, has imposed a sweeping austerity program and tried to reassign resources to tackle it.
The government says new programs supporting smaller farmers with price guarantees will eventually reduce imports.
Incentivizing inefficiency! What will they think of next?
forever to be has beens now.
Who looks at Argentina and says “Yeah, we should do that”?
That would be the best way to get Chile to stop. They hate the Argentines.
Yeah, apparently some Argentine politician weighed in on Chile and got a unanimous keep-your-nose-out-of-our-business.
Two thirds of the voters in Chile apparently.
Man… Salt delivery came a week early. And what is great is that no matter what happens at the election, we are bound to get even more salt!
I thought the Dems were over being upset about the Nomination of ACB. I’m sure much of their base believed it would be stopped.
There’s a lake of it, right down the road from you. Just don’t fall asleep trying to drive across it.
I was at the grocery store a little while go, indulging in lurid sexual fantasies about the yoga pant girl ahead of me in the checkout(!) line.
9.2/10 would shop again.
Yoga pants at the greatest invention of the 20th century.
Not necessarily… because there’s no mechanism to make sure only people who should be in them are those wearing them.
We’re all relying on your sense of shame.
Traumatized Walmart employees Can confirm.
yeah… I’ve seen some scary buttocks / fat overflow in those things.
Here is some eye bleach to help me forget those sights!
Unless those people are wearing burlap sacks, you’re going to see things in all types of fabrics.
Seen on the bathroom wall of a bar in Pennsylvania that I like:
“Yoga pants are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
“No they aren’t. I could wear yoga pants and you wouldn’t be happy.”
“Thanks Obama!”
A 96-mile-long Trump car rally in Arizona.
Fact Check: Mostly False. Long Rallys in your car are bad for the environment / Politifact
Relevant
You don’t even have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court justice, do you?
Amanda Marcotte for SC!
ABA Loses their fucking mind
See folks there is a bright side to everything.
About once a year, I wish I was still an ABA member just so I could resign in a huff.
A minute and a huff /Groucho Marx
I can also proudly say I am not an ABA member. Michigan has mandatory bar membership though.
I’d recommend Thomas Sowell but the poor guy deserves to enjoy his retirement.
*throws rotten produce*
I don’t think you have thought this strategy through.
Trump’s closing strategy: Blanket the country with super spreader rallies and kill as many Americans as possible.
He used to be funny.
super spreader rallies
Asserted without evidence. And you know they have tried to show they are super spreader events.
…. CyberPunk 2077 got delayed again.
I scheduled my vacation with the intent of playing it while not having to worry about work.
Bastards.
At least they didnt go the route of a paid alpha/beta early access to suck up money before everyone figures out its a shit game.
They declared that they’d gone gold, meaning the game was done.
But apparently they’re gunning for coordinated console certification on a bunch of platforms I don’t give a damn about.
I can appreciate that. Not being able to play a cool new game because it isn’t on your console sucks.
I await your review.
A recent trip with kids to the dentist assured i won’t be spending money on anything fun for the foreseeable future.
It will at least be december before I can write that.
I’ll wait for the first expansion pack anyway.
I was going to buy a new GPU this month, but… well.
wait for big navi at this point.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings. Looks like I’ll be waiting till December in any event.
I don’t want to reshuffle my vacation to match the new date, because I need a vacation, but I can predict when something will interfere with my sleep schedule, and don’t want to start playing during a work week.
Part of why I wanted the new GPU this month, other than the new releases, is because Cyberpunk looks fantastic and as durable as the 970 has been for the last five years, I want to play it on a no-compromise system.
Something something constitutional norms.
Hostin said, “I think her appointment is really going to change the way the Supreme Court is going to not only handle cases but the way the Supreme Court is going to look going forward. We all know the Republican Party has been packing the Supreme Court for decades. They’ve been packing the judiciary for decades. Trump has put now three justices on the Supreme Court and just dozens and dozens of judges on the federal judiciary. I think what we’ll see is perhaps the Democrats unpacking the Supreme Court, so there’s more of a balance.”
Goldberg said, “Or some impeachments which is possible with Supreme Court judges. They also can be impeached.”
She continued, “There are lots of ways to shift this. One could impeach judges that have not stuck to the rules of being judges on the Supreme Court. That’s been done several times. There’s a lot of ways to balance stuff out.”
I do not think “packing” means what you think it means.
I literally Laughed out loud reading that. Anytime a GOP president gets to pick a SCOTUS judge it was packing the court of course. The Dems only nominated the most qualified people regardless of their policy. We know that because they always voted the same and issued good progressive judgments. By voting differently we know that the Right wing justices were slaves to their individualist ideologies.
I’m still surprised (although I probably shouldn’t be), about how quickly talking points become the norm.
Control the language, control the narrative.
Honor RBG’s wish to not pack the court?
What happens if Republicans keep the senate? You’re certainly not impeaching anyone and I doubt they’ll vote to confirm a whole crapload of new leftists.
“When” they keep it would be my bet. It gets memory holed.
One supreme court justice has been impeached (not charged), so Whoopsi..or maybe she wasn’t clear and suggesting that Congress go on a impeachment hunt for all Federal judges? Do they think these things through?
yeah. Current polls even have republicans holding the senate with a small margin. But even if they took it, they still wouldn’t be able to. They’ll never have those margins . I think those margins happened like once in a hundred years.
Impeachment is only gonna happen if genuinely both parties need to remove
someone because something insane happened.
Like, if a SCOTUS justice decided that they would consistently follow the actual wording of the Constitution, as written, with “Congress shall make no law” interpreted as any such law would be stricken down?
THAT would incite bipartisan fury.
Do they think
these things through?No. Not at all.
I wonder if she knows that the executive can only appoint judges to vacant seats. Presidents can’t just create new judgeships, on either the district or circuit level, on a whim. Every appointment Trump has made has been because a judge died, retired, or took senior status.
I wonder if she knows
You could complete that with nearly anything, and the answer would still be “No”.
FFS: Jaden Michael has been cast as the lead role for Colin in Black & White, an upcoming Netflix limited series based on Kaepernick’s life before his rise to fame in the NFL and involvement in social activism. “I never thought I would be casting a young me in a show about my life,” Kaepernick Tweeted.
