Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a absolutely beautiful morning it always is!
I don’t know about you, but I have my popcorn machine filled for all the news dropping this week.
Rejected mail-in ballots could have significant effect on election. Brilliant plan, Democrats.
DOJ likely to file Antitrust suit against Google.
110,000 Californians bought guns during the pandemic, 43% were first time buyers.
These white supremacist Nazis are getting crafty.
Grieving New York families hold “funeral” for Cuomo’s Coronavirus book at nursing home.
That is all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Rumors of earlier links are just that….rumors.
Phuc me.
So I have to repost pictures of mangled hands?
You don’t have to.
Also, this is what you get for posting early. See, I told you it was just as bad as late.
What posting early?
THERE… ARE…. THREE… LIGHTS — I MEAN POSTS!
3? You might need to seek help for a concussion.
Says the Swiss who wants us to *accept* the new reality… 😉 Sometimes I do try to be a little more subtle.
If he admits to there having been an error, he loses his honorary swiss status.
ist alles in Ordnung
How many are still going to vote for gun control?
Probably quite a few of them.
This is my big problem with gun rights groups reaching out to younger and non-traditional demographics.
So…make sure appeal to fewer, and not bring new people into the fold? Hmmmm.
Appealing to more and broader groups, and bringing new people into the fold, those are long-term projects. They’re good and necessary for long-term growth, but they can’t be focused of exclusively at the expense of short-term survival.
I don’t think adding new gun owners is stretching too far.
“Congratulations on exercising your right to keep and bear arms. Now, here are the people who want to take that away from you. Would you like to join us in fighting to keep the rights you just exercised?”
“Well, I like having my new gun, but I’m still going to vote for a Democratic candidate because social justice/climate change/orangemanbad.”
Now all the work done to bring that new gun owner into the fold, is wasted. That’s time and money and effort that could have been spent getting your base motivated and out to the polls.
Like I said, outreach is good and necessary. But it needs to be done at as little cost as possible, and not at the expense of proven activism in the short term.
Because if we take one major loss in the short term, our broadening demographics won’t matter.
Your strategy guarantees we lose in the ‘long term’, and makes our position weaker every day. Any group or movement that refuses to reach out to young people is doomed, and the argument that we can’t waste time on that when we are under siege simply guarantees that we will always be under siege. You don’t get stronger by hunkering down and focusing on motivating your base.
Colion Noir is more important to preserving the 2nd Amendment than Wayne Lapierre.
“Why yes, I do support common sense gun safety! As I a gun owner, I do think that is very important. I own a [insert Fudd approved firearm here], not one of those illegal military guns.”
The guys I hear that from the most are the almost exclusively old, almost exclusively white, shotgunners. In other words the very demographic Sheldon’s strategy relies on.
I do hope the actual experience of buying a firearm, particularly the delays in CA, will cause the scales to fall away from some former antigunners.
Say what you will about old white shotgunners, but they vote for Republicans in large quantities.
I don’t like this kind of realpolitik, but that’s where we are.
Those new gun buyers only bought those guns because they have to flee the shitholes they helped create by voting for democrats. When they get to their new utopias, they’ll need to protect themselves from the radicals who did not vote for democrats, until they can vote for democrats and turn their utopia into the same shithole they fled from.
SCIENCE!
Repost:
Mordecai Brown https://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/three-finger.jpg
Fred Snodgrass, dropped fly ball.
For more details, see the alternate universe.
What I learned this morning:
You’re either for SCIENCE, or against it. Vote accordingly.
Science or SCIENCE?
You either fucking love science, or you’re a Republican.
But if you love fucking science, you’re SugarFree?
I hadn’t thought of it that way, but…..
Well, “Polymer chemists do it in chains”. (This was an actual poster on one of my science classrooms in high school. I could only assume that no administrator ever walked down that hallway.)
I love that biology has 2 sexes, based on XX or XY chromosome pairing, but these scientists & science lovers tell us their are 57 genders!
See, I can’t keep up with science. A sure sign that science is progressing at a never before seen pace. I still remember when there were only 23 genders.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the meaty lynx this morning.
No way in hell am I mailing in a ballot. I want to see the damn thing disappear into the machine. We have plenty of election shenanigans here in the PRM in the best of times. I expect the malfeasance to be spectacular this time.
I’m kind of ambivalent about the anti-trust shit against Google. We already know how the tech companies are tied to both the US intelligence apparatus and the ChiComs. I’m not sure what busting them up will accomplish – they already have our whole lives. Fucking Snowden. Living in ignorance was much easier!
Great song choice! Love those guys. This rolled up next. Excellent album.
I hope all of you have a fantastic day!
Yeah, California already thought of that — even the local places are mere “drop off” locations, not actual polling places. You just get to put your ballot in an “official” box for it to be harvested like the rest.
Still, I plan on doing just that to at least cut the Postal Workers union out of the direct loop.
And agreed — I’d rather shut down / rein in the NSA than worry about Google per se. I still remember the heyday of MySpace (and before that AOL). The internet can turn on a dime without government intervention. Now, when it comes to strong arming or influencing *backbone* providers, I think there’s a serious case to be made that that market needs to stay open to allow competitors to come into being. (Which is one of my big problems with the weaponization of cancel culture [and I’m sure AlexInCT will point out this was Obama-admin driven] — if you have a different opinion and are locked out of hosting services, the backend providers and financial transactions, you’re muzzled in a way I don’t think there are many ways around… and that crap should be entirely illegal).
And good morning, Banjos! Hope the song title doesn’t bode ill for your little urchins.
I still like having an official chain of custody for ballots but the USPS doesn’t track ballots or mail like UPS or Fedex tracking.
We use electronic machines, but I would prefer the old mechanical ones that make punch card holes. At least they had a number associated with the machine, the punched sheet, and the sheets provided to the polling location. These had to be accounted for by someone.
