Inundated by an absolute tsunami of campaign ads, flyers, and brochures here in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Here’s the haul from just one day.
Notice anything? That’s right, nary a one from anyone not a Democrat. Nothing from Republicans or Libertarians. Nothing from any other party or non-affiliated group.
And isn’t it nice how much money from Not Arizonans is pouring in for Mark Fucking Kelly? Fucking gun grabber. And we have heard NOT ONE WORD about his gun grabbing ways during this campaign.
Based on this election season’s mailings and the massive spending on this side, I predict a big win in Arizona for the Democrats. And a big loss for all liberty-minded Arizonans. Not that there wouldn’t also be a big loss of liberty under Republicans. (Looking straight at YOU, Doug Ducey, thou degenerate toad-spotted serpent’s-egg.)
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*deep breath*
OK, I know, it’s probably just as bad where you live. So, before I work myself into a stroke over politicians (who are ALWAYS self-interested, power- and money-hungry loathsome beings), let’s see if we can find a couple links that can help me get back to my normal serene disposition.
OMWC and I just watched a molecular gastronomy chef do this sorta.
I haven’t found anything as interesting as this when visiting neighbors.
Now, not that I am resentful or holding onto this in any way, but OMWC bought Warty’s Child a bubble machine a couple years ago. But did I receive one? NOoooooooo!
Just another reason why everyone loves firefighters.
And some upbeat music to help switch my mood. (And I DO dig on vegan food.)
Have a great rest of your day, friends. ‘Cause I like you.
I’m in a rant-y mood as well, SP. This makes me crazy. Don’t wade into the comments unless you want to see people who get off on controlling other peoples lives or pissing their pants over a virus with a minimal death rate.
“I don’t know what to do anymore,”
Good. Honest confession is the first step. Don’t do anything, just healthy people the fuck alone and treat the sick.
Exactly. I always thought that Utah is a fairly sane place, but the closer you get to Salt Lake City, the more bonkers they are. People in the comments are clamoring for fining people for not wearing masks, etc. F*** that noise.
I want to scream at these people to GET BENT.
I know man. I went to SLC a month or two ago (i avoid it as much as possible) and the ammount of “We support BLM” “We Believe in SCIENCE!” and “We are ANTIFA” signs astounded me. The place is full of Godless heathens. And some, i assume, are good people.
I haven’t been since August, and before then, I think the last time I was there was December. I have no reason to go back. I went to the U for grad school and saw the lunacy then as I drove through the Avenues. I can only imagine how much of a cesspool it has continued to grow in to.
See i haven’t really been paying attention to this shit at all. Did you get your ballot already?
I was liking Cox until he went all in to suck at the Teat of the UEA. Oh well, i wasn’t planning on voting for him anyway, but was hoping he would be decent since he’s going to be governor anyway.
Yeah, I got it the other day. I haven’t filled it out. My wife still has her Cox sign in the yard. She is more a hardline conservative, but agrees with me on some of the small /l/ stuff I talk to her about. Your recommendation about the Libertarian candidate has me leaning that way, especially with Cox’s response to the UEA and sticking with some of the COVID nonsense.
There have been very few political flyers in my mailbox.
I’m not getting very many, but every single one has been Dems or Dem front organizations. Michigan is going to be interesting this year and 2 years from now, when half-Whitmer is up for a hopefully failed re-election bid.
The area I live in is a legit split district. Republican Congressman, Democratic state rep, in a county that’s heavily Democratic, in a swing state. My area was a large union enclave back in the day, there’s still a large union presence but that’s dwindled as the auto plants closed/cut back production.
I get mailers from both sides, texts from both sides, cold calls from both sides, and none of them stop no matter how many times I tell them to fuck off.
Not a recognized swing state here, so no tsunami of mailers. But I did see a lawn sign today. First one of the season.
It was for Trump.
I saw a Jo Jorgensen sign today.
We’ve got one in the neighborhood. I did a double take when I saw it.
We also have one down about 3 blocks away. I was kind of stunned to see that.
I occasionally get a neighbor’s libertarian flyer in the mail that’s stuck to one addressed to me. Since I walk the dogs by that house regularly, I just drop it off. In a town of 30,000, there are at least two of us. Is an “IT’s HAPPENING” gif premature?
I run into closet libertarians all the time. The problem with the LP is that they’re not really a political party. I assume it’s mostly a grifting operation. Otherwise they would be focused heavily on winning local (hyper-local, even) races, and a candidate for President would be an afterthought.
The LP is more like 50+ political parties. The one I was Chair of was a teeny, powerless party in a dark blue state that had literally a handful of people in charge of running stuff – poorly. We spent an inordinate amount of energy just maintaining ballot access.
It was the opposite of gritting. Thankless work for no pay.
Opposite of grifting. FN autocorrect.
Well, exactly. The grift happens at a higher level. That’s why they run for prez, there’s more money in it. If they wanted to make real electoral gains they would be pushing money down-ballot.
No, no it is not.
I saw a woman on a street corner, waving a JO JO sign.
Shocked the hell out of me, it such a college town. Come to think of it, she might have been on the run from BLaM.
I’ve seen them around my part of NH.
I saw some signs for the LPNH’s US Senate candidate. First time I noticed them.
Still no signs for the LPNH candidate for governor.
My neighbor just put up signs for two Democrat candidates – US House and State Senate.
During my regular bike rides around town in the suburban Bay Area, Trump signs outnumber Biden signs about 2 to 1. But I’m under no illusion that Trump will win here or that our Rep. will be anyone but Swalwell.
How does Mark Kelly have a chance there? Shouldn’t he be crushed just on 2A?
As stated above….”And isn’t it nice how much money from Not Arizonans is pouring in for Mark Fucking Kelly? Fucking gun grabber. And we have heard NOT ONE WORD about his gun grabbing ways during this campaign.”
TMITE
If only there was a National Association of gun owners…
To be fair, their leadership has its hands full right now.
Sort of like Toobin.
Well get them off the zoom calls with CNN and get to work saving the 2nd Amendment.
Full of money.
The California wetbacks, coming across the river.
If Mark Kelly gets elected, it will not bode well for down ballot states. I predict you will see a move to make AZ no longer a “constitutional carry” state.
See SP and Swiss above, but if you want a longer form rant on it, here you go, courtesy of Razorfist.
Mark Kelly gets both the “hero” (astronaut) and “longsuffering caretaker/widower” labels. People vote on feelz.
People vote on feelz.
I vote on feelz too. I feelz angry that lefty people are: stupid, illogical, willfully ignorant, tyrant wannabe’s.
People vote on feelz.
And team loyalty.
On the other hand, he couldn’t even beat a “dumb jock” on Jeopardy!.