His story would have more weight if he’d been any good at football.
He was good, he just chose to stop caring about his craft and do something else instead. It would just be nice if he were more honest about that.
C’mon, he was good at football. Just not at being an NFL quarterback.
Compared to me? Yes. Compared to NFL qbs, not really
He had a couple good years when he had a good team around him and he played a style that defenses hadn’t seen in a while. The defenses caught up to him, the team lost a lot of talent, and he didn’t adjust. When he was the hot thing, there were a number of articles about his saying how hard he worked, how he was always the first and last in the weight room. He should have spent more time in the film room.
The running QBs are always hot for a season, maybe two, until there is enough tape on them to craft a gameplan against them, until they tear an ACL, or until they get beaten up enough that they slow down half a step.
Kap was exactly in that mold. 1.5 years of success and then they figured him out. He was going to be bouncing around the league as a high quality backup/marginal starter before he went all commie.
Cam Newton and Ron Mexico were at it for a while.
Occasionally one comes along who bucks the trend, but for every Cam Newton, there are a handful of Robert Griffins.
Russell Wilson has managed to stay healthy, but he’s shifty and manages to avoid the big hits.
Russell Wilson also has a laser beam throw. He’s definitely in the dual-threat category, IMO. Vick, Newton, Kap, Griffin, etc. were in a different category where their mobility made up for a lack of NFL quality passing ability.
I saw a pretty good snark reply – “Good choice – he can’t read coverages either, so he’s perfect for the role”
Let’s see:
Among Mexico’s 2.7 million corn farmers, 90 percent work plots smaller than 20 hectares
——-
bigger farmers, those who plant 20 hectares or more, who account for more than 70 percent of domestic production.
10% of the farms account for 70+% of production.
There are a lot of hobby farms in Mexico, I guess.
Huh. I thought they’d all moved to CA’s Central Valley.
That isn’t an all to uncommon split. 80-20 is fairly normal. 80% of the work is generally done by 20% of the employees, etc.
I am at home (rarely happens these days) taking training online.
This one is SAP Windchill.
Urge to punt hamster rising…
What did the hamster do?
That fuzzy little bastard made the company switch from Cisco WebEx w/AT&T over to Microsoft Teams.
Teams sux for audio. “But it saves money!!” Bullshit. This has already cost us a ton in lost productivity and In training of executives.
Oh, okay then.
I hate Teams.
Teams – because Powerpoint wasn’t enough of a productivity suck.
They are really pushing the term “illegitimate”.
Today Republicans denied the will of the American people by confirming a Supreme Court justice through an illegitimate process—all in their effort to gut the Affordable Care Act and strip health care from millions with pre-existing conditions.
We won’t forget this.
Copmala will take down Drumpfler and remove his scotus picks.
It continues to Ratchet. Harry Reid was warned that the Turtle would not forget, and now in turn the Pig is warning the Turtle. All is an never ending spiral of tit for tats.
But illegitimate is just Dem Jargon for “Things done by the other party”. When GOP has power, it is illegitimate because “Electoral College isn’t democratic”, even though it is the legitimate system used by the constitution.
Surprised they havent dusted off the disparity in Senate power and WY shouldn’t get a say in the Senate to vote on justices. Will of the New York/Los Angeles/Chicago people and all.
Oh they have. They were bringing up abolishing the Senate a year or so ago.
Surprised they havent dusted off the disparity in Senate power and WY shouldn’t get a say in the Senate to vote on justices.
Which would be the most unconstitutional thing they would ever propose, but I don’t think that would stop them. Equal representation of the states in the Senate is literally the only part of the Constitution that the Constitution forbids amending (or, rather, requires unanimous consent instead of the usual 3/4ths approval).
What will was denied? I know I know….
That isn’t an all to uncommon split. 80-20 is fairly normal. 80% of the work is generally done by 20% of the employees, etc.
Pareto Principle strikes again.
I suspect Mexican property law has prevented consolidation of farms.
The mask crap has been increasing at my office which is really making me not want to be at work. Today I found out we are having “decorate your mask day” on Friday for Halloween. I’m going to be using a vacation day.
Yeah. Smart call.
That would be inviting open revolt in my department.
The technicians who have to wear plastic face shields all day are none too fond of the masking policy either.
just say you are wearing an invisible mask
In the spirit of Halloween, I am just scaring everyone.
I’m one of about half a dozen left that never wears one at work. We are only supposed to put them on if we have to work close to someone else. I think HR was getting people complaining about others not wearing masks so it’s been ratcheting up. I’m suspicious that there is fear of an OSHA visit and fine.
This is the first halloween where people are scared because you’re not wearing a mask. If you’re in the Trump administration, you should mostly be afraid of being “unmasked.”
Smart call.
Your point is retarded and irrelevant.
No Supreme Court nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a presidential election? Republicans say “no problem” and plunge ahead with an illegitimate nomination made by a morally bankrupt president.
My thinking is that they think this is a strong issue to get their base out to vote. Making the best of a bad situation.
They think they can scare women into thinking they’ll be made into broodmares just like was done to women back when…well, back before…ok so maybe it never happened BUT IT MIGHT!!
OrangeMan will singlehandedly destroy American freedom. Now put on this mask, stay quarantined at home, and mail in your Biden ballot.
And every gay marriage will be nullified. And sodomy will be made illegal again. [faints]
Let’s be honest… it was hotter when it was illegal.
No Supreme Court nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a presidential election?
There have been Supreme Court nominees confirmed during the runup to an election, and during the lame duck session after the election.
But ever this close!?111?! It literally is the GOP putting women back in the kitchen.
Nancy has lost her mind.
Directly after ACB is confirmed Nancy Pelosi suggests packing the Supreme Court AND District Courts:
“Should we expand the courts? Let’s take a look and see. Maybe we need more District Courts as well.”
You’d think that the Obama administration spent eight years twiddling their collective thumbs…
And what about the federal courts of appeals, Nancy? Because that’s where the action is. SCOTUS can refuse to take a case, the COAs have to take appeals if there is any merit whatsoever to the case.