Chain of custody – Drop box – harvesting center – car trunk – either ditch -or- counting center, depending upon contents
I hate to be that guy but just because you feed your ballot into the machine doesn’t mean the file that gets transferred to the registrar’s computer will reflect your vote as cast.
Oh thanks for the flashback to “DIEBOLD is in the pocket of BUUUSSHITLER!”, Tonio.
I don’t trust the computers.
I also can’t trust the people who are supposed to count the ballots.
Even simpler than that, SDF-7. Assuming they transfer the data from the scanners to a central computer for counting after the election, as opposed to connecting it to a network: substituting a fake data file onto a thumbdrive (or whatever media they use) would be the best way to change the most number of votes in the quickest time. All you’d need is to know the number of votes cast at that polling place and the format of the data file. I’m betting the files are plain ASCII with no encoding.
In data security this is known as a “man in the middle” attack.
Lol. This is Minnesota. I am under no illusion my vote will be handled properly. I’m hoping that simple incompetence will get it through.
I’m in Illinois. It won’t matter one way or the other.
I’m most concerned about local stuff. Although I sure would like to see Tina Smith kicked to the curb.
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sure, Andy, you have certainly been a tower of strength during the crisis you helped to manufacture.
Once upon a time, a friend of mine returned from a vacation bearing gifts for the crowd at the local watering hole. Most were the usual trinkets one might pick up at a tropical destination. Mine was a t-shirt bearing the inscription “Find a purpose in life. Be a bad example.” I need to find that shirt, I think it would be perfect for Cuomo.
This is something I learned early in my IT career, on a much smaller basis with little harm done.
On Wednesday, you create an artificial crisis so that you can fix it on Thursday and be a hero.
Of course, that’s a joke and even if we did it, it wouldn’t kill millions of people from depression, heart attacks, strokes, and suicide.
Andy can go eff imself up the arse with a very spiny cacti. Lie in the bed that you made, you mafioso cunte.
LOL, this actually happened at a previous employer, where some management genius decided to create “spot awards” to be given for going “above and beyond”. Programmer stays up all night fixing a bug which crashed the overnight batch, and subsequently is awarded a $500 spot award for his efforts. Guess who was responsible for said bug.
If I guessed, it would be cheating.
Who did this? There is only one clear answer
https://twitter.com/PeterRQuinones/status/1318134770535194624
La Leche League?
GAH! Why did I click that?!?
I should’ve heeded your warning.
GAH! Indeed.
I didn’t know he worked in that medium.
Me neither!
Ivana didn’t age well.
(there’s an even grosser image in the replies)
Sabo.
The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly likely to file its highly-anticipated antitrust suit against Google early next week without the support of any Democratic state attorneys general.
How vewwy vewwy stwange.
I thought the Democrats were the defenders of the little guy. I guess they don’t want to disrupt the cozy working relationship which has developed between them and Big Disinformation.
I was guaranteed by Those In The Know™ that any antitrust against big tech would be bipartisan because the left was very concerned, too.
Oh you sweet summer child.
The funny thing is that they said this on Friday. Literally a weekend turnaround and it’s clear how much bullshit they were spewing.
Democrats really hate monopoly power.
That’s why they take all that money from those monopolies.
“I thought the Democrats were the defenders of the little guy.”
Yeah, and it’s not like lefties are not among the loudest criers of foul on this one. MUH PRIVACY!
The democrats in power are not going to break up one of their biggest advocates and protectors.
Mornin’ Banjos and Goodnight Mrs. Sloopy, wherever you are… I’m out.
A little OT, but we’re past the 30 minute mark and I had to vent somewhere…
The annual “Ethics Training” (that never matters down at the engineer level, only exists so they can say ‘See! The corporate policy/training was against that!’ and never seems to apply up at the Board level) has dropped.
And of course, added on is a “Stronger Together” post-BLM course. And it is mandatory.
I haven’t looked at it yet — but I’m really dreading at the minimum for it to be pushing the stupid microaggressions crap, and am really worried it will go full on “here’s how you crackers are so, so bad”. Mostly because if it has one of those mandatory quizes at the end, I’m not sure I can grit my teeth and lie enough to get through it, nor do I want to deal with the crap I’m sure will come down if I fail to pass it because I won’t say what they want. Yeah, I’ll probably just lie (hey, it got me through the mandatory crap in college back when this was in its infancy)… but I really, really don’t want to for this garbage. And this just keeps running through my head.
I know… choir, preaching (ranting?).
We had Diversity training a couple weeks ago. So bad. They checked all the boxes, but my favorite part came about 20 minutes in when they were talking about “Privilege”:
“Privilege is when you have an UNEARNED advantage due to your race, culture, or ethnicity. For example, how many of you has Yom Kippur off as a paid holiday? That’s cultural privilege.”
I couldn’t believe that we were not even half way in, and they were telling me how TEH JEWZ! were privileged.
So like Affirmative Action privilege?
To fix the Jewish privlege, did she suggest work camps to make things even for the days they get off from Holy Days?
We’re going to fix this privilege thing by granting more privilege to groups of our choosing while doubling down on telling groups not of our choosing that their privilege is even more of a problem, so…
“or example, how many of you has Yom Kippur off as a paid holiday? That’s cultural privilege.”
Holy shit. That’s getting-sued-for-religious-discrimination territory. I hope your company has compliant jews and good lawyers.
Stronger together? Like a bundle of sticks?
Yes, fasces, if you will…
Good morning, tweeple. Tomorrow, since my formatting business has slowed down substantially, I will go back into the medical transcription business, as I do from time to time to keep the money coming in. I really hate this job, but you do what you gotta do, amirite?! Today, I will enjoy my last day off.
Enjoy your day off.
Thank you! I’mma be cleaning. ?
*ahem*
Im not thrilled with my current gig, outside of shamelessly drinking in the morning. Keeps beer in the fridge, dip in my mouth, lights on and food in doge’s bowl.