He and McSally debated. She pointed out he is a founder of Everytown. He responded , “well yeah, my wife was shot in the head”.
Given i heard little else about it from the local press, I suspect McSally somehow won.
1) Arizona will be a blue state in very short order. By 2022, it will likely be two Democratic Senators and a Democratic governor.
2) McSally continues to be an awful candidate, is the sitting Senator, but only because she was appointed. Cut from the Doug Ducey mold of “believes in nothing other than their own pursuit of higher office.” Trump will outperform McSally in Arizona and I suspect will win the state in a close one. McSally will likely lose.
3) Kelly has very purposefully run against the things he will immediately start voting for once elected. This will siphon off enough moderate votes to get it done.
“He was able to complete 290 bounces with a single bubble, enough to capture the record.”
I wonder if there are rules what is considered a “soap bubble”.
I know UCS already asked, but what’s with this jumping to the top thing? It’s going to make things like debate and election night commenting very difficult.
Wait, what?
For a number of users of Firefox and possibly Edge, when we post a comment we don’t see the comment, we get sent to the top of the page.
It also impacts a direct link to a comment, where the page loads and leaves the screen at the top of the page.
Hitting enter on the address line after it has loaded does go to the correct anchor page.
*anchor link.
Sorry
Also occurring on Chrome mobile, but not on Chrome from my desktop.
Well, this is very odd behavior, that I have not seen in any of my browsers, but I’ve only been using Opera, Safari, and Brave lately.
I will see if I can replicate it when I am back in front of my machine later.
OK, thanks 🙂
The site is now jumping to the top after every comment. The page used to stay around where the comment was made, depending on how many new comments there were to load.
Can you pinpoint when it started? Within a day or two would be helpful so I can check logs for any updates that may have happened around the same time.
Monday-ish, I think.
My best memory is about a week ago. I’m afraid I didn’t make note of exactly when because I thought it was local to my desktop.
I’d say the beginning of the week?
It just happened to me on Firefox on my Android tablet, which I haven’t updated and doesn’t have Monocle or any other add-ons.
*curses loudly at Mozilla*
You have to go find an old version (pre 79) of Firefox for Android to get add on support.
*cusses some more*
I don’t really notice, becuase i just use the jump to new comments feature from Monocle.
I was going to mention that, as well.
I haven’t been using monocle, but was planning to install it in Opera this weekend and see how it plays there.
I dont think I did it, but let me know if I’m wrong. I believe some people who aren’t using Monocle/Eyepiece have experienced this, too. (Can anybody confirm?)
I do not use any Glib-specific extensions, I am seeing the issue.
No, I meant people can use Monocle for consistency of comment behavior.
Ah, well either way lemme know if I can be of assistance.
I thought about sneaking in ahead of the submit action and tossing the parent comment’s id into a cookie for use when the page refreshes. If it looks like this may take a while to debug, I can probably code that workaround up in an hour.
Let us know if you succeed installing Monocle in Opera. It worked for me for a few months. But I couldn’t make it work the last couple of years.
Does tampermonkey not work for opera anymore? IIRC, they pulled support for Android some time back, but that was years ago.
Right now I get this:
Tampermonkey
Version 4.8
We’ve identified this extension as malicious and have blacklisted it. This means it can no longer cause any damage to your machine. You can leave it as is, or remove it.
I don’t think I always had this error message. But I don’t remember exactly what didn’t work.
Weird. I wonder if you can override that.
I’ve just installed a new version of Tampermonkey and then Monocle. It seems to work! Awesome! If it keeps working I’ll forget html tags again.
test for sp
Did the molecular gastronomy chef sound like the investigator, or the alligator?
Yes.
Squeaks and grunts, got it – definitely not Alton Brown.
Possibly Rachel Ray
Yeah, the GOP has really flubbed it in AZ it looks like.
That and i can’t imagine how frustrating it must be to have tons of money flooding into your state from the other communist states to get someone elected so that they can spread the communism to your state.
other communist states
states in both senses of the term.
Here in KY, I can’t look at yutoob without being inundated by Amy McGrath commercials. She’s running against Mitch.
They keep reminding me how horrible it is that Mitch has been in government for 11 years less than their Presidential Candidate.
Sometimes its nice, like when they tried to legalize pot in 2018. Sometimes its infuriating like when they tried to implement a solar mandate in 2018.
Great song choice!
Went to the range today and shot .22 pistol. The county SWAT was on the rifle range.
I’d say Trump vs. Biden yard signs was 90/10 in rural Warren County – which doesn’t mean anything in NJ.
I would be shocked in Trump won NJ.
Uh yeah, that would be glorious just to see heads exploding.
Come to Essex County…
NO!
Can’t say I blame you.
“Borat’s Bulgarian honey-trap girl: Sacha Baron Cohen character’s ’15-year-old daughter’ in Rudy Giuliani sting is revealed to be glamorous BLM-supporting 24-year-old actress plucked from obscurity”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8867267/Borats-Bulgarian-honey-trap-girl-Glamorous-BLM-supporting-24-year-old-plucked-obscurity.html
She doesn’t look 15 to me.
She’s not. The whole thing was just a bit for the movie. The media ran with it because TMITE, and anything to bury the Biden emails scandal.
The bit’s kind of funny. The serious reporting that Giuliani actually thought it was a 15 year old girl, not so funny.
I miss having actual medicine cabinets.
So let’s put out a hypothetical. Let’s say Trump runs away with it.
How do the Democrats respond? Rioting? Reflection? Rheeing?
If they’re smart they’ll “Regroup” and “Reconsider.” But they aren’t smart.
Yes, no, what?
Little of the first, a lot of the third, while calling for the Republicans to engage in the second.
Yes.
Yes
A riot of rheeees!
Rioting? Yes.
Reflection? LOL, no.
Rheeing? Yes.
Yep.
Let’s just say I’ve been making sure my prepper pantry is up to SPeed, and encouraging my loved ones to do so, as well.
Cue Sean’s avatar.
I put all the actual prepper stuff in a closet so as not annoy Mrs. T. “It’ll be okay, honey.” Grrrr.
I mean, I hope so, but dammit woman!
?
Why did I read that as pepper pantry, and immediately assumed you were going to launch cans of chilies at people?
I would never do that. I value my chiles and only dispatch them to the worthy.
The can lids, when properly ‘seasoned’, though…
I got my freezer. I have verified it works, and this weekend I will stock up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo
I’m also interested in what the GOP will do if they loose both the senate and the presidency. It’s going to be a hard 2 years. But then i would expect either a backlash or… worse.
They’re screwed post-Trump now, or later. For the party itself, might as well get it over with now. Or tell me, has there been someone who arrived on the scene post-16 primary that you think can lead them?