There are too many district court judges for you to pack the courts, and if you did so there would still be a lot of cases heard by Republican appointees since cases are heard by a single judge chosen at random. This would also lead to a lot of judges (and their staffs) sitting around with nothing to do because case load is finite.
We have to open her skull up with a bone saw to find out what’s in it.
More bone.
“Skull in sunglasses displayed on a fireplace mantel is found to belong to man, 79, who went missing in 2012”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8885047/Skull-sunglasses-belongs-elderly-man-79-went-missing-2012.html
That’s some headline.
Wow.
Hiding in plain sight.
“New Yorkers are told NOT to travel over Thanksgiving as Mayor de Blasio calls on the government to mandate negative tests before boarding planes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8885447/New-Yorkers-told-NOT-travel-Thanksgiving-mayor-wants-mandatory-pre-flight-negative-tests.html
I didn’t think someone could be more of an authoritarian asshole than Bloomberg.
De Blaise eve more so.
Remember when he was going to save the DNC from having to nominate Bernie, because Joe was failing.?
I am sure that falls under the Commerce Clause and he can’t mandate that at all. Well, I guess he could on the entry to an airport since those are typically city/county owned.
Can we please blockade NYC from the rest of the country? (Sorry Rhywun and l0b0t.)
“I heard you were dead”
“Sasha Obama, 19, raps the N-word as she lip syncs to profanity-filled song in viral TikTok video (that was deleted as soon as fans recognized the former First Daughter)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8885009/Sasha-Obama-lip-syncs-profane-rap-song-viral-TikTok-video.html
? Teach the children well ?
Not my usual commenting time, but found NJR’s latest whining amusing and had to share:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/10/the-right-has-money-not-arguments
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You can buy as many copies of a libertarian children’s book as you want and you won’t change the fact that the socialists are right.
…
I wish that schools taught kids something about leftism (fairly, not dogmatically), but they don’t. I went to one of my state’s best public schools and it was through independent reading and research that I came to my own political orientation, since goodness knows it never showed up in the curriculum.
…
Hayek’s work is an example of an economic prediction being utterly falsified by history—in fact, Britain’s national healthcare system is the pride of the nation and creates freedom, not serfdom. But if you have enough money you can keep pushing discredited ideas.
…
Vastly more Tuttle Twins books will be sold than copies of Current Affairs this year, I am certain of it. (Of course, you can help to rectify that regrettable imbalance.) But this does not trouble me, because I know that we have the better argument, and I maintain my faith that eventually reason will manage to outwit money. Money talks, it’s true, but what leftists have to say is far more worth listening to.
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Meanwhile:
MSU ‘eliminates’ the terms ‘foreign’ and ‘alien’
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Michigan State University Provost Teresa Woodruff recently announced the end of using the terms “foreign” and “alien” to create a more inclusive environment.
Addressing the Associated Students of MSU (ASMSU) general assembly on October 22, Woodruff said, “we will eliminate from our collective lexicon the words ‘alien’ and ‘foreign.’ Instead, we’ve adopted non-pejorative terms that describe geography.”
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Euphemism treadmill go brrrrrr!
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=16026
And lastly, that time a lizard won a battle:
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Sinhagad was one of the first forts which Chattrapati Shivaji re-captured from the Mughals. The capture was made possible by scaling the walls at night with ladders made of rope. A fight followed in which Tanhaji was killed but the fort was won. The battle and Tanhaji’s exploits are still a popular subject for Marathi ballad.[4]
During the siege, Malusare scaled a steep cliff that led to the fort through the assistance of a monitor lizard called Yashwanti (also referred to as ghorpad in marathi).[5][unreliable source?] This type of lizard was tamed since the 15th century and Yashwanti was trained to pull the rope up the cliffs for Malusare and wind it around the fort’s bastion.
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That’s a lot of argument by assertion, even for a retard like NJR.
[insert Vizzini pic with caption “Wait until I get going!”]
He convinced me. Obviously the problem with our entertainment media, education system, and news media is that it is so very hard right. I recall the constant references to the Wealth of Nations and Atlas Shrugged in every movie, book, comic, class, and song from my youth. I just wish some of the villains could have been white, one or two male, maybe even a handful straight, and possibly even a businessman or two. Maybe if even one teacher out there could be to the left of Pinochet we could finally become New Soviet Man and achieve True Communism.
Seriously how partisan do you have to be to think the culture is dominated by a guy who is guerilla publishing libertarian kid’s books in response to the solid wall of leftist crap out there?
Not partisan, just painfully stupid and very convinced of your superior intelligence.
But this does not trouble me, because I know that we have the better argument, and I maintain my faith that eventually reason will manage to outwit money.
The socialist argument rests upon the same reasoning that justifies pillaging and slavery, and on top if that it has the support of the moneyed interests, so this guy could not be more wrong.
Not wanting to be left out, JB Pritzker has decided that Chicago must pay for its intransigence. If the courts can’t put a stop to this, what the hell good are they?
Crap. We just increased the number of people allowed at hockey practice. I’m guessing there’s going to be some kind of rollback there.
Soldiers and police in Mexico seized an industrial-scale meth and fentanyl lab that was so big it startled investigators, federal prosecutors announced Sunday.
The lab had chemical preparation vats about two stories tall that could process 11,000 pounds (5,000 kilograms) of raw material at a time, said Felipe de Jesus Gallo of the federal Attorney General’s Office.
Florida Man has competition.
Music selection is good.
I have a too-local news link dump. First: Assholes
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has continued to field complaints about businesses that aren’t complying with the governor’s emergency coronavirus orders.
Two businesses have been fined, but officials said their preference is to help businesses comply, rather than issue fines.
“Help”. Bullshit.
Mark Steyn will have fun with this in his adopted home state of New Hampshire
Do they raise more than $10?
It’s not taxpayer loot. And while every life lost is a tragedy, I’m not in support of banning abortion.
It’s also a handy way to identify the ghouls in the celebrity world who celebrate abortion as a sacrament.
The Clown Prince wants Congress fired
Gov. Chris Sununu said voters in next Tuesday’s congressional elections should “fire them all” for their failure to compromise on a COVID-19 relief package.
“Fire them all. I really mean that sincerely,” Sununu said on CNBC-TV’s “Squawk Box” Monday morning.