Yeah, Mr. Mojeaux hates his job too. I figure it’s only fair to do something I’m very good at but hate, and keep my husband company.
shamelessly drinking in the morning
+1 shower/breakfast beer.
Poor Joe.
Calls a lid until Thursday night.
https://twitter.com/VancouverRanter/status/1317848849956794368
#DEBUNKED!
That’s some serious Debate Prep. I hope fucking Trump does some prep.
It’s nap time..
A candidate literally hiding for a week two weeks before the election…
I didn’t realize he took Saturday off as well – but even CNN is noticing.
‘The Opposite Of The Word Tireless’: Jake Tapper
If he is not around nobody can point out the media lobs him softballs and still has not asked him to not brush off the fact his family is a crime syndicate and to say this stuff is real or not….
Anti-Trust, i’m kinda a big meh on the whole thing. Not the instrument i would like to be used. Something needs to happen to Big Tech, be that mass exodous and further bifurcation of society into two, or something else libertarian.
Let California secede, then carpet bomb Silicon Valley?
That came from a libertarian?
What do you mean?
I didn’t appreciate “Beat On the Brat” at first, I mean I kind of love everything even remotely associated with The Ramones but it wasn’t high on my list at all. But one day it just clicked and I saw the light. It’s a really good one.
It really is.
My all time fave, though.
And then this one came up next.
Beyond being a great goddamn song, the ‘Mats disdain for music videos is on glorious display.
This remains at the top of my list.
Have you heard the new Screeching Weasel at all? It sneaked in and I didn’t notice it for months
Good choice!
And no, I hadn’t noticed either. A few songs in, it sounds great! Thanks for the heads-up!
Any time! I love how many people there are here who like the things that I like 😉
Ben Weasel is fucking awesome. I love anyone who spits in the face of the stultifying, leftist punk rock orthodoxy.
This so much. Ben is far from perfect but he generally says what he thinks and does what he says and gives zero fucks what you think of him.
I always thought that was what punk was all about, but it feels like the popular kids who think they are in charge of “the scene” seem to have to decided that is precisely what punk is not about these days.
Hit the theme music! 😉
And I
Can’t believe
You’re telling me
What’s good for me – how do you know what’s good?
One of my favorite local punk/ska bands did a great cover of My Right. Man, the good old days.
Who says authoritarianism is bad?
The pressure to keep supplying Thinova’s multinational clients was huge. Xue Yue was able to resume production at Thinova back in February by negotiating with dozens of villages to allow some 200 workers out of strict lockdown so they could return to work.
But since then, China has staged a dramatic economic recovery due to extensive, mandatory testing and quarantine policies. Daily new cases of the coronavirus have dropped to single digits. Subsequent outbreaks were contained by strict, city-by-city lockdowns that have allowed the national economy to continue operating even as some regions were temporarily sealed off.
So factories, including Thinova’s, are humming again. Automobile sales have been growing at their fastest pace in two years. Real estate investment has climbed at double-digit rates for months, trickling down to related sectors like steel and construction.
While China’s economic statistics have been dogged by long-running suspicions of their veracity, economists say growth figures – despite not being perfectly accurate – are reliable as a general gauge of activity.
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Because China’s economy has recovered earlier and faster than that of other nations, including the U.S., its trade surplus this year will only widen.
That could exacerbate tensions with the U.S., which has long accused China of artificially pumping up its trade surplus at the expense of American manufacturers. The Trump administration made reducing the disparity in goods traded between the two countries a key demand in a trade war last year.
“The fact that China is back up and running smoothly, and in fact some evidence suggests that China is actually grabbing market share in export industries, will be a cause of concern for U.S. policy makers in particular,” says Hirson
Those Chinamen know how to make the factories run on time. We should follow their lead, and lock down the country. Make the plague illegal.
If only we had exchanged our freedoms for the saftey from the virus, we would be back, and of course the government would just give those freedoms back. Sure they have already broached not going back and keeping the same standards in place over the freedoms we did give up, but in the other case it would be different.
Naive or Intentional, these people are dangerous.
Does anyone with half a brain believe the infection, hospitalization, or deaths attributable to COVID from the PRC?
They provide a very accurate number that you know to not be the actual value.
If we just lock everyone in cages and only let them out for essential work, approved by the government, only then can we be truly free!
“Who says authoritarianism is bad?”
And who says it’s a good idea to believe any tripe coming from the CCP?
“He gave two to friends of his in case he was killed,” Giuliani continued. “Don’t laugh. The presidency is at stake and we have some very dangerous people involved. I’ve been in law enforcement long enough to know you don’t laugh at that. The reality is, he kept four copies and gave two to friends in case he was killed.”
The Bidens do not have a trail of bodies that I am aware of. But the DNC does…
Precautions are an excellent idea any time the stakes are as high as they are with the presidency. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.
They just sub it out to the appropriate party, the Clintons.
Upcycled papier-mache burning crosses?
In data security this is known as a “man in the middle” attack.
Like three card monte? The pea under the walnut shell?
“At no time do my fingers leave my hand.”
Well. As we come down to the final weeks of the election, it looks like another prediction i made is about to not be realized. I had predicted, after Hillary’s loss in 2016, that she would die before the next election, because all that was driving her was the desire to become president.
I was thinking something similar the other day.
She’s been dead drunk for the last four years. Does that count?
No. Because certain people have an unfair advantage at finding willing donors for kidney and liver transplant. Someone is going to commit suicide for sure.
Another stint at SOS will be OK with her. She might even get ‘packed’ into SCOTUS during the Great Packing of 2021.
“ Grieving New York families hold “funeral” for Cuomo’s Coronavirus book at nursing home.”
No, no, no: Have the proper respect and call me future Attorney General Cuomo or I’ll have your legs broke.
Cuomo as AG: No you are not allowed to worship it’s too dangerous. But you are allowed to riot and assemble as a mob.