The Reps don’t have an obvious leader post Trump. But in truth both parties lack good leadership, so it’s kind of a wash. The Dems have hung their banner of Biden and Harris, who have little going for them other than that they are not Trump. The post-Trump era is going to require an adjustment from both parties.
I hope post-Trump is one of those eras where nothing happens and the Presidents are largely forgotten
You mean like 475 to 800 A.D.?
You mean like 475 to 800 A.D.?
Your cynicism, I like it.
Also, I have to be a pedant and bust your chops for forgetting the Roman Emperor Justinian I and the pretend Roman Emperor Charles the Great, both of whom flourished in that time period.
800 is Charlemagne’s coronation as emperor. That is why I picked the year.
Like Ambrose Pierce and John Henry Harrison.
Noem/DeSantis 2024
Noem is 100 an up-and-comer. If the Reps had any sense, they would push her forward.
So you’re saying she’ll vanish from the public eye and quietly leave office in a few years and we’ll never hear from her again.
My guess is 90% will go about their lives much like before, the rest will hold some marches and protests and a small fraction of that number will be unhinged nut jobs screaming, wailing, and gnashing their teeth on Facebook and Twitter, and it will be this small number of idiots that will be considered representative of “The Left”.
You mean the small number of idiots that tried to stage a slow-motion coup for the last four years? Or the small number that burnt Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Portland?
Yes. 44 million registered democrats, how many do you guess actually started a fire? a couple hundred, a few thousand?
How many does it take? Doesn’t seem like it takes a lot as long as the Democrat leadership is on board with the shenanigans.
How many does it take for what?
To burn it all down.
Because that sure seems like what they’re willing to do.
40 million of which have gladly bent the knee and supported on openly Communist movement?
K, so Hype is down for: No change.
Somebody is going to riot regardless of the outcome.
If the Dems win the senate, impeachment 2.0 will succeed.
Yes, but doesn’t it require a 2/3 vote in the Senate, which won’t happen. So the House can do all they want, but it will amount to nothing (again).
I assume you assumed trump would win the presidency.
“Reflection?”
Hahahaha….
What is this bitch rambling about?
“I’ve said everything is on the table. We need to restore the credibility and the integrity of our courts. What we need is we need to make sure that we have a court system where a working family has as much access to the courts and as much access to justice as a billionaire or a giant corporation, that women’s rights are protected, that the rights of LGBTQ individuals are protected, that the rights in communities of color to be able to vote are protected. We need a court and courts throughout, Supreme Court, court of appeals, district courts that believe in democracy and believe in protecting the fundamental rights of people. So for me, that’s worth fighting for and that’s worth putting everything on the table for.”
Oh…using the courts for total power.
If Trump wins and Breyer drops dead. I’m going to laugh my ass off.
Since when has the court system ever been about justice?
Or democracy?
We need a court and courts throughout, Supreme Court, court of appeals, district courts that believe in democracy and believe in protecting the fundamental rights of people.
A court that truly believed in protecting fundamental rights would reject most of what Biden is peddling, so methinks he is, once again, a liar.
In Newspeak they call that “duck talk” IIRC. The ability to issue forth streams of acceptable speech without actually communicating anything.
So naturally, elect the prosecutor who loves over-charging!
Anyway, the “Streisand effect” for the Hunter Biden story doesn’t seem to have happened. It looks like it’s been successfully buried.
Ain’t hurtin’ the NY Post’s web traffic…
How do you access the NY Post if not through Twitter or Facebook?
Go through glibs, like normal Tulpae.
HOW DID I GET HERE
Letting the days go by…
I know, right?
How else is anyone to get the news except FB and Twitter?
The story hasn’t seemed to make a difference in NY Post’s web traffic.
My wife hasn’t asked about it yet, and that’s my typical barometer for a story leaking into the mainstream. It came out too close to the election, especially one with crazy amounts of people voting early by mail.
Based on this election season’s mailings and the massive spending on this side, I predict a big win in Arizona for the Democrats. And a big loss for all liberty-minded Arizonans. Not that there wouldn’t also be a big loss of liberty under Republicans. (Looking straight at YOU, Doug Ducey, thou degenerate toad-spotted serpent’s-egg.)
I’ve been flooded with similar mailings from the NH Democratic State Committee. I’ve received only a handful of such mailings from the NH Republican State Committee.
From what a candidate for state rep has told me, the NH Democratic State Chair has prohibited all door-to-door canvassing or other similar campaigning by Democratic candidates or their campaign workers due to Lil Rona Panic. Zoom meetings, outdoor rallies (like one posted a while back with poor attendance), and mailings only. The NH Republican party has no such prohibition. Candidates and supporters are going door-to-door and getting a good response.
I think NH Republicans will have a good year similar to what NH Democrats had in 2018. Not a great year, I think Shaheen will win reelection and probably both US Reps, but a good year.
For Republicans and Liberty – see the Clown Prince. I think he’ll win reelection handily.
“Justice” will be served.
A judge upheld the second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Thursday against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in connection to the death of George Floyd in May.
Hennepin County Judge Peter A. Cahill granted part of the defense’s motion and dropped the third-degree murder charge against Chauvin.
Cahill also denied motions to dismiss the charges against the other three officers present when Chauvin was captured on video pressing his knee onto a handcuffed Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes before his death in custody.
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane remain charged with aiding and abetting related to the incident that sparked a nationwide reckoning on racial injustice.
Maybe he will end up on one of those Netflix documentaries about how people are screwed by the justice system, which all cops claim is fake news.
What is Laura Ricciardi up to these days?
A stupid laugh is what you need
I love the litter box scratch.
Yeah that was funny.
Rock Island Auction’s December Auction catalog is up and looks interesting.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8868357/Demi-Rose-displays-hourglass-curves-mesh-bodysuitfor-sizzling-new-photoshoot.html
Nope. Pert derriere and pretty features.
Explain to me a again how you ain’t no hobbit?!?
“Why haven’t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week’s newsletter”
“There are many, many red flags in that New York Post investigation. NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik detailed most of them here. Intelligence officials warn that Russia has been working overtime to keep the story of Hunter Biden in the spotlight. Even if Russia can’t be positively connected to this information, the story of how Trump associates Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani came into a copy of this computer hard drive has not been verified and seems suspect. And if that story could be verified, the NY Post did no forensic work to convince consumers that the emails and photos that are the basis for their report have not been altered.
But the biggest reason you haven’t heard much on NPR about the Post story is that the assertions don’t amount to much.