“No one in the Senate or Congress can say that they’ve shown leadership on the COVID crisis. What have they done since March? Like literally nothing.”
Democratic nominee for governor Dan Feltes said voters should retire Sununu after four years in office for his failure to work with the Democrat-led Legislature on responding to COVID-19, his opposition to a statewide mask mandate and not offering firm restrictions on reopening public schools.
“On schools, the current governor did not do a real reopening plan. I think that has led to a degree of chaos at the local level,” Feltes said during a forum the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce sponsored featuring candidates for governor and the 1st Congressional District. “Folks on the school board didn’t sign up to be epidemiologists.”
What three trillion dollar spending package?
You can buy as many copies of a libertarian children’s book as you want and you won’t change the fact that the socialists are right.
The Little Red Hen was not a cookbook.
Unfortunately the socialists will never say “Then I shall do it myself.”
NH Government opposes opioid deal
At a news conference, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said Purdue has agreed to plead guilty to three felony counts for defrauding the United States and violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Purdue will pay more than $8.3 billion in criminal fines and civil forfeitures, and members of the Sackler family, the company’s shareholders, have agreed to pay $225 million to resolve the civil investigation.
The settlement is subject to approval by the New York court overseeing Purdue’s bankruptcy case.
New Hampshire is one of 25 states that oppose the proposed deal.
A key reason for that is a plan to transfer Purdue’s assets to a new “public benefit corporation.”
Argentina locked down early and hard. Now cases are exploding.
Clearly, the lockdowns causes the spike in infection. #science.
Fucking virus just won’t get the message.
“It’s a long way, but it is a war against an invisible army that attacks us in places where sometimes we do not expect,” Fernández declared in March.
It’s really not.
Unfortunately, these are the kinds of scientific experts that President Biden will be listening to.
Just wait until the convict colonies get hammered. Still gonna be happy about giving Jacinda an increased majority then, you Kiwi fucks?
So, Argentina has had one of the world’s strictest lockdowns? And yet they have a fatality rate of 658/M, compared to the US having 708/M and Brazil having 754/M. It’s almost like the virus will do what it will, governments be damned.
Epping, NH man pranked by sign promoting strip club
Michael Fecteau’s phone started blowing up first thing Monday morning when people began noticing the large sign attached to a utility pole on his vacant 7-acre piece of commercial property.
The sign displayed at the highly visible intersection of routes 27 and 125 in Epping read, “Coming Soon! Simple Pleasures Gentlemen’s Club.”
It featured two silhouettes of women pole dancing and an image of what appeared to be an artist’s rendering of the building that would allegedly house the new club.
“I’ve gotten calls from planning, the police department, and the selectmen’s office,” Fecteau said.
The sign got some people wound up because it was the first anyone had heard about a strip club at the site.
It was also news to Fecteau.
Fecteau confirmed that no, he does not have plans to bring a strip club to Epping.
Shouldn’t a NH candidate’s campaign manager be voting in New York?
Shouldn’t the campaign manager for Jenn Alford-Teaster be voting in New York – where she is a legal resident – not NH? From the recent Absentee ballot requests from Manchester Ward 1:
300595392 GOPAL, VEDIKA 436 WALNUT ST 01 DEM 08/19/2020
From Vedika’s LinkedIn Page:
Vedika Gopal
Campaign Manager at Jenn Alford-Teaster for NH Senate
Yonkers, New York 233 connections
Experience
Jenn Alford-Teaster for NH Senate
Campaign Manager
Jenn Alford-Teaster for NH Senate
Jun 2020 – Present 5 months
Vedika Gopal is, according to all public documents available, from Yonkers NY. To be specific, her address is that of her parents and a sister who also has campaign experience. She worked on a political campaign in Illinois.
Lakes Region sign thief makes it national!
The National Review Online article, found at https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/homeowners-with-trump-yard-signs-receive-ominous-warning/, is an excellent expose of the sort of tactics being used by the Left, and it specifically refers to James Babcock, who has been charged with theft by unauthorized taking and an election-law violation of tampering with an election sign. However, there has been no trial because the court has been closed due to COVID.
Babcock is supposedly a retired former guidance counselor from the public schools in Gilford and his booking photo from the Gilford Police Department appears above.
So I was just walking the dogs when the neighbor’s three little girls run up and start talking to me, asking if they can pet the greyhound.
Sure, I say. Their mom, who I know from the local pool board, is still watching from the house… I assume to make sure I don’t lure her daughters away and sell them into slavery.
Seriously, at least this neighborhood isn’t filled with super-helicopter parents, just slightly suspicious ones. But it seems that every male above the age of five these days is looked upon as a potential sexual predator. Because of this I really don’t like to talk with small kids, even outgoing fun ones, just because of perceptions.
Also you’re gonna give them covid.
So were you successful in selling them into slavery?
I’m trading them to OMWC for some vacuum tubes.
That grey hound is just a coyote in drag. The dog will lure those kids to Mexico in a reverse heart beat. Fact.
LOL
As has been pointed out frequently, human beings are really, really bad at evaluating relative risks. Whole generations of kids are being raised in bubbles because we ended up with national coverage of a handful of abductions. Better to doom 100 million to anxiety and a complete lack of initaitive and confidence than to have a single child abducted! Ignore the fact that none of this stops child predators, because they almost invariably find work as one of the adults watching over the kids and focus in on the almost undetectable minority that drive around neighborhoods throwing kids in vans.
It took near constant reassurance throughout a summer to convince my wofe that our (then little) boys can safely traverse the 2 blocks to school alone.
First 2 weeks of school, with no sense of irony, she classically appeared to emulate a kidnapper stalking prey.
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Good to see you back, by the way
It’s good to be back… and enjoying the snark.
It might have something to do with the metal hockey mask and bondage harness.
Did you at least shout “YOUR BLOOD WILL BE MY LOTION!”
OFFS – Just found out who is running against me for the open spot on our area’s HOA Board:
Our next door neighbor, whose wife is a karen who is literally named Karen, and who I’m pretty sure is the one who has been sending tons of anonymous harassing letters to the HOA, about my yard complaining about wildflowers not being mowed down, and about how the several hundred trees or bushes I planted did not have a separate form submitted for each and every one of them asking for authorization.