Being able to express one’s anger is important and supersedes coronavirus concerns with the caveat that it has to be an approved cause. The eventual lawsuits involving differential enforcement and unequal protection under the law will be glorious if there’s any fairness left in this country.
If only we had exchanged our freedoms for the saftey from the virus, we would be back, and of course the government would just give those freedoms back. Sure they have already broached not going back and keeping the same standards in place over the freedoms we did give up, but in the other case it would be different.
Listening to the public safety cultists, I see no possibility that they will ever relinquish their grip on our behavior. I have no hope anything will chnge significantly after the election, no matter who wins.
All this idiotic nonsense: masks, lockdowns, capacity restrictions, the demonization of anything fun, all of these are now tools in their toolbox which will be pulled out at any opportunity to
keep us safemaintain their power, position and funding.How much do houses cost in Sweden?
Being defenseless against rapefugees.
Cheaper than here. Can you get citizenship there?
Banjos–you play the best songs.
Also–saw that the FBI has stated that Hunters emails are not some Russian disinformation plot. Crazy stuff.
I just want to see the chain of possession on that laptop and who decided to memory-hole it.
Think why this never came to light by the senate republicans is they all do it and it’s not actually technically illegal when elected officials participate in these schemes. Notice all the crimes of collusion they tried to get trump on stemmed from before he was an elected official.
They absolutely all do this. That’s why they hate Trump. He wasn’t brought up in the system and they don’t have leverage on him.
of course. Even if he wanted to do this it would be reported on with a vigor never before seen. They report breathlessly on how his hotel even operating is proof positive of him selling access for influence. these motherfuckers were crafting policy and overseeing aid payouts while on the take of the people receiving the public money in the open and everyone knew it.
Trump had none of the baggage they all have that they use ln each other to make sure the status quo is maintained. Trump is an existential threat because he highlights how they system could/would work if the corruption endemic to Washington and the fucking mendacious credentialed class was squashed.
Trump frightens them because he would force them all to go back to working at fast food stores or chasing ambulances to make a living instead of getting super rich selling favors.
Crazy is right. Crazy that the FBI is still operating.
Got a link?
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/19/dni-ratcliffe-hunter-bidens-laptop-is-not-part-of-some-russian-disinformation-campaign/
Good on ratcliffe. There was no evidence of this and something the FBI fabricated out of whole cloth for Biden. Squash that shit.
https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-awful-records-trump-voting-democratic-anyway-2020-10
This is the most bizarre reasoning for voting for Biden I think I’ve seen especially from a libertarian who cares about mostly about civil liberties-
What?
TLDR: I’d rather have full-bore corruptocrats in charge that don’t share any of my principles than be embarrassed in my social circles.
Fisher appears to be a moral coward.
It’s worse than cowardice, cowardice would be just saying nothing. He literally makes the case in the article that Biden and Harris are for sure worse on every policy than trump based on record and than doubles down on them. It’s delusional.
Trump broke the left. I know many people that feel he is an existential threat to the bullshit they want to believe in.
…rather than hollow it out and replace it with nothing, as Trump did.
If only.
Fisher is a hack.
What a pussy.
Thats pathetic
Pussy is being charitable.
this is a great endorsement of Trump.
You know who else ran government efficiently and competently?
King Solomon?
Never has “split it in half” meant so much…
Not to mention Equitable
Everytime I read pieces like this they make me think I might be underestimating just how successful trump has been. Than Trump starts talking.
I’m not familiar with that guy but frankly that last paragraph makes him not a libertarian, not that I’m the arbiter of who is and who isn’t but there’s got to be a line somewhere.
We Glibs are all arbiters of who is and isn’t a true libertarian: Me. And only me.
Everyone else is just Tulpa.
A real libertarian would have used the plural Tulpae.
All Tulpae are one in Tulpa, so both forms are correct.
But of course, Tulpa would want to hide that fact.
The ‘else’ is a lie.
I’m ok with that. When are you launching your candidacy?
A real libertarian doesn’t want the job.
That’s the usually the most important qualifier to a good leader.
He used to be an editor at Reason.
https://www.anthonylfisher.com
It feels terrible to vote for candidates you dislike or distrust, but we’ve all got our own political calculus. Mine is centered on an unbending desire to see Trump’s political career end in humiliating defeat.
Well, at least he admits up front that he’s just all OMB all the time.
Orchestral Maneuevers in the … Bark?
You heard a message and the message was clear
All the time you wipe away that tear
All I want is to hold your hand
To see the sun and Orange Man Bad
Some years back at TOS, David Brin made a similar point in explaining why he was voting Democrat. It would “energize the civil service.”
To which one of our commentators responded: “If by energize you mean bathing them in radiation, then I support that.”
The only, the only remotely sane reason I can see voting for Biden is just deciding you want the baby to stop screaming for a couple of minutes so you can just take a breather for a couple of years. It won’t work imho but at least I understand the appeal. This argument is monumentally retarded, sure these guys have a horrible record on criminal justice and trump is a bit better but they’ll handle the machinations of gov better while they do worse on civil liberties and initiate more international conflict with the right allies and are given cover to do so by the corporate press.
Candidate who paints himself as a rich billionaire leads among small donors, candidate who paints himself as a regular Joe leads with large donors.
Psht. Drumpfler is using the office to enrich himself. It is known.
I know there are still going to be true believers, but I hope this year more people will see through the Dems bullshit. “We are for the little guy! (but we get all our money from big donors)”. “We support unions! (but we want to destroy industry and defund cops)”.
I posted some of this Saturday night. One of the lead censors on Facebook.
Born in the Soviet Union, European policy advisor to VP Biden, Soros fellow. She really has all the boxes checked.
Hey Malice was born in the USSR
Huh. I missed this:
Fox Business Network Brings Back ‘Kennedy’ After 7-Month Hiatus
Would.
I hope she triggers all the “THIS IS WHY WE SHOULDN’T HAVE LIBERTARIANS” conservatives.