“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel told me. “And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”
The handful of stories that NPR has produced about the NY Post investigation have been limited to how Facebook and Twitter are restricting distribution of the story or how families of those seeking treatment for addiction are impacted by the portrayal of Hunter Biden’s struggle.”
https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1319281101223940096
It’s amazing how they manage to be arrogant, patronizing, condescending, and duplicitous all at the same time.
D. Burge has a good take on it: https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1319313335016411137?s=20
(I know, not everyone likes the links to teh tweeters).
True Fact: I only visit Twatter from here.
Also, Terence is asshole, but at least his parents spelled his name correctly.
I know, not everyone likes the links to teh tweeters).
No need to apologize. Not everybody has to like something for it to be worth posting here.
It gives me a good excuse to push the latest Eyepiece update again. For those who don’t like diving into the cesspool that is twitter, the latest version turns Twitter links to Twitter blue and gives you the option to disable them.
I had been meaning to update. I don’t mind the Twitter links, but it’s nice that you have built in options.
Remember the whole kerfuffle when one of the Carolinas tried to regulate bathroom usage?
I was getting a lift from my boss at the time, and he loved NPR, so I got to listen to what NPR called a deep dive on the issue. Somehow they failed to mention that the original municipal ordinance imposed heavy costs on private businesses with bathrooms. Somehow they failed to actually talk to anyone who wasn’t a progressive on the issue. All we got was speculation that the guys running to the statehouse were crypto-KKK supporting social troglodytes trying to oppress trans people.
OF course, that could have been the case, and if they’d bothered to bring on a representative sample of whatever coalition was pushing for the state law, they could have exposed that for sure. But that would risk their viewers being exposed to information that might make the viewers come to the ‘wrong’ conclusion.
I used to listen to NPR regularly, but ever since Obama was elected they’ve become more and more intolerable.
The lies of omission are glaring.
The morning after the 2010 election, which was clearly a referendum on Obamacare, was funny as heck. The Political Guy (whatever they called that douche) was audibly sweating bullets. They just couldn’t understand how people didn’t love this steaming pile.
Defund NPR
Pay no attention to the three years of coverage culminating in impeaching Donald Trump for asking a friendly government to see if there was anything to this story we’re not going to waste your time with.
Fuck you NPR. “The future president sells the office for personal gain” is not really that important.
What a bunch of condescending, dishonest claptrap. This isn’t important. But Trump paying $750 in taxes one year was totes important, totes verified, and totes not political at all.
I mean, it’s not like Trump was impeached by Democrats for wanting to investigate the very thing this story seems to corroborate, right?
Imagine if they spent as much time looking into the story as they did crafting reasons not to cover it.
But… corporations … special interests … Citizen United … KOCH BROTHERS
I’m sure this will yield positive results.
San Francisco supervisors unanimously voted on Tuesday to pass the Caution Against Racially and Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act that makes racially-motivated phone calls to 911 illegal.
It was first introduced in July after several high-profile incidents including a couple calling the police on a man writing “Black Lives Matter” in chalk in front of his own home in the Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Legit LOL. They really have their finger on the pulse of America.
That’s from The Bee right?
The acronym is just precious, but the actual title doesn’t make sense grammatically.
The Congresshole race is the only one I see any activity on, and the amount of mail is running at about 100 from the Dem to 1 from the Pub. On TV it’s a little more balanced, maybe 20-to-1. I should add that I have never seen this much activity including as recently as two years ago when my district flipped to the Dem asshole who’s now flooding my mailbox and airwaves.
That sounds like panic
😀
Congresshole
Nice. Might I suggest Congrasshole as an improvement?
I tried that one out a few weeks ago; I didn’t care for it.
A bit of subtlety is a good thing, I suppose.
Guys, I just want to remind you all that the federal election doesn’t really matter that much.
The federal government is doomed. Its debt is so high that there won’t be enough production to pay it back, even if America’s legions conquered the whole world and plundered it. They can’t raise the money to service that debt.
So they are going to do one of two things; default, or devalue. Defaulting will fuck them up since a powerful voting block depends on that debt service for income. Therefore, the most likely thing they will do is to devalue the currency to pay for it all.
However, to devalue the currency, they have to find places to inject the newly created money. And the options they have will dwindle as people take rational action to invest their savings in the most profitable investment vehicles.
Naturally, this will decrease the effectiveness of the devaluation. Therefore the government will try to hinder these attempts through legal, social means, increasing discontent.
Long story short, no matter how the election goes, secession is in the air, and it will continue to be in the air until the stars and stripes is pulled down from the flagpoles for the last time and joins the hammer and sickle in a museum somewhere.
The only thing this election can do is to delay the inevitable by a few months if Trump wins.
You know that the Roman Republic funded itself almost completely on the plundering of foreign nations.
I’m not advocating for it, but as long as we are going to have a warfare state, it would be nice if it paid for itself.
When I was in the Marines, we used to talk about where we’d to to plunder various things. Definitely conquer Germany for fancy cars. Japan for stereos and other electronics. Lots of controversy on where to go conquer to fill our harems. To the point, where that would probably be the downfall of the US armed forces. They’d split up into too many Expeditionary Forces to be able to overwhelm other countries.
This is why you have officers. They will know that no matter where you go, the junior enlisted won’t mind the local populace. / Runs from countless former enlisted glibs
Well…
….
….
Its a fair cop.
Look, mustangs were Ok for an officer but the rest?
The smarter zeros who made it up to Major or better had learned that the best way to lead was just to let the gunnies do what they wanted. Ask nicely for big picture stuff and then let the NCO’s get it done.
until the stars and stripes is pulled down from the flagpoles for the last time and joins the hammer and sickle in a museum somewhere.
Can we not go red, white, and blue next time? That’s only what most every other country does.
We should use purple.
Yellow and black are also very common, but that only makes sense the three primary colors plus black and white, what’s odd is orange and green are also popular but purple is non existent as far as I can recall.
Don’t forget flags have a lot of tradition behind them, and purple was a difficult and expensive color to get.
Yes, I too watched leon’s linked video after I posted my comment.
What Video?
leon’s linked video, I can’t make it any clearer than that. For a writer you don’t read very well.
Its debt is so high that there won’t be enough production to pay it back, even if America’s legions conquered the whole world and plundered it.
I mean, if the US actually did this, it would work. The sad thing is that this is pretty much the only way they could actually pay it off. So yeah, your larger point stands. If the only ways you can balance your books are either imperialism or inflation (i.e. through a method of theft), you done messed up, royally.
Historically conquest empires end up costing more to conquer and govern than they produce in revenue. Trade empires are where it is at, you can still have military conquests on the fringes to ‘maintain a buffer zone’, but you damn well better send in the merchants with the troops.
No need to govern. Rape, pillage, burn, leave.