Oh, and some military vet who lists his relevant experience as reaching out to community members in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Switzy is running against you for the HOA board?
That experience actually sounds on point.
Particularly if it was reaching out a la Chris Kyle.
Our new board which is our old board from 3 years ago are assholes. They immediately recinded the collection of fees during the shutdowns (balance sheet says 1.2 million in da bank), hired a code enforcer…so you pay for incentives…and more.
I might run next election cause the previous board was more focused on community involvement not trying to keep a 20 year old community looking like it was built yesterday.
Do Neighborhood associations ever just die off?
I mean neighborhood was built in the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. There was an association that collected fees for the pool and who knows what else. But now those yearly fees aren’t enforced at all. So there is no association left except you have to be a pool shareholder to vote or be a board member.
Odd thing: those first pool shareholders – those shares transfer with the house for any new owners. Any new owners of homes that originally declined shares – back in 1960! – don’t get a vote or reduced shareholder rates.
* I mean my current neighborhood
Yes. The area I lived in CO saw its HOA’s die a swift death when enough foreclosures meant no HOA dues. Imagine a cookie cutter neighborhood except one clown paints his house purple.
It was glorious.
Why did you choose purple?
*I* happened to be raised by parents that sell real estate for a living, thus chose a taupe with storm gray asphalt shingles so as not to diminish my corner lot’s curb appeal when I went to resell…
…thank you very much.
How… sensible. [squints suspiciously]
In my neighborhood there’s a house with chicken sculptures (one is over 7ft tall) made of brightly painted metal. I love it. They currently have a sign saying “this yard protected by zombie chickens”. There’s another house with a whole bunch of concrete mushrooms set up for little kids to have tea parties (guy has 3 little girls). There’s a bicycle sculpture that gets decorated for every holiday, etc. None of it would happen with an HOA. I love it.
Depends on the HOA, where I build there’s a house with every gaudy yard decoration you can imagine (Full disclosure it’s the first house we built, it was a spec house and we didn’t know the eventual buyer would be a hillbilly), one place has a 7′ metal moose with… how should I put this delicately?… giant balls that swing in the wind. All HOA approved. They are mostly concerned with enforcing the speed limit, keeping people without passes out, and making sure people mow their lots at least twice a year.
Do Neighborhood associations ever just die off?
IMO, they should all sunset after 10 years. Want to keep your exclusive subdivision looking nice for a decade? Fine, whatever. When Ken and Karen are sending out angry HOA notices in a 25 year old neighborhood for a dented mailbox, that’s just sad.
Yes. The contract is usually with the developer. As soon as the developer runs out of properties to sell the developer ceases to exist, thus most HOA’s are zombies animated by Karens. Every state is different so you might want to check with a local lawyer but I am fairly certain in a 20 year old development there is no real HOA contract and you can tell them to pound sand.
Good to see you back, hope all is well for the next day or three.
Thank you. We should be fine. We are supposed to get about 48 hours of rain. Jeebus I can’t wait for a frost. I have never seen mosquitoes this bad.
I hope you are yours are faring well.
My deed references some covenants from the developer.
There is a clause that says after 50 years, if a majority of residents on the street want them to continue, they continue. Otherwise, they expire.
If I’m still here then, I fucked up, but I expect given that some folks ignore the covenants with nothing else happening, they will expire unnoticed.
Covenants are the right answer. Force somebody to take the action of dragging the offender into court. If it’s not worth that level of effort, then it’s not egregious enough a violation.
As I noted above, our previous board was the perfect HOA. Common areas, parks, etc were their focus. Along with providing community events (promoted yard sales, movie nights, etc). Then this new board came in, and went hardline. The community was built in 2003. I am not saying I want cars on cinder blocks, but life in America is much different than it was in 2003. Gig-economy, mobile economy, etc all are exploding and we can no longer park our work vehicle/trailer at the house.
Lawyer said they might be able to fight that, but it will probably be a loss as the HOAs in NV are quite favorable.
In Virginia they end after 20 years
Dover, NH restaurant having trouble thanks to fall out from the Clown Prince’s shutdown
When the co-owners of Stalk opened their doors in January, it was the culmination of years of hard work to open their own restaurant.
“Originally, we were looking separately, we both had the dream of opening our own places,” co-owner and co-chef John Daniels said this week.
Because he and fellow co-owner and co-chef Nicole Nocella had worked together at many Portsmouth restaurants – including Martingale Wharf and Rosa – “we decided, ‘Let’s do it together,’” Daniels said.
“It’s easier to have a partner, and then we fell upon this place after looking around Dover a lot,” he said during an interview at their stylish Central Avenue restaurant, which is next to City Hall. “We both love Dover and how it’s growing.”
But less than two months after they opened, COVID-19 struck.
“We initially thought it was just going to be three weeks and we were like, ‘OK we’re going to get through this,’ and then it got prolonged and it got prolonged, again and it was like … ‘What are we going to do?’” Nocella said.
Last one. Have some global warming… err.. climate change
Nine years after the state was battered with more than a foot of snow in many spots ahead of Halloween, trick-or-treaters might encounter some measurable snow later this week.
There likely won’t be nearly as much snow this time around, though. A few to several inches of snow could be possible if things line up.
In that Halloween storm nine years ago, I got more than a foot of snow and had no power for more than a week.
Where are they still trick or treating?
My town is still having trick or treating.
The Live Free or Die State’s trick or treating times.
“Dr Fauci warns that early COVID-19 vaccines will only prevent symptoms from arising – not block infection”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8884031/Dr-Fauci-warns-early-COVID-19-vaccines-prevent-symptoms-not-block-infection.html
What?
That makes no fucking sense.
This man is an immunologist?
Presumably he’s an immunologist with a minty fresh new offshore bank account to go with new gig as statist shill.
No, he’s a primary care doctor who has never treated a patient since residency.
And if you don’t get symtpoms, you’re not sick, so who cares? At any given time, you are “infected” with who knows how many viruses, and, you got it, nobody cares.
Oh….he’s defined a bureaucrat. I came across a number of such doctors at the VA, essentially using their Title 38 status to “cash in” while not actually having to be a doctor.