Same time slot as Tucker. Hope they don’t synchronize their commercials.
She was a mousy grungy geek back in her MTV days and then turned into a solid would.
Malice is awesome.
typical for a libertarian to support malice
In Bucharest they want to make masks compulsory everywhere including streets parks etc. Until now it was only inside. I don;t like it. The places I go for my daily walks rarely have other people around. And unless a street is very crowded what is the fucking point (or even if the street is crowded what is the fucking point). I assume somehow libertarianism is to blame. I may need to change ideologies.
Here in Texas, people wear masks to walk through the threshhold of places and that’s it. If you walk near a neighbor outside, he will pull down his mask to talk to you so he can be heard more clearly.
So why wear it in the first place? Unclear.
Whatever objections I might have to a Biden administration’s policies, I have faith that it would competently manage the machinery of government, rather than hollow it out and replace it with nothing, as Trump did.
Not a compelling argument.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22He%27ll%20Listen%20To%20The%20Scientists%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
Gosh i hate the science worship in this culture. I’ll remind you that it was scientists and scientific socialists who perpetrated the worst genocides and democides of the 20th century.
“The science” also is not the only consideration. It’s a balancing act. If we listen to the pronouncements of public health specialists and epidemiologists as the first and last word we are well and truly fucked.
Science is just a tool to use against political enemies. The WHO just reversed their stance on lockdowns and the usual suspects don’t accept that.
Follow the Science! but GMO’s bad and Sex is a spectrum and…
Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Josef Mengele …
Antifa mob assaults black free speech activist in San Francisco
C’mon man. Antifa is just an idea.
well Antif is just “Anti-Fascist” so if they attacked him, he must have been a fascist. Do you like fascists?!
110,000 Californians bought guns during the pandemic, 43% were first time buyers.
Several arguments regarding gun control should be over now, but we all know they aren’t.
Restrict guns, restrict self defense, restrict defense of property, and allow mobs to run wild and even encourage them. Sounds wonderful.
I really think that’s going to be the deciding factor for most people this election.
There is a very stupid argument in this country along the lines of if you have a position on something someone will say along the lines of Germany/France/Western EU country is doing different as if that is an argument. Some seem to believe i Germany is more developed economically than Romania and Germany does something that something must be good. It is insanely stupid. As if everything the German government does these days must be good.
I heard that recently about nuclear energy. Why should Romania build up nuclear energy capacity if Germany is giving up nuclear?
Welcome to the ‘every other civilized country…’ argument. If every other country jumped off a bridge…
Ask them how Germany gets its energy, and how much it costs… heh heh.
I’m not familiar with that guy but frankly that last paragraph makes him not a libertarian
I think he referred to himself as a “civil libertarian”. You know, actions-without-consequences libertarianism (drugs, abortion, free unlimited health care, stuff like that). I think it’s an offshoot of libertarian socialism.
Libertineian
In sports news Sid Hartman has died. For those of you who didn’t read the paper here in Minnesoda, Sid was a truly legendary sports writer.
He legitimately deserves to be in at least the NFL, MLB and NBA Hall of Fames (the NBA as much for being a GM as for a writer).
Sid was famous for being an ultimate homer and sycophant of sports figures. He would rail against “so-called geniuses” who had the temerity to criticize any local sports figure. He also wrote glowingly of his “close personal friends” who included Bobby Knight for some reason.
He was 100 years old when he died and was still writing several columns a week. I’ll admit I grew up thinking he was an embarrassment of an old coot who gave everyone a tongue bath, but I have to take my hat off in respect to him and what he did over his life.
Couldn’t have said it better.
RIP, SId.
Hey, hidin’ Biden
Why you always lyin’?
When I announced my candidacy, I had not planned on running again, to be very blunt, and I’ve said it before. My son had just died, and I had no interest. And I saw those folks come out of the fields in Charlottesville, carrying torches, their veins bulging, shouting antisemitic — carrying torches. Close your eyes, remember what they looked look like, their veins bulging, shouting antisemitic bile, the same bile that was shouted in the streets of Germany in the 30’s. Carrying Nazi flags, accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan, and a young woman [Heather Heyer] was killed, protesting the opposite direction. And when they asked the president to comment, this president said something no other president has said in the history of the United States of America. He said there were “very fine people on both sides.” Very fine people. …
This is the same man who looks at Americans who put their lives on the line for the nation, like so many tens of thousands in North Carolina have done, like my son did, winning a Bronze Star. He calls them “suckers” and “losers.” Who the hell does he think he is talking about? These are heroes.
I remember how morally outraged the media was that almost half the public believed “factually incorrect” claims about Obama’s birth certificate.
How is this not the same thing w/ roles reversed, except the media is allowing it?
I saw a commercial with a former soldier who was “really upset” about how disrespectful the comments Trump made about soldiers being suckers.
Must have been some 35 series guy, cause you got to be retarded or just willfully ignorant to believe that story.
I’m not surprised that the public believes inaccurate things.
I am, however, outraged that the media supports spreading those inaccurate things when it benefits their preferred candidate.
That entire thing was assembled whole cloth because their internal polling was showing weakness in the Trump military bloc.
They made shit up so they could put together a series of campaign ads trying to drive a wedge between Trump and one of his core constituencies.
They’ve tried it with Christians and other core constituencies, too. They’re very good at what they do, and they have no shame.
this. Also pretty sure this is what the impeachment hearings were all about getting people in front of congress in uniform so trump could shit on them publicly, while getting ahead of the Hunter Biden bullshit.
Sounds like a sucker.
I’m going to burn that Smedley Butler’s book, too. How dare he call war a racket and besmirch the sacrifices made by our brave young men?!
I’ve been very tempted to make a Facebook post about that version of Charlottesville. I’d offer $1000 cash to anyone who can produce a video of those people coming out of fields carrying torches. With the amount of press that got, and the fact that everyone carries a recording device, I’m sure it should be super easy to find.