“they have to find places to inject the newly created money.”
When has this ever been a problem for our politicians?
Why do I think this fat fuck and I have different ideas about “his mistakes”. Can’t you New Jersey people muzzle him? Or at least just strap a feedbag to his face?
Are there any studies about whether feedbags can stop the spread of Covid-19? You might have just stumbled onto the cure!
Look, if the covid can’t even take down Chris Christy, i’m really getting to be suspicious of the claims of how dangerous it is.
LOL what is up with his sign-maid? Guy looks like he’s having an aneurysm.
Notice anything? That’s right, nary a one from anyone not a Democrat. Nothing from Republicans or Libertarians.
I have got a lot of mailers too, since I’m in a swing congressional district in TX, but while they’ve been overwhelmingly Democrat (and overwhelmingly hammering on healthcare, like yours) I have also gotten a couple from Republicans pushing their stuff as well. Unfortunately, given the way polling goes and the fact that the Democrats feel healthcare is their strongest issue to run on, I think it is inevitable we get government run healthcare in the near future.
Then we too can experience the joy of having our children sacrificed at the alter of a bureaucrats ego.
That’s just wrong!
You’re supposed to sacrifice them to Tlaloc so the rains come.
It takes a lot of nerve for the party that fixed health care in 2010 to suggest that they’re going to do it again ten years later. I’m sure it’ll be persuasive though.
https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1319281640493907975
Remember folks. Gray Hat Hacking will get you in trouble.
Uffda. Quit whining about not getting a stinking bubble machine SP.
a) Remember that fancy bike OMWC got you last time you were in Minnesoda?
b) I’m sure you’ll get a bubble machine too when you are old enough.
Yale’s best and brightest.
“No soldier,” the amendment reads, “shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.” Federal courts have rarely invoked it, and in 2015 even rejected a Third Amendment claim against police officers’ occupation of a house. Now the subject of memes, the amendment, in the words of the legal historian Morton Horwitz, is an “interesting study in constitutional obsolescence.”
But surrendering to this senescence is a mistake. The Third Amendment might actually breathe new, constitutional life into what Ibram X. Kendi has labeled “freedom from infection.”
…
The final text does not mention disease, but the text of the amendment has not been an impediment to expansive (albeit controversial) interpretations in other regards. In 1965, the Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, cited the amendment to find an implied constitutional right to privacy, and similar reasoning could be used again. Yet if the Third Amendment may have something to do with a right to be free from infection, what exactly is that right? Construed most narrowly, the amendment might merely imply a right to be free from having a specific category of people who might carry diseases forcibly pushed into one’s house without consent. But broader interpretations are possible. The amendment could be interpreted to include other governmental actors, and house could be understood expansively. The broadest interpretation might recognize a general right to be free from being forced to come into close contact with diseases. Since the Founders’ world looked tremendously different from our world today, the question is where to draw the line: how much to limit the amendment to a narrow interpretation of its text and how much to prioritize the broader rationales at its foundation.
“I am constitutionally and historically illiterate and I can prove it!”
“They used the word “prescribed”” so they were clearly talking about medicine.
Heaven help me I’m trying to have compassion towards my fellow man.
I gave up years ago.
You and me both. You and me both.
It is astonishing how quickly people are willing to assume that life should be 100% risk free. It shows we have gotten lazy and don’t have better things to take up our time, like really having to work/fight to survive.
Tales best, right there.
“Since the Founders’ world looked tremendously different from our world today”
Is it really that different?
The technology is different, the people are the same. And most of the most important issues are the same, too. Should we be ruled by kings or rule ourselves? Should we be free to speak or is blasphemy beyond the pale? Should we be armed or not? It’s really, frighteningly, the same.
Why bother pretending you care what it says and means?
No interpretation that has anything to do with disease has the slightest validity.
““The Black Lives Matter movement is the greatest lie ever told and ever believed.”
BLM activist is TAKEN DOWN.
Did you miss the debate? See the whole thing here:”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqn_4ogHD2w
https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1319092859983847425
I found the video pretty off putting.
So does anyone else think that the MSM’s latest take on the Hunter Biden scandals is going to actually piss off the casual followers of politics?
I know a couple people who barely follow politics who are pig biting mad at what they are seeing in the press about this. When the press condescendingly tells people that the reason they aren’t covering the story is because it is a Russian hoax, or hasn’t been proven, or it came from Guilliani it is really pissing them off.
Not here in metro NYC.
The orange man is bad and has to go. Doesn’t matter who replaces him.
As I’ve said for years, a great deal of voting is voting against, not for.
I don’t talk politics to people in meatspace.
Most of them don’t mention it to me either.
I didn’t initiate any of the conversations. Mostly just listened in as various online meetings were starting/ending. Like I said, these are people who never talked politics before and they were tsk-tsking about the MSM and social media.
I think YMWV, as with all things. People just looking for a reason to ignore it will jump on whatever the Press tells them. Others who are more curious will be annoyed, at being taken as a fool who would fall for the same “muh russians” twice.
We have friends who hated Trump last time, but this time they’re voting for him. In our conversation we talked a lot about how the media just lies and lies. That’s why I think the debate tonight is important not only for the candidates, but for the press. Without all the interruptions and talking over each other, it’s going to be a lot harder for the moderator to appear like they’re not blatantly on the side of one candidate.
50+ voters I think might be having a “Come to Jesus” moment with it. It is one thing to run cover but the outright denial to even address the story and then sweep it under the rug might perk up some ears and heads from the older crowds that grew up with the major media companies.
Honestly, I don’t think most normies have heard about it.
Too late. It was released on a 1996 or 2000 timeline.
If the story was going to have had any chance of a real impact it would have needed to be released no later than 7-10 days prior to the first debate. Too many Harris (biden) supporters have already voted. The MSM can ignore or belittle the story until after the polls close. (PA votes can come in until 21Jan2021, apparently.) After the polls are closed and the extra votes “found” for the Dems everything Hunter and Joe did doesn’t matter until after the midterms-at best. Probably not even then, since Harris will have gained the Oval Office because Joe “heroically gave up power for the good of the country and requests privacy as he and his family fight Alzheimer’s.”
Same here, SP. Staggering number of out-of-state “blue” organizations inundating airwaves/mailboxes with Republicans icky because they hate healthcare, want to gut Social Security, and are funded by big corporations.
For a while Trump had pulled all his TV ads in Minnesoda so it was wall to wall Joe talking about how his tax plan is going to soak the rich. But the last few days I’ve seen a few Trump ads. Maybe the polls are swinging in his favor?
Haven’t seen this ad on TV yet, but it is a good one
Holy crap – that is hard core.
https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1319028186731016192
The antifa thing at the end is just LOL.