Causechis spotlight goes away when people start acting normal again. Gotta keep that fear alive.
Pulled a Trump. CAUSE HIS
I thought that you were giving him a clever nickname by using “cause” in his last name
That was it…not a mistake but a clever name
So if I have cancer but I don’t know it and it never kills me, that’s a bad thing?
Depends, for whom do you plan to vote?
If the cancer kills him he’s voting Democrat.
Um, if it doesn’t create immunity, then it’s not a vaccine.
If a vaccine just gets rid of symptoms, why not save the money and give everyone a box of Tylenol Cold & Flu?
That is science not SCIENCE!
Or Shiensh as Pelosi says.
Is Pelosi:
1) drunk
2) mini-stroked out
3) facelifted too tightly to move properly?
yes
Remember when she lost a bunch of weight and changed her hair?
I don’t know where I’m going with this.
You mean when she got a Brazilian at that spa where she didn’t wear a mask?
*projectile vomits*
Technically, you could get infected but since your body already has the antibodies, you quickly kill the infection.
Why he felt the need to say it that way is a mystery.
Because he profits from the panic.
the greatest rifle you’ve probably never heard of
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The Whitworth rifle was an English-made rifled musket used in the latter half of the 19th century. A single-shot muzzleloader with excellent long-range accuracy for its era, especially when used with a telescopic sight, the Whitworth rifle was widely regarded as the world’s first sniper rifle.
The Whitworth rifle saw extensive use with the Confederate sharpshooters in the American Civil War, claiming the lives of several Union generals, including John Sedgwick, one of the highest-ranking Union officers killed during the Civil War, shot on May 9, 1864, at Spotsylvania. On October, 2017, a surviving example of a Confederate Whitworth rifle was auctioned with a hammer price of $161,000.[1]
The Whitworth rifle was considered to be the very best rifle of its time in terms of accuracy, when compared to other British, French, American rifles, or those produced elsewhere.[2]
***
and another military first
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The first aggressive use of balloons in warfare took place in 1849. Austrian imperial forces besieging Venice attempted to float some 200 paper hot air balloons each carrying a 24–30-pound (11–14 kg) bomb that was to be dropped from the balloon with a time fuse over the besieged city.
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What are you talking about? of course we’ve heard of the whitworth rifle. Who do you think you’re talking to?
The Whitworth 12pdr field gun was even more impressive, I think – so much range that contemporary fire control couldn’t take full advantage.
Whitworth was a fascinating guy.
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”
I’ve always heard that quote as “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”
I’ve known about the Whitworth rifle for a long time. One of the best muzzleloading rifle-muskets ever made.
speaking of British rifles, I always liked this scene from Zulu
The Martini-Henry. About which Rudyard Kipling wrote:
When ‘arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don’t call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She’s human as you are – you treat her as sich,
An’ she’ll fight for the young British soldier.
The Martini-Henry tended to rup the base off of spent shells, causing the soldier to have to pry the rest of the brass out of the chamber before it could be loaded again, often getting said soldiers killed in the process.
This was caused by poor quality control in the ammunition factories, often staffed by war orphans…
*tended to rip the base off
Yeah, bad brass caused all sorts of issues for the first breechloaders.
Still – imagine taking a 450-grain .577 slug at that range. Ouch.
Not quite right.
The original cartridge for the Martini-Henry used a rolled brass foil case with an iron base. In 1885 (long after the Battle of Rourke’s Drift depicted in the clip Lord Humongous linked), the British switched to a drawn brass case and improved the Martini-Henry’s extractor. Problems extracting ammunition virtually disappeared.
That doesn’t sound like Guys and Dolls at all.
A movie that couldn’t be made today.
I noticed that (last time I checked) I couldn’t find Zulu* on Amazon Prime. but they were actively pushing Zulu Dawn**
*the move where the british won
**the less successful prequel about the battle where the british lost
I’m sure it’s just because the licensing on the less popular movie is cheaper, but I’m always suspicious of tech companies
Which is kind of silly because the Zulus are portrayed as brave, skilled warriors.
And they were played by actual Zulus – which is what the current fad is pushing.
More bullets with better placement tend to win over brave and skilled.
^This. If you watch Zulu and come away thinking it is somehow racist you are either an idiot or Dutch.
Jah! I never thought “kill those black!” when watching the movie. More like the power of the rifle in the hands of a few, overwhelmed defenders. I read somewhere… long time ago… the real story is still used as an example of using concentrated infantry fire over a larger attacking force.
Something that the Brits were very good at in WW1, so much that the Germans thought they were facing machine gun fire during their initial 1914 attacks.
The censors don’t seem to be the same type of people who can comprehend respect for one’s foes.
When I was in the National Guard, we spent a day at Gettysburg. Our training NCO who had been a SF sniper took us down to the rocks where the Confederate snipers hid and showed us how far away the Union officers they killed were. He declared it “a manly shot” – his highest level of phrase.
On July 3rd, the Union retaliated by firing a cannon at a sniper in the Devil’s Den. One shot, hit the rocks. The officer in charge later went down and found a dead Reb sniper, killed by concussion. Supposedly, he was the dead guy later staged by the photographer in the famous photo. And the sniper rifle is reported to be in the Visitor Center collection.
The Devil’s Den! Thank you – I was trying to remember what that place was called.
Uberti? I forget….one of the Italian gun makers makes an excellent replica Whitworth. I have always wanted one. You definitely have to cast your own bullets. It is not rifled…it has a hexagonal(?) bore.
Navy Arms imported one back in the day, not sure who made it.
Good grief. My memory is going to shit. I got that completely wrong. Pedersoli is the manufacturer and I was thinking of the Gibbs rifle.
*facepalm*
https://www.davide-pedersoli.com/tipologia-prodotti.asp/l_en/idt_1/rifles-gibbs.html
Yeah, I immediately thought* “WTH is Suthen talking about? Everyone knows the hexagonal bore was the Gibbs rifle, and Pedersoli makes the replica”.
Geez.
*Not really, and not in a million years.
The Big Bang Theory is not watchable, even when considering that blonde chick with the big norks (no, the other one, or either of them, I don’t care).