As I recall it….they didn’t come out of any fields (there really aren’t any fields around Cville, just woods and the foothills of the Blue Ridge). The tiki torch brigade marched down the Lawn at UVA and had a confrontation with a group of students by the statue of Homer. I could be wrong, but there was much discussion among UVA alums about it.
for example
Yeah, let’s talk about MAJ Biden’s Bronze Star for his JAG work in Iraq. So free that he could continue as DE’s state attorney general during that time. Along with his posthumous Legion of Merit for 13 years of service.
“ And I saw those folks come out of the fields in Charlottesville, carrying torches, their veins bulging, shouting antisemitic — carrying torches.“
It was just like a Nazi themed Children of the Corn.
Korea Faces Kimchi Catastrophe After Typhoons Cripple Cabbage Crop
https://time.com/5901250/south-korea-kimchi-shortage/
Eh. they’re a first world country. Guarantee they just buy more cabbages from other places and the price ticks up.
“Those inferior foreign cabbages?”
I think when you pickle the fuck out of it, it doesn’t matter. But I’m not a kimchi expert. In fact, not a big fan.
I think that a special type of cabbage is used which is mostly grown in Asia… So they need to find it there. It is not the cabbage grown in Romania
though probably any cabbage works…
That’s hard to believe. You can’t even taste the cabbage in kimchi. not that cabbage has a lot taste.
not that cabbage has a lot taste. – you never had good sarmale
There aren’t any good Romanian restaurants in my neighborhood. We definitely need one.
Napa cabbage is grand for kimchi.
Bok Choy is grown many far flung exotic locales such as New Jersey.
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The cabbage crop is in the fields rotting now? How is that different than the finished product?
How long after a tetanus shot is injection site pain a normal side effect?
I don’t know about tetanus, but if it’s like a flu shot or covid shot about 24 hours.
10 years.
I’ve had soreness from one for a couple of days. I believe that is common.
Seems like forever. A few days, for sure.
You can get a shot for tinnitus? Oh, you said tetanus. Sorry, my hearing isn’t so good.
Syphilis can have that effect.
“…and lo, the virgin dies of syphilis, and the Orange Man rules in the West. The twain of the fire of the atom and the plague from the orient burn the world…”
-Nostradamus, 58th quatrain, Huckleberry Finn.
I just got one last month (along with a flu shot) and my arm was sore for 3 days.
For me, 48 hours -worse the second day
Worse one I had wasn’t tetanus, it was a deep shot into the hip after I almost lost my pinky in a hockey injury. Couldn’t walk for 15 minutes and that was sore for a week.
Steroid shots to the shoulder aren’t fun for a while, either. They’re always tender for a couple of days.
Oh, so you got to experience a rocephin shot, too?
I had one and thought I was going to pass out from the pain.
🙁
I had one last wednesday and the pain isn’t fully gone. It is diminished.
is it only tender when you touch it, or still sore when you move the arm.
Arm? That hobo gave it to him in the dick!
*shows UCS to the broken dick corner and sits him beside Scruffy *
Don’t be stupid, CPRM is lying to you.
I you’re the liar! I’m like George Washington Carver, I can not tell a lie and I invented peanut butter!
I you’re the liar!
Hmmm Freudian slip there.
Wait, what?
That was painful just to watch.
Indeed, and I’m not even a dude!
Movement or pressure.
No great pain, but I figured it’d have gone before now.
I think youre dying of Tetanus Underdeveloped Ligament Pain Ailment
Democratic political operatives and journalists (but I repeat myself) circulate fake email on social media.
-So Twitter worked day and night to block this on their platform right and then disabled/suspended accounts that pushed it? Asking for those with *shocked faces*
i don’t even get worked up about it anymore. Theres no going back these people are the enemy. I don’t understand the people who even take them seriously or point out the double standard at this point. They know they are shameless political hacks it doesn’t matter.
Oh I know and I agree, I just like saying it out loud or putting it in writing because then I have the reference set in my mind. It will get the call of ‘whataboutism’..is that still a thing or has the internet moved on from that?
For those that wanted more, I have another story posting tonight.
“The Biden Emails Prove Impeachment Was A Sham”
I disagree. It was a coup.
What does a chicken house got to do with it.
/Ducks rotten tomatoes.
So over the weekend the Biden Campaign issued a few notices that “The polls are inflated, we aren’t ahead by double digits”. I’m guessing they are afraid of a complacent voter base.
Alternative – mail in voting back fired and Repubs are playing on the same field this time around.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/the-pollster-who-thinks-trump-is-ahead/amp/
Elements of wishful thinking, maybe, but also some sense.
I noticed the other day that one of 538’s “Possible outcomes” that results in Biden winning an election has Utah going to Biden.
When you have something that is a statistical impossiblity showing up as one of your 200 random samples drawn from 40,000 trials…. I get skeptical of your model.
Swedish Health Chief Said Country Avoided Lockdown to Prevent “Pandemic Fatigue”
Well I am truly sick of this shit.
No shit Sherlock: Research Shows Critical Race Theory Is Actually Making People More Racist
You mean constantly telling one person of one tone of skin that the person with the other tone of skin has deeply rooted DNA of racism isn’t good?
Feature, not bug.
“Rejected mail-in ballots could have significant effect on election. Brilliant plan, Democrats.”
Their mistake is to keep saying that Trump winning will be a surprise victory. Sure, whatever, FAKE NEWS true bleevers.
This is their new “insurance policy”. If they lose again and can’t gin up enough late mail in ballots to flip the race, they will claim that the evil Trumpsters invalidated legitimate ballots. Just a new coat of paint on the old “Gore would have won if all the votes had been counted” story.
Illustrating how the country is already virtually back to normal, a young woman posted a video of herself boarding a train in Stockholm showing minimal social distancing and hardly anyone wearing masks.
Fake news.
Everybody in Sweden died.
Maybe they are zombies?