Because the FBI has proven to be so reliable in such matters?
“The question is whether or not in fact he personally benefitted financially, the 10% for the big guy. Remember that the hard drive —it gets complicated here, the computer guy in Delaware gave to the FBI in December of 2019 — so about 10-11 months ago — they’ve had and one assumes that had Biden taken money from a foreign entity while he was vice president and had he lied because we’ve seen his tax returns from 2019 that we would have seen the fruits of that investigation by now.”
The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our foreign guests. – we did. But you can’t hold a whole party responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole political system? And if the whole political system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our democratic institutions in general? I put it to you, isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but I for one am not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
Is there a debate tonight? If so, is there a Zoomy thingie too?
I don’t know and rage typing is so fun.
I plan on volunteering my time here, to ease the pain of my fellow glibs.
is there a Zoomy thingie
Instead of a Toobin joke I just say that’s some old school straight womaning KK, Margaret Dumont would be proud.
The difference is Margaret actually did get the jokes
Hell, I figured there would be ten Toobin’ jokes before my response, I am very disappoint in my fellow glibs.
#MeToobin
Cause we are Toobin’ to our afternoon meetings….duh Hype
I will set one up if someone will host after 10
I can do that.
Woot! (I hope some of you will actually be watching the thing, because I’m just going to be watching y’alls reactions)
We’ll be watching if OMWC brings home enough alcohol.
Don’t you folks have a massive wine cellar?
We do, but it’s mostly in remote wine storage. No actual cellars in our neighborhood.
Happy International Rimfire Appreciation Day, everyone!
Really, no one?
October 22nd?
10/22?
I’m predicting more mic and camera failures than a Chicago cop after beating a kid to death during tonight’s debate
The story is about another alleged Biden insider who is flipping and giving more information about Joe Biden’s lying about his involvement with Hunter’s business. But the best part of the story?
I hate watching the debates, but I might have to pop a Percocet and watch this one.
I like the troll factor of having the guy there but has he been checked out? Don’t you need a little background check to be there with both presidential candidates?
That is actually my big fear too. That the Dems are trying to get the GOP to run with a few of these too good to be true developments in the Hunter story only to find out that this guy will recant and say the GOP paid him to lie. Or that the email naming Kamala as part of the Chinese grift ring is fake. Then they can claim ALL the emails are bogus or all the other whistle blowers are paid off.
Man Trump really has an opportunity to not even attack here and just highlight the following:
Kanye thinks you are crazy
You blew off Ice Cube, I delivered results
50 Cent wants to remain 50 cent not 1 cent with your tax plan.
JayZ is looking to jump ship, maybe not to me, but definitely away from you
And just a reminder, if those above decided to vote anything other than Democrat…in your own words Joe, they ain’t black.
ALSO
Cardi B has the coastline of Australia for areolas (okay this jas no bearing just needed to state that.)
“The GOP is for rich people.”
/MSM-slash-DNC
McSally is a crap campaigner. Kelly is an outright gungrabber, new gun owners are increasing rapidly.
And she’s not making it a campaign issue at all.
She will lose, because she’s crap at getting elected. And Phoenix could generate enough harvested ballots, but I doubt it will need to.
I disagree with a lot of Glenn Greenwald’s ideas, but I respect the fuck out of him for being one of the few “principles before principals” reporters out there.
His savage takedown of Joe Biden’s excuse for why he got the Ukranian prosecutor fired is awesome
The replies are maddening.
Just a couple days ago, in a story about how the Hunter Biden broo-ha is unverified disinformation, the Associated Press informed me that the Joe Biden fire-the-prosecutor broo-ha has been discredited.
“This exchange between Trump and Lesley Stahl is insane. She repeatedly insists the Biden laptops “can’t be verified” so reporters shouldn’t talk about it.
Trump asks her why it can’t be verified.
Her answer: “Because it can’t be verified.””
https://twitter.com/Hagstrom_Anders/status/1319314523162107905
Like talking with my teens. They are children.
Here is what I envision
https://www.vidoevo.com/video/OEhVdlRwcWuRpOFpjSnM/big-daddy-i-win
I get the distinct impression they’re all freaking out.
I desperately want to hear illicit audio from in-house news meetings at the major networks and from DNC leadership. My gut says they’re panicking and telling everyone to lie, lie, lie and pray they get away with it. We’re watching careers disintegrate.
“It can’t be verified”
Trump should have asked her exactly how the press verified the allegation of the piss hookers in the Steele Dossier. And he should have used the term piss hookers. I’d love to hear Stahl’s explanation of how that story was totes vetted.
If he doesn’t have a list of flimsy hit jobs against him ready to be trotted out at the right moment, then he’s an idiot.
EXACTLY! He’s an idiot. That is the problem.
Of course, if he wasn’t an idiot he wouldn’t have become President. No way a sane non-idiot looks at 2016 and says “Hey, I have no experience in politics, but I think I should run”.
It’s truly a depressing thought that Trump is the best we’re going to get.
Yep. He’s the only guy right now that understands the world as it is – on foreign policy. Maybe that’s why that’s off the table tonight? Not that he knows what to do at all diplomatically – but he’s the only one not in thrall to the Cold War victory lap we’ve been doing for 30 years.
George Costanza’s evil twin tried to act offended when someone questioned the honor of the press corps and it didn’t go well.
The Biden thing is immaterial now. NBC News just went with a Columbia University report that says failure to act by the Trump Administration cost more than 130,000 lives in the ChiComVirus pandemic. That’s going to stick with low information voters who still haven’t voted. Those 42 million who did vote already won’t be getting anything more about the Biden corruption. Trump was cruising to an easy victory until the Chinese turned the virus loose. Now, I doubt he will break 230 electoral votes.
Sounds sciency.
Low info voters have been hearing he’s responsible for 200K up to now, so that could actually help him.
I love how they throw out these numbers, then turn around and accuse OMB of being a fascist dictator, then in the next breath accuse him of not exercising power enough.
I can’t believe I’m typing this but people aren’t as stupid as you think they are, most of them anyway.
You haven’t met my MIL
Yeah, they’re even stupider.
^^
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/87mnC0bfQP-7J4WJhct27Q.znMJYqiCmvOlEKTeud5Ssb
Mailers from the past 2 days.
Outsiders are spending shitloads of money in Iowa to try to defeat Trump and Ernst.
http://imgur.com/gallery/6OAukOe
The picture of the toilet should have had somebody taking a dump on it.
Home or work?
Home. Old shower pan started leaking. I found some water damage, so I started tearing stuff down. I finally decided, what the hell, im gonna move this wall out about 4 foot and build myself a big fancy shower. More to come, but I did all that in the past 3 days.