Funnily enough I was listening to an old Econtalk with Mike Munger on Chile. It was a follow up to an earlier podcast he’d done on public transit in Santiago, with some more general talk of Chilean attitudes to markets and economic policy. Russ Roberts had also had some experience of Chile and made the observation that the Pinochet years hadn’t soured people’s views on economic liberalism and markets, by association. I guess times have changed. It’s in bad faith that detractors of free markets treat it purely as a referendum on Pinochet, when of course it’s perfectly possible to hold the opinion that Pinochet was a huge jerk, but be pro market and pro freedom.
*sigh*
Limey yells at cloud.
I found the show insufferable and insulting. So I didn’t watch it.
My father seems to be of the opion that it was funny. He is wrong.
Pinochet was an absolute piker compared to Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and every other communist dictator that ever existed.
Probably because he only needed to kill communists instead of “everyone who wants to keep the fruits of their own labor”
+1 Helicopter ride
Well, yeah, everything is relative. My dad has a Chilean friend who was supposedly tortured under the Pinochet regime. Nice guy. I have no idea why or what he was allegedly involved in. I suspect it may have had something to do with La Vicaría de la Solidaridad.
Sure, Pinochet was an asshole. But he’s been made out to be an exceptionally heinous monster by the modern left when his body count was in the thousands compared to the tens of millions under his communist contemporaries.
Pinochet voluntarily stepped down, for one thing. Minor league move.
The Big Bang Theory is unwatchable tripe.
Limey, just give the Argentines their damned islands back; that’ll shut em up.
I watched Brett Kricher’s The Cabin recently, he has an episode with the blonde from BBT where he describes the show as the most successful sitcom of the century or something.
“That can’t be true”, I remarked to myself.
I saw a number of episodes while trapped in a hospital bed. Needed a break from 24/7 Cartoon Network. Cable is what keeps me from ketoacidosis.
Pinochet was the modern day Sulla. A brutal killer trying to fix a collapsing Republic. They both succeeded for a while. Both stepped down voluntarily after restoring order. Both Republics collapsed a couple of decades after their deaths.
If Trump is our Gracchi, our Sulla is already an adult.
A reformer? I suppose a lot of radical Democrats fancy themselves such.
I enjoyed season 1 and a bit of season 2. It went downhill quickly after that. By season 4, it was Friends with extra nerd jokes.
Wife has the exact opposite opinion. Of course, she loves Friends.
Since threads are crossed here, if Pinochet were in the Big Bang Theory, who would have received a helicopter ride?
Shoved all the geeks through am airlock without suits.
OK, which Glib is this?
This. Dammit.
Not going to log in to view it, sorry.
The lurker, obviously
Tulpa, of course.
CORRECT.
We used to have one [sewing machine] at work that was souped up with a 1.5 hp electric motor. I saw it sew 2 pieces of 1/4″ plywood together.
Is it hot in here?
“Chopper 6 over the scene as a Foot Locker in West Philadelphia is looted following the death of Walter Wallace, who police say was shot by officers after he would not drop a knife.”
https://twitter.com/6abc/status/1321048744255803392
No High Tops, No Peace
It’s almost like a certain percentage of people don’t care about Social Justice but just use it as an excuse to riot…. nah. I must be nuts! Everyone always has pure intentions!
It’s no longer about police brutality. Now it’s just any old excuse. Riots used to be risky – police and National Guardsmen would shoot a few rioters just to make an example and pound the rest with clubs.
In case you haven’t seen it:
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1320914662670667776
You could amend the Constitution to allow Trump to run for a third term, but that’s hard. Especially because the Constitution is written in a language no one understands.
The Rube Goldberg award for the day: looked at 538’s “scientific” Perez election forecasting, where they run tens of thousands of scenario projections to show Biden has about a 90% chance of winning.
But they also showed some of those sample scenarios. Every Biden “win” had him winning PA. Every Trump “win” had Trump winning PA.
So, they burned up time on a supercomputer modeling that essentially said “PA decides the election”.
Prez, not Perez. FN autocorrect.
Perez Hilton for perez!
And there are analysts who say PA isn’t even a toss-up.
I fear this guy is whistling through the graveyard. I went by the county board of elections building this afternoon and the line to register and get mail ballots was, no shit, a quarter mile long. I’d say the average age of those in line was well under 35. Out front, both the Biden and Trump people had tents giving away swag. For every person taking a Trump or GOP sign, there were five people taking crap from the Biden booth.
His analyst says that NM will go red this year? He’s delusional.
Huh – I read somewhere else (Red State?) the Trump can still win without PA, provided he takes some other “swing” states. ie, Trump has multiple paths to victory, more so that Joe. But Red State isn’t exactly neutral.
Trump could win by taking all the states he did last time minus PA.
But he’s not going to win MI it looks like
Any idea why Biden’s lead appears to be increasing in MI?
Their voters suck? Look who they elected Governor.
I’d say he has to win Florida no matter what, and at least one of PA WI or MI
*looks around*
We got this.
Current
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
For sake of where they were 4 years ago
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Nate Silver might be looking for a new job in a week because that forecast looks like he just changed the names of who is running against Trump.
They show that because where PA sits – it’s a tossup, and it is unlikely either Biden or Trump win without it swinging to them, even though Trump technically has a path without it (if WI and MI polls are as wrong as they were last time, he can win with those two instead of PA).
Also, interesting to note, the polls are tightening. RCP averages show GA and FL moving into the Trump column this week, with OH moving there last week. Biden currently favored to win 311-227, which is basically the inverse of what Hillary got.
https://twitter.com/BronzeAgeJelqer/status/1317524335754678272
Sad.
Daddy issues
My favorite kind of ladies 😉
Err, aren’t their parents sort of legally required to be reachable if they are still in the US? They can’t have become citizens so fast, so they are presumably under some refugee or asylum status, which means the authorities have to be able to contact them for court dates, etc. Although the catch-and-release crew of Latin American “refugees” are notorious for just disappearing into the wind and blowing off the rest of the process.
Or, they have given up and gone back to the old country, abandoning their children in the US?
Or, the actual parents were never here at all, of course.
“Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of
sciencelogic?”Trump disappeared them, obviously.
Some of #1 and some of #2. Dump the kids, they get ‘legal’ status, send money home, maybe move them out once they feel safe enough that INS or ICE or whatever we call it is no longer really looking for them.