I thought that was Ireland… or did the Cranberries lie to me?
IN YAR HEAAAAAAD, IN YAR HEAAAAAD. ZOMBIE ZOMBIE ZOM BEEE-EEE-EEE
Do you know the truth? Little Bobby knows the truth.
They should issue a decree that his name be blotted out from the annals of history.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission sounds completely normal and would never be used for anything other than its intended purposes.
[insert picture of Maoist truth and conciliation struggle session here]
That’s what Chris Hayes (if I remember correctly) was saying over a week ago. God help us if they begin pushing that insanity in a serious way.
and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.
So they can be sent to camp?
Look on the bright side, if they have leather crafts and canoeing it could be fun.
Reich is the type of small man that if given real power, would use it to address every insecurity he’s ever had.
A scary little SOB who should be kept away from any kind of influence.
So store the jar of Power on the top shelf and hide the step ladders?
Exactly what is the catastrophe?
The Rona? Well, it is hard to say that the US was uniquely bad in handling this crisis because Europe seems to have the same amount of problems with that.
What else is a “catastrophe”? The economy? Foreign wars?
This is the kind of shit that makes me want to say fuck it and vote all R’s on the ballot in a couple of weeks. After most elections, the opposition at least pretended that they wanted to be a unifying force. But not these fuckers though. They want to exact revenge on those who dared to support someone they despise.
Finally, someone is finally focusing on the important things
“ Hunter Biden’s Laptop “Is Not Some Russian Disinformation Campaign”; DNI Ratcliffe Slams Schiff”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-bidens-laptop-not-some-russian-disinformation-campaign-dni-ratcliffe-slams-schiff
Sounds like the Russians got to him too.
This is just proof that trump is Putins Puppet. Putin put Ratclif in there.
When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
It would make compiling a list of necklacing candidates easier.
‘Morning Banjos.
I like the song.
“He gave two to friends of his in case he was killed,” Giuliani continued. “Don’t laugh. The presidency is at stake and we have some very dangerous people involved. I’ve been in law enforcement long enough to know you don’t laugh at that. The reality is, he kept four copies and gave two to friends in case he was killed.”
Brave friends or stupid friends?
Friends that never watched The Ring.
They just need to make copies and pass them on.
“Cuomo threatens to withhold eventual COVID-19 vaccine from New York until his own doctors deem it safe because he doesn’t trust Trump administration”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8855271/Cuomo-says-hell-withhold-COVID-19-vaccine-New-York-says-safe.html
CWAA
Trump in the basement of the White House:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
A lock of Mike Pence’s hair,
Pair of soiled underwear.
One whole can of diet coke,
And a Big Mac, that’s no joke.
Nail clipped from Ivanka’s toe,
A Werther’s for Sleepy Joe.
For a charm of classy trouble,
Like a Trump-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Brewing, stewing, wait and see.
I will make the best vaccine . . . maybe ever.
Politicians have no qualms about using your life as a pawn in their political games. Seriously, i know it’s always been this way, but it’s getting so blatant it’s harder to not understand that politicians are nothing more than high level criminals and should be delt with accordingly.
Fine but if the vaccine is later found to be safe he needs to be held personally liable for the death of every single person who wanted to get it but couldn’t, contracted the disease, and died. What a fucking douchebag our possible future Attorney General is.
Nowhere in that calculation is that you get to decide for yourself whether to take it.
What a raging piece of authoritarian shit he is.
More and more I appreciate the fact that organized crime is too honest of a profession for these sociopaths. They became pols because they wouldn’t be able to hack in organized crime at some point in the criminal world you have to actually be an earner and no amounts of lies or rhetorical gambits would beable to distract from that.
A new report shows that the world’s top 1 percent is responsible for double the emissions of the entire bottom half of the planet. The message is clear: to fight climate change, we have to fight the ruling class.
https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1318193937719332864
This is good. Climate change activism is stalling. As they stall they are reaching for more and more to try to push, further revealing what they always were: Communists under the guise of “saving the environment”.
If I taught any sort of statistics class, I’d be overwhelmed wondering what panic stories about Covid I should be using. This is a good example of using percentages to scare people. If they used the actual numbers, people would yawn and wonder why anyone bothered.
Uffda! 1 in 37!!! According to SD’s site, that is 137 cases and 6 deaths But that would be 7600 cases if they had 100K people living there. That hotspot of Rona has had 315 deaths so far.
Statistics don;t matter. total cases do and there are no more hospital beds or something.
True but a ton of these people want to be scared they want these pieces they love every second of this. They get off on it. It’s religious text.
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1318010642104635393
Is picking on poor Noah Smith a hate crime?
I forgot to buy fruit today and now I am to lazy to go… I will regret not having some apples later.
Good (but a bit of a long read) article from an organic chemist on the silliness of mask mandates. AIER has been nailing it during the pandemic, they took an early and strong stance against the lockdowns and have not let up. They have become one of my go-to sites over the past seven months.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-year-of-disguises/amp/
“BOSTON: anti-Trump protesters burn a flag and then eat a bloodied heart symbolizing they president
These people are not just mentally ill, but they are increasingly mirroring the occult”
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1318106416834629633
Winning hearts and minds?
Holy smokes Indy!!!
Winning… eating… they’ll figure it out eventually.
It appears that some of these people may have been chowing down on brain tissue for a while now…
Cthulu is the one true god and Sugarfree is his prophet.
You know what I hate worse than Illinois Nazis?
Massachusetts Bleeding Heart Liberals!
What you did there has been seen.
BREAKING: People Are Retarded
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1317993185046560768
And they have the same number of votes as you do.
#democracySucks
I would wager that this is partly because in the Northern Hemisphere, School aged Cohorts are split at the begining of the school year. The oldest kids in each School year are the ones born in the fall, and the youngest are the ones born in the summer. Especially during the teens and formative years, this can cause some disparities between the youngest group of kids and the oldest. Hence why she may thing Fall birthdays are more “Masculine”. (i say this as someone who was one of the youngest kids in my Class)
But still incredibly stupid
Educate yourself….
that is the wrong kind of education. Did you even read Lenin?