Nice! Lifeskills FTW!
Enjoy
I’m tired of tear out and replace
“Now Corruption Story Is About Joe, Not Hunter
How long can the media blackout continue?
At this hour many news consumers remain trapped behind the Silicon Curtain. Nevertheless word continues to spread about the Biden family business, thanks to an underground publication founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801. The latest story from the New York Post, which shares common ownership with the Journal, comes courtesy of veteran columnist Michael Goodwin. He reports a statement from a Biden business partner who says that Joe Biden was involved in the family influence-peddling racket, including with China.
Mr. Goodwin reports a statement from Tony Bobulinski, a Biden business associate. The statement attributed to Mr. Bobulinski appears to confirm that contrary to his denials, Joe Biden was involved with his son Hunter’s business, and it was not a business in which a future president ought to be involved….
If it’s true that Joe Biden was accepting influence payments, including from Chinese entities, then he should immediately quit the presidential race. But the press has been largely uninterested in pursuing this story….”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/now-corruption-story-is-about-joe-not-hunter-11603392288?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/SzFICvEKIK
“This column warned yesterday that if the Post reporting continued to hold up, some media folk might quickly pivot from arguing that the revelations were so damning they must be part of a hostile Russian intelligence operation against the United States to arguing that actually the Biden emails aren’t damning at all. Just typical swamp behavior?
This column takes a back seat to no one in skepticism about the Beltway establishment. But given the documented overseas riches collected by the Biden family, it would be patently unfair to claim that the average Washingtonian is as corrupt as the former vice president.”
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. G Washington
Party politics are poisonous to Republics. Eventually they convert elections into such a corrupted team sport that no person of integrity would run for office. Hypothetically, and I know this sounds ridiculous an impossible, you could conceivably end up with a senile sex offender running against an unprincipled buffoon for President.
Party politics are poisonous to Republics.
And yet, party politics are inevitable to Republics. ‘Tis the nature of the beast – there is strength in numbers.
“If it’s true that Joe Biden was accepting influence payments, including from Chinese entities”
Anyone that wouldn’t believe that has to be extremely naive and even more naive to think he won’t triple down on that if he gets anyway near the Whitehouse again. Biden has been that level of corrupt for 50 years, he sure as hell is not going to stop now. He’s going for the big haul now, you know, the big job of dreams that every criminal dreams of one day. Only bigger.
My thoughts as an F250 work truck with some heavy-ass equipment in the bed almost backed into me at at least 5mph:
“Oooohhhhh fuuuuuck”
and
“Ka-ching!!”
I’m glad I got the horn fixed a couple years ago (even though the mechanics made jokes about lady drivers needing horns so badly, but that’s another story), but there will be no “ka-ching”.
Well, I found out earlier today that Mrs. Shpip and my’s planned trip to Orlando tomorrow will take a bit longer than expected, since Donnie Two Scoops is having a rally at The Villages (for those not in the know, The Villages is a massive Levittown for oldsters plopped square in the middle of the Florida peninsula).
Trying to discover the motorcade route so I could avoid the whole thing led me to this piece of intellectual wankery.
I would never retire to The Villages, but work takes me there from time to time, and the residents that I’ve met are pretty nice folks. They don’t deserve the barely concealed contempt and condescension that the article is rife with.
The Villages seem both cool and terrifying to me
When I used to work in DC in the Before Times, I used to work my schedule around (known) motorcades on a regular basis. It’s the unscheduled ones that will really put a crimp in one’s commute.
I prefer Del Boca Vista myself.
Which phase?
Phase 69, of course.
Nice.
“An alligator on helium sounds like …?”
Obama talking about Trump’s secret Chinese bank account?
“They didn’t slip. They were pushed.”
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1318923929126359043
Well, you’re the expert.
When she is right, she is right.
Of course, she meant something or someone else.
Now that Ginsberg has passed, maybe Clinton will slip into oblivion as well.
Biden didn’t kill himself.
Maybe she’ll have Kamala offed, and make Biden appoint her VP.
Gun grabbers in AZ? The only place I have seen more people open-carrying more than LA is AZ.
String that motherfucker up.
up here in rural Michigan, every one packs, it’s very obvious, and no one says a word, lots a hunting ’round these parts,
Ted Nugent spread is about 20 miles north of me
And we’re about to send a hardcore grabber to the Senate.
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AvGeek:
BA83 777 squawking 7700 & returning to LHR
What is 7700?
General emergency (i.e. not hijack and not loss of comms)
No word yet on reason. She was bound for Abuja, so I wonder if it could be some passenger disruption or something
That sounds about right. Not medical, I guess. Sorry, too lazy to look it up.
Which means?
MA morons have been wearing their masks outdoors and indoors for six months. That helped them a lot.
MASK MOAR HARDER!!
This is exactly what the comments say.
I’m starting to plan to avoid comment sections (outside of here, of course) because people are losing their shit and hiding behind anonymity to push extra hard mask mandates on people (see the article I posted above).
Those with asthma and other breathing problems should MASK EVEN MORE HARDER THAN HARDER! /Cuomo
I just walked about 4 miles and there are lots of people out and I did not see one person with a mask.
I don’t think I have ever seen anyone here wear a mask outside. Maybe in a parking lot if they’re walking to a store, but besides that, no.
That’s crazy.
I’m seeing more than I was a month ago. I think people know what’s coming.
Had a staff meeting today and the topic of what happens after Covid freakout with our WFH schedule. Everyone in my dept are have been WFH at least 2 days a week for at least 10 years.
So what we were told is that our group will never go back to only working from home 2 days a week. Our boss wants it to be our choice, either full time WFH or if we want to go back to the office, 1 or 2 days a week, but no more than that. They’ve already figured out how much money this is going to save them and my boss and his boss are both pushing for option WFH full time, or go into the office 1 or 2 days a week, our choice.
It’s really silly for a group of software engineers and database developers and admins to drive to an office. For what? But that news really made my week. I do NOT want to go back to the office. The fact that it’s in Baltimore makes that double so. Hello red states! Wooohooo! I just have to pick one. SC in on top the list right now.
I hope the Feds follow your company’s lead! Then I could GTFO.
Good luck. I thought you were already on your way out?
First I have to get paid for my condo, and then I have to negotiate full time offsite. If the Feds decide to go to telework, then I have at least that one thing off my plate.
I sold my house last year, I’ve just been saving every dime I can since so I can have a bigger down payment and moving expenses.
They’ve let people get too big of a taste of working from home already and there’s hardly anyone who doesn’t like it, a lot.
Also, what about saving the planet and all that? How can we save the planet if people are driving to the office every day?