Who in the flying fuck just shines on their kids after, an admittedly hostile, foreign country takes them? If that’s true, then either they suspect we’ll grant them citizenship and a good life, or they are pure fucking scum. How hard is it to go to the embassy and demand to know what they’ve done with your kids? Basically anyone would do that, unless they flatly don’t care. If Australia took my kid because I tried to sneak in, I’d camp in front of the embassy and bitch at them non stop until they gave me my kids back. I’d get the press involved, right fucking now! This is a bullshit story.
Excellent
First lady Melania Trump focused on the Covid-19 pandemic in her first solo campaign event of 2020 and blasted Democrats for allegedly politicizing the pandemic.
Melania directly attacked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on the coronavirus, claiming: “Now he suggests that he could have done a better job. Well, the American people can look at Joe Biden’s 36 years in Congress and eight years in the vice presidency and determine whether they think he’ll finally be able to get something done for the American people.”
I await the shrieks of outrage.
But the First Spouse isn’t a political office!
No First Lady has gotten political evah! —Hillary Clinton
Maybe Joe and Kamala can propose a three strikes and you’re out mask law.
Third time busted for no mask, and it’s ten years at hard labor. And a fifty thousand dollar fine.
Hunter personally makes you suck on a crack pipe until your heart explodes.
The first lady also spoke about her family’s struggle with the virus and demonstrated compassion for those suffering the virus — something rarely done by President Donald Trump in rallies.
Gotcha!
https://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1320936925914607619
Inter-species erotica
Disparage voters. Threaten to destroy people’s wealth and liberty. Threaten to destroy the system and any checks on power. Demand votes.
The leftists can’t figure out why they are losing. They really do have rocks int their heads.
The sad thing is that it just might work.
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1321119469607948289
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
James May bought half of a pub
Now Mark Steyn says something is happening. Is OMWC in cahoots with Steyn somehow?
https://www.steynonline.com/10718/election-day-minus-seven
I have been saying that for weeks. Trump rally….tens of thousands. Biden rally…a dozen family members of campaign staff.
No one believes Biden can with this on the up and up. The polls are all bullshit propaganda.
To be fair, Biden’s base turns up at his rallies too. And by base, I mean the media.
It’s interesting that Steyn mentions the Rasmussen poll that has Trump actually ahead in the last daily result (although not the combined last several polls). I seem to remember from 4 years ago that Rasmussen was closer to reality that most other polls.
I hope Steyn is right. I read his articles every day but fear he is over optimistic.
“So which rock-ribbed originalist will get to play the Designated Swinger? Neil Gorsuch?”
Looks like Steyn is going with the Hyp prediction for swing vote.
A few days ago my wife looks at me and says ‘Do you think Trump could really lose?’. I said ‘You been talking with your woketard friends again? Of course he COULD lose, but I don’t think so. It doesn’t make any sense, don’t worry.’.
So then she said something that really surprised me. She said ‘Maybe Biden should win so all of these people will wake up and see what these socialists will really try to do?’. I said ‘Well, yeah, but we get to endure that also and I don’t want it’.
I think for sure if these clowns really do pull it off, it will be such a disaster that they would get crushed again in the 2022 midterms and in local elections all over. But I’d rather that not happen. Let’s just vote all these fucktards out now.
Today, I got at least the 6th mail-in ballot in the mail that I’ve gotten so far in the past few months. WTF? Instead of just tossing this one like I always do, I looked it over and went over it with my wife. There’s 3 ballot issues on there. All three are asking permission for the city to spend fuck tons of money. 80 million on one of the, 34 million on another. My wife didn’t know about the ballot issues, so I just told her ‘all 3 of those are a big fat fuck no’. Damn assholes can’t even fix the roads or keep the daily water main breaks under control. The electric goes off every time it rains. I cannot wait until May-June when I am the fuck out of here forever.
Hi all! Posting live from downtown Beirut my terrace. Mostly peaceful protestors just tore up my block. The cops at on their on their bicycles while the diners outside ran for their lives.
strike through fail (:
Still better reporting that all of the journo-class
I flipped through all of the channels. No mention of it at all.
That’s amazing, horrifying, and enraging.
I’m assuming the mayor told them to stand down.
https://twitter.com/reallygraceful/status/1320743560610750469
Democrats in Mississippi miss white people in masks.
So Trump stopped ads in Florida, so either he’s completely screwed, or he really thinks it’s in the bag
Or he’s out of cash
Supposedly Team MAGA disputed the Bloomberg story.
https://www.theweek.com/speedreads/946245/trump-reportedly-cancels-millions-dollars-florida-ad-spending
So don’t rule out TMITE.
TMITE still remains the one absolute truth.
Why does the suspicion keep popping in my head that most of the propaganda from the MSM has Chinese money or influence behind it?
Fever dreams?
*Looks at the NBA*
Yeah, that must be it.
Not a doubt in my mind.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1321177806257164290
Enthusiasm.
My boy just texted. His mother is dying. Maybe a week. Lung cancer. Chain smoker since we met in high school
Sorry.
Sorry man
Ouch. I am sorry to hear that.
Sorry man that’s rough.
Sorry.
Sad news for your son, DJ. Where will the lad go? Old enough to go with you, adult?
My condolences to everyone.
I’m so sorry.
Sorry man.
Very sorry to hear that.
Thanks all. I just realized she’s my oldest friend. For twenty years, in the back of my mind, we were going to get back together. Wierd. We actually met when she came up to bum a smoke from me in HS. Isn’t that ironic?
Sorry 🙁
https://www.kptv.com/news/gov-brown-extends-covid-19-state-of-emergency-for-oregon-through-jan-2-2021/article_9623115e-1895-11eb-bde7-5bacd77d7680.html
Two weeks. To flatten the curve.
They are never going to give up their power. It will have to be taken from them. At some point state legislatures are going to start hurting for money and then they will get off of their asses.
No, they’ll just ask the feds for more money.
But she’ll let Portland burn with no compunctions.
I’m starting to come around towards that attitude too.
“But she’ll let Portland burn”
That may be the one thing she got right.
Looking forward to this Tucker interview.