Thomas Sowell – one of those guys leftist never ever want to debate or even have a discussion with. Like talking to Milton Friedman.
That’s her street name
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1318187701460520961
Rebar made out of pure high quality Chinesium.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1318179440585805827
All those hours of playing snake eventually paying off.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1318181173827457024
“FLASHBACK: “Is there any concern about at least the appearance of a conflict there?”
Here is how the Obama White House responded to my questions about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine — May 13, 2014.”
https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1178293429039697920
progression of a story that’s harmful to dems
1) this isn’t real it’s fabricated and fake we shouldn’t give it any attention.
2) personal attack piece on people raising the issue.
3) sure it’s real but it either doesn’t show the thing that you say it shows or here’s why its not a big deal.
4) it’s old news we’ve already covered it here’s this other thing that we should be talking about.
TFW New Vegas is trending, but it’s only to wish it a 10 year anniversary.
How can I be jealous if I am literally European, which is morally superior, as well as culturally insurmountable. Call me when your country is built on the foundations of Greek and Roman civilizations bathed by the glorious Mediterranean sea.
I’m going to silence this because my notifications from Americans with too much free time have filled up.
Simply invest your time in working and prospering, I am not going to read you because your opinion is not worth the same as my time.
https://twitter.com/neigeblancafr/status/1317874293024370691
CHECKMATE AMERICANS
“The Biden campaign has called a lid until Thursday.”
https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1318148044559351808
Wow. How many days has he worked in the past month?
press is holding rally’s for him.
He’s totally up to the job of pretending to be President.
He already won. What need is there to campaign ?
Hey, his people need a break. Imagine the stress when every time your candidate goes into the wild, there’s a very high chance he’ll:
– say something overtly racist
– paw the nearest young female
– soil himself, or
– expire
Wouldn’t you be scheduling it pretty light?
The rats are starting to jump ship.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/18/exclusive-peter-schweizer-hunter-bidens-flipped-business-partner-provided-26000-emails/?fbclid=IwAR2Rqb2OP4PRQNOsxcLkuq13xlV6eJHpQfWSlCNHjguxxZckgf2Pe_T3ltk
I heard that H. Biden’s Business partners had gotten some corrupt sweetheart deal from some judges/prosecutors for some crimes. Thing is that that deal got overturned recently. So it wouldn’t be super surprising that they have now flipped on Biden.
“I’ll take stories that will get smothered with a dump truck load of concrete for $100”
”
Surprised Google hasn’t taken it on them to go and delete all the accounts of people related to Joe Biden.
“In the meantime, however, Cooney—who is serving his sentence in federal prison—reached out to Schweizer via conservative journalist Matthew Tyrmand and provided written authorization to access his Gmail account. He provided the password and username, and written authorization to publish emails because Schweizer says he believes he was the “fall guy” for the Biden family’s corruption and that he believes the public needs to know what really happened in Hunter Biden’s universe. The first article on these emails was published Friday afternoon, and detailed how Hunter Biden and his partners secured meetings with senior White House officials in November 2011 for Chinese Communist elites—including, as the Chinese elites who were present revealed, a secret meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden himself. The Biden campaign has not responded to requests for comment about this from Breitbart News.”
How did this take nine years to come out?
“The people on far right and far left who publicized the obviously bogus @nypost story were not dupes. They were accomplices. The story could not have been more obviously fake if it had been wearing dollar-store spectacles and attached plastic mustache.”
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1317973670019670016
Obviously fake?
A) how does that have 65k likes and what evidence does he have of their lack of veracity?
They don’t need evidence. It is so bad for biden, that it must be false. QED.
Somebody needs to expose Journolist 2.0 so that we can get a fresh peek into how these talking points circulate.
Already been done
They say “likes” by default, but it doesn’t necessarily mean “liked”. It could mean saving it for future reference.
gotcha so ton of conservatives and such could just be bookmarking it?
Yes. There is a bookmark feature, but it’s a little more awkward to use and clicking/tapping the heart is easy.
It’s so bad it must be fake. Frums of the world are dupes, or acomplicies in the corruption that is so common in the establishment that everyone knew this was how Biden operated.
They were about someone other than Orange Man being bad, so obviously bogus.
It doesn’t matter what is actually true or false, it only matters what you wish to be true and false. Everything you don’t like is enemy disinformation, everything you do like is ostensibly true with maybe a couple of embellished details.
Throw a blue checkmark and an approved fact-checker’s seal of approval on there, and it’s not what feels right, it’s what everybody else (you know) feels is right too.
Good god, the suggested tweets on that is a derp mine of infinite depth. I’m not sure which part is crazier, the degree of derangement they have, or the fact that they think Joe Biden is the answer.
Deeeeeeper. I SAID DEEEEEEEPER!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/does-explain-why-facebook-was-so-quick-suppress-hunter-biden-revelations
I posted it the other day.
For more, more, more:
https://www.spinquark.com/welcome-to-social-government/
Big Non-Profit at it again.
That seminar I was bitching about last week? Yeah, an Atlantic Council representative (and former Obama official) was speaking on it.
I’ve become so much more conspiratorial minded over the past few months as I’ve seen group after group that works with my company be exposed as leftist hacks. They’re ubiquitous. Laws for non-profits are exploited by the activist left to pride a safe haven for technocratic authoritarians to pay off their footsoldiers. Footsoldiers who spend every waking moment of their lives thinking up ways to “reform western civilization in their image”
It does no good to tamp down the conspiratorial thinking when it seems even the minor parties and forgettable political factions want in on the action too. I don’t even understand why anyone would want to skinsuit the LP, but yet for some reason they have.
The ties are so close, Facebook and Twitter might as well be considered leagl parts of the Biden Campaign.