My case for WFH is about a mile long already and I can make up more stuff if I have to.
At State Dept, I used to WFH (telework in govt lingo) every other day. One week, I was in the office 3x, the next, 2x.
If I have to live in this shithole, I’d prefer going into the office to escape, but if we went to official permanent telework, I would be out of the DC so. fast. In a little RV. And I’ll hoard my profits from the condo for at least a few years.
Same, I want out of here so bad. If I were single, I’d be like you and driving out of here in my SUV and sleeping in it. But I have to put wifey up in style or she will get sassy on me real fast.
I’ll be kissing the ground of whatever red state I wind up in. Hi deplorables, I love y’all!
The part of the FedGov that I support is moving hard for return to worksite. My company wants work from home until sometime in 2021 but has to support the client.
I am fine with working from client site. For what I do it is much more effective and efficient. It is bad enough managing time zones without adding it who is where, for what hours and do they have access to X, Y, or Z systems.
I’d rather the feds fire those “workers”.
I’m still tied to an office I’ve never visited. The thought has crossed my mind that I could work literally anywhere with a good broadband connection now.
Of course you can. I wish Elon would hurry up and get Skylink going live so I can move to Patagonia.
In the before times, I was skeptical that the technology was good enough to make permanent WFH workable for us office drones.
I was wrong. Even better, I don’t miss anything about the office.
I did notice that the graphic and layout design on those adds was just fucking horrible. I thought that all the artistic creative class people were Democrats? Those ads look like they were shat out by someone’s nephew…
I’ve been told that everything that has ever been invented, every creative thing including art and music, or anything of value in all of history, was done by a liberal.
Oh yeah, that was Tony over at TOS.
So there you go.
Why would you pay top dollar for someone good when you can spend the same amount of money on someone you know?
If you’re interested in movies, this year’s Austin Film Festival is an all-virtual event. I’m looking forward to a lot of lefty prattle over the next few days.
I’m currently watching Damon Lindelof talk about how inspirational Ta-Nehisi Coates was in the creation the HBO’s The Watchmen. I wish he’d spent more time reading the original comic book of The Watchment.
*puke*
That series adaption was atrocious. But it is Lindelof, so no surprises there. He’s an overrated hack.
Yeah. I had low expectations, and I still found the series to be a huge disappointment. The ham-handed and trite messaging about race was annoying, but what made me angry was that they had a rich world of source material, and the characters that they pulled forward from that world were all acting out of their established character. They were making a show with a message, not a show with a story.
It’s pervasive throughout almost all of HBO’s series now. Woke messaging takes precedence over plot and character.
Amazon Video isn’t much better.
The Hallmark programming I’ve been watching is not woke.
Well, Mojeaux, the gay Hallmark Christmas movie will set you strai…. er, uh… make you woke.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hallmark-announces-lgbtq-christmas-movie-starring-jonathan-bennett-n1240917
I am not opposed to gay Hallmark specials. I am opposed to keeping up with the Joneswokes.
Ugh. We don’t *all* want to adopt children. Where’s the Hallmark special about the gay couple who drop E and go partying every night?
Agreed, Scruffy.
I think the only Amazon original I’ve watched is The Boys, which I was really looking forward to seeing. In some ways, it’s terrific, but, as others here have noted, they’ve really gone overboard with a message, and that message is not the “power corrupts.”
Sure it’s mostly politics but Russia is going to give Snowden a path forward to citizenship:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-gives-edward-snowden-permanent-residency-path-citizenship
Good on old Vladimir, he certainly had a hand in this one way or another even if only by not killing the idea.
Unlike most of our politicians, he isn’t an idiot.
SP’s link to the UPI story about the long-lost painting asked me to “whitelist UPI.”
RACIST!
That’s now the Allow List at my company.
Hiya, SP!
I’ve been getting a shit-ton of political mailers, too. Funny, for a supposed blue state the dems are sure spending a lot of cash. I wonder why that is?
i don’t really give a fuck anymore. Particularly since my daughter is coming home for the weekend, so life is already showing signs of a turnaround!
I dig that song. I also remember a very NSFW video to go with it!
Ads are a major grift for campaign consultants. Whether they are needed/helpful doesn’t really matter.
I hate the idea of Thursday night football.
So now the Giants and the debate are on at the same time.
I haven’t followed football long enough to know whether I’m supposed to be a Jets or Giants fan here. So for nostalgia’s sake I’m a Bills fan since that’s my “home town team”.
Well they are the only team that plays in NY.
Took me a moment to parse that.
NYC and the rest of the state are really two different states.
I really hate to have to feel like people in general suck and are assholes. But people won’t seem to let me rid myself of that opinion.
Yesterday I was walking and I was almost back home, inside my community and a lady walks out her front door and is walking to her car and she said ‘good morning’ and I said ‘hi’. And then she turned and walked to her car.
As I was walking past she says ‘Good morning!’ in a sort of hateful way like I just snubbed her or something. But I said hi and was looking right at her. I said ‘I said hi’ as I was walking past. WTF? I don’t even have to speak to you, lady.
When I was walking back again today, I saw her outside and I crossed all they way to the other side of the street to avoid the old bat bag cunte.
It’s best to make a habit of over-expressing your responses to greetings.
Take it from someone who learned the hard way.
I rarely initiate those conversations but I always play nice when they arise. To the point where I’ll switch my ‘phones off in the misfortunate event someone gets on my elevator, in case they want to be chatty.
I love that she’s only ever said “good morning” to you and yet made it plainly obvious that she meant no such thing.
Exactly. And I was just finishing a 6 mile walk/jog, not a casual stroll. I was walking fast and my t-shirt was soaked in sweat. It had to be more than obvious that I was not just casually strolling down the sidewalk. Yet I still made eye contact, smiled, and said hi. Which apparently wasn’t good enough.
Maybe she had a massive hangover. Reminded me of one of my now deceased aunts when I was younger. She pretty much just drank coffee and chain smoked all day until vodka time. She was always cranky as hell and downright rude to everyone.
Since SP agreed to host after 10 Eastern. Here is tonight’s Glib Zoom – starting at 8:30pm EDT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86589763657?pwd=Y0FrRzF0UHJnaDRKd0JtTnpTbHZiZz09
Thank you!!
Is that a new one or the perma-link Neph set up last week?
New
Watched the trailer for Hillbilly Elegy.
Holy Bejeezus, that’s some god-awful overacting.
And don’t get me started on the mangled accents.
Do they sell men’s clothes where Micheal Strahan got that sweater?
Masks on statues. Grrrrrrr…
That’s retarded.
Ozzy Man, so much fun!
https://youtu.be/L3TZ1PNCZRc
Love that guy!